1. The Sentinels arrive at Garuda
2. Garuda's atmosphere transforms thoughts into flesh and blood.
3. Rick has a nightmare where he is lost from Lisa and is subjected to all manner of dreambeasts
4. Kami and Learna attempt to teach the others on how to control their minds like the Garudans do.
5. The atmosphere makes Rem remember Zor's life, especially when Zor was ordered to destroy the Invid society on Optera.
6. Yep. Rem is yet another clone of the oft duplicated Zor.
7. No Invid soldiers on Optera, just Inorganics.
8. The Sentinels battle the Inorganics and "Monsters from the Id", and emerge victorious.
9. They continue their battle to the planet, Haydon IV

Robotech Book 15 "Death Dance" Chapters 9-13 by Jack McKinney

Garuda.

A cold and barren world full of glaciated mountain ranges, steppes and tundra. What life exists on this planet inhabits a heavily forested narrow equatorial band.

The atmosphere of this world if full of airborne spores and microorganisms which prove toxic to most other forms of life save the native Garudans and relatively few others.

The Invid Flower of Life grows on Garuda, and it is considered a primary source of the much needed nutrients for the battered Invid empire.

But, there is some bad news for the Invid. The Sentinels have arrived in Garuda space.

To assess the situation on the planet, a small landing party consisting of Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes-Hunter, Jack Baker, Karen Penn, Cabell, Rem, Lron, Crysta, Gnea, Burak, Kami, and Learna, escorted by the Skull Squadron, lands on the planet only to be greeted by the Garudan's protectors, Bioroids. When the Invid came and defeated the Robotech Masters for the possession of Garuda, the pilots were cut off their masters on Tirol, and eventually came to learn the meaning of freedom from the Garudans and how to survive the atmosphere, without the aid of breathing apparatus.

Kami and Learna are the first to debark from the shuttle, and are quickly greeted by members of their own village, and, after a brief celebration by the native populous, the Garudans and Sentinels meet on how they can defeat the Invid and free the planet. Orbital strikes from the SDF-7 are quickly dismissed as the Invid have taken much of the population as slaves to harvest the fruit of the Flower of Life, as the Invid cannot survive in the atmosphere without wearing EVA suits.

The first Invid to arrive on Garuda tried to survive, but they quickly went mad. Then they died.

To gauge the situation before coming up with a plan of attack, it is decided that a small team consisting of Rick, Lisa, Jack, Karen, Rem, and Kami will recon the hive, and make sure that the Invid do not have any hostages. They leave before dawn the next day on hovercycles for the nearest Invid Farm Hive, roughly 100 miles away, encountering occasional patrols of Hellcats.

As they begin to examine the perimeter of the hive on their hovercycles, they are ambushed by Invid Scouts, and all are quickly captured, save for Jack. During the battle, Lisa's EVA suit is torn open, exposing her to the atmosphere. The Invid's prisoners are taken into the hive.

The prisoners are quickly interrogated by the Invid Scientists who have been left in charge of the hive, but since they aren't talking, the head scientist decides that it might be a good idea to analyze the prisoner's dreams using the devices that the Robotech Masters abandoned on Garuda. The best way to awaken their inner dreams, expose them to the atmosphere.

Rick dreams of being chased by giant eagles with only Lisa willing to aid him. Lisa has nightmares of being chased down a spiral staircase with no end by hungry cats. Karen has visions of being buried alive. None of these dreams are telling the Invid what they want to know. Where have the Masters gone, and where Zor has sent the Protoculture Matrix. But, there is one person's dreams the Invid find interesting.

They are dreams of Optera. They are dreams of the Regis. They are dreams of a time before Protoculture was conjured from the Flower of Life, before Tirol's Great Transition, before the Zentraedi defoliated the planet.

They are memories from Zor's life. They are Rem's dreams.

Needless to say, the Invid Scientists are quite shocked, and the Regent needs to be informed that they have discovered a clone of Zor.

The Regent is pleased with his scientist's discovery, and orders Rem to be brought to Optera, but his scientists suggest that Haydon IV might be better. It is closer to Garuda than Optera, and it has far better equipment to analyze the clones mind. Also, the Regis is there.

The Regent orders Rem to be sent to Haydon IV as ". . . a gift for her - a gift from her loving husband!"

Meanwhile, after watching his friends getting captured and then exposed to Garuda's atmosphere, Jack makes his way back to the Garudan village and notifies the rest of the landing party of Rick, Lisa, Karen, Rem, and Kami's current situation.

Max Sterling quickly formulates a plan to rescue the group. Attack the other hives on the planet to divert the Invid from the hive Rick is kept in, then send a small rescue party in to free the scouting party and making sure they get the proper medical attention they need.

Cabell objects stating that the Invid hives are far more complex than anything the humans have encountered, but Burak has a plan of his own. Exchange Tesla for the scouting party.

After returning to the SDF-7, Burak explains his plan to Tesla. Tesla claims to be more evolved than the Invid Regent, and now that the Regent is "dead", Tesla can use his more evolved nature to take control of the Invid on the planet. Sounds good, but Tesla objects to that plan. The Regis is still out there, and she might be more than a little miffed that he killed the Regent. He doesn't want to go, but he's taken to Garuda by force.

The bulk of the Sentinel's forces return to Garuda's surface leaving Col. Wolff in command of the SDF-7's bridge. As the shuttle departs from the ship, an Invid shuttle is detected leaving the surface, and a drunk Jonathan Wolff decides to ignore it. Rem is now on his way to Haydon IV.

Meanwhile, in the Valivarre system things aren't going so well either.

The Plenipotentiary Council has placed Edwards in command of the mining operation on the surface of Fantoma, taking command away from Breetai. Edward's meeting with the Zentraedi commander goes smoothly, with no signs of violence from the warrior giants, but that is because Breetai has a plan.

After Edwards leaves, the Zentraedi load up their ship, the Valivarre, with fake Monopole Ore for delivery to the R.E.F., and keep the remaining ore, the last ore Fantoma had to offer, for themselves.

Breetai doesn't believe that the Admirals Hunter are traitors, and plans to find them.

After meeting with Dr. Lang and Exedore, where Dr. Lang somehow knows that they are on their way to Haydon IV. That is where Breetai is going to begin his search.

On Haydon IV, the Regis is shocked to discover that the "gift" from her husband is a clone of Zor, she uses Haydonite technology to peer into Rem's memories as Zor, and after finding out that Zor sent the last Protoculture Matrix to a small blue and white world far removed from the local systems, she dispatches a sensor nebulae to find that world, and then departs Haydon IV, before the Regent arrives.

The Sentinels plan to rescue their friends from the Invid hive is to use Tesla in a hostage exchange, but Tesla objects quite quickly. He has another plan. Use Max's plan, but he'll join up with the infiltration team to guide them through the hive. He also informs the team that the Hive's defenses can detect Protoculture emissions, that is why Rick's team was captured so quickly, so they should use more traditional weapons, including the Karbarran weapons that they had sent to Garuda during the final days of the Master's empire.

The mission is launched.

The Wolff Pack and Skull Squadron attack the Invid's orchards, diverting the Invid away, and a small rescue party composed of Lron, Crysta, Bela, Gnea, Learna, Jack, Janice, and Tesla enter the hive.

The diversion starts off well, with the Skull battling Invid mecha in the skies, but it turns sour when the Inorganics begin attacking the Garudan Labor Camp, forcing Skull and Wolff to break off their attack in an attempt to defend the Garudans. Many Garudans die in the ensuing carnage, but the tide is turned as thousands of armed Garudans all over the world join in the battle and begin to attack the Invid with the Karbarran supplied weapons and their friendly neighborhood Bioroids.

During the battle Miriya's Alpha is shot down, and she is attacked by Hellcats hungry for prey. Max quickly rescues her, but only after a Hellcat has broken through the Veritech's canopy, and removed her helmet, exposing her to the Garudan atmosphere.

The only resistance the infiltration team encounters are a couple Invid sentries, which they make short work of, and, after threats of being exposed to Garuda's atmosphere, are lead by the two remaining Invid scientists to Rick, Lisa, Karen, and Kami. The humans are still unconscious and delerious due to the affects of Garuda's atmosphere.

After being treated by Jean Grant back at the village, it is decided that Rick, Lisa, Karen, and a pregnant Miriya Sterling need to be taken to Haydon IV for treatment.

Leaving the bulk of their forces on Garuda to protect the world from further Invid invasions, the Sentinels leave Garuda for Haydon IV.

Garuda has been freed, but at great cost.

Differences from Art Three

• Invid are on Garuda, not just Inorganics
• Garuda's atmosphere does not turn thought into flesh and blood.
• Rick, Lisa, Rem, Karen, and Miriya fall ill on Garuda, and won't recover without the assistance of Haydon IV's super science.
• The Zentraedi leave Fantoma to search for the Sentinels
• Rem is discovered by the Invid to be a Zor Clone and taken to Haydon IV

Robotech The Sentinels Book Three Issues 11-20 by Jason and John Waltrip

Differences from Art Three and the Novels

• Cabell explains the Flower of Life and Protoculture to the Sentinels.
• Learna: "I remember those days. The Masters dominated our world. They enslaved us, experimented on us, stole our air. The harvested the flowers too . . ."
• There is a big cheer. And it's kinda cheesy (pic)
• The landing party all leave the shuttle at once and are promptly greeted by the Bioroids.
• Slightly more detail into the Bioroid pilots survival. Pilot: "In the beginning, many of us died, but some of us adapted."
• Rick orders Max to hit the hive with everything they have if the scouting party isn't back within 12 hours.
• Jack wasn't simply luck to be blown back by the force of an Invid Mecha's explosion, he was ordered to maintain a lookout. That is how he managed to keep from getting captured.
• According to Cabell, the Masters used small doses of Garuda's atmosphere as a recreational drug.
• There is a little time spent with Praxa who is still mute.
• A drunk Col. Wolff confuses a mute Praxa with Minmei, and holds a one sided conversation with her about how it was wrong for "her" to fall for Edwards. Then Praxa kisses him, making him ignore the shuttle. (pic)
• Max admonishes Wolff for getting drunk on the bridge with Praxa. (pic)
• Max seems to be a buff of old Vietnam War Movies. (pic)
• Miriya is shot down due to a dizzy spell.
• Miriya's flight helmet wasn't removed by the Hellcats, but her air line was severed. She had been breathing Garuda's atmosphere for close to 10 minutes.
• Janice is not a part of the Rescue team.
• To prevent detection from inside the hive, Karen has an idea. Dress Lron and Crysta in the Invid Sentries' armor. (pic)
• Rick and the others have been taken to the Hive's exobiology lab for dissection. (pic)
• Kami has been sent to the labor camps where he meets on of the Garudan rebels. Loki.
• Rescue is quick courtesy of the Garudan Rebels.
• Palladium RPG Ad (pic)
• Issue #18 is completely new to the story.
• Edwards meets Breetai on the Robotech Refinery Satellite, and not on the surface of Fantoma.
• Lt. Rebecca Nicks (from Book Three issue Eight) has been assigned to Dr. Lang as his Coadjutor.
• Despite Breetai's assurances, Edwards was able to monitor his meeting with Exedore and Dr. Lang, and after Dr. Lang leaves he turns his guns on Breetai.
• The Robotech Refinery was built by the Zentraedi, and Breetai knows how to use it's equipment.
• He immobilizes Edward's Alpha's by turning the gravity up to only 15% of Fantoma's. Enough to keep the battloids from moving.
• In the comics, the Valivarre is simply a Zentraedi Nupetiet-Vernitzs.
• Rem begins to regain consciousness on Haydon IV. Possibly due to his clone nature, he is slightly immune to the effects of Garuda's atmosphere.
• Christian imagery used after Rem has been mind probed by the Invid Regiss. (pic)

Synopsis of Robotech II: The Sentinels Book Three Issue #18

After being rescued, the Garudan's attempt to stabilize Rick, Lisa, and Karen's minds by going into the dreams-realm of their minds.

The Dreams-realm for Lisa and Rick is Macross City. A destroyed Macross City.

Kami encounters Rick, and Rick blames the Sentinels and himself for the destruction of Macross at the hands of the Robotech Masters.

Kami knocks Rick out after Rick attempts to strangle him.

Lisa's nightmare is of Rick leaving her for Minmei.

Lisa beats on Minmei, shattering her face revealing Learna who guides her back to the others.

Karen's terror is her father. Her overbearing father. (pic)

Qwazi convinces Karen that her father does love her (pic), and Learna brings Lisa to them.

Kami returns with Rick a short time later, but they are not out of danger yet.

To prevent Rick, Lisa, and Karen's collective nightmare from killing them, Qwazi calls upon the animal spirits of Garuda. (pic)

The Garudans ride the mecha spirits against the nightmare, then unify them into one spirit. (pic & pic)

Because the Garudan's are using the Hin to battle the nightmare which is a manifestation of the Hin in their minds, the best the Garudan's can do is to separate Rick, Lisa, and Karen from the nightmare.

They have been stabilized and the Garudan's return to their bodies.

Veidt suggests that now that they are stabilized, Haydon IV will provide the cure.