Name: Dana Sterling

Age: 18 at beginning of Southern Cross, 19 at its end

Brief History: Left by her parents, Max and Miriya Sterling, she was raised by her foster father Rolf Emerson. Dana was the first human-Zentraedi hybrid. This often earned her insults at the RDF Academy, but she returned with a punch to the mouth and a bloody nose. But it was this same toughness that gained her the position of First Lieutenant and commander 15th ATACS Hovertank division.

When the alien Zor Prime was put in her group she soon fell in love with him but he died bringing the Robotech Masters' ship down. Later, she fell in love with Jonathan Wolff, a man sent to help Earth from the REF. She took his ship, leaving him on Earth and went to the Tirol system to join her parents.