After the death of Khyron, the RDF pushed most of the rouge Zentraedi back to their well defended foothold in South America and encircled the alien giants. After putting up walls, most considered the Zentraedi problem done for, but all they had done was dump the problem into one area. The RDF maintains the heavily defended borders around millions of square kilometers of Zentraedi controlled land, with both sides pressing their foe to reduce or increase the size of the zone, also sending small units over both sides of the fence for raids and attacks.
Released during Palladium’s mid-90’s mini-revival of the Robotech RPG, Zentraedi Breakout finally builds upon an interesting concept in the RT RPG main book. Zentraedi Breakout revises and updates the known information about South America and the Zone to the late RDF/Early ASC time period, also detailing the various groups fighting against the Zentraedi. While there is a good amount of useable information, much of it is dry numbers and stats.
The rear half of the book centers on the Zentraedi Breakout of the title, a plot between a power hungry human and Zentraedi desperate to escape the boundaries of the Control Zone. It details RDF Surveillance Border Post Anton-17, a good example of what the RDF border posts are like, and the personalities within.
The layout is the non-world shaking, non-eye catching two-column Palladium standard. Beyond the usual practice of reusing Kevin Long RT clip art quite a few new images from Wayne Breaux.
While expanding upon a good concept from the RT main book that screamed to be fleshed out, it’s by the numbers and lacks any sense of emotion to really grab the reader. Still it’s 64 pages are still worth a purchase.
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