Zoidstar At the heart of the Galaxy, millions of light years from Earth, lies the Red Planet of ZOIDSTAR. Its rock and desert surface is scorched and barren. Its lifeless atmosphere hangs in a perpetual heat haze. What little water there is simmers on the point of boiling. Over vast spans of recorded time, this desolate planet has been the scene of centuries of searing battle, conflict without quarter, warefare without end...

Galactic Wars Here strode an ancient race of galactic warlords, their entire civilization geared to conquest... the ZOIDARYANS. On Zoidstar stood the cities where they planned their imperial domination. Deep within these cities were the mammoth construction plants that spawned the terrifying war machines known as ZOIDS. Possessed of devastating firepower the ZOIDS carried the warlords into battle. Nothing could withstand them. Through the epoch of the Galactic Wars they subjugated whole star systems. No mercy was shown to the victim worlds.

Heroic Combat When all the known worlds had been conquered the ZOIDARYANS turned their Zoids upon each other. Fierce duels to the death of one or both combatants satisfied their lust for battle, but HEROIC COMBAT threatened disaster for the Zoidaryans. They bore offspring only rarely, their survival depending on their great life expectancy. The escalating death toll of Heroic Combat would inevitably lead to the extinction of their race. Androids were developed, programmed to pilot the ZOIDS into battle. ZOID continued to fight with ZOID and the survival of the Zoidaryan race was secure. The androids became increasingly sophisticated eventually taking over the design and construction of new and even more terrible ZOID war machines.

The Meteor Storm When the skies over Zoidstar burned in a blaze of colour the end of the Zoidaryan race was nigh. Gazing in wonder at the stunning spectacle in the skies above them the ancient Warlords were unaware of the devastation to come. ZOIDSTAR was doomed by the poison from the skies. Within fourteen days, every living organism on ZOIDSTAR had perished. Only machines survived.

Zoid Wars Left to their own devices the androids continued to create even more fearsome ZOIDS. Supplies of ZOIDAR POWER began to dwindle. Now ZOID turned on ZOID as the only means of obtaining the fuel necessary for existance. No longer the Heroic Combat of the great age. Only the strongest and most cunning would survive in this new and hostile environment.

The Blue Moon The Zoidaryans kept a battleforce of ZOIDS on stand-by out in the galaxy. When the meteor storm struck the battleforce attempted a landing on the Blue Moon, a frozen and inhospitable world. The majority of the convoy carrying the ZOIDS and their androids survived, but the Zoidaryan Battle Cruiser crashed and burst into flames. The surviving androids soon discovered that the icy cold was their worst enemy. The ZOIDS had to be made capable of survival... to be transformed from cold metal into boiling fluid machines. Thus the Zoids on the Blue Moon began their mutation into a new fighting force. The RED ZOIDS were being created.

The Red Zoids Attack On the Blue Moon Heroic Combat was an impossible luxury. Their unity forced upon them by the desperate need to survive, the RED ZOIDS learnt how to operate together as a unified fighting force. For the androids, now encased in a silver coating to protect them from the temperature inside their heat-engorged war machines, the urge for combat was superseded by the urge for conquest. The RED ZOID battle squadrons were made ready for the return to ZOIDSTAR.

The Blue Zoids Attack The BLUE ZOIDS on Zoidstar still locked in individual combat were taken by surprise. The devastating onrush of the RED ZOIDS threatened to destroy them completely. City after city fell to the RED ZOID IMPERIAL LEADER, REDHORN THE TERRIBLE, a mutant monster hell-bent on destruction. The BLUE ZOIDS were forced to unite. Away from the carnage the androids, programmed for survival, set to work to create a BLUE ZOID that could challenge the might of REDHORN THE TERRIBLE. The centuries of conquest, war and combat gave shape to a new and menacing champion, THE SUPREME BLUE ZOID COMBAT LEADER ZOIDZILLA!

Earthman Into the maelstrom of this never ending struggle plunged a small and insignificant spacecraft. A BLUE ZOID patrol reached the wreckage first and the androids recognised a HUMANOID pilot, still living. The humanoid from another Galaxy was repaired. Called EARTHMAN after his home planet, he quickly learned the ways of this new and terrifying world. He became skilled in the art of ZOIDTHOUGHT, the means by which a pilot communicates directly with the ZOID which carries him. Connected to the Zoid via a neuro-emphatic reflex arc, the Earthman learned to merge minds with the machine. They became as one.

A Fateful Mission The battle raged and the EARTHMAN quickly showed himself to be a fearless and cunning adversary, a quality not often found in androids. For the BLUE ZOID BATTALIONS the war was not going well. A plan was devised by the EARTHMAN which would strike at the very heart of the enemy. He would merge minds with the MIGHTY ZOIDZILLA and be landed in the middle of the RED ZOID city complex, there to seek out and destroy in Heroic Combat, REDHORN THE TERRIBLE. A spacecraft which could carry ZOIDZILLA was created and the mission began. At the last moment disaster struck. As the spacecraft descended it was hit by an enemy missile and destroyed. A RED ZOID patrol was dispatched to recover the wreckage, but there was no sign of any HUMANOID LIFE. In the explosion, ZOIDZILLA had been shattered into pieces. As a precaution against the BLUE ZOIDS capturing the pieces and rebuilding ZOIDZILLA, the RED ZOIDS buried the six pieces under six different city domes. Without their leader the BLUE ZOIDS waited for the inevitable RED ZOID ATTACK.