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This article describes the planet Balun as depicted in Space Battleship Yamato 2199. For its counterpart in the original series, see Balan. For information on the gate hub located at Balun, see Subspace gate.



Balun is a free floating gas giant planet located in deep intergalactic space at the midpoint between the Milky Way Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud. The planet is distinguished by an energetic core, creating a glowing equatorial band on the surface of its thick atmosphere. Until the year 2199, Balun was the center of the Subspace gate network and a major Garmillas military installation.

Overview[]

Balun was originally a brown dwarf star between the Milky-way and the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Archelians artificially modified the body, turning it into a free floating planet characterised by a uniquely ovoid shape. At the center of the world laid a large energy plant which produced the vast amount of energy necessary to power the subspace gates in orbit around Balun and to make the planet keep its unnatural shape.[3] After these modifications, Balun's atmosphere appeared as a tumoltous storm of gas, with a large, irregular red belt surrounding its equator. The power plant's light could be seen even thousands of kilometers from Balun. The two subspace gates connecting the planet with the two galaxies were fixed on a ring orbitating around Balun. They made the planet an essential node in the subspace gate network. Balun served as a sort of "lighthouse" in space for the Greater Garmillan Empire, which also used another Archelian ruin on the planet as a military base.[4][5]

After the Planet Balun Breakthrough Operation in May of 2199,[6] Balun's energy plant was destroyed, creating a devastating explosion that destroyed a large Garmillan fleet in orbit of the planet and significantly altered the world itself.[5] After the disaster, Balun's axis was tilted and it assumed a more spherical shape. The gaseous belt became much less clearly defined and the wreckage of the many vessels destroyed in the explosion formed a thin ring around the planet. Only the subspace gate linking the planet to the milky way remained intact.[7]

History[]

An alien race known as Archelias built Balun at some point in the distant past to become the hub of a network of subspace gateways. The hub required massive amounts of power, so its builders designed the planet itself to serve that purpose, forcing Balun into an ovoid shape and intensifying its energy output. The modifications proved to be highly stable and provided seemingly limitless power to the hub and to the operating base inside the calm upper layers of Balun's atmosphere, even long after the alien builders disappeared.[4][8][5]

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Balun was eventually discovered by the Greater Garmillan Empire, and turned into a key military facility for the empire's continuing expansion.[4][9] In May of 2199, a surprise raid by an enemy vessel overloaded the core of the planet, causing a massive explosion that pushed Balun off its axial tilt, turned the planet into a more natural spherical shape, and diminished its energy output. Months after the attack, Balun was orbited by a substantial debris field comprised of the remains of the Archelias gate hub and thousands of Garmillas ships.[5][7]

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Notes[]

  • Although the Japanese name for the planet (バラン星) and its role as a vital intergalactic Garmillas base are similar to that of its counterpart in the original Space Battleship Yamato, a new English language spelling was chosen for official English captions.

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Japanese language information[]

バラン Baran

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