Protodeviln

The Protodeviln are a species that feature Macross universe.

History

The Protodeviln (プロトデビルン Purotodebirun?) were an extradimensional alien species that were inadvertently created hundreds of thousands of years ago by the Protoculture. Long ago, the Stellar Republic composed by that ancient race that had controlled much of the Milky Way galaxy. They were responsible for engineering other races such as the giant humanoid Zentraedi to serve as warriors and manipulated the native life on Earth in order to shape the evolution of humanity. Despite their great civilization, strife and division erupted in the Stellar Republic who began a project to create a more advanced breed of Zentradi to end the ongoing conflicts. These bio-weapons were dubbed the Evil (pronounced 'eh-vil') series but they were initially unsuccessful due to high energy requirements. However, a breakthrough emerged following the discovery of a sub-universe that was filled with abundant energy. As a result, the project was restarted and the Evil series were made to possess organs that could utilize this energy source. During the experiment, a race of non-corporeal beings from the sub-universe managed to enter into the Milky Way galaxy where they possessed the Evil series. Within their new bodies, the creatures attacked the Protoculture and began wreaking havoc. To the Protoculture, these entities were a new form of life form that they referred to as the Protodeviln. These creatures, however, lacked the ability to sustain themselves as they could not produce a form of energy called spiritia. Thus, their link to the physical universe could not be maintained indefinitely. The Protodeviln later determined that they could harvest spiritia from other living beings such as the Protoculture, Zentraedi and other humanoids. Such beings were able to naturally generate spiritia which the Protodeviln began to steal. This led to them conquering large portions of the Galaxy where they began feeding on spiritia from numerous races and brainwashed captured humanoids to become their fighting force which became known as the Supervision Army.

The Protodeviln drained so much spiritia from the Galaxy that they almost created a Spiritia Black Hole, into which the spiritia of all forms of life would be drawn inexorably, turning the cosmos into a lifeless void. However, before this could happen they were defeated and driven back by a special group of Protoculture people, the Anima Spiritia, possessed of a form of spiritia too pure for the Protodeviln to absorb. Overwhelmed and immobilised, the alien creatures were imprisoned within massive crystals in caves beneath the surface of an ice planet. Wary of the return of their fearsome enemies, the now almost extinct Protoculture left information—for those who could find it—of the Protodeviln and how they were defeated. 500,000 years later in the year 2025 AD, the Megaroad-13 colonization fleet discovered an inhabitable planet and named its star system Varauta. Later in 2043 AD an U.N. Spacy research fleet launched an expedition to the icy fourth planet in the system and discovered a mysterious energy field and alien ruins beneath the surface. Entering a cave, the expedition encountered the source: the crystal prisons of the Protodeviln, brought back to consciousness by the arrival of fresh spiritia. High-ranking Protodeviln awakened and remotely possessed two of the expedition officers while brainwashing the rest into a new Supervision Army called The Varauta Army. After capturing the Megaroad-13 (and modifying their ships and mecha to better serve their purposes) the next target of the Protodeviln and their new Varauta army became the approaching colonization fleets, Macross 5 and Macross 7.

The Varauta initial attacks on the Macross 7 and 5 fleets escalated into a new armed conflict known as the Protodeviln War, which caused heavy casualties on both the Varauta and the U.N. Spacy sides. These included part of the Varauta army, some of the Protodeviln, part of the Macross 7 defense fleet and the whole Macross 5 defense fleet. After nearly an entire year of battles the war between the Macross 7 fleet and the Varauta army finally concludes thanks to the efforts of musician Basara Nekki and his band Fire Bomber, who were discovered to be the new Anima Spiritia and the only force capable of effectively stopping the Protodeviln attacks. In the end the Protodeviln evolve into a Spiritia self-regenerating race with Basara Nekki's singing as the catalyst. Eventually the surviving Protodeviln leave to travel across the universe, now fully capable of producing Spiritia by themselves and with no need to absorb it from Humans or Zentradi anymore.

Overview

Unlike other forms of life, they were unable to naturally generate spiritia that they could only gain by harvesting it from other species. As such, they lived as a form of spiritia draining vampire with them stealing it from other races.

Members

• Iwarno Gepelnitch :
• Gigile :
• Sivil (シビル, Shibiru) : a female Protodeviln who resembles a vampire who was awakened by Gigile but being an undisciplined, free spirit, she came to ignore the other Protodeviln in order to seek her own supply of spiritia. She becomes fascinated by Basara Nekki, whom she terms Anima Spiritia, and possesses human women in an attempt to get close to him. However, his singing appears to cause her pain (or overwhelming pleasure), driving her away many times, and when she finally manages to kiss him, the energy released sends her into a coma. She is later reawakened by Basara and Gigile's combined singing, but Geperunitch considers her a danger to his plan and seeks to destroy her. Though she never returns Gigile's feelings, she is shocked by his sacrifice in her name, and because of this seeks to protect Basara from the other Protodeviln, and indeed, from her own desire to feed on his spiritia.
• Glavil (グラビル, Gurabiru) : an enormous, muscular humanoid creature with tentacles on its back and is usually perched on all fours like an animal. He represents pure, untamed fury, crushing everything in his path, and generating enormous energy fields which rip apart all around him. He can also fire intense energy beams that surpass by far the Macross Cannon in power. His face can also redirect laser fire. He increases in size when he absorbs spiritia—which he can drain from lower life forms such as humans and Zentradi and even cause massive dehydration, but the energy of Anima Spiritia causes him to shrink, and after several encounters he flees instinctively from it. Lacking any discernible intelligence of his own, he is frequently given instructions by Gavil (see below), the other half of an even more powerful being.
• Gavil :
• Gavigula :
• Valgo :
• Natter-Valgo :
• Goram :

Notes

• The Protodeviln were created by Sukehiro Tomita where they featured in the setting of the Macross universe.
• The non-humanoid Protodeviln creatures were designed by mecha designer Kazutaka Miyatake of Studio Nue while the humanoid types were designed by character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto.

Appearances

• Macross 7:

External Link

• Macross Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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