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The Galliades was a Pleiades-class Battleship that was in service to the Dark Nebula Empire that was commanded by Commander Kazan. It appears in Be Forever Yamato.
History[]
Occupation of Earth[]
In the year 2202, the Dark Nebula Empire launches an surprise invasion towards earth, by embedding a huge nuclear missile on it's surface, and then breaking through it's defenses with it's invasion force and the Black Fleet. Among the fleet is the flagship Galliades, a Pleiades-class Battleship and it's accompanying escorting ships under Commander Kazan's command. After successfully winning the battle on earth's surface, Earth's space fleet attempts a counterattack on the Black Fleet with it's unmanned ships, under the command of Daisuke Shima. However, the Galliades and the Black Fleet lie in wait near Earth's Moon. The Gallaides and the Black Fleet sneaks up and immediately attacks the automated Earth Battleships from behind, catching them by surprise. During the ambush, Kazan's warships successfully destroys the control center of earth's unmanned fleet. With nothing to command them, the unmanned fleet loses control and is utterly annihilated within minutes by Kazan’s forces. With almost all resistance destroyed, Kazan aboard the Gallaides immediately informs his great victory to Emperor Skaldart, who gives Kazan a new task: Find the Yamato.
The Hunt For The Yamato[]
The Galliades arrives on a now occupied Earth with the rest of the Dark Nebula Empire's Black Fleet.
Shortly after his departure from earth, Kazan while aboard the Gallaides quickly locates the Yamato and attempts to give chase, but is surprised to find out that Yamato's new warp engine allows it to warp faster, escaping Kazan's grasp, and much to Kazan's surprise. However, this would not be the last of Yamato's encounters with Kazan. During Yamato's attempt to speed up it's progress using space currents in the Dark Nebula, it is ambushed and encounters an unnamed Pleiades-class Battleship with it's fleet of escort ships, led by an unnamed Dark Nebulan Commander. Captain Yamanami then ordered the Yamato to take cover behind one of the gas clouds to obscure it from detection, before launching a surprise attack from the enemy fleet's flank. This maneuver was a success, but the unnamed Pleiades-class Battleship survived and escapes the Yamato and disappeared into the depths of the nebula. The Yamato was about to chase after the fleeing enemy flagship, when Kazan's fleet quickly caught up with the Yamato and chases it into a cleaver laid trap. There, a fleet of multiple Goruba-Type Autoplanet Floating Fortresses led by supreme commander Grotas, who immediately orders all of the fortresses to attack and destroy the Earth Space battleship. Ultimately, this plan ends up failing after the Yamato fires upon every single one of the Goruba's with the new wave motion cartridges, causing a massive chain reaction that destroyed every single one of the space fortresses, the blast which also killed supreme commander Grotas aboard his personal flagship as well.
The Galliades and the unknown Pleiades-class Battleship were not seen again after. It still remains a complete mystery as to what happened to the remains of the Dark Empire's Fleet after their homeworld Dezarium was destroyed along with their Emperor.
Trivia[]
The Gallaides fate still remains unknown.