A to Z Challenge: Quadrano Battalion

The Quadrano Battalion was a unit of female Zentraedi in the first Robotech series.  They were led bv Miriya Parino, at least until she left to become human-sized.

Instead of the standard Battlepods, the female Zentraedi had "power armor."  It's sort of a hunchbacked human shape that was a lot more maneuverable and better armed than the pods.  But maybe there wasn't as much armor.

Quadrano Power Armor

Anyway, the power armor was pretty badass.  Which is probably part of the reason Miriya was unbeaten for so long.  The Quadrano Battalion did a lot of damage to the Veritechs of the SDF-1 and maybe they could have turned the tide if their commanders weren't so timid.

After the war, the female Zentraedi were spread all over Earth.  In the 19th book, The Zentraedi Rebellion, we learn how one of them hooked up with the despot-to-be Anatole Leonard, who used her as a dominatrix for a while, until she got knocked up and fled.

This Zentraedi and some of her former comrades banded together to form a new unit.  Using salvaged parts, they made remote-operated power armor suits at first just to spread regular destruction and terror.  Then they started spreading a rare disease in Mexico and South America.

Miriya goes to find them and accidentally kills her former best friend and the half-human/half-Zentraedi baby.  After the last of the rebel Zentraedi are rounded up, Miriya faces off against two of them in a duel along with Breetai.  Guess who won?

That was pretty much the end of the Quadrano Battalion.

There seems to be some dispute as whether it's "Quadrano" or "Quadrono."  Tomato, tom-ah-to.