Captain Gloval quotes from Robotech

Call Prometheus and have them send out reconnaissance choppers.

Lisa Hayes

I did sir. They'll arrive in five minutes.

Mind reader.

Yes [startled] What?!? It can't be! Impossible. I'll be right there.

Lisa Hayes

Captain? What's happened?

[turns back as he prepares to leave the bridge] Chief Engineer Lang tells me the fold system just vanished into thin air!

Lisa Hayes

[as everybody is aghast] Did he just say, vanished? Captain? What's happened?

That's what he told me. [walks out]

Claudia Grant

We'll never get back.

[outside room, lights pipe] Well, now. Going to be a long trip.

Please continue your report, Cmdr. Hayes. Do you really think they have that many ships?

Lisa

Yes sir, at least that many and possibly more.

Truly.

Rick

Yes sir. That many.

Based on all combined reports, our computers placed a total of somewhere of four and five million ships.

That's ridiculous.

Gentlemen, let's hear the entire briefing before discussing it.

Lisa

In the course of our captivity, we'd observed that the aliens have absolutely no contact with human emotions. They've been groomed entirely for war and their societies organized along purely military lines. It appears that they have increased their body size & strength artificially through genetic manipulation & that they also have the ability to reverse the process. While they examined us, they continued to referred to something they called "Protoculture."

This is Captain Gloval speaking with a very important announcement to all of you on board the SDF-1. As many of you may already know, ever since we returned to Earth, I have appealed many times to the government and the Defense Force for permission to allow you to leave this ship and resettle wherever you may choose. Time and again, those appeals were turned down and I wish I could explain it to you at this time. However, I always felt that progress was being made on those requests. That is, until the events of the last few weeks. My friends, I'm afraid I have some very bad news to tell you. I've received word just a while ago that this ship and all of its passengers have been ordered to leave the Earth immediately. Furthermore, if we do not evacuate this planet, we were warned that we might be attacked by elements of our own Defense Forces. This is an unthinkable possibility. We have therefore taken on supplies and are prepared to leave the surface of the planet. I desperately need all of your cooperation in this moment of terrible responsibility. We must all work for the day that the Earth will take us back and until then, we will survive as best we can. I give you my most humble apology. [slightly bows in shame]

[goes to his side] Oh... Listen everyone, the Captain needs our support more than ever right now! Look, I don't understand anything that has to do with politics, but I do know the only way we'll survive this is to pull together. We've been together in this ship for a long time now, and I don't know about you, but I think of the SDF-1 as my home now. Don't forget, this ship has almost everything we have back on Earth, our own town and all the things that go along with it. We've all been through quite a bit, but look at how strong we've become because of it. I have more friends here than I ever did on Earth. You've been like a big family to me. Someday we'll come back to Earth - we'll never give up hope. But for now, I'm proud to be a citizen of Macross City and this ship.

All right, it seems we have such an important decision to make. Whether or not Earth can survive the attack, only time will tell.

We'll give it our best shot.

You're crazy. A FLEET OF ALMOST FIVE MILLION!?!? There's no way we can fight them off. We're finished... [sulks with Minmei comforting him]