This article describes the space battleship Yamato as depicted in Space Battleship Yamato 2199 and its spinoffs and sequels. For information on other vessels bearing the name Yamato in this series or in other series or movies, see the Yamato disambiguation page.
- "But the Yamato isn't just a battleship. It's the hope of mankind! It's a symbol of human will, of humanity's wish to never lose hope!"
- —Commander Susumu Kodai[26]
The Yamato (BBY-01) (やまと, Yamato, lit: Great Armony),[27][N 2] originally known as Yamatte[N 3] to the Gatlantis Empire and, sometimes, to the Great Garmillas Empire,[28] is an Earth Federation Cosmo Navy space battleship, and the inaugural vessel of the Yamato-class. First conceived as an evacuation ship for survivors fleeing the Great Garmillas War, an unexpected gift of highly advanced wave-motion technology from the planet Iscandar convinced the leadership of the United Nations Cosmo Force to use it in a more ambitious and dangerous plan to save all life on Earth from extinction. During its first year of service, Yamato and its crew also became involved in the Garmillas Civil War, brought an end to the war with the Great Garmillas Empire, discovered the legendary world Shambleau, and made first Earthling contact with the Gatlantis Empire.
Three years later, the ship was called to the planet Terezart by the goddess Teresa, and re-entered service to liberate her world from Gatlantis. Yamato subsequently fought in a number of important battles of the Gatlantis_Campaign, and was key to the final defeat of Gatlantis.
In 2205, the ship became part of the 65th Escort Corps and was chosen to escort a peace mission to the Salezar system to showcase the Earth Federation's new pacifist foreign policy. After the destruction of planet Garmillas it violated the wishes of central command and rushed to aid the surviving Garmillans in their fight against the mysterious faction known as Dezariam.
Armaments and Technical Specifications[]
Overview[]
A keel runs through the bottom of the ship from front to back. The ship's frame extends from the keel like a ribcage, and bulkheads divide its interior into compartments, supporting their weight and making the vessel airtight and watertight. A conning tower is placed near the middle of the ship, where the first and second bridges, as well as the captain's quarters, are located.[13][20] The ship has 24 decks, with the open-air deck as the 1st deck, the captain's quarters as the 12th upper deck, and the third bridge as the 12th lower deck. The main elevator runs smoothly through all 22 decks between tha first and third bridges.[29][25] The main elevator's shaft houses two elevators in parallel, reducing congestion. The shaft is slightly curved and has guide tires at each apex of the gondola, allowing the elevator to move undisturbed. The structure remains effective even in the case of the shaft being damaged and bent. Stairs and lifts connect all decks together, and corridors stretch throughout the interior of the ship. The two main passageways are located port and starboard, running almost the entirity of Yamato's length. Most of the ship’s sections are located between these two passages and can be accessed on their respective floors.[25]
Over Yamato's various refits, its shape was slightly changed. During its first round of modifications the bow was smoothened and flattened, the main engine nozzle and sides were enlarged, the waterline was raised and the displacement was increased.[30] Following its third refit, the nozzle and the bow's shapes were changed to resemble the original ones and the sides of the first and second bridges were slightly shaved off.[31] The battleship's windows were green during its first journey, but following its first refit they were changed to light blue.[20][32]
At the start of its first journey, Yamato was crewed by a crew of 999, with a 7:3 ratio between male and female crewemembers. During its second journey, the ship had a much smaller crew and, despite having undergone modifications and now needing a smaller crew, it was considerably understaffed.[25][33][34]
Armaments[]
Yamato's offensive and defensive systems make it Earth's most formidable warship at the time of its launch in 2199. At least some of its armaments were manufactured by Nanbu Heavy Industries Corporation.[35]
Primary and secondary turrets[]
48cm triple positron shock cannon turrets mounted along the length of the upper hull provide Yamato's primary conventional firepower, firing high energy positron beams, Type 3 fusion shells, or a combination of the two that can destroy many smaller Garmillan and Gatlantean vessels in a single shot. Three turrets (two primary and one secondary) are located on front of the command tower, while two other turrets (one primary and one secondary) are placed on its back.[36][37] The first, second, and third primary turrets are designated in order from bow to stern. Their production codes are YMT-1, YMT-2, and YMT-3. Yamato's shock cannons are the most powerfull built by the UNCN by 2199 since they are powered by the ship's wave-motion energy.[38] However, their dependance from the engine means they can't be fired unless the engine is running. Type 3 shells can be fired even with the engine inactive since they are live ammunition and not energy-based.[20][36] Yamato's turrets can reach an elevation angle of 45 degrees[38] and are equipped with a swivel mechanism that allows them to perform a full rotation. The energy used for the turrets' movement doesn't come from the wave-motion engine.[20][36] The turrets' efficiency is enhanced by the range finders equipped on both their sides. The primary turrets were left basically unchanged by Yamato's various refits. They operate as a manned section under the ship's tactics department and their operations are overviewed by the department's artillery chief.[20] They are also equipped with additional armor.[38]
The first primary turret differs from the others in various ways. Its internal unit is shorter in height than that of the second primary turret, and the power system that rotates it is housed inside of Yamato's hull. The first primary turret also houses the primary gun ammunition compartment and the energy supply system from the wave-motion engine. Additionally, the first and second primary turrets are the only ones capable of firing Type 3 shells, while the ones behind the conning tower cannot.[39] This is due to the presence of an hangar and of the engine room, underneath the stern turrets, which limits the space necessary to store physical ammunition.[40] Despite this, those towers could still fire physical cerimonial shells.[41] The first primary turret was damaged in the Gatlantis_Campaign, during Yamato's crashlanding on planet Zemuria. It was later repaired and strengthened further in the refit to final battle specifications.[39][42][43] In the same refit, Yamato's shock cannons were enhanced by adding an energy condenser at the side of the main turrets, increasing their caliber to 50 cm.[13]
Missiles and torpedoes[]
Yamato is equipped with 6 torpedo tubes on its bow (3 on each side), 6 on its stern, 8 on portside, 8 on starboard, and 10 on the bottom for a grand total of 38 tubes. The torpedoes launched from the bow and stern of the ship are larger, being 8 meters long with a diameter of 65 centimeters, can be fired at much greater distances and can perform long-range stealth dives. By contrast, the side torpedoes are smaller and short-ranged, but can be fired rapid sequence, making them optimal as defensive weapons. Side torpedoes are shorter due to Yamato's width not allowing space for larger torpedo tubes on the sides, they have a total length of 5.8 meters and a diameter of 60cm. The ship is equipped with 4 different types of torpedoes, with the bow and stern ones being the most powerfull. All torpedoes are guided and have rotor blades that contribute to directional control and attitude stability. Rotor blades are engaged with grooves on the inside of the launch tubes. While they are called torpedoes, the name is merely figurative and they are more similar to multi-purpose missiles that can be used both in space and in an atmosphere.[39]
The bottom of the ship is equipped with a VLS (Vertical Launching System) missile launcher. When first commissioned in 2199, Yamato was equipped with 8 missile launchers but the number was later increased to 10 during its first refit. Each missile launcher is actually a revolver consisting of 6-12 launchers, allowing for intermittent attacks and equipment selection. Due to the increased strength of the armor on Yamato's underside, it was difficult to place defensive weaponry in that area. Missile launchers were placed there to resolve this problem.[39]
Additionally, behind the conning tower stands an eight-barrel missile launch tower, colloquially known as the “chimney launcher” because of its distinctive shape. It's a defensive weapon, most suited for ship-to-ship combat, that launches air-to-air missiles with tracking and guidance capabilities, it fires the same types of missiles as the side torpedo launchers. Two Type 94 depth charge launchers, a missile launcher built specifically for firing depth charges, are placed on each side of the base of the chimney launcher. Depth charges are anti-ship bombs capable of self-propulsion that are meant to crash into an enemy ship and release a space-time distortion based on the same effect of the wave-motion shield. Outside of depth charges, the Type 94 can be equipped with various types of projectiles, such as magnetron probes, if they conform to the basic specifications. Each Type 94 Launcher can deploy a total of 8 projectiles.[39][44] Following Yamato's second refit, four triple vertical missile launchers were added in front of the first and second main turrets.[13]
Anti-air weaponry[]
At the time of its first launch, Yamato was equipped with various rapid fire anti-aircraft laser pulse guns on the port and starboard sides provide added protection around the ship's bridge tower, including triple anti-aircraft pulse laser guns at the sides of the second secondary turret, later replaced by eight double-barreled high-angle guns in the first refit.[13][20][45]
In Yamato's second refit, its anti-aircraft capabilities were greatly enhanced. The ones already present on the ship were automated and all anti-aircraft weapons built on Ginga, Yamato's sister ship, were transferred to it. The second refit added the following anti-air weapons: 2 small anti-aircraft guns on the upper side of each main turret, 6 large four-barrel anti-aircraft guns in front of the first main turret, 2 quadruple anti-aircraft guns on both sides of the first secondary turret, 1 triple anti-aircraft gun and a small anti-aircraft gun on each side of the base of the command tower, 1 square triple anti-aircraft gun on both sides of the second secondary turret, 1 large quadruple anti-aircraft gun, 1 twin anti-aircraft gun on each side of the inner fireboat hangar, and 2 large quadruple anti-aircraft guns on the rear deck behind the third main turret.[13][43]
Wave-motion Gun[]
Until late 2199, and again from the end of 2202, Yamato is equipped with a Dimensional Wave-motion Implosion Emitter (commonly called a wave-motion gun) built into its bow. A single blast of the gun can vaporize targets as big as continents.[36][46] However, the gun requires time to build to full capacity, and additional minutes afterward to recharge, leaving Yamato immobile and unable use its other weapons, and limiting its effectiveness to larger and relatively stationary objects.[47][48] The wave-motion gun was sealed in accordance with the Earth Iscandar Treaty of Amity and Garmillas-Earth Interim Agreement, but around 2201, the Earth Federation reinstalled it during Yamato's first refit.[49][50] The wave-motion engine and wave-motion gun are connected by two conduction pipes, effectively making them look as if they were a single long device extending from one side of the ship to the other. When the gun is not being fired, three full-wave-motion rectifier circuits are not connected. The cannon consists of the plunger bolt, pressure chamber, first to third full-wave-motion rectifier circuits, the gun's muzzle, first and second locking fixtures, and muzzle closing valves. The wave-motion gun section of Yamato is a manned section with various consoles placed on both sides of the gun. The entrance and exit are located below the plunger bolt, but a different route is used to access the inside of the muzzle.[36] The wave-motion gun's range finder is located near Yamato's radio detector, in the space between the captain's quarters and the first bridge.[13] In order to improve the DWIE's firing performance, the shape of the nozzle was changed during the third refit. It now has an "L shape" when viewed from the side.[30]
Before Iscandar gifted the Earth with Wave-motion Energy-based technology, Yamato was planned to be equipped with a large beam cannon.[N 4][51]
Defenses[]
With a hull that can safely absorb significant damage, Yamato becomes the battlefield equal of the Great Imperial Garmillas Astro Fleet's Zoellugut-Class super dreadnought.[45][52] On top of being covered in heavy armor,[13] the battleship is also presumably equipped with scavanged migobueza coating. Due to the sides of the ship and the main gun turrets being frequently hit and damaged in battle, Yamato's armor was gradually strengthened during its first voyage to Iscandar, meaning its hull was slightly changed between its commissioning and return to Earth. During the third refit, additional armor was added to the main and secondary gun turrets, the armor plates around the pulse laser turrets were also thickened, and the base of the superstructure was shaped to protrude due to the additional armor.[30]
Yamato is the first vessel known to have been equipped with a wave-motion shield, a non-physical shield that can deflect very high energy hits and sustained attacks for limited periods of time.[53] The shield is projected through Nanbu Industries' Type 99 wave-motion coils,[54] and its deployement site depends on where the coils are equipped throughout Yamato's hull. Originally, the starboard coil was placed over the battleship's waterline, while the port one was placed underneath it. Following Yamato's first refit, the wave-motion shield's defense capabilities were greatly enhanced.[13] The systems responsible for the deployement and control of the wave-motion shield are the wave-motion shield repeater at the rear of the bridge, the wave-motion shield oscillation system placed on the chimney launcher, and the wave-motion shield relay machine placed at the back of the captain's quarters.[25] The shield is usually controlled from the first bridge or from the third bridge's wave-motion shield control room.[25] When Yamato needs to fire its weapons through the active wave-motion shield, a small hole is opened through it.[55] The ship is also equipped with an Asteroid Ring Generated Offense (ARGO) System,[56] which uses small magnetically controlled probes to grab and manipulate space debris into spinning rings or a protective covering. As part of an earlier mission plan that was eventually replaced, the ARGO system was neglected during Yamato's first year of service, but it was left in place and first deployed in combat in late 2202.[44]
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In space flight, Yamato established a new standard for the Cosmo Navy. Its wave-motion engine, formally called "Battleship Type i-400 dimensional wave-motion canister",[57][58] helps to make it the fleet's first warp capable vessel, bypassing the speed of light for nearly instantaneous travel across interplanetary and interstellar distances.[46] Yamato also has 8 battleship-Type cosmo turbine kais, grouped into two shafts which are used as auxilliary engines and to activate the wave-motion engine's antimatter generator. To start them up, the ship uses with a Type 74 propulsion engine.[9][18][59] Sub-light flight through space surpasses the maximum of all other UNCN ship classes. At full cruising speed, Yamato can cross in mere hours interplanetary distances that would normally take days or weeks, and it can cover the distance from the outermost reaches of the solar system to the orbit of Earth within a day.[60][61][62] Under emergency circumstances, it can achieve even higher velocities.[62][63]
The ship can also operate under a wide range of other conditions. It can fly and hover in planetary atmospheres, augmented by retractable wings stored in its midsection. The wings function both as stabilizers and heat dissipation devices, the wing themselves consist of multiple panels, and the wingtips and trailing edge flaps are movable. The cross-sectional area of the wings is asymmetrical. When deployed, the wings are extended horizontally relative to the hull, then the leading edge is lowered by approximately 2 degrees. To facilitate both extratmospheric and atmospheric flight, Yamato is equipped with attitude control nozzles, a group of thrusters used to obtain more precise maneuvering, mainly during combat. They are mounted on the bow, stern, at the ends and bottom of the hull. Yamato can set down and lift off from dry dock facilities, and it can take advantage of its naval battleship design and navigate on bodies of water, and to a limited extent underwater.[13][20][36][37][49][64]
Following Yamato's third refit, the hull's shape was slightly changed to allow more stable superluminal navigations in terms of dimensional fluid mechanics. The attitude control nozzles' placement was also changed.[31] The position and shape of the main nozzle stabilizers ( the vertical and horizontal tails) were also adjusted to be roughly halfway between their positions at commissioning and after the first refit.[30]
Fighters and auxilliary vehicle[]
At full strength, Yamato can field a squadron of Cosmo Falcons (also known as Hayabusa) or Cosmo Tiger IIs fighters deployed from a launch bay in the ship's keel, and two Cosmo Zero fighters from catapults on the ship's aft upper deck. A Cosmo Tiger I can also be launched from each of the ship's other hangars.[12][44][53] Two Type 90 Motor Boats, Tsukuba and Silatori, are maintained for water combat.[11][41] Yamato also carries two SC-97 Cosmo Seagulls[65], two Type-100 Recon Planes,[10] six Type 2 Multi-purpose Vehicle[12][66], and a Ki-8 Stork, which had been hidden on board secretly and whose existance was only revealed halfway through the ship's first journey.[2]
During the third refit, hatches of about 40 meters were added to both sides of the rear, making it possible to carry large support boats. As a result, the number of planes carried by the fighter squadron was reduced to 16. The position of the drainage port was also changed due to the addition of hatches.[30]
Other devices and technologies[]
Yamato is also equipped with an array of other advanced technologies that support its operations. Inertia Control is used to generate artificial gravity in most areas of the ship.[12] While the device was already in use in the Cosmo Navy,[67] the Yamato was the first ship capable of generating an artificial gravitational ambient.[68] The ship uses a gravity anchor to contrast the effect of its weapons' recoil,[47] additionally, it's equipped with a Type 97 rocket anchor.[36] Food and drink are primarily provided by the O.M.C.S. food processing system, which reduces the need to transport food supplies.[52] A hyperspace-based communication system allows for faster-than-light contact, initially within the limits a star system, and later much farther through the usage of Garmillan hyperspace relays.[54][69] This system, and all radio communications, pass through around the Type 99 Dimensional Radio Detector, which is located between the captain's quarters and the first bridge.[70] The radio detector was temporarily removed in favor of a high dimensional fine radar during Yamato's second refit, but was readded in later modifications.[71][72] Internal scanners provide information on ship status and life signs within the ship.[11][37] External equipment can provide information on the ship's immediate surroundings out to at least fifty light seconds (approximately 15 million kilometers) with a cosmo radar (which underwent some modifications following Yamato's first refit) , as well as optical and infrared scanners.[34][36][45][73] A VLBI telescope can make long-distance astronomical observations, returning clear images of planet-sized objects from more than eight light years' distance.[46] Yamato is also equipped with a sonar that could also be converted into a subspace sonar. The subspace sonar's development begun prior to the ship's first launch, but the data necessary to complete it and operate it was only obtained following the ship's encounter with a dimensional fault in March 2199.[21][48][74]
Locations[]
Bridges[]
Command and control of Yamato are conducted from one or more bridges placed along the ship's central vertical axis. Under most conditions, the first bridge near the top of the ship's bridge tower is used. Far more spacious than the bridge of any other Cosmo Navy vessel, dedicated science, navigation, communications, and weapons stations line the port and starboard walls, with the helm, tactics, and computer control stations plus an auxiliary station arrayed underneath a large forward-facing window. The computer station is built with a dedicated socket for the robot AU09. Cosmo radar and engineering stations are placed on either side of a dimensional compass mounted in the floor at the center of the room and ahead of the elevated captain's station. A large video mon Itour above the window dominates the bridge, providing scanner and communications information to the entire bridge crew. Two elevators provide access from the rear of the bridge. The bridge window can be polarized for added protection against very bright light, such as that generated by Yamato's wave-motion gun. The first bridge can also serve as the ship's CIC, this is a feature common to spacecraft built around 2200, including Garmillas and Gatlantis. It was built with an emphasis on manpower, allowing smooth communication between the captain and the heads of the various departments. This characteristic made it impossible to heavily modify the first bridge during Yamato's first refit, since in order to automate the bridge's functions, it would have been necessary to modify the many personnel-oriented facilities through the entirity of the ship.[20][34][36][52][62]
The second bridge is a backup CIC for the first bridge, and usually the preferred place for conducting combat operations when battle is anticipated ahead of time. Positioned just below the first bridge, the deck on which the second bridge is located is closer to the cover of the ship's anti-aircraft batteries on the bridge tower. Most significant for security, the bridge itself is enclosed in the center of the deck inside a sealed armored area away from the windows, becoming a dedicated combat information center. Crew stations are more tightly clustered, and tactics displays are arranged among the stations. The commanding officer can directly control the ship's weapons through a periscope mounted above the captain's station. Auxiliary helm and navigation stations are placed outside the armored area near the window.[35][37][75]
Hanging below the keel is Yamato's third bridge. It features a multi-level design, with support stations placed underneath the level of the main forward stations, to maximize use of limited space.[76] The third bridge can function as a backup service area that allows direct access to the ship's wave-motion shield and other engine-related functions.[45] Two narrow ramps can be lowered from airlocks in the rear of the bridge module for loading and unloading the crew.[20] The wave-motion shield control room is placed on the third bridge. It's not a permanently manned station, but rather a facility meant to be use to resolve eventual errors or problems in the wave-motion shield's system.[25] The third bridge is also used to manage Inertia Control.[77]
A fourth bridge was added following Yamato's refit in 2202. It's located under the conning tower at the base of the second sub turret. It was built as a backup for the other bridges and to unify command for the equipment group at the rear of the ship in charge of the third main turret and the second secondary turret, it also contributes to stern operations using these turrets and the aft torpedo launchers. Additionally, it serves as an effective optical observation point for the Yamato's rear. The fourth bridge is covered by an armored shutter, which is closed during normal navigation and combat, with external information being obtained from watchtowers and external cameras. The bridge itself is also capable of rising to allow for better visibility, or to descend to have more cover from enemy attacks.[38][78]
Crew Quarters[]
The captain's private quarters are placed at the very top of the bridge tower. In addition to work and relaxation space, a canopy window provides an unobstructed view of the ship's surroundings. The bed folds up to the rear wall to create a more open area for visitours. A single door leads from the room to the lower decks. The captain's chair can move along a track from the forward window across the room and down directly into the captain's station on the first bridge immediately below. The captain's quarters was one of the areas left completely untouched by Yamato's first refit. The quarters were not used during the Gatlantis war by either Acting Captain Kodai or Captain Hijikata. Behind the quarters, stands the ship's wave-motion defense relay, the section responsible for handling anomalies within the wave-motion shield's system.[13][25][34][46][49][52]
Senior officers are given private windowless quarters on lower decks, while junior crew members use bunks in shared cabins.[61][62][79]
Landing and Launch Facilities[]
Yamato's fighters are launched from dedicated areas of the ship. Hayabusa or Cosmo Tiger II fighters are launched from Hangar 2, located in the lower rear half of the battleship; readied planes are rotated into position on alternating carousels and are released backward one at a time along a tracked ramp opening from the ship's keel, behind the main thrusters. Cosmo Zeroes take off from retractable reward-pointing catapults that are elevated from Hangar 1, enclosed to the upper aft deck.[12][34]
Other auxiliary craft and small visiting vessels are launched from Hangar 3, located port and starboard on the lower half of the main hull. As the ship's sides were enlarged during the first refit, the space used for take off and landing in Hangar 3 was diminished. A robotic arm can be used to guide arriving vessels into one of the bays and to move them out into space.[34][45][48][75][79]
During Yamato's first year of service, a single Ki-8 Stork multipurpose craft was stored inside a small pressurised bay on the forward ventral half of the ship. The bay and the Ki-8 were hidden from the commanding officer and most of the crew by conspirators planning to seize the ship and abandon the search for Iscandar. Its existence was revealed only after the collapse of the mutiny. During the Gatlantis_Campaign, Hangar 3 was used to store the space cavalry.[34][62]
Following Yamato's third refit, the hangars were greatly expanded and two hatches were added to allow the battleship to carry support ships.[9] Thishowever resulted in less space being dedicated to fighter planes.[30]
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Yamato's navigation through space is assisted by computers in a dedicated compartment placed ahead of the forward positron shock cannon turrets, near the location of the wave-motion gun firing mechanisms. The room is elevated above the corridor leading to it, forming a hemispheric bulge on the ship's top deck. Personnel enter and exit via a retracting stairway located at the ceiling of a junction in the ship’s corridors.[25][80][81]
At the time of Yamato's launch in 2199, the ship headed into unknown interstellar space with little usable data, and with their primary source of information, Princess Yurisha Iscandar, in a coma. It was decided to use technology to directly access her unconscious brain and connect her to the ship's navigational system. Yurisha was placed inside a sealed medical capsule, which was transferred to the auto-navigation room prior to takeoff; knowledge of her presence was kept from all aboard but the commanding officer, the executive officer, and the chief medical officer.[20][82] The procedure was a limited success, but it became unnecessary after members of the crew discovered an intact Iscandarian star chart on the planet Beemela 4.[64] After arriving on Iscandar, a key component of the new Cosmo Reverse System installed in the battleship was placed inside the auto-navigation room.[49]
During the Golem Assault Battle in 2203, Toko Katsuragi projected her Cosmo Wave from the Automatic Navigation Room. The room was destroyed during the same battle.[23]
Technical Analysis Room[]
The Technical Analysis Room is located in the central compartment of the hull, and is directly connected to the main elevator. It has an entrance for the captain’s elevator. The room is 14 meters deep and 10 meters wide.[25]
Starboard on its back, toward the ship's bow, there's an entrance for the counseling room, while the analysis stations are placed on the main elevator's side. At the center of the Technical Analysis Room, stands an analysis platform surrounded by four consoles and a terminal for AU09. A capsule for preservation and analysis of unknown humanoid organisms on the starboard side, and a floor-storable multi-purpose table and a chemical tank on the port side.[79][25][54]
Medical Section[]
The ship's medical section is made up of a suite of facilities, including treatment rooms, operating rooms, and wards, capable of providing care for a wide range of health conditions. Minor ailments and injuries can be treated in a general practice area that includes a CT scanner, more advanced than its 20th century counterparts, and medicines.[25][83][84] Major trauma cases--particularly combat casualties--are brought to a hospital area that can accommodate numerous patients.[37][61] For the most critical cases requiring invasive procedures, the medical staff can conduct robotic surgery. A patient is suspended in an enclosed chamber filled with oxygenated fluid;[85] a cluster of small mobile units operated by remote control carry out procedural instructions, and transmit data to the attending staff.[75]
The medical section is set up in close proximity to the main elevator. This was done to centralize treatment rooms, operating rooms, and patient rooms in a single location. The chief medical officer administers the medical section from his quarters, which double as a private office, and are adjacent to the rest of the section. This arrangement makes it easier to respond to crew members who come in for emergencies or mental health issues.[36]
Long-term living facilities[]
Yamato was designed to carry out very long voyages. Since there was no certainty of it landing on any planets during it journey, the crew was expected to spend a long time aboard the ship.[20] To take care of the crew members' mental health, facilities necessary for normal life and entertainment were installed. Even when the living space was drastically reduced in the first refit, which also caused a reduction in the number of sailors crewing Yamato, most of the facilities on the inner levels were retained.[25] These facility include a common dining room, a theater-like video room,[83] the officers' room,[79] a broadcast room with a DJ booth,[54] and a training room for exercise.[83] While most of these rooms are open to all crewmembers, some, such as the officers' room, are only accessible to those of a certain department or rank.[25]
The broadcast room was used to broadcast YRA Radio Yamato, an on-board radio program hosted by Warrant Officer Yuria Misaki.[54] The program only lasted for the duration of the voyage to Iscandar and back, so the room was not used during Yamato's following journeys.[61] The broadcast room is divided in two sections: the operator and DJ booths. The operator booth is used to give instructions to the DJ booth and checking the audio quality,[46] it was also illicitly used by Toko Katsuragi to eavesedrop on the first bridge during the Gatlantis_Campaign.[86] The DJ booth can be used to broadcast messages to the entire ship[61] or for private communications, since it is difficult for audio to leak outside the room.[25]
The broadside observation decks placed on both sides of the hull play a similar role. While they are sometimes used for optical observation,[87] most of the time they serve as a resting place. They are equipped with sofas and viewscreens. Their structure is very sturdy, and they are protected by metal shutters and an several-dozens centimeters-thick external armor. They are 17m wide and 4m tall. The lower sections of both observation decks house a large public bath. The port bathing facility is for female crewmembers, while the starbord one is reserved for males. The facilities house large bathtubs, saunas and massage corners.[25][83][88]
The observation decks were opened to the 11th planet's refugees in late December 2202,[53] presumably in order to tend to their mental health and preserve military secrets.[25]
Other Locations[]
History[]
Origins[]
Construction efforts[]
Earth's first contact with an alien civilization in 2191, the Great Garmillas Empire, quickly turned into a war that overwhelmed its limited abilities over the following years.[60][82][83] As the ships of the UN Cosmo Navy were outclassed by their alien opponents and as the Earthling homeworld was turned into a radioactive desert by a ceaseless Garmillan onslaught, the leadership of the United Nations saw escape as the only option. Under Project Izumo, the Earthlings would build their first interstellar spaceship and ferry a small group of survivors out of the solar system to find a new planet to inhabit. A site underneath the dry seabed of the East China Sea, off the Bonomisaki Cape of Japan, was chosen for construction. The new ship was built partially underground and partially above the surface; its exposed upper hull was disguised as the wreck of the naval battleship IJN Yamato, which sank in the area almost two and a half centuries earlier, to hide the project from enemy forces.[20][60][64]
Maeda Construction Co. Ltd was entrusted with the preparatory work for the construction of Yamato by the United Nations Cosmo Force, without being given any actual information on the purpose and construction methods for the battleship itself. Civil engineers Takahiro Yamauchi and Mikio Hayashi were placed in charge of the project. The greatest issue they encountered was how to balance the delivery of Yamato's construction materials and the removal of excavated soil. Their solution was to make the tunnel linking the Far-East District Underground City and the underground dock where Yamato was being built large enough to transport large chunks of soil and construction materials at the same time. The final space excavated for Yamato's construction was about three times the height of the ship itself and was dug from top to bottom. Two tunnels linked by an elevator shaft connected the site to the nearby underground city. The upper one, Tunnel 1, would carry the necessary materials for drilling and building Yamato, while the removed terrain would be moved through the elevator and removed via Tunnel 2. Multiple pressure bulkheads were to be installed in both tunnels, preventing the output of Yamato's engine from reaching the underground city during the ship's launch, while also doubling as a defense against future Garmillas attacks; however, it was later decided that concrete blockades would be more reliable and cheaper. Bulkheads were still installed on Tunnel 2 to facilitate vehicle transit. Tunnel 1 was built first, after reaching IJN Battleship Yamato‘s interior, foundation improvement was to be carried out on the uncompacted sedimentary layers on Yamato‘s flanks, to avoid the collapse of the soft ground that surrounded the hull. It was later decided that Tunnel 1 would serve as an advanced pilot tunnel. Because it was to be dug at the boundary of the sedimentation layer, it was decided to adopt a Tunnel Boring Machine which would have made it easier to respond to ground changes. To further shorten construction time, it was decided to diverge Tunnel 1 into a branch in the middle to the starting position of the elevator shaft. The finished diameter of the two branches was 12.6 and 3 meters respectively. Tunnel 2 was built a little later, and only then did excavation of the underground dock around Yamato truly begin.[19]
The multi-jet high-pressure injection stirring method was used to reinforce the ground, meaning that cement milk was injected into the ground at ultra-high pressure. Temporary horizontal shafts were built on either side of the Yamato hull. Small multi-jet construction machines were installed inside the temporary shaft to perform ground improvement, after the process was completed, it was repeated to improve another section, and so on. 10 sets of multijet machines operated in parallel. The temporary shaft was constructed using H-steel shoring and sprayed mortar. To shorten the construction period the building of temporary tunnels and ground improvement work was carried out simultaneously. The ceiling of the dock was built in a dynamically-stable dome shape, and rock bolts were installed on it to ensure stability. To avoid having to properly ventilate the tunnels and the building site, all construction workers wore spacesuits. The front half of Yamato was not excavated, dramatically decreasing the amount of soil to be removed while also allowing for the ship to naturally lift its bow upwards during take-off without needing another support device. In the areas corresponding with Yamato‘s belly, the ground was fortified with earth anchors. This system would take on all of Yamato's weight, making it possible to omit rear supports.[19]
The battleship was then built block by block starting from the bow. Each block was completed in the larger construction space before being slid underneath the IJN Yamato's camouflage.[19] Another company, Nanbu Heavy Industries, was responsible for the construction of a good portion of Yamato's armaments and systems.[37][89][90]
The birth of Program Yamato[]
As construction continued on the vessel and a crew was selected, a surprise alien visitour arrived in early 2198 with information that would shake up Project Izumo. Princess Yurisha Iscandar presented an invitation to travel to the distant world of Iscandar and take possession of the Cosmo Reverse System, a device that would remove the radiation threatening Earth's surviving population and restore Earth's ravaged biosphere. She also offered plans for a highly advanced wave motion system to power the Earthling ship for the round trip journey to the Large Magellanic Cloud and back. Izumo was secretly scrapped, and as part of the new Program Yamato, the vessel was re-designed to accommodate a wave motion engine. Recognizing the incredible energies that could be generated, Lt. Commander Shiro Sanada, a scientist serving in the UNCF, designed a wave motion shield for defense, along with an unparalleled weapon of mass destruction, a wave motion gun. Just as work was being completed one year later, a sister of Princess Yurisha arrived in the solar system with a wave-motion core that would drive the engine. The space battleship Yamato was ready for flight, and the crew were notified of their new mission by their commanding officer, Admiral Juzo Okita, only a day prior to launch.[20][60][82][87]
2199: Voyage to Iscandar[]
Yamato's outbound flight through the solar system became a trial for its new technologies. Its shock cannons easily took out a Garmillan carrier and an interplanetary missile sent to destroy it before liftoff, and the wave-motion shields safely deflected the missile's explosion at point blank range.[20] One day later, the battleship conducted its first warp and traveled from Mars to Jupiter almost instantaneously, and at Jupiter, Yamato obliterated a massive Garmillas floating continent hidden in the gas giant's atmosphere with its wave motion gun.[36] A condenser failure on the main engine the very next day forced a detour to the moon Enceladus for supplies of cosmonite-90 to make repairs,[12] but the battleship was soon ready for a full assault on Pluto. Combined with its full fighter squadron, Yamato fended off a counterattack, bombarded the main enemy base, and wiped out the Garmillas presence in the solar system.[37][53]
The ship was ready for the demands of the long mission ahead and headed out into the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond, but the Garmillans were no longer taking their Earthling adversaries for granted. As word of the ship's successes reached the highest levels of the empire and inspired conquered worlds to defy the empire's rule, Supreme Leader Abelt Desler grew increasingly focused on stopping it.[91][84] The battleship left the Milky Way on March 30,[92] and had an encounter with a Garmillas Dimensional Submarine on March 31.[21][75] In April, Yamato was very nearly destroyed at the First Battle against Domel, and was saved only by a surprise Garmillan withdrawal.[52] Delayed in reaching Iscandar and with morale lower than ever, members of the crew who had been conspiring to re-start Project Izumo launched a short-lived mutiny.[64] After the mutiny was put down, officers who had been exploring a nearby Earthlike planet returned with information that would save the mission: a network of ancient alien subspace gates that could trim months off Yamato's journey.[82] To access the network, though, the ship would have to confront those who currently controlled it, the Garmillas Empire. Admiral Okita and his crew devised a plan to charge through the network before destroying the hub located at the planet Balun with the wave motion gun. The ship arrived safely at the far side of the network on the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud, having not only rendered the network nearly useless, but also destroying thousands of enemy warships in the process and crippling the Garmillas military.[47]
Yamato was now seen as the single greatest threat to Desler's empire. A particularly brutal engagement in the Rainbow Star Cluster failed to stop its progress toward Iscandar,[45] and after happening upon a liberated prison world, Yamato was given drydock repairs and military intelligence from members of the Garmillan resistance movement against Supreme Leader Desler.[41][73] When Yamato arrived in the home star system of both Iscandar and Garmillas, Desler attempted to take down the battleship by any means necessary, even if it meant annihilating his own capital city. During the battle, Yamato fired its wave motion gun against Desler's attack, saving not only itself but the entire capital. In doing so, Yamato demonstrated the Earthlings' honorable intentions, even as their own ruler proved himself a menace to his own people. Desler was assumed to have died during the battle, and with the war having come to an abrupt end, Yamato was allowed to fly on to its destination.[49][63]
After arriving on Iscandar, the crew of Yamato learned that the ship itself may have caused the mission to fail. Queen Stasha Iscandar, having been told about Yamato's wave motion gun by Desler and witnessing it herself during the fight over Garmillas, was horrified that her planet's technological gift had been used to create a superweapon. She refused to deliver the long-awaited Cosmo Reverse System, concluding that the Earthling race was too dangerous to survive. However, the intervention of two people who were very close to her eventually changed her mind, and she personally brought the device to Yamato, but she demand Admiral Okita's pledge that the Earthlings would never again create wave motion-based weapons. The firing components of Yamato's wave motion gun were removed and replaced with the Cosmo Reverse System, turning the battleship itself into the instrument of Earth's survival. The forward muzzle of the gun was sealed, and a plaque announcing a new treaty signed by representatives of Earth, Iscandar, and the Great Garmillas Empire was mounted on the muzzle cover.[60][93]
The return voyage to Earth was much faster and less eventful, except for two major incidents. The first, occurring a month after departing Iscandar, began when Yamato was ambushed by an expeditionary fleet of the Gatlantis Empire that sought to take the ship as their own. Yamato escaped, but found itself trapped inside a region of space with seemingly no connection to the rest of the universe. On the planet at the heart of the region, Shambleau, a Earthling landing party discovered members of a Garmillas task force that had also been trapped. Yamato and the task force cooperated and fought side-by-side after the Gatlanteans tracked Yamato to Shambleau.[93] The second took place one month later when Yamato attempted to reactivate the only undamaged subspace gate at Balun. The ship was hit by a surprise attack from rogue Garmillan forces and fled through the gate and into a subspace corridor--only to be seized and boarded by troops serving Abelt Desler, still alive and intending to use Yamato to reclaim the empire for himself. After repelling the boarding party, Yamato opened fire on Desler's flagship with a volley of shells from its positron shock cannons, fatally crippling it.[11]
Yamato returned to Earth on December 8th. It was secured in the Cosmo Reverse Activation Dock,[94] where the CRS was activated almost immediately upon arrival. Yamato turned the dying desert planet back into the watery, green world it had once been.[61][93]
Recommissioning under the Earth Federation[]
Following the end of the conflict, Yamato was decommissioned and placed in an underwater dock to become a memorial vessel,[4] with its crew members being given new assignments. At this time, Yamato took on a significant cultural role within both Garmillas and the Earth. Through its actions the battleship had brought an end to the previous conflict and defended both planets from annhilation, in the following years toys depicting Yamato were sold and bought even by Garmillas children.[95] In 2201,[21] however, the newly founded Earth Federation announced the Wave-motion Gun fleet plan, a rearmament plan that aimed at fielding a new fleet composed of ships armed with wave-motion weapons. Under this new policy, Yamato was to be stripped of the Cosmo Reverser and rearmed to once again be deployed in active combat. Begrudgingly, Sanada agreed to help refurbish the ship.[50] Yamato was given a new shipboard factory and an additional fourth bridge,[78] its armor and anti-air weapons were also updated.[4] The shape of the bow fairing, bow, and torpedo tubes was changed, with the volume near the bow and torpedo tubes being increased. The lower part of the hull was expanded in cross-sectional view. The main propulsion nozzle was also enlarged, and the main gun turrets were enlarged in accordance with an increase in their armored plating. Additionally, due to a drastic reduction in the number of crew compartments, the number of spare materials carried aboard the ship was increased. Despite all these changes, which were all carried out in order to resolve Yamato's weakpoints found during its previous journey. Since the budget for the refit was limited, sections not needing additional modifications, or even parts that had become technically unnecessary, but didn't conflict with the concept of the refit, remained completely untouched.[13][25] These sections inculded the ones containing leftover equipment from Project Izumo, such as the ARGO system.[44]
In late 2202, while it was still undergoing repairs, Yamato was independently reactivated by a small group led by Sanada and former Chief Engineer Hikozaeomon Tokugawa, to destroy a Gatlantean battleship that was making a suicide run against the Earth.[32]
Terezart and the War with Gatlantis[]
On December 2,[21] immediately after Yamato's emergency reactivation, most of its former crewmembers received a telepathic message from the goddess Teresa calling them to her planet, Terezart.[32] When the UNCF refused to send Yamato on the mission, the crew decided to go AWOL and start the journey on their own.[50] Lieutenant Susumu Kodai, the ship's tactics officer on the journey to Iscandar, was named acting commander in place of the deceased Okita.[22] Thanks to the meddling of the Garmillas Empire's Ambassador to the Earth, Loren Burrell, the ship's voyage was ratified by the Earth Federation's president. In exchange, Burrell's military attachèe Klaus Keyman, who was secretly on a mission on behalf of the Garmillan secret services,[96] joined up with the crew.[44] Yamato also soon encountered and rescued an escaping Cosmo Marine, who was fleeing from the 11th planet of the solar system. The planet had fallen under attack by the Gatlantis Empire, so the battleship decided to lead a rescue operation, saving all surviving civilians as well as the UNCM's 7th Space Cavalry Regiment and Admiral Ryu Hijikata of the Outer Defense Division, while also managing to not use the wave-motion gun against the invaders.[95][97] Yamato then headed to planet Stravase, where it was to leave the civilians in the care of a Garmillan patrol fleet. There, the ship was caught in a battle between two Garmillan rebel factions. Keyman, who was playing along with a plan made by the Desler Regime Revivalists terror group to gain their trust, used the chaos caused by the battle to infect Yamato's engine with an Anti Wave-motion Lattice without being noticed. During the fight, acting captain Kodai was confronted by the Gatlantean emperor Zworder, who had grown interested in the ship called Teresa.[86][98]
In the following months, Yamato encountered Gatlantis multiple times, even fighting against a fleet headed by the thought-to-be-dead Abelt Desler, who was serving the empire in hopes of regaining his lost throne.[99] In a face-off against Gatlantis's mobile capital, the so-called White Comet, the crew uncovered a Gatlantean spy that had secretly boarded their vessel.[100] However, unbeknownst to them, a second spy was still on board and continued relaying Yamato's movements and plans directly to Zworder.[101] On March 26, 2203,[21] the ship reached Terezart and engaged the Gatlantean occupational forces in a fierce battle, during which the crew was finally forced to use the wave-motion gun against their enemy. Amid the fighting, Hijikata accepted Kodai's offer to become the ship's commander, becoming the second official captain after his best friend Okita.[101] After the end of the battle, a landing part left Yamato to meet Teresa in her sanctuary. The goddess revealed to them that she hadn't simply called them to liberate her world. Rather, as a being residing in a higher dimension who could see the flow of time from beginning to end, she knew that the only way to realize the best possible future in which Gatlantis was defeated, Yamato would have had to travel to Terezart. She was firm in the belief that the bonds formed during the battleship's journey would have the power to overcome Gatlantis, and that Yamato, which she dubbed the "Great Armony" would become the vessel through which these bonds would manifest.[27] As Teresa spoke, the planet fell under attack by Desler's forces. The Supreme Leader wished to occupy Terezart and use it as a bargaining chip with Zworder, hoping the emperor would grant him the strength necessary to reconquer Garmillas.[102] Keyman took the occasion to deactivate Yamato's engine through the previously installed lattice and joined Desler aboard his flagship in hopes of uncovering the identities and locations of the Leader's primary supporters on Garmillas. After gaining the information needed and reporting it to Burrell, he reactivated Yamato's engine and finally sided with the battleship.[96]
With its journey to Terezart over, Yamato headed back to Earth. At the same time, Gatlantis unleashed its entire military in an invasion of the solar system and engaged the UNCN in a battle on Saturn. Sanada planned to use the wave-motion gun boosted by the now inactive anti-wave lattice to destroy a good chunk of the invading forces in one swoop.[103] Zworder discovered this plan through his spies and managed to manipulate one of Yamato's airmen into reactivating the lattice in the middle of the DWIE's firing sequence.[42] The now incapacitated Yamato plummeted straight into the White Comet and crashlanded on the planet Zemuria, which the Gatlantis Empire had conquered and placed inside of its mobile fortress. There, the crew met a pair of AIs that, under the command of Toko Katsuragi, redeemed Gatlantean spy and a clone of the last surviving Zemurian, agreed to disclose the existance of Golem, a device located in Zworder's throne room capable of instantly killing all Gatlanteans.[104][105] With the help of its sister ship Ginga and of the Earth Federation flagship Andromeda, Yamato escaped from the White Comet and revealed the existance of Golem to the Garmillas-Earth joint forces.[106]
After its rescue, Yamato was given emergency repairs and retrofitted with parts from Ginga in a drydock near Mars. Yamato's damaged hull was repaired, and the ship was outfitted with additional AA guns, point defense weapons, and a new main turret from Ginga. All of Yamato's artillery weapons and its wave-motion shield were also upgraded, and its Cosmo radar was replaced with a new High Dimensional Fine Radar.[71] Soon after leaving the dock and heading towards the inner solar system, Yamato was attacked by Desler's flagship, but after a confrontation between himself, Kodai, Keyman, and a Gatlantean agent, Desler ultimately decided to leave Zworder's side and ally himself with Yamato for the upcoming battle.[43][107] The following day, Yamato aided by Desler and a vast Garmillas fleet squared off against the White Comet in orbit of the Earth. Through the boosted DWIE, the empire's forces and capital were significantly damaged, and the battleship managed to break through the Gatlantean lines and lead an assault against Golem. The battleship was aided by Katsuragi, who, as a former high-ranking Gatlantis official, could take control of a small force of half-constructed warships. Despite this, Yamato still suffered heavy damage and multiple casualties. The battleship was pierced by hundreds of Eater Is, and several fires erupted, including in the engine room. Hijikata was also killed during the raid when a portion of the bridge's ceiling collapsed over his post. In his last moments, he gave the position of captain to Kodai.[23] While Yamato's assault party managed to seize Golem, the device was activated by Zworder himself, who, by self-recognizing as a human, managed to avoid being killed by the machine. All other Gatlanteans died, but now the emperor could now awaken the true power of the White Comet as the Archelian Ark of Destruction, an ancestral weapon created to lay waste to all human species throughout the universe.[108]
Having failed its mission, Yamato withdrew. With the battleship's engine approaching a critical point, Kodai ordered all hands to abandon the ship; however, he remained on the bridge followed by his fiancée, operations officer Yuki Mori. The two led the ship on a suicide run against the Ark of Destruction, which was replenishing its energy supplies on Saturn. Their sacrifice would've been futile, only giving the Earth little time before being destroyed by the Ark, but at that moment the wave-motion engine melting opened a dimensional hole, allowing Teresa to manifest in regular space. With this, all of Teresa's wishes for the future reached fruition, and Yamato became the vessel through which she could bring an end to the Gatlantean threat. Together with the goddess, the battleship rammed the Ark of Destruction and disappeared in a flash of light.[108]
Resurfacing and the referendum[]
On December 2203, six months after the end of the Gatlantis_Campaign, Yamato resurfaced inside a time fault located underneath the Earth Federation's New Capital. The battleship was carrying aboard Lieutenant Akira Yamamoto, who was believed to have been killed in action during the assault on Golem and had thus been left behind during the evacuation. She informed the rest of the crew that Kodai and Yuki were still alive but had remained stuck inside Teresa's higher dimension. Sanada was convinced that bringing them back was a possibility, but for that to happen the time fault, which had been instrumental in Earth's reconstruction, would have had to be sacrificed to propel Yamato beyond the dimensional boundary into Teresa's realm. Supported by Ginga and Andromeda's captains, the Yamato crew proposed the plan to the UNCF leadership, but it was only after Burrell intervened in their favor that the proposal was actually taken into consideration. However, it was agreed that such an important decision should have been left in the hands of the Earth Federation's citizens, and a referendum was organized over whether or not to go through with the sacrifice of the time fault. On December 30,[109] even before the votes were counted, a newly repaired Yamato was readied by its former crew. In the end, the operation was approved by the population, even if only by a small margin.[21] Yamato transcended into the higher dimension through the collapse of the fault, and Kodai and Mori were safely returned to the Earth on December 31.[21][72]
Yamato as a representative of peace: the 65th Escort Corps[]
Following the referendum the foreign policy of the Earth Federation was drastically changed. Without the time fault and its factory supporting the Earth's military complex, a new, more peacifist military policy that focused on scaling down the armed forces to match the federation's size was approved. Under this new direction, ships which began construction in the time fault were converted into new models, such as Asuka and Hyuga, two modified Dreadnought-class carriers. The two ships were crewed mainly by former Yamato crewmembers and captained respectively by Mori and Sanada, who had both been promoted to the rank of Commander. Together with Yamato, they made up the newly formed 65th Escort Corps.[9][110] To replenish the personnel lost during the previous two wars, Yamato, Hyuga and Asuka welcomed the cadets of the 38th class of the National Space Defense Academy.[111]
Between 2204 and 2205, the Great Garmillas Empire, now allied with Desler's faction, entered in a territorial conflict with the Bolar Federation over the rights to control planet Garmann. Given their proximity to Bolar's terr Itoury and their alliance with Garmillas, the Earth Federation feared the possibility of being caught up in a full-blown war between the two powers. In an effort to showcase their new peaceful approach to intergalactic politics, the federation planned to send Yamato and the 65th Escort Corps on a diplomatic trip to both Iscandar and Garmillas.[112] The mission was to take off on October 2, 2205,[113] one day after the graduation of the 38th's cadets.[111][114]
The peace mission and the Iscandar Incident[]
On October 1,[110] the 65th Escort Corps welcomed its new recruits and the Peace Corps, the delegation they were supposed to escort to the Salezar system. The following day, the fleet prepared to took off. Commander Kodai discovered that one of the new crewmembers, W.O. Ryusuke Domon, had altered his background log and had joined Yamato out of a personal grudge with him. To test out his resolve, Kodai gave Domon the helm of the ship for the take off. Initially, the Warrant Officer tried to crash the ship to take revenge on Kodai, but ultimately he decided agaisnt it, he was later arrested by the ship's security department, but was given a chance to continue his stay aboard the ship as a quartermaster.[111][114]
Yamato continued its journey, which was also meant as a training opportunity for the young cadets, and engaged in several military excercises including a simulated battle with Asuka and Hyuga in orbit of the 11th planet. In the meantime, a special device meant to be installed aboard the prototype dimensional submarine Cosmo Hound begun testing aboard the ship.[114] When the 65th Escort Corps received news of the destruction of Garmillas at the hands of an unknown enemy, Yamato and the other two ships were told to halt their journey out of fear they could drag the Earth into a war with Bolar. Despite Kodai's appeal to the Peace Corps rapresentatives, central command couldn't agree on a rescue mission to aid the surviving Garmillans. Understanding the situation, Domon and his comrades put in motion a plan to get Yamato to the battlefield: they would fake a malfunction in the wave-motion engine and evacuate the Peace Corps to Asuka, then, they would force the battleship through the subspace gate linking the Milky Way with the Large Magellanic Cloud, forcing Yamato to interefere with the conflict out of self defense. Kodai and the ship's security department soon stopped the mutiny, but instead of punishing the cadets the captain simply scolded Domon for acting out before consulting with him, mentioning how he and his crew had done the same thing years prior.[26]
Yamato, went through with the plan, followed by Hyuga and Asuka, and arrived just in time to face the enemy, now identified as the mysterious Dezariam, during the Rescue of Iscandar. Dezariam was using an unknown technology to move planet Iscandar to their homeworld, however, to do so, they needed to collect a large amount of energy by destroying the nearby planet of Garmario. In agreement with Desler's fleet, Yamato planned to use the wave-motion gun to destroy Garmario before Dezariam could use it to their ends. However, Yamato had to resort to also using its wave-motion shields while charging up its wave-motion gun to defend itself against Dezariam forces, by firing the weapon and using the shields simultaneously, Yamato was left completely deprived of energy, and remained helpless as the shockwaves and debris leftover from Garmario's destruction threatened to sink it. The ship was rescued by Asuka, which used its Wave-motion Resonance Waveguide Device to supply it with enough energy to restart its engines.[115] The battleship took part in another operation to rescue the civilians still stuck on Iscandar, once Dezariam tried to fire a superweapon at the planet, threatening all those on its surface, Yamato, Hyuga and Desler's new flagship rallied in to protect Iscandar's capital with their wave-motion shields.[115] Yamato took part in a last battle against Dezariam, which ended up destroying the invading forces, but came with the cost of the destruction of planet Iscandar and the deaths of Stasha and Yurisha.[116][117]
With the end of the brief but devastating conflict, Yamato and the 65th Escort Corps set course back to the Earth.[117]
Operation DAD[]
Immediately after its return to the Earth, the 65th Escort Corps was dissolved. Deeming them responsible for the fleet's rebellion during the Iscandar Incident, all commanders including Kodai were dismissed and the crews of Asuka, Hyuga and Yamato were reassigned to other posts.[24] Despite this, General Commanding Director Heikuro Todo insisted that Susumu Kodai was still the commanding officer of the space battleship.[118] Yamato itself was awarded with a war medal by the Earth government for being the first Earthling vessel to ever face off against three alien opponents, achieve significant results, and return home safely. Three lines were placed on the barrel of each of the main and secondary guns, and a special anchor mark, also called the Yamato mark, was placed on its bow and painted on both sides of the hull. The mark was created by adding three rings to the Cosmo Navy's emblem.[119] This medal was meant to both celebrate Yamato's accomplishments and force it to retire from the frontlines. Since the crew had already been given new assignments, they were not present at the medal awarding cerimony.[30]
The personnel changes were officially carried out as part of the organizational changes for the 2206 fiscal year, but many saw it as a response to the arbitrary action carried out during the Iscandar Incident by the 65th Escort Corps' crews. In reality, all these provisions were carried out by Serizawa and Todo in preparation for a plausible Dezariam invasion of Earth. As Dezariam sympathizers infiltrated the Earth Federation, the two planned Operation DAD, a secret plan to fight back against the invaders. As part of this plan, Yamato was also moved to a secret location.[118][120][121]
According to official documents military documents, the battleship was transferred to the reserve fleet and set off on a training voyage.[30] It was also scheduled to be used for various tests.[119] In reality however, Yamato was moved to a secret location,[121] where it was modified to accommodate new equipment as the core of an anti-Desarium force.[30]
Following the anticipated Dezariam attack on the Earth Federation's capital in October 2207, the former crew members of the 65th Escort Corps received a message prompting them to rally to the Yamato as part of Operation DAD. The message was relayed by New Analyzer, Yamato's new autonomous sub-computer.[118]
Crew Departments[]
Tactics Department[]
The tactics department is in charge of all combat operations including all of Yamato's weapons, the ship's fighters and the deck crew. The tactics department is headed by a tactics officer,[122] while weaponry is handled by the artillery chief, both working from the ship's first bridge. Yamato's first tactics officer was Lieutenant Susumu Kodai, who was later replaced by Lieutenant Tetsuya Kitano following his promotion to ship commander, Lieutenant J.G. Yasuo Nanbu was the ship's first artillery chief, he was later replaced by Lieutenant J.G. Haruo Nishina following his transfer to the supply carrier Asuka.[20][110][123][124]
Fighter Squadron[]
For this topic in more detail, see Yamato squadron
Yamato fields a large fighter squadron, which is organized under the tactics department. Originally, the ship carried 36 Cosmo Falcon and two Cosmo Zeros (later reduced to one in 2205), the Falcons were later replaced by Cosmo Tiger IIs and, for the duration of the Gatlantis_Campaign, the ship also carried a Cosmo Tiger I.[1][2][7][8] Following Yamato's third refit, the squadron's size was reduced from 36 to only 18 planes, due to the addition of two hatches made to carry large support boats to the rear of the ship.[30]
The fighter squadron follows the same three-shifts rotation system as other departments, with on-duty members stationed in the standby room. As compensation for the physical strain and the mental burden that comes with its duties, the fighter Squadron is given larger facilities than the other departments.[25] The squadron was initially led by Lieutenant J.G. Saburo Kato with Lieutenant J.G. Hiroki Shinohara as his deputy. Following Kato's death and Shinohara's transfer to Hyuga, Lieutenant Akira Yamamoto became the squadron's leader with Lieutenant J.G. Sho Sawamura as her deputy.[110][125][126]
Deck Crew[]
The deck crew is a division of the tactics department operating from Yamato's third bridge. It's responsible for the ship's repairs and for managing the deployement of the wave-motion shield. It's headed by the battleship's boatswain, Chief Petty Officer Isami Enomoto.[45][54][127]
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Yamato's navigation department is the group tasked with the ship's navigation, signals, lookout, steering, and with charting its route, they are also tasked with overseeing the weathering conditions of the space around the ship. This last task falls to the ship's weather officer, while all others are overseen by the department's head, the navigation officer. The navigation department is also responsible for the route planning room.[25] Lieutenant Commander Daisuke Shima serves as navigation officer and chief navigator since Yamato's first journey and, from 2205, he is also the ship's executive officer. Yamato's first weather officer was Ensign Kenjiro Ota, later replaced by Ensign Shigeru Hayashi.[110][128][129]
Operations Department[]
The operations department is tasked with supervising information, hull demagnetization, communication, encryption, radar, electronic equipment maintenance, etc. They are headed by an operations officer[130] who also serves as chief radar operator on Yamato's first bridge. Communication is supervised by the communications chief. Lieutenant Yuki Mori and Lieutenant J.G. Yoshikazu Aihara served as Yamato's first operations officer and communications chief, but following their transfer to Asuka and Hyuga respectively, they were replaced by Ensigns Miki Saijo and Jun Ichikawa.[110][111][131][132][133]
Technology Department[]
The technology department supervises scientific analysis, information analysis, development, and engineering. The department is headed by a technical officer aided by an intel officer,[134] who is responsible for the Technical Analysis Room.[25] Lieutenant Commander Shiro Sanada, Yamato's first executive officer, also served as the ship's first technical officer. Following his promotion to commander of the Hyuga, he was replaced by Lieutenant Kaoru Niimi, who previously served as intel officer.[110][135][136]
Engineering Department[]
The engineering department is responsible with operating Yamato's engine and damage control. The department is led by a chief engineer and an emergency chief. Yamato's first chief engineer was Lieutenant Commander Hikozaemon Tokugawa, who was later replaced by former emergency chief Lieutenant Susumu Yamazaki after his death.[20][36][137][138]
Security Department[]
Normally security, and hand-to-hand combat in the eventuality of boarding action aboard UNCN ships is handled by Cosmo Marines, but some ships, including Yamato, have security departments.[139] The Security Department is responsible for the ship's on-board surveillance systems and brig.[25] During Yamato's first journey, its security department was to be made out of officers from the police force, but the head of security, Lieutenant J.G. Shinya Itou, as well as other members actually came from the intelligence department, and were only posing as military police officers.[140] was the result of the Project Izumo Faction's ingerence.[25][139] The security department was heavily infilitrated by the supporters of Project Izumo, who rose up against Yamato's mission during the ship's first journey. However, their plans were thwarted by Warrant Officer Toru Hoshina, Itou's right-hand-man, who was secretly a member of the Far-East District Staff Office Strategy Department 6th Section.[64] During Yamato's journey to Terezart, the lack of personnel diminished the role played by the Security Department, whose duties were partly overtaken by the 7th Space Cavaly Regiment. Most of the Security Department's remaining personnel were tasked with supporting other understaffed departments. This led Yamato's brig to be short-staffed and not actively managed, resulting in prisoners being able to enter and leave the detention center relatively freely.[25] Following Itou's arrest, Hoshina became Yamato's new head of security, but was unable to board the ship for its second voyage, leaving the department without a commanding officer. He officially took the position in 2205.[25][60][110][N 5]
Medical Department[]
The medical department is tasked with tending to Yamato's ill and injured as well as carrying out field rescue missions.[12][37] They are the only department composed of both military personnel and civilian volunteers.[110] They are headed by the chief medical officer, a position held by Doctor Sakezo Sado since the ship's first journey. Although he's a civilian, Sado holds the equivalent of the rank of Commander.[141]
Accounting Department[]
The accounting department supervises Yamato's supply and materials, including both food and bevarage. They are responsible for managing the OMCS. The accounting department is headed by a chief accountant, Lieutenant Hajime Hirata.[142]
Uniforms and Protective Gear[]
See Yamato uniforms and protective gear (2199) for more comprehensive descriptions. See United Nations Cosmo Navy for information on UNCN uniforms and gear not specific to Yamato.
Although the crew of Yamato retain their affiliations with the United Nations Cosmo Navy and other branches of the UNCF during the first year of service, nearly everyone is assigned uniforms that are unique to the space battleship. Basic military uniforms are decorated with UNCF rank shoulder boards, but are color coded to match department assignments, including red (tactics), green (navigation), yellow (operations), blue (technical), white with orange trim (engineering), orange with black trim (accounting), black with yellow trim (fighter squadron), and gray (security). Civilian medical staff feature their own variants resembling military uniforms. On top of the basic uniform, officers may wear supplemental gear, such as tool vests and bullet-proof tactical armor. Female uniforms are generally form-fitting, while male uniforms have a looser fit. Combat flight suits resemble duty uniforms. Admiral Juzo Okita, the ship's commanding officer, continues to wear a standard UNCN command-level uniform.[20][36][53]
Other protective gear such as spacesuits and hazmat suits remain very similar to their UNCF counterparts, but often with colors corresponding to each individual's department assignment.[20][36][54]
Gallery[]
Notes[]
- Yamato's full designation at the time of its launch is "Super-dreadnought Space Battleship for Interstellar Navigation Yamato".[6]
- Teresa states that "Yamato" means "Great Armony", this is the meaning behind the Kanjis "大" (Dai, great) and "和" (wa, sum) which traditionally make up the name Yamato (大和).[27]
- While Yamato's name is often written, both on screen and in side materials, in katakana (ヤマト), its official designation written on the hull is in hiragana, as for all other UNCN ships.
- Unlike the original 1974 incarnation of Yamato, the space battleship was not constructed inside the wreckage of the twentieth century naval warship. This takes into account the discovery and confirmation of the IJN Yamato at the bottom of the East China Sea in the 1980s. Photos show that the ship had broken into two large sections and multiple fragments that were scattered across the ocean floor as they sank.[143] Without a relatively intact wreck, building a large starship inside of it would have been impossible, regardless of other engineering challenges.
- The date of the ship’s launch coincides with several important dates in Japanese history including: the traditional date of the Founding of the Japanese Empire by the Jimmu Emperor, the Anniversary of the Meji Constitution, and the launching of the first Japanese spacecraft Ohsumi.
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 Official Space Battleship Yamato 2199 website Character and Mechanical
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 Official Space Battleship Yamato 2202 website CHARACTER & MECHANIC
- ↑ "Toward a Sea of Stars"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Complete Works Vol.1 p.3
- ↑ Yamato was decommissioned after her return and before the announcement of the Wave-motion Gun fleet plan in 2201
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 1/500 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Yamato Bandai set box art
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Yamato 2199 BD/DVD Volume 4 booklet, p. 5
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love Chapter 3 theater pamphlet, p. 12
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 starblazers-yamato.net MECHANIC Space Battleship Yamato 2205: A New Journey entry for Yamato
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p. 142
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 "The Forever War"
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 "Gravestone on a Frozen Field"
- ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 Yamato Exterior Features from Hachette Japan Magazine
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 1/500 Scale Space Battleship Yamato 2199 assembly booklet
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love Chapter 3 theater pamphlet p. 12
- ↑ Satoshi Koizumi, mecha designer for the Yamato 2199 series, noted in a 2013 interview with Great Mechanics DX magazine #23 that the Earth battleship Kirishima had been fitted with reflective armor coating technology acquired from Garmillas ships destroyed during the Second Battle of Mars. This coating allowed Kirishima to survive hits from enemy weapons that easily wiped out other UNCN vessels during the First Battle of Pluto. It is likely that the same technology was applied to the hull of Yamato, which survives more severe impacts during its first year of operation.
- ↑ Yamato Engine & Hangars taken from Hachette Collections Japan magazine
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 3 Theater Pamphlet p. 13
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 Yamato 2199 Prehistory: Underground Giants
- ↑ 20.00 20.01 20.02 20.03 20.04 20.05 20.06 20.07 20.08 20.09 20.10 20.11 20.12 20.13 20.14 20.15 20.16 20.17 20.18 "Toward a Sea of Stars"
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 21.7 21.8 21.9 "The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: Choice of 2202"
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Departure to the Unknown!"
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 "Yamato, Attack the Comet Empire!"
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 starblazers-yamato CHARACTERS Be Forever Yamato: REBEL 3199 entry for Susumu Kodai
- ↑ 25.00 25.01 25.02 25.03 25.04 25.05 25.06 25.07 25.08 25.09 25.10 25.11 25.12 25.13 25.14 25.15 25.16 25.17 25.18 25.19 25.20 25.21 25.22 25.23 25.24 25.25 25.26 Yamato Interiors from Hachette Japan Magazine
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 "Save Iscandar! Rebellion of the Young Heroes!!"
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 "Zurvival's Fierce Assault - Find Teresa"
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection GARMILLAS p.261
- ↑ “ Twitter / new_yamato_2199: Space Battleship Yamato has an open-air deck... Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Production Committee
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 30.4 30.5 30.6 30.7 30.8 30.9 Space Battleship Yamato Mechanics 1st Part: Space Battleship Yamato
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Complete Works pp. 4–5
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 "AD 2202 - Revive, Space Battleship Yamato"
- ↑ Hyper Hobby June 2012 p. 68
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 34.4 34.5 34.6 34.7 Yamato Bridge Tower from Hachette Japan Magazine
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH pp. 48-51
- ↑ 36.00 36.01 36.02 36.03 36.04 36.05 36.06 36.07 36.08 36.09 36.10 36.11 36.12 36.13 "Escape from the Jupiter Sphere"
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 37.4 37.5 37.6 37.7 "The Sun Sets on Pluto"
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 Yamato Weapons from Hachette Collections Japan
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 39.3 39.4 Yamato Weapons from Hachette Collections Japan
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 2 Theater Pamphlet p. 12.
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 "Prison Planet 17"
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 "Yamato in Crisis - The Devil's Alternative Once More"
- ↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 "The Fated Showdown!"
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 44.3 44.4 "Clash! Yamato vs Andromeda"
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 45.3 45.4 45.5 45.6 "Under a Rainbow Sun"
- ↑ 46.0 46.1 46.2 46.3 46.4 "Wish Upon a Star"
- ↑ 47.0 47.1 47.2 "Over the Black Light"
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 "Graveyard of the Universe"
- ↑ 49.0 49.1 49.2 49.3 49.4 "The Distant Promised Land"
- ↑ 50.0 50.1 50.2 "Shock – Legacy of the Cosmo Reverse"
- ↑ The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: Choice of 2202 program book p.27
- ↑ 52.0 52.1 52.2 52.3 52.4 "Point of No Return"
- ↑ 53.0 53.1 53.2 53.3 53.4 "The Trap on All Sides"
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 54.2 54.3 54.4 54.5 54.6 "Farewell to the Solar System"
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 BD Volume 5. It's depicted in the storyboard for "Point of No Return" of the theatrical mbonus.
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Volume 2 Theater Brochure
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love Chapter 3 Pure Love Edition Theater Pamphlet p. 12.
- ↑ From Tokugawa's manual shown in "Escape from the Jupiter Sphere"
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection GARMILLAS pp. 010-011
- ↑ 60.0 60.1 60.2 60.3 60.4 60.5 "Messenger of Iscandar"
- ↑ 61.0 61.1 61.2 61.3 61.4 61.5 "Memories of the Blue Planet"
- ↑ 62.0 62.1 62.2 62.3 62.4 "Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark"
- ↑ 63.0 63.1 "One Man's War"
- ↑ 64.0 64.1 64.2 64.3 64.4 "A Choice for the Future"
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p.132
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p.188
- ↑ Interview with Masanori Nishii in "Secrets and Mysteries of Yamato" in Hyper Hobby #168 (translated for "Space Battleship Yamato 2199, Report 10")
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 1 theater pamphlet p. 17
- ↑ Odyssey of the Celestial Ark Character Data for Yushikazu Aihara
- ↑ Yamato Exterior Features from Hachette Japan Magazine
- ↑ 71.0 71.1 Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Complete Works Vol.2 p.12
- ↑ 72.0 72.1 "Earth, Yamato is..."
- ↑ 73.0 73.1 "The Planet That We Head For"
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 4 Theater Pamphlet p.1
- ↑ 75.0 75.1 75.2 75.3 "The Wolf from Another Dimension"
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p. 51
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - Astronomical Research p. 182
- ↑ 78.0 78.1 Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Complete Works Vol.1 p.43
- ↑ 79.0 79.1 79.2 79.3 "Clockwork Prisoner"
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH pp. 60-63
- ↑ "The Whisper of the Witch"
- ↑ 82.0 82.1 82.2 82.3 "Out of the Forest of Memory"
- ↑ 83.0 83.1 83.2 83.3 83.4 "A World I Once Saw"
- ↑ 84.0 84.1 "What Lies Beyond"
- ↑ Admiral Okita is not fitted with a mask or any other device for supplying air during his surgery, making it likely that he was submerged in perfluorocarbon or another comparable substance that allows for liquid breathing.
- ↑ 86.0 86.1 "The Trap at Planet Stravase!"
- ↑ 87.0 87.1 "They're Coming!"
- ↑ "Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Voyage of Remembrance"
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p.25
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p.204
- ↑ "Wish Upon a Star"
- ↑ Trajectory of YAMATO official 2024 calendar
- ↑ 93.0 93.1 93.2 "Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark"
- ↑ Locations taken from Hachette Collections Japan magazine
- ↑ 95.0 95.1 "Battle to the Death – The 11th Planet Rescue Operation"
- ↑ 96.0 96.1 "Farewell, Teresa! Flowers for Two Deslers"
- ↑ "The Beam of Light Flashes! / Radiance of the Wave Motion Gun"
- ↑ "Zworder, the Devil's Alternative"
- ↑ "Desler's Challenge!"
- ↑ "The Shocking White Comet Empire - The Yamato Rams Through!"
- ↑ 101.0 101.1 "The Terezart Landing Operation – Crush the Enemy Missile Fleet!"
- ↑ "O Teresa, Cry for Desler!"
- ↑ "Battle off the Coast of Saturn - Gather the Wave Motion Gun Fleet!"
- ↑ "Heir to the Yamato, Her Name is Ginga"
- ↑ "Gatlantis, the Cursed Children"
- ↑ "Escape from the Nightmare!"
- ↑ "Warriors of Love"
- ↑ 108.0 108.1 "Farewell, Space Battleship Yamato"
- ↑ "The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: Choice of 2202" establishes that Yamato returns to the Earth on December 31, 2203. Since the ship returns at dawn, and it was launched immediately after the referendum, as its seen being prepared during Sanada's speech, the voting must occur on December 30
- ↑ 110.0 110.1 110.2 110.3 110.4 110.5 110.6 110.7 110.8 starblazers-yamato.net CHARACTERS Space Battleship Yamato 2205: A New Journey
- ↑ 111.0 111.1 111.2 111.3 "A Galactic War is About to Break Out! Assemble the Yamato Fleet!!"
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Complete Works literary materials pp 138-139
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Complete Works p 162
- ↑ 114.0 114.1 114.2 "Yamato, a New Departure!!"
- ↑ 115.0 115.1 "Immigrant Fleet Rescue Operation. Go Beyond the Dimensional Wall!"
- ↑ "Iscandar, the Dying Planet of Sorrow"
- ↑ 117.0 117.1 "Hello Sasha"
- ↑ 118.0 118.1 118.2 "Begin the Secret Operation! Head for the New Yamato!"
- ↑ 119.0 119.1 starblazers-yamato MECHANIC Be Forever Yamato: REBEL 3199 entry for Yamato
- ↑ starblazers-yamato STORY Be Forever Yamato: REBEL 3199
- ↑ 121.0 121.1 starblazers-yamato CHARACTERS Be Forever Yamato: REBEL 3199 entry for Heikuro Todo
- ↑ The official English translation "Tactics Officer" is confirmed on the Blu Ray and DVD's illustration cover
- ↑ Yamato 2199 Character Data for Susumu Kodai
- ↑ Yamato 2199 Character Data for Yasuo Nanbu
- ↑ Yamato 2199 Character Data for Saburo Kato
- ↑ Yamato 2199 Character Data for Hiroki Shinohara
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p. 204
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p. 194
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p. 203
- ↑ The official English translation "Operations Officer" is confirmed on the Blu Ray and DVD's illustration cover
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p. 197
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p. 202
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Complete Works p.36
- ↑ The official english translation "Intel Officer" is confirmed on Kaoru Niimi's Yamato Girls Collection bandai figure
- ↑ Yamato 2199 Character Data for Shiro Sanada
- ↑ Yamato 2199 Character Data for Kaoru Niimi
- ↑ Yamato 2199 Character Data for Hikozaemon Tokugawa
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p. 220
- ↑ 139.0 139.1 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p. 214
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Secret File 02: Embers of the Izumo Plan, Ki 8-type prototype airboat
- ↑ Yamato 2199 Character Data for Sakezo Sado
- ↑ Yamato 2199 Character Data for Hajime Hirata
- ↑ "Remains of sunken Japanese battleship Yamato discovered," Reading Eagle and Associated Press, August 4, 1985, p. D13
- ↑ Yamato's weapons have changed over its various refits, see the Armaments and Technical Specifications sections for more details on previous refits
- ↑ While official materials and in universe screens usually use the name spelled in Katakana (ヤマト), Japanese UNCN ships have their names written on their hulls in Hiragana, meaning the in-universe spelling used officially for Yamato is やまと.
- ↑ The name is spelled "Yamatte" in the subtitles and "Yamatee" on the back of the DVD for Odyssey of the Celestial Ark. The first spelling is a more accurate transcription of the Japanese "ヤマッテ"
- ↑ Yamato's bow during this stage of the project resembled the ship's bow shape in the second draft for the original Space Battleship Yamato series
- ↑ In the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 novelization, Hoshina is promoted to Head of Security immediately after Itou's arrest
Japanese language information[]
- ヤマッテ Yamatte
- ヤマト Yamato