Zor is a native scientist of the planet Tirol, third moon of Fantoma, in the Valivarre system. While on a mission to search for new sources of energy for his home world, Zor discovers the planet Optera, homeworld of the docile Invid and their Flower of Life along with their queen, the Regess. Zor seduces the Regess and learns from her of the incredible power locked within the Flower of Life. Returning to Tirol with the Flower, he discovers how to convert its bio-energy into Protoculture, an energy source that prompts a technological renaissance on the planet and soon becomes key to the Tirolian way of life. Before dying, he sends his ship, the SDF-1, containing the Protoculture Matrix, into hyperspace on auto-pilot, sending the Flowers to Earth. Hence the beginning of the 1980s cartoon series Robotech.