OVA
Description
General Gomez is a high-ranking officer within the United Nations Spacy, the military force that oversees the development and deployment of new variable fighter technology in the year 2040. In the Macross Plus narrative, he holds a position of significant authority, serving as a superior officer who supervises Colonel Millard Johnson, the on-site commander of the Project Super Nova flight tests on the colony planet Eden.
General Gomez's character is defined by a deep-seated, overarching agenda that places him in opposition to the very pilots his project employs. He is described as someone who dislikes test pilots, viewing them as a troublesome necessity rather than an asset. His primary motivation is not the success of the YF-19 or YF-21 prototypes but the complete elimination of the human pilot from frontline combat. He is a leading proponent within the UN Spacy senior leadership for a future with no manned fighters, believing that the danger pilots face is an unavoidable evil of warfare that can be circumvented by technology.
This belief drives his most significant action in the story: his secret support for the X-9 Ghost project. The Ghost is an advanced, unmanned combat AI fighter. Gomez pushes for the development of this drone in secret, hoping to use it as a force to replace manned variable fighters entirely. When an incident occurs where pilot Isamu Dyson is injured under suspicious circumstances, Gomez initially halts the project under the guise of a procedural investigation. However, this is revealed to be a calculated maneuver. He is deliberately brushing the incident aside to push his own hidden agenda. It later becomes clear to the main characters that the cancellation of Project Super Nova to make way for the X-9 Ghost is precisely what General Gomez has been planning from the beginning.
His key relationship in the story is with Colonel Millard Johnson. As the direct superior, he exerts pressure on the project, but his secretive work on the Ghost creates a fundamental divergence from Johnson, who operates more directly with the test pilots. While the narrative does not chronicle a personal change or arc for Gomez, his function as an antagonist is tied to a specific plot point: he is the bureaucratic force whose machinations inadvertently set the stage for the central crisis, as he is willing to deploy the unproven and unpredictable Sharon Apple-type AI technology within the X-9 Ghost to achieve his goal of retiring human pilots. No information is available regarding his personal background, physical description, or any distinct combat or piloting abilities.
General Gomez's character is defined by a deep-seated, overarching agenda that places him in opposition to the very pilots his project employs. He is described as someone who dislikes test pilots, viewing them as a troublesome necessity rather than an asset. His primary motivation is not the success of the YF-19 or YF-21 prototypes but the complete elimination of the human pilot from frontline combat. He is a leading proponent within the UN Spacy senior leadership for a future with no manned fighters, believing that the danger pilots face is an unavoidable evil of warfare that can be circumvented by technology.
This belief drives his most significant action in the story: his secret support for the X-9 Ghost project. The Ghost is an advanced, unmanned combat AI fighter. Gomez pushes for the development of this drone in secret, hoping to use it as a force to replace manned variable fighters entirely. When an incident occurs where pilot Isamu Dyson is injured under suspicious circumstances, Gomez initially halts the project under the guise of a procedural investigation. However, this is revealed to be a calculated maneuver. He is deliberately brushing the incident aside to push his own hidden agenda. It later becomes clear to the main characters that the cancellation of Project Super Nova to make way for the X-9 Ghost is precisely what General Gomez has been planning from the beginning.
His key relationship in the story is with Colonel Millard Johnson. As the direct superior, he exerts pressure on the project, but his secretive work on the Ghost creates a fundamental divergence from Johnson, who operates more directly with the test pilots. While the narrative does not chronicle a personal change or arc for Gomez, his function as an antagonist is tied to a specific plot point: he is the bureaucratic force whose machinations inadvertently set the stage for the central crisis, as he is willing to deploy the unproven and unpredictable Sharon Apple-type AI technology within the X-9 Ghost to achieve his goal of retiring human pilots. No information is available regarding his personal background, physical description, or any distinct combat or piloting abilities.