#justice for regis

[asteralien]

realization about regis blackgaard i just had: in “the battle” he says he’s stupid with computers and relies on richard to do all the computer stuff, hanging back and asking a bunch of basic questions, but then in “double trouble” whit posts the article about regis being in vienna at some kind of technology conference, iirc giving talks about computer languages or something along those lines

which means that regis, after his escape, was considering finding another computer guy, then looked at everything that happened with his original computer guy — a teenage thug who spent most of his time (and some of regis’s pocket change) drinking sodas and milkshakes with a kid who had very little actual strategic value to their corporate espionage plans, and then used his “i’m in” skills and the moral code he’d accidentally absorbed from said kid to wreck literally everything regis had built in odyssey — and said “if you want something done right, do it yourself”

#richard: you made me spend years of my life either in jail or keeping tabs on you so I could get revenge/justice #regis: you made me learn BASIC i had to spend time with COMPUTER PEOPLE #adventures in odyssey #regis blackgaard #also remember when Richard says in dbd that he lost track of blackgaard after chicago #and then double trouble happens and he’s literally in journals with international credentials talking about computers #hey Richard are you okay. what were you doing then

[autistic-echo]

*slaps hansa* this bad boy can fit so much autism in it

#loving baptism of fire as you can see #they are all so fucking autistic i love them #this book is definitely my favorite out of the series so far #dandelion and geralt’s disaster road-trip where they keep acquiring friends along the way #love cahir sm i hope twn does his arc justice #the witcher #the witcher books #baptism of fire #the witcher baptism of fire #geralt of rivia #emiel regis #dandelion #milva barring #the witcher cahir #cahir mawr dyffryn aep ceallach #dandelion the witcher

[noelledeltarune]

fuck this guy in particular

#registeel and coballion BOTH didnt count #talk tag #registeel is excusable because theres like 12 regis now but coballion?? the swords of justice are ABSOLUTELY a legendary trio #keldeo isnt even a legendary pokemon..... it feels like its a trio to me because theyre all like. grouped together #like mew and mewtwo arent a legendary duo yknow

[andywinter16]

Touch starved glaives with S/O HC part 3

Grumpy Libertus at your service. My man there is a moody. Would be snappy at everyone in  5 kilometer radius. ( Tredd gets the most shit, cuz he likes to play with fire) Complains even more on food, weather, nobles. (Cuss all of them in Galadh) Folds his arms around his chest, glares so much! (Smooth those wrinkles from his face)  Squad has enough, throws him your way quite literally when they see you. (”It´s your problem now!” yells Crowe, yeets Libertus into your arms)

Wrap yourself around him and don't let go! (Man´s warm and plushy, so it´s deal) Mumbles into your neck that everyone is stupid.(We know Libertus, we know) Scratch his scalp down to his neck. Rebraid his hair (You and Crowe have this exclusive privilege, use it wisely) Kiss those tattoos, he´s proud of his heritage as Galadhian. Shut him up with pecks on lips. (Wants to said something kiss, starts to protest kiss “ Lib, staye quiet and I will kiss you to your hearth content.”“Promise, love?” “Of course, my teddy bear”) It may sound unusual but Lib is big fan of belly rubs (belly scratching, if you will). There is the feeling of domesticity of which he can´t get enough, also your touch is intoxicating. My friends to make this proud man stumble over his words and be tender: speak to him in Galadhian, even better tell him that you love him! (His jaw hangs open, pupils dilated. Swear his whole face is getting pinkish) You just made him the proudest and luckiest man on Eos! Expect homemade galahd style dinner and something little extra ;)

Badass kicking headmage Crowe Altius has graced us with her presence! For the record, she´s not needy you´re needy! ( You know Lib and Nyx won´t let her live it down) After herding her mages and yelling at Nyx and Libertus for their shenaningas, she will corner you in one of the hallways. Her hands cares your sides, kissing you hungrily. Sadly there´s not enough time, so you part your ways with promise to meet at home. (She´s more action driven person as you can see)

My dears, the second you walk into your shared space, she pounces on you. You will end up in bed with Crowe cuddling on top of you. She adores the closeness, your warm enveloping her like a blanket. In your embrace Crowe feels serene and whole. (You´re what´s makes her want to survive this crazy war) When she takes her hair down, brush it for her! (Crowe will even let you style it)  Shower her with kisses on her clevage, arms, neck just everywhere. The giggles she makes are adorable! (And will return it tenfold back) Gaze longinly into her chocolate eyes, take her hands into yours and kiss her knucles. THIS!  For Crowe this is such soft and pure act of intimacy that should be cherished in the harsh world. Softly hums to her, and draw ornaments on her back, Crowe will doze off on you. (dreaming of life with you and her friends) If you pinch her sides prepare for pillowfight :*

#ffxv kingsglaive #libertus ostium #CROWE IS GORGEOUS! #crowe altius #ffxv #We need more love for these two #I love that gif with Lib and Nyx #gender neutral s/o #kingsglaive #s/o headcanons #headcanon #no beta readers we die like Regis #Next is stabby trio Tredd #sonitus bellum #axis arra #I feel like my writing doesn´t do justice to the characters #Crowe especially was dificullt

[infinitedungas]

i am so so impatient for the netflix witcher series to get to “baptism of fire” for so many reasons

regis

cahir redemption arc

ciri has a girlfriend hell yeah

regis!!!

some absolutely prime dandelion nonsense. mwah. love this idiot

dandelion and geralt roasting each other while awaiting execution then busting out together and it’s an emotional rollercoaster i swear to god

my boy regis the vampire

milva my queen. often the keeper of the group brain cell

the hansa. god the hansa is so good. geralt brooding as usual and everyone else going “shut up we’re helping now deal with it”

EMIEL REGIS ROHELLEC TERZIEFF-GODEFROY

#also i know netflix is not really gonna stick to the plot all that faithfully #they certainly haven't so far #and that's okay as long as they don't completely beef it #if twn doesn't do regis justice i will riot #witcher spoilers #i guess #just in case #regis #the witcher #the witcher netflix

[adwendoodles]

"… hi, Dad,"

from Oh, where do we begin? by @esamastation

Ever since I read this scene in the fic I was consumed by a need to do fanart for it. I originally wanted to do both Noctis and Regis' faces in close up, ideally in the same canvas, but couldn't get perspective to work. Then I realized it would be most logical as mini comic.

I think the part of that fic I most appreciate is how instantly Regis enters dad mode when he realizes the strange man is Noctis. Like literally he just is like "my son! my beloved baby boy! he looks older than me! oh my god he looks older than me there's gray in his hair he looks so tired he doesn't even have clean clothes :ccccc im going to dad you and silently judge your own father for his childraising choices. yeah I know i'm him sans 10 years of defeated acceptance but that isn't going to stop me."

Since 30 year old Noctis from canon seems uh, healthier and more groomed than this fic Noctis, I tried to make him more disheveled and crustier. He's paler than Regis too but that's the (likely?) vitamin d deficiency/ten years without sun. Wish I had made him Crustier tbh but my art program kept crashing. I also wanted to make him with an expression close to tears / smiling anxiously like in the fic ...so I hope to revisit this fanart someday and do it More Justice... and include Regis closeup as planned...

Anyway thank you Esama for sharing this fic with us. I literally decided to play the game because I saw you were writing fic for it and didn't want to miss out because I wasn't familiar with canon. 10/10 decision. Would cry at Regis and Noctis in the endgame again.

#ffxv #noctis #regis #noctis lucis caelum #regis lucis caelum #final fantasy 15 #final fantasy xv #fic fanart #ffxv noctis #ffxv regis

[city-of-ladies]

An unprecedented female monarch in her dynasty, Rudrama Devi (r.1262-1289) presided over an age of prosperity. A successful warrior queen, she triumphed over both internal and external threats.

Her father’s heir

Rudrama Devi was the daughter of King Ganapati Deva (r.1199-1262) of the Kakatiya dynasty, who ruled over parts of present-day Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in Southern India. Their capital was located at Orugallu (Warangal). 

Ganapati Deva was a successful monarch. His kingdom was famed for its’ diamonds and beautiful fabrics. He had no son to succeed him and his older daughter was already married. He thus decided to make his younger daughter Rudrama Devi his heir and gave her the requisite training.

A female monarch would nonetheless be a in vulnerable position and see her legitimacy questioned. To make female rule more acceptable, he arranged a Putrikayagna ceremony for his daughter. This religious rite allowed a sonless man to declare his daughter or his daughter’s son as his son. After that, Rudrama Devi was also known by the masculine name of Rudra Deva. She also attended all public meetings in masculine attire. 

Her story is similar in that regard to that of her near-contemporary, Raziya Sultan of Delhi.

A warrior among warriors

In 1259, Rudrama Devi became her father’s co-ruler and assumed sole rule in 1262. She married the Chalukya prince Virabdhadra, who played no part in her administration, and with whom she had three daughters. 

Rudrama Devi faced many threats at once. Her neighbors saw an opportunity to conquer her kingdom and her feudatory noblemen couldn’t stand being ruled by a woman.

She stood her ground and prevailed, proving her might as a warrior queen. Many of her nobles rebelled, but she successfully defeated them. The Seuna Yadava king, Mahadeva, invaded her territories and reached her capital. Rudrama Devi chased him after 15 days of fighting and forced them to pay a heavy tribute in money and horses. 

To commemorate her victory, she styled herself “Rayagajakesari” or “the lion who rules over the elephant kings”. In the pavilion she built, she was depicted as a warrior mounted on a lion, holding a sword and a shield, with an elephant trunk holding up a lotus to her in sign of submission. 

In 1262, another of her neighbors occupied the Vengi region. She was able to recover it after 12 years of fighting. She was nonetheless unsuccessful in fending off the attacks of her southern rival Ambadeva.

Meritocratic policies

Rudrama Devi completed the construction of the nearly impregnable Warangal Fort. She bought large tracts of land under cultivation, increasing her kingdom’s revenue. She also recruited non-aristocratic warriors from diverse castes. Only 17 percent of her subordinates were of noble background. Prominent commanders could receive lands and become feudatory nobles. She thus established a new warrior class. Since the nobility had rejected her rule, this meritocratic policy allowed her to surround herself with loyal retainers.

Marco Polo, who mistook her for a widow of the previous king, wrote about her very flattering terms, calling her a “lady of much discretion” and a “lover of justice, of equity and of peace”. 

A warrior to the end

At the end of her reign, she chose her grandson, Prataparudra, as her heir. 

Rudrama Devi likely died in 1289 (though some sources date her death from 1295) according to an inscription made by a member of her army commemorating her recent death and that of her army chief. The cause and location of her death are unknown. She likely died facing Ambadeva's armies, leading her troops as she had always done.

Further reading

Gupta Archana Garodia, The women who ruled India, leaders, warriors, icons

Janchariman M., Perspectives in Indian History From the Origins to AD 1857

Talbot Cynthia, "Rudrama‐devi, Queen of Kakatiya dynasty (r. 1262–1289)", In: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. 

Talbot Cynthia, Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra

#rudrama devi #13th century #history #women in history #women's history #historyedit #women's history month #india #indian history #queens #powerful women #women warriors #warrior women #historical figures #herstory

[essskel]

Lawrence Fishburne as Regis is unexpectedly phenomenal casting - see his performances in Hannibal, the John Wick franchise, Othello (1995) (though his british accent could’ve been better), Contagion (2011), and on and on he’s always nailed a slick, intelligent, often condescending figure, but also a scorned outsider, a jaded romantic, and all the nuance and maturity that Regis really needs.

But also! Regis gains an insane amount of depth if you really invest in reframing him as a Black man - The deeper conversations to be had now about a person’s perceived predisposition to violence, stereotyped hypersexuality, alcoholism, social vs physical power, social isolation, ect are fascinating and essentially untouched by fandom/witcher media as of now because no one has ever had a reason to think of Regis as anything but white. I mean truly this opens up a whole new perspective on a deeply familiar character that could move us forward in how we analyze him for the first time since he debuted!

but do I think the Netflix show is going to try and do any of that? absolutely not. justice for TWN’s actors of color as always

#closing my eyes and daydreaming a world where twn took this seriously and gives fishburne something to work with #emiel regis #the witcher #twn #emiel regis rohellec terzieff godefroy #double shot

[hanzajesthanza]

costume design for my stage adaptation of chapter 9 of lady of the lake (stygga castle). this work was done in 2021, as the final project for my costume design class.

see the context and preliminary work for this project in this ask post.

i regret not being more fanciful and symbolic with the costumes (you can kind of see this direction in regis' designs, i was more explorative with his as he is a supernatural creature), but at the time i was more focused on accuracy to the book description, and felt i should try to 'do it justice' first: ascertain something like what they could have actually worn, just to give myself a starting point of realism.

(some noted inaccuracies: i didn't feel comfortable drawing yennefer as battered and bloody as she would have realistically been, so i didn't reflect this in my design. i also messed up on ciri's scar, because i didn't do my due diligence at the time).

i'd love to work on this hypothetical adaptation more and redesign these costumes to be more fitting with my updated vision at some point.

#the witcher books #wiedźmin #lady of the lake #geralt of rivia #yennefer of vengerberg #cirilla of cintra #ciri #geralt #yennefer #the witcher #emiel regis #regis #milva #milva barring #cahir #cahir aep ceallach #angouleme #stygga castle #my art #c: geralt #c: regis #c: ciri #c: yennefer #c: cahir #c: milva #c: angouleme

[ladysunbite]

@fallesto || x

A broken heart? "Does it mean his beloved perished during the siege? Was she fatally wounded? Is Regis with him?" verily, it was easy to call her unfeeling and distant, yet she understood that particular pain. Especially, if it was not an end caused by nature, but a brutal, senseless one. Oh, Orianna wished bitterly, that that night of all nights she was a shallow, simple monster the witcher painted her to be. As for Dettlaff - he was a true culprit of her loss, not the maddened garkain they had just buried, along with six, small bodies.

She should have gone for garkain's head herself, to quench the blinding, bright anger - at her old friend, at her little ruva, at the foolish witcher at her side. "The garkain killed the children that were mine. For such an offence I was in the right to ask for his life. Even a human law would give me such satisfaction. So would have I claimed the head of that bastard, who abandoned those he was..." fighting the urge to massage her eyelids, the sun-eyed lowered her arms in front of herself, a gesture graceful and regal. "...but I smell his blood and that of his wife upon your clothes, witcher. Justice is triumphant and properly served." There was no reason for her to seek an approval of the famed white wolf, he was clearly much less endowed with an open, quick mind then Regis painted him to be. Yet their sharp and sour conversation provided her with another thing she was in need of, besides clarity. Stalling for time. Like a beggar. She did not want to return inside the ravaged house, she did not want to uphold justice, which she praised so highly in her stately speech. She must cease to be sentimental and weak. Law was law, it was one of the earliest, crucial ones and her children followed it, and were protected by it. "We clearly perceive a heart differently. I judge its presence by actions, not by hollow words," a hairpin into his side. How dared he to condemn her? How dared he to speak as if it was his right to decide Dettlaff's punishment? He himself was ignorant of laws and customs of the land. Deprived even of a collected, impartial, cold state of mind!

"I see, you must be worried about your payment. Follow me inside, and you shall get your coin for digging the graves, master witcher. As well as the fulfillment of my promise to you," politeness laced with poison. If not by the claws and fangs, let her ravenous wrath be sated by another, haughty kind of cruelty.

"But be quite. Antoine had just fallen asleep, and a good rest is essential for his recovery," another slip. Clearly, she was exhausted, in spite of her best efforts. Although, there was no reason why she should guard the names of her children from a stranger, who would not see the rising sun again. The white wolf was merely sniffing for a bigger pouch of gold, certainly promised to him by the Duchess. There was the true reason behind his offended virtious, kind heart. Was it the reason why Regis send his so called "friend" to a certain death?

#lullaby of woe (ladysunbite rp answers) #fallesto

[strawberry-crocodile]

I REALLY MISS when you could catch legendary pokemon (other than the occasional scripted box legend) before beating the elite four. The Legendary Birds and Beasts, the original Regi Trio, the Lake Trio, the Swords of Justice... if you wanted them, you could go to the end of a dungeon and catch em and add 'em to your team! I was so sad when I learned you couldn't catch the Tapus until the postgame in Sun and Moon, I really wanted Lele to be on my endgame team! IDK it's just a fun part of the old games that Pokemon has really left behind and I'm sad abt it.

#dalucaray #pokemon #next BW run I am USING VERIZION

[autistic-echo]

had a mostly joke of a thought that twn could cast rhys darby to play regis but i will he honest the more i think about it the more i like it

#i feel like he could do him justice #also it would be great #regis is pretty comic relief-y but also i’d like to see him in a show with a more dark and gritty tone #man deserves to play a barber surgeon immortal vampire #he should keep the kiwi accent because i think it would be fun #rhys darby #the witcher netflix #emiel regis

[hopefulwarlock]

I'm probably less mad at recasting Geralt than most of the fans. I didn't really care for him in the later books, he was always grumpy, standoffish and the least interesting member of his company. If they manage to do justice to the rest of the party, especially Regis, then he can be played by a chair with two sword sticking out of it for all I care

I don't care that they are recasting, I just don't like how they treated Henry Cavill

#the witcher #henry cavill #recast #geralt of rivia

[lunarlegend]

Hope you don't mind more questions about Stella! The more I learn about her through your blog, the more endearing she becomes :) In Stella's backstory, Ardyn kills her mom and sets their house on fire. Did he have any particular motive to do that? How did he know Stella was his descendent? Did he ever learn of the existence of Stella and Ignis's child? Lastly, did Stella ever tell the boys, or at least Ignis, about what Ardyn did to her mom, or was it too painful for her to talk about?

i don't mind at all! i'm glad you've taken such an interest in her, she's my baby. 😊💜

in my AU, Ardyn's descendants are a line of healers using powers similar to what Ardyn had when he was originally alive, and they access their magic by channeling the Crystal. except, since Ardyn was rejected by the gods, none of his descendants can use their powers without the blessing of the current King.

over the centuries, this caused a bond to form between the two sides of the continuing Lucis Caelum bloodlines, but Ardyn's bloodline no longer shared the last name.

Stella's mom Salvia was a prominent Lucian healer and had been good friends with Regis for a long time. despite being unaware of their actual blood relation through their ancestry, the two had a sibling-like relationship, and that's how Noctis & Stella grew up being told they were cousins.

Salvia was well-known in the region not only for her healing abilities, but also for her charisma and upbeat personality. as the years went on, and the situation between Lucis and Niflheim grew more tense, Salvia became more outspoken in her defense of her homeland and used her favor with the public as sort of a platform to speak out against the Empire. this put a target on her back, but nothing happened until Ardyn noticed who she was.

back up and wandering Eos again after 2,000 years, Ardyn obviously had questions about this mysterious line of healers who worked so closely with the Lucian Kings. once he figured out where they came from, it disgusted him to see his own descendants supporting the Lucis Caelums as they were. he decided to fix the "problem" by murdering Salvia, because he considered it justice and knew it would be taken as a political attack, keeping him anonymous.

he didn't expect Stella to get home from school before he left the house. her grief over her mother only angered him more, so without ever making himself known to Stella, he simply dropped a fireball to the floor and left. Stella should have died, but after trying unsuccessfully to drag her mother's body from the burning house, she luckily had the clarity to run and find a window so she could jump outside to safety.

after Salvia's death and Stella's temporary disappearance, there was a media frenzy. the murder was assumed to be a political attack; retaliation from the Empire, just as Ardyn had predicted. but no one knew that Salvia didn't die in the fire, only Stella saw that she'd been stabbed already. that fact haunts Stella to her core; not only that she had to find her mother's corpse, but the reality of knowing that whoever set the fire did it so they could kill her, too.

Stella keeps the truth to herself for a long time. she eventually tells Ignis about it before the journey while they're still living in Insomnia, but is adamant that no one else needs to know because she doesn't think anyone would believe her. her only focus at that point is figuring out who did it so she can get her revenge.

skipping far into the future, Stella doesn't give birth to Lucina until after the Dawn, thankfully, so Ardyn is already gone by then. her pregnancy is the reason Noctis insisted she didn't come with them into the Citadel for the final battles. had she gone in, Ardyn was planning to kill her when they reached the throne room (and he had Salvia's body strung up with the others, in place of Aldercapt in my AU). he sent a Red Giant after Stella outside instead, but she was able to fight it off thanks to Nyx's spirit, which rose up to help her.

the fact that Stella, another member of the Lucis Caelum bloodline, was still alive, is what prevented the prophecy from coming true and allowed Noctis to survive the Dawn. in canon, Noctis and Ardyn cancel each other out at the end, but in my AU only Ardyn is laid to rest. the bloodline is able to continue without the weight of the Crystal or the interference from the gods, and Noctis & Stella get to live in harmony in the rebuilt city with all the people they love, the way Somnus & Ardyn should have.

#AU Stuff #Stella Maris #my OC

[clericofshadows]

Do you mind sharing the tea about Regis and Garrus

I don't mind at all, anon :)

tbh a lot of Regis's feelings on Garrus are an extension of my own feelings which are: I don't like him and I find him boring and annoying. and a bit whiny about "justice" and shit.

but to look at it from Regis's perspective in a rambling post under the cut:

In ME1, Regis does not follow up on Garrus's lead first. He finds Wrex and Tali first, which is sufficient enough for him, and gets ready to go on the mission as a new Spectre. Garrus will stop you at the elevator if you didn't recruit him and stays in C-Sec if you change your mind. Regis refuses his offer, saying he works best with a smaller team (which is true, he hates the large group in ME2 even if it is technically necessary). With his newfound powers, back on the Normandy, he pulls up Garrus's C-Sec file, and based on comments his father made in Garrus's comic, Regis refuses to entertain the idea of recruiting him after reading about his disregard for rules all for his idea of justice.

He casts Vakarian out of his mind, and is essentially forgotten by the end of Saren's mission.

In ME2, Regis recruits Archangel fairly early on after getting Zaeed, Kasumi, and Mordin on his crew. He doesn't necessarily like the idea of recruiting a vigilante, but maybe there's more to the story.

And well, we all know how the recruitment mission goes. Regis doesn't immediately recognize Garrus, and instead asks who he is, only getting a vague recollection. Vakarian jogs his memory, and Regis has a moment where he wonders why the hell a C-Sec officer decided going to Omega is a good idea but casts the thought aside for now.

After the mission, he gives Vakarian medical attention and after he heals up, he sizes him up. He confronts him directly about his C-Sec file and some of his cases that Regis read about, recalling what he saw in his file. From there, it is basically a clash of ideas and differing morals/opinions, Vakarian assuming that as the Butcher of Torfan and generally having more 'renegade' tendencies that they would be of the same mind, but in reality, Regis refuses to sacrifice civilian lives and will always look for another way if at all possible. He's not as "murderous" as people think he is. Torfan was a choice he made knowing he'll be sacrificing Alliance lives, but he did it because he knew it would save far more lives in the end. The soldiers knew the score. Civilians don't. (Which makes Zaeed's loyalty mission something very interesting to tackle, especially as Regis and Zaeed are becoming lovers again. I have some ideas for that).

Their relationship comes to a head in the loyalty mission, and Regis refuses to entertain the idea of being part of an execution without having all the details, so he more or less tells Vakarian that if you want his help, you'll listen to him.

So, when Regis tries to signal him to stand down and not shoot Sidonis, Garrus does it anyway, thus making him effectively "un-loyal" and Regis keeps him out of his main squad rotation since he couldn't follow a basic order. I wish more of the loyal missions had fail conditions like this, would've made the game more interesting IMO, especially if you never took them on missions and so they wouldn't necessarily trust you the same way another character who had been on more missions.

Anyway, as my suicide mission is not perfect and well, it's not a golden outcome, Garrus dies as the crew escort, Grunt dies on the hold the line segment, and Legion dies as one of the squadmates part of the final fight. All thanks to Risky Suicide Mission lol. Will it happen exactly like that in Regis's fics? Probably not, but that's how it happened in game.

I effectively ignore Garrus in my playthroughs, so that's basically what Regis does. Not as much drama as the Liara stuff, but still, even on my non-Regis playthroughs he never gets recruited and dies on the suicide mission, since it's the only way to remove the forced best-friend bullshit between them that I don't like.

#ask #anon #regis shepard

[cantsayidont]

March 1992. Probably the most interesting change the ROBOTECH storyline makes to the plots of the three Japanese anime series from which it's derived is that in ROBOTECH, the Invid, the snail-like alien race that conquers the Earth at the beginning of the NEW GENERATION/GENESIS CLIMBER MOSPEADA storyline, are a colonized people, interstellar refugees. As explained in the Jack McKinney novels and later dramatized in the six-issue miniseries ROBOTECH GENESIS: THE LEGEND OF ZOR, based on Carl Macek's story notes, centuries ago, the Tirolian scientist and explorer Zor visited the Invid homeworld, Optera, and discovered that the Invid "Flower of Life" could be used as the basis of a potent form of bio-energy he called Protoculture. Zor stole the secrets of the Flower and took them back to Tirol, where Protoculture soon sparked a technological revolution that created space fold travel, reflex weaponry, and bioengineering. The lords of Tirol, calling themselves the Robotech Masters, used this power to annex their neighbors, and created the giant Zentraedi to police their new empire. The Masters then ordered the Zentraedi to defoliate Optera to monopolize their control of the Flower. The surviving Invid split into two factions: one, led by the Regent, fixated on vengeance against Zor and the Masters, and the other, led by the Regiss (or Regis), determined to find a new home and a new evolutionary form that would enable their survival. The Invid later killed Zor, but not before he sent the last Protoculture factory to Earth (as shown in the 1986 ROBOTECH graphic novel), hoping in vain to put it beyond the reach of the Masters.

When Zor Prime, a clone of the original Zor, destroys that factory at the end of the ROBOTECH MASTERS/SOUTHERN CROSS segment of ROBOTECH, it effectively seeds the Earth with the Flower of Life and draws the attention of the Regiss, who invades in hopes of finally reclaiming what had been stolen from her. (This isn't the case in the original MOSPEADA storyline, where the Inbit simply invade Earth because it seems like a habitable spot for their eugenics project.)

This is a clever amalgamation of ideas from the original shows, and it gives ROBOTECH a very different perspective on colonialism than the original series. MACROSS says explicitly that the devastation of the Zentraedi holocaust makes the colonization of other worlds a moral imperative for the human survivors; the original SOUTHERN CROSS storyline is about defending a human colony world (established after a nuclear war devastated Earth) against the return of that world's weird and malevolent original inhabitants; and MOSPEADA ultimately suggests that the Regess has been a more-or-less benevolent, religiously motivated colonizer who leaves the Earth better than she found it. The ending of ROBOTECH is a series of moral reversals: The Invid Regiss has gone from refugee to conqueror, doing to the humans what the Masters and the Zentraedi did to her, but at the same time, the human survivors of the war with the Zentraedi have in effect become the new Robotech Masters (something the Regiss says pretty explicitly in her final monologue), prepared to replicate the devastation of Optera and the Zentraedi holocaust to keep the Regiss from winning. Her ultimate departure, which also destroys the attacking REF fleet, is driven by shame, and a desire for a very literal kind of restorative justice that seeks to redress the humans' sins as well as her own, which makes for a morally complex and bittersweet finale for the saga (the misbegotten SHADOW CHRONICLES notwithstanding).

#comics #animation #carl macek #robotech #robotech ii: the sentinels #super dimension cavalry southern cross #genesis climber mospeada #jack mckinney #zor #zor derelda #invid #tirol #jason waltrip #john waltrip #the shadow chronicles tries ineptly to claim the regiss #meant something quite different than she clearly says #and shifts moral responsibility for the genocidal final assault #to one of the REF's sentinels allies #in a way that makes no sense even on its own terms #macross fans are annoyed by the use of the term protoculture #which in macross refers to the ancient galactic civilization #that created the zentradi #not a power source or a specific technology #robotech protoculture is an amalgamation #of the hbt fuel in mospeada #and the plant that southern cross calls protozor