have occupied the planet for 13 years, Maia is promoted to leader of the Skull Squadron. During the battle Maia saves the lives of a number of other pilots, including Marcus Rush and Alex Romero. General Reinhart decides to merge the Wolf and Skull squadrons after the battle, which places both Marcus and Alex under her command. Maia becomes annoyed after she overhears Marcus, who has lost both his sister and his commanding officer to the Invid, stating that all aliens should be wiped out. Maia tells him that she is half-alien and reminds him that if all aliens were wiped out, she would not have been able to save his life during the battle. When the Haydonites, turn on the Robotech Expeditionary Force, Maia initially leads her squadron into battle, but is called back by Captain Vince Grant after the technology the Haydonites gave to the Robotech Expeditionary Force contain weaknesses that the Haydonites are exploiting. Unable to fight back, the squadron retreats but is pursued by Haydonite fighters. Alex Romero tries to engage them but his weapons malfunction, and his fighter becomes stalled. Despite the pleas of Maia and Marcus for Alex to eject, he flies into the enemy squadron. His fighter explodes destroying himself and all of the enemy fighters upsetting both Maia and Marcus. After retreating to Space Station Liberty, Maia and her squadron acquire new technology for their fighters. Vince Grant orders Maia's squadron to hold the Haydonites long enough to evacuate Liberty's personnel to the massive colony ship Ark Angel and to prepare the Liberty for detonation. During the battle, Maia's fighter takes damage and she is forced to eject. Marcus grabs Maia's ejection pod and throws it towards the teleporting Ark Angel. Marcus then launches a suicide run against the Haydonites to hold them off and Ariel uses her teleportation power to save him. Later on board the Ark Angel, Maia and Marcus console each other over the recent events. Maia later puts her head on Marcus's shoulder and the two look out a viewport as the Ark Angel flies over Earth's surface. Marlene Rush Marlene Rush is an officer in the Robotech Expeditionary Force in the Third Generation of Robotech and Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. She has one sibling, a younger brother named Marcus. Marlene Rush became Scott Bernard's girlfriend and he proposed to her before he went into battle. Both are