History WMG / SpaceBattleshipYamato2199

If this is right, the upcoming "Voyage of Recollections" compilation movie will be a chronicle of the above events, ending with Zordar and his soldiers retrieving Dessler from the warp corridor, [[WhatAnIdiot believing that Dessler will desire revenge against both the Yamato and the rebellion]] [[EpicFail and will be perfectly willing to ally with them]].

This is where [[SpannerInTheWorks the plan starts to unravel]]. Dessler's plan is to use the androids to invade the Yamato, knowing thanks to information provided by Hoshino that the Yamato's crew knows how to create a virus to shut down the androids due to their research on Alter. During the attack, Dessler was to go over to the Yamato and attempt to kill Okita, being stymied en route and forced to return his ship when the androids went down. Desperate, he was to destroy his ship by firing the Dessler Cannon and thus destroy the final link to the old government of Gamilas. However, Cerestella's unanticipated presence aboard the Yamato caused her to accidentally release a wave of psychic energy that startled Dessler into shooting her. After [[OhMyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing he has just unintentionally killed the same person he rescued from Leptapoda years ago]], he goes into a HeroicBSOD. Cerestella, on the other hand, has learned of Dessler's plan thanks to her brief mental uplink with him and shoots him both to snap him out of it and provide the impetus for him to return to his ship before turning the gun on herself so she can be uplinked to the [[ResetButton Cosmo Reverse System]] in order to save Dessler's life after he uses the Dessler Cannon to destroy his ship. When both she and Yuki are seemingly killed by his bodyguards' fire, he stops them from shooting on Kodai when he tries to kill Dessler, because he wants to keep from killing as many people as possible. Likewise, when he threatens Velte Talan at gunpoint later, the intent is to break Velte's loyalty and allow him to abandon ship, which fails as all except him are killed in the subsequent explosion and Dessler then pulls the trigger, accomplishing his goal of providing salvation for the universe, in that he is removing the poisonous influence of the Gamilas High Command and himself from the cosmos. However, Cerestella uses the Cosmo Reverse System to preserve his life, which is the source of the blue smoke cloud surrounding the Yamato as it emerges from the warp gate.\\

[[WMG: [[Alternate Character Interpretation Dessler's insanity was all part of the plan]]]]
Dessler's turn towards insanity was far too quick to make any sense, especially given the MagnificentBastard persona he has for most of the show. This is because he actually engineered the rebellions and his subsequent attempt to destroy the Yamato at the cost of his homeworld specifically so that the corrupt members of High Command would be outed/killed and the others would have a chance to set up a stable empire.
In this theory, Dessler first became aware of the problems inherent in his empire when he discovered Cerestella and Mirenel imprisoned simply for being Jirel on Leptapoda. The moment immediately after when [[PetTheDog he rescues them out of pure compassion]] is a hint to how he honestly wants to help but is repeatedly stymied by selfish officers such as [[StateSec Gimleh]] and [[TheStarscream Zoellik]].
Dessler then began carefully setting up a large-scale revolution, allowing Gimleh and the [[StateSec Imperial Guard]] just enough leash to cause widespread misery with minimal losses of life to encite discontent into the populace. He also widely distributed the Gamirroids across the various theaters so that they would be the first obstacle for any revolutionaries and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman making it easier for them to defeat the androids]].
However, when this went on for several years with no sign of the political climate being right for a rebellion, Dessler finally had his soldiers begin to [[ColonyDrop Planet Bomb]] Earth, knowing that Starsha would be unable to simply stand by and allow the Earthlings to die off. Since the previous encounters with the Earthlings proved [[TheDeterminator they were stubborn enough to have a fighting chance at making it to Iscandar]], he knew that they would provide an excellent beacon of hope for the downtrodden civilians and prod them into a full civil war.

In Episode 10, Dessler had the Yamato's course plotted and sent Captain Lang to wait for them in the dimensional rift he knew they would fall prey to. He also briefed Melda Ditz prior to the rendezvous, telling her to remain honorable and courteous, if a bit brusque, and also to reveal the truth of the war's beginning to make the crew more willing to assist the Yamato. The Imperial Guard officer aboard, not having been informed of the situation, almost caused the plan to collapse, but Lang managed to capture him in time and reinstate the tow cable and the Yamato's trust in the Gamillan crew. While Melda was trapped on the Yamato, Hoshino approached her, thinking that an alliance would be the best move under these circumstances, and also seeing that Melda was intentionally building up the crew's trust and tolerance of Gamillans in general in preparaton for later. Melda, realizing the opportunity she had been given, recruited him into the plan and put him in contact with Dessler.
Dessler also allowed Zoellik's scheme to go forth because he knew it would only further the perception of the corrupt High Command that was beginning to circulate amongst the people; as well, he needed time to put the next phase of his plan into motion and cause Domel to be recalled at a critical time and Ditz be sent off to Leptapoda to be used as a figurehead for the resistance. Hoshino then sabotaged the OMCS, forcing the Yamato to head to Beemela, where Dessler was replacing the data already in the Wave Motion Core with information on how to access the warp gate network. (This is why the rest of the temple-like area is covered by a thick layer of dust, while the Core appears brand new.)
Okita's destruction of the warp gate network meant that the Yamato would not have to face another overwhelming threat like Domel's attack in Episode 15 for the remainder of their voyage, the empire solely reliant on the Imperial Guard fleets for defense. In Episode 20, Hoshino placed Yuki in position before stopping the Zaltzi commando team and alerting Yuki to the position of the boarders, so their time aboard the ship would be minimized. While he was aware that Yuki was not truly an Iscandarian, since Yurisha was in a coma and could easily break her possession of Yuria (not to mention the fact that Hoshino did not want Yuria to be put in danger like that), it was far easier of them to simply capture Yuki in her stead. Immediately after, he carefully nudged the Yamato into reconning Leptapoda for repair supplies, just as Frakken (who is also in on the plan) arranges for a brief layover there and Melda arrives to begin the prison riot. This victory galvanized the resistance into taking action, and the meeting between the Yamato and Ditz's allies allows Melda to be put into position to assist the Yamato. As they began the final stage of the path to Iscandar, Melda and Hoshino briefed Okita on a small segment of their plans, which is why Okita heads directly for Gamilas immediately after informing the crew that it is Iscandar which is their main goal.
At the beginning of Episode 23, Dessler intentionally misses the Yamato to test the power of his Dessler Cannon. His abandonment of the capital and subsequent ColonyDrop were intended to trigger a MoralEventHorizon for the "loyalists" and firmly alienate him, and his government, by proxy, from the people. Okita, as instructed, fires on and destroys the falling portion of New Baleras, both to firmly paint the Yamato's crew as paragons of virtue in the people's eyes and ensure Starsha will still give them the [[WorldHealingWave Cosmo Reverse System]]. Dessler then begins quietly recalibrating the Dessler Cannon so that the beam will only destroy the palace and nothing else, killing off the majority of High Command in one fell swoop and allowing Ditz to step into the power vacuum and repair the empire; Melda has given the Yamato an upgraded version of the [[DeflectorShields Wave Motion Shields]] which will allow them to survive the blast "miraculously." The plan is for Norran to get Yuki out of the fortress and to minimum safe distance and then trigger the overload after Dessler has fired, but he pulls the trigger early to save those still in the palace.

This is where [[SpannerInTheWorks the plan starts to unravel]]. Dessler's plan is to use the androids to invade the Yamato, knowing thanks to information provided by Hoshino that the Yamato's crew knows how to create a virus to shut down the androids due to their research on Alter. During the attack, Dessler was to go over to the Yamato and attempt to kill Okita, being stymied en route and forced to return his ship when the androids went down. Desperate, he was to destroy his ship by firing the Dessler Cannon and thus destroy the final link to the old government of Gamilas. However, Cerestella's unanticipated presence aboard the Yamato caused her to accidentally release a wave of psychic energy that startled Dessler into shooting her. After [[OhMyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing he has just unintentionally killed the same person he rescued from Leptapoda years ago]], he goes into a HeroicBSOD. Cerestella, on the other hand, has learned of Dessler's plan thanks to her brief mental uplink with him and shoots him both to snap him out of it and provide the impetus for him to return to his ship before turning the gun on herself so she can be uplinked to the [[ResetButton Cosmo Reverse System]] in order to save Dessler's life after he uses the Dessler Cannon to destroy his ship. When both she and Yuki are seemingly killed by his bodyguards' fire, he stops them from shooting on Kodai when he tries to kill Dessler, because he wants to keep from killing as many people as possible. Likewise, when he threatens Velte Talan at gunpoint later, the intent is to break Velte's loyalty and allow him to abandon ship, which fails as all except him are killed in the subsequent explosion and Dessler then pulls the trigger, accomplishing his goal of providing salvation for the universe, in that he is removing the poisonous influence of the Gamilas High Command and himself from the cosmos. However, Cerestella uses the Cosmo Reverse System to preserve his life, which is the source of the blue smoke cloud surrounding the Yamato as it emerges from the warp gate.

With most of the ''Yamato'''s crew not knowing it due Japan's NuclearWeaponsTaboo.

After the loss of ''Izumo'', seven ships were laid up in hidden locations, equipped with shock cannons and wave motion engines: ''Arizona'' by the US, ''Bismarck'' by the European Union (with protests from France, UK and Italy for the name: France because it's the name of a German ship, UK because they have a more glorious naval history, and Italy because the logic of naming the ship after Europe's mightiest battleship falls before the superior firepower of the four ''Littorio''-class battleships, but the name stuck because of the battleship ''Bismarck'''s fame and the British alternative name, ''Prince of Wales'', being that of a ship with a lackluster record), ''Borodino'' by Russia, four unnamed warships by China, South America, India and Africa (their naval history had less glorious names to choose from) and ''Yamato'' by Japan under the relic of the old battleship.\\

[[WMG: Type 3 rounds usually have [[TheNuclearOption nuclear warheads]]]]
With most of the ''Yamato'''s crew not knowing it due Japan's NuclearWeaponTaboo.

* The 5555 group might be Iskandarians depending on their political affiliation.

* They might be Iskandarians depending on their political affiliation.

[[SeriousBusiness And they became militaristic and started conquering other worlds in the first place precisely to prevent others from kidnapping them again.]]

[[WMG: The Gamilas originally came to Earth to share the later albums from their greatest band in history, known on Earth as the [[Anime/{{Interstella 5555}} Crescendolls]]]]

[[WMG: Kaoru's life will be in danger when she returns to earth.]]

While the other members of the ''Yamato'' crew can expect a heroes welcome when they reach earth, Kaoru Niimi's life will be in grave danger. Mainly she is; at present, the only one on the ''Yamato'' still alive with first hand knowledge of General Serizawa's plan to retask ''Yamato's'' mission. Serizawa's involvement in starting the war may have been hushed up, but being connected to a failed mutiny that; had it succeeded, would have doomed Earth? Serizawa's career and ambitions would be dead. The ''Iron Tiger'' has not survived as long as he has without a ruthless willingness to get rid of complicating factors.

** What's worse? Complete extermination or 2nd-class citizenship in a relatively nice alien empire with the chance to become 1st-class or ''above'' through acts of valour against the genocidal invaders from the Andromeda galaxy? The only problem would be someone keeping Gimleh's leash...

* If you can accept the future of Humans becoming 2nd class Gamilians.

By either surrender after losing the last hope or invasion and quick conquest. In both cases the Gamilans would have either restored Earth or shipped Earth's population to another inhabitable planet, whichever better suited Dessler.

In the end the other battleships were completed after the ''Yamato'' left for her voyage, with cores copied from Sasha's one and redesigned with wave motion guns. And the rest of Europe laughing at the Brits when India named their ship ''Prince of Wales'' (a battleship with that name had been sunk while defending them, after all). And the Chinese battleship, completed with Japanese assistance (the price being putting a Japanese captain on her), was the ''Andromeda''.

After ''Izumo'''s destruction, seven ships were laid up in hidden locations, equipped with shock cannons and wave motion engines: ''Arizona'' by the US, ''Bismarck'' by the European Union (with protests from France, UK and Italy for the name: France because it's the name of a German ship, UK because they have a more glorious naval history, and Italy because the logic of naming the ship after Europe's mightiest battleship falls before the superior firepower of the four ''Littorio''-class battleships, but the name stuck because of the battleship ''Bismarck'''s fame and the British alternative name, ''Prince of Wales'', being that of a ship with a lackluster record), ''Borodino'' by Russia, four unnamed warships by China, South America, India and Africa (their naval history had less glorious names to choose from) and ''Yamato'' by Japan under the relic of the old battleship.\\

Namely [[http://www.shipschematics.net/yamato/images/edf/battlecarrier_lexington.jpg this]], a couple of [[http://www.shipschematics.net/yamato/images/edf/cruiser_unknown.jpg these]] and a small squadron of [[http://www.shipschematics.net/yamato/images/edf/destroyer_gearing.jpg these]], with the ''Andromeda'' being laid up.

Then, when Earth was about to either surrender or launch an escape mission, Yurisha showed up with the plans for a proper wave motion engine, with its support systems enabling to miniaturize the shock cannon to mount it on turrets ([[HumansAreBastards and human mind developing the]] WaveMotionGun), and Sasha provided the core to make the thing work...

We know that the Cosmo Force stopped the Gamilas ''twice'' at Mars before the invaders switched tactics to raids and planetary bombs (Yuki openly states the victory of the First Battle of Mars in the first episode, with the background image implying it was a costly victory, and Okita is often called the Hero of the Second Battle of Mars, implying another but ''very'' close victory), and that the Cosmo Force still uses more traditional firearms and missiles, devastating but with very short range, so they had some wreckage to study.

What happened? Probably this: the initial Gamilas incursion was from the ships [[spoiler: attacked by the Cosmo Force at first contact]], that, seen that Earth still resorted to short-ranged firearms, called for an occupation force and tried to bulldoze its way to Earth, crushing the outer defences only to be overwhelmed by the sheer weight of numbers at Mars (Cosmo Force ships being numerous enough to survive until they entered weapon range). Then, a few days later, the occupation force warped in near Mars, only to realized with horror that the 'Teronians' had won, ''[[OhCrap and their fleet was still there]]'' salvaging Gamilas wrecks. The warships escorting the occupation force engaged the Cosmo Force in a desperate battle, and, thanks to the superior range of their weapons and better training than that of the first contact ships, were about to break the enemy fleet when Okita's ship attacked the troop transports, forcing the escort ships to attack him while the Cosmo Force regrouped and managed to cause enough losses to make the Gamilas retreat.\\
Cosmo Force celebrates the victory against the aliens... Only to realize that it was only the beginning when the occupation force, who has reported an 'incomplete victory' (as they still destroyed the settlements on Mars and the outer system and established a small base on Pluto) and the start of besieging operations, [[ColonyDrop launched the first planetary bombs]]: asteroids from the inner belt deviated by the Gamilas with their ships' cannons, to show the 'Teronians' what happens when [[spoiler: you pick a fight with Gamilas and]] resist their invasion while they waited to be relieved by forces with the equipment to establish a larger base and launch proper planetary bombs.\\
To try and resist the invaders, who also raid Earth periodically to decrease industrial production and check for surprises, the Cosmo Force started reverse-engineering on the captured technology, and by the time Yurisha arrives Earth ships can match Gamilas' in sublight speed and agility and make the Gamilas realize they're in a fight even at range (having managed to copy Gamilas' energy weapons and developed spinal-mounted shock cannons, but not actually having shields to resist enemy firepower or the energy production capability to properly power the turreted weapons or mount the shock cannons on turrets).

[[WMG: Wolf Fraken will become Harlock, for one continuity.]]

[Celestella will die seeking revenge for Mirenel.]]

[[Wolf Fraken will become Harlock, for one continuity.]]

[[WMG: Many of the new characters will die in the battle against Domel.]]

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