Icarus Recon Group launched for Earth.
Tentative plans for REF Prometheus Attack Group begin. Final approval is withheld pending results of Icarus mission.
Icarus fleet arrives in Solar System near Jupiter. Attempts to contact REF Jupiter Base Io and REF Moon Base Aluce II are unsuccessful. Recon patrols reveal that Jupiter Base Io has been completely destroyed by an unknown force. Icarus begins to move towards Earth.
Advance squad of ships are sent ahead of Icarus fleet to recon Earth and attempt to contact Moon Base Aluce II. Ships are destroyed upon entering Earth-space by Invid Space Hives. Only one ship escapes to warn the Icarus fleet.
Icarus forces begins hit-and-run attacks against Invid space defenses in the hopes of getting small groups of mecha to Earth to contact resistance groups.
THE La Grange MASSACRE. Icarus forces are ambushed by large Invid force during retrieval of Earth personnel. Col. Harris splits the survivors into two groups. Harris leads the majority of Icarus' remaining ships and mecha against the Invid, while Col. Korcheck retreats to Tirol in the heavily-damaged flagship RSS Icarus.
RSS Icarus returns to Tirol with data collected by the Icarus mission.
Final approval is given to Prometheus Attack Group.
Concentrated attacks by Invid forces bring Terran resistance to the edge of collapse.
Stage 5 Invid Sera and Marlene propose OPERATION EMISSARY. The two women will infiltrate an Invid cargo ship and travel to New Optera to confront the Regis. Resistance leaders reluctantly agree. Lancer, Rand, Rook, Lunk, and Annie accompany them on their mission.
REF Prometheus Attack Group is completed and launched towards Earth. Arrival of the Prometheus Group inspires terran resistance groups. Reinforcements and New Mecha begin to arrive on Earth. However, REF starships still cannot penetrate the Invid space defenses. As battles continue, Prometheus group begins to weaken due to lack of supplies.
Marlene and Sera arrive at New Optera and contact the Regis. The Regis is incensed at the brutality of the Stage 6 Invid, and travels to Earth herself to end the war.
Regis assumes command of most Invid forces on Earth and orders them to attack the Stage 6 Invid in their Space Hives. The Stage 6 Invid resist with their own forces of Inorganics and loyal/controlled Invid, but are eventually defeated by combined attacks from the Regis and the Prometheus fleet.
Space Hive defense ring is destroyed.
Regis orders all Invid in Earth-space to return to New Optera. All Stage 5 Invid are offered the choice of staying behind or returning to New Optera.
Stage 6 Invid are stripped of their powers and banished from the Invid race. A few stay on Earth and attempt to discreetly build their own empires.
Regis leaves Earth-space forever.
THIRD INVID WAR ENDS
Prometheus Fleet returns to Tirol.
The Ark Angel and most of its crew stays behind with a representative group from the REF in an attempt to foster a new world government on Earth.
LOCAL GROUP GALACTIC CONFERENCE is held on Haydon IV. Tirol (now home to REF as well as Tirolians), Fantoma (home to remaining Zentraedi) Karbarra, New Praxis, Garuda, Spheris, Haydon IV, and Peryton form the Sentinels Alliance.
Remains of REF fleet and other surviving space forces are combined into the ROBOTECH GUARDIAN FORCES (RGF), the military arm of the Sentinels Alliance.
Back on Earth, negotiations to form a new world government fail.
New countries form overnight and begin to stake territorial claims.
Ex-EBSIS forces seize South America to form the South American Coalition (SAC).
REF survivors (Non-RGF related) and North American resistance fighters form the United States of North America (USNA).
Other pocket republics continue to form around the world. SAC and USNA quickly become Earth's major superpowers due to their large supplies of mecha.
ERA OF REBUILDING begins.