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Moruk Lap Lamiz is a female Meltrandi commander who appears as an antagonist in the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross television series and in the 1984 film The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?. In the television series, she is a skilled and capable soldier who commands the Laplamiz Meltrandi fleet and serves under the supreme Zentradi leader Golg Boddole Zer. She is deeply loyal to the Zentradi cause and initially shares their fear of cultural contamination from the humans. After Boddole Zer's defeat in Space War I, she chooses to defect and later forms a romantic relationship with the culturally disillusioned Zentradi commander Quamzin Kravshera, the two eventually joining forces in a final attack on Earth. In the film version, her role is significantly different and more prominent. She is depicted as the cybernetic supreme commander of a vast Meltrandi fleet that has been at war with Golg Boddole Zer for centuries. She appears as an ultra-large holographic projection, composed of energy with fiber‑optic strands connecting her head and shoulders, serving as the controlling intelligence of the Laplamiz‑class mobile fortress. Her motivation in the film is to destroy Boddole Zer and his forces, and she leads her fleet into a final decisive battle. She is killed when Boddole Zer fires his fortress’s main beam weapon directly at her mobile fortress, destroying both it and a large portion of her fleet. Throughout both versions, Moruk Lap Lamiz is characterized as a fierce and capable leader who commands immense respect from her subordinates, most notably the ace pilot Milia Fallyna Jenius, whom she trusts implicitly. Her key relationships include her rivalry with Boddole Zer, her mentorship of Milia, and her eventual partnership with Quamzin. Her notable abilities include strategic command of a large‑scale Meltrandi fleet, operation of a massive mobile fortress, and, in the film, the ability to manifest herself as a holographic entity integrated with her ship’s systems.