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A skirmish took place outside of a dimensional rift late in the Great Garmillas War. Despite its brevity the battle was significant in that it blocked lower storm leader Merda Ditz aboard the earthling battleship Yamato, heavily affecting the development of interstellar relationships between Garmillans and Earthlings in the months to come.
Prelude[]
In March 2199 major general Gremdt Goer, Garmillan commander of the Milky Way Galactic Theater, was also contacted by his superior, Marshall Herm Zoellik, in regards to the Earth space battleship Yamato, that had triumphed over the Garmillan forces both at Pluto and at Gliese 581. Fearing Goer's inhability to stop the battleship could cost him his position, Zoellik ordered the Major General to immediately take off to take care of the problem.[1]
At around the same time a garmillas Meltoria-class battlecruiser EX-178, which was carrying Lieutenant Merda Ditz, the daughter of the Great Imperial Garmillas Astro Fleet's commander Gul Ditz, and a special inspector from the Imperial Guard, remained trapped inside of a dimensional fault.[1]
EX-178 towing Yamato
Coincidentally the Yamato was also caught in the same fault where the EX-178 had remained stranded. Both admiral Okita of Yamato and captain Lang of the EX-178 knew that only by cooperating they could have a chance of escaping, for this reason lower storm leader Merda Ditz was sent to the enemy battleship as a liason, offering a plan that could save both ships and bring them to normal space. The plan was for Yamato to use her Wave-motion Gun to open a rift inside of the dimension they were trapped in, while that would cause the ship to lose all of its energy supplies, the EX-178 offered to tow her through the rift and into security, as a token of trust, Ditz would remain aboard Yamato.[1]
Okita accepted the offer despite some of his officers' doubts and everything went as planned, however the Imperial Guard officer aboard Lang's battlecruiser refused the idea of helping out his enemy, he interrupted the towing operation and sent a communication to Goer's fleet outside of the rift, before being interrupted and summarily executed for treason by one of Lang's officers.[1] With the mutineer dead both Yamato and EX-178 returned to regular space.[1]
The Skirmish[]
Captain Lang calmly accepts his death at the hands of Goer
As soon as Lang ordered Ditz to return to the EX-178, Goer and his fleet arrived to the site following the communication sent previously by the Imperial Guard inspector. Goer ordered the Meltoria battlecruiser to stand out of his fleet's line of fire, but one of the EX-178's crewmates noted that admiral Ditz’s daughter was still aboard Yamato. Goer, who had little love for the admiral, immediately gave the order to open fire on the allied battlecruiser, sinking it, and to then move on and fire at Yamato, calmly stating to his aide Monk by lying that the Yamato had sunk the missing ship they were searching for with the admiral’s daughter aboard.[1]
Despite his tactical officer asking for permission to fight back, Okita ordered to turn the ship around and run away. Seeing this Goer ordered his ships to pursue the Yamato and hunt her down. When Goers ship’s continued chasing the Yamato, at that moment the dimensional rift tried to collapse into its original position, causing a reaction that temporarily opened the rift that sucked in all of Goer's fleet in, except for his flagship Goergametsch, which had managed to escape by warping away.[1]
Aftermath[]
Following the skirmish Merda Ditz remained stranded aboard Yamato. She was kept prisoner in a cell both to contain her, but also in order to protect her from xenophobic crewmembers turning violent against her. She had revealed to the officers who had negotiated to them that the war had not actually been started by her people, but rather by the earthlings in a misunderstanding, a truth that, despite being known to Okita and two other officers, various sailors aboard Yamato did not want to believe in.[4]
Merda and her father discuss with a delegation from Yamato months after the Skirmish
Ditz ended up creating a bitter relationship with her guard Yamamoto Akira, and the two would eventually enter an unauthorised dog fight with two stolen planes that ended with Ditz saving the earthling, healing their relationship and forging the basis for a future friendship between the two.[4]
Ditz was released two days later[5] near a Garmillan base and allowing her to return to her people, but would cross paths with Yamato again months later when she was chosen as a liason between the earthlings and her father's rebellious group, due to having experience with humans. This alliance would eventually become the basis of a new peacefull relationship between the Greater Garmillan Empire and the Earth Federation.[6][7]
References[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 "Graveyard of the Universe"
- ↑ [[The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: Choice of 2202]
- ↑ "Wish Upon a Star"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "A World I Once Saw"
- ↑ Trajectory of YAMATO 2024 calendar
- ↑ "The Planet That We Head For"
- ↑ "AD 2202 - Revive, Space Battleship Yamato"