Macross Frontier Intro

Has anyone watched the opening sequence of macross frontier? If you guys could notice in the intro,nearing the end of the clip, there was a female with what looks like face paint on her cheek.. is she a vajra or maybe protoculture? and there was a shot where a vf-25 silhoutte would meet with what looks like another variable fighter but not a vf-25 nor vf171...looks like more of the a protodeviln mecha from m7, ...any comments?