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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 277801" data-attributes="member: 2020">Well, I guess the point was that the Earth was forever altered.  There were indeed four million Zentradi ships.  They all had massive cannons of some sort, and these cannons each fired a beam at the Earth.  Each hit was in the many megaton range.  That comes to one multimegaton hit for every 50 square miles of the Earth's surface.  Enough firepower that, in my opinion, we are talking about the near complete sterilization of the Earth, and the obliteration of many of Earth's geographical features.  For example, Lake Erie is very large in size, but it is very shallow.  It evaporated during the Bombardment.  When the rains came, they would have caused vast floods that would have carried countless tons of silt down from Ohio and Southern Ontario into the lake.  Thus, Lake Erie disappeared.  Then, the rising oceans enveloped Lake Erie, and it was thus truly gone.  The outlet of the drainage from Lake Superior was forever altered.  The Grand Canyon, one of the most magnificent and beautiful places in North America, would have collapsed in the Bombardment.  As titantic earthquakes shook the ground, and massive explosions detonated on the surface, the walls of the Grand Canyond would have caved in, an avalanche of unheard of proportions, of rock and debris, tumbling down into the Colorado River, effacing it from the surface of the Earth.  What would remain afterwards would be badlands sticking up out of a sea of muck (caused by the deluge of rain as Earth's water returned to the surface.)  Apparently, the Robotech people were able to remove the radiation, or at least remove or quell it in certain areas, so that cities like Macross could be safely built on the surface.  There is an inconsistancy between the film/book, and the results that should have occurred.  For instance, the Amazon and it's animals is a part of later Robotech literature.  However, in the scenario I envisioned, nearly all of the Amazon region was flooded by the ocean.  Nevermind that the Amazon Rainforest and all it's animals were reduced to ashes and flinders in the Bombardment.  India is listed as having survived (and later, survived a SECOND Bombardment, as another race briefly conquered Earth.)  However, in the scenario I envisioned, India was sterilized in the Bombardment.  Later, the oceans flooded the entire Ganges River Valley, and much of India was swalloed by the sea.  In North America, assuming the land could somehow be restored, crops could be grown ... in central and northern Canada.  The climate was more moderate at these high latitudes (that is to say, not a steaming tropical rainforest climate.)  The breezes off of the warm Hudson Bay would have made for excellent weather in central and northern Quebec, and in Labrador.  In the High Plains of the United States, tropical plants would grow, and in the extremely high plateaus and mountain slopes, one would find temperate plants.  But not Old Faithful, in Yellowstone.  The Bombardment did not unleash the titantic volcanic explosion that might have occurred (and which will occur, in about 20,000 years or so, IRL, because of the vast chamber of magma under the region.)  However, the Bombardment wrecked the surface, and all the vents of steam caved in or were shattered, and new vents formed, amidst a region now converted to Badlands.  As for eastern North America ... well, a part of Michigan can still be seen, sticking up out of the ocean.  The Appalacian Mountains still run from Quebec down to Georgia.  The Appalacian Mountains are much gentler and lower in height than they were, because every mountaintop and high place was blown to pieces, or went cascading down in ruin during the deluge.  A tropical rainforest would start to grow here, east of the flooded Mississippi River Valley.  As for the great cities of North America ... they are gone.  Simply gone.  Pieces of twisted steel, slagged concrete, and other debris (not very much debris ...) are the only signs that a civilization ever existed here.  The great underground places, like the Salt Mines of Detroit, NORAD, the deep bunkers, the Coal Mines of the Appalacians ... some of these still remain,  but there is extensive damage, a lot of cave ins, and water from the surface has flooded most of these places.  Silt brought by the deluge of water has sealed these places up, and one must know exactly where to look, and dig deep, to find them now.  This is the world left from the Zentradi Bombardment.  The ST1 returned with many skilled people, and mankind returned to the Earth.  But it was a strange and different Earth from what they had ever known.  My impressions of the Aftermath are somewhat different from what is found in the sourcebooks.  How they managed to save and return the animal life of the Earth is quite beyond me.  How they returned the ocean plankton, the coral reefs, the sea life, the plant life dependent on insects, and the insects themselves ... I do not know.</blockquote>

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