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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012

Looking for an early-ish 2000s space combat anime.
There was a space kingdom that fell, one last warship crewed by cadets gets the princess out, and to fund their revolution agree to take on a film crew and turn their struggle for freedom into a reality show. They constantly had to barter with the network on things like a delay so their enemies wouldn't know their precise position and tactics.
The series was recommended to me as showing somewhat realistic but still thrilling combat taking place at distances of multiple light-seconds where the enemy would be simply a blip on a screen, if that helps.