episode syndication package that  the North American TV market demanded. To fix that problem, Macek  decided to acquire two unrelated series,  _"Chôjikû kidan Southern Cross" (1984)_ (qv) and  _"Kikô sôseiki Mosupeada" (1983)_ (qv). He then connected the series  as a grand epic of succeeding generations of characters in the  series that are forced to fight three successive wars over an alien  energy source called Protoculture that the enemy is desperate to  capture.