I've seen the Macross movies, are there other's I'm missing? The original's were really odd, but Marcoss Plus (even tho a tangent story) was good.

In the Sentinels, while Rick Hunter was fighting the Invid on their home world, they were in desperate need for something like Fold engines. So they searched through space and time, and the only ones they absolutely knew of were the SDF's. They also knew the exact time and place where they could find them, since most of there were there for that fold. Since they poofed on the SDF, and it managed without them, there was no harm in taking them after the maiden jump...

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