 The people from the "Macross" salvage everything they can, including the city surrounding the ship and its civilians (who have survived in special safety shelters, which were transported along intact), and attach two aircraft carriers to the ship.Since the fold systems have vanished after the jump, the "Macross" is forced to make its way back to Earth by conventional power.The Zentradi suspect the humans might be their creators, the Protoculture.