This article is about the Battle with Desler in Subspace depicted in Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199. For the similarly named battle in 2203, see Battle in Subspace. For its counterpart in the original Space Battleship Yamato, see Battle with Dessler's Battleship
The Battle with Desler in Subspace[5] was the last battle of the Great Garmillas War, which took place near and inside of the Galactic Theater Gate at Balun. It was an attack against Yamato planned out independently by the fallen Supreme Leader Abelt Desler who had gone into self imposed exile after the Battle of the Imperial capital. During the battle the dimensional submarine UX-01 intervened to arrest the fugitive Gremdt Goer under orders from the new provisional government of Garmillas, thus making the battle also part of the Garmillas Civil War.
Prelude[]
On July 16, 2199,[6] Yamato reached Garmillas and fought against Abelt Desler's forces on the planet's surface and atmosphere. In order to both destroy the battleship and his enemies hiding in Baleras Tower, Desler decided to drop a section of the Mobile City Fortress Baleras II on the empire's capitol Baleras. When his plans were foiled by Yamato's crew and his space station was sabotaged, Desler faked his own death and escaped, going into self imposed exile. In the aftermath of the battle Vice Leader Redof Hiss created a new provisional government, which included members of the Ditz faction, and signed the Earth Iscandar Treaty of Amity and Garmillas-Earth Interim Agreement with Yamato's commanding officer, starting a ceasefire and taking the first steps in ending the war with the Earth.[3]
The Goer Guard Fleet meets up with Desler's flagship Deusura II
However for the next months Desler would contact exponents of the military still loyal to him, including Major General Gremdt Goer and his fleet. Together they put in motion a plan to take over Yamato, which had become the fallen Leader's obsession, as it returned to its homeworld. Goer assembled his forces at planet Balun to activate the Milky Way subspace gate, knowing that the terrans would use it to warp towards their galaxy.[3]
As Yamato approached Balun they encountered a garmillan FS Torpedo Boat which had encountered engine problems, to the crew's surprise, the ship was carrying the former garmillas Secretary of Propaganda Miezella Celestella. Lieutenant Yuki Mori, who had previously encountered her on Garmillas, was tasked with her interrogation.[3]
The Battle[]
Encounter outside the gate[]
The Goer Guard Fleet ambushes Yamato
As Yamato neared and remotely activated the Subspace Gate it was ambushed by Goer's fleet, which had been hiding in the debris field left over by planet Balun's collapse months prior. The initial strike immediately destroyed the FS Torpedo Boat which had been attached to Yamato. General Goer's objective was to force Yamato inside the gate where Abelt Desler himself was awaiting the battleship aboard his flagship, Deusura II.[3]
Lieutenant Susumu Kodai, the terran ship's tactics officer, ordered to fire back at the fleet, but his ordered was overridden by acting commander Shiro Sanada, who instead ordered the battleship to raise its Wave-motion Shield and to speed through. However the shield did not last long under the enemy's barrage of fire, and it shattered before Yamato could reach the gate.[3]
Goergametsch is sunk
At that moment the dimensional submarine UX-01, which had been ordered by Admiral Ditz of the new garmillan government to hunt down Goer, shot two torpedoes at the Major General's forces, sinking a Kelkapia and a Destoria. As the submarine emerged from the dimensional boundary, Commander Wolf Flakken ordered Goer to surrender immediately to face justice for his insubordination. Refusing to surrender the General ordered his ships to advance and to open fire on the submarine. Despite being ready to submerge Flakken ordered to wait for Goer to get closer, this allowed Yamato to reach for the Gate and escape, but UX-01 was damaged by enemy fire, unabling it to dive. However thanks to the effort of a newer crewmember the submarine opened its emergency dimensional valves, going away to safety in subspace. It then fired two torpedoes, sinking Goer's flagship Goergametsch and killing the Major General, before returning to base.[3]
Boarding inside of the gate[]
The Gami-loid army board Yamato
The Yamato fighter squadron defending the ship using a Cosmo Zero's machine gun
As soon as Yamato entered the Subspace Gate it was attacked by Desler's flagship. Multiple metallic cables anchored themselves to the ship's hull, immobilising it, then hundreds of Gami-loids were dropped off and began boarding by blowing up various sections of the ship's hull. Kodai took command of the defenses while Yamato's security division, fighter squadron and other departments fought back as best as they could. In the meantime Yamato's autonomous computer detected that no organic soldier had boarded Yamato. Deducing that their opponents were Gami-loids the ship's crew began to work on a way to deactivate them, basing themselves on data previously acquired from a captured Gami-loid.[3]
Desler is shot in his arm
As Colonel Harz Lecter of Deusura II ordered Gami-loid teams 1 and 2 to sieze the engine room, Supreme Leader Desler decided to board the ship himself together with his personal guard in order to meet in person with Yamato's commanding officer, leaving his flagship in the hands of Secretary Welte Talan. The boarding party soon encountered Lt. Mori, who Desler promptly took hostage demanding to be guided to the captain's quarters. At that moment Secretary Celestella, who had been freed from the room she was held captive in during the turmoil, menaged to reach the Supreme Leader. Upon seeing him, she accidentally released sympathetic waves out of sheer joy. Having been caught off guard, Desler turned on Celestella and shot her. Injured, confused, and devoided of hope Celestella shot Desler in his shoulder before turning the gun on herself. Mori made a desperate lunge to stop her from committing suicide, but Desler's bodyguards opened fire, killing Celestella and seriously injuring the Lieutenant.[3]
At that moment, just before the Gami-loids took control of the engine, the virus that was being developed against them was transmitted to the invaders, immediately deactivating all of the mechanical soldiers. Having been injured and with his troops lost, Desler retreated to his flagship.[3]
Desler's last stand[]
Deusura II explodes
With the Supreme Leader on board, Lecter ordered to open fire on Yamato, but positron cannons were ineffective inside of the gate due to its peculiar physics. Knowing this Desler ordered Deusura II to fire its Desler Cannon. Talan tried to make reason with the Eternal Supreme Leader, stating that using such a weapon inside of the gate's corridor would be a suicide, Desler ignored the Secretary's warnings and ordered to proceed with the firing procedure.[3]
Understanding what was going to happen Yamato turned hard to port and fired all of its guns, loaded with physical type 3 shells, on the enemy ship, killing most of the bridge personnel. Desler then fired the cannon himself. As minister Talan predicted, a combination of the demage received from Yamato and the firing procedure of the Desler Cannon resulted in Deusura II being completely destroyed.[3]
Aftermath[]
Desler in service under Gatlantis in 2203
The shockwave of Deusura II's destruction sent Yamato flying outside of the Gate. Hacing only received minor demages, the battleship continued regular navigation towards the Earth. The heavily injured Lieutenant Mori entered a coma, she was put inside of the automatic navigation room's stasis capsule, in order to allow her to survive long enough to be hospitalised once Yamato reached Earth.[3]
Desler menaged to suvive by detatching Deusura II's Coreship from the ship's main body. He was left stranded in space, alone, until he was found by the Gatlantis Empire. Years later he would serve under Gatlantis's Emperor Zworder in his war agains the Earth.[3][7]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ in The Forever War two contrasting dates are given for the Battle of the Galactic Theater Gate, 2 months after Yamato took off from Iscandar and 8 months after it left Earth. The first would date the battle in September, while the second would set it in October (as per the dates given in The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: Choice of 2202). This is seemingly due to the fact that then production crew erroneously assumed that the took off date from earth was January 17, which is actually the date of Operation M
- ↑ Day count at the end of "The Distant Promised Land"
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 3.36 3.37 3.38 3.39 3.40 3.41 3.42 3.43 3.44 3.45 3.46 3.47 3.48 3.49 3.50 3.51 3.52 3.53 "The Forever War"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Memories of the Blue Planet"
- ↑ Trajectory of YAMATO official 2024 calendar
- ↑ The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: Choice of 2202
- ↑ "Desler's Challenge!"
Japanese language information[]
亜空間でデスラーと戦闘 A kūkan de desurā to sentō