Haydonites
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The Haydonites are a fictional mechanical race that appears in Robotech and made their first appearance in the Sentinels comics and the Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles.
The Haydonites live on the world of Haydon IV and wear robes that mask their appearance. The world they live on is actually a mechanical construct which is the home of The Awareness, a powerful intelligence.
The Haydonites provided technological assistance to the Robotech Expeditionary Force during its fight against the Invid Regent during the Sentinels War. The Haydonites claimed to have suffered at the hands of the Invid in the past, and used that to explain why they wanted to assist the REF. At the same time, the Haydonites asked that details of the Haydonite assistance be kept secret as the Haydonites wished to live in peace and not be disturbed by other races.
At the end of the Third Robotech War, the Haydonites, known to the Invid as the Children of the Shadow, betrayed their allies and attempted to destroy all races that used Protoculture as a power source as seen in Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. According to the invid Ariel, the Haydonites attempt to destroy races that use Protoculture energy because the Haydonites "...fear its awesome power."
In the distance past, the Haydonites destroyed the surface of the first Invid homeworld. For the final REF assault on Earth, the Haydonites provided humanity with weapons and defenses against the invid, including the deadly Neutron-S warhead. The Neutron-S warheads were effectively weapons of mass destruction and would kill millions of civilians as well as devastate half of Earth. But it was anticipated that if the REF ground assault against the primary REF hive at Reflex Point failed, then the warheads would be needed to destroy the hive. However, the catastrophic results of the Deucalion weapons test, as well as comments by the Invid Regess, suggest that the Haydonites concealed from the REF exactly how powerful the warheads were. The Haydonites expected that the REF would use the Neutron-S weapons and wipe out the Invid on Earth. The Regess foiled that plot when she decided to take the Invid to a new world, and destroyed the Neutron-S missiles as she left.
While it is unknown exactly what would have happened to the Earth if the Neutron-S warheads had hit Reflex Point, the Deucalion weapons test (which appears to have caused the creation of a new black hole) suggests that Earth (currently the only known location where the Flower of Life can properly grow) may very well have been completely destroyed. Further, the Regess recognized the warheads as weapons that had been used against the first Invid homeworld, and a vision from Ariel of the first invid homeworld revealed a completely ruined world.
With the Invid having fled, the Haydonites decided to focus on the REF. They attacked the REF fleet at Space Station Liberty, and it was revealed that the technologies that the Haydonites had provided to the REF had hidden weaknesses that the Haydonites were able to exploit to catastrophic effect. The REF fleet defending the station was wiped out, but one of the Neutron-S warheads stockpiled at Liberty was set to self-destruct, and the resulting blast was large enough to wipe out the entire Haydonite fleet.
The Haydonites' plans following the battle at Liberty are currently unrevealed. But it is known that they were searching for the SDF-3 and its Protoculture Matrix (the only way for the REF to generate new Protoculture energy), and had expected to find it at Liberty. Presumeably locating the SDF-3 is still a Haydonite priority.
