I find it annoying that the Robotech universe has gradually gone from a storyline of humans finding ways to cope with superior technology or abilities through their perseverance and ingenuity to something more like a human supremacy dynamic. I was thinking of this in the context of reading the description for the Bioroid Interceptor.
This was made canonical by Harmony Gold by Prelude to Shadow Chronicles, and it was a thoroughly bad idea. The Robotech bioroid was stated to be an incredibly advanced mecha, based on a mental link to the pilot beyond human capabilities to replicate. With the Interceptor, though, we get something more suited to the old Robotech RPG: the REF takes the bioroid and "improves" it by making a standard physical control set, adding missiles, and giving the new design its own ability to fly without the hovercraft. What are we supposed to take away from this? That the Masters, who armed the Zentraedi, didn't think of using missiles, or were somehow unaware that they could've put propulsion directly into bioroids?
In the same writeup, we're told that, by the end of the Sentinels campaign, this upgraded bioroid was "showing its age." It's mecha designed by the race that conquered most of the galaxy but hey, it's been a few years and all, so I guess that's it. Meanwhile, the human idea of a transformable fighter plane is just so incredibly brilliant that it's carried forward forever as the pinnacle of achievement.
What's to be taken from this except that humanity is singularly brilliant and awesome, and how do we reconcile that with the end of the series, where the REF command has literally decided it is preferable to exterminate the population of their own home planet rather than allow them to keep living under a rather moderate form of slavery by Invid who have no desire to go anywhere else or do anything else?