This reawakens Lunk's sense of duty, and he leads Scott to an old Alpha fighter he had been maintaining. Lunk later attempts to complete his best friend's last request of returning a book to his father. When they reach the village where his friend's father lived, they find that the locals killed him when he tried to teach them that they could not fight the invid. As the series progresses Lunk slowly regains his self-esteem while he helps the group out and maintains their fighting mecha in optimal combat condition. Lunk's counterpart in Genesis Climber Mospeada was named Jim Warston. The Invid The Invid are a fictional alien race in the Robotech storyline. They appear in the New Generation portion of the series. Invid are invertebrate, bipedal, crab-like creatures that came from a now uninhabitable planet. Their world was defoliated by the Robotech Masters in an attempt to monopolize the Flower of Life, a powerful narcotic that was native to the planet and also the source of an incredibly powerful energy source. Enraged by the devastation and betrayal by those who came as apparent friends, the sedate and agrarian Invid militarized and began a program of genetic manipulation, evolving to a point where they could strike back. The unleashed rage of the Invid proved superior to the Masters' own power, and the Robotech empire was slowly conquered. Ultimately, the Invid traced the stolen Flowers to Earth and they invaded, beginning the Third Robotech War. The Invid are led by twin monarchs. Long ago, the Regis genetically modified herself to interact more easily with the scientist Zor, who came to their planet to study the Flowers of Life. In this form, she was seduced by Zor, who took from her knowledge of the Flowers' secret before abandoning her and the Invid. The Regis is devoted to the Flower of Life and its ability to transform. While willing to engage in near-merciless conflict in the short term, she views evolution as a path to move beyond slaughter in the longer term and aspires to reach a stage of evolution where the Invid might recapture the idyllic life that was once theirs. The male counterpart to the Regis is known as the Regent. Less interested in evolution than his estranged wife, the Regent is also physically undeveloped beyond the natural bipedal stage of existence that was the Invid's original form. His path is