The Anti Wave-motion Lattice and its controller
The Anti Wave-motion Lattice is a piece of Garmillan technology capable of infecting and deactivating devices based on wave-motion energy such as Wave-motion Engines. It can also be used to greatly boost the energy output of a Wave-motion Gun. Only one device is known to have existed, and was employed by the Desler Regime Revivalists in a plot to sabotage the Earthling space battleship Yamato.
Technical Specifications[]
The Anti Wave-motion Lattice is contained inside an energy dome placed on top of a peculiar hand-hold device. The Lattice presents itself as a ball of light. It can infiltrate a wave-motion engine only as it's being turned on and can then sit there inactive until activated by the Anti-wave Lattice's controller. After having infected a wave-motion energy-powered device, it can be activated to incapacitate it[1] or even destroy it.[2] It can be deactivated and reactivated multiple times without losing efficiency.[3][4]
Once it infects a device, the Anti Wave-motion Lattice is very difficult, if not outright impossible, to remove. The only tested way to remove it is to burn it off when the Lattice is inactive by using it to power a Wave-motion Gun. This also has the side effect of exponentially augmenting the weapon's firepower. A Wave-motion Gun boosted by the Anti Wave-motion Lattice is called a Transit Wave-motion Gun.[1][5]
History[]
Ranhardt Desler activates infects Yamato's engine with the Anti Wave-motion Lattice
Around 2202, the Garmillas anti-government criminal group known as the Desler Regime Revivalists planned to use the Anti Wave-motion Lattice against the Earthling battleship Yamato to take revenge on the ship's crew for the role they had played in the dethronement of the Desler administration, the dictatorial regime which the Revivalists sought to re-establish.[1]
Ranhardt Desler, the nephew of the fallen Eternal Supreme Leader Abelt Desler,[6] had boarded Yamato while the ship departed on a journey to Terezart.[7] On December 29, 2202,[8] he met up with a group of Revivalists on the planet Stravase and received the Anti Wave-motion Lattice to use against the Earthlings.[1] In actuality, Desler was acting as a double agent for the Garmillas Security Intelligence Agency and was only playing along with the Revivalists' plans to gain their trust.[3] To allow their presumed ally to infect Yamato's engine with the device unnoticed, the Revivalist commander had lured a fleet of Garmillas rebels to the planet. In the confusion caused by the ensuing battle, Desler successfully infiltrated the Anti Wave-motion Lattice inside of the battleship's systems.[1]
After the Anti Wave-motion Lattice was turned on, the anti-wave-motion photons produced a pinkish light and deactivated Yamato's engine
In March 2203,[8] as Yamato landed on Terezart, the thought-to-be-dead Abelt reemerged, now at the end of a large fleet of warships.[6] Ranhardt caught the occasion and activated the Anti Wave-motion Lattice, rendering the battleship immobile, before promptly joining his uncle aboard his flagship. As soon as he had collected enough information about Abelt and his supporters on planet Garmillas, he deactivated the device and joined back up with the now-freed Yamato.[3]
Saburo Kato reactivates the Anti Wave-motion Lattice
In May of 2203,[8] as Yamato prepared to battle against the Gatlantis Empire during their invasion of the Solar System, Lieutenant Commander Shiro Sanada drafted a theory on how to use the Anti Wave-motion Lattice to boost the battleship's Wave-motion Gun.[9] The result of this theory was the so-called Transit Wave-motion Gun, which was supposed to be used against the White Comet, Gatlantis's mobile capital, at the Battle of Saturn.[9][4] However, Gatlantis managed to contact one of Yamato's crewmembers before the battle, convincing him to reactivate the Anti Wave-motion Lattice in exchange for a medication that could cure the debilitating illness that had hit his son and many other Terran children.[4] With its engine deactivated by the Lattice, Yamato plummeted inside the White Comet and crashlanded on planet Zemuria. The Anti-wave Lattice's controller was found and deactivated to then be put in the custody of the battleship's commander.[10]
Yamato fires the Transit Wave-motion Gun
After escaping from Zemuria,[11] Yamato finally managed to use the Transit DWIE at the start of the Golem Assault Battle, heavily damaging the White Comet. The weapon also burned off the Anti Wave-motion Lattice, freeing the battleship from its yoke once and for all.[12]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "The Trap at Planet Stravase!"
- ↑ Yamato Weapons taken from Hachette Collections Japan magazine
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Farewell, Teresa! Flowers for Two Deslers"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Yamato in Crisis - The Devil's Alternative Once More"
- ↑ "Yamato, Attack the Comet Empire!"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "O Teresa, Cry for Desler!"
- ↑ "Clash! Yamato vs. Andromeda"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: Choice of 2202"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Battle off the Coast of Saturn - Gather the Wave Motion Gun Fleet!"
- ↑ "Heir to the Yamato, Her Name is Ginga"
- ↑ "Escape from the Nightmare!"
- ↑ "Yamato, Attack the Comet Empire!"
Japanese language information[]
反波動格子 Han hadō kōshi