- This article describes the Zaltzi character Valcke Schulz from Space Battleship Yamato 2199. For his Gamilas counterpart in the original Space Battleship Yamato, see Shultz (OS).
Valcke Schulz (VALCKE SCHULZ, Valcke Schulz)[3] is commander of the frontline base on Pluto. Prior to being stationed on Pluto, he was a commander serving under Lieutenant General Elk Domel. Although he dutifully carries out his order to destroy Earth, he believes that the planet should have surrendered so that it could live peacefully like his homeworld, Zaltz, under the rule of the Greater Garmillan Empire. He is competent and cautious but fair in his command, and works well with his second-in-command, Guelf Ganz. Schulz has a family that he hopes to rejoin someday, and frequently views holographic messages from his daughter Hilude.[4][5]
Upon discovering the existence of the battleship Yamato, Schulz attempts to stop it from departing. He first attacks the ship's construction site with a fighter and carrier assault and then with a missile launch, both which Yamato wipe out.[6] Caught off guard by the ship's ability to warp, he orders Saleluya Larleta to destroy it at Jupiter. However, after Yamato obliterates the floating continent inside Jupiter's atmosphere, Schulz takes a more careful approach and dispatches Gamiloid robots to investigate it at Enceladus.[7][8] He attempts to convey the threat posed by Yamato to his immediate superior, Major General Gremdt Goer, only to be rebuked and insulted. When the Yamato approaches Pluto, Schulz devises a strategy to utilize the base's Reflective Satellite Cannon and its network of reflective satellites as a defensive weapon. Yamato suffers significant damage from the gun, and appears to sink into Pluto's ocean. Schulz hurries to report his apparent success directly to Abelt Desler, without realizing that Yamato had launched several fighters that destroy the energy field camouflaging the base. Yamato, having repaired its damage, manages to blow up the reflex gun and proceeds to bombard the base. Schulz is finally convinced by Ganz to evacuate and regroup. Just as the small escaping fleet is about to jump away, Yamato pursues and destroys all but Schulz's command ship, Chevalier. Desler, learning of the extent of Schulz's failure, banishes him and his crew from the empire until they can defeat Yamato.[9]
Schulz listens to his daughter's message for the last time.
He is given a chance a short time later when Chevalier takes on an experimental weapon. The weapon is destroyed, but Schulz presses the attack, pushing Yamato toward a red sun. A solar flare threatens to engulf Yamato, but the Earth ship blasts a passage through the flare and evades Schulz. As Schulz attempts to fly through the passage, it collapses and the flare consumes his vessel and crew.[10]
Desler grants honorary Garmillas citizen status to the families of Schulz and his subordinates; the colonel himself is given a two rank posthumous promotion of major general, and his daughter is awarded a position working as a servant in the imperial palace.[11][12] When General Domel returns to Garmillas for reassignment, he expresses surprise at the news of Schulz's death.[13]
References[]
- ↑ Official Space Battleship Yamato 2199 website character data
- ↑ ibid
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 ch. 29
- ↑ The Trap on All Sides
- ↑ ibid
- ↑ Toward a Sea of Stars
- ↑ Escape from the Jupiter Sphere
- ↑ Gravestone on a Frozen Field
- ↑ The Sun Sets on Pluto
- ↑ Wish Upon a Star
- ↑ Wish Upon a Star
- ↑ The Planet That We Head For
- ↑ What Lies Beyond
Japanese language information[]
ヴァルケ・シュルツ Varuke Shurutsu