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Joseph Petrie was an Aide to Anatole Leonard during the Malcontent Uprisings before leaving the Army of the Southern Cross to work at the Giles Academy. However he still worked for Leonard and used the Universal Protoculture Manipulator Program to get students at the Academy to hijack Mecha controls for his own purposes. This lead to the death of Amy Deborah Pollard and ruined the career of her Fiancee Terry Weston. Later, Terry would join the Academy as a teacher but Joseph was wary of him and attempted to take him out, as well as having Dana kicked out of the Academy as she was seen on a Motorcycle ride with him, but it was really due to knowing Terry trusted her. After an attempt using Sharon Wilson in the Black Box to hijack a VHT-1 Veritech Hover Tank to take out Rolf Emerson was prevented by Terry in an Alpha Fighter, Joseph was found with a bullet in his brain and a confession taking responsibility for the whole incident, Although some believe it to have been a cover by Henry Giles.
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According to supplementary material in Robotech II: The Sentinels: The Malcontent Uprisings, he wrote The Cross and the Sword, a book about the ASC.