Lisa Hayes (full name Elizabeth Hayes, later Lisa Hayes-Hunter) was the first officer of the SDF-1, serving under captain Henry Gloval and with fellow bridge officers, Claudia Grant, Kim Young, Sammie Porter and Vanessa Leeds during the First Robotech War. She later became an admiral in the Robotech Expeditionary Force.
History[]
Early Life[]
Lisa came from a long line of military officers that dates back to more than a century. She was the daughter and only child of the Admiral Donald Hayes, a top-ranking admiral in the Robotech Defense Force and leading figure in the development of Robotechnology and the Grand Cannon.
Having lost her mother at an early age, she was raised by a loving but hard-driving father. Admiral Hayes' important duties during and after the Global War often forced long separations.
At some point in her early life, she was engaged to a young man named Karl Riber, who left for Mars Base Sara and perished there.
Military Academy[]
Lisa graduated at the top of her class at military school and later at the Robotech Academy. While she excelled in all areas of academics and training, she stayed at a distance from most fellow Cadets and formed few if any close relationships.
First Robotech War[]

Lisa arrived on the bridge.
On February, 2009, the day the SDF-1 was due to launch, she arrived on the bridge. She and the rest of the bridge crew were wondering where Captain Henry Gloval was, Claudia suggested he had been out but she replied that Claudia and Roy Fokker had done the same. The bridge crew began to engage in banter regarding her lack of the love life because of her high sense of duty. Claudia then pointed out to her that her screens had picked something up, the pilot identified himself as Rick Hunter, whom she looked up to be a guest of Lieutenant Commander Fokker. She ordered him to proceed along heading course 57 and he acknowledged. When Claudia saw the battlefortress original systems were all powering themselves up and switching over to firing mode. She told Claudia to shut down all systems but the SDF-1 continued to power up its main cannon despite Claudia's efforts.
After Sammie reported a space-monitor code to Captain Gloval, Lisa explains that when the cannon fired, it destroyed 2 crafts in lunar orbit 2,000 miles from above their position and that they were struck dead scented by the beam and were eradicated. Captain Gloval laughed heavily as his suspicion that the aliens that crashed the ship installed a "Boobytrap" had been confirmed. After Breetai disabled Armor-10, Armor-2, and the craft inside them, including EVRP-1 Spider Bug and a VF-1S Valkyrie, Lisa informed Captain Gloval of a message from Armor-10 stating they were sustaining minor damage, that Armor-2 was out of commission and that the enemy fleet, were heading on a direct course for the SDF-1. Captain Gloval commented that he had hoped this moment would have come in his life time to faced initiate again by encounter an alien species whose powers beyond imagination after finally achieved peace on the planet.

Lisa questions rick why he hasn't taken off into battle.
Captain Gloval, via Lisa, then ordered all fighters to scramble. Rick was sleeping in a VF-1D Valkyrie called "VT-102". Lisa appeared on his screen, wondering why he hadn't taken off from the Display Grounds. The puzzled Rick tried to leave, but personnel fitted VT-102 with a gunpod, preparing him for launch, despite the mess the runaway was in. When Rick was unconscious with VT-102 spinning towards the ground. Lisa hailed him and ordered him to veer off immediately because he was about to collide with the SDF-1. He explained to her that it was no good as the rudders and spoilers were acting crazy and nothing else was responding. She told him to change to configuration B (Battroid mode) but Rick had no idea what "B" meant. So Lisa told him to pull the B-switch on the left of his console and engage ACS. Rick was then able to land VT-102 on Macross City.[1]
After Captain Gloval realized that the first wave was just a decoy, he asked Lisa if Fokker's squadron could come back to guard the SDF-1. She replied that Fokker couldn't as he was still fighting off the first wave and couldn't break away yet. Vanessa reported that the unidentified targets had splashed down in the sea 25 miles west of them, so Gloval gave orders to call the Prometheus to send some patrol helicopters. Luckily, Lisa had already done that, Captain Gloval replied "Mind Reader". Five minutes later, "Sea Sergeant" recon helicopters flew over the target area report no sign of the enemy craft. Helicopter PHP-202 and another helicopter patrol the bay harbor, and she told the pilot of PHP-202 to be careful. Several Regult Battle Pods, arise from the waters. and begin firing on the helicopters with their electron beam guns. The pilot of the second helicopter tries to turn back but he's killed, the pilot of PHP-202 fires the two outermost Self-Propelled Torpedoes on the wings of PHP-202 at the Regult Battle Pods but he too is unfortunately killed. On the bridge of the SDF-1, First Lieutenant Hayes informs Captain Gloval that their recon group has been shot down. The aliens soon begin their assault, and overrun the city's meager defenses. Civilians are evacuated into their designated shelters, including Lynn Minmei and her family. Hayes orders all squadrons to engage the enemy as the battlefortress begins its ascent.[2]
Later on, Roy informs to Lisa that he has to go back to pick up something he had left on the island and that Captain Kramer will take control of the Squadron until he returns. Lisa responded why he's returning back, Roy replied that he's going back for VT-102 and it's pilot on the island which Lisa assured that the pilot probably be an imposter and that there's no record of such of a person. Roy tells her that the pilot, Rick, is actually a Civilian, much to the shock for Lisa and the Bridge Bunnies.
Later afterwards, Lisa ordered all Veritech fighters to return to Carrier Bay. Captain Gloval asked Lisa if all the fighter pilots had aboard the battlefortress, she responded that all the fighters have aboard the ship but except for commander Fokker and VT-102. Captain Gloval told her that they shouldn't worried about it and he went to Vassena to asked her to show him the absolute positions of Armor-1 and Armor-10 on the Monitor Screen. Vanessa told Captain Gloval that both Armor-10 and Armor-1 are approaching and that they'll be making contact with them in half an hour. And so, Gloval asked Claudia about if there's any information about the enemy crafts which she replied that it's all cleared. Lisa is suspicious why the Zentraedi haven't use there full fire power, Captain Gloval shares the same suspicions, believing the Zentraedi are simply toying with them.
Shortly afterwards, Lisa sees the last Veritech to come to the ship and ask Fokker if he had find Rick. Roy told her that Rick was irritated a lady, and so, he had to rescued her as well. Lisa respond that Rick, was the civilian pilot that she picked up earlier and that she was amazed that occasion Rick can't fly he's veritech. She is offended when Rick asks Roy "who is the old sourpuss" is, the rest of the Bridge, even Captain Gloval, laugh. Shortly, Lisa settled down and ordered Roy to transports the traumatized Rick and Minmei across the ship to Bay-504 which he acknowledged.
Later afterwards, the Armor carriers prepare rendezvous and dock with the larger ship but was prevented from doing so by a massive bombardment by the Zentraedi fleet. Vanessa locates the source from the same location as before. Captain Gloval orders Claudia to make the SDF-1 look like it is returning to the island but fold as soon as they are there.
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Eventually, a miscalculation sends the entire ship and much of the island on the other side of the solar system.[3]
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Lisa also became highly proficient at coordinating flight activity with the newly-created Veritech fighters, which would become the backbone of the new Robotech Defense Force.
On the battlefortress' journey home, she served with distinction on the bridge, creating the Daedalus Maneuver. She and Vermillion Squadron were once captured by the Zentraedi, but escaped with valuable intelligence.
After the SDF-1 was banished from Earth following the Ontario Quadrant incident, she returned to Alaska Base to try to reason with her father about peace with the aliens. She was at her post when the Rain of Death happened. She was rescued by Rick Hunter, who she had fallen in love with.
Two years later, she was contemplating leaving the military when Gloval made her captain of the SDF-2. Although it was destroyed in the Battle of New Macross City, she and Hunter vowed to head to the stars.
The Pioneer Expedition[]

Lisa as Admiral
In December of 2022, Lisa, now 37 and an admiral of the fleet, took command of the SDF-3, flagship of the Robotech Expeditionary Force (REF) to which was about to depart after eight years under construction. The mission's primary goal was to find the Robotech Masters and forge peace in order to prevent another catastrophic war on Earth.

Rick and Lisa are married. (Robotech II: The Sentinels)
On the day before the SDF-3 launch, Lisa and Rick were finally married in a huge wedding ceremony attended by all of their friends on board the Robotech Factory Satellite. Lisa's one time rival for Rick's affections, Lynn Minmei, made peace with the officer and volunteered to sing at her wedding. Dana Sterling, aged 10, served as a flower girl and Bowie Grant, Claudia Grant's nephew, served as the ring bearer. A micronized Breetai, the former ruthless Zentraedi warlord turned ally, gave away the bride, while Max Sterling was the best man.

Lisa during her later days as a leader. (Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles 1: The Enemy Within)
Although they hoped the mission will be over quickly, events kept the SDF-3 away from Earth for the next 22 years.
The REF Civil War & Third Robotech War[]
At the beginning of the REF Civil War, she was finally pregnant with Rick's child. Unfortunately, she was critically injured by T.R Edwards forces in the SDF-3, causing her to miscarry the baby. A year after Edwards's defeat, she was left confined to a wheelchair aboard the SDF-3, and gave up the Admiral position to Rick, declaring that "one admiral Hunter is plenty".
Fourth Robotech War[]
Joining Rick aboard the SDF-3 as they test-fired the Neutron-S Missiles, they both realized simultaneously that something was terribly wrong, and soon they were left adrift by the detonation of the superweapon. The ship was attacked by the Haydonites and they were left stranded once again when the Icarus was forced into a fold without the ship.
Gallery & Concept Art[]
Appearances[]
- Robotech: The Macross Saga (first)
- Robotech II: The Sentinels
- Robotech: From the Stars
- Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles
- Mars Base One
- Robotech/Voltron
Secondary continuity[]
- Robotech: Academy Blues
- Robotech: Covert Ops
- Robotech: Battlecry
- Robotech II: The Sentinels (comic series)
Sources[]
- Robotech II: The Sentinels: The Illustrated Handbook 1
Roboverse bio on Robotech.com
- Robotech Sourcebook
- Robotech: The Macross Saga Sourcebook
- Robotech: The Art of the Shadow Chronicles
- Robotech Visual Archive: The Macross Saga
- Robotech: A Macross Saga Role Playing Game
- Robotech: The Macross Saga The Roleplaying Game
References[]
- ↑ (Macross Saga:"Bobby Trap")
- ↑ (Macross Saga:"Countdown")
- ↑ (Macross Saga:"Space Fold (episode)")
For the Macross equivalent, visit Misa Hayase. |