Baleras II in orbit, facing the planet Gamilas
The Dimensional Mobile City Fortress Second Baleras, commonly referred to as Baleras II and Second Baleras (BALERAS 2, Baleras 2),[1] was a massive space station constructed by the Great Garmillas Empire under the leadership of Abelt Desler. Orbiting between the planets Garmillas and Iscandar, Baleras II was intended to become the capital of a new empire uniting these two worlds.
Armaments and Technical Specifications[]
View of the upper surface of Baleras II.
The design of the giant station was based on the capital city of the Great Garmillas Empire, Baleras; high-rise buildings on both the top and bottom hulls of the station were architecturally similar to those found on the surface of Garmillas, especially the central upper tower that resembled Desler's palace. Transparent shielding that dominated the station's outward appearance protected these living areas from the vacuum of space. At least one sector of Baleras II was assigned to industrial activities. The entire facility was powered by a Wave-motion engine, the product of Iscandarian technology.[2]
Baleras II served as the construction and storage facility for the primary hull of Desler's most recent flagship, the Deusura II. With the flagship docked at the station, Baleras II became a firing platform and aperture for the Desler annon, the first wave-motion gun to be possessed by Garmillas[3][4][2].
History[]
Construction on the station was overseen by the Capital Transfer Plan Promotion Headquarters under the Director of the Ministry of Armaments, Welte Talan. It was built in geostationary orbit around Garmillas, but was moved to the L1 point between Garmillas and Iscandar while near completion by the time the Earth ship Yamato reached the system on June 25, 2199.[4][5][6]
Baleras II fired its Desler cannon at Yamato only moments after the Earth ship entered orbit of the nearby gas giant Epidora. The shot barely missed and temporarily disabled some of the station's systems, but it destroyed Epidora. After Yamato charged across interplanetary space toward Garmillas and rammed the royal palace itself, Desler rocketed away to the safety of Baleras II and continued the fight from there. He remotely decoupled Industrial Sector 633 from Baleras II and launched it toward the city, planning to crush the invader--along with many of his own people--under the sixty million ton component, only to see Yamato vaporize the component with its own wave motion gun. Desler responded by targeting the Desler Cannon on his palace, but a pair of saboteurs sent the station's wave motion core into overload before he could fire, blowing up Baleras II and the entire Imperial Guard fleet protecting it.[2][4]
Behind the scenes[]
Baleras II was designed by Kazuki Miyatake (original draft) and Makoto Kobayashi on the basis of a preliminary draft of Desler's palace from Space Battleship Yamato III.[7][8]
Notes[]
- Baleras II plays a similar role as the second Death Star in the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, as both are incomplete space stations armed with a superweapon, and each is used to trap and destroy a great threat to a brutal empire.
References[]
- ↑ Official spelling of Baleras seen on screen in "The Planet That We Head For"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "One Man's War"
- ↑ Official Space Battleship Yamato 2199 website ship data for Desura II
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "The Planet That We Head For"
- ↑ Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection GARMILLAS p. 215.
- ↑ "The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: Choice of 2202"
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7 Theater Pamphlet p. 26.
- ↑ Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection GARMILLAS pp.215-218
Japanese language information[]
- 第二バレラス Dai ni barerasu (Second baleras/Baleras II)
- 空間機動要塞都市 第二バレラス Kūkan kidō yōsai toshi dai ni barerasu (Dimensional city fortress second baleras)