The Zoellugut-class First Class Astro Combat Ship[5] is a super dreadnought class and the largest and most powerful regular warship in the fleet of the Great Garmillas Empire.
Armaments and Technical Specifications[]
The Zoellugut-class is heavily armed with multiple positron beam weapons and multiple torpedo tubes. The super dreadnoughts are well armored, especially in the bow. One superdreadnought was able to harmlessly deflect a shock cannon volley aimed directly at its forward section, a blast that would have seriously crippled or destroyed other ship classes in the Garmillas fleet; the port side of the dreadnought took significant but not fatal damage from the same weapon, but only when it was fired at point blank range.[1] However, these ships are vulnerable to the Gatlantis Empire's Flame Strike Gun.[6]
The bridge section of the Zoellugut-class can detach and operate as an autonomous command vessel. Among its capabilities, the bridge section is equipped with harpoons and grappling arms that can firmly hold the ship in place to another object. It is also armed with a self-destruct device, which is activated by the senior officer's command code and voice recognition.[7] Escape pods are available to evacuate super dreadnought crews.[7]
Despite their rarity in the imperial fleet, Zoellugut-class vessels share a number of traits with other Garmillas capital ships, including Geschtam warp drives and diverse hull colors.[8][9][10][11]
Zoellugut-class vessels with new design features entered service in the Garmillas fleet by 2202. All newer super dreadnought hulls are painted with complex geometric patterns. Additionally, ships of the class can be fitted with massive, maneuverable Garmillas Subjects Walls placed just ahead of the bow. These shields provide limited safety from a single burst of a Flame Strike Gun, comparable to the defense offered by wave motion shields on Earth vessels. However, the upgraded Zoellugut class proves ineffective against the firepower of one of the newest Gatlantean classes, the Calaklum-class battleship.[11]
History[]
Domelaze III rises from the Garmillas base on Balun.
The class was designed under orders by Imperial Marshall Herm Zoellik, whose naval philosophy pushed for large ships armed with great firepower.[12] At least three Zoellugut super dreadnoughts were in service in the year 2199. Of these, the gray hulled Domelaze III was the most active in combat. The Battle of the Small Magellanic Cloud Outskirts against a Gatlantean fleet was won by Lieutenant General Erich Domel using Domelaze III as his flagship, with Colonel Vem Heidern as the ship's captain.[13] The vessel later engaged the Earth battleship Yamato on two occasions, first at the Battle of Carell 163[1] , only to be defeated almost two months later at the Battle of the Rainbow Star Cluster. In this last fight, Domel and Heidern evacuated the doomed main hull of Domelaze III in the ship's autonomous bridge unit, and made a suicide charge against Yamato using the self-destruct option.[7]
Deusura I functioned as the personal spacecraft of the ruler of the Great Garmillas Empire, Abelt Desler. Clad in the blue color of the Imperial Guard fleet, Desura was operated by Imperial Guard personnel, and featured a bridge decorated in gold to match Desler's throne room. During a voyage to the planet Balun, Desura suffered a catastrophic engine overload in an assassination attempt against Desler.[1]
The bridge unit of Zoellugut II, mounted to the ship's bridge tower. The bridge itself is the dome at the top of the disk.
Shortly after the apparent death of Desler, Inspector General Herm Zoellik traveled to a massive naval review at Balun aboard his own red Zoellugut-class ship, Zoellugut II[10] While at Balun, the dreadnought escaped the devastation created in a surprise attack by Yamato, and it and three thousand surviving ships began a months-long journey to Garmillas.[14] It was destroyed by a Gatlantis assault during the voyage.[6]
Three Zoellugut-classes during the Gatlantis War
Three Zoellugut-class vessels equipped with subject walls fought at the 8th Floating Continet Recapture Operation as part of a large joint Garmillas-Earth task force in late 2202; two of the three were wiped out before the end of the battle.[11] Around the same time, at least one super dreadnought is stolen by members of the rebel Destruction Liberation Army and used in their campaign to purge the Garmillas Empire of all traces of the legacy of former Leader Abelt Desler.[15][16] Ships of the class joined in the defense of the solar system against Gatlantis at the end of the Battle of Saturn and at the Decisive Battle off Mars, including a gray-hulled super dreadnought under the command of Ambassador Loren Burrell.[17][18]
In October 2205, a yellow-hulled Zoellugut was used by Admiral Gul Dietz as his personal flagship during his stay at planet Garmann following its liberation.[19]
Named ships of the class[]
Unnamed ships of the class by commander[]
Gallery[]
Notes[]
- The Space Battleship Yamato 2202 novelization states that the new super dreadnoughts appearing in 2202 are vessels that began construction during the Desler administration and where completed after its fall.[20]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Point of No Return"
- ↑ 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 Yamato 2199 mecha data on the Zoelguut-Class
- ↑ Official Space Battleship Yamato 2199 website ship data
- ↑ Official Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Garmillas Mecha Book p. 34
- ↑ The spelling "Zoellugut" is confirmed on the hull of the namesake of the class, Zoellugut II
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Under a Rainbow Sun"
- ↑ "The Wolf from Another Dimension"
- ↑ "Point of No Return"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Out of the Forest of Memory"
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "AD 2202 - Revive, Space Battleship Yamato"
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Complete Works Vol.2 p.216
- ↑ "A World I Once Saw"
- ↑ "Over the Black Light"
- ↑ "The Trap at Planet Stravase!"
- ↑ "Zworder, the Devil's Alternative"
- ↑ "Heir to the Yamato, Her Name is Ginga"
- ↑ "Escape from the Nightmare!"
- ↑ "A Galactic War is About to Break Out! Assemble the Yamato Fleet!!"
- ↑ Space Battleship Yamato 2202 (novelization) Vol.2
Japanese language information[]
ゼルグート級一等航宙戦闘艦 Zerugūto-kyū ittō kōchū sentō-kan