U.N. Spacy
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Earth
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U.N. Government (地球統合政府 chikyuu tougou seifu "Integrated Global Government") from the Japan
Japan
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ese anime
Anime
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series Macross
Macross
is a series of science fiction mecha anime, directed by Shōji Kawamori of Studio Nue in 1982. The franchise features a fictional history of Earth/Humanity after the year 1999. It consists of three TV series, four movies, six OVAs, one light novel and five manga series, all sponsored by Big West...
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Fictional Organization Background
The organization's name is a portmanteau of SpaceSpace
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and Navy
Navy
A navy is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions...
, therefore making the word "Spacy". In the fictional Macross chronology it was established after 1999 by the successor to the modern United Nations
United Nations
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in order to defend Earth from a possible attack by hostile aliens
Extraterrestrial life in popular culture
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. However, from 1999 to 2008 the U.N. Spacy was also involved in the U.N. Wars conflict, fighting against a human Anti-U.N. faction opposed to the formation of the worldwide
World government
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U.N. government. A year later the U.N. Spacy was involved in the subsequent Space War I, defending our planet from an hostile extraterrestrial race called the Zentradi
Zentradi
The are a fictional, militastic race of alien, humanoid giants and often the main antagonist in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross anime series and its Robotech adaptation....
. Later operations of the U.N. Spacy expanded into interstellar colonization and general peacekeeping of off-world Earth settlements.
At the time of the Zentradi invasion, the U.N. Spacy's assets included military base
Military base
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s on Earth
Earth
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, the Moon
Moon
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and Mars
Mars
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, squadrons of variable fighters and other mecha
Mecha
A mech , is a science fiction term for a large walking bipedal tank or robot, including ones on treads and animal shapes.-Characteristics:...
, several capital ships in orbit and the repaired SDF-1 Macross
SDF-1 Macross
The SDF-1 Macross is a fictional interstellar transforming spacecraft from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, an anime science fiction series that aired in Japan in 1982–1983, and its American adaptation Robotech...
on South Ataria Island, the flagship of the United Nations Spacy.
New U.N. Spacy (N.U.N.S.)
Macross Frontier
is a Japanese animated science fiction space drama that aired in Japan on MBS from April 3, 2008 to September 25, 2008. It is the most recent Japanese anime television series set in the Macross universe. Animated by Satelight, premiered Japan on MBS on April 3, 2008...
(2059 A.D.), the original U.N. Spacy has been reorganized into the "New U.N. Spacy" or N.U.N.S. The new organization functions as a space military force that is in charge of the protection and defense of the different colonization fleets of the Human and cultured Zentradi alliance and the planets they have colonized across the galaxy. The New U.N. Spacy now has a much bigger space navy composed mostly of military bases established on those planets as well as several defense fleets scattered among the colonization fleets. Each defense fleet is composed mostly of improved Human and Zentradi capital ships, new variable fighters and other mecha and at least one SDF-1 sized vessel used as command base for the current fleet.
Use of the term "Spacy" in Macross and other works
The term "spacy" (宇宙軍 uchuugun, lit. "space military" or "space army") is a portmanteau of the terms armyArmy
An army An army An army (from Latin arma "arms, weapons" via Old French armée, "armed" (feminine), in the broadest sense, is the land-based military of a nation or state. It may also include other branches of the military such as the air force via means of aviation corps...
(陸軍 rikugun, lit. "land military" or "land army") and navy
Navy
A navy is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions...
(海軍 kaigun, lit. "maritime military" or "maritime army"). While some Japanese sources use the literal "Space Army" translation, the U.N. Spacy is probably best described as a kind of space-faring navy.
Although the term U.N. Spacy appears in footage adapted from Macross, it is never used in the dialogue of Robotech
Robotech
Robotech is an 85-episode science fiction anime adaptation produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. and first released in the United States in 1985...
; instead, military control falls under the banner of the Robotech Defense Force
Robotech Armed Forces
The Robotech Armed Forces are the fictional military force depicted in Robotech.After the events of The Macross Saga the Robotech Expeditionary Force is formed and leaves Earth to hunt for the Robotech Masters; returning during the 2030s and 2040s to battle the Invid.-Robotech Defense Force:...
.
"Spacy" also appears in the Martian Successor Nadesico
Martian Successor Nadesico
, is a science fiction comedy anime TV series, and a later manga series created by Kia Asamiya. The manga, published in English by CPM Manga, is significantly different from the anime....
franchise, Voices of a Distant Star
Voices of a Distant Star
is a Japanese anime OVA by Makoto Shinkai. It chronicles a long-distance relationship between two close friends who communicate by sending emails via their mobile phones across interstellar space...
and Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
is a 1989 Japanese science fiction original video animation series, the first such series in the Gundam franchise. Directed by Fumihiko Takayama, it was also the first time anyone other than creator Yoshiyuki Tomino was given a chance to direct a Gundam story. Released in 1989, it serves to...
OVAs (Original Video Animation
Original video animation
, abbreviated as media , are animated films and series made specially for release in home-video formats. The term originated in relation to Japanese animation...
s). In the Gundam OVA it appears in the form of the "U.N.T. (United Nations Troops) Spacy" (連邦宇宙軍 renpou uchuugun, "Federal Space Forces"). In the context of Gundam, the term "Earth Federation Space Force" is now the official English translation for the Japanese 地球連邦宇宙軍 (chikyuu renpou uchuugun, "Earth Federation Space Forces"), and U.N.T Spacy has been retcon
Retcon
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ned as the abbreviation for "Under Normal Tactical Special Assortment Construction Yard."
External links
- U.N. Spacy at the Macross Wiki