Cloning sequence: Kamijin Kraveshera/Quamzin Kreveshna

Vocal chord pattern: Greg Snegoff

Primary skills: Battle tactics, Fighter piloting;

Secondary skills: Hand-to-hand combat

Techno-tactical characteristics: High learning abilities, quick decision-making, rich piloting potential, authoritarian leadership. Tends to independent operation.

Preferred Mecha: Glaug officer pod, Nousjaedul-Ger Male Power armor

Social status: Warlord

Rank: Captain

Position: Commander of the 7th Mechanized infantry Space division

Physical data

Age (Earth years): 15 (he doesn't look like a teenager, but he thinks like one)

Height (meters): 16.6

Weight (metric tons): 8

Psychological profile

The Warrior

Though passionate and impulsive, Khyron always calculates his plans carefully and doesn't allow heart to interfere with brain. Thanks to his unstandard tactics he was usually victorious and quickly achieved a high position in the Zentraedi army-society - the rank of a division commander. In his fleet there is one Queadol Magdomilla command ship, six Thuvert Salan-class cruisers, eight transports and several hundred assault craft of different classes (mainly Regults and tri-thrusters). However, he was denied the use of more advanced weaponry, like Rineunadou Lojmeuean reflex cannon platforms, probably because Zentraedi High Command didn't trust his sense of discipline. Indeed, Khyron often disregards subordination and, once defeated by the Micronians on Mars, swears to destroy SDF-1 no matter what orders received from his superiors.

The Backstabber

Khyron is probably aware of his nickname and does his best not to live up to it. He treats Grel, his executive officer, more like a friend than a subordinate - they bet on how many ships will collide upon defold on Mars orbit, drink together to celebrate victories, and Khyron often trusts Grel with commanding the 7th Division cruisers while himself leading mecha assaults.

On Mars, when a pilot goes berzerk, endangering the whole operation, Khyron manages to shoot him down without killing, though is himself under severe stress. On Earth, as soon as he hears that his soldiers are under attack, Khyron interrupts the pleasureful demonstration of feeling towards Azonia, even abandons the recently captured hostages, and mounts a relief attempt to save the Zentraedi, falling into a Micronian trap.

Disregard for a soldier's life was an accepted standard in Zentraedi strategy. Breetai wastes hundreds of mecha and pilots in countless frontal assaults, while Khyron always uses advanced tactics of stealth, speed, sudden powerful blows, concentrating maximum power against minimal resistance. Most of his operations would've been a complete success if not for superiors' interference.

Only once Khyron is seen killing Zentraedi troops, and that is when mass defection spreads through Zentraedi forces as they break into SDF-1. Extinguishing traitors seems only proper in any war, and is even more useful than destroying enemy units since the defectors possess valuable knowledge vital to the war effort.

Khyron's soldiers remain loyal to him years after The Rain. If he was only hated and feared, beyond doubt no Zentraedi would ever want to have him as commander again. If he was a direct, everpresent and unjust threat to soldiers' lives, one of them sooner or later, especially after The Rain, would've shot him in the back, Backstabber fashion. Nothing like that ever happened; soldiers seem to trust him, and even follow their commander in his quest for vengeance against SDF-1.

After successfully recovering a fuel tank and wrecking havoc upon New Detroit, Khyron awards himself with a new nickname - The Destroyer, which perfectly suits the reckless commander.

Is Khyron mad?

Many accuse Khyron of being insane - because of his often unstandard, sometimes seemingly irrational behaviour, "maniacal" laughter or just in accordance with traditional anticipation of villains as crazy people who want to blow up the world.

While exhibiting enough bravery to personally lead countless mecha assaults and engage in hand-to-hand combat with Veritech fighters, Khyron never takes senseless risks. As soon as things get out of hand, be it a deadly new model of enemy craft, an unexpected overload of a barrier system or simply being heavily outnumbered and outgunned, Khyron never hesitates with ordering a retreat. He obviously values his life, along with the lives of his friends and even soldiers. Thus it is highly doubtful, for example, that he would arrange a collision with Breetai's ships if he wasn't sure it was safe.

Obsession with revenge is not uncommon among the Zentraedi warriors. Miriya decides to infiltrate SDF-1, alone and with no weapons, just because she wants to kill the micronian ace who once beated her in combat. Not very rational behaviour, yet no one declares Miriya insane.

Violation of orders? Disregard for superiors? That was common among the Zentraedi as well. Among many other examples, Miriya directly disobeys Azonia, her commander, and instead of stopping Khyron decides to help him with his attack on the SDF-1.

True that Khyron's passionate nature somehow singles him out from other Zentraedi. However, all Zentraedi exhibit various emotions both before and after contact with micronians, so even by Zentraedi standards Khyron wasn't mad... else he wouldn't even be allowed to hold an armed rifle, much less command a fleet.

When Dolza's Grand fleet arrives, Khyron chooses the sanest alternative - stay out of fight and possibly finish off the weakened victor. This allows his division to survive the Battle of Rain and make refuge on the micronian planet.

The choice to go after SDF-1 after the Rain seems irrational at first, but not after thinking it over. Doubtful that, after discovering the level of psychological changes in Khyron, Azonia and their troops, Robotech Masters would grant them command over a force sufficient to destroy the battlefortress. After all, Dolza had direct contact with the Masters, and Dolza wanted to annihilate all Zentraedi "contaminated" by micronian culture, not speaking of that the Masters never wanted the fortress destroyed. So relying on them would've been insane, or at least irrational.

Second, Khyron possessed an ultimate weapon, which he was never before allowed to control - a Rineunadou Lojmeuean reflex cannon platform, equal in firepower to SDF-1 and the Zentraedi Flagship.

SDF-1 was crippled by the lengthy war, especially its final battle; the barrier system was down, energy level extremely low. Khyron was probably aware of this through the network of Zentraedi spies. With the element of surprise on his side, Khyron could be positively sure of his success.

That SDF-1 would be able to survive the deadly blast from Khyron's Monitor, take off and fire its main gun was not anticipated. With the Monitor going down, Khyron's choice was either die senselessly or take his enemy with him, and it was in the Way of the Warrior to do the latter...

Is Khyron evil?

That depends on what is "evil". Since it is so hard to define, let us first state what Khyron is not.

He is not a megalomaniac bent on the destruction of Earth. Our planet was virtually destroyed by Dolza, a person unarguably sane and rational, while Khyron preferred to stay out of the mess.

He is not an insane killer whose only goal is murder-death-kill. Khyron kills in battle, kills enemies and defectors, kills civiliansaccidentally or to terrorize the enemy population, he enjoys killing and takes pleasure in violence (like so many micronians) yet killing is not his ultimate goal but only a means to achieve military tasks. He is perfectly able to harness his bloodlust - when a hostage or an insubordinate pilot is more valuable alive than dead.

Well then, what is Khyron? To me he seems nothing more than a young field commander, brought up in a society centered on war, boyish, passionate and emotional, arrogant, loving and caring, merciless to enemies and with an ego equal only to his talents. He is not evil, just a soldier carrying out orders, pursuing personal vendettas and immensely bored by the stiff Zentraedi society. The Robotech RPG claims him to be approximately 15 earth years old... adolescent mentality suits Khyron perfectly.