The Fake Songstress is the first part of an alternative version of the Macross F TV series. This version of the story follows the struggles of childhood friends Alto Saotome and Ranka Lee as they reach for their dreams of becoming a pilot and singer respectively. At the same time pop idol Sheryl Nome and her entourage board the Macross Frontier colonization fleet as part of her concert tour and are marked as spies for the Galaxy fleet. After the war against the Zentradi aliens, Humankind has spread across the universe in order to ensure its survival; but now Man is under threat from an alien species called the Vajra.