I love this question . Because it really shows the SCALE of robotech. It really shows how epic it is....
If the Zentraedi fleet consists of 5 000 000 ships... And we multiply that with the
Mecha complements of those ships...
And yet the invid have really really more troops... ( if they didnt , they would never be a threat would they? )..
I like to compare the invid to swarms of insects... their numbers exceed every possible imagination..
So - What do you think , what would be a production cost to show all of those ( true numbers) in a movie ?

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