Space Battleship Yamato Page #3

Captain Okita's son

was its navigator.

This is the Captain.

We are about to leave

the solar system.

We are heading out into a realm

where no human being has ever been.

Communication with earth

will be impossible.

Thus today

all hands will have access...

...to communications.

This could be your last message

to earth.

I ask you all to take proper leave

of your families.

I'm like Okita? Me?

Yeah, Right!

You have one minute.

The channel

will then shut down.

Think what you want to say

before you go in.

Enter lD number.

What I want to say?

There's dad!

How are you, Jiro?

How are you?

Oh, I'm fine.

Make sure you don't catch cold.

I'll be fine.

I'll be fine!

I'm too stupid to catch a cold.

Wrap a towel around your stomach

when you sleep.

You always get the runs.

I'll be back soon.

I miss you.

Don't worry. I'll be back,

with that radiation device.

Promise?

I promise!

Jiro...

Channel closed.

Do you have your hachiman amulet?

It'll keep the bullets away.

Yep.

I have it.

And don't forget...

Channel closed.

You worry too much.

...289, 290...

What?

You're doing sit-ups here?

So?

You're last on the list

to send a message.

A message?

Input your lD number first.

You have one minute.

Id number?

That one there.

This one?

Yes.

Mr. Kodai!

How are you?

Hey!

I'm kidding, Ando.

You're here, too?

Yes. Assigned to 3rd bridge!

Yeah?

Be seeing you.

My parents are fine.

I swore I'd be back.

Wait here.

Roger.

So you're ok? Great.

I won't thank you.

I'd rather have died

than endanger this ship.

Look, could you just

go a little easier?

Relax a bit.

You owe me one.

What's that?

Gotcha.

Enter lD number.

You're drinking?

You're ok?

I'm fine.

You saw Kodai?

By the message room.

He's talking to his family now.

His family? Who?

Weren't you in Team Kodai?

Yes, but he quit just after

I was assigned there.

Then I was posted,

so I'm not really one of them.

I see.

I only ever joined the force

because I admired Susumu Kodai...

...the "Cosmo Zero" ace.

So I guess I feel

kind of sold out.

Don't tell him that

Well, the reason he quit...

Yes?

A message to my family...

When the Gamilas started bombing...

...we used to go up after them.

The bombs were more fragile,

so we destroyed some...

...and knocked a few off course.

I know. It was famous.

He was the ace,

and I wasn't too bad, either.

So one day we diverted a bomb,

and saved the planet again.

We were delighted.

But this time the story

had a different ending.

I guess you're my family.

So how've you been?

Don't start crying, Mr. Kodai.

You'll mess me up, too.

What are you talking about?

The bomb we diverted

crashed into space station 2.

Oh, that...

And to make things worse,

his parents were living there...

...and so was my pregnant wife.

They managed to save the child,

but he's never been able to talk.

Kodai left the force right after that.

Channel closed.

The space battleship Yamato

heads for the large magellanic cloud...

...to the planet lskandar...

...to obtain an anti-radiation device

said to exist there.

All clear ahead. No gravity field.

Warp successful.

Bogey! It's a Gamilas fighter!

One?

Yes.

It's shut down.

It's not attacking.

No?

I'll bring it up.

Did it warp with us?

Kodai...

Bring it aboard.

We'll analyze it.

Roger.

Captain!

Call sick bay!

Take over!

Captain!

Well, Doctor?

It's progressing.

So how long

do you think I've got?

Soon those won't suppress it

any more.

Will I make it?

It might be unmanned.

Where's the cockpit?

I've never seen one this way.

You've seen lots of them.

Always through a canopy.

No signs of life.

Is it a drone?

Saito...

Take a fuselage sample.

be careful, quick, and accurate.

As the tech officer says...

..."Careful, Quick, and accurate".

Fire!

Right! Right!

Left! Go Left! Fire! Fire!

Mr. Sanada!

Saito!

Saito!

Fight it!

Get the doctor!

Right!

Hey!

Crew of the Yamato...

The earth is...

...ours.

Who are you?

Desla.

Desla?

You call us "Gamilas".

Is that crystal thing you?

Yes, and No.

We are both individuals,

and one being.

As if we were Alpha and Omega.

Why are you attacking earth?

Attacking?

We are renovating it.

Saito?

Saito!

Don't shoot!

That hurt!

Sorry.

But it takes that much power

to shut down your life functions.

Thanks a heap!

Level 2 on a pulse gun

could stop a bear!

Then I guess level 2

was the right choice.

It still hurt!

But anyone other than you

would be in sick bay now.

And it brought you back.

For that, I thank you.

You owe me one.

Ok...

What?

And so...I will buy you a beer.

Cheapskate!

Kodai reporting.

Come in.

Excuse me.

Yes, Sir?

Kodai...

How do you like the ship?

I've never served on a battleship,

so I can't compare...

...but she's a fine ship.

What did you wish to discuss?

Kodai...

...would you take over

as Acting Captain?

Sir?

I'd hoped Mamoru Kodai

would succeed me as captain.

My brother?

You have it in you

just like he did.

You belong in charge.

Well?

No, Thank you.

I couldn't do it.

Not me.

Not the way you do.

No? That's too bad.

Excuse me.

Kodai...

There is no need to emulate me.

Do it your way.

All right, in that case...

...I will put it in the form

of an order.

This is the captain.

Attention all hands.

Effective immediately, Susumu Kodai

is Acting Captain. That is all.

Dismissed.

Scramble!

Gamilas attack confirmed.

All personnel to battle stations.

You're captain?

Where are you going?

The hangar!

When did it start?

I don't know. We noticed it

a few minutes ago.

It's transmitting something.

an SOS?

No.

Our location.

They're using that to attack.

Mr. Sanada, Take over here.

Black Tigers, Scramble!

Destroy that thing!

There'll be more.

Where are they?

Third wave approaching!

What?

Shima, evade!

Damage?

We're hit around 3rd bridge.

Crew members trapped.

Oxygen?

They're ok for a while.

Send a rescue squad.

Get me 3rd bridge.

Yes, Sir!

The elevator shaft's hit!

Mr. Kodai, it's Ando.

We're trapped!

We have wounded.

Send medics!

This is Acting Captain Kodai.

a rescue squad is on the way.

We'll get you out of there.

Hang in, Ando.

They'll be there soon.

Yes, Sir.

Where are they?

Bogeys at 3 o'clock.

Shima, 90 degrees starboard.

Charge wave-motion gun.

Charging.

Raising scope.

Target:
large enemy gunship.

on trajectory.

Locking.

Range 60.

Energy at 120 per cent.

Ten seconds to wave gun.

All hands brace for shock and flash.

Five...

Four...

Firing!

Gunboat destroyed.

The enemy fleet is gone!

Kodai!

Impulse from below!

Below?!

Energy rising! It's going to explode!

Clear 3rd bridge!

We can't!

We'll blow up!

Passing limit!

Kodai!

Yuki, take out...

...the 3rd bridge.

That's an order!

Fire!

Roger.

It was a stealth craft.

The radar didn't pick it up.

I should have seen it.

The six crew on that bridge...

...I let them die.

I am not fit to act as captain.

Then why come back?

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