Melamber wrote:I know the Sentinel stuff has been booted from cannon, however is it likely that any of the Sentinel races may be brought into the new edition? Specifically the Praxians catch my interest, but all of them had their pluses.
Eh? No, the Sentinels races are still canon... or, at least, that they exist is still canon. They appeared in the RTSC runup comic Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles, though it's only one ambassador per species not two, and only Veidt and L'ron had any dialog.
It's the particulars of the EVENTS of Sentinels that got binned. According to HG's stance posted over on Robotech.com, the "broad strokes" of the concept are still valid (the SDF-3 goes to Tirol, fights the Regent, etc.) but the details are no longer accurate and may or may not be included in future stories.
An example of this is in the first issue of Prelude, where they show Edwards' betrayal and the battle in Tiresia (Tirol's capital) from the old Sentinels comics, but the VF-1s and Hovertanks have been taken out and replaced by Cyclones, and there's the discovery of "shadow technology" and a bunch of new events (like the baby that would've been Roy Hunter being a miscarriage or the Haydonites secretly wanting to exterminate everyone who uses protoculture.