you have a very valid point: when a 1200 m alien ship that belonged to people who use giants as slaves, almost ten yeasr to recreate a military with fighter planes that can do things becasue of this magical alien technology, a cannon that makes me cry with joy, and the ultimate vaporization of six billion people, i guess they could just slip the population thing in... the only other thing i have to question in the "reality" of the series is how the macross had 2 yrs of food for over 3x its initial military population for the voyage to earth. okay, lets also take into consideration that the macross did resupply at salla base, but still... i suppose its yet another mystery of overtechnology and a lot of spam...