Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross

Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross
Promotional art showing Jeanne Fránçaix's ATAC-01-SCA Spartas mecha (left) and Seifriet Weiße's red Zor Bioroid (right).
超時空騎団サザンクロス (Chō Jikū Kidan Sazan Kurosu)
Genre	Drama, Mecha, Military science fiction
Anime television series
Directed by	Yasuo Hasegawa
Produced by	Masanori Nakano Kenji Yoshida (executive)
Written by	Jinzō Toriumi
Music by	Ken Sato Yuji Dan
Studio	Tatsunoko
Original network	MBS, TBS
Original run	April 15, 1984 – September 30, 1984
Episodes	23 (List of episodes)

The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross (超時空騎団サザンクロス, Chō Jikū Kidan Sazan Kurosu^?) is a Japanese science fiction mecha anime TV series released in 1984, as the third of the series. It was adapted as the "Second Generation" of the American TV series Robotech.

In 2120 far future, humanity has left the Solar System and started the colonization of other planets. One of the farthest colonies is located in the terraformed planet Glorie. The powerful army of the Southern Cross protects the colonists from any unknown dangers. However, unbeknownst to the humans, Glorie is also the ancestral home of the Zor, a highly advanced race of nomadic humanoid aliens who have returned to reclaim their world.

Jeanne Fránçaix (ジャンヌ・フランセーズ, Jan'nu Furansēzu^?) (Michie Tomizawa): At 17 years of age, Jeanne finds herself the leader of the 15th Squad in the Southern Cross' Alpha Tactics Armored Corps (ATAC). A native from the planet Liberté, Jeanne has a tendency to follow her heart and act rashly. Her superiors consider her to be an embarrassment to the army because they feel that she does not take her duty seriously. Her frequent disregard for protocol, orders, and regulations continually lands her in solitary confinement, often placed there by Lt. Lana Isavia. Fortunately she always manages to be let out when needed. Jeanne develops a romantic interest in Seifriet Weiße, but his reaction is one of puzzlement and disdain. Most of the series revolves around Jeanne's escapades with the 15th Squad, and her increasingly personal war with the invading Zor.

In Robotech, her name was changed to Dana Sterling.