Leijiverse Integrated Timeline

LEIJIVERSE INTEGRATED CHRONOLGY
SECOND EDITION
BY RICHARD E. MANDEL
INTRODUCTION
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Greetings one and all and welcome to this most singular work. It is dedicated to a task that many anime fans in the past have
deemed impossible. What is that? you say? It is the task of coming up with a consistent reference timeline for the works of Leiji
Matsumoto, one of the true pioneers of anime. You may not know who he is but you know his work. Galaxy Express 999, Galaxy
Railways, Captain Harlock, Cosmo Warrior Zero, Queen Millennia, Gun Frontier, The Cockpit the list goes on and on. Topping it
all off, of course, is Star Blazers (aka Uchuu Senkan Yamato), the show that made anime what it is today. In fact the word anime
was first invented to describe Star Blazers! If you dont believe me then go look it up yourself.
The collected works of Leiji Matsumoto are known to anime fandom as the Leijiverse. It has long been apparent that there is some
kind of chronology (i.e. timeline) taking place in this singular body of work. However, Matsumotos work not only knows no bounds
in creativity but it also tends to ignore the laws of temporal physics. In other works, fixed points in time and space are not and never
have been an issue to Matsumoto whenever it comes to telling a story. He will recycle the same characters from one story or series
of stories to another without any regard for locale or chronological continuity. To him, the story and the characters are more
important than the time and location in which they take place. Matsumotos storytelling philosophy is best summed up in the
Japanese phrase toki no wa, which roughly means the endless possibilities of space and time. That is why over the lifetime of Leiji
Matsumoto you get a lot of sagas and stories that seem to be interrelated but dont quite fit together. Characters are born, live, and
die differently from one saga or story to the next. This is a well-known and vexing issue with a lot of Leijiverse fans and has led
many to conclude that a single, consistent timeline of the Leijiverse is an impossible feat. I beg to differ.
I am a lifelong fan of Matsumotos work. I grew up on Star Blazers and am a proud member of Americas first true generation of
anime fans. I too have struggled with the inconsistencies of the Leijiverse like so many of you. It was when I was doing research
into the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings) that I seized upon a new approach to this problem. Instead of trying to
make everything fit as it is, which it cant, I needed to find the common points and build from there. One should not look at the
chronological inconsistencies of the Leijiverse from the point of view of a fan or journalist. One should look at them from the point of
view of a historical researcher. That is what I have done in this work.
Let me use two examples to illustrate my point. The first is a set of puzzles, all of the same picture, but each cut slightly differently.
Mix them all together, then pull out just enough pieces to make one puzzle. The odds are that you wont have the same pieces from
the same puzzle. At this point you can do one of three things: make the pieces fit (which wont be pretty and wont be right), give up
in despair (the cowards way out), or cut your own custom pieces in order to complete the puzzle. Thats one way to look at what
Ive done. Another is that of the line graph in grade school math. You are given a series of points to plot on a graph and then
instructed to draw the line that best fits them. My timeline is my attempt at making that best fit line, that puzzle that had custom
pieces cut so it could be completed. Perhaps now you understand what Im trying to do here.
What you are about to read is one mans take on a model of the Leijiverse that does its best to make everything possible fit into one
single, consistent timeline. This timeline could then be used as a reference against all of the many tales in the Leijiverse along with
their various incarnations. I took the point of view of a historical researcher living in the year AD 4000 looking back on the
fragmented records of his past. It was my task to try and come up with a single, internally consistent chronicle of these past events;
hence this work. It represents about five years worth of research into the various sagas and stories that make up the anime of the
Leijiverse as well as the original manga and print sources. Third party efforts and related source material, licensed or not, has also
been used for whatever data they can provide. The end result is a fairly consistent Leijiverse chronology that spans from the
beginning of time to millennia in the future. It is a breathtaking overview of just how vast and varied Matsumotos work is.
Interestingly enough, and this is what surprised me during this project, most of it fits together pretty well. Well, almost anyway.
There are certain well-known inconsistencies in the Leijiverse that I have by necessity had to either address or ignore. The multiple
death accounts of Tochiro Oyama, the exact number of Cosmo Dragoon pistols, the final adventures of the Star Force, the longevity
of Emeraldas and Maetel, and so on. In these cases my rule was to use the best-known or most accepted anime account as the
definitive one. This also reflects on my general rule for logging events in the Leijiverse into this unofficial chronology: anime
sources first, then manga sources, then licensed third-party sources, then unlicensed third-party sources, and then everything else.
You will find notes at the bottom of each entry detailing both its source and any special comments I have regarding the event or
sources in question. These notes, if you read them, should answer most of the questions you might have about one or more given
events.
I dont pretend that this is or ever will be an official chronology of the Leijiverse. In fact, Id be surprised if Leiji Matsumoto or his
licensees ever used this in their creative efforts. This timeline was made by a Leijiverse fan for fellow Leijiverse fans. It is a model,
not an absolute authority, for a consistent Leijiverse. By providing you with this model I hope to give you and others a reference of a
single, consistent big picture look against which you can measure the scope, depth, and wonder that is the Leijiverse. In that I
hope I have succeeded. Only time and you, my fellow fans, will tell.
PAST IMPERFECT
FROM THE BIG BANG TO THE DAWN OF MAN
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The Leijiverse begins as does our universe with its own Big Bang and goes from there but with a
couple of unique twists of its own. Present from the start is an intelligence behind the force of universal
chaos embodied in the form of the primordial demon Noo. Thus the force of evil existed as the first
documented intelligence in the Leijiverse and could only be toppled once the force of good came into
being with the Twisted Rope. The Descendants of the Twisted Rope eventually defeat Noo and his
servants but were not themselves immune from corruption by evil, as later events proved. Also of note is
the Elder Race, eldest of all spacefaring civilizations. The Elder Race is akin to the Preservers from Star
Trek in that they seed humanoid life across the whole of the Sea of Stars. Humanity and its humanoid
cousins on other worlds are their children in a very real sense.
The biggest event to come to the Leijiverse on record after the ascension of the Elder Race is the
First Intergalactic War. It pitted most of the major humanoid races against each other in a no-holdsbarred struggle between good and evil that lasted for two decades. Entire worlds were wiped out as
forces almost beyond comprehension were unleashed by both sides of this devastating conflict. The
invention of wave motion technology by the Iskandaa of Eurythmia was akin to the United States
developing the atomic bomb at the end of our own World War II. It gave the forces of good the
technological edge that it needed to win the war. The impact and ramifications of Eurythmian wave
motion technology would echo down the halls of time for millennia to come. In the end the forces that
won the First Intergalactic War would be so revolted by the extremes they had to use to do so that they
would turn against the very technology that had won the war for them. This would set the stage for
history to repeat itself, albeit on a smaller scale, several millennia later.
At the same time that the First Intergalactic War is raging in the cosmos events are happening on
a smaller scale that have a direct bearing on the immediate future of planet Earth. This is the unlikely
alliance between the humans of LaMaetel, the designated caretakers of planet Earth, and the humanoid
plant-beings known as the Mazone, a predatory people more prone to conquest than coexistence. The
hows and whys behind this alliance will probably never be known; nevertheless, it is a matter of historical
record in the Leijiverse that it did happen. This was the first obvious sign that the people of LaMaetel had
lost the original purpose behind their guardianship of Earth. In time they would become as ruthless
toward their fellow humans on Earth as their Mazone allies had already proven themselves to be.
c.15 billion BC
The Big Bang

(creation of the Leijiverse)
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend TV series, Yamato 2520
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c.15 billion BC
The Leijiverse is formed from a zero-point singularity by the event known as the Big
Bang
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend TV series (Episode 03, The Voice Calling For Noo From Afar)
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The Noo, the original primordial demon, controls the known universe during the fleeting
microseconds known as Planck time.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend TV series (Episode 03, The Voice Calling For Noo From Afar)
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The high energy element monopole is formed in the chaos following the Big Bang.
Yamato 2520 OAV series (online synopsis of Episode 01). Best evidence seems to indicate that it was
formed while Noo was in control. That might account in part for its unusual energy properties.
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The Twisted Rope, the first sign of order in the universe, is formed. Noo domination of
the universe is put to an end by the Descendants of the Twisted Rope. Noo is forced
through the Hourglass Nebula into the edge between dimensions. The Seal of Yedar
is placed over the interdimensional portal at the heart of the Hourglass Nebula.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend TV series (Episode 03, The Voice Calling For Noo From Afar).
Comparison with Harlock Saga appears to imply that the gods of Valhalla and the Descendants of the
Twisted Rope are one and the same. Both are claimed to be the oldest intelligent species in the universe in
their respective stories.
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A city is built on the surface of the Rainbow Planet. Its ruins represent the oldest
known construction of any kind in our dimension of the known universe.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 07, The Moon Waits in the Promised Land and Episode 08, In
the Depths of the Shadow of the Soul); also Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 29, Struggle for
Survival on the Rainbow Planet). The Ninth Solar System Expedition will visit these ruins in their quest to
find the Gate of Yedar. Comparison of the dialogue between the episodes of the two series would seem to
suggest that this unnamed city came into existence either at the same time as or not long after construction
of the Gate of Yedar.
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c.10 billion BC
The Elder Race arises on the planet Akwaar. They are the oldest of all intelligent
species in our universe and also the oldest known spacefaring civilization.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. Harlock Saga appears to imply that the
Nibelungen and the Elder Race are one and the same; however, conclusive proof is lacking.
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c.5 billion BC
The Elder Race embarks on a aeons-long project of creating worldships scattered

across the known universe. Within each worldship is a Guardian Spirit, a noncorporeal entity of great power and intelligence. The main purpose of each Guardian
Spirit is to oversee the evolution of all forms of life on its worldship. Among the
countless number they create over the next billion or so years are nine worldships
within the Milky Way galaxy.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy.
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The first two Elder Race worldships ever created are the binary planetary pair Iskanda
and Desla of the Sanza Star System within the Greater Magellanic Cloud. They serve
as a titanic monument to the struggle between the forces of light and dark in the
universe.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. It is possible that the gods of Valhalla and the
Descendants of the Twisted Rope are one and the same per Harlock Saga. If so then this monument may
have been created by the Nibelungen (or more likely the giants of Risenheim) for the gods of Valhalla in
order to commemorate the victory over the Noo.
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c.4 billion BC
The Elder Race discovers a cooling planet, the third of nine orbiting a newborn yellow
star, in the outer edge of the western spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. They decide
it has the potential to become the greatest of all the worldships they have ever made.
They alter the course of their own world Akwaar so that it will make a close pass of this
new world. The gravitational attraction between the two will cause large volumes of
water to be transferred from Akwaar, bringing with it the seeds of life to this newly born
planet. According to legend this planet is the last worldship that the Elder Race ever
creates.
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On its lonely journey through the heavens the rogue pelagic planet Aquarius makes a
close pass of the newborn Earth. The titanic tidal forces between the two during the
pass pull huge amounts of water from Aquarius to Earth. This forms the Earths
oceans and is the beginning of life as we know it on our world.
Final Yamato feature film. Date as given on the Babylonian clay tablet Dr. Sane submits to General
Singleton for his review concerning the legend of the planet Aquarius.
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c.2 billion BC?
The Elder Race successfully ascends to the next level of existence. They entrust the
care of their children on their many worldships to their respective Guardian Spirits.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. My date is conjecture. Lewis gives no specific
date for this event. If Harlock Sagas implications are correct and the Elder Race is the Nibelungen then this
might have been when they abandoned Akwaar and ascended into Wotans service on Valhalla itself.
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650 million BC
Alberich leads the Nibelungen in a failed revolt against Valhalla. As punishment the
Nibelungen are banished to the remote world of Nibelheim at the ends of the universe.
Harlock Saga: The Rheingold OAV series.
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150 million BC
The Mazone pay their first visit to our Solar System. They establish temporary bases
on Venus and Mars during their stay.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock TV series (Episode 12, Mother Be Eternal). Yattaran also conjectures bases
on Mars and Jupiter although these are never shown.
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98 million BC
A large meteor hits the main island of Japan at present-day Tokyo. Its massive impact
crater is dozens of miles wide and several miles deep. The course of the Kanto River
is altered to flow through the crater itself. As millions of years pass the crater will
eventually be filled in by sediments deposited by the Kanto River.
Queen Millennia TV series (Episode 08, Mayday! An Underground Explosion).
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65 million BC
A planet-wide cataclysm causes the near-simultaneous eruption of every active

volcano on Earth. The net result of this massive discharge of ash and dust into the
atmosphere will significantly lower Earths surface temperature, leading to the mass
extinction of the dinosaurs. This environmental change is brought about by a near
passing of the planet LaMaetel during its thousand-year orbit through the Solar
System.
Queen Millennia TV series (Episode 07, Invitation to the Underground). Yukino Yayoi shares this fact with
young Hajime Ammamori during his first visit to the secret LaMaetelian base inside the Kanto cave complex
beneath Tokyo.
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26 million BC
A Nibelungen colony is established on the planet Tiamat, the fifth in our Solar System.
Harlock Saga: The Rheingold and contemporary accounts. Meeme the Nibelung sorceress talks of having
lived on the Solar Systems mythical fifth planet prior to its destruction. The legend of the lost planet Tiamat
is discussed by Zechariah Stichin in his many works on the subject.
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10 million BC
The servants of Noo are successful in bringing about the downfall and destruction of
the homeworld of the original Descendants of the Twisted Rope. Aeons later this will
become the Planet of the Rubbish Heaps. The only survivors of this disaster are the
various guardians of Twisted Rope bases scattered across the universe. One of these
just so happens to be hidden deep under the surface of Luna, Earths moon.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend TV series (Episode 03, The Voice Calling For Noo From Afar and
Episode 07, The Moon Waits in the Promised Land). The tomb that Harlock and company visits is part of
the planet itself and not part of the archaeological rubble that had been dumped there. The date is from the
English dubbed dialogue. The subtitles say several millennia but this is probably a continuity error. The
guardian of Luna gives the same date for her peoples demise in both versions as does the English dialogue
for the guardian of the Planet of the Rubbish Heaps. If the sparse implications from Harlock Saga hold any
weight then this planet may have been the original homeworld of the gods of Valhalla. The downfall that the
guardians talk about might be the corruption of the gods of Valhalla by their sense of absolute power over
creation, as is evident by Wotans behavior in Harlock Saga. This could also be the date that half of the
artificial world of Valhalla was blown away by the Sword of Heaven as implied in the Harlock Saga: Great
Harlock Gotterdamerung manga. There is reason to believe based on Mimays (aka Melodys) dialogue in
Harmony Golds Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years that the Mazone might have numbered
among the servants of Noo.
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8-5 million BC
The Guardian Spirit of Akwaa, greatest of all such Spirits, determines that the humans
of Earth, the last Elder Race worldship, holds the greatest potential for becoming a
new Elder Race. It is the culmination of billions of years of subtle genetic
experimentation and manipulation on all of the humanoid life forms evolving on all of its
worldships scattered throughout the universe. To that end groups of these early
humans are taken from Earth and seeded on all other Elder Race worldships, including
the nine in the Milky Way galaxy. To further enhance the experiment the evolution of
these seed groups is either augmented or retarded to varying degrees. Only the
humans of Earth are left alone in their evolution. They will be the unaltered master
template by which the development of the others can be measured. The nine major
humanoid seed groups within the Milky Way galaxy will be known collectively as the
Nine Daughter Races of the Elder Race.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. My date is conjecture. Lewis gives no specific
date for this event.
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A group of humans from Earth are deposited on the planet LaMaetel and their
evolution accelerated to such a degree that they become a technologically advanced
civilization within two million years. Their primary responsibility is to watch over the
Earth and see to it that the natural evolution of humanity and its development towards
civilization is not altered or hindered in any way. This original mission will become
obscured and corrupted over the passing of many millennia.
From the Queen Millennia TV series and material by Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers
Galaxy. Yukino Yayois younger sister claims that the LaMaetel are the oldest and most advanced
humanoid civilization in the known universe, having existed for millions of years. This would imply that the
LaMaetel are the oldest offshoot of the Nine Daughter Races, since the Elder Race and its contemporaries
(the Mazone, the Nibelungen, et al) predate the LaMaetel by aeons.
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The Iskandaa, humanoid inhabitants of the worldship Eurythmia, are the first of the
Nine Daughter Races to achieve spaceflight capability. They are the Milky Way
galaxys first spacefaring civilization. The Iskandaa will become known as great
explorers, bringing their knowledge and advanced technology to all worlds that they
visit.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy, and the Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book
miniseries by Comico.
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The Iskandaa visit our Solar System for the first time. They find human life on both
LaMaetel and Earth. They leave Earth alone at the request of the LaMaetelians, who
share with them their special trust from the Spirit of Akwaa regarding the humans of
Earth. From this the Iskandaa learn of Earths unique place in the cosmos. This will
become a carefully guarded secret known only to the Iskandaa ruling elite. They
decide to give the people of LaMaetel advanced spaceflight capability in order to aid in
their guardianship of the humans of Earth.
Probable conjecture based on Queen Millennia and material by Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star
Blazers Galaxy. This would help explain the obvious technology gap between the humans of LaMaetel and
the humans of Earth as depicted in the Queen Millennia TV series. It also helps explain how Starsha of
Iscandar knew so much about Earth as depicted in Star Blazers.
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Rise of Juran civilization.

Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years. Melody (aka Mimay) says in the series that her peoples
culture had existed for millions of years. The Japanese original makes no reference to this.
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c.5 million BC
The ancestors of the Cometine leave their homeworld on the planet Arishna, located
on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, and depart on a multigenerational voyage across
the void towards the Andromeda galaxy. It is the first step on their path to a long
history of deep space conquest. Arishna becomes a dead world with their departure.
The only traces left behind of its former inhabitants are stripped, abandoned cities on
its surface and semi-sentient satellites in orbit monitoring the demise of its shrinking
and dimming sun.
Star Blazers Arishna comic book miniseries by Comico (Part 2, The Prisoner and the Power and Part 4,
Sacrifice) and the Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. White Comet History.
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c.2 million BC
Dawn of intelligent human life on Earth as we know it.

Contemporary archaeological accounts and Harmony Golds Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years.
In the Harmony Gold production Yukino Yayoi (aka Olivia Snow) implies that the LaMaetel were on Earth at
the dawn of humanity over two million years ago. Meeme seems to imply in Harlock Saga that the
Nibelungen were fully aware of the dawn of humanity and may have been more than just observers to the
event. Stichin seems to think so, too . -_^
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The Mazone return in force to establish a permanent presence in our Solar System.
Their first and largest base is on the planet Brumus. Their second base is on the
planet Venus. Their third is on the Sidonia plain of Mars. Their fourth is in the jungles
of South America on Earth. The fifth and largest is on the central southwest coast of
Japan.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock TV program book by Toei and the Space Pirate Captain Harlock TV Series
(Episode 09, The Fearsome Plant Lifeform and Episode 12, Mother Be Eternal) and materials suggested
by Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 06, Fine Tuning). Perhaps the legendary face on Mars and
the purported alien ruins on its Sidonia plain have something to do with the Mazone but this is sheer
conjecture on my part. Brumus was once inhabited and the surviving architecture bears striking similarities
to Mazone artifacts but this too is conjecture.
From their initial South American foothold the Mazone fan out over all the Earth. They
discover that the indigenous human population makes excellent slave labor. They will
use them as such for thousands of years to come. Their presence on Earth does not
escape the detection or concern of the planets guardians on LaMaetel.
(Episode 09, The Fearsome Plant Lifeform). The TV program book says that the Mazone brought
humanitys ancestors from Venus but this contradicts all of my other sources regarding humanitys origins in
the Leijiverse. The interrelation between the Mazone and the LaMaetel comes from the dreadful Harmony
Gold dub Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years. More on this subject later.
c.600,000 to
35,000 BC
Several near-misses by LaMaetel as it swings through the Solar System in its eccentric
thousand-year orbit are the cause for the starting and stopping of all four of Earths
major Ice Ages.
Queen Millennia TV series (Episode 07, Invitation to the Underground). Yukino Yayoi shares this fact with
young Hajime Ammamori during his first visit to the secret LaMaetelian base inside the Kanto cave complex
beneath Tokyo.
c.500,000 BC
The people of LaMaetel begin sending their Millennial Queens to Earth. Their original
orders are to watch over the humans of Earth as they climb the road towards
civilization. Eventually this will become corrupted into a new mission: to rule over
Earth and restrain the more barbaric impulses of its human population.
Queen Millennia TV series and feature film as well as material suggested by Bruce Lewis, et al, The History
of the Star Blazers Galaxy. There are hundreds of mummified bodies within the ancient tombs of the Kanto
cave complex. 500,000 BC is the earliest date conjectured by many authorities for anything resembling
primitive human cultures. It is also highly probable that the Millennial Queens were sent to Earth in order to
combat the rising influence of the Mazone.
The LaMaetel establish a major colony on the planet Venus.

Queen Millennia TV series (Episode 28, Showdown on Venus). The date is a guess based on the apparent
age of the ruins and Mirays dialogue.
c.380,000 BC
The Mazone and the LaMaetel clash over the fate of humanity. It is the first great war
between two technologically advanced cultures on the Earths surface and will later
become known as the war of the gods in human legend. Open warfare is waged with
advanced technology beyond the comprehension of early humanity.
From material suggested by Harmony Golds Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years (multiple
references throughout series). It stands to reason that both cultures must have interacted at some point
since both were on Earth at the same time in mankinds past. As to the war, it is a known fact that there are
certain historical and archaeological anomalies that point to advanced technology and the use of nuclear
weapons on Earth in ancient antiquity.
c.300,000 BC
The war between the Mazone and the LaMaetel eventually ends in stalemate and
ceasefire. A compromise of sorts is achieved between the Mazone and the LaMaetel.
The Mazone are allowed to continue to use humans as slaves so long as the majority
of humanity is left alone to continue its evolution. The Mazone will be allowed to
continue their godlike interaction with humanity under the watchful eye of the
Millennial Queens. The LaMaetel apparently excuse this as a necessary means of
advancing human civilization without having to actually become directly involved. This
marks the start the start of a tenuous and often uneasy alliance between these two
disparate advanced humanoid species. Each apparently intends to use the other for
its own secret purposes.
From material suggested by Harmony Golds Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years (multiple
references throughout series). No reason is ever given for the formation of the Mazone-LaMaetelian alliance
as depicted. It stands to reason, though, that both cultures must have interacted at some point since both
were on Earth at the same time in mankinds past. In the English-dubbed dialogue Selen states that hers is
a fallen people and that the once-great civilization of the LaMaetel was drawing to its end. Perhaps their
truce with the Mazone, thus compromising their noble values, marks the beginning of the fall that Selen
describes.
The LaMaetel permit the Mazone to interact to varying degrees with almost all of
humanitys great pre-Diluvial civilizations. These will include the mystery civilizations
of Central and Southern America, the lost civilization of Mu in the Pacific Basin, the lost
civilization of Atlantis in the present-day Bahamas, the lost civilization of Lemuria in the
Indian Ocean, and the pre-dynastic civilization of Egypt.
(Episode 09, The Fearsome Plant Lifeform). It is intimated that the Mazone were either the builders of or
assisted in the building of the Great Pyramids of Egypt. It is also intimated that surviving remnants of their
still-functional technology are responsible for the mysteries surrounding the Bermuda Triangle, long thought
to be part of the legendary lost continent of Atlantis. The underwater pyramids off the coast of Japan are
often cited as evidence of the lost civilization of Mu, which again was supposedly influenced by the Mazone.
I should not in all fairness that in the original Japanese sources the LaMaetel and the Mazone never knew or
came into contact with each other. Even so, they must have at some point given their advanced technology.
The Harmony Gold materials, dreadful as they may be, are currently the only source of information on this
extraordinary alliance.
Rise of homo sapiens, i.e. modern man, on Earth.

Contemporary accounts. Certain modern scholars (Stichin, et al) have suggested that homo sapiens was
genetically engineered from homo habilis, which was the dominant humanoid lifeform on Earth at the time.
There is circumstantial evidence to support that this was the case in the Leijiverse. Meeme alludes to the
possibility that this was done by the Nibelungen in the various Harlock Saga materials. The technology of
both the LaMaetel and the Mazone were also capable of this as well.
c.130,000 BC
Rise of homo neanderthalis, aka Neanderthal Man, on Earth.

Contemporary accounts. Certain modern scholars (Alford, et al) have suggested that this interesting variant
of homo sapiens was genetically engineered. There is circumstantial evidence to support that this was the
case in the Leijiverse. It is a fact that the Mazone enslaved humans during their time on Earth per Space
Pirate Captain Harlock, which happened around this time. Perhaps the Mazone did a little genetic
engineering of their own in order to breed a better pack animal?
c.95,000 BC
Establishment of a dedicated elite warrior caste among the Mazone specializing in

subterfuge and covert operations.
Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years. The Mazone civilians who deal with Tadashi Daiba (aka
Terry) tell him that theyve been a warrior people for a thousand of your centuries. The Japanese original
establishes that the Mazone have been warriors for at least two million years. It could either be a translation
error or some inventive dialogue on the part of Macek and company. Im taking it to mean the founding of an
elite or covert group of Mazone warriors, much like our special ops teams of today. After all, it was a similar
group of Mazone who laid that elaborate trap for Tadashi and Harlock on the Rainbow Planet.
c.70,000 BC
Approximate date of the dawn of Lemuria, the greatest and most enlightened of
mankinds pre-history civilations.
James Churchward, The Lost Continent of Mu. The LaMaetelians probably had direct contact with the
people of Lemuria at some point in the Leijiverse if the legends are true but this pure conjecture on my part.
c.50,000 BC
Approximate date of the dawn of the other great pre-history civilizations of mankind:
Atlantis (Atlantic Basin), pre-history Egypt, and Yu (China/Tibet). All are founded as
colonies of Lemuria with the blessing of the gods.
Contemporary accounts. The gods in question may have been the Millennial Queen of LaMaetel and her
people but this is pure conjecture on my part.
c.11,500 BC
Tiamat, the legendary fifth planet of the Solar System, is destroyed in an event that
brings about the First Cataclysm on Earth. The Nibelungen colony on Tiamat
manages to evacuate to Earth before the planets destruction. The Mazone base on
Mars likewise manages to evacuate before the final destruction of Tiamat. The
atmosphere of Mars is ripped away and large portions of its surface are devastated by
the explosion and flying rubble, rendering it a lifeless and barren world in a matter of
minutes. Part of the rubble of Tiamat eventually becomes the inner asteroid belt of the
Solar System as we know it today.
Harlock Saga: The Rhiengold and contemporary accounts (Stichin, et al). The planet is never named in the
various Leijiverse materials so Im going with the name Stichin gives. This almost certainly came about
during a close passing of the planet LaMaetel (Queen Millennia), because just such an event is recorded in
ancient Middle Eastern and Chinese historical records. Meeme directly references the event and the
evacuation of her people in the Harlock Saga anime. She claims that Wotan caused the destruction of her
homeworld for no other reason than pure spite. Contemporary scholars (Hoagland, Flandren, et al) theorize
that the so-called city on the Sidonia plain of Mars was laid waste and half-buried in a cataclysm that
happened about this time. By the way, some scholars have also theorized that the rings of Saturn were
formed from the ejected oceans of Mars during this spectacular interplanetary event.
c.7800 BC
The ancestors of the humans later known as the Lugal are born in one of Earths first
great advanced civilizations.
Final Yamato. This would be the Middle Eastern empire overseen by the former Lemurian colony centered
around pre-history Egypt per the anime.
c.7500 BC
Mankinds first great advanced civilizations on Earth are at their zenith when they are
almost completely destroyed by the passage of the rogue planet Aquarius. The entire
surface of Earth is completely deluged with water up to and over the tops of the highest
mountains. Among the few survivors is a large group evacuated by an alien race
known only as the Lugal and relocated to the planet Dinguil, where they continue to
grow and flourish. A handful of other humans ride out the cataclysm in a giant ark
complete with full supplies and samples of all living life forms. Human civilization is
forced to start again from scratch. This event will later become known as the Great
Flood and is the major event in the Diluvial Age on Earth.
Final Yamato. The event is described in the movie. This is the current Leijiverse take on the Great Flood
myths that are part of every major culture, present and past, on Earth. It is also quite probable, although
never explicitly stated, that the current Millennial Queen and her people may have had their part to play in
the legend of the Great Flood as well. Yukino Yayoi seems to imply as much in the Queen Millennia TV
series (Episode 08, Mayday! An Underground Explosion) although she attributes the Great Flood to a close
passing of LaMaetel. Since Final Yamato was produced after the Queen Millennia TV series and the Queen
Millennia feature film makes no references to the Great Flood I have chosen to go with its origin as depicted
in Final Yamato.
One of the results of the Great Flood is the underground diversion of one of the Kanto
Rivers main tributaries. It swiftly hollows out a great cavern complex in the pre-Diluvial
sedimentary rock beneath the Kanto Basin. By the time the underground river has
done its work the Kanto cave complex has become the largest in the world. Its main
feature is a central chamber approximately ten miles wide with a ceiling about two
miles high. It is discovered by the people of LaMaetel after the flood waters recede
and hidden from prying human eyes by advanced technology. It will serve as their
main base of operations on Earth over the next ten millennia.
Queen Millennia TV series (Episode 08, Mayday! An Underground Explosion). The sediments of the Kanto
River basin are about 1 miles deep so the Kanto cave complex must be deeper than that. Must have
been one helluva meteor strike!
c.7000 to
1500 BC
The Mazone are once again allowed to intervene in human affairs on Earth by the
LaMaetel. Among the many human cultures that they influence at this time are the Old
Kingdom of Egypt, the Aryans of India, and the great Amerind cultures of Central and
South America. Almost all of these cultures have arisen at or near pre-Diluvial Mazone
bases. The LaMaetal choose not to interfere with this latest Mazone effort.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock TV series (Episode 41, Duel: The Queen vs. Harlock) and material
suggested by Harmony Golds Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years TV series. I should not in all
fairness that in the original Japanese sources the LaMaetel and the Mazone never knew or came into
contact with each other. Even so, they must have at some point given their advanced technology. The
Harmony Gold materials, dreadful as they may be, are currently the only source of information on this
extraordinary alliance.
Also assisting humanitys return to civilization unseen is Meeme the Nibelung

sorceress. Her main base of operations is in present day Scandanavia. She
apparently manages to avoid contact with and protect her charges from both
LaMaetellian and Mazone influences. All cultures that she influences come away with
the stories of Valhalla embedded as legends and myths in their culture.
Harlock Saga: The Rheingold OVA series. Meeme shares this information with Captain Harlock shortly
before they visit the real Valhalla. She never mentions any contact with the people of LaMaetel or the
Mazone. The mythlore of the cultures Meeme influenced is quite different than those affected by either the
Mazone or the LaMaetel.
The Eurythmians establish a thriving colony on the planet Iskandaa.

Star Blazers Eurythmia comic miniseries (Part 4, A Blast From The Past). It is my conjecture that the colony
was established at the future location of Mother Town, the chief city of Iscandar in later millennia.
c.5000 BC
The Dinguil, the blue-skinned descendants of those humans who survived the Great
Flood, overthrow their Lugal benefactors and exterminate them. In short order they
master Lugal technology and ally themselves with two other interstellar powers, the
Bolar Federation and the Dezarium Empire. Together these three embark on the first
known campaign of conquest in the recorded history of the Milky Way galaxy.
c.5000
4980 BC
The First Intergalactic War

(aka The Yin-Yang War)
c.5000
4980 BC
The interstellar civilizations of Eurythmia, Telezart, and Shalbart unite with their allies
against a confederation of the Dinguil, Bolar, and Dezarians for control of the known
universe. Historians will later call these two sides the Yin Federation and the Yang
Alliance respectively. Open warfare ensues between both sides as each seeks to
defeat and dominate the other. It is the first known interstellar war in recorded history
and will last for approximately two decades.
The peoples of Galman and Bimeria elect to remain neutral during the First
Intergalactic War. This does not save them from being attacked by the Dezarians.
Many of the Galmans and Bimerians are successful in escaping before both worlds are
conquered and claimed by the Yang Alliance. A few survive under Dezarian rule and
attempt to preserve what remains of their ruined culture and history as best they can
via oral tradition.
The survivors of the planet Bimeria relocate to an isolated world located approximately
halfway between the Milky Way galaxy and the Greater Magellanic Cloud. They
abandon their advanced technology and revert to a primitive lifestyle. In this fashion
these Bimerians, later known as the Bee People of Beeland, will survive the First
Interstellar War. They will eventually forget everything about their past save for
distorted legends passed down by the families of their hive elders.
The refugees from the planet Galman who successfully escaped their conquered
homeworld appeal to the Yin Federation for assistance. The Eurythmians direct them
to the planet Desla within the Sanza Star System. It is the only other planet in the
known universe with an environment almost exactly like that of Galman. The delighted
Galman refugees decide to relocate to Desla at once. They claim the planet as their
own and rename it Gamilon in memory of their lost homeworld. They are both
welcomed and given assistance by their new neighbors, the Eurythmian colony on
Iskanda, as they settle on their new world. The Gamilons will eventually lose touch
with their homeworld Galman due to the great distances involved.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. Leader Desslok indirectly references this event
in Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode xx, The Day of Desslok). Tim Eldred describes the colonization
of Gamilon by the Galmans in Star Blazers: The Quest For Iscandar (Volume 4, DVD Supplement The
Gamilons). This happened around the same time as the colonization of Iscandar according to Gamilon
Science Officer Vixor in the Star Blazers Eurythmia comic miniseries (Part 4, A Blast From The Past).
The Gamilon Codices are written around this time. They preserve the story of the true
origin of the people of Gamilon and how they came to their homeworld. Many copies
are made but few survive the passing of the years.
Scientists on the planet Eurythmia develop wave motion technology. It will prove to be
be to the First Intergalactic War what the atomic bomb was to World War II on Earth.
Some within Eurythmian society see it as the wars final solution while others argue
that it should be used only for peaceful purposes. The necessities of wartime decide in
favor of the former. The dissident faction on Eurythmia loses the debate and
abandons its homeworld for a new start on the distant colony world of Iskanda. They
rename themselves the Iscandar after their new homeworld. They break all ties with
their Eurythmian brothers and strive to build a peaceful society isolated from the
conflict around them. Over time the true origins of the people of Iscandar will pass into
legend and their ancient past all but forgotten.
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic miniseries (Part 4, A Blast From The Past) and Bruce Lewis, et al, The
History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. The date given in the comic comes out to approximately 2800 BC. I
have taken the liberty of moving it back a few thousand years so it will better fit with the material from Lewis.
A team of Eurythmian scientist is successful in trapping, imprisoning, and harnessing

the immense power of the Guardian Spirit of Eurythmia. This is done in order to
achieve their greatest technological triumph. It is the Planet Crusher, a mobile wave
motion gun platform of immense power and proportions. It remains to this day the
single most powerful weapons platform ever created by one of the Nine Daughter
Races in the known history of the universe. Subsequently the military forces of the Yin
Federation sponsor the construction of an entire fleet of Eurythmian planet crushers for
the war effort against the Yang Alliance.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. It is possible that the trapping of the Spirit of
Eurythima is what caused the Iscandarian faction on Eurythmian to finally give up hope and abandon their
homeworld to the militarist faction. Lewis does not say one way or the other.
The Yin Federations new fleet of Eurythmian planet crushers proves to be the deciding
factor in winning the First Intergalactic War. The Yang Alliance is crushed once and for
all. The Dinguil are confined to their homeworld and reduced to a primitive state of
existence. The Bolar Federation survives but is forced to retreat to the isolation of
New Bolar, a harsh colony world buried deep within the Milky Ways galactic core. The
Bolar homeworld is destroyed and the Bolars lose most of their advanced technology
in the process. The Dezarians are the most severely punished for their policy of
attempting to systematically exterminate the cultures of the peoples that they have
conquered. They are banished along with their homeworld into an empty parallel
universe dominated by the giant, galaxy-shaped Black Nebula. It will take millennia for
the three leading cultures on the losing side of the First Interstellar War to rebuild their
respective civilizations and return to the Sea of Stars.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. New Bolar will become the new homeworld of
the reborn Bolar Federation as depicted in Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars. The banishment of the Dezarians
to the universe of the Black Nebula is briefly alluded to in Be Forever Yamato. Their descendants became
the Black Nebula Empire as depicted in Yamato: The New Voyage and Be Forever Yamato.
c.4980
4900 BC
The Inward Turning
c.4980
4900 BC
Revolted by the rampant bloodshed forced upon them in order to win the First
Intergalactic War, the Yin Federation abandons the very technology that enabled it to
defeat its foes. Wave motion technology in all forms is either destroyed outright or
hidden away in secret repositories in the event that it is ever needed again.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy; also Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar
(multiple references), Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 24, The Secret of Planet Gardiana), and the
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic miniseries (Part 4, A Blast From The Past). The Eurythmian and Shalbart
technology caches are uncovered in the Star Blazers era. Starsha of Iscandars gift of wave motion
technology to humanity was what helped them defeat the Gamilons in 2199-2200 and caused such a
monumental leap forward in human spaceflight capability.
The planet Eurythmia is abandoned when its remaining inhabitants leave their world to
join their more peaceful brethren on distant Iscandar. They carefully hide all traces of
their past on both worlds. The inhabitants of Iscandar revert to an agrarian lifestyle
with their history preserved in legends and oral tradition. It will be thousands of years
before they regain their lost advanced technology. Meanwhile, back on Eurythmia, its
Guardian Spirit remains trapped within her hyperspace prision, unable to break the
bonds her own people placed upon her.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy; also the Star Blazers Eurythmia comic
miniseries (Part 5, x). The Guardian Spirit of Eurythima will remain imprisoned for almost six millennia
before being freed by the Star Force in 2202.
The Shalbart Empire collapses under a series of Wars of Secession. At the same time
the ruling house of the Shalbart Empire, located on the planet Gardiana, begins a
selective breeding program to enhance its psychic powers. This is to ensure its
survival in the millennia to come. They convince the people of Gardiana to abandon
and hide away their advanced technology and revert to a pastoral lifestyle. Even so,
the inhabitants of Gardiana never forget their past and their knowledge of the
advanced technology they have hidden away on their world. The Shalbart Empire
finally dissolves as the planet Gardiana turns inward, abandoning what few off-world
holdings it has left. The memory and legacy of the last days of the Shalbart Empire is
preserved by the rest of the Milky Way galaxy in the (distorted) legend of Queen
Gardiana.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy; also Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars. In the
series, the old man who explains the legend of Queen Gardiana to Wildstar and Nova says that her rule
ended thousands of years ago.
c.4500 BC
Lady La Lela Promethium, the ruling matriarch of LaMaetel, authorizes the successive
cloning of three identical daughters to be her children and heirs.
Queen Millennia TV series and feature film. The TV series establishes that the LaMaetel reproduced by
cloning (as opposed to sex) in order to maintain the genetic purity of their species. Selen is the eldest twin
per the original source materials. Her facial features are slightly different and her hair somewhat darker than
the other two. All three had ankle-length hair as adults; however Selen cut hers to a more manageable
length per the feature film. Andromeda and Miray, the two younger sisters, were physically identical and
almost impossible to tell apart with the untrained eye. Miray, like her elder sister Selen, also changed her
appearance per the feature film, dying her hair a deep blue and cutting it shoulder-length. More on this
subject in the section on Queen Millennia.
Birth of La Selene Promethium (aka Selen), eldest daughter of Lady La Lela of

LaMaetel.
Implied by the Queen Millennia TV series. Selen appeared to be 19 or 20 in human years when she was
removed from her position as heir to the Millennial Throne of Earth. The humans of LaMaetel appear to age
one year for every 300 or so human years. The exact minimum ratio I have calculated from the various
associated LaMaetel source materials is 1:285. Even so, Im not being exact in order to allow some leeway
given Matsumotos toki no wa writing philosophy.
c.3500 BC
Birth of La Andromeda Promethium (aka Promethium), second daughter of Lady La

Lela of LaMaetel.
Implied by the Queen Millennia TV series, see above.
12 August
3114 BC
The planets of Jupiter and Saturn almost collide and the orbits of Venus, Mars, and
Earth are changed. All settle into an approximation of the orbits we know today, with
one major exception: the new orbit of Mars now crosses that of Earth. The resultant
environmental upheavals and global disasters cause the various civilizations of Earth
to go through the first recorded Dark Age in human history. The Mayan calendar
begins.
From material suggested by Russian scholar Immanuel Velikovsky (Worlds in Collision) and American
scholars Donald Patten and Samuel Windsor (The Mars-Earth Wars). In the Leijiverse this would have most
likely been caused by a passing by the rogue planet LaMaetel through our Solar System. The Mayans are
significant in explaining the Mazone and their origins in Space Pirate Captain Harlock.
c.3000 BC
The First Gamilon Civil War

Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy, also Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar
c.3000 BC
The Galman colony on the planet Desla becomes cut off from its neighbors on
Iscandar as its people fight each other in a centuries-long civil war over Deslas scarce
planetary resources. This conflict becomes known as the First Gamilon Civil War. The
winning faction emerges on the other side of the conflict as the Gamilons, a hardened
and militant people bent on conquest.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy, also Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar
It is known that at this point in time the Mazone continue to maintain bases or garrison
forces in or near many of Earths major human civilizations. They maintain a presence
in an old undersea base in the Atlantic in what is today called the Bermuda Triangle. It
is also known that a major Mazone colony exists at this time above ground in and
around the coastal forests of the main island of Japan. The seeming indifference of
the LaMaetel to these bold moves by the Mazone remains a mystery to this day.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 07, The Sunken Pyramid). The age of the Mazone colony in Japan
roughly corresponds with the existence of the Ainu, Japans original inhabitants. We know from Queen
Millennia that the LaMaetel were also in contact with the Ainu. We also know that the LaMaetel had an
alliance with the Mazone per Harmony Golds Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years. Exactly why
they allowed the Mazone invasion of Earth to happen is never revealed. I should not in all fairness that in
the original Japanese sources the LaMaetel and the Mazone never knew or came into contact with each
other. Even so, they must have at some point given their advanced technology. The Harmony Gold
materials, dreadful as they may be, are currently the only source of information on this extraordinary alliance.
c.2600 BC
The Mazone garrison in Egypt hides a powerful energy weapon inside the chest of the
Sphinx.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 14, The Sphinxs Tombstone). It is stated that the Mazone weapon
was placed inside the Sphinx during the reign of Pharoah Khufu, founder of the Fourth Dynasty of the
Egyptian Old Kingdom.
c.2500 BC
Birth of La Miria Promethium (aka Miray, aka Senjoo), the youngest and last daughter
of Lady La Lela of La Maetel.
Implied by the Queen Millennia TV series. Miray (or Senjoo if you go by the feature film) appeared to be 16
in human years when she was ordered to replace her sister Promethium and ascend to the Millennial Throne
of Earth. See the entry on Selens ascension for more information.
c.2000 BC
Queen Mariposa, the last living descendant of the ruling house of the Shalbart Empire,
is captured by the Bolar Federation during a goodwill tour of the Milky Way galaxy.
She is exiled to the planet Phantom and left there to die. The Bolars had left her there
believing it to be an icy and lifeless world. In truth it is a living planet in the service of
Queen Gardiana. It hides Mariposa deep inside itself and puts her to sleep (i.e. places
her in suspended animation) until such time as either peace returns to the galaxy or a
new guardian to protect her can be found.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode x, x). Planet Phantom says Queen Mariposa was entrusted to its
care thousands of years ago. The implication is that Phantom was made during the time of the Shalbart
Empires greatest influence over the Milky Way galaxy and that it had gone into hiding during the Wars of
Secession. Interestingly enough, Bolar Prime Minister Bemlayze claims he personally banished Queen
Mariposa. His claim is confirmed by the Elder of Gardiana. This would seem to imply that the lifespan of
both races is measured in thousands of years.
c.1000 BC
Most of the Mazone leave Earth and the Sol System for reasons that are today
unknown. They leave behind a small contingent to await the day when they will
return.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode x, x). The various (and questionable) Harmony Gold materials
suggest that the Mazone and the LaMaetelians eventually had a falling out and turned on each other.
Historically this roughly corresponds with the fall of the Olmecs, the first significant human civilization in
South America. It may have also been tied to the cataclysms caused by the then-current passing of the
planet LaMaetel through the Solar System.
c.680 BC
Mars has its last near passing of Earth as well as a spectacular near-passing of the
planet Venus before settling into the orbit we know today. The Earth likewise settles
into its current orbit and axial tilt as a result of this encounter. The event is recorded in
the legends and annals of humanity worldwide at the time.
Historical accounts. This date would correspond with some scholars believe to have been a massive plasma
discharge from the atmosphere of Venus which was noted in the legends and historical records of every
major civilization on Earth at the time. The best known example of such records are the Babylonian Venus
tablets which were sourced by Russian scholar Immanuel Veilkovsky for his various works on the origins of
Venus. The event was also recorded in the Jewish Old Testament, the astronomical observations of both
Egypt and China, and the histories of the Central and South American civilizations.
The LaMaetel are forced to abandon their colony on the planet Venus. The ruins are
preserved under a force shield, however, due to the former colonys significance as a
dueling ground for the LaMaetel royal house.
Queen Millennia TV series (Episode 28, Showdown on Venus). The date is a guess based on the apparent
age of the ruins and Mirays dialogue. In the Leijiverse the plasma discharge would have been tied to the
event that left the LaMaetel colony on Venus in ruins. The force shield is necessary to explain how Yukino
and Miray can have their duel without protection of any kind in the dense, 800 degree, carbon dioxide rich
atmosphere of Venus as we know it today.
c.300 BC
At the height of its technological glory the humanoid civilization on the Armor Planet
builds an artificial moon to orbit its world.
Galaxy Express 999 television series (Episode x, x).
c.5 BC
The Second Gamilon Civil War

Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy
c.5 BC
Clan warfare sparked by the new religion of Kabrill Minoxas Gamilas rages across all
of the planet Gamilon. This conflict becomes known as the Second Gamilon Civil War.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy
c.4 BC
The Birth of Christ

Anchor point for the Earth Gregorian calendar. It was off by approximately four years due to a computational
error on the part of Pope Gregorys mathematicians.
The following events have no known date but happened during this period in the
history of the Leijiverse:
? LE
(date uncertain)
The rulers of the Cometine begin a tradition of Tours of Conquest. Each heir to the
throne of the Comet Empire embarks on a personal Tour of Conquest across a
previously unconquered area of space. This not only adds to the domain and wealth of
the Comet Empire but proves the worthiness and leadership qualities of the heir. Once
the Tour of Conquest is successfully completed the heir assumes the title and role of
Emperor of the Comet Empire.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v White Comet History.
The Comet Empire constructs Gatlantis, a mobile space fortress of great power and
armament that is the size of a small moon. It is constructed in such a manner that its
protective energy fields give off the appearance of a white comet as it traverses the
Sea of Stars. Over the many years and multiple Tours of Conquest in which it is used
Gatlantis becomes the de facto symbol of the Cometine race. It is largely from this
symbolism where the Comet Empire (aka White Comet Empire, Cometine, et al) gets
its name.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v The Star Fortress Gatlantis.
ANNO LEIJI
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE LEIJIVERSE
It is an established fact that the Leijiverse exists in an alternate dimension very much like our own
and following a similar timeline. It is for this reason and with my Western audience in mind that I use
Gregorian calendar dates as a reference. These different universes, the Leijiverse and our own, begin to
diverge significantly after the birth of Christ in 4 BC. Since the Leijiverse exists in an alternate universe I
do not want to confuse its events with those that take place in our own. Therefore I use the notation LE,
or Leijiverse Era, for events that take place parallel to our own in the Leijiverse after the birth of Christ. I
will continue to use the Gregorian calendar notation AD (anno domini, i.e. in the year of our Lord) to
refer to specific events that take place in our own timeline. By this I hope to easily distinguish those
events in the Leijiverse that are distinct or differ from our own.
The start of a new era in the Leijiverse sees the rebirth of two of the three powers that formed the
Yang Alliance: the New Bolar Federation and the Black Nebula (Dezarian) Empire. It also sees the
descendants of the Eurythmian colony on Iscandar and the surviving Gamilons on Gamilon rediscover
their past and ancient origins. La Andromeda Promethium, aka Yukino Yayoi, ascends to the Millennium
Throne on Earth. She will become its last and most important Millennium Queen.
One of the most notable events on Earth during this time, aside from the two World Wars, is the
rise of the Harlock family. The ancestors of the famous space pirate of the third millennium LE make a
name for themselves during the European crusades, after which they return to Germany and become part
of the new Prussian nobility. In the adventures of the early Harlocks we see all the elements for which
the name is known: dedication to honor, fearlessness in battle, skilled in any arena of combat (land, sea,
or air), and unwavering commitment to justice even against seemingly insurmountable odds. These traits
would eventually be set down in the book My Youth in Arcadia, written by Phantom F. Harlock I, and
would inspire generations afterwards both within the Harlock family and without.
Perhaps the most significant event in terms of mankinds advancement to happen during this time
is the discovery of the Darkwood stargate. Long kept a secret by its diabolical discoverer, it gave
mankind its first real opportunity to escape the confines of the Solar System. As the 20th century wound
down countries around the world accelerated their space flight programs and prepared to exploit the
Darkwood stargate to its fullest. Mankind was getting ready to take its own first step out into the age-old
Sea of Stars. It was an effort that would be nipped in the bud within two short years.
P
1 LE (AD 1)
Year One of the Leijiverse
c.100 LE
A vigorous young feudal culture arises on New Bolar.
c.300
The discovery of steam power brings about an Industrial Revolution on New Bolar.
333
An advanced alien spacecraft crashes at Darkwood Manor in England. The crash kills
the current Earl of Darkwood and his wife. Their young son survives but his mind is
altered and lifespan extended by strange energies coming from the downed vessel.
With the help of the estate servants he contrives to hide the ship under a giant barrow
(mound) lest it be discovered by the nearby superstitious villagers. The ship, its
contents, and technologies will be the source of his intense scrutiny for the next two
centuries.
Interstella 5555. We neither learn from where the ship came nor what it was doing in Earthspace at the time.
555
The current (and last) Earl of Darkwood implements his 5555 plan on hapless musical
acts both on Earth and across the galaxy. He is able to do this using the technology
and tools of the now-repaired spacecraft that crashed into his fathers estate two
centuries before.
Interstella 5555. Look carefully at the star map shown in the Earls book, Veridus Quo. Does that double
galaxy motif look familiar? Youre going to see it again both in Queen Millennia and Final Yamato.
c.980
The Vikings one of the earliest non-Amerind visitors to the New World, establish a
colony in Vinland; aka present-day Newfoundland.
Contemporary historical accounts. I mention it in passing because Norse mythology was influenced (or
possibly created) by Meeme the Nibelung sorceress during her stay on Earth.
Height of the Toltec civilzation in Central America.

Contemporary historical accounts. The Toltecs were one of Earths ancient civilizations supposedly
influenced by the Mazone per Space Pirate Captain Harlock.
The Mazone underwater base in the Sargasso Sea of the Atlantic Ocean is abandoned.
Over time most of it will become buried under a deep layer of sediment.
Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years. The Japanese original, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, never
gives a fixed date for the construction of the Mazone pyramid tomb. All Captain Harlock says is that the body
in the tomb appears to have been there since time immemorial. Since at least one other Mazone construct
appears in the same area later in the series then I have surmised the existence of a former Mazone city or
colony there, much like the purported ruins on the Sidonia plain of Mars.
999
La Andromeda Promethium, the middle daughter of Lady La Lela of La Maetel,

celebrates her coming of age.
Implied by the Queen Millennia television series. Like her daughter Maetel in Maetel Legend, Promethium
appears to be about 16 when her life changed and the Millennial Throne of Earth passed to her instead of her
elder sister Selen.
LaMaetels moon is destroyed by gravitational tidal forces on its current pass through
the Solar System. Most of the rubble is captured by LaMaetels gravity and becomes a
series of thin rings around the planet.
Queen Millennia television series (Episode 04, The Vanishing Meteorites). These are the asteroid rings you
see circling the planet in the feature film. The Earth passes through at least one of these rings as LaMaetel
approaches Earth, resulting in the devastating meteor shower depicted in the feature film. They are not
present in the feature film Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal. Yukino Yayoi told Hajime
Ammamori that her people heavily mined them for raw materials and their unusual energy properties feature
prominently in several of the television series episodes. It is quite probable that the LaMaetelians mined
them out of existence during their long journey across the cosmos while establishing the technology of the
Machine Empire (ref. Maetel Legend, Space Symphony Maetel).
Selen, the eldest daughter of Lady La Lela of LaMaetel, falls out of favor with her
mother and the ruling elite. She has become disgusted with the way her people treat
the humans of Earth and no longer wishes to be a part of it. She refuses to serve as its
next Millennium Queen even though the role is hers by right. For this she is disowned
by her mother and exiled from LaMaetel. Selen and a small band of followers will
eventually flee to Earth and in secret set up the organization known as the Millennium
Thieves. Its ultimate aim is to free mankind from any and all LaMaetelian influences.
The Millennium Thieves also begin construction of a space battlecruiser to defend
Earth in the event LaMaetel ever attempts to take the planet by force.
Queen Millennia television series and feature film. The feature film plays this story somewhat differently than
does the television series. We never learn Selens background; only that her relationship with her sister
Promethium is a strained one. Selen herself discusses the building of the battlecruiser with Promethium
about halfway through the movie. By the way, Selens apparent age in human years is between 19 and 20
when this event takes place.
La Andromeda Promethium, the second of three daughters born to Lady La Lela of

LaMaetel, is appointed Millennium Queen of Earth in her exiled sisters stead. She
assumes an Earth identity as a Japanese maiden named Yukino Yayoi.
Queen Millennia television series (Episode x, x). Promethium told Hajime Ammamori that she was brought
to Earth in her youth. Her parents on Earth were actually LaMetalians whose memories had been erased
so as not to reveal Promethiums (or their) true origins. Promethium and her adoptive parents must have
pulled the Tuck Everlasting bit many times, moving from place to place during her thousand year rule on
Earth, in order that no one discover their long LaMaetelian lifespans.
c.1100
The Harlock estate at Heilgenstaadt in the old German kingdom of Thuringa is

established.
Conjecture based on actual historical records and events referenced in the feature film My Youth in Arcadia.
The kingdom of Thuringa (modern day Thuringen) was an active supporter of the Knights Templar and their
German successors, the Teutonic Knights. If there was a Harlock in the Crusades then his family must have
already established a fiefdom or estate for its support. My Youth in Arcadia fixes the location of the Harlock
estate at Heilgenstaadt in Thuringen, one of the southernmost of the old Prussian states. Thuringen is known
as the green heart of Germany. Its deep wooded valleys and rugged terrain feature prominently during the
World War II flashback scene in the movie.
c.1120
The first historical record appears of a Captain Harlock. He is a respected German

knight in the service of the Knight Templars during the Crusades. He is known for his
fearlessness in battle and skill on the high seas.
In the movie Captain Harlock refers to his family as the pirate-knight Harlock clan. This is probably an
indirect reference to a Knight Templar ancestor. The Jolly Roger, the traditional flag of the pirate, is said to
have been derived from the flags that the Knight Templars flew on their ships. Captain Harlock seems to
have been drawing on the origins of the Jolly Roger in making it the flag of freedom for his time. Matsumotosan certainly did his homework with regards to Captain Harlocks origins!
1187
The eldest son of the Harlock family is killed in the Battle of Hattin during the Crusades.
Chroniclers of the time noted that the flower of the [European] nobility died in this Crusader defeat.
c.1210
A descendant of the Templar pirate-knight Harlock joins the newly formed Teutonic
Knights.
The Teutonic Knights originated as a German satellite group of the Knight Templars. They actively recruited
members from among the poor German nobility. Captain Harlocks ancestors were probably among these.
1291
A Teutonic sea-knight named Harlock assists in the evacuation of Acre, the last
Crusader stronghold in the Holy Land.
According to some writers and historians this was the first time that the Knight Templars flew the Jolly Roger.
1526
The Harlock family is formally recognized as one of the established members of the
new Prussian nobility.
The Teutonic Knights disbanded as an order in 1525. Practically all of them became part of the new Prussian
nobility the following year. Baron Phantom F. Harlock was paying the rent when he joined the Luftwaffe in
the 1930s per events depicted in My Youth in Arcadia.
1666
Saint Maetel, a beautiful blond woman, has a profound impact on the life of classical
musical composer Franz Schubert.
Galaxy Express 999 Eternal Fantasy manga (Volume 04, story title Blank Belt Symphony). A descendant
of the famous composer living on a distant asteroid shows Maetel and Tetsuro a drawing in a dusty old
volume from his library. The drawing resembles Maetel, dark furs and all. Mr. Schubert tells them that Saint
Maetel visited his ancestor in 1666 LE and Maetel does not dispute his claim. The manga implies that they
are one and the same. Since Maetel claims to be a woman who has traveled through time then Mr.
Schuberts assertion may be correct. A more likely answer is that the drawing is of Maetels mother, Queen
Promethium, during her time on Earth as its last Millennial Queen (Queen Millennia). Maetel was not even
alive when the meeting between Saint Maetel and Franz Schubert took place, although it is possible that
she might have traveled back in time (Harlock Saga: Great Harlock Gotterdamerung). Also, the black furs
Maetel wears during her journeys aboard the Galaxy Express were a parting gift from her mother (Maetel
Legend). Maetel bears an uncanny likeness to her mother in her youth. Compare the images of Maetel and
the younger Promethium from the Queen Millennia feature film and the two Galaxy Express 999 feature films.
1791
Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the most gifted musical composer and performer
of his age.
Actual historical event. Interstella 5555 implies that the Earl of Darkwood was one of Mozarts sponsors and
thus ultimately responsible for his death at an early age.
1865
Sea pirate Franklin Harlock and samurai warrior Tochiro Oyama meet in a raid by
Western pirates on a town on Japans eastern seaboard. Tochiro scars Harlocks face
in the ensuing sword duel. The duel is stopped when the burning vessels gunpowder
stores start exploding. Tochiro helps Harlock escape his doomed vessel and thus
saves his life. As payment for his debt of gratitude Harlock will bring an inquisitive
Tochiro back to the United States with him shortly thereafter. Ive always wanted to
explore your Wild West, the samurai tells the bemused Harlock.
Gun Frontier (Episode 09, Caught between Winchester and Midland City). Japan was in a state of civil war
from 1863 to 1866 as the various shogunates fought with the Emperor on how best to deal with rising
Western influences. In 1865 a joint Anglo-French fleet was sent to Japan on the order of their respective
governments to bombard Japanese ports. This was in retaliation by an attack on a British delegation by the
Choshu shogunate. Japan remained in a state of civil war until the ascension of Emperor Meiji in 1967. The
date for Franklin Harlocks raid was never given but it best fits here given internal evidence and historical
data. This might imply that the Tochiro Oyama of Gun Frontier could have been a Choshu samurai and that
Samurai Creek was settled by a Choshu contingent; however, conclusive evidence is lacking.
1866
Samurai Creek, the first full-fledged Japanese settlement in the United States, is
established in the Wild West.
Gun Frontier (Episode 11, Shitalnen). In the anime samurai Tochiro Oyama says that his sister and the
others in the settlement left Japan in order to live a life free of the restrictions of Japanese society. This
implies that they left before the reforms of Emperor Meiji, who ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne in
1867. The show also implies that this event happened not long after Tochiro Oyama and Franklin Harlock
became acquainted.
1868
The Japanese settlement at Samurai Creek is attacked by a gang of outlaws disguised

as U.S. Army cavalry. The outlaws are unsuccessful in their goal to seize the
inhabitants cache of imported gold. Many of the outlaws are killed by samurai warrior
Yukikaze and his fellows before they are gunned down. The outlaws then massacre
the settlements inhabitants in retaliation. What survivors remain, mostly women and
children, flee for their lives into the desert. The outlaws themselves are force to flee
when a contingent of real cavalry show up led by Tochiro and Harlock. Many of the
surviving women who fled the massacre are captured by the escaping outlaws, taken
with them, and raped before eventually being sold into prostitution. The others who
manage to successfully escape the carnage are cared for by a U.S. Army doctor
named Modorovichi. After the conclusion of the affair the survivors return and spirit
away their hidden gold, leaving only memories and charred timbers behind. Tochiro
swears vengeance and will spend the next several years attempting to track down the
backers of the massacre at Samurai Creek.
Gun Frontier (Episode 04, Duel in the Rain and Episode 05, The Song of Bowlegs). Tochiros former
girlfriend Maya Yukikaze (the daughter of the samurai Yukikaze) says that the massacre at Samurai Creek
happened five years before the events depicted in the series.
1872
Sinunora, a new recruit to the mysterious Organization, is detailed to keep an eye on

the whereabouts of samurai Tochiro Oyama.
Gun Frontier (Episode 11, Shitalnen). Sinunora tells Harlock and Tochiro about this during their
encampment together on Bone Peak. She was in Europe at the time of her assignment. Intercontinental
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travel times in the 19 century were on the order of months.
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1873
Gun Frontier
The date is fairly well fixed by the Wild West motif in the manga and anime, especially the weaponry.
Franklin Harlock uses a single-action Colt Peacemaker revolver. Most of the townspeople use lever-action
Winchesters. Both came out in the late 1860s and were widely available by the early 1870s. The popular
and famed Winchester 73, which could use the same ammunition as the .44 caliber Colt Peacemaker, came
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Harlock and Tochiro first met in the waters off of Japan. This fits well with Tochiros remark about his
relationship with Harlock at the start of the anime series, in which he says, Weve been hanging around a
long time now.
c.1880
Birth of Phantom F. Harlock I in Germany at the Harlock family estate in Heilgenstaadt.

He is the first member of the Harlock family to bear the traditional name of the familys
male heirs in the centuries to come.
Implied by The Tale of a Time Gone By manga (Chapter 08). Phantom F. Harlock I appears to have been
the same age his son was (i.e. late twenties) during the World War I adventure depicted in this tale. The F
probably stands for Frank, undoubted a reference to his famous gunslinger ancestor Franklin Harlock (Gun
Frontier). This might imply that Franklin Harlock was Phantom F. Harlocks uncle or father but there is
currently no evidence to back this supposition.
c.1900
An ancient city of incredibly advanced technology is uncovered during a strong

earthquake on the planet Iscandar. Its first visitor is a young woman named Starsha.
She soon encounters the Guardian Spirit of Iscandar within its ruined walls. Starsha
learns the true history and heritage of her people and willingly unites with the Guardian
so it can speak to her people. In this manner Starsha becomes the living embodiment
of the Guardian Spirit of Iscandar. The transformed Starsha returns to her people with
the truth about the ruined city and its significance. She will become the prime mover
behind Iscandars Great Renaissance. The grateful people of Iscandar eventually
appoint Starsha as their first ruling Queen. Starshas first act as Queen of Iscandar will
be to rename the newly rebuilt ancient city Mother Town in honor of the Guardian Spirit
of Iscandar.
1914-1918
Phantom F. Harlock I becomes a noted German fighter ace during World War I.
The Tale of a Time Gone By manga (Chapter 08). The story is undated but the setting is unquestionably
World War I. Harlock appears in a cameo at the end of the story in question when he shoots down and kills
both the main male and female protagonists.
c.1916
Phantom F. Harlock II, firstborn son of the famed aerial explorer, is born on Earth in
Germany at the family estate in Heilgenstadt.
Probable conjecture based on My Youth in Arcadia. This presupposes that Phantom F. Harlock II was 29
and a captain in the Luftwaffe in 1945 during the events depicted in the World War II flashback sequence. It
also allows for the possibility that he was born shortly after his father retired from a life of air piracy as
described below.
c.1920
Phantom F. Harlock I becomes one of the last of the old-time air pirates roaming
Earths skies. His rival and sometime love interest is a beautiful red-haired woman
known as the Red Emerald. The last recorded clash between the two is over a map to
a legendary lost treasure. Phantom Harlock has one half of the map and the Red
Emerald has the other. The rewards he reaps for this and other such exploits is more
than enough for him to eventually retire from air piracy and pursue a more peaceful
lifestyle.
Conjecture based on an online summary of the original 1975 extra short story manga Queen Emeraldas (not
to be confused with the later two-volume manga of the same name). I do not as yet have access to a print
copy of the original. It is my belief that the Captain Harlock in this tale and the famed aerial explorer Phantom
F. Harlock I of My Youth in Arcadia are one and the same given the dates involved. One is tempted to say
that the Red Emerald in this tale and Selen from Queen Millennium are also one and the same given the
contextual evidence but conclusive proof is lacking.
1923
Queen Starsha of Iscandar gives birth to her daughter Sasha.

1924
Sasha of Iscandar reaches young adulthood in one year, after which she resumes
aging normally. It is a side effect of her mothers union with the Guardian Spirit of
Iscandar, to which she also has access. This rapid aging phenomena will become a
trademark of the ruling house of Iscandar.
c.1925
Phantom F. Harlock I writes the book My Youth in Arcadia. It is part personal diary and
part life philosophy. In detailing his aerial exploits in the years following World War I he
also recounts his outlook on life and the factors he feels are important in becoming a
true man of honor, independent in both mind and spirit. The book becomes an
underground hit with men of similar caliber or those aspiring the same path in life. It
also becomes a bible of sorts for Harlocks descendants and admirers down the years.
My Youth in Arcadia.
c.1935
In an act he later describes as paying the rent Phantom F. Harlock II enlists with the
German Luftwaffe. He rises to the rank of captain during World War II and establishes
himself as one of Nazi Germanys top fighter aces.
My Youth in Arcadia. Harlock seems to imply in the movie that he was coerced into recruiting in order to
keep the Nazi government from seizing the family estate.
1933-1945 LE
World War II
Actual historical event. The war actually began in the Far East long before the German invasion of Poland in
1939. Imperial Japans conquest and occupation of Manchuria in 1933 was an ominous and bloody portent
of things to come.
The Cockpit
Original manga series and anime feature. Two of the stories from the original manga series of The Cockpit
were used in the historical flashback sequences for My Youth in Arcadia. Three selected stories were used
for the anime feature of The Cockpit. More would have been used for Endless Road SSX had the show not
been cancelled (two Cockpit references crop up in the Kaizoku Kikan Arcadia pilot film).
Hard Metal
Original manga series and anime feature.
Cockpit Legends
Original manga series.
1942 LE
19 February
The Mahoroba (i.e Hull I-112), third and last of Japans super dreadnoughts, is
launched from the Kure Naval Yard. It is basically an enlarged version of the Yamato
class with an extra 18 triple gun turret both fore and aft. Completion of the unfinished
superstructure will be delayed two years due to lack of resources and the outbreak of
World War II.
From The Ultimate Time Sweeper Mahoroba manga. In our universe the Imperial Japanese Navy actually
ordered Hull I-112. The main difference between the Mahoroba and the real-world Hull I-112 was in the
armament. The Mahoroba design was considered but ultimately rejected due to lack of resources. A
simplified version with only two 18 guns per turret was finally approved. Construction was cancelled before it
began due to the outbreak of World War II.
c.1944
A Japanese Betty bomber crew fall prey to the Owen Stanley Witch not long after
having read about the legend in a copy of Phantom Harlocks book My Youth in
Arcadia.
The Cockpit manga Volume #1, The Owen Stanley Witch.
1944 LE
13 March
In their only surface naval action together as a unit the Japanese superbattleships
Yamato, Musashi, and Mahoroba are dispatched to attack American forces at Leyte
Gulf in the Phillipines. They easily smash their way through U.S. Carrier Task Force 38
off Samar Island and proceed to wreak havoc on unprotected American landing
operations and support operations. They are eventually chased back through the
Phillipine Sea by overwhelming numbers of American carrier planes under the
command of Admiral Willian Bull Halsey. The Yamato escapes with only minor
damage as does the Mahoroba. The Musashi is not so fortunate. It is successfully
torpedoed while retreating, causing it to fall behind its escorts and protective air cover.
It takes over 14 direct hits from American dive bombers and torpedo planes before it
finally sinks. Admiral Halsey is later court-martialed for allowing the Japanese
battleships easy access to Leyte Gulf. He had initially taken his fleet northwest away
from the Phillipines chasing a successful Japanese decoy fleet of carriers.
Implied by The Ultimate Time Sweeper Mahoroba manga and also sourced from studies conducted by
numerous military and civilian groups concerning alternate outcomes of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1944 LE
8 December
A plan to send the Mahoroba to assist Japanese forces on Iwo Jima against a landing
by U.S. Marines is scrubbed due to lack of air cover. It will eventually be hidden in a
secret underground base, thus surviving the war intact and undetected.
Implied by The Ultimate Time Sweeper Mahoroba manga.
1945 LE
c. 21 March
Luftwaffe captain Phantom F. Harlock II and Japanese optical designer Tochiro Oyama
have a fateful meeting on an autobahn outside of Wiesbaden, Germany during the
closing days of World War II.
My Youth in Arcadia. The attacking Allied tank corps in the movie is coming from the southwest, which
according to Oyama is from the other side of Wiesbaden. The U.S. Army captured Wiesbaden on 28 March
1945, which according to Oyama happened last week per the English dub. By the way, Wiesbaden isnt all
that far from Heilgenstaadt, the ancestral home of the Harlock family. It escaped the depredations of World
War II largely intact.
Captain Harlock is shot and captured by French maquis (partisans) on the GermanSwiss border after helping Oyama flee to Switzerland. He is blinded by them shortly
after his capture when he is struck in the head with a rifle butt. He survives the war but
will remain blind for the rest of his life.
My Youth in Arcadia and The Cockpit manga Volume #2, Eternal Arcadia. The manga story served as the
basis for the World War II flashback scene in the movie. The movie version omitted Harlock being blinded by
the maquis after his capture.
Tochiro Oyama successfully escapes Germany via Switzerland. He survives the war
and eventually dies a natural death in his native Japan.
My Youth in Arcadia and The Cockpit manga Volume #2, Eternal Arcadia.
7 April 1945
The U.S. Navy successfully sinks the Japanese super dreadnought Yamato in the
waters between Kyushu and Okinawa some fifty nautical miles southwest of Cape
Boga.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 02, The Giant Awakens). This scene was deleted from the
dubbed version. An edited version can be found in the first Yamato feature film.
c.1950
Iscandarian technology begins to approach the same level as its ancestors, whom they
call the Ancients. From plans and ancient machines discovered beneath Mother
Towns central tower Iscandarian scientists reconstruct Cosmo DNA technology.
Iscandar also rediscovers space flight and begins exploring its local area of space.
Contact between Iscandar and its neighboring planet Gamilon is accidentally renewed
when an advanced Iscandarian space probe lands on the planet and is promptly
captured by Clan Desslar. They successfully reverse-engineer it and apply the
technology gleaned from it to develop advanced weapons. With this edge Clan Desslar
soon defeat their enemies and unites the planet Gamilon under its rule.
c. 1950 - 2020
The Gamilon Holy Wars

(aka the Gamilon Unification War)
c.1950
(continued)
The people of the planet Gardiana rediscover the Vaults of Yesterday, inside of which
the ancient technology of their forbearers has been safely hidden over the long
millennia. They study it along with the records preserved there but heed the warnings
of their ancestors regarding its use. The people of Gardiana reseal the Vaults and
erect their royal tombs over them in order to keep them hidden from outside eyes.
They once again resume their pastoral ways, resolving never to invoke the legacy of
their ancestors except in times of direst need.
The people of the planet Dezarium discover that the world on which they are living is
actually an artifical construct with a hollow core. An expedition to the center of their
world lead by a man named Skaldart chances upon the Guardian Spirit of Dezarium. It
has been hiding at the center of their world ever since the Intergalactic War. Skaldar is
possessed by this Spirit and within a few short years becomes the supreme leader of
his people. Under his guidance his people regain spaceflight capability. They soon
turn their efforts towards escaping the Black Nebula and returning to the universe from
which their ancestors were banished.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. Perhaps the Guardian Spirit of Dezarium was
corrupted by the Noo? That would account for its turning from good to evil.
c.1955
Birth of Phantom F. Harlock IIs daughter.

Implied by The Cockpit manga Volume #2, Eternal Arcadia.
1967
Death of the famous rock musician Jimi Hendrix.

Interstella 5555. We see an alien get transformed into someone resembling Jimi Hendrix by the Earl of
Darkwood. The supposition is that Hendrix was one of the Earls protgs and that his untimely death was
also due to the Earls influence.
1970
Mystery Eve
Original manga series.
1972
Otoko Oidon (I Am a Man)

Original manga series. Its importance in this timeline is that Nobotto Oyama, the dirt-poor protagonist of the
manga, is a direct ancestor of genius space engineer Tochiro Oyama.
April 1976
An aged Baron Harlock and his daughter receive a surprise visitor at the family estate
in Heilgenstaadt, Germany. It is Tadashi Oyama, son of Tochiro Oyama, the Japanese
optical designer he saved at the end of World War II. Young Oyama has retuned
Harlocks prized Revi C-12D gunsight at his late fathers request. As the blinded
Harlocks hands play over the gunsight he relives the memory of the event that forever
tied their families together across space and time.
The Cockpit manga Volume #2, Eternal Arcadia.
c.1977
Practically all humanoid life on the planet Jura is wiped out in an environmental
holocaust. The sole survivor, a young Juran woman named Mimay, will lead a
desperate fugitive existence for the next millennia from the giant, semi-sentient plants
that exterminated her people.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 20, The Dead Planet Jura) and the corresponding footage from
Harmony Golds Captain Harlock and the Queen of a 1000 Years. Mimay (aka Melody) says in the English
dub that her homeworld was destroyed a thousand of your years ago.
c.1985
Hajime Ammamori is born in Tokyo, Japan.

Queen Millennia. Hajime was about 14 in 1999 when the planet LaMaetel made its final pass of Earth.
c.1990s
Agents working on behalf of Lady La Lela begin spreading rumors among the
inhabitants of Earth that the end of the 20th century will bring about the end of the world.
These rumors eventually take hold and are perpetuated in various ways. Collectively
they are known as millennium fever and are often the subject of ridicule by humans
who dont take them seriously.
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Conjecture inspired by the Queen Millennia television series and contemporary events.
Professor Ammamori, father of Hajime Ammamori, is secretly recruited by La

Andromeda Promethium to develop an antimatter engine for her space ark. He
promises to keep his work a secret from everyone, including his wife and son. As part
of his efforts he is given access to technology and research materials that are lightyears ahead of anything that human technology on Earth possesses at the time.
Queen Millennia television series and feature film.
1997
Interstella 5555
Original anime feature film.
1997
Discovery of the Darkwood stargate on the far side of the moon.

Interstella 5555. The Darkwood stargate is the interstellar portal by which the Earl of Darkwood (and later the
Cresendolls) travel from Earth to other parts of the universe. The significance of its existence will become
clear in the time of Star Blazers.
late 1998
Professor Ammamori family buys a modest home for his family on the outskirts of
Tokyo. He immediately converts his new garage into a sophisticated electronics lab
complete with the newest and most modern equipment.
Queen Millennia television series and feature film. According to the television series the Ammamori family
had only lived at their home for a few months prior to the explosion that killed Hajimes parents. Visuals in
both the movie and the series suggest that it was near an industrial district in the outlying sections of town.
1999
Queen Millennia
Sen-nen Joo: Shin Taketori Monogatari
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(date uncertain)
La Andromeda Promethium, the current Millennium Queen of Earth, becomes

concerned that the rubble of LaMaetels moon could pose a great danger to Earth on
LaMaetels next pass through the Solar System. To that end she secret orders the
construction of a giant space ark in the Kanto cave complex beneath present-day
Tokyo. The ark is intended to evacuate as many humans as possible should disaster
befall.
Queen Millennia television series and feature film. In the television series the space ark is a large spacecraft
that was built inside the cave complex. Its size is never given but it appears to be about the size of a
contemporary naval vessel. In the movie the spaceship is built around the cave complex and appears to be
10-15 miles in diameter.
At some point during her time on Earth the young La Andromeda Promethium begins
thinking about having a family of her own.
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy manga. Maetel implies that she might have been born on Earth but this
is clearly impossible. I have chosen to interpret Maetels remark rather broadly. After all, Promethium did
seem awfully eager to be reunited with Fara in the Queen Millennia feature film. Perhaps this explains why.
The planet Brumus, eleventh planet in our Solar System, is discovered.

Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 06, x). The original Japanese dialogue says Brumus was
th
discovered in the 20 century. In the English dub Brumus appears to have been discovered shortly after
the end of the Earth-Gamilon War.
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THE QUEEN OF A THOUSAND YEARS

QUEEN MILLENNIA AND THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
It is with Queen Millennia that events in the Leijiverse make a dramatic change from
ours. This was one of Leiji Matsumotos early works and came into being some two decades
before the actual turn of the century. He took the classic Japanese tale of Takekori
Monogatari (The Story of the Bamboo Picker), widely regarded as one of the worlds oldest
science fiction stories, and reinterpreted it in his own unique way. Originally a standalone
series both in manga and television form, Matsumoto made one minor yet significant change
when Queen Millennia was made into a feature film. He equated the character of series
heroine Yukino Yayoi with Maetel, the eternal traveler from Galaxy Express, thus making
Queen Millennia an integral part of the Leijiverse. Matsumoto had second thoughts about this
move in later years and changed this link again for Maetel Legend, making Yukino Yayoi the
young Queen Promethium instead of her daughter Maetel. This actually made more sense
given the times and events involved. Maetel Legend, which will come up later, helps bridge
the gap between events at the close of the 20th century and the universe of Captain Harlock
some eight centuries or so later.
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EDITORS NOTE
This timeline is a mixture of events as described and depicted in the four main sources for the story of
Queen Millennia. These are, in no particular order, as follows: the original manga, the original 1980 Japanese
television series, the oft-criticized 1986 English reversioning of the television series by Carl Macek, and the original
Japanese feature film. Where events among the sources are contradictory I have tried to pick the version that is both
internally consistent and coincides with events depicted in stories that take place farther down the Leijiverse timeline,
most notably Maetel Legend and Space Symphony Maetel. If there are any errors then they are entirely my own.
1999 LE
Queen Millennia
Sen-nen Joo: Shin Taketori Monogatari
Original manga, anime television series, and feature film
1999
March
Professor Ammamori and his wife are both fatally injured by a powerful blast originating
in the professors laboratory. Both are fatally wounded and die not long after being
rushed to a nearby hospital. Their son, Hajime Ammamori, escapes injury.
Queen Millennia feature film and television series (Episode 01, September 9, 1999 at 00:09:99 AM and
Episode 02, Look to the Vast Universe, Hajime!). In the original manga story and television series the blast
occurred in Professor Ammamoris garage laboratory. In the feature film the blast occurs in a research lab
inside Professor Ammamoris factory somewhere in Tokyos industrial district.
The late Professor Ammamoris brother, who is chief astronomer at the nearby Mount
Tsukuba Observatory, takes in his orphaned nephew. Both he and his young assistant
Yukino Yayoi (aka La Andromeda Promethium of LaMaetel) take on the role of
Hajimes foster parents.
Queen Millennia feature film and television series (Episode 01, September 9, 1999 at 00:09:99 AM and
Episode 02, Look to the Vast Universe, Hajime!).
1999
April
A giant explosion resembling a volcanic eruption opens a large, unobstructed two-mile

deep geological vent near the Mount Tsukuba Observatory. The facility receives minor
damage from the blast but remains operational. It is soon learned that the blast is not
volcanic but artificial in nature. The vent leads straight down into a vast and previously
unknown cavern complex beneath the Kanto River basis (and Tokyo itself).
Queen Millennia television series (Episode 08, Mayday! An Underground Explosion). The Kanto basin
cavern complex will serve as the site for Megazone 23, the undergound city that will be built beneath Tokyo in
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the 22 century as depicted in Star Blazers.
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Hajime Ammamori learns Yukino Yayois true identity as La Andromeda Promethium,

the reigning Millennial Queen of Earth. He begs her to save his world from destruction
by the imminent passing of her own planet LaMaetel.
Queen Millennia feature film and television series (Episode 07, Invitation to the Underground and Episode
08, Mayday! An Underground Explosion).
1999
May
LaMaetelian advance scout ships destroy a number of Earths energy transmission and
spy satellites. This act catches the attention of Earths ruling elite who are fully aware
of the real danger that the passing of LaMaetel poses. They plot to save themselves
while leaving the rest of humanity behind to deal with the LaMaetelian threat.
Queen Millennia television series (Episode x, X).
Astronomers and military space observers worldwide witness an incredible sight. The
approaching rogue planet LaMaetel makes a close encounter with Jupiter and emerges
apparently unscathed and on course for Earth. The event sends the various world
governments into shock. It also causes certain members of the ruling elite and
industrial cabals to start making their own private plans to evacuate Earth post-haste.
Queen Millennia television series (Episode x, X). The planet Jupiter is actually destroyed in the encounter
per the original TV series. Since Jupiter still exists in later Leijiverse stories (Star Blazers being the most
notable at this point in time) then it couldnt have been destroyed. The film never mentions the destruction of
the planet; hence my close encounter interpretation.
June and July

1999
La Andromeda Promethium finally realizes that her mother Lady La Lela plans to
invade and conquer Earth on LaMaetels next pass. She does so thanks to an
unexpected reunion with her elder twin sister Selen, head of the Millennial Thieves.
The two form an alliance and pool their various resources on Earth in an effort to thwart
the coming LaMaetelian invasion.
Queen Millennia television series and feature film. This encounter gets all of about fifteen minutes in the film
but is dealt with across several episodes in the television series. The activities of the two reunited sisters,
Selen and Promethium, has interesting parallels with the later activities of Promethiums twin daughters,
Emeraldas and Maetel, in the centuries to come.
August thru
September
1999
A daring plan is offered to the United Nations Security Council by the Japanese
government to save Earth from LaMaetels approach. It is based on a United States
NASA contingency plan to divert incoming asteroids. Three rockets tipped with multiple
megaton thermonuclear warheads are to be fired at the planet and detonate at selected
precise coordinates in LaMaetels path. The projected effect of the resulting explosions
is calculated to change LaMaetels trajectory enough so that it will miss Earth. Despite
attempted sabotage by Lady La Lelas agents the rockets are launched on schedule.
The explosion from the rockets has only a minimal effect on LaMaetels trajectory.
Queen Millennia television series. This concept is an old one among the various national space agencies.
Japan has its own space program with excellent rockets for satellite launches. In the television series the
warheads are based on LaMaetelian technology that Yukino Yayoi covertly provided for the effort.
Petty bickering and covert tactical strikes against each other and by undercover
LaMaetelian forces prevent the nations of Earth from building an evacuation fleet in
time to escape Earth before LaMaetel makes its final approach.
Queen Millennia television series.
Death of Miray, youngest daughter of Lady La Lela. She dies in a duel with her elder
sister Promethium on the planet Venus over the Millennial Throne of Earth.
Queen Millennia television series. In the movie she is named Senjoo and Miray is the name of the Guardian
of the Tombs (the golden female humanoid). The death of Yukinos younger sister is not depicted in the
feature film.
September
1999
The arrival of the planet LaMaetel in Earthspace is marked by a devastating meteor

shower that rains fire and destruction upon the cities of Earth. The shower is caused
by Earths passage through LaMaetels asteroid rings.
Queen Millennia feature film.
On September 9th at 9:09 AM the rogue planet LaMaetel makes its final encounter with
Earth. The reason it is the final one is that LaMaetel has been pulled off of its
thousand-year orbit by the dark star Ra. It will fly out of the Solar System and into
interstellar space once this encounter is complete. The LaMaetelians attempt to
evacuate their planet and invade Earth but are repelled by the combined forces of
humanity, Selen and the Millennial Thieves, and La Andromeda Promethium and her
supporters.
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Death of Selen, eldest daughter of Lady La Lela. She dies defending Earth from the
invasion fleet her mother has sent to Earth.
Queen Millennia feature film. The original television series plays this differently. Selen survives her sister
and together with her organization helps mankind rebuild the planet.
Death of La Elisu Milu (aka Daisuke Yamori), head of the LaMaetelian mission on Earth
and Promethiums chief assistant. He kills himself in a kamikaze strike on a
LaMaetelian cruiser.
Queen Millennia feature film. He had secretly been in love with Promethium for many years even though he
knew she could never return his affections. This is quite a different story in the original television series,
where Yamori is a treacherous snake who puts the good fortunes of LaMaetel above everything else,
including Promethium. He dies in the end anyway.
Death of Dr. Fara, chief minister of LaMaetel and Promethiums longtime love. He
sacrifices himself trying to save LaMaetel from her mothers wrath.
Queen Millennia feature film.
Death of La Andromeda Promethium, second daughter of Lady La Lela. She dies

defending Earth from the invasion fleet her mother has sent to Earth. Her body is
returned to her homeworld before it leaves the Solar System
Queen Millennia feature film. Promethium dies in both the series and feature film. A different account of
her death is given in the original television series. Promethium flew a LaMaetelian cruiser to the dark star Ra
and blew it up, killing herself in the process. Her sacrifice broke the dark star Ras hold on LaMaetel and
saved both her people and the humans of Earth.
The Earth is laid waste by earthquakes, tidal waves, multiple volcanic eruptions, and
giant atmospheric storms that wreak havoc and destruction worldwide. All of this
comes about from the close passing of LaMaetel on its way out of the solar system.
October thru
December
1999
Lady La Lela survives the assault on her person by the former Millennium Queens of
Earth.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 05, Promethiums Magic Flute). Maetel is escorted to a secret chamber
hidden deep beneath the surface of LaMaetel. There, much to her surprise, she finds her grandmother Lady
La Lela apparently alive and well. This implies that Lady La Lela must have survived the events depicted at
the end of the Queen Millennium feature film.
Humanity begins the slow process of recovering from the passing of LaMaetel. The
most immediate effect is to strengthen the power of the United Nations. It takes
complete charge of the recovery process worldwide. This is mankinds first significant
step towards a united Earth government.
Probable conjecture suggested by Queen Millennia and the background materials to Star Blazers: The Quest
for Iscandar. I note in passing that the logo of the UEG in the days of the Star Force looks suspiciously like
that of the United Nations. Only a planetwide cataclysm such as that of the close passing of LaMaetel would
have prompted the founding of a worldwide government. The Gamilons were, of course, the icing on that
particular cake.
Large numbers of LaMaetelians refugees, revolted by the ways of their leaders, flee
their homeworld. They are welcomed by the humans of Earth. With them they bring
not only portions of their technology but their compatible genetic structure.
Intermarriage and cross-breeding between these two compatible species will introduce
a new random gene factor in humanitys genetic structure. This random factor extends
its bearers lifespan a hundred years or more. This factor pops up wherever the
LaMaetelians have settled and intermingled with the local population, most notably
Japan and Germany.
Probable conjecture. This is an attempt to explain a number of time and character related inconsistencies
that are known to exist in the Leijiverse over the next two millennia.
THE STORM BREAKS

ENEMIES ON EARTH AND BEYOND
To say that the planet Earth was a real mess at the beginning of the twenty-first century
(Leijiverse Era) would be putting it mildly. The near-catastrophic encounter with the rogue planet
LaMaetel had left numerous scars both on the planet itself and the psyche of its people. Humanity now
knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was no longer alone in the universe. Furthermore, the odds
were that the other intelligences out there were older, more advanced, and not necessarily friendly
towards what human survivors were left on the third planet of the Solar System. The planet Earth but
was one world among many habitable ones, a world awash in resources and ripe for picking by those with
the will and force to seize it. Who knew if (or possibly when) aliens might come back to assault the planet
once more?
One might think that this would have been the perfect time for mankind to unify under a single
world government and strive to rebuild the planet for the betterment of all. Given humanitys nature,
however, such was not to be the case. Mankind wasted the first half of the twenty-first century in a series
of wars within itself as the surviving nations and power factions on Earth fought each other for control of
the planet. Whatever opportunities it had for unification, world peace and technological advancement
were squandered in decades of domestic rivalries and petty political bickering. While the Third World War
so often prophesied by the doomsayers never materialized, nevertheless one regional conflict after
another popped up with increasing regularity around the globe. These bush wars escalated to a climax
with the deadly Euro-African War of the late 2180s.
The effect of the almost constant warfare of the 2100s and 2200s was to destroy whatever
rebuilding efforts mankind had achieved in the affected areas. It also wasted valuable resources of the
participants that might have been used for better ends. Mankind, it seemed, had learned and
remembered nothing from its brief yet deadly conflict with its brethren from the planet LaMaetel. It would
take another such catastrophe to drive home the lessons it should have learned back then. So it was that
the onset of the Gamilon planet bombing campaign in 2191 sent mankind into a collective tailspin. Too
late it realized its mistakes of the past two centuries. Too late it united as before in the face of yet another
alien power with designs on the Earth. Too late it realized the error of its ways. Too late.
The Gamilons were also descendants of the original Nine Daughter Races of humanoids that had
originally inhabited the Milky Way galaxy. As such they were genetically akin to humans, although their
biology had changed over the aeons to better cope with the adopted homeworld of Gamilon. That planet
was now in its death cycle and the Gamilons needed a new home. Earth, with its natural beauty and
abundant resources, stood out in its sector of space as would a brilliant sapphire in the dead of night.
The Gamilons saw it, wanted it, and claimed it as their own. For them, from that point on, there was no
looking back.
Earths new foes brought many advantages into the one-sided war that was about to take place
between these two cultures. The Gamilons were far older and more technically advanced as a
civilization. They possessed the secrets of faster-than-light (FTL) travel and focused energy beam
weapons that worked across the vast distances of space. Their biological and genetic structure allowed
them to quickly adapt to whatever environment in which they established themselves. They could even
exist in the vacuum of space without protective gear for limited durations. Theirs was a militaristic culture
with each and every Gamilon soldier bred from birth for domination and conquest of other races. What
they did not conquer they destroyed. They wanted the Earth and they would either take it or raze it and
rebuild it from scratch. To them it was that simple. No matter how long it took, no matter how many times
they had to make the attempt, no matter how many fleets they had to muster, they would claim Earth as
their own. Any other result was unfathomable.
There were only two advantages that humanity had at the onset of hostilities with the Gamilons:
its resourcefulness and its unpredictability. It was inferior in every other department that mattered. Its
ships were outclassed and outgunned, their crews lacked interstellar combat experience, and yet and
yet the battered and bloodied Earth Space Navy held its own against the technologically superior
Gamilons for well nigh four decades. Most of Earths major nations fought as one against the Gamilons
under the banner of the United Nations. They reverse-engineered what they could and made do where
they could not. Their space captains and their crews gained valuable experience with each new
encounter. It was a rough school they went through, the academy of actual space combat, but the
survivors came out the other side hardened and seasoned veterans. Soon enough the ships of the
humans began scoring victories against their superior foes. The names of such Earth space captains as
Cosmo Shannon, Phantom Harlock, and Abraham Avatar were known and in some sectors even feared
by the Gamilons. While the Earth Space Navy never had the strength to throw the Gamilons out of the
Solar System once and for all, nevertheless they made its outer planets such deadly hunting grounds that
soon the local Gamilon commanders were calling for reinforcements. In fact, the last major campaign of
the Earth Space Navy, headed by Abraham Avatar, was so successful that it brought all Gamilon activites
in the Solar System to a complete standstill.
All of this did not escape the attention of Desslok of Gamilon, supreme ruler of the Gamilon
Empire. For almost four decades the inferior humans of Earth thwarted his every effort to conquer their
homeworld. The time for decisive action was at hand. Only superior force, properly employed, could be
used to annihilate an implacable yet inferior foe. The time had come to deal with the humans once and
for all and that is precisely what Desslok set out to do.
The first indication that the Gamilons were changing tactics was the withdrawal of most of their
fleets beyond the inner asteroid belt in 2193. The following year saw the spectacular destruction of the
planet Minerva, the tenth planet of the Solar System. Its rubble formed a new outer asteroid belt beyond
the orbit of Pluto. Its significance was not realized until two years later, once the first of the planet bombs
began to hit Earth. These were little more than asteroid rubble, pieces of the planet Minerva, but
irradiated by the Gamilons to such a high degree that prolonged exposure was lethal to almost all life
forms. These began impacting on the Earth in systematic progression, targeting major cities, military
bases, and industrial complexes. As an added incentive to conquest the Fist of Gamilon hit Earth in
2194. This was a super-sized planet bomb made of two asteroids joined together that broke up shortly
before it hit the Earths surface. One part hit and completely obliterated the southeastern half of the
United States, while the other impacted in the Swiss Alps and consequently destroyed most of Europe.
The two greatest industrial powers on Earth, the United States of America and the European Common
Market, were practically wiped out overnight. Both the Russian Consortium and the Peoples Republic of
China elected to hide out in their underground shelters rather than face the might of the Gamilons. As a
result the defense of Earth defaulted to Japan, the next largest relatively intact political power left in the
face of the unrelenting Gamilon attacks. Thus was born Project Argo, Japans desperate strategy to save
some portion of humanity from complete annihilation. Whether or not it would have succeeded will be the
subject of debate by historians for centuries to come. The fact of the matter is that Japan was never
given the chance to carry out its plan.
It was near the end of 2199 that Earth got its next visitor from the Sea of Stars and with her
came new hope for the salvation of mankind. That, however, is a tale best left for another time.
2000-2040 LE
Humanitys early efforts to reach for the stars are hampered by a number of things.
The massive recovery effort from the near-passing of the planet LaMaetel is the major
factor. Other items of note are shortsighted politicians, national domestic issues, and
the lack of fast yet affordable interstellar travel technology. Most of mankinds
technological advances are squandered on intercorporate rivalries and petty political
bickering. A series of small yet bloody regional wars takes place over the following
four decades over control of Earths remaining resources. These threaten to escalate
into a third world war and do little to help the situation. What limited contact Earth has
with aliens during this time are few, either by accident or by choice of the aliens
involved.
From materials suggested by Tim Eldred, Planet Earth 2199 AD (Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar DVD
supplement) and the Queen Millennia television series and feature film.
The Russian Consortium spearheads a partial move away from integrated circuits and
back to solid-state (i.e. vacuum tube) technology. This move is to combat an increase
in advanced electronic warfare among Earths major political and private powers.
From materials suggested by Tim Eldred, Planet Earth 2199 AD (Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar DVD
supplement). This explains why you see a lot of vacuum tubes and transistors aboard the Argo.
Lady La Lela creates a clone of her dead daughter Promethium and imparts to it all of
the memories she had copied before Promethiums death. She then abdicates her
throne to the new Promethium and exiles herself to a lonely, isolated existence deep
within LaMaetels inner core.
Iimplied by Maetel Legend and Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 06, La Lelas Requeim).
LaMaetelian scientists create an artificial sun to keep portions of the planet habitable
as it makes its lonely journey through the cold voids of space.
Maetel Legend and Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 06, La Lelas Requeim).
2000 LE
The first Queen Starsha of Iscandar dies. Her daughter Sasha assumes the Crystal
Throne of Iscandar.
The Dinguil rediscover their past when they uncover the legendary lost ancient Lugal
Space Fortress buried deep under the ancient sediments of their world. Within a
decade they begin unlocking the secrets of its advanced neutrino-based technology.
An industrial revolution of unprecedented scale and speed takes place among the
Dinguil. Within a century they have mastered all of the secrets of the Lugal once
known to their ancestors.
c.2005
Queen Promethium of LaMaetel and her royal consort Dr. Ban become the proud
parents of twin sisters. The elder is named Emeraldas after the red emeralds of Earth.
The younger is named Maetel after her homeworld.
Probable conjecture inspired by Maetel Legend, Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy, and Space
st
Symphony Maetel. We know Maetel was on or near Earth in the early 21 century because she speaks of it
to Tetsuro. She tells him about the discovery of helium-3 and shares the intriguing fact that she was an
eyewitness to the last mission of the original Star Force aboard the Yamato. This contradicts multiple online
sources that assert Maetel was 16 when the events depicted in Maetel Legend take place. These fail to take
into account the extreme longevity of LaMaetelians, to whom a thousand years is as but a day (Queen
Millennia). My interpretation is that Maetel appeared to be 16 in Earth years at that time that Maetel Legend
takes place. Calculating backward and taking her self-proclaimed presence during Star Blazers: Rebirth into
st
account gives Maetel an approximate birthdate near the start of the 21 century. Of course Maetel could
have very well been 16 years old in our measure if youre a fan of the revival Leijiverse but Im not opening
that can of worms for now.
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2007
This was the last year that the Earth produced a decent space navigator as far as the
chief navigator at the Space Cadet School in 2198 was concerned.
Star Blazers: The Callisto Crisis comic miniseries by Comico (Part 2, The Prisoner and the Power).
Wildstar remembers this while trying to decide how to deal with the situation on Callisto.
c.2010
Helium-3 is discovered to exist naturally in large quantities on Luna, Earths moon. It is

also found to exist in large quantities on other similar bodies throughout the Solar
System. The largest concentration is on Europa, the water-bearing moon of Saturn.
This discovery makes cheap nuclear fusion power a reality for mankind. It is also the
solution to mankinds growing energy crisis on Earth.
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy manga (Volume x, s.v. Double Planet Guillotine). Both Maetel and
Tetsuros late mother Kanae Hoshino mentioned this fact in conversation with him. Maetel refers to it in
discussing the construction of Metanoids, whose hearts are powered by helium-3. Maetel gives an
st
approximate date of the early 21 century for this discovery. I place it here because all of the warships used
by Earth against Gamlion forces in the Earth-Gamilon War (2186-2199) used Kelvin-type fusion power plants
per the Star Blazers Technical Manual. Fusion powered spacecraft has long been a near-future dream of
current space scientists.
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c.2015
The Legend of Marine Snow

Marine Snow no Densetsu
The date is a best guess based on stills I have seen from the movie. I have yet to secure a copy of the show
myself in any form, translated or not. This movie was made during the movie period of Matsumoto-san in
the 1990s. The images evoke more of a contemporary feel than they do a futuristic one and remind me a lot
of one of his early mangas (and now an anime series), Submarine Super 99. Im also willing to guess that
the Dr. Oki featured in this movie is a direct ancestor of Dr. Oki from Cosmo Warrior Zero. Same goes for
the character of Hiroshi Umino, whom Matsumoto appears to have recycled for his later Queen Emeraldas
manga and anime OAV series. I am open to suggestions (along with supporting evidence) as to a better
date.
2020
Hajime Ammamori becomes one of Japans most famous space pioneers.

Conjecture inspired by Queen Millennia.
Desslok the First, leader of Clan Desslar, puts a bloody and violent end to the Gamilon
Holy Wars by exterminating his foes to the last man, woman, and child. With his world
united behind him he embarks on a campaign of galactic conquest. The only world he
spares is neighboring Iscandar, Gamilons ally and unwitting benefactor of old.
The Gamilons reveal to their worried neighbors on Iscandar that they now possess the
secrets of interstellar spaceflight technology. Warships powered by a rare and volatile
ore that is common to both planets form the basis of the Gamilon fleet. Desslok the
First plans to use this fleet in his conquest of the galaxy. The Iscandarians choose not
to interfere, fearing that they might invoke the wrath of the Gamilons and bring
destruction to their own world.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy and material suggested by Yamato: The New
Voyage.
2024
Fire Force DNA Sights 999.9

Kasei Ryodan DNA Sights 999.9
Date as stated at the beginning of both the anime feature and manga original. This raises a number of
chronological and continuity issues which can only be resolved by placing it in an alternate reality. This is
not without precedent in the Leijiverse. The appearance of both Captain Harlock and the Yamato in this tale
can be explained by Time Sweeper technology (The Ultimate Time Sweeper Mahoroba). Apparently the
original Arcadia was retrofitted with a Time Sweeper as part of its second upgrade. Captain Harlock and
Tochiro Oyama travel back in time to visit Earths past in Harlock Saga: Great Harlock Gotterdamerung. The
appearance of the Yamato can also be explained by the presence of a Time Sweeper. It was apparently
installed by its new owners, the Space Panzer Grenadiers of the Galaxy Railways, after its return to service
in the 2970s (cf. Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie, Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy).
c.2025
Commissioning of Project Time Sweeper. This top secret effort is spearheaded by the
Japanese government based on classified research obtained by the United States
Government via Project Montauk. The head of Project Time Sweeper is Dr. Jiro(?)
Sanada. His assistants are Dr. Adachi and Dr. Toshiro Oyama. The subject of Project
Time Sweeper is the aged Japanese super battleship Mahroba, which is currently
being kept in a secret underground naval base. It has been there ever since the end of
World War II, undiscovered and unknown by the United States.
The Ultimate Time Sweeper Mahoroba. I have the Mahroba manga but no translation, so my information is
based on what I can deduce and what Ive gleaned from online sources. The names come courtesy of the
PlayStation2 game Story of Galaxy Express 999. Dr. Sanada is the direct ancestor of Steven Sandor, the
chief science officer of the Star Force in Star Blazers. Toshiro Oyama is a direct ancestor of Tochiro Oyama,
the famed starship engineer and sidekick of Captain Harlock.
c.2030
Submarine Super 99
Anime series and manga original. I have yet to fully research this one but a date of 20XX is given in the
various background materials. Its technology doesnt look too far removed from our own and it had to
happen before the Gamilon threat to Earth was discovered.
The Ultimate Time Sweeper Mahoroba

Two-volume manga series. The Mahoroba is part of the Leijiverse revival series of stories that began with
Harlock Saga and deals with the Yamatos big brother. The manga is largely unknown here in the West and
has yet to be translated. I own an untranslated set of both volumes. My data is based on what I can discern
plus what scanty details I have been able to find online.
2033
The planet Gamilon begins a period of violent seismic activity. Its scientists ascertain
that its core has become unstable and will collapse within a few centuries. Inevitable
mass panic and religious upheavals are brought about by the revelation of this
discovery. Clan Desslar uses these events to further cement its power among its
people and the last of the undesirables are eliminated. Emperor Desslok the First
decides that the best way to save the Gamilons is to return to the stars from whence
they came and find a new homeworld to claim as their own.
2040
Gamilon forces attack and occupy the planets of Balan and Beeland. These are to be
used as staging areas in its search for a new homeworld within the Milky Way galaxy.
In protest Queen Sasha of Iscandar puts us an impenetrable barrier around her world.
This effectively cuts all ties between Iscandar and Gamilon save for a special
communications link. The mystified Gamilons see this as an ill omen for the future of
their world and accelerate their plans of interstellar conquest.
2041-2201
The Earth-Gamilon War
2041
A fleet of deep space probes from the Gamilon Empire conducts a detailed survey of
the Solar System. The results of the survey cause the Gamilons to decide almost
immediately that Earth is the ideal choice for their new homeworld. An Earth
Expeditionary Force begins forming back on Gamilon for the purpose of conquering (or
destroying, if need be) the planets native inhabitants. In the meantime, however, a
special task force arrives in advance in the Solar System, seizes Pluto, and begins
construction of an advance base for future operations against Earth. Their primary
goal is to complete their Pluto base as fast as possible; however, they take the time to
monitor the Earth and its fledgling interplanetary colonies via automated space probes.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Gamilon History: The Gamilon War and Bruce Lewis, et al, The
History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. The book says it was a Gamilon fleet while Lewis says they used
automated space probes. I defer to Lewis as his account makes more sense. The Gamilons would want to
know what they were dealing with first in detail before beginning their campaign against Earth. As Sun Tsu
said in The Art of War, Know thine enemy.
A number of automated alien space probes are discovered and destroyed by United
Nations spacecraft after they attempt to survey Earths defenses and military
capabilities. Shocked by both the action and analysis of the debris, a special UN
conference is called to deal with this new threat to mankind.
Founding of the United Nations Space Patrol Force (UNSPF), also known as the Earth
Space Navy. Its immediate goal is to deal with the newfound alien threat to Earth. All
member nations unite under its banner and contribute materials, manpower, resources,
and locations for bases.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. EDF Force Structure and Command Chart.
c.2041-2059
Gamilon plans to dispatch its Earth Expeditionary Force are delayed for about two
decades. The main reasons for this are the massive distance involved, the
preparations of the resources necessary to both execute and maintain such a longrange assault, and the continued need to keep other subjugated areas of the Gamilon
Empire in line.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Gamilon History.
2045
The United Earth Government (UEG) is formed. A handful of dissident nations refuse
to join. They claim it is a power grab by a worldwide military dictatorship using the
farce of an impending alien invasion as a convenient excuse. These dissident nations
will engage in a number of bush wars against the UEG for the next 150 years.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy and the Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book
miniseries by Comico.
Founding of the Space Cadet School.

Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar establishes the institution. Yamato: The New Voyage gives it a name.
It is mistranslated as Space Institute in Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars.
Alexander Wildstar moves his family from the United States to Japan. He settles on
the island of Okinawa, southernmost of all Japanese islands.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. Alexander Wildstar is the grandfather of Alex
and Derek Wildstar. Alex was named for him.
2060
The Comet Empire conquers the Magma Star Cluster.

Star Blazers: The Comet Empre (Episode 14, x); also Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Timeline of the
Earth/Comet War.
The first detatchment of the Gamilon Earth Expeditionary Force arrives in the Solar
System. It takes over control of the completed Gamilon base of operations on the
remote planet of Pluto. Its mission is twofold: gather intelligence and test Earths
defenses. This detatchment will have numerous encounters with the UNSPF over the
next one hundred years. Most of them will end in defeat or disaster for the humans.
The outmatched and outgunned humans continue to fight on, however, much to the
amazement of the Gamilons. The UNSPFs only gain from these battles is valuable
(yet costly) experience in space warfare tactics. In the meantime the Gamilons
continue to build their interstellar empire and gather resources for the inevitable assault
on Earth.
2069
A lull in the Earth-Gamilon War ensues as the Gamilons redirect resources towards a
massive and unprecedented buildup in their various Deep Space Fleets. Included
among these is the second detatchment of the Earth Expeditionary Force, which is still
in Gamilon space awaiting deployment. Based on reports from his advance force in
the Solar System, Emperor Desslok the First has come to the realization that the
humans of Earth will prove to be a more resolute foe to conquer than first believed. He
is determined to crush them completely with his next offensive. The UNSPF uses this
lull to begin a massive upgrade of its spacefighting capabilities based on technology
reverse-engineered from wrecked Gamilon ships.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Gamilon Force Structure and Command Chart and Bruce Lewis, et al,
The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy.
Civilian spaceflight in and around the Solar System resumes during the lull in the
Earth-Gamilon War. Many use the excuse to flee Earth and the Solar System for some
other world less threatened by imminent attack. By this time humanitys leaders know
that their foes are an alien race of humanoids named the Gamilons. It is hoped that
some of the fleeing civilians will escape the Gamilons, thus preserving humanitys
presence on the Sea of Stars.
2075
The United Earth Government Underground City Program begins in view of the
continued Gamilon threat to Earth. The first, largest, and best protected of these is
Megazone 23, a full-scale urban metropolis constructed inside the Kanto River Basin
cavern complex first discovered and used by the LaMetalians millennia before. Other
important underground cities built during this time include New Denver in the American
Rocky Mountains and the Caucasus Safeholds of the Russian Consortium.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy; also Queen Millennia (Episode 08, Mayday! An
Underground Explosion) and Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 01, The Sleeping Giant and
Episode 02, The Giant Awakens). New Denver is never named but is alluded to in the Star Blazers
background materials. Its origins are in the Cheyenne Mountain underground complex built by NORAD and
featured prominently in the Stargate SG-1 TV series. A similar city bearing this name is featured prominently
in an episode of Genesis Climber Mospeada (aka Robotech: The New Generation). I have read newspaper
accounts of similar structures built by the Soviet government in the Caucasus Mountains back in the 1960s;
hence the origins of the Caucasus Strongholds. The name of the underground city beneath Japan featured
in the first season of Star Blazers is never given but comes from the famous anime OAV series of the same
name. Toki no wa, folks. -_^
UNSPF advance bases are built on both Luna (Earths moon) and Mars to serve as
staging areas in the next round of hostilities with the Gamilons.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. Both are referenced at various points in the
Star Blazers series proper.
2081
In a parallel universe the space pirate battleship Arcadia is spotted as part of a

massive flotilla of craft assaulting the Mu, a robotic race bent on the total extermination
of mankind. How the Arcadia got there, much less how it returned to our dimension,
remains a mystery to this day.
Super Dimension Century Orguss (Episode 34, x). You can clearly see the Arcadia on the right flank of the
Emaan merchantman Glomar shortly before the Emaan vessel is destroyed by the Mu. This was an easter
egg slipped in by the shows animators. Orguss originally aired on Japanese television during the heydey of
Matsumoto-sans feature film period in the 1980s. Two different theories have been proposed as to how
Captain Harlock and the Arcadia wound up in the world of Orguss. The first is that he was pulled in by the
detonation of the space-time oscillation bomb (like all the other stuff from other parallel universes). The
second is that he might have used the Arcadias Time Sweeper to get there much in the same way that he
puts in his cameo in DNA Sights 999.9. The tale of Captain Harlocks adventures in the world of Orguss
would make for one helluva crossover anime or fanfic!
2096
Desslok of Gamilon, aka Desslok the Second, eldest son of Emperor Desslok the First,
is born on the planet Gamilon in the Sanza Star System.
Space Battleship Yamato feature film and the Yamato Roman Album. The narrator in the movie states that
Desslok was 103 in Earth years when the Star Force undertook its epic voyage to Iscandar. This contradicts
Lewis, who asserts that Desslok of Gamilon was the great-grandson of the original Desslok. I defer to the
original Japanese source material.
c.2100s
The second detatchment of the Gamilon Earth Expeditionary Force arrives in the Solar
System. Once again fighting resumes between UNSPF and Gamilon warships. This
time around the UNSPF manages to hold its own, albeit at great cost. All civilian
spaceflights are brought to a standstill with the resumption of hostilities.
2116
Assassination of Desslok the First, Emperor of the Gamilon Empire. His son Desslok
the Second, ak Desslok of Gamilon (Desslar Soto, Leader Desslok, et. al), succeeds
him as supreme ruler of the Gamilons.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. The term Leader Desslok is a literal
translation of the original Japanese term Desslar Soto.
One of Leader Dessloks first orders is to appoint Sarjant Masterson, a prominent

general from Clan Talan, as his personal aide. General Talan, as he is better known in
Gamilon political circles, is a longtime friend of Desslok. Their clans have been allies
ever since the Gamilon Civil War. Leader Desslok also uses the occasion to
commission General Talans son as an officer in the Gamilon Imperial Space Fleet.
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book miniseries by Comico (Part 1, The Jackals Come To Feed.). This
character is called by both Talan and Masterson in the series proper. Lewis provides a reasonable answer
for this seeming contradiction in that Talan was his clan name.
2119
Queen Sasha of Iscandar dies while giving birth to twin daughters named Starsha and
Astra. A Regency Council rules Iscandar for eighteen months until the elder daughter
Starsha is mature enough to assume the Crystal Throne of Iscandar.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. Remember, hyperaging from infancy to adult
within one year was a trademark of the ruling house of Iscandar. I have also taken the liberty of eliminating a
number of other Queen Starshas, Astras, etc. that Lewis gives, since this contradicts certain statements in
Star Blazers about the longevity of the Iscandarians.
2121
A Black Nebula scouting expedition is the first to return to its original home universe.
Not long after it encounters and destroys a small Gamilon task force. It is forced to flee
once Gamilon reinforcements arrive but take the wrecked hull of at least one Gamilon
ship with them. From it they learn about the rare ore that the Gamilons use as a cheap
power source for the FTL drives of their starships.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy; see also Yamato: The New Voyage.
Leader Desslok of Gamilon makes his first contact with Queen Starsha of Iscandar.
He is enamored of her despite her resistance to his warlike ways.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy; see also Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar
and Yamato: The New Voyage.
2143
Patrick John Orion is born on Earth somewhere in Ireland, United Kingdom.

Yamato Perfect Albums 1 & 2, This Is Animation #2: Space Cruiser Yamato, and selected materials from
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. I defer to the birthdate given in the official
Yamato source materials. Orions birthplace is never given but the accent is a dead giveaway.
2150
Iscandarian scientists working on an immortality gene accidentally create a deadly

mutagenic pathogen. It escapes confinement and wipes out almost all life on the
planet Iscandar in a matter of days. Leader Desslok of Gamilon tries to render aid and
assistance but is stopped by his own people. He can only watch helplessly from afar
as the Iscandarians die by the thousands. In the end, the only survivors are Queen
Starsha and her younger sister Astra. Both are protected from the virus by their link
with the Guardian Spirit of Iscandar.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 25, x) and Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star
Blazers Galaxy.
2151
The military exploits of Colonel Dommel Lysis attract the attention of Leader Desslok.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. In Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar Desslok
spoke very highly of General Lysis. He calls Lysis one of my brightest generals and alludes to his earlier
successful military career.
2153
Sazeko Dr. Sane Sado is born on Earth somewhere in Japan.

Yamato source materials.
2154
Abraham Avatar is born on Earth somewhere in Colorado, United States.

Draco Gideon is born on Earth, location unknown.

Yamato: The New Voyage. Sandor tells Wildstar that Gideon was in the same graduating class as Captain
Avatar at the Space Cadet School. That would make them about the same age, give or take a year.
Captain Yamanami is born on Earth somewhere on Great Island (Japan), exact

location unknown.
Yamato: The New Voyage. Sandor tells Wildstar that Yamanami was in the same graduating class as
Captain Avatar at the Space Cadet School. That would make them about the same age, give or take a year.
2159
The lull in the Earth-Gamilon War ends as the Gamilons attack across a broad front.
This attack marks the beginning of the third Gamilon campaign to conquer Earth.
Once again the UNSPF is able to hold its own despite grievous losses. The Gamilon
offensive will eventually grind to a halt at the Solar Systems inner asteroid belt within a
few years.
2171
Terence Webster Hard Knox is born on Earth, location unknown.

Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. The Yamato Perfect Albums state that Knox
had already been in the service for 12 years prior to the Cometine War. This would make him at least 30
years old when the forces of the Comet Empire attacked the Space Marine base on Brumus.
2172
Alexander Alex Wildstar, elder brother of Derek Wildstar, is born on Earth in

Okinawa, Japan.
Steven Sandor is born on Luna, Earths moon, in the colony city of New Sweden.
Yamato source materials. Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar states that Sandor and Alex Wildstar were
both classmates at the Space Cadet School in their youth.
Sho Yamazaki, future chief engineer of the Yamato (after Patrick Orion), is born on
Earth somewhere in Japan.
Conjecture based on Star Blazers: The Comet Empire and Yamato: The New Voyage. He appears to be a
contemporary of Sandors but this is conjecture on my part. We know he was one of the older crewmembers
aboard the Yamato during its trip to Iscandar because Wildstar says so.
This year marks the official end to the third attempt by the Gamilon Earth Expeditionary
Force to conquer Earth for the Gamilon Empire. By 2172 the [UNSPF] had been able
to turn back most of the Gamilon raids and recon operations. It even began mounting
its own attacks against the Gamilon bases . Between 2172 and 2185 the campaign
became stalemated by continual attacks and counterattacks by both sides.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. The Gamilon War of 2041-2199.
The UNSPF takes advantage of the current lull in the Earth-Gamilon War to complete
construction of a new space fleet. It is one that can finally fight the Gamilon ships on
their own terms. Even so, the lack of FTL drives still puts the UNSPF craft at a
decided disadvantage.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Gamilon History: The Gamilon War. The DVD supplemental materials
give the date as 2191 but this appears to be in error. A Yukikaze class destroyer is depicted as taking part in
the Battle of Lake Victoria in the Star Blazers Eurythmia comic miniseries by Comico. That battle occurred in
2184 per the comic.
c.2175
Dr. Sane works his way through medical school as a barber.

Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 14, X). Dr. Sane mentions this while trimming Mark Ventures
hair prior to Ventures first in-person visit with Trelana.
2177
Adam Avatar, the only son of Abraham Avatar, is born on Earth, location unknown.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. I have yet to find a birthdate listed in the official
Yamato background materials. Adam Avatar died as a young officer aboard the Paladin duing the Battle of
Pluto in 2199. This would put his age in the early twenties, which agrees with Lewis.
2178
Steven Sandor is badly injured and his older sister Mio killed in a rocket car accident at
an amusement park on Luna, Earths moon. He survives to become a quadruple
amputee. Due to his condition his parents volunteer to have him fitted with
experimental bionic limbs. He will use bionic limbs in one form or another for the rest
of his life.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 11, X). Lewis first gave the date as 2171 in his chronology.
He later adjusted it to October 2177 for the Star Blazers Icarus comic book series by Argo Press. My source
is the Japanese original.
2179
Peter Pete Conroy is born on Earth somewhere in the United States.

Conjecture based on the various Star Blazers television series. Pete Conroy seems a bit older than most of
the Star Force (save for Sandor, Yamazaki, Dr. Sane, and Captain Avatar). His status as Black Tiger
squadron leader implies that he already has spent a few years in military service. His younger brother Cory
has a pronounced twang in his accent that might imply childhood in the Midwest or Southwest United States.
Pete Conroys accent could have been softened by his years in the service.
c.2180
Captain Abraham Avatar turns down a promotion to rear admiral. It is the first (but not
the last) time that he refuses an admirals stripes.
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book series by Comico (Part 1, The Jackals Come to Feed). Colonel Cosmo
Shannon shares this fact with Derek Wildstar while touring the bridge of the Yamato.
Colonel Cosmo Shannon turns down his first chance at a promotion to brigadier
general. His stated reason is that he feels such a promotion would cause him to lose
touch with the men and women under his command. His promotion is instead given to
Colonel Ian Helms, the next officer in line. The fact that his promotion was secondhand in nature will become a constant source of irritation and eventually a lifelong
obsession with Helms.
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book series by Comico (Part 1, The Jackals Come to Feed).
2181
Derek Wildstar is born on Earth on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

Yamato source materials. Lewis gives the date as 2179.
Nova Forrester, daughter of Karen and Leslie Forrester and granddaughter of Miyuki
Mori, is born on Earth in Austin, Texas in the United States.
Yamato source materials. Lewis gives the date as 2179.
The original Japanese character name for Nova Forrester is Yuki Mori, which raises an interesting point.
Both Nova and her mother Leslie have distinct Oriental facial features. This implies Japanese ancestry. I
consulted about this with Tim Eldred, author of the Star Blazers DVD supplemental materials and the Star
Blazers comic books by Argo Press. We both agreed that Nova probably had Japanese ancestry. My
suggestion was that Nova named her daughter Miyuki, as featured in Star Blazers: Rebirth, after a beloved
Japanese relative. Who better than her own grandmother? Novas Japanese grandmother is thus a nod to
both the Japanese origins of Novas character and Novas Japanese ancestry.
Marcus Mark Venture, Jr., eldest son of Marcus and Anna Venture, is born on Earth
in Brooklyn, New York in the United States.
Yamato source materials. Lewis gives the date as 2179. Mark Ventures curly hair implies Italian ancestry;
hence the first name Marcus and the family ties to New York. The Ventures appear to have relocated to
Great Island (Japan) at some point during the Earth-Gamilon War. Mark visits with both his parents and his
younger brother Giordi several times at their home on Great Island during his tour of duty with the Star
Force.
Joseph Chief Hardy is born on Earth, location unknown.

This Is Animation #2: Space Cruiser Yamato. He was a classmate of Derek Wildstar and Mark Venture
when the Yamato was commissioned into the Star Force in 2199 (Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars). Chief
Hardy succeeded Slops Mulligan as chief cook of the Argo in Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars. He is not to be
confused with Black Tiger pilot Jefferson Hardy.
Homer Glitchman is born on Earth, location unknown.

Conjecture based on Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar. He appears to be about the same age as Derek
Wildstar. I have yet to find an official birthdate in any of the Yamato background materials.
Dashell Dash Jordan is born on Earth, location unknown.

Christopher Eager is born on Earth, location unknown.

Jefferson Hardy is born on Earth, location unknown.

2182-2185
The Euro-African War
2182
A coalition of African states led by Tanzania refuses to be part of the new United Earth
Government and attacks United Nations forces stationed on their borders. With
approval from its member states a UN military force from Euroland attacks and invades
the Tanzanian coalition. Open warfare ensues as the UN Euroland forces attempt to
beat the rebellious African states into submission. This was the last of mankinds great
wars on the planet Earth prior to the Gamilon planet bomb campaign.
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book series by Comico (Part 1, The Jackals Come to Feed and Part 4, A
Blast from the Past).
2183
Patrick John Tim Orion, Jr. is born on Earth, location unknown.

Conjecture based on Yamato: The New Voyage. He was a fresh graduate from the Space Cadet School
when recruited by the Star Force in 2201. Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar infers that the age of 18 is
the median age for Space Cadet School graduates. Tim appears to have been his nickname or common
use name per Lewis.
Cory Conway, younger brother of Peter Pete Conroy, is born on Earth, location
unknown.
Conjecture based on Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars. He was a fresh graduate from the Space Cadet School
when recruited by the Star Force in 2201. Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar infers that the age of 18 is
the median age for Space Cadet School graduates. Also, Cory has a pronounced twang in his accent that
might imply childhood in the Midwest or Southwest United States.
A pilgrim ship full of followers of the Gardiana cult begins a multigenerational voyage
across interstellar space searching for Queen Gardiana.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 19, The Way to Planet Phantom). The pilgrim elder states that they
have been journeying through space for twenty years.
2184
A large refugee colony attempts to flee Bujumbura, Tanzania, where some of the worst
fighting in the Euro-African War is taking place. Lieutenant General Charles Singleton,
commander of all UN Euroland forces fighting in the war, is ordered to attack the
convoy in violation of the Geneva Convention and prevent it from leaving the area.
The justification is that the resources required to care for these refugees would place
added strain on the already taxed Tanzanian coalition resources. Singleton details
Brigadier General Ian Helms, the local field commander, with the dirty job of actually
attacking the convoy. Helms forces are routed when the refugee convoy turns out to
be a fully armed and armored force of Tanzanian shock troops attempting to escape.
The escape is successful and the Tanzanians destroy most of Helms air support in the
process. An enraged General Helms pursues the fleeing Tanzanians all the way to
their stronghold at Lake Victoria, where they dig in and prepare to make their stand
from a well-fortified stronghold.
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book series by Comico (Part 4, A Blast from the Past).
The Battle of Lake Victoria is fought between the UN ground forces of General Ian
Helms and the besieged Tanzanian shock troops who had successfully ambushed him
at Bujumbura. Helms attempts to sustain an offensive attack at all points on the
Tanzanian defensive lines even though he lacks the manpower, air cover, and
resources to successfully sustain it. Within days the UN casualty rates mount to such
an appalling number that one of his subordinates, Colonel Cosmo Shannon, charges
him with dereliction of duty and forcibly removes Helms from command. Shannon then
orders a retreat and withdraws the surviving UN forces from the field. The Battle of
Lake Victoria ends in victory for the Tanzanian forces. They will remain uncaptured
and unconquered at Lake Victoria for the rest of the war.
A UNSPF military tribunal is convened in the wake of the failure of the Lake Victoria
campaign. General Helms charges Colonel Shannon and his followers with mutiny.
The tribunal, under the leadership of General Singleton, clears Colonel Shannon and
makes him their chief witness against his former commanding officer in court-martial
proceedings. General Singleton contrives things so that no word about the illegal order
to attack the Tanzanian refugee colony is ever entered into the official record. General
Helms is found guilty on all counts, stripped of his rank, and given a dishonorable
discharge from the UNSPF. He chooses exile from Earth rather than life in a military
prison as his final punishment.
2185
Leader Desslok, supreme ruler of the Gamilon Empire, decides on a radical change in
tactics in order to defeat the humans of Earth. He is both angered and frustrated that
his (and his fathers) superior forces have been held at bay for so long by an inferior
foe. He orders preparations to be made to bombard the entire surface of the Earth
with planet bombs, i.e. asteroids soaked with a hyper-lethal dose of radiation. What
life on Earth is not killed outright by the impact of the asteroids is expected to
eventually die from the ever-increasing radiation being deposited on Earths surface.
To that end most of the Gamilon Earth Expeditionary Force is temporarily recalled in
order to gather the equipment and materials necessary for Leader Dessloks new
campaign.
Colonel Dommel Lysis is promoted to the rank of general by Leader Desslok.

Flash Contrail is born on Earth, location unknown.

Conjecture based on Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars. He was pulled out of the Space Cadet School a year
ahead of graduation when he was reassigned to the Star Force in 2203.
Jason Jetter is born on Earth, location unknown.

Conjecture based on Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars. He was pulled out of the Space Cadet School a year
ahead of graduation when he was reassigned to the Star Force in 2203.
2186-2199
Dates for the Gamilons fourth and final campaign against Earth in the Earth-Gamilon
War.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Gamilon History and Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star
Blazers Galaxy.
2186-2188
The last lull in the Earth-Gamilon war occurs as most of the Gamilon forces remaining
in the Solar System withdraw beyond the orbit of Neptune. There will be only scattered
skirmishes between UNSPF and Gamilon forces during this time.
Probable conjecture based on Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Gamilon History and Bruce Lewis, et al,
The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy.
2189
The Gamilons destroy Minerva, the tenth planet in the Solar System. The rubble forms
a new outer asteroid belt beyond the orbit of Pluto. UNSPF observers do not know
what to make of this move since Minerva had no strategic value whatsoever.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 09, Gantzs Last Stand). The exact date of the destruction
of Minerva is never given, only that it was done by the Gamilons. The Japanese original implies that the
reason for the destruction of Minerva was so the Gamilons could mine the rubble for their planet bombs.
This means that the destruction of Minerva had to happen between 2185 (the date of Dessloks decision to
start using planet bombs on Earth) and 2191 (the date that the first planet bombs began to fall on Earth).
2190
Giordi Venture, younger brother of Mark Venture, is born on Earth in Brooklyn, New
York.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. Many sources give the name as Jordy
Venture.
Alex Wildstar graduates from the Space Cadet School. His first assignment as an
officer is to a UNSPF warship operating in the Earth-Gamilon combat zone. As such
he becomes directly involved in two space battles with the Gamilons over the ensuing
months.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 13, x). Alex briefly recalls his first tour of duty when visiting
his younger brother Derek while on leave. The various original Japanese source materials seem to imply
that Alex Wildstar graduated from the Space Cadet School in December of 2190.
Steven Sandor graduates from the Space Cadet School. His first assignment as an
officer is as an engineering supervisor at the main UNSPF shipyard at Yokosuka on
Great Island (Japan).
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 11, The Magenetron Wave). Sandor recalls his experiences
while talking with Derek Wildstar during their attempt to disarm a Gamilon magnetron mine. The various
original Japanese source materials seem to imply that Steven Sandor graduated from the Space Cadet
School in December of 2190.
2191
The Gamilons complete the construction of the planet bomb launching and guidance
facilities on Pluto.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Pluto Base. It had five massive silos capable of launching a total of 20
planet bombs every 24-hour cycle.
The first Gamilon planet bombs hit Earth. They are targeted at major cities, industrial
complexes, military bases, and spaceports of the worlds most powerful nations: the
United States, Euroland, the Russian Consortium, and China. Millions die in the first
wave of attacks. Millions more will die in the months to come. There is nothing that
the UNSPF can do to stop the planet bombs despite their best and most valiant efforts.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Gamilon History. These began to hit while Alex Wildstar and Steven
Sandor were still in the Space Cadet School per their recollections in Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar.
21 April 2192
Alex Wildstar takes a months leave to spend some time with his family.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 13, x). This was Alexs first leave since graduating the
Space Cadet School and joining the fleet as a UNSPF officer. Alex himself indicates that several months
have passed since he graduated the Space Cadet School.
22 April 2192
The city of Tokyo is completely destroyed by the first ever planet bomb strike on Great
Island (Japan). The magnitude of the impact is so great that it causes Mount Fuji to
erupt for the first time in centuries.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 13, x). It is stated in the episode that Japan had escaped
targeting by the Gamilons because they were busy attacking the Earths more powerful nations first.
Alex Wildstars leave is cancelled and his squadron is recalled to active duty in wake of
the Gamilon planet bomb strike on Tokyo.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 13, x). This happens within minutes of his witnessing the
planet bomb strike on Tokyo.
mid-2192
Launching of the Great Fleet from Earth. This represents the UNSPFs largest and
most powerful space fleet ever deployed to combat the Gamilon menace in the Solar
System. Its ultimate goal is to reach and destroy the Gamilon base on Pluto, which is
directing the planet bomb attacks against Earth.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 11, The Magnetron Wave) and the DVD special feature
Planet Earth 2199 AD. Sandor was present at the launch of the Great Fleet and later described it to Derek
Wildstar during the Star Forces mission to Iscandar.
2192-2194
Fleet Captain Abraham Avatar leads the Great Fleet on the UNSPFs last offensive
against the Gamilon Earth Expeditionary Force. He later describes it as a hellish twoyear-long campaign to sweep the Solar Systems inner asteroid belt free of the
Gamilons. His biggest success of the campaign is capturing a fully intact and
functional Gamilon advance base on the asteroid Icarus before his foes have time to
destroy it. The capture of this base represents a technological coup for the UNSPF
and gives them, among other things, the technology for near-instantaneous interstellar
communication.
The retreating Gamilons fall back to the Jupiter and build a new advance base there to
replace the one lost on Icarus. It is constructed on a floating continent deep within the
dense atmosphere of Jupiter. Because of its location and lack of sufficient technology
to withstand Jupiters powerful gravity Captain Avatars fleet is unable to get close
enough to this new base to destroy it.
2193
The Bolar Federation conquers the planet Berth.

Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 12, The Penal Colony in Space).
Humanity moves en masse into underground cities as the mounting radiation on the
Earths surface from the incessant Gamilon planet bombs begins to take its toll there.
2194
A surprise Gamilon ambush destroys an entire UNSPF squadron near Mars under the
command of Captain Yamanami. This effectively cuts Captain Avatars supply lines
and he is forced to withdraw the Great Fleet from Gamilon-controlled space. This
ambush signals the beginning of the end for the beleaguered forces defending Earth.
Captain Yamanami is relieved of field command by his superiors following his defeat
and ordered to return home with his dead and wounded.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy and the Star Blazers: Be Forever Yamato comic
book adaptation (Prelude). The date is listed as 2192 in the online version of Lewis timeline but this might
be a typo. Placing this event here makes more sense from a continuity point-of-view. Captan Yamanamis
presence as squadron commander at Mars is conjecture on my part; however, we do know that he fought
and lost a major battle against the Gamilons during the war. According to the comic the only ship to survive
in Yamanamis squadron was his own and he returned to Earth with 372 dead among his own crew.
The United Earth Government, upon hearing the news of the UNSPF ambush at Mars,
realizes that it is going to lose the Earth-Gamilon War no matter what it does. To this
end it authorizes Project Argo, a proposal by the Interstellar Committee to build a new
space battleship to serve as a space ark. This is intended to save a carefully chosen
group of young men and women and send them out into the Sea of Stars to find a new
home and thus escape extinction by the Gamilons. Along with them will go a genetic
databank containing samples of the DNA of every plant and animal lifeform on Earth,
past on present, for reconstitution upon finding a new homeworld. Great Island
(Japan) provides both the leadership and a protected site for the construction of this
new space battleship. In deference to Great Islands leadership in this matter the new
ship is christened Yamato after the famous World War II battleship. The site of
construction for the new Yamato is directly beneath the wreck of the old Yamato some
fifty nautical miles southwest of Cape Boga. In an ironic twist a last-minute change of
plans causes the new Yamato to be built just below and partially inside the ruins of its
namesake.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 01, The Sleeping Giant); see also Tim Eldred, Star Blazers
DVD supplement Planet Earth: 2199 AD and Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy.
Lewis gives the date of 2194 for the inception of Project Argo. Eldred gives 2198 as the date construction of
the new Yamato actually began. Apparently the extra four years were needed for the gathering of materials
and resources as well as the construction of the underground complex at the Bogasaki sub-annex.
Interstella 5555 raises the possibility that the original goal of Project Argo was for the Yamato to escape
the Solar System via the Darkwood stargate. This was the only guaranteed safe route of escape past the
Gamilons, who apparently knew nothing about it. This is pure conjecture on my part, of course, but consider
that the Yamato as originally designed did not have wave motion technology. As a sublight vessel it would
not have been able to escape the Gamilons. We shall revisit the subject of the Darkwood stargate again in
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire and Final Yamato.
Adam Avatar graduates from the Space Cadet School

Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. The various original Japanese source materials
seem to imply that Adam Avatar graduated from the Space Cadet School in December of 2194.
8 January
2195
General Lysis issues a new battle tactics manual for the Gamilon Imperial Space Fleet
with the blessing of Leader Desslok. Its fundamental purpose was to reorganize the
Gamilon fleet into a unified force capable of delivering coordinated assaults from its
light and heavy ship assets, its battlecraft fleet, mine warfare arm and special weapons
capabilities. These latter include the Desslok Cannons, the reflex cannon, and the
SMITE transportation device.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Gamilon Tactical Fleet Doctrine.
2195
Battlefield Analyzer IQ-9, the first mobile artificially intelligent robot, is created. His
purpose as designed is to serve as a mobile animated interface to the main computer
of the rebuilt Yamato.
Steven Sandor is assigned to Project Argo. His job is to supervise the design and
construction of the new Yamato
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato; see also Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy.
In the movie Sandor states unequivocally that he both designed and built the Yamato.
2196
The Audacious class of Gamilon space battleships, designed by General Dommel

Lysis, enters service.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Gamilon Fleet Battleship. The Audacious is the name of the rather
unique-looking vessel that General Lysis uses as his fleet flagship throughout most of the back half of Star
Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar.
General Lysis of Gamilon and his personal battle fleet, the largest ever assembled
under the control of a single independent field commander, leave Gamilon to conduct a
successful three-year campaign against rebellious races in the Lesser Magellanic
Cloud.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, Gamilon Imperial Space Fleet.
Gamilon forces overrun the major UNSPF bases on both Mars and Mercury. The
survivors are forced to retreat to remote observation posts.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy; see also Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar
(Episode 01, The Sleeping Giant). Cadets Derek Wildstar and Mark Venture were completing their deep
space training at a UNSPF observation post on Mars about the same time that the Battle of Pluto took place.
The Fist of Gamilon, the largest planet bomb ever constructed during the EarthGamilon War, is launched at Earth. It reaches its target despite the best efforts of the
UNSPF to stop it. Shortly before entering Earths atmosphere it breaks into two major
pieces and multiple smaller ones. The first large piece destroys a large portion of the
southeastern part of Can-Am (the United States and Canada). The second leaves a
continent-sized crater in the middle of what used to be Euroland. Each hits with the
impact of multiple megaton thermonuclear explosions and shakes the planet to its
core. All life both above and below ground in both of these areas is wiped out almost
instantly. The other fragments wreak their own damage on the helpless Earth; albeit
on a smaller scale. All surface water still remaining on Earth is vaporized by the force
of these blasts. The worldwide rain of debris from the Fist of Gamilon turns the entire
surface of the Earth into a radiation-soaked, crater-marked desert.
Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. New York apparently survived the impact of the
Fist of Gamilon per Be Forever Yamato. This might imply that the original target of that particular piece of
the Fist of Gamion was Washington DC and the UNSPFs actions caused it to drift southwestward off-target.
The actual impact point appears to have been somewhere in western North Carolina or even in northern
Mississippi. The other was probably aimed at either Paris or Berlin, although Geneva is a strong possibility
(due to Switzerlands importance in the Common Market and its historical importance as a safe haven).
2197
Prince Zordar the Fifth, heir to the Comet Empire, launches his fortress Gatlantis, aka
the White Comet, from the Andromeda galaxy on his own personal Tour of Conquest
on the Sea of Stars per Cometine royal tradition. His stated intent is to conquer the
Milky Way galaxy for the Comet Empire. Despite the advanced technology at his
disposal it will take the White Comet four years to reach the rim territories of the Milky
Way. Prince Zordar uses this time to conquer and establish a string of supply bases
along his intended route through the intergalactic void.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 14, x); see also Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. White
Comet History.
The White Comet conquers the Black Fox Nebula.

Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 14, x); see also Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Timeline of
the Earth/Comet War.
2198
The prototype of the Desslok Cannon undergoes its first successful test firing at the
proving grounds of the Gamilon Imperial Ordinance Division.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Gamilon Force Structure and Command Chart.
The White Comet conquers the Magna Star Cluster.

Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 14, x); see also Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Timeline of
the Earth/Comet War.
A single Earth vessel carrying a family of three manages to flee the Solar System. The
Gamilons choose not to pursue it, deeming the ship too small and worthless a target to
worry about. The vessel eventually makes it to a habitable world orbiting Barnards
Star and lands there. This vessel and its occupants will go unnoticed and forgotten by
everyone for the next five years.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode xx, x). The daughter of the old man says they left five years ago.
This puts their departure from Earth one year before the end of the Earth-Gamilon War. This raises a couple
of interesting questions. How many other humans successfully fled the Solar System during the EarthGamilon War, and what happened to them?
2199-2205
The Star Blazers Era
? LE
The Cometine begin construction of more Gatlantis-type mobile star fortresses.
(date uncertain)
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. The Star Fortress Gatlantis.
Giza, one of the major cities of Egypt on Earth, is destroyed.

Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 09, A People Made of Plants). In the year 2979 LE the city of Giza
is nowhere to be seen in the episode. It should be right beside the Great Sphinx. Instead, the Great Sphinx
is out in the middle of a desert some distance from the Egyptian coast. Judging from Kiruta and Harlocks
journey and the location of the oasis seen in the episode it is a safe bet that Giza was destroyed centuries
before the events depicted. When and how it happened is anyones guess. The safe bet is to say that it was
a target of the Gamilon planet bombing in 2199 LE and was never rebuilt, but that is pure conjecture on my
part.
THE STAR BLAZERS ERA

THE SAGA OF THE STAR FORCE
It was in the year 2199, when the Earth was doomed to death by radiation and humanity stood on
the brink of extinction, when a singular event occurred that forever changed the destiny of man in the
eternal Sea of Stars. Within a few days of Earths last space fleet losing the Battle of Pluto an alien
spacecraft crashed on the planet Mars. A single ejection pod escaped the crash; however, its female
humanoid occupant did not survive. Battle damage from an earlier tangle with the Gamilons had
compromised the pods systems. The hatch flew open as soon as it hit the surface of Mars and, sadly,
the occupant was catapulted to her death. She was Astra of Iscandar, an ambassador of hope to a
beleaguered planet, and the message capsule found clutched in her dead hand gave mankind a new,
last, desperate hope against its determined foe.
Astras message was from her sister, Queen Starsha of Iscandar. The Iscandarians, one of the
oldest spacefaring civilizations in the known universe, had been monitoring Earths war against the
Gamilons for quite some time. They abhorred the Gamilons designs on Earth and how they were
accomplishing it. The intended extinction of an entire intelligent species so repulsed Starsha that she
decided to tip the scales of fate in mankinds favor. In her message capsule contained the secrets of
wave motion technology, plans for a faster-than-light starship engine based on that technology, and an
invitation. If mankind could build a faster-than-light ship and make the 148,000 light-year journey to
Iscandar she would give it a Cosmo DNA machine. This device, she claimed, could rid the Earth of its
deadly radiation and restore it to the green and fruitful planet it once had been. With extinction staring it
in the face it was no wonder the United Earth Government accepted Starshas offer without question.
There was no other choice but death.
There is no doubt that Starsha knew exactly what she was doing. Her people, the Iscandarians,
had long known about Earth and the singular place it held in the universe. She also knew that by giving
mankind the secrets of wave motion technology she was elevating them into a position of greatness in the
Milky Way galaxy no less than that her own people had once held. She knew of the follies and failings of
man; still, though, she knew that deep down there was an inner greatness, a spirit of honor and duty as
well as integrity that arose in times of greatest need to triumph over all obstacles. It was that inner fire
that the Spirit of Akwaar had foreseen would make mankind the greatest intelligent species among the
Younger Races. This special people did not deserve to die. They deserved a chance at greatness on a
cosmic scale. Starsha gave them that chance. The rest, as they say, is history.
Out of the darkest days of mankind rose
a legend that continues to echo through the
halls of time and lives with us today. The saga
of the Star Force, the men and women who
were behind Project Argo, who built the
legendary space battleship Yamato, who flew it
though five of the bloodiest years of human
history, whose survivors emerged as living
heroes and whose dead were honored among
the great men and women of human history their story is too great to be told in these pages. All that
can be done here is to recount the chronology of their exploits, to provide as it were time markers to the
chapters in their story for those who want to follow it. It is not the best way to experience the story of their
deeds. That is best preserved in the video records of their adventures, which has survived the ravages of
time and can still be viewed to this day. This timeline best serves as a reference point so that the saga of
the Star Force can be enjoyed in its proper order from start to finish. In this manner one can see how the
Star Force grew out of the brink of human despair, survived time and again through trial and fire, and was
there every time humanity needed its services for the all-too-short span of its existence.
The Star Force was a singular organization of unique men and women, both in front of and
behind the scenes, who showcased the best that humanity had to offer the universe. Its like had never
been seen before and, sad to say, has never been seen since. Had humanity been more like the
example that the Star Force set in those days then perhaps it could have escaped its downfall at its own
hands almost a millennia later. That, however, was a distant and unforeseen future at the turn of the 23nd
century. These instead were the glory days of the Star Force, when the light of humanity burned at its
brightest and best. Let us set aside our futuristic musings for now and dwell upon this singular moment in
the history of humanity. Let us appreciate the Star Force, brief though its existence was, for the
greatness that it showed us. Let us see what was the best that mankind could be and still may be
again someday.
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EDITORS NOTE
In compiling this timeline I have had to deal with four different source timelines. Each of these gives slightly different
dates for certain events. The first is the official Japanese timeline from the original Yamato source materials. This forms the
backbone of this document. The second is from the Star Blazers DVD supplemental materials by Tim Eldred. This largely follows
the official timeline, albeit with a few interesting differences. The third is that presented in the Star Blazers Technical Manual by
Musashi Enterprises. Its dates for key events can diverge as much as a month or so from the official timeline but it often lists dates
and events not given in the official Japanese timeline. The fourth is from The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy by Bruce Lewis
and company. While not official, it does cover some events and background material not found in any other source. I have done my
best to merge all of these into one comprehensive Star Blazers timeline. If there are any errors then they are entirely my own.
2199-2201 LE
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar

Uchuu Senkan Yamato I
January 2199
The White Comet conquers the rogue planet Petronia. It is located in a lonely star
cluster approximately three-fifths of the way between the Andromeda and Milky Way
galaxies.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 14, x) and Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Timeline of the
Earth/Comet War.
February
April 2199
The battered UNSPF plans its last attack against the Gamilon Earth Expeditionary
Force. It amounts to little more than a kamikaze strike against its Pluto base. Fleet
Captain Abraham Avatar argues unsuccessfully against the plan. Instead, he is
appointed overall commander of the fleet that will be making the attack.
Commander Alex Wildstar and his ship, the Paladin, is among those assigned to take
part on the assault on Pluto. Assisting him will be Lieutenant Adam Avatar, only son of
Captain Abraham Avatar, as his communications officer.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 01, The Sleeping Giant, and Episode 11, x) and Bruce
Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy. In the Japanese original the Paladins name is given
as the Yukikaze.
Lt. Commander Steven Sandor takes personal charge of repairing and refurbishing all
of the UNSPF ships to be used in the assault on Pluto. Among these is Alex Wildstars
destroyer Paladin. Sandor re-christens it the Paladin after its rebuilding is complete.
Conjecture based on Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 11, x).
Forward elements of the Comet Empire encounter Gamilon patrol ships on the borders
of the Gamilon Empire. Upon hearing the news Prince Zordar, to the surprise of his
own people, befriends the Gamilons and quickly enters into a strategic alliance with
them. The White Comet is thus allowed to pass through Gamilon controlled space
unmolested. Prince Zordar, unlike his advisors, realizes that he will need allies of like
mind and heart in this strange new galaxy he intends to conquer for the time being,
anyway.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. White Comet History. It is intimated in various scenes in Star Blazers:
The Comet Empire that Prince Zordar and Leader Desslok had been aware of each other for some time.
Astra of Iscandar, younger sister of Queen Starsha, leaves to undertake the dangerous
journey to Earth through the Gamilon lines. Her mission is to deliver the plans for
Iscandarian wave motion technology and Queen Starshas offer of the Cosmo DNA to
save Earth.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 01, The Sleeping Giant, and Episode 25, x).
6 May 2199
The Battle of Pluto

Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 01, The Sleeping Giant). I have gotten a fair amount of grief
over this date from English speaking fans that have access to the DVD boxed set or other American source
materials. Most of these, including Musashi, give the date as 6 August 2199. Eldred gives the date as 21
August 2199. The original Japanese source materials say May of 2199. My choice of the exact day is a nod
to Musashis work.
6 May 2199
Death of Adam Avatar.

Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 01, The Sleeping Giant).
Astra of Iscandars ship is shot up by the Gamilons while attempting to bypass the
Battle of Pluto. Injured, her vessel rapidly losing power and control, she attempts to
make a crash landing near a manned UNSPF observation post on Mars. The attempts
fails and Astra is killed when her ejection pod malfunctions due to battle damage.
Cadets Derek Wildstar and Mark Venture find Astras body and the message capsule
from Queen Starsha of Iscandar.
7 May 2199
Commander Alex Wildstar is captured by the Gamilons.

Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 25, x).
The Interstellar Committee orders Cadets Derek Wildstar and Mark Venture to keep
Astras message capsule safe until they can be picked up by Captain Avatars
battleship, which is en route from Pluto back to Earth.
9 May 2199
Captain Avatar picks up cadets Derek Wildstar and Mark Venture from Mars on his
way back to Earth after the Battle of Pluto.
10 May 2199
Captain Avatars space battleship returns to Earth.

Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 01, The Sleeping Giant). We learn in Farewell to Space
Battleship Yamato that an Earth vessel traveling at top sublight speed (in this case the Yamato) can make
the trip from Jupiter to Earth in three days. It then stands to reason that a trip from Pluto to Earth at top
sublight speed is about five days, give or take a day.
sometime in
late May or
early June
2199
The wreck of the Paladin is abandoned on Titan by the Gamilons.

Implied by Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 06, The Ghost of Recent Past). It couldnt have
gotten there by itself and we know Alex Wildstar was captured by the Gamilons; therefore the Gamilons
must have left it there.
The starship transporting the captured Alex Wildstar back to Gamilon is caught in a
space storm and crashes on Iscandar. All aboard are killed except for a badly injured
Wildstar, who is washed up on the shore near Mother Town. Queen Starsha finds him,
realizes he is a human from Earth, and begins the long and delicate process of nursing
him back to health.
Using Starshas gift of wave motion technology, Steven Sandor and his engineering
team begin converting the almost-completed Yamato into mankinds first faster-thanlight (FTL) starship. The original mission for the Yamato is scrubbed by UNSPF fleet
commander General Charles Singleton. Its new mission is to make the long journey to
Iscandar and retrieve the Cosmo DNA in order to save Earth.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 01, The Sleeping Giant). Those who wonder how Sandor
and his team managed to do this so quickly should consult Lewis.
6 August 2199
Captain Phantom F. Harlock XII, the last remaining UNSPF commander in the field,
violates orders and goes after the Gamilons on his own. Harlock begins conducting a
series of hit-and-run raids on the Gamilon Earth Expeditionary Force between the
outer planets of the Solar System and the Oort Cloud. This draws away the bulk of the
Gamilon fleet. By doing this Harlock hopes to provide an opening through which the
Yamato can eventually escape from Earth once it is able to launch.
Based on material from Matsumoto-sans manga Cosmoship Yamato and Star Blazers: The Quest for
Iscandar (Episode 09, Gantzs Last Stand). The date is a nod to Musashis dating for the Battle of Pluto.
This helps explain why Colonel Gantz was able to assemble such a large fleet so quickly against the Star
Force in the Minervan asteroid belt. It was already out there hunting for Captain Harlock. The character of
Captain Harlock was originally supposed to be Alex Wildstar in disguise but was cut from the TV series for
various and sundry reasons. It could have been as early as the tenth or as late as the fourteenth Captain
Harlock to bear the name but the number twelve always plays a critical role in Matsumoto-sans stories. By
the way Captain Harlocks cruiser is named the Deathshadow. It is the forerunner of the vessel of the same
name in the Captain Harlock feature film My Youth in Arcadia. My inclusion of Captain Harlock in this
timeline is my homage to Matsumoto-sans original story outline for the TV series.
21 August
2199
A specially modified Gamilon fleet command cruiser is fitted with the new Desslok
Cannon. Shortly thereafter it is appropriated to serve as Leader Dessloks personal
flagship.
22-23 August
2199
A Gamilon Prowler class recon plane is spotted monitoring the Cape Boga area off of
Great Island. Its location puts it directly above the Bogasaki underground complex
where Project Argo is nearing completion. Acting against orders, Cadets Derek
Wildstar and Mark Venture unsuccessfully attempt to bring it down. They crash
instead near the wreck of the old Japanese battleship Yamato when their engine fails.
They are eventually picked up by a rescue team without learning about the hidden
base beneath their feet.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 01, The Sleeping Giant). According to the Star Blazers
Technical Manual this was the first time that the UNSPF had ever seen the Prowler in action.
5 October
2199
The rebuilt Yamato fires its first shots in anger as it defends itself from a surprise
attack by a Gamilon space carrier.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 02, The Giant Awakens).
6 October
2199
7 October
2199
The Star Force departs for Iscandar aboard the rebuilt Yamato.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 03, Departure from Earth).
The Yamato performs its first space warp. It is a small jump from the Earth to Mars.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 04, Space Warp). The Earth-Mars jump later became a
routine test for all EDF warp-capable starships as is shown in later installments of the Star Blazers saga.
Captain Yamanami is promoted to Fleet Captain. This is done despite his disgrace at
the hands of the Gamilons during the end of the Great Fleets campaign of 2192-2194.
With the departure of Fleet Captain Avatar he is the last experienced senior space
officer remaining on Earth. Yamanami is given a desk job overseeing fleet operations,
where he will be stuck for the next three years.
Star Blazers Be Forever Yamato comic book adaptation by Argo Press (Part 1, Prelude). If this is right
then Captain Draco Gideon must have been severely injured, incapacitated, or otherwise unavailable at this
time. He too was an experienced space captain who had seen action in the Earth-Gamilon War. Perhaps
he was with Captain Harlock at the time?
8 October
2199
The Gamilon advance base hidden on a floating continent deep within Jupiters dense
atmosphere is destroyed by the Star Force. This marks the first successful use of the
Yamatos wave motion gun.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 05, The Floating Continent).
10 October
2199
The Star Force discovers the abandoned wreck of the Paladin on the Saturnian moon
of Titan while mining for titanite.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 06, The Ghost of Recent Past). The Japanese original
names the mineral the Star Force was mining as cosmonite. This naturally occuring mineral appears in
several of Matsumoto-sans manga as a powerful yet rare energy source for starship engines.
13-15 October
2199
The Star Force engages and destroys the Gamilon base on Pluto. This puts an end to
the constant rain of planet bombs on Earth. This small victory comes too late to
reverse the cumulative effects of the accumulated radiation on Earth from almost a
decade of constant planet bombing by the Gamilons.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episodes 07 and 08, The [Second] Battle of Pluto (Parts 1 and 2).
16 October
2199
Colonel Gantz, former commander of the Gamilon base on Pluto and field commander
of the Pluto Garrison Fleet of the Gamilon Earth Expeditionary Force, recalls his entire
force of 225 vessels from the outer reaches of the Solar System. Gantzs intent is to
intercept and destroy the Star Force at all costs.
Implied by Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 09, Gantzs Last Stand). The Gamilon fleet
strength comes from the Star Blazers Technical Manual. It is my belief based on the contextual evidence
that his fleet had already been deployed because it was chasing after Captain Harlock. Harlocks decoy
action apparently did its job.
17 October
2199
The Gamilons abandon all of their surviving bases in the outer Solar System on the
orders of Colonel Gantz.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, Gamilon-Earth Timeline.
31 October
2199
The Battle of the Minervan Asteroid Belt
31 October
2199
The Gamilon Expeditionary Force is wiped out in pitched battle with the
Star Force in the Minervan asteroid belt between Pluto and Brumus.
This marks the first use of Steven Sandors asteroid ring to defend the
Yamato.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 09, Gantzs Last Stand).
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 09, Gantzs Last Stand).
The Star Force is the first Earth unit to engage (and defeat) a Gamilon
Conqueror class battleship.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 10, Farewell to Earth) and the Star Blazers Technical
Manual, s.v. Gamilon S-Type Space Battleship. This was Colonel Gantzs flagship.
23 November
2199
The Star Force leaves the Milky Way galaxy.

Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 10, Farewell to Earth).
Elements of a huge Cometine advance task force under the command

of General Naska notes the Star Forces departure from the Milky Way
while assembling at the planet Redella. Naska begins monitoring the
activities of the Star Force on behalf of Prince Zordar. However, he
refuses to engage his forces in support of the Gamilons in accordance
with his standing orders.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. White Comet Force Structure and Command Chart.
25 November
2199
The Star Force reaches the outer defense perimeter of Gamiloncontrolled space. It is protected by the Desslok Mines, a large mobile
minefield.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 11, The Desslok Mines).
26-27
November
The Star Force makes the passage of the Desslok Mines.

Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 11, The Desslok Mines).
2199
28 November
2199
The Gamilon 2nd Mobile Attack Fleet is organized under the command of
General Zorka as the Star Force continues its advance into Gamilon
controlled territory. Additional Gamilon battle fleets are redeployed or
reorganized as the full danger that the Star Force poses begins to be
understood.
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30 November
- 2 December
2199
The Star Force makes the passage of the Alpha star of Orion.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 12, The Sea of Fire). In the English dubbed series this is
mistranslated as the wishing star of Vultan.
Captain Avatar collapses on the bridge of the Yamato. It is the first

public indication of his failing health.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 12, The Sea of Fire).
3 December
2199
The Star Force captures and interrogates a Gamilon pilot. This is the
first time that UNSPF has ever captured a live Gamilon. He is later
released unharmed as a show of goodwill.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 13, Farewell to Earth).
6 - 28
December
2199
The Star Force is held up at the Octopus Star Cluster for three weeks
until it finds a safe passage through the dangerous starfield.
29 December
2199
General Kort, overall field commander of the Gamilon Earth

Expeditionary Force, is dismissed by Leader Desslok for incompetence.
Desslok personally selects General Dommel Lysis as his replacement.
January 2200
An improved version of the Desslok Cannon is mounted on a second

generation Gamilon fleet command cruiser for field testing. Due to the
ongoing demands placed on the fleet by the actions of General Lysis the
ship and its new weapon are never deployed. This helps obscure the
fact that this new weapon is at best only a marginal improvement over
the original Desslok Cannon.
2 January
2200
General Dommel Lysis of Gamilon assumes overall field command of

the Gamilon Earth Expeditionary Force. His primary objective is to deal
with the problem posed by the Star Forces mission to Iscandar.
4 January
2200
The first attempt by General Lysis to ambush the Star Force ends in
failure thanks to the unexpected intervention of Queen Starsha of
Iscandar.
10 January
2200
The Star Force reaches the planet Beeland.

14 January
2200
The attempt by General Vulgar to attack the Yamato with his pseudobalanosarus ends in spectacular failure.
Captain Avatar is forced to undergo a dangerous operation in order to

save his life.
17 January
2200
An unexpected encounter with a Gamilon magentron wave space

fortress nearly destroys the Yamato.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 18, The Magnetron Wave).
22 January
2200
The Star Force destroys a Gamilon long-range communications satellite.
24 January
2200
Captain Avatars health begins to fail as his ongoing radiation sickness

becomes more pronounced. To this end he promotes Derek Wildstar to
lieutenant commander and names him as deputy captain (i.e. executive
officer) of the Yamato. This eases the burden of command on the
weakened Avatar.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 20, x). The part about the promotion is probable conjecture.
There were at least two, possibly three other senior officers available on the Star Force (Sandor, Orion, and
Yamazaki) who outranked Wildstar. It stands to reason per current military protocols that Wildstar must
have been promoted in keeping with his new duties. This also helps explain how he was able to maintain his
status as deputy captain during Star Blazers: The Comet Empire. In Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato
Wildstar was made the captain of an Arione class frigate. This confirms his rank was at least lieutenant
commander at the time since this is in keeping with current naval tradition in most present-day surface
navies.
The Star Force reaches planet Balan, the halfway point between Earth
and Iscandar. General Lysis accidentally destroys his own base on
Balan when he drops the planets artificial sun on it in a failed attempt to
destroy the Star Force.
27 January
2200
General Lysis is court-martialed for his actions in the destruction of the

Gamilon base on Balan. He is sentenced to death by a military tribunal
led by General Krypt.
28 January
2200
The life of General Lysis is spared by the personal intervention of

Leader Desslok, who gives him one last chance to defeat the Star
Force.
February 2200
The planet Telezart enters into a long and deadly war with its interstellar
neighbors for control of its local area of space
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 14, x). Trelaina briefly mentions this conflict when speaking to
Mark Venture in private.
3 March 2200
The reinstated General Lysis challenges the Star Force to a final

showdown at the Rainbow Star Cluster.
7-10 March
2200
The Battle of the Rainbow Star Cluster
10 March
2200
The Battle of the Rainbow Star Cluster ends in victory for the Star Force.
General Lysis takes his own life by blowing up his command ship under
the Yamato, hoping to take down the Star Force with him. The
explosion blows the keel off of the Yamato and kills many of its crew but
fails to destroy the ship. The Gamilons are so shocked by the absolute
defeat of their best field general and best-equipped space fleet that they
fail to take advantage of the Yamatos helplessness. They leave the
Star Force alone and unmolested for the rest of its journey toward the
Greater Magellanic Cloud.
13 April 2200
The Star Force is surprised to meet Captain Harlock en route to the

Sanza Star System. From him they learn much about the state of affairs
on both Earth and in Gamilon space at this time. Harlock also takes the
time to meet privately with Derek Wildstar. He gives him some helpful
advice about the burden of command then has been placed on his
young shoulders. Harlock then departs once again, still pursuing his
self-appointed mission of drawing as many Gamilon forces away from
the Yamato as possible.
Derived from the Cosmoship Yamato manga by Leiji Matsumoto, which was based on his original draft for
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar. The character of Captain Harlock was originally supposed to be Alex
Wildstar in disguise but was cut from the TV series for various and sundry reasons. My inclusion of Captain
Harlock in this timeline is my homage to Matsumoto-sans original story outline for the TV series.
23 April 2200
The Star Force arrives at the Sanza Star System.

23-25 April
2200
The Battle of Gamilon
26 April 2200
The Star Force reaches Iscandar.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episodes 23 and 24, x).
26 May 2200
The Star Force leaves Iscandar with the Cosmo DNA.

June-August
2200
Large sections of the Gamilon Empire rise up in revolt upon receiving

news of the Battle of Gamilon and the apparent death of Leader
Desslok. Most of the military might and resources of the Gamilons are
tied up in putting down these revolts, leaving nothing with which to go
after the Star Force. Leader Desslok, who managed to survive the
Battle of Gamilon, has since becomes obsessed with the destruction of
the Star Force and pursues the Yamato in warp after warp, always
looking for the right opportunity for a final decisive attack In the
meantime, his leaderless subordinates do their best to hold his empire

together.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 26, x) and the Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Future
Course of Action by the Gamilon Empire.
Taking advantage of the unrest within the Gamilon Empire, Cometine

surveillence craft begin probing both the Magellanic Clouds and the
edges of the Milky Way galaxy.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Further Course of Action by the Comet Empire.
5 September
2200
Leader Desslok of Gamilon fails in his final attempt to ambush the

Yamato within the Solar System itself. His ship is destroyed and
presumed lost with all hands. His body is never recovered.
Death of UNSPF Fleet Captain Abraham Avatar. His had been a long
struggle with radiation sickness from injuries sustained at the Battle of
Pluto in 2199.
6 September
2200
The Star Force returns to Earth with the Cosmo DNA.

Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 02, Blackout). The scene showing the Star Forces return to
Earth was cut from the English version of the episode. It occurs in a flashback while Derek Wildstar and
Nova Forrester are visiting the underground city.
A Cometine Scorpion fighter on routine reconnaissance of the Solar System discovers

and recovers the still-living body of Desslok of Gamilon. He is taken back to Gatlantis
for immediate medical treatment.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode xx, x) and the Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v Insights into
the Gamilon-Comet Empire Alliance of 2200. Only in the latter do we learn that the recovery of Dessloks
body apparently occurred almost immediately after the destruction of his ship. This would make sense given
the twin facts that Cometine patrol craft were already probing the Milky Way on recon missions at this time
and they were also monitoring Dessloks actions against the Star Force.
7 September
2200
A fleet medical team makes the surprising discovery that the late
Captain Avatars brain is still functioning, albeit at a very low level. His
body is immediately placed in cryostasis while General Singleton is
contacted for further instructions. His orders are to come up with a way
to revive Captain Avatar. The Star Force is not informed for fear that the
effort will prove unsuccessful.
Final Yamato.
13 September
2200
The Cosmo DNA is activated on Earth. The planets surface is freed

completely of deadly radiation and life-sustaining conditions are
restored. The reconstruction of Earth begins.
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar (Episode 26, x), Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 03,
Fateful Decisions), and the Star Blazers Icarus comic book series (Part 2, Waxwing).
10 October
2200
Heros Hill is dedicated. It is a monument to the fallen of the Star Force.

It is located on the highest coastal hill on the outskirts of Megapolis City.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 02, Blackout). In the original Japanese dialogue the narrator
notes that the Star Force met at Heros Hill on Captain Okitas [Avatars] memorial day. That meeting took
place on the evening of 10 October 2201. The anniversary of Captain Avatars death was 5 September so
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hold regular meetings at Heros Hill on the anniversary of Captain Avatars death (per Eldred, Star Blazers:
Rebirth) and he couldnt make it due to his patrol duties, then it stands to reason that Dr. Sane would have
chosen some other significant day to reschedule the memorial ceremony so Wildstar could attend. The
anniversary of the dedication of Heros Hill would have been such a date.
As part of the dedication ceremony at Heros Hill Derek Wildstar is

promoted to the rank of full commander. This is in recognition of his
services during the Iscandarian campaign. He retains his status as
deputy (i.e. acting) captain of the Yamato.
Probable conjecture. Wildstar was a lieutenant commander when the Star Force returned to Earth from
Iscandar. Lieutenant commanders generally dont serve as captains of ships-of-the-line (i.e. cruisers or
larger) in any navy except under unusual circumstances. It also explains how Wildstar made the rank of
captain so fast by the time The Bolar Wars begins.
10-12 October
2200
The Yamato undergoes the first part of a two-part major overhaul. The
major feature of this part of the overhaul is the replacement of the ships
wave motion gun system with a new design. Although the power of the
charge is the same the Yamatos wave motion gun can now fire a shortrange, wide-dispersal beam. It is a prototype of the next-generation
wave motion gun to be fitted in the EDFs next two classes of space
battleships.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire DVD supplement Inside the Argo by Tim Eldred, and the Star Blazers
Technical Manual, s.v. Space Battleship Argo,
12 October
2200
The Yamato completes the first part of its overhaul and is relaunched on
schedule. It will be serving as the flagship of the 15th Interstystem Patrol
Fleet. The fleets mission is to police the outer edges of the Solar
System and beyond. The EDF fears attempted reprisals by the
Gamilons and wants its best field commander (and most feared warship)
on the front lines in the event of an attack.
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Star Blazers: The Comet Empire DVD supplement Inside the Argo by Tim Eldred, Farewell to Space
Battleship Yamato, and the Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Space Battleship Argo, All sources agree
that the Yamato was away from Earth for a full year; hence the date.
October 2200
August 2201
The construction of Megapolis City (nee Megalopolis) begins over the

ruins of Tokyo on Great Island (Japan). It will serve as the seat of the
United Earth Government. In time it will become the largest city on
Earth.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire DVD supplement Earth AD 2201 by Tim Eldred. According to
Matsumoto-san Megapolis City from Star Blazers and Megalopoplis from Galaxy Express are one and the
same. Actually, Matsumoto-san and Eldred differ on the location of Megapolis City. Matsumoto-san says
Tokyo while Eldred favors an Okinawa location in the Star Blazers: Be Forever Yamato comic book
adaptation by Argo Press (Part 1, Prelude). I, of course, defer to the original author. Sorry, Tim.
Major reconstruction efforts begin to reclaim the portions of Can-Am and

Euroland devastated during the Earth-Gamilon War. Among these are
the remains of New York and Paris, complete with reproductions or
reconstructions of many of their most famous landmarks.
Be Forever Yamato. These were part of the Black Nebula Empires fake Earth and the Star Force didnt so
much as bat an eye at them. All they said was that some things seemed different than what they knew.
A new spaceport named Gideon Field is built at the EDF Kadena Base
on Great Island.
Star Blazers Be Forever Yamato comic book adaptation by Argo Press (Part 1, Prelude). This would seem
to presuppose that Captain Gideon made a name for himself during the Earth-Gamilon War if they named a
major military base after him.
The United Nations Space Patrol Force (UNSPF), aka the Earth Space
Navy, is reorganized as the Earth Defense Force (EDF).
Implied by Star Blazers: The Comet Empire. The term Earth Defense Force is actually used in the very
first episode of Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar. This is one of the rare cases in which I defer to
Musashi.
The terraforming of Mars begins.

Star Blazers: The Callisto Crisis comic book series by Comico (Part 3, Target: Argo!).
The EDF builds major interplanetary bases on Mars, Titan, Pluto, and
Brumus.
Implied by Star Blazers: The Comet Empire.
The EDF establishes a uniform naming policy for future warships based
on historical naval vessels of Earths past. All nations that currently or
once fielded major naval vessels will have ships named for them in the
new EDF. The only exception is the new super space battleship class,
which will carry names based on constellations in Earths nighttime
skies.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. EDF Force Structure and Command Chart.
Construction begins on the Pluto Observatory on Charon, the planets

only moon. It is seen as a monument to mankinds first tenuous steps
on the Sea of Stars.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 05, Battlefield: The Tombstone Planet).
The Earths top medical experts are assembled at Megapolis City for a
very special and top secret operation. Their goal is twofold: first, to
keep Captain Avatars brain alive while they try to revive his body;
second, to rid his body of the radiation sickness that killed him.
Final Yamato.
Captain Yamanami takes on the task of a guest lecturer at the Space

Cadet School in addition to his headquarters duties.
Yamato: The New Voyage. Most of the senior Star Force officers had never heard of Captain Yamanami.
This means that he couldnt have lectured at the Space Cadet School until after they had graduated.
Advance forces of the Comet Empire monitor a tremendous energy

surge that originates from and covers the entire surface of the planet
Telezart. Cometine forces rush to the scene to investigate. What they
find is a world where all life has been completely destroyed in a matter
of minutes. The sole survivor is Trelana, a being of incredible psionic
powers. She is hiding in a spaceship parked deep within a cave
beneath Telezarts surface. They seal the only access to the cave
before continuing their mission of conquest thus rendering Trelana a
prisoner within her own homeworld.

Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episodes 12-14) and Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato. Both Trelana
and Sandor assert that the destruction on Telezart happened fairly recently. The Star Blazers Technical
Manual asserts that the Cometine assault on the planets of Ceresis, Probain, and Brumus happened about
the same time as their initial visit to Telezart.
Desslok of Gamilon is restored to full health on the direct order of Prince

Zordar. As the crafty Cometine leader has foreseen the grateful
Gamilon emperor swears alliegance to the Comet Empire. This gives
Prince Zordar his first conquest. In other words he is able to claim
dominion over a sizeable portion of the Milky Way galaxy without having
to fire a shot. The truth of the matter is kept from Leader Desslok,
although some of his subordinates remain suspicious.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episodes 01 & 02) and the Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. The
Gamilon-Comet Empire Alliance of 2201.
The Spirit of Gamilon is delivered to Leader Desslok by his

subordinates. It is the same Gamilon command cruiser that was used to
field test the new version of the Desslok Cannon.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire DVD supplement Desslok and the Gamilons by Tim Eldred and the Star
Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Gamilon Force Structure and Command Chart.
Derek Wildstar finds the time to write a book on deep space battle
tactics. It is the first of its kind on Earth and quickly becomes popular
within military circles upon publication. Not long afterward it becomes
required reading at the Space Cadet School.
Star Blazers: The Callisto Crisis comic book series by Comico (Part 2, The Prisoner and the Power).
Colonel Fenalon told Wildstar that he had read his book.
5 December
2200
Prince Zordor holds a council of war with his command staff about the
plans for his conquest of the Milky Way galaxy. Of particular interest to
him is the planet Earth. A surprise guest to this council is Leader
Desslok of Gamilon, who is in attendance at the personal invitation of
Prince Zordar.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 01, Return to Earth). The date is from the original Japanese
dialogue. The arrival time at Earth by Gatlantis is estimated to be about 6660 Gatlantean hours. This
comes out to about 278 days provided a Gatlantean hour is the same as our own. There is no way to know
for sure. Zordar and his generals also comment on the wide technology gap between Earth and the Comet
Empire at this point in time. Cometine intelligence apparently hadnt detected any major buildup in Earth.
This means that Zordars council had to have happened before the EDF Fleet Replenishment Plan was
underway. Otherwise the buildup in Earths space forces would have been noted during the various
briefings. The date reference was inadvertently omitted in the English dub.
8 January
2201
The EDF, with the approval of the United Earth Government, puts into
action its Fleet Replenishment Plan. Authored by Fleet Captain Draco
Gideon, this plan represents the most ambitious ship construction effort
in Earths history. Its intent is to replace the entire EDF fleet with new,
modernized, wave motion engine equipped warships within two years.
Also included in the plan are new supply bases, support facilities, and
fleet staging areas.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, EDF Force Structure and Command Chart.
August 2201
By the end of August 2201 the combined shipyards of Earth and its
interplanetary colonies have produced over 600 brand new warships of

eight different classes. These range in size from patrol cruisers all the
way up to space battleships. Another 300 are in various stages of
construction and will be completed by the end of the year.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, EDF Force Structure and Command Chart. You might find this timetable a
bit hard to believe unless you study the American naval construction effort during World War II and also take
into account possible future techniques. American shipyards built 78 escort carriers in only 46 months in
addition to work on hundreds of other military and civilian vessels of every size and description during the
same time period (June 1941 to April 1945). These included a whole new class of main fleet carriers (the
Essex class), two new classes of destroyers (the venerable Fletcher and Gearing classes), two new classes
of heavy cruisers (the Salem and Alaska classes), and completion of the Iowa class battleships, not to
mention the legendary Liberty civilian ships and many other warship classes I havent named. 600 new
ships in only eight months? Quite possible. Prince Zordar himself seems impressed by the EDFs
production capabilities and says as much in the original Japanese dialogue (Episode 07, Fine Tuning).
Fleet Captain Draco Gideon is assigned command of the Andromeda. It

is the first in a new class of super space battleships and is designed to
replace the Yamato as Earths premier ship-of-the-line. Gideons
assignment is a reward for the success of the Fleet Replenishment
Plan. Ten more Andromeda class vessels have already been
authorized for construction by the Defense Committee.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 03, x) and the Star Blazers Technical Manual, EDF Force
Structure and Command Chart.
September November
2201 LE
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato

Saraba Uchuu Senkan Yamato Ai no Senshi-tachi
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire

Uchuu Senkan Yamato II
One of the little known facts about these two titles is that each has its own distinct (albeit similar) timeline of
events. I did not know about this until I got my hands on translated original Japanese prints of the series and
compared it to the materials I had from the movie. The movie timeline starts in early September 2201 and
ends in mid-October. The series timeline takes place about a month later. Why the change? I dunno. Ask
the producers.
7 October
2201
The 15th Intersystem Patrol Fleet is attacked by spacecraft of unknown

origin. They are in fact patrol ships from an advance fleet of the Comet
Empire.
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Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 01, Return to Earth).
10 October
2201
The 15th Intersystem Patrol Fleet, headed by the venerable space

battleship Yamato, returns to Earth after a year patrolling the outer
reaches of EDF-controlled space.
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Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 01, Return to Earth). The exact date is never mentioned in the
English dub but is stated twice in the dialogue of the Japanese original. This event is the anchor date for all
events in the Earth-Cometine War. Eldreds dating agrees with this and it is also the date used in the Star
Blazers comics by Argo Press (with which Eldred was involved). Musashi places the event about a month
earlier on 5 September 2201 in keeping with the feature film Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato. This is
because there was no English translation of the series proper in existence when the Star Blazers Technical
Manual was written.
Launching of the EDF super space battleship Andromeda.

Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 01, Return to Earth) and the movie Farewell to Space Battleship
Yamato. Only in the movie do we see the actual launch ceremony.
The Yamato and the newly launched Andromeda almost collide in Earth orbit.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 01, Return to Earth). In the movie Farewell to Space Battleship
Yamato it almost collided with Wildstars Arione class frigate in Earths upper atmosphere.
Cometine forces attack and conquer the planets Ceresis and Probain.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 05, The Hunted). The conquest is mentioned as just having
occurred in the opening narration of the episode in the original Japanese version. This narration was cut
from the English version of the series.
10-12 October
2201
The Yamato undergoes the second part of a two-part major overhaul.

Major improvements added in this part of the overhaul include offensive
armaments with longer range, a new and more powerful sensor suite
that includes a first-generation time radar, and depth charge racks for
anti-space submarine warfare.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 02, Blackout). This portion of the refit was only supposed to
take two days; however it was put behind schedule by General Naskas second electronic warfare attack.
The new depth charge racks are never mentioned by Sandor in his briefing; however, they are shown in use
for the first time against the Cometine space submarines (Episode 07, Fine Tuning). The racks are not
shown on any of the original Japanese materials for the first season; therefore they must have been added
during the overhaul.
11 October
2201
General Naska launches his second massive electronic warfare attack

against the Solar System.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 02, Blackout)
Leader Desslok leaves Gatlantis with the blessing of Prince Zordar to

seek and destroy the Star Force by any means necessary.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 02, Blackout).
12 October
2201
13 October
2201
Derek Wildstar and Nova Forrester quietly cancel their wedding plans.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 03, Fateful Decisions) and Farewell to Space Battleship
Yamato. General Singleton comments to Nova that he intends to be a guest at the wedding, which will take
place in three days. He says this while the Yamato is still a day out from Earth. This would have made their
planned wedding date 13 October 2201 (and not 7 September 2201 per the movie) in keeping with the
series timeline.
The mutiny of the Star Force. The Yamato is seized and stolen for an
unauthorized mission to the planet Telezart. Joining in the mutiny are
the ships former Black Tiger fighter squadrons, now stationed on Luna.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 04, Mutiny). The original Japanese dialogue for the series gives
a date of 4 November 2201 for this event, almost a month after Wildstars return to Earth aboard the
Yamato. The rewritten English dialogue implied that only three days had passed since the Yamatos return
to Earth. This just happens to be in keeping with the original sequence of events (albeit off by about a
month) as presented in Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato. Eldred also appears to agree with this dating
in the materials he helped develop for the Star Blazers comic book series by Argo Press. This is one of the
rare instances where I defer to another source (in this case Eldred) over the Japanese original.
17 October
2201
The Star Force has a showdown with the new super space battleship
Andromeda near Jupiter.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 05, The Hunted).
18 October
2201
The 11th Outer Perimeter Patrol Fleet is wiped out by the forces of
Comet Empire General Naska near planet Brumus.
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Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato. The Star Force sees the wreckage of the fleet as it approaches
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Brumus. The telling absence of the 11 Fleet in the TV series also implies its destruction, although it is
never shown.
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20 October
2201
The Star Force engages and destroys part of General Naskas fleet at
Brumus and then evacuates all surviving Space Marines from its
surface.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 06, Mayday). The original Japanese dialogue mentions that
only ten Space Marines, including Sergeant Knox, survived the Cometine assault on Brumus.
23 October
2201
The United Earth Government finally recognizes the serious nature of

the threat of the Comet Empire. The Star Force is cleared of all charges
of mutiny and sedition. Their mission to Telezart is now given official
sanction. Based on the Star Forces report General Singleton orders
the EDF Second and Third Fleets to Brumus to further investigate the
activities of the Comet Empire.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 06, Mayday).
26 October
2201
Cometine Major Hiraths missile cruiser squadron engages and is wiped

out by the Star Force.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 08, Double Jeopardy).
28 October
2201
General Tobruks full battle fleet engages the Star Force. It is

completely destroyed by the use of the Yamatos wave motion gun.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 09, Fine Tuning).
29 October
2201
Leader Dessloks grand scheme to destroy the Star Force is foiled at the
last minute due to the political scheming of Princess Invidia, sister and
consort to Prince Zordar. He and his fleet are immediately recalled to
Gatlantis.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 12, Fish in a Barrel).
30 October
2201
The Star Force arrives at Telezart. It defeats the Cometine forces there
and rescues Trelana, who provides them with critical intelligence on
both the Comet Empire and the space fortress Gatlantis.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 13, Trap at Telezart and Episode 14, Eyes for the Prize).
Leader Desslok is falsely placed under arrest by Princess Invidia for

treason against the Comet Empire.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 14, Eyes for the Prize).
Both EDF Fleet Commander Singleton and Fleet Captain Gideon urge
the UEG Defense Committee to accelerate construction on all
Andromeda class vessels currently building as quickly as possible in
order to better face the danger posed by the Comet Empire. The
Defense Committee readily agrees in light of the intelligence on the
Comet Empire forwarded by the Star Force. Construction on all other
vessels is halted as resources are redirected for the effort.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 14, Eyes for the Prize). Only five of the ten additional
Andromeda class ships that were authorized had actually started building, according to Captain Gideon. At
least one of these is shown partially completed at two different times in the series. The effort proved to be
too much even for the resources of the EDF. The Andromeda was the only completed new super space
battleship available to assist the fleet at the Battle of Saturn. So what happened to the other hull that we
saw? It is my guess that it was destroyed either by being jury-rigged and thrown into the Battle of Saturn or
vaporized on the ground by Prince Zordars bombardment of Megapolis City. The Star Blazers: The Callisto
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Cometine War and it is so depicted during the series (Episode 02, Blackout). This means something must
have happened to the partially completed Andromeda class hull we saw in the series proper.
31 October
2201
The Star Force departs Telezart.
2 November
2201
Trelana of Telezart attempts to stop Gatlantis by destroying her own

planet Telezart directly in its path. The Comet Empire battle fortress is
severely damaged but not destroyed as had been hoped. It resumes its
course at reduced speed while effecting repairs en route to Earth. The
fate of Trelana is unknown.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 15, Farewell to Telezart).
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 16, Confrontation).
6 November
2201
Prince Zordar orders his Cometine forces to begin the conquest of

Earth.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode xx, x).
7 November
2201
Acting on his own personal authority, EDF Fleet Captain Draco Gideon
assumes command of all EDF space fleets. He stages all of them at the
Saturnian moon of Titan in preparation for an expected showdown with
the forces of the Comet Empire.
Leader Desslok escapes confinement with the assistance of his aide

General Talan. He takes Princess Invidia as hostage and uses her to
escape Gatlantis. He is picked up by his own fleet once he is free.
Dessloks actions cause Prince Zordar to reconsider his former allys
confinment and he soon catches on to Invidias schemes. He returns
the Spirit of Gamilon, Dessloks command crusier, as a sign of good
faith in that he personally was not part of Invidias plotting against
Desslok. The Gamilon leader accepts the gift and departs to resume his
vendetta against the Star Force.
8 November
2201
The Star Force discovers and destroys a secret Cometine supply base
on Brumus during an unscheduled layover.
9 November
2201
The returning Yamato is the last major EDF capital ship to join the
combined Earth space fleets under Captain Gideons command at Titan.
10-11
November
2201
The Battle of Saturn
11 November
2201
Death of Fleet Captain Draco Gideon at the Battle of Saturn.
12 November
2201
The United Earth Government surrenders unconditionally to the Comet

Empire following the complete rout of the combined EDF fleets in the
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episodes xx and , The Battle of Saturn, Parts 1 & 2).
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode xx, The Battle of Saturn, Part 2).
aftermath of the Battle of Saturn. The Star Force is presumed lost or

destroyed during the battle.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode xx, The Battle of Saturn, Part 2). It is important to note that the
entire active EDF fleet except for the Yamato was wiped out at the Battle of Saturn. Earth had nothing left
with which to defend itself save its automated systems. These were easily destroyed by the Comet Empire
once it arrived at Earth.
Prince Zordar orders the destruction of the main EDF base on Mars as
Gatlantis passes on its way to Earth. There are only a handful of
survivors
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato. This same footage was retinted and recycled for the destruction of
Luna in the television series. The fact that there were survivors is implied by the Star Blazers: The Callisto
Crisis comic book series.
Prince Zordar turns Luna, Earths moon, into a flaming ball of fire as a
show of power.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode xx, x). This act probably collapsed the Darkwood stargate on
Lunas dark side (Interstella 5555). My guess is that this was the (unstated) reason why Prince Zordar
targeted Earths moon specifically instead of bombarding Earths surface right away as he does later on. He
stated in the anime that his act was a show of power against Earth. By collapsing the Darkwood stargate
Prince Zordar removed mankinds last hope of escape from his dominion.
Desslok of Gamilon and his forces ambush the Star Force near Luna,
Earths moon. The battle ends only after a dramatic personal
showdown between Desslok and Derek Wildstar. After the
confrontation the Gamilon leader suddenly withdraws and abandons the
field, leaving behind his former alliance and a puzzled Star Force.
13 November
2201
The Star Force, along with the unexpected last-minute intervention of

Trelana of Telezart, engages and destroys the Comet Empire. There
are only 22 survivors, both whole and wounded, from the entire Star
Force.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episodes 25, x and 26, End Game). In Be Forever Yamato Wildstar
states that 96 members of the Star Force died during the Earth-Cometine War. This apparently does not
count casualties among the wounded but does include all ten of the Space Marines from Brumus who joined
the Star Force and were killed in action during the course of the show.
Death of Neville Royster.

Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 24, x).
Death of Jefferson Hardy.

Death of Peter Pete Conroy.

Death of Webster Knox.

Yamato Chief Engineer Patrick Orion is rushed to surgery on Earth

following the return of his body for burial. He had been presumed dead
from severe burns and multiple injuries sustained during the Star
Forces clash with the Comet Empire but spontaneously revived in the
morgue. He will remain hospitalized and undergo numerous operations
over the next year. A monument is placed at Heros Hill in his honor
along with those of his fallen comrades as testament to his miraculous
recovery.
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 26, End Game). Orion actually died in the Japanese original but
his death was cut from the English dub. This entry is here to explain how he reappears, alive and well, in the
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book series by Comico.
14-21
November
2201
Most of the surviving elements of the Comet Empire fleets that took part
on the assault on the Milky Way galaxy regroup at Redella under the
command of General Radnar.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Further Course of Action by the Comet Empire and the Star Blazers:
The Callisto Crisis comic book series by Comico (Part 1, S.O.S. Argo). Radnar is named as the senior
commander of all surviving Cometine forces in the series. His dreadnought is based on production sketches
(which can be found in the Yamato Perfect Manuals) of an unused design for Prince Zordars dreadnought.
The current rulers of the Comet Empire decide that expansion into the
Milky Way galaxy would be more trouble than it is worth. Their decision
is to pursue conquests in other parts of intergalactic space. In this they
are vociferously opposed by General Radnar. He breaks with his
superiors and decides to initiate action against Earth and the EDF on his
own. The Comet Empire does not forbid Radnars actions; however,
they officially break all ties with him. They leave him and his forces to
whatever fate lies in store for them in the Milky Way Galaxy. Any
success by Radnar will be to their advantage; any loss will be entirely
his own affair.
Implied by the Star Blazers: The Callisto Crisis comic book series by Comico. It is stated repeatedly in the
story that Radnar is violating orders and acting on his own initiative.
The Comet Empire appoints a new heir to replace the defeated and disgraced Prince
Zordar. Zordar is officially listed in Cometine records as killed in action with the Star
Force. His true fate will remain a mystery for years to come.
Star Blazers Technical Manual, s.v. Further Course of Action by the Comet Empire and Star Blazers:
Rebirth.
28-30
November
2201
28-30
November
2201
Star Blazers: The Callisto Crisis

Four part comic book series by Phil Foglio and Doug Rice, et. al; published by Comico. This story takes
place some time after the end of Star Blazers: The Comet Empire but before Yamato: The New Voyage. In
the story Colonel Fenalon says weeks [have] passed since the destruction of Gatlantis. It is safe to say
that at least a couple of weeks have passed due to the extensive damage to the Yamato. This would give
an approximate date of 28 November 2201, which is just enough time for the EDF to make the Yamato
spaceworthy again per the story. They are finishing repairs on the Yamato as the story begins.
The sun in the Arishna system goes nova, destroying all of its innermost
planets. The former Guardian Spirit of Arishna leaves at the same time,
departing the system in a hyperlight burst of energy.
Star Blazers: The Callisto Crisis comic book series by Comico (Part 2, The Prisoner and the Power and
Part 4, Sacrifice).
The EDF frigate Hanley is made spaceworthy in just three days in order
to help deal with the Callisto crisis.
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event is significant in that the Hanley was the EDF vessel closest to completion (aside from an unnamed
Andromeda class super space battleship) when the impending threat of the Comet Empire was finally
realized. Its construction was held up for more Andromedas despite its closeness to completion. The
Hanley is the frigate pictured in drydock during the second attack by the Comet Empire on Earths power
generating stations per Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (Episode 02, Blackout).
Mars Base is destroyed by General Radnar during the Callisto crisis.

General Talan and his Gamilon fleet join with the Star Force to deal with
the Callisto crisis. It is the first time that humans and Gamilons have
allied themselves in a common cause.
The EDF frigate Hanley is destroyed in action against General Radnars

forces during the Callisto crisis.
Star Blazers: The Callisto Crisis comic book series by Comico (Part 4, Sacrifice).
General Radnar and his forces are wiped out in Earth orbit thanks to the
unexpected intervention of the Guardian Spirit of Arishna.
Luna, Earths moon, is restored to its former glory by the Guardian Spirit
of Arishna.
first week of
December
2201
The rebuilding of Earth begins.

Yamato: The New Voyage. Sandor tells Wildstar he watched the rebuilding begin from his hospital window.
Steven Sandor buys himself a home on Great Island within sight of Mt.
Fuji.
Star Blazers Icarus comic book series by Argo Press (Part 1, The Rock). Must have done it on the
Leijiverse equivalent of the Internet since he was in the hospital at the time.
Steven Sandor develops the warp supercharger. It represents the first

significant improvement in human space warp technology since its gift
by Starsha of Iscandar in 2199. The warp supercharger permits
starships to make one long jump from origin to destination instead of a
string of smaller jumps as had been the norm.
Star Blazers Technical Manual and Yamato: The New Voyage. Sandor had apparently been experimenting
with the idea for a while. Construction probably began while he was still in the hospital. In the first series it
took about 3 months for the Yamato to make the return trip from Iscandar to Earth. By the time Yamato:
The New Voyage rolled around he had reduced the time for the same trip to only a week!
Lieutenant Commander Sho Yamazaki, formerly an assistant engineer

with the Star Force, is reassigned as the new chief engineer of the
Yamato.
Yamato: The New Voyage. Yamazaki is never given a name in the English-language version of Star
Blazers: The Bolar Wars so Im going with the Japanese one per Eldreds materials. This is apparently
meant to be the same engineer who reported the fire in the Yamatos engine room in Star Blazers: The
Comet Empire (Episode xx, The Battle of Saturn, Part 2) just before a big explosion throws him off-screen.
When his character is first introduced in the movie Mark Venture observes that Yamazaki had recently been
discharged from the hospital. He had apparently been put off with the rest of the Star Force wounded at
Ganymede, thus escaping the certain death reserved for the majority of his comrades.
EDF space probes discover the planet Eurythmia, an isolated and

seeming desolate world within the Milky Way galaxy. It is unique in that
it is the only interstellar body ever encountered by humanity to have an
absolutely perfect circular orbit. This is a physical impossibility and
implies some form of intelligence at work. A scientific expedition is
promptly dispatched to Eurythmia for a detailed study of the planet
under the joint leadership of Professors Hans Schiller and Jessica
Shannon. Jessicas father, EDF Colonel Cosmo Shannon, is put in
charge of the EDF forces escorting the Eurythmia survey mission. The
study goes without a hitch and the expedition eventually returns to Earth
unharmed.
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book series (Part 1, The Jackals Come to Feed).
A new interstellar power arises to challenge the revolt-ridden Gamilon

Empire in the wake of the defeat of the Comet Empire. It is the
Mercenary Empire, so named because most of its military forces are
made of mercenaries from various intelligent species across the galaxy.
Its leader is Supreme Commander Lotar. Under his leadership the
Mercenary Empire promptly seizes control of a dozen key systems
formerly occupied by the Comet Empire. Lotars ambitions appear to be
to seize control of all former Cometine holdings within the Milky Way.
This also happens to include the Earth and its fledgling interstellar
colonies.
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book series (Part 1, The Jackals Come to Feed).
Unknown and unnoticed, General Ian Helms and his followers return to
Earth.
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book series by Comico (Part 1, The Jackals Come to Feed).
7-25
December
2201
Yamato: The New Voyage

Yamato: Aratananu Tabidachi
The dates are derived both from internal evidence in the movie and the Star Blazers Icarus comic book
series by Argo Press. Upon arrival at Icarus Sasha in her diary that she is eleven months old. The
implication is that the destruction of Iscandar took place on 25 December 2201, three days after Sasha was
born and one year to the day before the invasion of Earth by the Black Nebula Empire (although this is never
explicitly stated). The movie never gives an exact date. It says only that it begins one month after the end
of the Earth-Cometine War. The Christmas date also reconciles reasonably well with Dessloks own
comments at the start of the movie. He tells his people that it has been two years since the destruction of all
life on Gamilon. The Battle of Gamilon took place on 23-25 April 2200. Thats nineteen months that have
passed, which is exactly what Desslok says later in the movie.
7 December
2201
Desslok of Gamilon, now reunited with General Talan and the rest of his
fleet, orders their course set for Gamilon. He wishes to pay his respects
one last time to his former homeworld.
Star Blazers Arishna comic book series by Comico (Part 4, Sacrifice) and Yamato: The New Voyage.
8 December
2201
Patrick John Tim Orion Jr. is granted his request to join the Star Force.
Yamato: The New Voyage. He was a member of the 2201 graduating class of the Space Cadet School. We
first see him in the movie the day before he graduated. The Star Force was his requested duty assignment.
Derek Wildstar and Nova Forrester decide to postpone their wedding

again; this time, for a while.
Yamato: The New Voyage. According to Nova, Im happy as things are. Their wedding will wind up getting
postponed for another four years, by the way.
10 December
2201
12 December
2201
A total of 59 new crewmembers (including Orion Jr.) join the Star Force.
Yamato: The New Voyage. 30 new engineers (including Orion Jrs, ill-fated boatload) and 29 others in other
duty sections (Kitanos report). Most appear to have been straight from the Space Cadet School graduating
class of 2201 per the movie visuals. This number does not appear to have included new pilots for the famed
Black Tiger Squadron nor does it appear to have included any Space Marines per se.
The Yamato leaves Earth on a routine training mission for the next two
weeks on the Martian side of the Solar System inner asteroid belt.
Yamato: The New Voyage.
15 December
2201
Dessloks fleet arrives at Gamilon and discovers a clandestine Black Nebula Empire
mining operation in full swing. An angered Desslok orders his fleet to wipe out the
aliens who are, in his eyes, desecrating the sacred soil of Gamilon. The destruction of
the Black Nebula mining ships, with their holds full of high-energy ore, sets off a chain
reaction that causes Gamilon to self-destruct within the hour and blows Iscandar out of
its orbit. Desslok and his surviving forces immediately set off in pursuit of the helpless
planet Iscandar, which is now speeding out of control across the Sea of Stars.
16 December
2201
Despite his pleas both Queen Starsha and Alex Wildstar refuse to leave
Iscandar. The planet is now moving fast enough to warp on its own,
which it does. Not knowing what else to do and for possibly the first
time in his life Desslok calls for help. He sends a message to the Star
Force so Derek Wildstar will know what is happening to his elder brother
Alex.
The Yamatos training exercises are cancelled when word of Dessloks

distress signal is received. The Star Force is immediately dispatched to
the Magellanic Cloud with orders from EDF Commander General
Singleton to provide what aid and assistance to Queen Starsha they
can. Its our turn to help her and yours is the closest ship, Singleton
tells the Star Force.
22 December
2201
Sasha, daughter of Commander Alex Wildstar and Queen Starsha of

Iscandar, is born.
Yamato: The New Voyage and Star Blazers Icarus comic book series by Bruce Lewis for Argo Press. When
we first see her Sasha is a small, chubby baby. In Be Forever Yamato Sasha appeared to be a 16-year-old
teenager. It is established in the latter movie that Sasha aged a little more than one year for every Earth
month. In the Icarus comic Sandor says that Sasha aged seventeen times faster than Earth normal during
her childhood.
23-25
December
2201
The Battle of Iscandar
23 December
2201
The Star Force arrives at the coordinates provided by Desslok for the
new location of Iscandar. There they discover that Dessloks forces,
despite their best efforts, are being ravaged by a Black Nebula Empire
battle fleet as Desslok attempts to defend Queen Starsha. The Star
Force immediately joins the fray and ambushes the Black Nebula forces
from the rear, saving Dessloks life. Amid the confusion of the first day
of battle Alex Wildstar succeeds in re-igniting the runaway magma
reaction inside Iscandar that was making the planet accelerate.
Iscandar speeds up once again and warps away. At the same time the
Star Force manages to destroy the attacking Black Nebula forces with
its Wave Motion Gun. The Star Force, along with Desslok and his
surviving Gamilon forces, take off in pursuit of the runaway planet.
Yamato: The New Voyage. Wildstar told General Singleton in the mission briefing that it would take the
Yamato seven days of continuous warping to reach Iscandar. Without Sandors new warp supercharger the
journey would have taken months per the original series (Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar).
24 December
2201
The Black Nebula Empire dispatches a Gorba class battle fortress to

seize control of Iscandar once and for all.
Both the Star Force and Dessloks Gamilon fleet are forced to pass
dangerously close to the surface of a red giant star as they chase after
the planet Iscandar.
Yamato: The New Voyage. This scene was cut from the movie but can be found in both the DVD extras and
in the comic book adaptation by Argo Press.
25 December
2201
The planet Iscandar finally comes to a stop. This permits the Star Force
and Dessloks fleet to catch up with it. At the same time the Black
Nebula Empires Gorba class battle fortress dewarps in the area. It
immediately disgorges its on-board fleet and lays claim to the planet,
with Queen Starsha and Alex Wildstar as hostages. Desslok ignores
the claim and immediately attacks, initiating the final act in the Battle of
Iscandar.
The third and final act in the Battle of Iscandar results in no clear winner.
Instead, Queen Starsha decides to destroy her world (and herself along
with it) rather than continue being a war prize. She is survived by her
royal consort, EDF Commander Alex Wildstar, and their daughter
Sasha. They are both taken aboard the Yamato prior to its leaving the
area along with Desslok and his Gamilon fleet. As for the Black Nebula
forces, they are destroyed when the planet Iscandar explodes.
26 December
2201
Before they go their separate ways, Desslok thanks Derek Wildstar for
answering his earlier message. Desslok and his fleet then leave to find
a new home and rebuild the Gamilon Empire. The Star Force begins
the journey back to Earth.
3 January
2203
The Star Force returns to Earth ... and, far away, the Black Nebula
Empire begins plotting its revenge against humanity for thwarting its
designs.
Yamato: The New Voyage. It took seven days for the Yamato to warp from Earth to Iscandars new position.
One more day out was the red giant star that caused them so much trouble in the movies deleted scene. It
was within sight of the same red giant star where Derek Wildstar and Leader Desslok said their goodbyes at
the end of the movie. You can clearly see it in the background behind their ships. Hence, the Star Force
was eight days worth of warping away from Earth at that point.
first week of
January 2202
Sasha begins to read on her own.
2202
Wave motion gun cartridges are developed.
Star Blazers Icarus comic book series (Part 1, The Rock).
Be Forever Yamato
Former Yamato chief engineer Patrick Orion, now fully recovered from
his battle wounds, accepts a job as an engineering instructor at the
Space Cadet School. This act marks his formal retirement from the Star
Force.
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book series (Part 1, The Jackals Come to Feed). Orion mentions his new
job when he refuses Wildstars offer to rejoin the Star Force.
The Earth colony of Centarius is established on the sole habitable

planet in orbit around the star Alpha Centauri.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 01, x).
Excalibur, the third and final incarnation of the Desslok Cannon, is

developed.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 25, x).
The EDF commissions its Design Board to do a study on new classes of

super space battleships both based on current designs and all-new
construction efforts. Out of this study will come the plans for the
subsequent Arizona and Andromeda II classes.
The Star Blazers Technical Manual notes that the Andromeda II was officially commissioned in 2202. This
date was later changed in Star Blazers: Rebirth to 2214. Subsequent events over the next few years would
delay construction of the all-new Andromeda II class. The EDF apparently fell back on the Arizona design
proposal as a stopgap measure until the time was right for an all-new class to be built. The Arizona itself,
the lead ship of its class, was converted from the sole remaining uncompleted Andromeda-class hull that
had survived the Earth-Cometine War of 2201. Its sister ships (Star Blazers: Rebirth) were apparently built
from the keel up.
The Galman Empire develops and deploys subspace stealth technology

for use in its new space submarines.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 13, The Dimensional Submarines: Galman Wolf). Desslok
probably got the idea during his alliance with Prince Zordar of the Comet Empire back in 2201 (Star Blazers:
The Comet Empire).
mid-2202
Star Blazers: The Eurythmia Affair

Five part comic book series by Phil Foglio and Doug Rice, et. al; published by Comico. The date is set by
Leader Dessloks discovery of the location of Galman, the original homeworld of the Gamilons, near the end
of this story. The story of his battle with the Bolars over possession of Galman is recalled in a flashback
during Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars. Dessloks conquest of Galman is generally accepted as having
happened about the same time as or shortly after the events depicted in Be Forever Yamato.
mid-2202
Leader Desslok learns the location of Galman, the original homeworld of

the Gamilons. He immediately begins making plans to pay a pilgrimage
to the birthplace of his people.
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book series (Part 4, A Blast From the Past).
The Star Force frees the Guardian Spirit of Eurythmia from its millennia of
imprisonment. In the process it also destroys all surviving Eurythmian Planet
Crushers, including the one in use by the Mercenary Empire. Without the power of the
Planet Crusher to back it the Mercenary Empire quickly collapses.
Star Blazers Eurythmia comic book series (Part 5, x).
6 September
24 November
2202
Star Blazers: Icarus
8 November
2202
The now-teenaged Sasha goes with Steven Sandor to his new posting
at an EDF base on the asteroid Icarus. This is at the request of her
father, Alex Wildstar. The stated intent is to keep her rapid aging from
prying eyes. Her fathers real intent is to get her out of harms way from
the invasion from the Black Nebula Empire he knows will be coming
someday.
Three part comic book series by Bruce Lewis, et al, for Argo Press.
Star Blazers Icarus comic book series (Part 1, The Rock). Sandor calculated Sashas growth rate around
seventeen times that of a normal human.
22 November
2202
Sasha celebrates her sixteenth birthday.
24 November
2202
Steven Sandor is almost killed in a pressure suit accident at Icarus.
Star Blazers Icarus comic book series (Part 1, The Rock).
Star Blazers Icarus comic book series (Part 2, Waxwing).
Commander Derek Wildstar puts in a call to on Earth from his new

assignment, the EDF long-range patrol ship Advance. He tells Nova,
Ill be back in eight short weeks.
Star Blazers Icarus comic book series (Part 2, Waxwing).
30 November
2202
Sashas application for enrollment is accepted at the EDF Space Cadet

School.
Star Blazers Icarus comic book series (Part 3, Angel Too Close to the Sun). This explains the uniform she
is wearing in Be Forever Yamato. It is that of a first-year Space Cadet School midshipman.
22 December
2202
A top-secret meeting is held in the office of UEG President Fujimori.

The only other attendees are EDF Commander General Singleton and
Gally Forrester, younger sister of Nova Forrester and an EDF staff
psychologist. The subject of the meeting is the recently revivied
Abraham Avatar. Captain Avatar is alive; however, he has no memory
of his past. It will be Gally Forresters job to try to revive his memories
and reacquaint him with the man he was.
Star Blazers Icarus comic book series (Part 3, Angel Too Close to the Sun). The comic also implies that
Starshas sister Astra was also revived. The revival of both of them was attributed to the effects of the
Cosmo DNA in restoring Earth to its glory of old. This story arc was never fully explored before the Argo
Press comic series was cancelled. It would have been at odds both with the original Japanese source
materials and Matsumto-sans own manga. Both of these emphasize that Astra was laid to rest on Iscandar
during the Star Forces visit there, not preserved in cryostasis on Earth and later revived. Besides, if the
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Iscandar. If it didnt cure Avatar then why would it have revived him after he had already died?
23 December
2202
Captain Yamanami assumes command of the Yamato on the direct

orders of General Singleton.
Star Blazers Be Forever Yamato comic book adaptation by Argo Press (Part 1, Prelude).
24 December
2202
Captain Yamanami orders Steven Sandor to have the Yamato repainted

in keeping with its new role as the flagship of the EDF Special Defense
Forces. He also assigns Cadet Mio Sandor (i.e Sasha) the job of
actually supervising the paint job.
The Gamilons detect a Black Nebula Gorba-class space fortress dewarping just inside the Solar System. They also detect a Black Nebula
strike fleet enroute to Earth. General Talan reports to Leader Desslok
that the EDF has not detected either event and that humanity has no
clue that they are about to be attacked by the Black Nebula Empire.
Leader Desslok declines to intervene on Earths behalf for the simple
fact that his own available forces are too small to repel such a large
assault.
25 December
2202 to early
January 2203
Be Forever Yamato
Yamato yo Towa ni
Star Blazers: Be Forever Yamato comic book adaptation by Argo Press (Part 2, Invasion: Earth!) fixes the
date that the Black Nebula successfully penetrated the EDFs defenses in the Solar System. This is the
scene that opens the movie. The action in the movie appears to take place across several days; however,
no last day is ever given for the defeat of the Black Nebula Empire. My dates are conjecture based on the
way events appear to flow within the movie.
25 December
2203
Earth is conquered and occupied by the Black Nebula Empire.

Be Forever Yamato
Derek Wildstars patrol cruiser is shot down over Earth while witnessing
the destruction of the EDF Automated Fleet by the Black Nebula
Empire.
Be Forever Yamato
All Star Force members save Nova Forrester successfully escape Earth
and flee to Icarus Base in the asteroid belt on the orders of General
Singleton. Nova is not so fortunate. She is wounded during the escape
and unable to leave with her comrades. Instead, she is captured
along with General Singleton, Alex Wildstar, and many other EDF
command staff officers. Nova is fortunate in that her captor is Alphon, a
kindly Black Nebula intelligence officer. As for the others, they are
imprisoned and given one of two choices: cooperation or a very swift
death.
Be Forever Yamato
26 December
2203
The Black Nebula invasion forces threaten to destroy all life on Earth
with a hyperion bomb unless all resistance ends to their rule. The
United Earth Government has no choice but to capitulate. Their first
task is to reveal the location of the Yamato. The only two people on
Earth who know that are General Singleton and Alex Wildstar but they
refuse to cooperate. The two are subsequently dragged away for
execution unless they talk.
Be Forever Yamato
Death of Alex Wildstar. He kills himself with a strapped-on bomb hidden

under his clothes so General Singleton can escape.
Be Forever Yamato
Black Nebula intelligence officer Alphon seizes an abandoned upperclass home in Megapolis City as his own. He moves Nova there and
tends to her injuries.
Be Forever Yamato. According to Eldred the former occupant of the house was none other than the
recuperating Abraham Avatar, who was spirited away to the underground city even as Black Nebula forces
stormed Megapolis City. The house briefly reappears in Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars as the residence of
both Derek and Nova. Mind you, this is before they were married .
In order to deceive the Black Nebula forces he knows will be waiting to

intercept their ship Derek Wildstar has Doctor Sane inject everyone with
a drug to simulate death for a time. While the drug is being prepared he
and his fellow Star Force members rig their ship so that it will look like
they died from an atmosphere leak due to a hatch damaged by the
firefight during their escape from Earth. The ruse is successful and the
deaths duly reported to intelligence officer Alphon. After the patrols
leave IQ-9 revives the others. The Star Force quietly repairs their ship
and slips away undetected.
Implied by Be Forever Yamato. The actual event is depicted in the comic book version for Argo Press by
Tim Eldred. The news of the finding of the ship and the lifeless bodies inside comes as a crushing blow to
Yuki in the movie proper.
The Star Force arrives at Icarus Base where, to their delighted

surprise, they find the Yamato hidden inside. They use it to successfully
escape the Solar System.
Be Forever Yamato
General Singleton and his followers flee to the old underground city beneath Megapolis
City. There they begin organizing what resistance they can against humanitys Black
Nebula masters. He also orders the Yamato to find and disable the control source for
the hyperion bomb that the Black Nebula has placed on Earth.
Be Forever Yamato
30 December
2202
The Yamato leaves the Solar System. Its destination is the Virgo
Cluster, from where the control signal for the hyperion bomb seems to
be eminating.
Be Forever Yamato and Star Blazers: The Comet Empire. The distance between the asteroid belt and
planet Brumus is just over four days at top sublight speed.
31 January
2203
The Yamato is forced to lay for several hours over for minor repairs to its
radar system after its first successful test of its new warp supercharger
system.
Be Forever Yamato.
Derek Wildstar is shocked when Cadet Mia Sandor reveals herself to

be none other than his own grown niece Sasha. She in turn is shocked
when Wildstar tells her about her fathers death.
Be Forever Yamato.
A Yamato reconnaissance plane stumbles across a nearby Black

Nebula mobile supply base hiding inside a nebula. The Star Forces
Black Tigers catch the base by surprise and destroy its support fleet
before it can even be launched. Captain Yamanami then orders the
base destroyed with the Yamatos wave motion gun.
Be Forever Yamato.
1 January
2203
The Yamato arrives at the Virgo Cluster, where it engages and destroys
a Black Nebula battle fleet lying in wait for it. Shortly thereafter they are
jumped by another Black Nebula fleet that has been pursuing the Star
Force ever since they fled Earth. The fleet forces them into a trap where
eight Gorba class battle fortresses are waiting to pounce on the poor
Earth ship. The Star Forces response is to fire full broadsides of its
new wave motion cartridges. The short ranges involved in the trap
make the Yamatos salvoes almost as deadly as if it had actually used
its wave motion gun. This, plus some artful navigation, soon has the
battle fortresses shooting at and destroying each other. Once again, the
Yamato survives to fight another day.
Be Forever Yamato. I note in passing that the trip would have taken about nineteen days without Sandors
warp supercharger.
2-3 January
2203
Leader Desslok launches a successful campaign to free Galman from

control by the Bolar Federation. The Galman and Gamilon peoples are
reunited for the first time in millennia. Desslok makes Galman his new
seat of power and quickly builds the new Galman-Gamilon Empire into
one of the largest in known space. His only major contender for total
control of the Milky Way galaxy is Prime Minister Bemlayze of the Bolar
Federation. Their respective star empires soon become mortal
enemies.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 16, The Day of Desslok)
The Yamato penetrates a hyperdimensional corridor into the parallel

universe of the Black Nebula Empire. There, for a time, they are
deceived into thinking they have arrived at a future Earth. It is actually
Dezarium, the homeworld of the Black Nebula Empire, where the
controls for the hyperion bomb on Earth are located.
Be Forever Yamato.
4 January
2203
The Black Nebulas future Earth ruse is exposed. At the same time
Earth resistance forces are successful in retaking control of Megapolis
City and seizing the hyperion bomb. A dying Alphon reveals the secret
of the bombs controls to Nova even as the Star Force engages the
forces of the Black Nebula Empire for the last time. The Star Force
eventually triumphs, Dezarium destroyed, and the hyperion bomb
deactivated; however, the price of victory is almost too great for Derek
Wildstar to bear.
Be Forever Yamato.
Death of Sasha, daughter of Alex Wildstar and Queen Starsha of

Iscandar. With her dies the Iscandarians, one of the oldest intelligent
humanoid races in the known universe.
Be Forever Yamato.
5 January
2203
The Yamato returns to Earth.
December
2202 to
November
2203
The Bolar-Gamilon War
January 2203
The Earth and its growing network of interstellar colonies come together
under the banner of the Earth Federation. This represents the founding
of a human-oriented interstellar federation that (under various names)
will last for almost a thousand years.
Be Forever Yamato.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars and Yamato 2520. The Earth Federation is specifically named as such in the
Japanese original of The Bolar Wars. This represents the first time that the term is used in the Leijiverse.
Launching of the Arizona, the prototype for the newest class of Earth
Federation super space battleships.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars. We see the Arizona twice during the series. The first time is shortly after its
launching as one of the ships dispatched to find a new home for humanity. This scene was cut from the
English language dub but can be found as an Easter egg in the DVD release. The second is the wreck of
the Arizona on the planet Beta near the end of the series. Although intended as a stopgap measure the
design proved successful enough that the EDF apparently ordered more. An unnamed sister ship to the
Arizona makes a brief appearance during Star Blazers: Rebirth under the command of Captain Dash
Jordell. This implies that there were more vessels built to Arizona specs.
The Yamato is drydocked at a secret EDF base high in the Canadian

Rocky Mountains for a major refit following its battles with the Black
Nebula Empire. This is the last major refit that the Yamato will receive
during its original service lifetime and the only one that takes place at a
facility outside of Japan. The main purpose of this refit is to install an
upgraded wave motion engine but many other onboard systems are
updated as well.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars. In the Japanese original the refit took place in the mountains near Angen,
Japan. We know a new wave motion engine was installed per the series visuals. My guess, per the English
dub, is that the Yamato was docked at the same base at which the Arizona was built and launched but this is
pure conjecture.
mid-January
1 December
2203
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars

Uchuu Senkan Yamato III
We dont know the exact dates for events in the series but one can make a good guess based on the events
that bracket it. The events depicted in Be Forever Yamato started on 25 December of 2202 and lasted
through the first week of January 2203. Final Yamato takes place somewhere near the end of 2203. Allow a
couple of weeks to a month for events that take place immediately prior to The Bolar Wars and one ends up
with dates ranging from mid-January to 1 December 2203. The dates I give for series events are based on
this and may be off by as much as a week in either direction.
mid to late
January 2203
Commander Derek Wildstar is promoted to the rank of captain. He is

the youngest captain to ever serve in the Earth Defense Forces. His
first assignment is a familiar one, save that this time he will be the
Yamatos resident old man.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 01, x)
The Cosmo Hound enters EDF service.

A stray Galman planet destroyer proton missile crashes into Earths

Sun. The resultant runaway chain reaction causes the sun to begin
abnormal expansion. All life on Earth will be destroyed from the heat
within one year unless the reaction is stopped.
All available EDF vessels are ordered to begin a systematic search of

the Milky Way galaxy in order to find mankind a new home before all life
on Earth is eradicated. Among the vessels conducting the search are
the Yamato and the newly commissioned Arizona as well as the
experimental cruisers Bismarck and Prince of Wales.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 01, x, and Episode xx, x)
14 January
2203
Homer Glitchman meets his future wife Wendy Singleton, daughter of

EDF Commander Charles Singleton.
15 January
2203
The Yamato launches on its new mission.
18-19 January
2203
The Legendra Incident
2 February
2203
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 03, Argo Sets Sail at Dawn)
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 05, S.O.S. Spaceship Legendra and Episode 06, Fierce Battle
Near Planet Eleven)
The Star Force comes to the assistance of the Centaurius colony in the
Alpha Centauri system. It had been the victim of an unprovoked
Galman attack.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 07, The Rough Seas of Planet Alpha)
5 February
2203
The Star Force comes to the aid of a family of human space colonists
lost during the Earth-Gamilon War.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 08, The Last Pioneer). This is the same family of three that left
Earth in 2198 as referenced earlier in this timeline.
7 Feburary
2203
The Yamato wins another decisive battle against General Dagon of the
Galman-Gamilon Empire at Barnards Star.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 09, Duel at Planet Barnard)
28 February
2203
General Dagon tries and fails to defeat the Star Force with his new
battle fleet. Instead, his own fleet is wiped out.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 10, Argo Sets Sail at Dawn)
2 March 2203
General Dagon is killed when his ship falls into the same black hole
inside which he had hoped to destroy the Yamato..
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 11, Argo in Danger! The Demonic Cygnus Airspace)
16-17 April
2203
The Star Force fights its first action against the Bolar Federation at
Berth, a penal planet on the borders of Bolar space.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 12, The Penal Colony in Space and Episode 13, Dreadful! The
Bolar Federation)
7 May 2203
The Yamato is captured by Admiral Smirdon of the Galman-Gamilon

Empire. It is soon released on the personal order of Leader Desslok
after he learns of the grave blunders his subordinates have been
committing with regards to the Star Force and Earth. Leader Desslok
apologizes to the Star Force and invites them to the planet Galman in
order to make amends.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 14, The Dimensional Submarines: Galman Wolf and Episode 15,
The Argo Is Captured)
31 May 2203
The Yamato arrives at planet Galman.

Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 16, The Day of Desslok)
1 June 2203
The Bolar Federation attempts to destroy Galman with a wave of planet

destroyer missiles. Only the quick action of the Star Force saves
Desslok and his people.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 17, Critical Moment of Dessloks Empire)
30 June 2203
The Galman Empires attempt to reverse the abnormal growth of Earths

sun ends in spectacular failure.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 18, The Angry Sun)
14 August
2203
The Star Force chances upon a pilgrim ship full of followers of the
Gardiana cult as it searches for a new Earth.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 19, The Way to Planet Phantom)
4 September
2203
The Star Force arrives at planet Phantom.
9 September
2203
A Galman scientific expedition to planet Phantom discovers, almost too

late, that the entire planet is a living organism.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 20, The Planet Phantom)
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 21, Shattered Hope)
11 September
2203
The Star Force rescues Queen Mariposa, the last living descendant of
Queen Gardiana from planet Phantom before it is destroyed by Leader
Desslok. He is angry that the planet made a fool of him by disguising

itself as the new Earth that humanity so desperately needed.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 22, Farewell, Planet of Dreams)
10 November
2203
The Star Force discovers the wreckage of the EDF warship Arizona,
victim of a Bolar ambush, on planet Beta in the Skalagek Star Cluster.
There are no survivors.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 23, Fierce Battle in the Skalagek Star Cluster)
15 November
2203
The Yamato arrives at the long-lost legendary planet Gardiana. With

the assistance of Leader Desslok and the Gamilons the Star Force is
successful in repelling an attempted conquest of Gardiana by the Bolar
Federation. The Star Force receives the Hydrocosmo Penultimate
Cannon as a gift from the grateful inhabitants.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 24, The Secret of Planet Gardiana)
sometime
around 20
November
2203
Dr. Sane is informed that his former patient Captain Avatar is alive, well,
in full command of his facilities, and completely cured of his radiation
sickness. He is also asked to keep the news confidential for now.
1 December
2203
The Yamato fires the Hydrocosmo Penultimate Cannon at the Sun.

Earth is saved once again by the Star Force.
Final Yamato. Dr. Sane tells Derek and Nova that he had only found out a month ago that Captain Avatar
wasnt dead after all. Im guessing that General Singleton or perhaps even Gally Forrester relayed the news
to him on a confidential subspace channel during the return trip to Earth.
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (Episode 25, Argo Shoot the Sun!)
Death of Jason Jetter.

Death of Flash Contrail.

6-26
December
2203
Final Yamato
Uchuu Senkan Yamato: Kanketsuhen
This movie, the final in the original Yamato drama, takes place shortly after the events depicted in The Bolar
Wars. How shortly we do not know; however, the background materials make clear that all events in the
story take place in 2203. The only thing we know for sure is that the Dinguils Uruku space fortress needed
20 days to force-warp Aquarius to Earth and that they started almost as soon as they made that
determination. All other date references in the movie are pegged to this event. This, plus the fact that the
entire movie takes place in 2203 fairly well limits the possible dates involved. The dates I give are
conjectural and may be off by as much as a week in either direction.
5 December
2203
The collision effect between the Milky Way galaxy and a second galaxy
emerging from a parallel dimension reaches a critical juncture. Many
stars, solar systems, and other interstellar bodies are either destroyed or
tossed about the Sea of Stars as these two galaxies pass through each
other. The most seriously affected part of the Milky Way is its galactic
core. Many of the key systems in the Galman-Gamilon Empire are
affected and most of the populated systems in the Bolar Federation are
destroyed The EDF dispatches the Star Force on a rescue mission to
pick up any survivors it finds in the affected areas.

Final Yamato. This impending collision was first noted by Professor Ammamori back in 1999 LE (Queen
Millennia feature film). This galaxy is in all likelihood the same as that noted by the Earl of Darkwood in his
book Veridus Quo (Interstella 5555).
6 December
2203
The Star Force arrives at the Milky Way galactic core with orders to
investigate the interdimensional collision and rescue any survivors.
They find both the Galman-Gamilon and Bolar empires devastated.
What was once Galman is now a dead world smashed to pieces by
planetary rubble. Of Desslok and his people there is no sign. The Star
Force holds a memorial service for Desslok and his people and then
departs as fast as it can in order to escape being destroyed itself.
Final Yamato.
The Dinguil Emperor uses the power of his Uruku space fortress to
accelerate the passing of Aquarius through the Sea of Stars. His intent
is to have Aquarius wipe out all life on the planet and then move in once
the waters have receeded. This will spare the Dinguil a nasty war of
conquest.
Final Yamato.
The Yamato makes an emergency warp to escape the sheer volume of

rubble being generated by the galactic collision effect. It winds up at
Dinguil, the fourth planet in the Unfa star system, which is currently
sufferent a planetwide catastrophe thanks to a close passing of the
rogue planet Aquarius. The Star Force attempts to rescue survivors but
is unsuccessful, losing many of its own people and a Cosmo Hound in
the process. The only survivor who can be rescued is a young Dingul
boy, who proves to be human save for his blue skin. Before leaving the
Star Force plots the course of Aquarius. It will make a similar passing of
Earth in about 6000 years.
Final Yamato.
Without warning the Yamato is attacked by General Zarl of the Dinguil

space fleet. He has mistaken the Star Force for an enemy. The
Yamatos hull is penetrated by deadly hyper-radiation missiles. Many
crewmembers are killed and even the ones who manage to don
spacesuits are overcome by the radiation. For some inexplicable
reason the ship somehow manages to flies itself back to Earth with its
cargo of injured, dead, and dying Star Force members.
Final Yamato.
7 December
2203
The Yamato suddenly dewarps in the vicinity of Pluto and enters the
Solar System at top sublight speed. To everyones surprise the ship
appears to be flying itself. There is no response from anyone on board.
Final Yamato. It has been stated repeatedly in earlier Star Blazers anime that an EDF ship-of-the-line could
make the Pluto-to-Earth run in about four to five days, give or take a day (and depending on the ship and
how hard its engines were pushed).
12 December
2203
The Yamato returns to Earth and docks itself at one of the surface ports
outside Metropolis City. Nova, Dr. Sane, and a special EDF medical
team move in to investigate and discover the horror inside. A few of
the crew are still alive, thanks to their spacesuits, but are suffering from
exposure to hyper-radiation. Nova is horrified to find her beloved Derek
Wildstar apparently dead, having failed to don his spacesuit in time
before the radiation overcame him. Fortunately for her he is just barely
alive and is rushed to the intensive care unit at Central Hospital as fast
as possible.
Final Yamato.
13 December
2203
The United Earth Government begins organizing escape convoys in

order to flee the planet before Aquarius arrives.
Final Yamato.
14 December
2203
The first escape convoy leaves Earth.
18-19
December
2203
Derek Wildstar finally regains consciousness. He learns from Nova that

most of his crew died from hyper-radiation sickness from the Dinguil
attack. It was a miracle that he didnt die as well.
Final Yamato.
Final Yamato.
A Dinguil battle fleet attacks the Solar System. Its goal is to prevent any
humans from leaving Earth and thus ensuring the extinction of the
species. They annhiliate anything in their path. Pluto Base, the Saturn
civilian science station, the first escape convoy to leave Earth, even the
EDF intersystem patrol fleet all are destroyed in short order by the
Dinguil.
Final Yamato.
Derek Wildstar resigns his commission in the Earth Defense Force. He

is dismayed that he was unable to save the lives of those who died
under his command during the Dinguil ambush. General Singleton
sadly accepts the resignation, then asks Yuri to contact a certain
someone for the job of commanding the Yamato .
Final Yamato.
The Dinguil fleet attacks Earth. They are very selective in their targets:
spaceports, landing fields, and anything that could be used to launch or
service an interstellar spacecraft of any kind. The only ships to escape
damage are those stored in the old underground or underwater locks,
such as the Yamato.
Final Yamato.
20 December
2203
Derek Wildstar decides to pay one last visit to the Yamato. He is left
speechless when he comes face to face with the ships new
commander: the revived Abraham Avatar Avatars orders are to
launch at once and destroy the Dinguil at all costs. Avatar invites
Wildstar to rejoin the EDF and be part of the Star Force again. Wildstar
cannot refuse the invitation as General Singleton had rightly
guessed.
Final Yamato.
The Yamato launches from Earth on what will prove to be its final
mission during its original service lifetime.
Final Yamato.
22 December
2203
The Star Force links up with a nine-vessel EDF destroyer squadron

commanded by Captain Mitzutani for a search-and-destroy of the
Dinguil fleet that has been romping through the Solar System for the
past week.
Final Yamato.
24 December
2203
The Second Battle of Pluto
24 December
2203
Captain Mitzutani and all but one ship of his destroyer squadron are
wiped out as they put their ships in front of the Yamato to protect it from
hyper-radiation missile strikes during the Second Battle of Pluto. Also
killed are most of the Yamatos search-and-rescue units, mowed down
by the Dinguil in cold blood while attempting to rescue the survivors of
Mitzutanis stricken squadron. In turn the Dinguil fleet is spotted and
destroyed by the Yamato while in the middle of reloading its attack craft
for another go at the Star Force.
Final Yamato.
25 December
2203
The Fuyuzuki, the sole survivor of Captain Mitzutanis destroyer squadron, picks up
what few survivors there are in the wreckage and, along with the Star Force wounded,
departs for Pluto Base. The ship itself is too shot up to continue the fight, leaving the
Yamato to continue on alone. The Star Force spends Christmas Day in quiet
contemplation. Their only gift is a few hours brief respite from fighting the Dinguil.
Final Yamato.
Captain Avatar orders the Yamato to the coordinates for the next-to-last space warp
that the planet Aquarius will make before it warps to Earth. His intention is to intercept
the Dinguil and prevent them from causing Aquarius from making that last warp.
Final Yamato.
26 December
2203
The Battle of Aquarius
26 December
2203
The Yamato warps to the new location of Aquarius mere hours ahead of the main
Dinguil fleet. They take the time for a quick survey, marveling at the pelagic planets
floating continents and aquatic beauty. They also discover, much to the Star Forces
surprise, an automated Dinguil processing facility for refining large amounts of heavy
water from the seas of Aquarius for use in their spacecraft.
Final Yamato.
The Star Force receives a visit from the Guardian Spirit of Aquarius
She tells them a brief history of her world and the important part it plays
in bringing life to lifeless worlds. Hers is a two-edged sword, she tells
them, for the power of creation also implies destruction. She knows her
worlds visit to Earth is 6000 years too soon and that the Dinguil are
responsible. She also tells them who the Dinguil really are before she
takes her leave. Within minutes the Dinguil arrive and the Battle of
Aquarius begins.
Final Yamato.
The Dinguil fleet and their mighty Urudu space fortress are destroyed
despite tremendous odds. Despite a near-herculean effort on the part of
the Star Force the planet Aquarius completes its final space warp. The
Star Force has won the Battle of Aquarius but may have lost the war.
There is now nothing between Earth and the impending cataclysm save
the Yamato.
Final Yamato.
Death of Mark Venture.

Final Yamato.
Both Derek Wildstar and Captain Avatar seize on a bold (and

desperate) plan to save Earth from the ravages of the impending
deluge. To this end Avatar orders the Yamato to return to Aquarius and
has it dock at the Dinguil heavy water processing plant. He then fills
every available hold and compartment with heavy water. The idea is to
park the Yamato between Earth and Aquarius with its wave motion gun
plugged. At the right moment a volunteer will stay aboard and manually
fire the gun, which due to the plug will cause the ship to self-destruct.
The energy from the explosion will be amplified greatly by the ships
cargo of heavy water. This in turn will create a powerful concussion
wave that will cause the waters of Aquarius to be reflected away from
Earth long enough for the planet to pass with only minimal damage
done. The Star Force is horrified but Avatars word is final as is his
decision to stay aboard to fire the wave motion gun. He has no friends
and no family. He is expendable. The others (especially Derek Wildstar
and Nova Forrester) are not. Yamato is all I have left, he tells Wildstar.
As captain, I have the right to stay with my ship.
Final Yamato.
The Yamato is attacked by the surviving Dinguil forces before it can

finish carrying out Captain Avatars plan. All seems lost until Desslok
and a Galman fleet arrive in the nick of time to save the day. Desslok
had found the flowers that the Star Force had left behind on Galman in
memory of his people. He then departs, leaving the Yamato alone and
unmolested to complete its final mission. All surviving Star Force
members save Captain Avatar are evacuated from the Yamato by the
destroyer Fuyuzuki The venerable space battleship then takes up
station keeping between Earth and the rapidly approaching Aquarius.

Final Yamato.
Final death of Captain Avatar. He dies when he fires the Yamatos

plugged wave motion gun, causing the ship to self-destruct.
Final Yamato. A bit of trivia here. The fictional Yamato breaks its back during its destruction at about the
same spot as did the real Yamato during its final hours back in 1945.
Captain Avatars plan succeeds and the Earth is spared another Deluge.
Final Yamato.
Destruction of the Yamato, the oldest and most famous super space
battleship in the Earth Defense Fleet. Its shattered hull becomes
trapped inside a large mass of ice in orbit around Earth the remnants
of its fateful encounter with the rogue pelagic planet Aquarius.
Final Yamato.
31 December
2203
Derek Wildstar and Nova Forrester are married in a simple seaside

ceremony attended by the Star Force and other close family and friends.
Final Yamato.
2204
The Earth Federation and the Galman-Gamilon Empire enter into a

formal alliance. Part of this alliance includes free market exchange of
goods and technologies. Leader Desslok invites any humans who so
wish to relocate to any Galman-Gamilon world they choose. At the
same time Galman-Gamilon ships are allowed unrestricted access to
Earth Federation space and a Galman-Gamilon embassy is establish in
Megapolis City on Earth. This alliance between the last two major
interstellar powers in the Milky Way galaxy will prove in time to be a key
factor in mankinds move towards the Sea of Stars.
Probable conjecture based on Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars. Desslok, Wildstar, and Nova discuss such an
alliance during the Star Forces visit to planet Galman.
The United Earth Government decides to set up human colonies on any

halfway habitable world found during the 2203 planetary surveys that is
not already claimed by another galactic power. The idea is to spread
humanity out across the Sea of Stars so that no single catastrophe can
force it into extinction. The plan is opposed to no avail by General
Singleton, who warns that it will be the end of us as a people.
Star Blazers: Rebirth online comic series by Tim Eldred for Voyager Entertainment (Chapter 01, Time of
Chaos).
2 September
2204
Nova Forrester gives birth to her daughter. She names her Miyuki
Wildstar after her maternal grandmother, Miyuki Mori of Great Island
(Japan)
Star Blazers: Rebirth. Miyuki Mori is the name of the character portrayed by Miyuki Wildstar in Yoshinobu
Nishizakis original draft for Yamato: Rebirth. I discussed this matter with Tim Eldred and we both agreed
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Final Yamato.
2205
After much debate and political wrangling the icy mass containing the
shattered hull of the Yamato, now named Aquarius Island, is moved into
a safer orbit around Earth. This is meant both to preserve it as a
memorial and to keep it from crashing into the planet someday.
Probable conjecture based on Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars, Final Yamato, and Star Blazers: Rebirth.
2205-2400
The First Wave

(Mankinds first wave of colonization from Earth upon the Sea of Stars)
c.2206-2220
The Galman Empire formally annexes the territories of the former Bolar
Federation. This gives Leader Desslok control over three-fifths of the
Milky Way galaxy. The Earth Federation, which is allied with the
Galman Empire, represents another fifth. The final fifth and large
portions of the galactic rim remain independent of both powers for
various and sundry reasons.
Probable conjecture based on Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars and Final Yamato.
The EDF is authorized to begin construction of a new class of super

space battleship to replace the older Arizona design. This is the
Andromeda II class, named in honor of Captain Gideons flagship during
the Earth-Cometine War.
Implied by Star Blazers: Rebirth.
c.2210
Advancements on Earth in cybernetics lead to the creation of the first

sexaroid. These are sophisticated androids built in the likeness of
beautiful female human women. A whole series of sexaroids is
eventually created and put into service for various and sundry purposes
(not all of them of the sexual service variety). To the surprise of many,
including her own husband, EDF Captain Nova Forrester consents to
being the model (and supplies both the basic neural net and empathic
patterns) for the Yuki series of sexaroids.
Sexaroid: Tokyo 2222 and Galaxy Railways. Matsumoto-san has stated for the record that SDF Officer
Yuki, the triage nurse from Galaxy Railways, is a sexaroid patterned after Nova Forrester (aka Yuki Mori) of
Star Blazers. The visuals of Yuki-7 from the original Sexaroid: Tokyo 2222 manga also suggest a likeness to
everyones favorite female Star Blazers officer or maybe thats just Matsumoto-sans penchant for
broomstick blonds with big hair. The reasons behind Novas decision to be the model for the Yuki series
would make for one helluva story!
2214
Homer Glitchman and Wendy Singleton are married. Wendy elects to

keep her maiden name for personal reasons.
Star Blazers: Rebirth online comic series by Tim Eldred for Voyager Entertainment (Chapter 03, Regime
Change).
5 September
2214
The newly completed super space battleship Andromeda II passes the

last of its space tests and is declared ready to assume its role as the
flagship of the EDF.
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2221
The Galaxy Railways begin service.

Galaxy Express television series (Episode 001, Departure Legend). It is a little-known fact that the Galaxy
Railways was in existence at the same time as Star Blazers. My thanks to Tim Eldred for additional
materials confirming this!
2224
Star Blazers: Rebirth

(aka Yamato: Rebirth)
Online comic series by Tim Eldred for the official Voyager Entertainment website, based on a concept by
Yoshinobu Nishizaki. The story is set twenty years after the original series. The dates come from the
comic itself.
2229
Plans to build a second Yamato are quietly scrapped. This will not stop
the Earth Federation from eventually commissioning more space
battleships bearing the same name. Fifteen more Yamatos will proudly
serve the Earth Federation over the next three centuries while the
original rests within its cold Arctic grave.
Conjecture based on an alternate history of the post Star Force years as proposed by a fan organization
known as the EDF Design Board and materials suggested by Yamato 2520.
THE RISE OF THE SOLAR ALLIANCE

MANKIND SAILS THE SEA OF STARS
The centuries after the triumphs of the Star Force saw the Earth Federation grow and expand
from a conglomerate of colonies centered around Earth into an intergalactic power that at one time
wielded almost total control (in one form or another) across the whole of the Milky Way galaxy. It was
during this time that the Earth Federation, keenly aware of its new role, transformed into the Solar
Alliance. Where once it was an Earth-centered federation, now it was an interstellar alliance of likeminded solar systems dominated by the ever-growing presence of mankind. The era of the Star Force
may have been humanitys greatest hour but it was during the 750 or so years of the rise of the Solar
Alliance that mankind had its greatest impact on the known universe.
The rise of humanity to galactic prominence was not without its growing pains, however. The
worse of these was the Hundred Years War (2403-2508 LE). During this time the Earth Federation
battled the Sieren Federation, founded by dissidents from Earth centuries before, to decide which would
be the dominant power in the Milky Way galaxy. The Sierens were by far the younger of the two but had
at its disposal an incredible resource: monopole ore. The dissidents that had fled Earth under the banner
that only the elite could properly guide mankind quite by chance picked Cluster M37 in which to settle. It
was the same used by the Elder Race aeons before for the mining and refining of monopole, the most
powerful natural energy ore in the known universe. Its secrets had been lost in the titanic struggle that
had toppled the Elder Race until Emperor Brone and his Sieren scientists were able to unlock it. After
that they had the perfect tool with which to carry out their desires for galactic domination. Only the Earth
Federation, with its less potent but more numerous fleets of wave motion warships, stood in its way. The
two eventually fought each other to a standstill in a spectacular, old-fashioned, warship-to-warship battle
that raged over the planet Rinbos for days. After the carnage was over the two powers eventually agreed
to an uneasy ceasefire. The resurrection of the Earth Federation space battleship Yamato twenty-seven
years later, seventeeth to bear the name and previously lost in the Battle of Rinbos, proved to be the
catalyst to a chain of events that broke the back of the Sieren Federation for good. The Earth Federation
emerged as the victor and claimed its place as the lone superpower in the known universe.
(discuss the good points of the Solar Alliance)
(discuss the bad points of the Solar Alliance)
Unknown to humanity, however, there was another major power in space watching it from afar. It
was a power that envied the economic wealth of the Solar Alliance and secretly lusted for its technology.
It was a race bred and trained for war, a race that had thought nothing of destroying its own homeworld
while it reached out to seize the Sea of Stars for its own. From its centuries-old holdings in the
Andromeda galaxy it watched and waited knowing that soon would come the time when the Solar
Alliance must fall.
2205-2400
The First Wave

(Mankinds first wave of colonization from Earth upon the Sea of Stars)
c.2206-2300
The story of Queen Millennia and what she did for humanity moves with
mankind as it begins to sail the Sea of Stars. The story as first told by
Hajime Ammamori and other eyewitnesses soon passes into the realm
of legend. All but a knowing few lose track of the connection between
Queen Millennia and the wandering planet LaMaetel. Instead, Queen
Millennia becomes a pop icon and both her story and image are used for
a variety of private and commercial purposes.
Galaxy Railways. There are a number of background references to Queen Millennia in the series but you
have to be quick to catch them.
c.2210
The first sexaroid is created. These are sophisticated androids built in

the likeness of beautiful female human women. A whole series of
sexaroids is eventually created and put into service for various and
sundry purposes. To the surprise of many, including her own husband,
EDF Captain Nova Forrester consents to being the model (and supplies
both the basic neural net and empathic patterns) for the Yuki series of
sexaroids.
Sexaroid: Tokyo 2222 and Galaxy Railways. Matsumoto-san has stated for the record that SDF Officer Yuki,
the sexaroid triage nurse from Galaxy Railways, is a sexaroid patterned after Nova Forrester (aka Yuki Mori)
of Star Blazers. The visuals of Yuki-7 from the original Sexaroid: Tokyo 2222 manga also suggest a likeness
to everyones favorite female Star Blazers officer. The reasons behind Novas decision to be the model for
the Yuki series would make for one helluva story! -_^
2221
The Galaxy Railways begin service.

Galaxy Express television series (Episode 001, Departure Legend).
The Galaxy Railways Space Defense Force (aka GRSDF or SDF for
short) is founded to protect Galaxy Railways space trains and branch
lines.
Galaxy Railways.
2222
Sexaroid: Tokyo 2222

Four volume manga series first published by Sun Comics in 1964.
2225
This is the year that the most famous of all of the Galaxy Railways space
train lines, the beloved Three-Nine (aka Galaxy Express #999), began
service on the Infinite Track between Earth and the Andromeda galaxy.
Galaxy Express and Maetel Legend. Im guessing it happened shortly after the events depicted in Star
Blazers: Rebirth. This means a date somewhere between 7 October and 31 December of 2225.
2238
Brone, the future emperor of the Sieren, is born on Earth

Yamato 2520.
c.2280
The wandering planet LaMaetel begins passing through an interstellar void. The lack of
stars, planets, or other interstellar bodies to mine or exploit causes an ever-increasing
strain on the planets limited resources. Even the best efforts of master scientists Ban
and Hardgear to preserve the planets warmth are not enough as the artificial sun they
created breaks down and ceases to function. The delicate and elegant spires of
LaMaetels cities are quickly buried under thick layers of ever-accumulating snow and
ice.
Maetel Legend and Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 06, Lalelas Requeim). The date is probable
conjecture.
The LaMaetelian Food Riots ensue as the population begins to kill each other over
what little food and arable land is left. Queen Promethium, acting on her mothers
advice, puts down the riots with deadly force. It marks the beginning of a series of hard
decisions that Promethium is forced to make in light of her planets steadily worsening
ecological situation.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 06, Lalelas Requeim). The date is probable conjecture.
A number of humans from Earth and other worlds are captured and enslaved on
LaMaetel by Queen Promethium at the urging of her mother Lady La Lela. The
justification is that the extra manpower is desperately needed to help solve LaMaetels
current environmental woes.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 08, Lalelas Requeim).
Dr. Ban, one of LaMaetels leading scientists and royal consort to Queen Promethium,
dies in a mysterious laboratory accident. Fortunately he had foreseen the event. His
living essence is captured within a heart-shaped pendant and safely kept by Queen
Promethium.
Maetel Legend. The date is probable conjecture.
2283
The adult Brone, now a radical intellectual, asserts that only the elite among the
humans of Earth are worthy of moving out onto the Sea of Stars. He is largely ignored
by the Earth Federation but soon gains a large and powerful cult following.
Yamato 2520.
2285
A group of dissidents led by Brone break from the Earth Federation and set out for
uncharted space with their own private colonization fleet. Their ultimate destination is
Cluster M27. They are allowed to leave Earth-controlled space without restraint.
Secretly many among the Earth Federation are delighted and hope that they will never
hear from Brone and his followers again.
Yamato 2520.
c.2290
Maetel Legend
The date is probable conjecture based on Hardgears attacks on Earth colonization fleets. It is stated in the
show that humanity is in the process of moving out into the Sea of Stars. This implies a date sometime within
the First Wave of human colonization (2210-2400 LE). The biggest such event on record is the Brone
Expedition to Cluster M27, which left Earthspace in 2285. I am open to suggestion as to alternate dates;
however, one must take into account the apparent age of Emeraldas and Maetel as depicted in the show.
According to several sources Maetel appeared to be 16 years old in human years. Furthermore, it is implied
that the LaMaetelians were not using their long sleep chambers to ride out their ordeal as they had done
before while LaMaetel was part of the Solar System (Queen Millennia). This would have made more sense
given their situation; however, perhaps other factors (such as the increasing cold) kept them from using them.
c.2290
Hardgear develops the original Mechanization process.

Maetel Legend.
Commander Leopold, who is in charge of all of LaMaetels space military forces,

volunteers to be the first test subject for Hardgears new mechanization process. His
right arm is Mechanized while the rest of his body remains organic. The test is a
success and Hardgear immediately makes plans for full Mechanization of his next test
subject.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 01, Departure of Fate and Episode 05, Promethiums Magic Flute).
Count Mecha, a noble in Queen Promethiums court, is the first LaMaetelian to be fully
Mechanized.
Maetel Legend. He has a cameo as the hunter who almost kills Emeraldas just for the sport of it.
The Brone Expedition is attacked by alien spacecraft enroute to Cluster M27. They are
successful in repelling the attack; however, several ships and their crews are lost to the
aliens and are never heard from again.
Implied by Maetel Legend.
The Mechanization of Queen Promethium. Her daughters Emeraldas and Maetel, the
last two surviving human members of the LaMaetel royal family, are forced to flee for
their lives aboard Galaxy Express #999. With their departure Queen Promethium
begins making plans for a Machine Empire that will one day dominate the known
universe.
Maetel Legend.
2300-2399
The Pax Galactica

This is the most peaceful time for mankind in its recorded history to date. No conflicts
of major importance involving humanity or its holdings in the Sea of Stars take place
anywhere in the known universe during this time.
Be Forever Yamato. The song in the closing credits predicted a time of peace 100 years after the Yamatos
return from the Black Nebula Empire. This peaceful period would end with the rise of the Sieren Federation
as depicted in Yamato 2520.
c.2300
The first stage of terraforming the planet Mars is successful. Mars now has a
breathable, if rather harsh, atmosphere. The second and third stages are never
completed due to lack of public interest and funding. Mars soon becomes an almost
forgotten backwater stop on the local Galaxy Railways line as mankind seeks more
distand and exotic worlds to visit. The only beings left on Mars are either military
personnel stationed there or poor civilians who cannot afford to travel elsewhere.
Galaxy Express 999 television series (Episode 002, The Red Winds of Mars).
c.2300
The Way to Virgin Space

(Arei no Kagami)
OVA by Leiji Matsumoto and one of the last videos ever produced during his movie period in the 1980s.
The date is an educated guess based on the visuals and technology involved.
2402 LE
This was the year that the Black Nebula Empire claimed to have defeated the Star
Force once and for all.
Be Forever Yamato.
2403-2508
The Hundred Years War

Yamato 2520.
2403
A battle fleet from the Sieren Federation appears in the Milky Way galaxy and launches
an unprovoked attack on an Earth Federation outpost.
Yamato 2520.
c.2480s
The tide turns against the Sieren Federation as the sheer numbers of Earth Federation
ships takes its toll on the superior monopole-based technology of the Sierens. The
Sieren forces are driven all the way back to their holdings in Cluster M27. Once there,
though, they are able to hold their own. The Earth Federation offensive in Cluster M27
eventually grinds to a halt near the planet Rinbos.
Yamato 2520.
2503
The Battle of Rinbos

(The last major battle of the Hundred Years War)
Yamato 2520.
2503
The Earth Federation super space battleship Yamato, seventeenth to bear the name, is
shot down in pitched battle with Sieren forces over the planet Rinbos.
Yamato 2520.
2508
An uneasy ceasefire is declared between Sieren and Earth Federation forces. The
Sierens continue to hold Rinbos while a major Earth Federation garrison is established
on the nearby planet Wagus.
Yamato 2520.
2520
Yamato 2520
Nine episode OVA series authored by Yoshinobu Nishizaki. Only the first three episodes were ever produced
before funding fell through and the series was cancelled. This has since become official Leijiverse canon.
Matsumoto references the use of monopole as a starship power source (as depicted in Yamato 2520) in
some of his later revival Leijiverse works.
2521-2900
The Second Wave

(Mankinds second wave of colonization from Earth upon the Sea of Stars)
c.2670
Emeraldas duels Zonaluna of Mosgalut for possession of a powerful ancient alien

starship discovered beneath the age-old sands of his world. Emeraldas wins the duel,
killing Zonaluna in the process. The starship just happens to have been named the
Queen Emeraldas as part of a prophecy by its long-dead builders concerning who
would eventually find and claim the ship.
From the original Queen Emeraldas manga. The date is derived from a different version of events given in
the revival Leijiverse work Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie, which is of course completely at odds with the one in
the original manga. In that story Emeraldas and Maetel first find the Queen Emeraldas on the planet MetaBloody, where the abandoned ship had been the subject of local legend for about 300 years. Given the
long LaMaetelian lifespan of Emeraldas it is quite conceivable that she relocated the ship to Meta-Bloody at
that time for safekeeping; hence the date. As for the apparent contradictions well toki no wa. -_^
c.2750
The Big Break

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(The main point at which the two major history streams of the Leijiverse diverge)
The atmosphere on the planet Illumida, one of the most technologically advanced in the
Andromeda galaxy, becomes too polluted from overindustrialization and
hypertechnology to sustain life. Its inhabitants have two choices: accepting imminent
extinction or abandoning their world for the Sea of Stars.
Captain Harlock: The Fall of the Empire comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 2,
Secrets). The Illumidas officer Xola tells Tadashi and Dr. Zero that the Illumidas were forced to abandon
their world about two centuries ago. This presumes, of course, that Xola meant centuries on Earth as
opposed to an Illumidas measure of time. Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source
of detailed information regarding the origins of the Illumidas.
The case can and has been made that the Illumidas are somehow related to or descended from the
Cometine (Star Blazers: The Comet Empire). They are physically identical, including their green skin
pigmentation. Also, both the Illumidas and the Cometine came from the Andromeda galaxy. Since the
origins of the Cometine were never explored this connection can never be proven; however, it remains a
tantalizing possibility.
c.2875
The Martian Police change out their squad cars for newer models.
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy manga (Volume 4, s.v. The Jewel of Grotesqua). The Grotesquian
police officers who confronts Tetsuro and Maetel are driving an antique Martian police car. According to
Maetel the car is a century old.
THE BIG BREAK: THE RISE (OR FALL?) OF THE ILLUMIDAS
It is during the Second Wave of human interstellar colonization, sometime around the year 2750
LE, that a major event occurs within the Leijiverse. It is an event of such magnitude that it creates what I
call the Big Break. This is the point at which the Leijiverse splits into two alternate timelines, each
equally valid in its own right. Major difference in the dates of key events will happen between these two
timelines as they proceed along different paths. These timelines will continue in rough parallel with each
other until they once again merge almost three centuries later in the year 2976 LE (Galaxy Railways).
The key event that causes this Big Break, in my opinion, appears to be the overindustrialization
and contamination of Illumida, the homeworld of the Illumidas.
In the first timeline of the future Leijiverse (aka the movie Leijiverse timeline of the 1980s) the
Illumidas abandon their polluted homeworld for the Sea of Stars. This will eventually result in the rise of
the Illumidas Empire. They embark on a campaign of interstellar conquest that results in their total
domination of the Andromeda galaxy. With the assistance of their sometime ally the Machine Empire
they next set their sights on the Milky Way galaxy. This sets up the Earth-Illumidas War and the downfall
of the Solar Alliance in 2967 LE. In this future Captain Harlock is an accomplished officer in the Solar
Alliance military who is driven to piracy by the actions of the Illumdias. Among these actions is the
murder of his wife Maya at their hands. The time of the Illumidas on the stage of intergalactic prominence
is short-lived, however. They fall within a few short years both to revolt from within and attacks from
without by their former ally, the Machine Empire.
In the second timeline of the future Leijiverse (aka the revival Leijiverse timeline of the 1990s)
the Illumidas never left their homeworld. They become extinct as a species, which paves the way for the
rise of the Machine Empire to galactic prominence far earlier than they would have had the Illumidas
survived. It is the Machine Empire that becomes the dominant power in the known universe and it is they
who bring about the downfall of the Solar Alliance in 2964 LE. In this alternate future Captain Harlock
was never married, he has always been a space pirate and always will be, and he grew up in the
footsteps of his pirate father Great Harlock.
? LE
(date uncertain)
The Earth Federation is transformed into the Solar Alliance in view of its growing power
and influence among the Sea of Stars. It is the most powerful interstellar federation
controlled by mankind in recorded history to date.
Implied by My Youth in Arcadia and Endless Road SSX. We know the name change happened sometime
after Yamato 2520 but before the Earth-Illumidas War. The term is also often translated as Solar Federation,
Sol System Federation, Terrestrial Federation, and so on depending on the translator involved. I use Solar
Alliance throughout this document for the sake of consistency.
Humanity first encounters the universal penumbra, long voids of intense darkness that
occur at regular intervals in the Sea of Stars. The first of these is chanced upon by the
same scouting expedition that discovers the planet Karyu. The darkness within the
penumbra is so intense that observers within cannot see the light of nearby stars. No
answer is ever found as to the cause of continued existence of the universal penumbra
and it is carefully mapped and monitored as a space navigation hazard.
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy manga (Volume 3, s.v. St. Elmos Fire Dragon). Maetel says that the
discovery of the universal penumbra is a fairly recent occurrence. For Maetel the eternal traveler, however,
the term recent can be relative.
Agents of the Machine Empire encounter the Metanoids in the Andromeda galaxy quite
by accident. Upon hearing the news Queen Promethium immediately realizes their
importance and quickly forges an alliance with them. This the like-minded Metanoids
are only too willing to accept. Both dream of achieving intergalactic dominance with the
assistance of the other, although each has its own secret agenda. The Machine
Empire wants the more advanced, almost human-looking helium-3 technology of the
Metanoids. The Metanoids in turn want the fast-acting, self-replicating abilities of the
latest generation of Mechanoids. This event marks the beginning of the rise of the
Machine Empire (shepherded by the Metanoids) in the Andromeda galaxy.
Implied by the Harlock Saga: Siegfried and Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy mangas as well as the
anime versions of Space Symphony Maetel and Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal. This
would go a long way in explaining the curious dual relationship of Mechanoids and Metanoids in the various
revival Leijiverse works during the period between the Big Galaxy War and the Machine War. It can be
implied by Maetels revelation at the end of Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal that it was
Queen Promethium herself who first made contact with the Metanoids.
Emeraldas gets her first starship.

From the original Queen Emeraldas and other relevant Leijiverse manga. She appears to have had several
different ships before she gained possession of her trademark starship.
Emeraldas gets her free traders license.

The entire population of the planet Darqueen is converted to Metanoids when their
world is threatened with extinction by a negative energy void. Those who successfully
survive the conversion become the first of Queen Promethiums Machine Knights.
From the original Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy manga.
Creation of the St. Elmos Fire Cannon, one of the most powerful variants of the wave
motion gun ever devised.
Cosmo Warrior Zero.
Commissioning of the Karyu, one of the last and greatest of the Earth Federations
super space battleships.
Cosmo Warrior Zero. The Karyu is an old ship that predates the series. It is repeatedly implied that it was at
one time a major capital ship in the Earth Federation space fleet. My guess is that the ship is at least 25-100
years old by the time Cosmo Warrior Zero takes place. It is not old enough to lessen its consideration as a
potent warship, however, even given its delicateness (as Warrius Zero might put it).
THE FALL OF THE SOLAR ALLIANCE

(THE MOVIE LEIJIVERSE VERSION)
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c.2915
Masu Tsunajima (aka Miss Masu) is born on Earth in a fishing village somewhere on
the coast of Japan, exact location unknown.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 33, The Lone Mans Charge).
Goro Otowara is born on Earth in Japan, exact location unknown.

c.2920
Setsuko Oyama, mother of Tochiro Oyama, is born on Earth in Japan, exact location
unknown.
Story of Galaxy Express 999 videogame for PlayStation 2.
Goro Yuki, the eldest of the three Yuki brothers, is born on Earth in Megapolis City,
Japan.
Conjecture based on Captain Harlock: Endless Road SSX.
Souichiro Yuki, the middle of the three Yuki brothers, is born on Earth in Megapolis
City, Japan.
Conjecture based on Space Pirate Captain Harlock. We dont know how much younger he is than his elder
brother Goro.
2933
Wataru Yuki, the youngest of the three Yuki brothers, is born on Earth in Megapolis
City, Japan.
Conjecture based on Galaxy Railways. This presupposes Wataru Yuki was 39 at the time of his death. He
was already an experienced GRSDF captain by the time Schwaenhelt Bulge joined the force.
c.2930
The Machine Empire establishes a civilian settlement on the planet Serract in the Tohr
Sector.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 07, The Need to Believe).
2933
Schawenhelt Bulge, future commander of the Sirius Division of the GRSDF, is born.
Conjecture based on Galaxy Railways (Episode 11, The Yearning). Bulge tells Katarina in their first
encounter that he is a recent recruit. This date presupposes he was 20 (the same age as Manabu Yuki)
when he first joined the GRSDF.
c.2935
Doctor Zero, Captain Harlocks perpetually drunk chief medical officer, is born on Earth
in Japan, exact location unknown.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 23, Yattran: The Song of the Model Lover and Episode 25, Dr. Zero
and Mee) shows a youthful Dr. Zero in flashbacks. This date presumes Dr. Zero was in his thirties at the
time depicted. In Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 01: Tears for a Star-Filled Sky) the Space
Sheriffs estimated him to be at least 60 years old. This is an obvious continuity goof. 160 years old would be
more like it given the dates involved.
Faust Hoshino, father of Tetsuro Hoshino, is born, location unknown.

Conjecture based on the various Galaxy Express 999 sources. Faust appears to be significantly older than
his wife Kanae in every depiction Ive ever seen of them together.
2938
Phantom F. Harlock XCIX (aka Captain Harlock), the 99th and last to bear the name of
his ancestors, is born on Earth in Germany at the family estate in Heiligenstaadt.
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My Youth in Arcadia, Arcadia Roman Album, and selected background materials from Harmony Golds
dreadful Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years. Captain Harlock was 29 at the time the
Illumidas occupied Earth. Both Harlock and his late wife Maya link his childhood to the family estate in
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2942
Warrius Zero is born in Earth, location unknown.

Cosmo Warrior Zero press release by Enoki Films. Zero was in his late twenties at the end of the Big
Galaxy War. This date presupposes he was 29, the same age as was Captain Harlock at the end of the
Earth-Illumidas War.
c.2943
Kanae Hoshino, mother of Tetsuro Hoshino, is born on Earth, location unknown.

Story of Galaxy Express 999 videogame for PlayStation 2.
2945
Year of the Procyon Binary Star Orbital Track Accident, the worst disaster in the history
of the Galaxy Railways at that time. A young GRSDF officer named Wataru Yuki
emerges as a hero for rescuing the sole survivor of the disaster, a little girl named
Katarina.
Galaxy Railways (Episode 11, The Yearning).
Schwaenhelt Bulge, a young German teenager, decides to enlist in the GRSDF after
hearing news reports of Wataru Yukis bravery during the Procyon Binary Star Orbital
Track Accident.
c.2947
The Solar Alliance gains a new enemy in the form of the Illumidas, a previously
unknown humanoid race from the Andromeda Galaxy with a reputation for viciousness.
The Illumidas resent the expansion of humanity on its borders. A series of unofficial
skirmishes soon escalates into an all-out war.
Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 03, The Color of
a Rose). Commander Jigor reflects that he had seen twenty years of combat in the Illumidas military only to
transfer to the Earth Occupation Forces and see even more. This tallies well with other material suggested
by My Youth in Arcadia and Endless Road SSX. Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only
source of detailed information regarding the origins of the Illumidas.
2948
Tochiro Oyama is born on Earth in Japan at Kurume in the province of Fukuoka

Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 01, The Jolly Roger of Space). The year is so noted on Tochiros
marker stone. The date also agrees reasonably well with other relevant Leijiverse manga and anime. I note
in passing that Tochiros year of birth in the revival timeline is 2950 per the Enoki Films press release for
Cosmo Warrior Zero. One of the most overlooked ironies in this iteration of the Leijiverse is that Captain
Harlock and his best friend Tochiro Oyama are at least ten years apart in age.
2949
Yattaran is born on Earth in Japan at the industrial port city of Kobe.

Enoki Films press release for Cosmo Warrior Zero. It states that Yattran is approximately 20 and is a year
younger than Tochiro Oyama at the end of the Big Galaxy War. The birthplace is conjecture on my part.
Marina Mii is born on the planet Miraisenia.

Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 08, Marina Everlasting). The Enoki Films press release says that she was 22
when she joined the crew of the Karyu.
c.2950
Half of the mineral-rich planet Rosamund collapses due to overmining of its energy-rich
crystalline ores. The only survivor to escape the disaster on that side of the planet is a
man named Wheatman, the engineer for the Galaxy Railways ore run (Engine #825).
Among the millions of dead and missing are Wheatmans parents and younger sister.
Galaxy Railways (Episode 08, Afterglow). Wheatmans picture inside the old #825 and the flashbacks in the
episode suggest he was in his early 20s when this happened. He is an old man with a failing heart by the
time the Galaxy Railways anime series takes place. This date is an educated guess and could be off by a
couple of decades either way. Remember, apparent ages are difficult to judge in the Leijiverse.
Maetel and Emeraldas have a serious falling-out on how best to deal with the rising
threat of the Machine Empire. Events come to a head when Emeraldas attacks a
Machine Empire fortress at which Maetel is a guest. Events force the two into a duel
which Maetel wins; however she allows her elder sister to escape without harm For
this she is imprisoned and tortured by the fortress commander (and apparently with the
consent of her mother Queen Promethium). Emeraldas attempts a daring rescue but
Maetel refuses to leave. I must live by my choice, she tells her sister. Emeraldas
escapes and Maetel is eventually released to resume her journeys aboard the ThreeNine. The event has reconciled them in mind and spirit concerning the downfall of the
Machine Empire, even if their methods remain different.
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Voyager Emeraldas movie special despite certain inconsistencies. An
unconfirmed Internet source places this incident approximately 20 years before the events depicted in Galaxy
Express 999. This would be in keeping with the apparent age of the twin sisters as depicted in both stories.
The origin stories of Maetel and Emeraldas have changed (c.f. Maetel Legend) since this special was
produced. This requires a certain leeway in reinterpreting the events it depicts. It is still canon, however,
because a more sophisticated version of the android Emeraldas makes a brief cameo in Captain Harlock:
Outside Legend (Episode 13, The Final Chapter). The upper bust is sitting on the workbench on the right
side of Tochiros shop and a sketch of the same can be found in the art gallery on the DVD release.
Broygerd abandons his wife shortly after his infant son Verlong is born. He cannot
cope with the fact that his son was born with only one arm.
Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 05, Storms).
Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however he is to date the only source for this information.
2951
The bounty hunter Sylvania is born, location unknown.

Enoki Films press release for Cosmo Warrior Zero. She was 20 years old at the time Warrius Zero arrived on
Heavy Melder looking for Captain Harlock.
Keiko Kei Yuki, daughter of Wataru and Fumi Yuki, is born on Earth in Japan, exact
location unknown.
Conjecture based on an interview with Matsumoto-san included with Volume 1 of the DVD release of Galaxy
Railways. He states for the record in the interview that Kei Yuki is the elder sister of Manabu and Mamoru
Yuki, the sons of Wataru Yuki. This date presumes she was 17 (or a late 16) when she joined Captain
Harlocks crew in Endless Road SSX (Episode 04, The Pen and the Sword). Flashback scenes in Space
Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 16, Kei: The Farewell Song) make it clear that her birthplace was Japan,
although the exact location is never given. Matsumoto has also said on other occasions that Kei Yuki is a
direct descendant of Nova Forrester Wildstar.
c.2952 2955
Schwaenhelt Bulge joins the Galaxy Railways Space Defense Force (GRSDF).
Galaxy Railways (Episode 11, The Yearning). Bulge tells Katarina during their first meeting that he is recent
recruit. Im guessing that he was about 20 at the time largely due to his behavior toward Manabu Yuki.
Wataru Yuki divorces his first wife Fumi. She eventually remarries his elder brother
Souichiro. Fumi retains custody of their only child, Kei Yuki.
Conjecture based on an interview with Matsumoto-san included with Volume 1 of the DVD release of Galaxy
Railways. He states for the record in the interview that Kei Yuki is the elder sister of Manabu and Mamoru
Yuki, the sons of Wataru Yuki. He never says they had the same mother; therefore Wataru Yuki must have
been married twice. Kei Yukis parents are named as Souichiro and Fumi Yuki in Space Pirate Captain
Harlock (Episode 16, Kei: The Farewell Song). Occams Razor dictates that Souichiro and Wataru must
have been married to the same woman, Fumi Yuki, at different times. Since they share the same last name
then it is reasonable to conclude they must have been brothers. It is my belief that Wataru Yuki met his
second wife Kanna while he was in the hospital recovering from injuries suffered during the Procyon Binary
Star Orbital Track Accident seven years earlier (2945 LE). Their growing relationship eventually led to his
divorce from Keis mother Fumi. The intrusion of Wataru Yuki into Kei Yukis background is a direct result of
the revival Leijiverse reinterpretation of the backgrounds of almost every major character in the Leijiverse.
Schwaenhelt Bulge meets his future girlfriend Katarina at the restaurant she owns and
operates on the planet Concordia during a layover by the GRSDFs Big One.
Galaxy Railways (Episode 11, The Yearning). It is implied that Wataru Yuki was single at the time;
therefore, this must have happened between his divorce and second marriage. Bulge mistakenly assumes
that his commander is dating a younger woman than his years.
In Germany on Earth, a young Phantom Harlock befriends Tochiro Oyama, a visiting

exchange student from Japan. It will become the friendship of a lifetime and echoes
similar friendships shared by their ancestors across the centuries.
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Leijiverse and directly contradicts their first meeting as depicted in My Youth in Arcadia. Their apparent ages
in the various Harlock Saga mangas, however, coupled with the fact of their established friendship is in
keeping with other Leijiverse materials on the subject.
Phantom F. Harlock XCIX, the heir to the Harlock estate in Heilgenstaadt, Germany,
falls in love with Maya Yukikaze, a longtime friend from his childhood days.
My Youth in Arcadia. Maya says in the movie that they first fell in love in the days of their youth. Her actual
quote is, Like Heilgenstaadt our Arcadia where we ran together. This date presupposes that Harlock
was around 16 at the time his romance with Maya begain. Mayas last name comes from a similar character
in Gun Frontier who may or may not be her ancestor. Matsumoto-san has a habit of recycling character
names and I have yet to find any source that gives Maya a last name.
Most of the population of Miraisenia agrees to Mechanoid conversion in order to avoid

extinction due to impending ecological changes on their world. Those who refuse flee
to the stars looking for a new home. One such Miraisenian colony ship is hit by an
asteroid and destroyed near the Solar System. Its sole survivor is a little girl named
Marina Mii. An elderly Japanese couple named Oki take her in and adopt her as their
own human daughter. They manage to conceal her true identity as an alien from
everyone. As it turns out Marina and only one other Miraisenian manage to survive the
extinction of their race.
Cosmo Warrior Zero: Marina Special. No exact date is ever given for Marinas arrival on Earth; however,
she recalls that there werent many Machine Men on Earth in those days. This, coupled with the fact that
she was 22 when she joined the Karyus crew, implies a date shortly before the Earth-Illumidas War.
Schwaenhelt Bulge joins the Galaxy Railways Space Defense Force (GRSDF).
Wataru Yuki marries his second wife Kanna. They relocate to the planet Tabito, a
peaceful world located in a remote system on the far side of the Mazelan Nebula.
Galaxy Railways (Episode 01, Setting Out) and Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 10, On the Edge of the
Galaxy). This is pure conjecture on my part but the move from Earth may have had something to do with his
earlier marriage to Fumi Yuki.
2956
Phantom Harlock is appointed to the prestigious Space Defense Academy for training
as a starship officer in the Solar Alliance space navy.
Probable conjecture. We know Captain Harlock was a starship commander in the Solar Alliance per My
Youth in Arcadia. This presupposes an Academy background if the space navies of the future are anything
like the navies of today. Mustang officers (those without an academy background) rarely rise to command
rank. There is a Space Defense Academy in Harlocks day per the background materials for Cosmo Warrior
Zero. All of the Earth Federation officers aboard the Karyu are Space Defense Academy graduates. It
stands to reason that Captain Harlock, having once fought for Earth, is a Space Defense Academy graduate
as well.
Mamoru Yuki is born on the planet Tabito.

Galaxy Railways (Episode 01, Setting Out). This presumes that Mamoru was born within a year of his
parents marriage and that he is four years older than his younger brother Manabu.
Alexander Nevich and his wife agree to take part in the Phoenix Experiment. It is a topsecret government project studying real-time memory transfers between parents and
their offspring. Their as-yet-unborn child will also be part of the experiment.
Captain Harlock: Deathshadow Rising comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 04,
Bridges). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only source for this
information.
2957-2967
The Earth-Illumidas War

Date derived from My Youth in Arcadia and the various Captain Harlock comic book series by Robert Gibson
for Eternity Comics. Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however he is to date the only source for this
information. The comics imply that the Earth-Illumidas War lasted at least a decade.
2957
Tadashi Daiba, younger brother of Tsuyoushi Daiba and son of Lt. Commander
Tadashi Daiba of the Solar Alliance space navy, is born on Earth in Megapolis City.
Probable conjecture based on Harlock Saga: The Rheingold and the Captain Harlock Returns comic book
series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 01, An Exchange of Futures). While Gibsons
material is admittedly apocryphal it tallies fairly well with the apparent age of the Tadashi Daiba depicted in
Harlock Saga: The Rheingold.
The attempt to terraform the planet Tastasia ends in colossal failure. The planets
artificially created ecosystem begins to feed upon itself and will rapidly collapse over
the next decate. The end result leaves the surface of Tastasia an oceanless, barren
wasteland.
Queen Emeraldas comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 01, An Exchange of
Futures). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however he is to date the only source for this
information.
Alexander Nevich and his expectant wife are caught off-world in one of the first
Illumidas attacks on Solar Alliance colony worlds. The trauma of the attack causes
Nevichs wife to go into premature labor. A young Solar Alliance ensign named Daiquin
guards Nevich and his wife while she gives birth to their son Alex. He also helps them
escape capture by the Illumidas.
Severance and Volume 03, Ghosts). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however it is to date the
only source for this information. Alexs birth had to have happened near the start of the Earth-Illumidas War
due to his apparent age. He seems to be about the same age as Tadashi Daiba.
2958
The man who will become Baron Darghund enlists in the Solar Alliance space navy in
order to impress Maya Yukikaze, his longtime love. He is somehow able to avoid deep
space duty and remain on Earth so he can be close to Maya as much as possible.
Soon after he proposes marriage but she rejects his offer. She is already engaged to
his rival Phantom Harlock.
Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 02, And Its Roots
Grow Strong Under the Ground). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however he is to date the only
source for this information.
The Solar Alliance military embarks on a crash program to develop a new battlecruiser
design capable of dealing with the Illumidas. The reason for this is that the venerable
Karyu class super space battleships, the backbone of the Solar Alliance fleet, are falling
victim time and again to their smaller and more nimble opponents.
Probable conjecture based on Cosmo Warrior Zero, My Youth in Arcadia, and Endless Road SSX.
2959
Launching of the Andromeda, the prototype (and lead ship) for the Solar Alliance
militarys newest class of space battlecruiser. The design proves to be a resounding
success and is put into production as quickly as possible. The Karyu and her sister
ships are either retired or relegated to secondary duties while their replacements enter
service.
Probable conjecture based on Cosmo Warrior Zero, My Youth in Arcadia, and Endless Road SSX.
c.2960
The Space Panzer Grenadiers, the elite forces group of the Galaxy Railways Space
Defense Force, resurrect the space battleship Yamato from its icy Arctic grave on Earth
and claim it for their own. They refit and update the ship, man it with a full crew, and
use it as part of their many missions to protect the Galaxy Railways from danger. In so
doing they save the venerable Yamato from certain destruction in the intergalactic war
that is about to break out between Earth and the Illumidas.
From the Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie and Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy manga series. Great
Harlock, the father of Captain Harlock, is passed by the revived Yamato while making his landing approach to
Heavy Melder in the year 2964. Ten years later, in 2974, the Yamato passes the Three-Nine on its way to do
battle with the Dark Queen and her Metanoid forces. Maetel explains to Tetsuro that the Yamato now
belongs to the Space Panzer Grenadiers.
Metanoid agents begin to infiltrate the Solar Alliance power structure.

Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie and Harlock Saga: Great Harlock Gotterdamerung.
2960
Phantom Harlock graduates as an ensign with honors from the Space Defense
Academy. His first assignment is to a cruiser patrolling the Outer Rim colonies in light
of increasing Illumidas attacks. His first act as an officer upon graduation is to marry
his longtime love Maya Yukikaze.
My Youth in Arcadia, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, and the original mangas Great Pirate Harlock and Space
Battleship Deathshadow. The earlier stories leave no doubt that Harlock was married for a time. Harlocks
wife as depicted in these manga bears an uncanny likeness to Maya Yukikaze. Emeraldas confirms this in
My Youth in Arcadia when asked by Tochiro. Her answer? Yes; however, she would never tie down a man
like Harlock (paraphrased). This answer has been misinterpreted by many over the years, including Gibson,
to conclude that Harlock was never married. Its fairly clear from the evidence that Harlock was married in
the movie Leijiverse timeline. I have interpreted her remark literally; that is, Maya had no intention of
making her husband Harlock stay on Earth and give up his life on the Sea of Stars. In deference to my many
detractors I point out that in the newer revival Leijiverse stories Harlock was never married.
Manabu Yuki is born on the planet Tabito.

Galaxy Railways (Episode 02, A Knot in Time).
A deadly accident at the Galaxy Railways station on the planet Destiny claims the life of
Kinuko Kayamoris son.
Galaxy Railways (Episode 06, Sobbing in the Dark). We learn in the episode that Kinukos son would have
been the same age as Manabu Yuki had he lived.
Galaxy Express #162 is lost when an accident causes it to fall into the gravity well of a
red giant star. Only a portion of the passengers are saved.
Galaxy Railways (Episode 15, Fellowship on the Battle Lines). This was one of the early assignments of
GRSDF officers Bulge, Julia, and Murase. Injuries suffered during this incident resulted in the scars on
Murases face. The date is probable conjecuture as the incident appears to happen before Bulges
assignment to Captain Wataru Yuki and the team aboard Big One.
The Andromeda class space battlecruisers of the Solar Alliance enter service.
Probable conjecture based on Cosmo Warrior Zero, My Youth in Arcadia, and Endless Road SSX. It is a
testament to the ships design that the Illumidas took over for their own service the few surviving Andromeda
class battlecruisers that they didnt destroy once they won the war (Endless Road SSX).
2961
Tetsuro Hoshino is born on Earth somewhere in Japan, exact location unknown.

From the various Galaxy Express 999 background materials. Tetsuro was about 10 years old when his
mother died. He was about 12 when Maetel rescued him from the Megalopolis Police.
Phantom Harlock is promoted to lieutenant after completion of his first tour of duty
based on his excellent performance and reassigned to the Deathshadow, one of the
Solar Alliances new space battlecruisers. It is a vessel he will come to know well over
the next six years.
Probable conjecture based on Endless Road SSX and the Captain Harlock: The Fall of the Empire comic
book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Part 1, Transitions). Harlock met Brogyerd almost ten
years prior to their adventures together as space pirates after the fall of the Illumidas. Gibsons material,
while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information.
Brogyerd is reassigned to the Deathshadow during his current tour of duty with the
Solar Alliance space navy. It is during this assignment that he first meets Harlock, his
future commander.
Captain Harlock: The Fall of the Empire comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Part 1,
Transitions). Brogyerd says that he has known Harlock for almost ten years. Gibsons material, while
admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information.
Both the Deathshadow and the Dark Victory, its sister ship, are assigned to assist in the
evacuation of Anuald and several other key Solar Alliance colonies in the path of
invading Illumidas forces.
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more should consult the section on Gibsons work. Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the
only source for this information.
Takashi Yuki, chief navigator of the Deathshadow, is killed by the Illumidas during the
evacuation of Anuald.
Captain Harlock Returns (Volume 11, Message in a Bottle, Part 1). Gibsons material, while admittedly
apocryphal, is the only source for this information. I note in passing that in Gibsons apocryphal stories
Takashi Yuki is the father of Kei Yuki. His death is what drove her to join the Illumidas resistance and
eventually join forces with Captain Harlock. I defer to Masumoto-sans account of Kei Yukis enlistment as
given in Endless Road SSX (Episode 04, The Pen and the Sword).
2962
Phantom Harlock is promoted to lieutenant commander and reassigned as lead officer

in the Deathshadows operations section.
Probable conjecture. A tour as an ops officer would help explain Harlocks extensive knowledge of space
warfare tactics.
Louis Drake is born somewhere in the Claudius Star Group Republic.

Galaxy Railways (Episode 02, A Knot in Time and Episode 14, Bond).
2963
Souichiro Yuki, who is by now an important scientist working in Earths Space

Development Department, is tragically asphyxiated during a freak accident on one of
his projects. The tragedy is compounded when his widowed wife Fumi dies shortly
thereafter, leaving her 14-year old daughter Kei an orphan. Kei Yuki is traumatized by
the death of both of her parents and her public abandonment by her boyfriend Kazuya
Katagiri, her late fathers former laboratory assistant. She is placed into a foster home
but runs away shortly thereafter and attempts to stow away on an interstellar freighter.
She is eventually caught and sent back to Earth on a prison barge; however, an
unexpected encounter with a young Solar Alliance officer named Phantom Harlock will
forever change her life.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 16, Kei: The Farewell Song) despite certain inconsistencies.
Harlock was supposed to be a pirate the first time he encountered Kei Yuki but this is impossible given later
revisions to the Leijiverse. Harlock and Kei dont mention this encounter when they meet again just a few
years later in Endless Road SSX (Episode 04, The Pen and the Sword), but that doesnt mean it didnt
happen, either. Theres certainly enough room for it.
Goro Yuki, elder brother of the late Souichiro Yuki, adopts the orphaned Kei Yuki as his
own daughter.
Probable conjecture based on Endless Road SSX (Episode 04, The Pen and the Sword) and in keeping
with Japanese tradition. This is my way of resolving some of the contradictions in Kei Yukis ever-changing
backstory over the years.
The Illumidas consolidate their forces and begin preparing a grand offensive against
the Solar Alliance. One of their most important allies at this time is the Machine
Empire, their friendly rival in the Andromeda galaxy. Queen Promethium and her
scientists provide the Illumidas with considerable technical assistance in the fields of
robotics, cybernetics, automation, and component micro-miniaturization.
Probable conjecture based on Endless Road SSX. An alliance, however tenuous, between these two powers
would explain both the Illumidas warrant on Maetel and the occasional appearance of Mechanoids and
Mechanoid technology throughout the series. Such a connection would have eventually been established
had the series been allowed to run longer, according to the producers. Robert Gibson also theorizes such a
connection in his apocryphal works for Eternity Comics; however, the relationship between the two sours very
quickly.
Tadashi Daiba, son of Tsuyoushi and Mitsuko Daiba, is born on Earth in Megapolis
City. He is named after his fathers elder brother.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 04, To the Shores of Distant Stars). Tadashi Daiba joined the
Arcadia IIs crew when he was 14. He was 6 years old when his mother died, which happened 8 years
before the Mazone sphere fell on Earth in 2977. The part about his naming is probable conjecture in order to
resolve certain issues regarding the Daiba family tree in the Leijiverse.
2964
The Illumidas and allied forces launch suicide attacks on Earth and many other key
systems as they begin their grand offensive against the Solar Alliance. Megapolis City
and other major metropolitan areas both on Earth and other planets are bombarded
before Solar Alliance forces can rally. Most of the invading forces are successfully
repelled; however, the Illumidas manage to hold several systems until reinforcements
arrive. This daring stroke sends shock waves through the Solar Alliance military as
they struggle to cope with the Illumidas offensive and its implications.
Implied by the Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie manga. The story opens in 2964 with images of a Megapolis City
devastated by orbital bombardment. In the manga the bombardment was caused by the Machine Empire.
Im assuming a parallel event caused by the Illumidas in the movie Leijiverse timeline.
Verlongs mother is killed inside the factory in which she works when the Illumidas
bomb and destroy the North American Sector during their first assault on Earth. The
one-armed teenager, now an orphan, is left to fend for himself.
Captain Harlock Returns (Volume 5, Storms). Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only
source for this information. The Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie manga states that the Earth was bombarded in
2964. This date happens to dovetail nicely with Gibsons account.
Harlocks mother is killed during the Illumidas bombardment of Earth.

Probable conjecture based on My Youth in Arcadia and Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie. Harlock tells Zoll that
both of his parents are dead. Great Harlock leaves Earth in this year and will die in 2965 LE. Nowhere is the
fate of Harlocks mother revealed. All we know is that both of Captain Harlocks parents are dead by the time
the Illumidas occupy Earth in 2967.
Lutrain Estarians wife is killed during the Illumidas offensive against the Solar Alliance.
Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Episode #10, The Sins of
the Father, Part 2). Her death is what prompted him to found El Dorado, a peaceful place free from Illumidas
guns. Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information.
The planet Alozoran is conquered and occupied by the Illumidas. Most of its people
are deported and the survivors reduced to living in a primal state.
My Youth in Arcada. The date is an educated guess. La Mime describes the occupation of Alozoran by the
Illumidas but never says when it happened.
The planet Tokarga is conquered and occupied by the Illumidas. Some agree to serve
the Illumidas as mercenaries while others continue a hopeless resistance against them.
The entire surface of Tokarga eventually turns into one big battlefield.
My Youth in Arcadia. The date is an educated guess. Both Harlock and Zoll reference the conquest of
Tokarga as happening years ago. Zolls brother and sister were very small when he left and still small
children when Harlock visited so only a few years could have passed since the fall of Tokarga.
Phantom Harlock XCVIII, aka Great Harlock, abandons Earth for the Sea of Stars
aboard his private battlecruiser. Within the year he will disappear and never be heard
from again.
Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie. The only three surviving eyewitnesses from Great Harlocks ill-fated voyage in
this dimension of space and time were his son Phantom Harlock XCIX, his sons best friend Tochiro Oyama,
and Meeme the Nibelung sorceress. The story as given in the manga is part of the revival Leijiverse period
and often contradicts the older background story from the movie period in many details. The main
contradiction is the presence of the young versions of Captain Harlock and Tochiro Oyama, both of whom are
supposed to be young adults and serving in the Solar Alliance military at the time this occurred.
Great Harlock and his crew conduct the first detailed study of Metanoid physiology
during a layover on the planet Heavy Melder.
Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie. One gets killed in the hotel Meta-Bloody where they are staying and Great
Harlock takes the body back to his ship for analysis. The story as given in the manga is part of the revival
Leijiverse period and often contradicts the older background story from the movie period in many details.
The main contradiction is the presence of the young versions of Captain Harlock and Tochiro Oyama, both of
whom are supposed to be young adults and serving in the Solar Alliance military at the time this occurred.
Phantom Harlock and Tochiro Oyama first meet Emeraldas and Maetel.
The date and circumstances vary depending on your source; however, almost all materials agree that these
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as the most recent take on this initial encounter, comes from the revival manga Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie.
An older and more popular version of how Harlock and Tochiro first met Emeraldas is given in the original
Space Pirate Captain Harlock television series. Also, both Endless Road SSX and Space Symphony Maetel
imply that Captain Harlock and Maetel already knew of each other (if not friends personally) by the time the
events depicted in those stories take place.
Great Harlock and the Valkyrie shieldmaiden Brunhilde both give their lives to prevent
the first attempt by the Metanoids to invade the Milky Way galaxy.
From the Harlock Saga: Siegfried manga (Volume 3) despite certain inconsistencies. Meeme recalls the
death of Captain Harlocks father within a year of his departing Earth in 2964. Captain Harlock told Zoll in My
Youth in Arcadia that both of his parents were dead, which agrees reasonably well the manga. Im ignoring
the manga account that Harlock supposedly witnessed his own fathers death; thats just another one of those
famous Leijiverse contradictions. *sigh* The implication is that this early Metanoid setback apparently stalled
the Machine Empires plans to conquer the Milky Way galaxy for several years. Its not every day that a force
of some 250,000 Metanoid space fortresses gets wiped out by one human space battleship.
Kazuya Katagiri purchases the now-abandoned Yuki estate on Earth for his own use.
The purchase is to celebrate his appointment to his late mentors old job.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 16, Kei: The Farewell Song).
Miantir is almost killed in a rockslide near the town of Hearthaven on the planet
Tastasia. Only the quick actions of a local lad save her life; however, the boys right leg
is crushed by the falling rocks. It will take almost a year for his leg to heal.
Queen Emeraldas comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (The Children of Eden, Part 4).
The boy says it happened several years ago. Miantir appears to have been a preteen at the time of the
incident. Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information.
2965
Phantom Harlock is promoted to commander and named as executive officer of the

Deathshadow.
Probable conjecture based on My Youth in Arcadia and the Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by
Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics.
Phantom Harlock befriends Lt. Commander Tadashi Daiba while the latter is serving as
the chief engineer of the Deathshadow.
Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 01, An Exchange
of Futures). His son brags about his fathers military service to Prime Minister Triter. Lt. Commander Daiba
also reveals before his death that he knew Harlock well. Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is
the only source for this information.
Phantom Harlock wins the Combat Badge of Heroism (aka the Black Collar) and
receives a battlefield commission to captain for his actions during a fierce battle with
Illumidas forces on the Outer Rim. The Deathshadow was ambushed and badly
damaged in the battle, with the captain and many top officers and crew killed in the
initial attack. Harlock, the senior surviving officer, took command and rallied his men.
By skill and daring he managed to escape the field of battle with his crippled
battlecruiser and all surviving crewmembers. It takes Harlock months to limp back to a
friendly Solar Alliance port while dodging many dangers and foes along the way.
Harlock also accompanies his ship back to Earth for repairs and refitting.
Probable conjecture based on My Youth in Arcadia. He had to get his Black Collar from somewhere and he
was one of the few Earth captains whom the Illumidas respected. He also has to be on Earth around this
time for a related event in Endless Road SSX to take place.
Back on Earth, deep underground and with the assistance of many friends sworn to
secrecy, Solar Alliance space engineer Tochiro Oyama begins construction of the
greatest super space battleship of its age. This vessel will turn out to be none other
than the original space pirate battleship Arcadia.
My Youth in Arcadia. It takes anywhere from 1 to 2 years to build a capital ship in our day. According to
Musashi the Earth Defense Forces in 2199 could build multiple ship-of-the-lines in six to eight months given
proper facilities and resources (Star Blazers Technical Manual).
Lutarin Estarian founds the independent space colony of El Dorado.

Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Episode #8, Freedom).
Oliver Estarian reveals that El Dorado was founded before the Illumidas conquered [Earth]. Gibsons
material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information.
The young lad who saved Miantirs life in the Hearthaven rockslide learns to walk again
despite his twisted leg. The harshness of planet Tastasias environment coupled with
the lack of proper medical facilities results in the leg not healing properly. The boys leg
will remain twisted and scarred for life.
Queen Emeraldas comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (The Children of Eden, Part 4).
Miantirs father Professor Barradas offered to have the leg broken and reset but the lad refuses. He says that
his scarred leg is a permanent reminder of the hard work it was to learn to walk again. To rid myself of them
[the scars] would have somehow lessened what I have become, he says. Gibsons material, while
admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information.
The Solar Allance begins experimentation with genetic manipulation and biological
pathogens (i.e. germ warfare) in a desperate effort to find some new weapon that can
stop the Illumidas before they mount their next offensive.
Ghosts). Broygerd tells La Mime about this while recalling the military career of Alexander Nevich
Captain Harlock is assigned to review the prototype of a new class of space battleships
during his stay on Earth. Harlock quickly spots a number of flaws that would make the
vessel unsuitable for combat against the Illumidas. The design is rejected based on his
recommendation. This does not sit well with Dr. Feydar Zone, the ships designer, and
he will never forgive Harlock for what he considers a deliberate attempt to scuttle his
prototype.
Endless Road SSX (Episode x, x).
c.2966
Captain Harlocks battlefield promotion is made permanent and he is reassigned as the

new captain of the Deathshadow. In memory of his late father he emblazons his family
crest on both sides of his ship.
My Youth in Arcadia and materials suggested by the Harlock Saga: Siegfried manga.
Dr. Zero accepts a professorship at the Intercosmos University in Megapolis City

teaching pre-college gifted and talented students. The one student that makes the
most memorable impression on him is Yattaran, an introverted teenager with a brilliant
mind and a passion for model building. Yattaran unexpectedly drops out of his class
without warning one day and drops out of his local high school as well. The reasons for
Yattarans abrupt disappearance will remain a mystery for the next few years.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 25, Dr. Zero and Mee) and the English dubbed dialogue from the
corresponding footage in Harmony Golds Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years. The date is never
given in the Japanese original. It had to have happened while Yattaran was still a teenager and before he
joined the crew of the Arcadia. Dr. Zero recalls that he already knew Yattaran before the young man joined
Harlocks crew. The tale of how Dr. Zero first met Yattaran comes from the English dubbed version.
Sufrin, a warp technician aboard the Deathshadow, meets and befriends the teenaged
Verlong during his ships layover on Earth.
Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information.
2966
The Battle of the Castle Main Star Cluster

My Youth in Arcadia. Zoll mentions the battle when he first confronts Harlock on the bridge of the grounded
Deathshadow. He praises Harlocks prowess in the battle and notes that his own ship was disabled during
the fight. The Illumidas officers in the bar also confirm Zolls story (Isnt he [Harlock] the guy who scratched
one of our ships?).
2966-2967
Commander Alexander Nevich of the Solar Alliance proposes a radical solution to the
worsening tactical situation with the Illumidas He plans to turn all of the Solar
Alliances major capital ships into computer-driven dreadnaughts. The Deathshadow,

the most famous ship in the fleet due to its victory at the Battle of the Castle Main Star
Cluster, is to be the first to be transformed. Captain Harlock firmly opposes Nevichs
plan for various reasons. Harlock tells his superiors only that there simply isnt enough
time to implement such a drastic measure. To Nevichs dismay the Solar Alliance
Design Bureau chooses to side with its most experienced starship commander. They
defer to act on his plan until a later date. For now, though, they authorize a small-scale
prototype system to be installed on Captain Torians Dark Victory, a sister ship of the
famed Deathshadow. Captain Torian is overjoyed. You got the better ship, he tells
an irritated Nevich, who would have preferred the Deathshadow for his designs.
Ghosts). No date is given in the comic; however, it had to have happened while Captain Harlock and the
Deathshadow were still on Earth. Also, Sufrin befriended Verlong during a stopover by the Deathshadow on
Earth per Captain Harlock Returns (Volume 5, Storms). Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is
the only source for this information.
The Solar Alliance enacts a major offensive against the Illumidas, hoping to turn the
tide of the war. Instead, it serves as a prelude for its own downfall.
Implied by Endless Road SSX (Episode 02, The Renegade Captain).
2967
The Last Battle
2967
The bulk of the Solar Alliance space fleet is wiped out in pitched battle with the
Illumidias in the outer fringes of the Andromeda galaxy. The only survivors are the
capital ships Deathshadow and Dark Victory, along with a handful of smaller vessels.
With almost nothing left to defend itself the Solar Alliance quickly collapses. Earth and
all major Solar Alliance systems will be conquered and occupied in a matter of weeks.
This action effectively ends the Earth-Illumidas War.
My Youth in Arcadia, Endless Road SSX (Episode 02, The Renegade Captain), and repeated references in
Robert Gibsons various Captain Harlock comic book series for Eternity Comics. Gibson only obvious error in
his apocryphal stories is that he places the date of the Last Battle in 2961 per Captain Harlock Returns
(Volume 11, Message in a Bottle). This is far too early for Captain Harlock to have taken part given his
military career as documented in the Leijiverse proper.
Captain Leotard is critically wounded in the Last Battle. Almost half of her body winds
up being replaced by cybernetic implants.
Endless Road SSX (Episode 02, The Renegade Captain). It is implied that the cybernetic implants were
given to her by the Illumdias (courtesy of Machine Empire technology). This would seem to imply her capture
during the Last Battle; however, the series does not say one way or the other.
The Illumidas quickly seize control of all former Solar Alliance holdings in the Milky Way
galaxy. Within days their fleet arrives in Earthspace and establishes a blockade. The
planet is subjected to one final orbital bombardment in order to crush any organized
resistance. Most of the Earths oceans are vaporized in the process. This act marks
the final end of the 750-year-old Solar Alliance.
Implied by My Youth in Arcadia, Endless Road SSX, and Captain Harlock Returns. The fact that the oceans
were vaporized can be seen in visual after visual in the movie. This is the same event that is referenced at
the start of the Space Pirate Captain Harlock television series (When the oceans of the Earth dried up ).
General Zeda is appointed supreme commander of the Illumidas Earth Occupation

Forces. Upon arrival he establishes his main office at the Megapolis City Spaceport.
Regional and sector offices are set up all over Earth, including a major one in the
former North American Sector.
My Youth in Arcadia and the Captain Harlock: Deathshadow Rising comic book series by Robert Gibson for
Eternity Comics. Nevichs target for his uprising was the new Illumidas occupation headquarters in North
America. This implies that there was already a major base of operations there before the death of General
Zeda. Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information.
The Illumidas dismiss all females from any position of authority or stature in the former
Solar Alliance. Worthy of note among those dismissed is Captain Leotard, the Solar
Alliances most prominent female starship commander.
Endless Road SSX (Episode 02, The Renegade Captain).
Faust Hoshino is dismissed from the service by the Illumidas during their purging of
former Solar Alliance military officers. He loses his home and almost all of his material
possessions in the process. He subsequently ekes out a living doing odd jobs and
moves his family into a small shanty far from his former home in Megapolis City. The
move is partly due to his situation and partly to protect his family from the rapidly
deteriorating conditions inside the ruined city. Faust is always aware of his precarious
situation and is seeking any chance to better it even if it means changing alliances.
Implied by the Galaxy Express 999 television series and the feature film Adieu Galaxy Express 999:
Andromeda Terminal. Captain Harlock was also a victim of the same purge as depicted in My Youth in
Arcadia. Tetsuro has several flashbacks about his father Faust in the series proper. They are happy ones
and show them living in a small shack in a desolate part of the country. The fact that Faust changed sides
and decided to throw in his lot with the Machine Empire is made clear in the movie. In the original television
series he was eventually killed for his steadfast opposition to mechanization.
Maya Harlock leaves her home to join the resistance movement on Earth as a
clandestine radio broadcaster. All resistance activities in her area cease with her
departure.
My Youth in Arcadia and the Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity
Comics (Volume 2, And Its Roots Shall Grow Strong Under the Ground). Two years later Milos tells Harlock
that the fight went out of Arcadia after Maya left. Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only
source for this information.
The autonomous colony of El Dorado quickly signs a non-aggression treaty with the
Illumidas. They are granted special favor due in part to their dealings with the Illumidas
during the war. One of the terms of the treaty bans El Dorado from having any
weapons effective against incoming spacecraft.
Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 7, Legacies and
Volume 8, Freedom). Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information.
The Illumidas select the desolate failed colony world of Tastasia as a dumping ground
for the thousands of human refugees left homeless by the Earth-Illumidas War. The
refugees are abandoned on the planets desolate surface and left to fend for
themselves in Tastasias harsh climate. The only escape for many is to sell themselves
into slavery for off-world passage on the occasional visiting pirate or trader vessel.
Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 7, Legacies).
The Deathshadow successfully runs the Illumidas blockade and returns to Earth.
Implied by My Youth in Arcadia.
Sufrin is one of several volunteers sent out by Captain Harlock to find willing
passengers who want to leave Earth aboard the Deathshadow. Both he and Verlong
are captured by an Illumidas raid on the veterans home where Sufrin is staying. They
will remain incarcerated together until Captain Harlocks forced return to Earth. They
spend the time becoming fast friends
Captain Harlock attempts to run the Illumidas blockade of Earth with a crew of
refugees. The Deathshadow is intercepted and attacked by Illumidas patrols. Captain
Harlock is forced to surrender and turn back to Earth rather than risk the deaths of his
civilian passengers. This is the final action in the Earth-Illumidas War.
2967 LE
My Youth in Arcadia
Waga Seishun no Arcadia
Date as given in the Arcadia Roman Album and other associated publications.
2967
Captain Harlock is shot in the right eye by an Illumidas raiding party during an all-too
brief reunion with his wife Maya. He will wear a patch over his right eye for the rest of
his life.
Emeraldas is raped by her Illumidas captors during her brief imprisonment on Earth.
My Youth in Arcadia. It is never said that she was raped in the movie but the torn jumpsuit of Emeraldas
speaks volumes. It also helps explain her viciousness towards the Illumidas in Endless Road SSX.
La Mime, an Alozoran in the service of the Illumidas, becomes the first person to join
Captain Harlocks original 42-man pirate crew.
My Youth in Arcadia. She was actually the third member to join the crew. Harlock and Tochiro were the first
and second respectively. The fact that La Mime was from Alozoran comes from Endless Road SSX.
Death of Zoll of Tokarga.

The planet Tokarga is destroyed by the Illumidas.

Death of Mira, sister of Zoll of Tokarga.

My Youth in Arcadia. Contrary to what the film depicts there was at least one group of off-world Tokargans
who survived the destruction of their homeworld. They will reappear years later in Space Pirate Captain
Harlock.
Death of Maya Harlock, wife of Captain Harlock.

My Youth in Arcadia. Those of you who continue to insist Maya wasnt Harlocks wife need to research the
original manga sources (as have I).
Death of Commander Murginson of the Illumidas. He is gunned down in cold blood by

Captain Harlock for firing the shot that eventually resulted in the death of Harlocks wife.
Captain Harlock calls for all who are willing to join him before he leaves Earth in exile.
Many answer his call. Among those who do are Sufrin and Verlong.
of Futures and Volume 5, Storms). Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for
this information.
Lt. Commander Daiba reluctantly decides not to accompany Captain Harlock into exile.
His reason is that there would be no one left to care for his young son Tadashi.
Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 1, An Exchage of
Futures). Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information. Gibson
makes no mention of the fate of Daibas wife, nor does he say how Tsuyoushi Daiba (i.e. Professor Daiba)
survived the Illumidas occupation.
Captain Harlock fights and wins his first two space battles with the Illumidas. For his
stand for freedom and against oppression and conformity he is branded a space pirate
and exiled from Earth. It is a burden he will proudly bear for the rest of his life.
Inspired by Captain Harlocks example, Emeraldas forswears her free traders license
and joins him in the role of space pirate.
Death of General Zeda.

General Muda replaces the late General Zeda as supreme commander of the Illumidas
Earth Occupation Forces.
Futures). Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information.
A significant portion of Earths population chooses starvation rather than accept

Illumidas rule. Others continue to fight on in small, isolated resistance cells.
Futures). Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information.
Darghund throws in his lot with the Illumidas. In reward for his services for the
Illumidas Occupation Council he is made the Baron of Arcadia. One of his first acts in
his new office is to confiscate the Harlock estate and holdings for his own.
Grow Strong under the Ground). The seizure is implied rather than explicitly stated the comic, especially
given Darghunds behavior towards Harlock. Darghunds estate is within easy walking distance of the old
Harlock family training grounds. Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this
information.
Kei Yuki and her foster father (i.e. uncle) Goro Yuki start an anti-Illumidas propaganda
operation from deep within an asteroid cluster near Colony P-3.
Endless Road SSX (Episode 04, The Pen and the Sword).
2967
The Great Pirate Ship Arcadia

Kaizoku Kikan Arcadia
This all-too-brief pilot film was the first attempt to get a TV series sequel to the feature film My Youth in
Arcadia. It was recently released as part of the Endless Road SSX boxed DVD set. A frame-by-frame
breakdown can also be found inside the back flap of the Arcadia Roman Album. It reveals that Kaizoku Kikan
Arcadia would have been a remake of the original Space Pirate Captain Harlock TV series, Mazone and all,
with a little of Gun Frontier, The Cockpit, and some of Matsumotos other manga stories thrown in for good
measure. If the frame grabs are any indication then Kaizoku Kikan Arcadia would have played a lot closer to
the original manga sources than did its predecessor. Sadly, however, the producers decided to go in a
different direction and Leijiverse fans wound up with Endless Road SSX instead. Its importance in this
timeline is that it depicts Captain Harlocks very first encounter with the Mazone which apparently
happened a lot earlier than previously believed. This helps explain why Harlock already knows so much
about the Mazone by the time Space Pirate Captain Harlock rolls around.
2967
Captain Harlock and Tochiro Oyama barely escape being hanged by the locals on
Heavy Melder.
Kaizoku Kikan Arcadia. This is the sequence inspired by Gun Frontier.
The Arcadia is attacked by a mysterious cross-shaped battlecruiser within the Ulysses

Nebula. This marks Captain Harlocks first encounter with the Mazone.
Kaizoku Kikan Arcadia. There is a sequence inspired by the original Space Pirate Captain Harlock manga in
which the Arcadia rams a Mazone battlecruiser.
Maetel decides that the time has come to confide in Captain Harlock about the real
threat to galactic peace; i.e. Queen Promethium and the Machine Empire. Harlock
pledges his support to her cause.
Implied by Endless Road SSX, Space Symphony Maetel, and Galaxy Express. Harlock already knew all
about Maetel and the Machine Empire by the time of the Big Galaxy War. Maetel already knows about
Harlock and is surprised when he is accused of attacking the Three-Nine upon her return to LaMaetel three
years later (Space Symphony Maetel Episode 01, Departure of Fate). There was a Maetel episode planned
for Endless Road SSX on this very subject that, unfortunately, got axed when the show was cut short.
Dr. Zero sells himself and his family into slavery in order to escape Tastasia.
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Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information. This would seem to
imply that Dr. Zero was captured by the Illumidas during the occupation of Earth and removed to Tastasia for
whatever offense he committed (if any at all).
2968
Captain Harlock: Endless Road SSX

Waga Seishun no Arcadia: Mugen Kido SSX
This takes place several months and possibly up to a full year after the events depicted in My Youth in
Arcadia; hence the date. This dating is based on Episode 02, The Renegade Captain. Enough time needs
to have passed for Captain Harlock to have earned his reputation both as a fearsome space pirate and as a
freedom fighter. Also, the young boy Paul died two months prior to the Arcadias emergency stopover on
Lase. The series establishes that Captain Harlock had already been fighting the Illumidas for some time at
this point; hence the warrant issued at the start of the series. It cant be any later then this; otherwise, you
run up against the rise of the Machine Empire and the Big Galaxy War.
2968
Tadashi Momono joins the crew of the Arcadia.

Endless Road SSX (Episode 01, The Youngest Man).
The former Captain Leotard commits suicide.

Endless Road SSX (Episode 02, The Renegade Captain).
Dr. Ban joins the crew of the Arcadia. He will be the first of three chief medical officers
to serve the space pirate Captain Harlock.
Endless Road SSX (Episode 03, Little Girl).
Goro Yuki is killed by the Illumidas.

Kei Yuki joins the crew of the Arcadia.

The Deathshadow, rebuilt and refurbished by the Illumidas, is shot down on the planet
Heavy Melder by Captain Harlock and the Arcadia after a series of fiercely fought
battles.
Endless Road SSX (Episode 03, Little Girl, and Episode 10, Snowfall in the Sea of Stars).
Tochiro Oyama leaves the crew of the Arcadia due to an illness he has been hiding
from almost everyone. It is a form of debilitating anemia for which there is no cure. He
elects to spend his remaining days with his true love Emeraldas, although he will return
to Harlocks service now and again as the need warrants and his health permits.
Endless Road SSX (Episode 21, x) and Queen Emeraldas (Episode 02, Fast Friends and Episode 04,
Siren the Witch). I am ignoring the fact that Endless Road SSX depicts Tochiros death. Most Leijiverse
fans agree that Tochiro Oyama died six years later as depicted in the first Galaxy Express feature film. Also,
if he died at this point then how did he go on to have other adventures with Harlock and company as depicted
in the revival Leijiverse stories? The death of Tochiro Oyama is one of those glaring inconsistencies in the
Leijiverse that you enventually wind up having to ignore like so many others. Toki no wa, folks. -_^
Death of Dr. Feydar Zone.

Endless Road SSX (Episode 22, Through the Fire).
Illumida, the homeworld of the Illumidas, is destroyed by the High Priestess of Arcadia
as a favor to Captain Harlock for his refusal to use her gift of the Fire of St. Aquile for
personal gain.
Tadashi Momono leaves the crew of the Arcadia.

Dr. Ban leaves the crew of the Arcadia.

2968-2969
Despite the loss of their homeworld the Illumidas manage to maintain control over their
new intergalactic empire. However, a new threat to Illumidas dominance of the known
universe has arisen in its own back yard. It is the Andromeda branch of the Machine
Empire. Queen Promethium senses that the time for her ascension to galactic
dominance has finally come. Within two years the Machine Empire will break its former
allegiances with the Illumidas and go to war with them for control of the known
universe.
Implied by Endless Road SSX and the apocryphal Harlock comic books by Robert Gibson for Eternity
Comics. Gibson goes into far more detail than the mere hints we get in Matsumoto-sans scant dealings on
the subject. According to Gibson the Queens Empire is growing a hide tougher than any teeth your race
[i.e. the Illumidas] will ever possess (Captain Harlock Returns, Volume 08, Sins of the Father, Part 1).
Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is often the only source for information regarding the
Illumidas.
Mitsuru Kiruta, a human currently serving with Earths token security forces under
Prime Minister Triters government, is part of the detatchment assigned to deal with
Captain Harlock and his allies. This event marks the beginning of Kirutas eventual
obsession with bringing the legendary space pirate to justice.
As recorded in the English dubbed dialogue for Harmony Golds Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000
Years. Kiruta (aka Colonel Kamerov) recalls in the episode dealing with the building of the Arcadia II that
he has spent the past two years hunting down Harlock, Tochiro (aka Roger Devlin), and their space pirate
allies. Series continuity establishes that the launching of the Arcadia II took place in 2970 LE; hence Kiruta
was first assigned to Harlocks case while the Illumidas were still in control of Earth in 2968 LE. Kiruta was
already familiar with Captain Harlocks reputation if you believe Gibson (per Captain Harlock: The Fall of the
Empire and Captain Harlock: The Machine People).
By chance Alexander Nevich discovers part of Tochiro Oyamas notes for the computer
core of the Arcadia in the ruin of the underground hanger in which the ship was built.
Although incomplete they provide enough data for Nevich to combine with his own
earlier efforts. He begins work on a new, more advanced intelligent starship computer
core. He names it Hespastion after the longtime companion of Alexander the Great,
one of his own personal idols and from whom he believes he is descended.
Captian Harlock: Deathshadow Rising comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 04,
Bridges). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he is the only source to date for this
information.
Dr. Zeros wife, now a slave, dies of an unknown ailment shortly after arriving at El
Dorado. Their young son Joe survives but remains in the custody of his master, Lutrain
Estarian, the governor of the colony.
Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 8, Freedom).
The Hall of Justice is built in the ruins of Megapolis City. The name is a misnomer. Its
is actually a giant arena designed for public executions in front of a large audience.
of Futures). Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information. The Hall
of Justice apparently replaced the site used in My Youth in Arcadia. This is the same building used almost a
decade later for the attempted public execution of Captain Harlock by Commander Kiruta in the Space Pirate
Captain Harlock television series.
Tadashi Daibas father secures and smuggles a number of video games to his son.
The obvious effort is to keep up his spirit. Lt. Commander Daiba also uses them to
improve his sons eye-hand coordination, which is a useful and necessary skill for any
combatant.
Grow Strong Under the Ground). Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this
information. Video games and computer simulations are used for this exact same purpose by the militaries of
today.
Doc Malone becomes Captain Harlocks second chief medical officer when she joins
the crew of the Arcadia against her husbands wishes. The two eventually separate
and divorce over the matter, each going their separate ways.
Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information. Doc Malone was
actually a former senior nurse with the Solar Alliance. She became the Arcadias CMO because she was the
only one on board at the time with any specialized medical training.
Emeraldas has her first run-in with Captain Torian and the Dark Victory, now both in the
service of the Illumidas.
Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 6, The Truth
Behind Miracles). Gibsons material, while admittedly apocryphal, is the only source for this information.
Dr. Zero is granted freedom from slavery by his master shortly before the man dies. He
is also given enough money in his former masters will to buy out the contracts on his
wife and son. He will spend most of the following year searching for them before finally
tracking them down to the asteroid colony of El Dorado.
Captain Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 7, Legacies).
late 2969 to
early 2970
The Eternity Comics Captain Harlock series

These are the only Captain Harlock stories to date that were not penned by Matsumoto-san. Robert
Gibson wrote these for Eternity Comics back in the mid-1990s and they feature excellent artwork by both Ben
Dunn (Ninja High School) and Tim Eldred (the Star Blazers comics by Argo Press, Star Blazers: Rebirth
online comic serial for Voyager Entertainment). They are based on the movie Leijiverse timeline and
provide insights into a period of years concerning the adventures of Captain Harlock that Matsumoto-san has
never really dealt with. Gibson himself fixes the start date as two years after the events depicted in My Youth
in Arcadia.
Unfortunately, Eternity Comics did not properly secure the rights to the Harlock franchise. Their license
was purchased from a fly-by-night company called Coral Pictures, who in truth had no legitimate claim to the
Harlock franchise. Eternity was so apprised once Toei (the Japanese copyright holder) found out about the
comics. Toei was kind enough to let Eternity continue to the end of the three-year bogus license that Eternity
had supposedly bought from Coral Pictures but made them stop after that. This is why the series ends so
abruptly at The Machine People, just as the Machine Empire is wrapping up its defeat of the Illumidas.
Perhaps one day Gibson will be kind enough to let us know where he was headed and how he would have
tied it in with Galaxy Express four years later down the timeline. Even so, unlicensed as they are and
containing admittedly apocryphal material, the Captain Harlock comics by Eternity are a valuable source for
Leijiverse material not covered in Matsumoto-sans own works.
The following lists all of the Eternity Comics serials in order by title. If you plan to read them in
chronological order then The Pirate Queen Emeraldas series takes place between Volumes 10 and 11 of
Captain Harlock Returns.
Captain Harlock Returns

Thirteen-part comic book serial by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics.
The Pirate Queen Emeraldas

Four-part comic book serial by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics.
Captain Harlock: Deathshadow Rising

Six-part comic book serial by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics.
Captain Harlock Christmas Special

Special comic book issue by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics.
Captain Harlock: The Fall of the Empire

Captain Harlock: The Machine People

? LE
Giza, one of the major cities of Egypt on Earth, is destroyed.
(date uncertain)
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 09, A People Made of Plants). In the year 2979 LE the city of Giza
is nowhere to be seen in the episode. It should be right beside the Great Sphinx. Instead, the Great Sphinx
is out in the middle of a desert some distance from the coast. Judging from Kiruta and Harlocks journey and
the location of the oasis seen in the episode it is a safe bet that Giza was destroyed centuries before the
events depicted. When and how it happened is anyones guess. The safe bet is to say that it was a target of
the Gamilon planet bombing in 2199 LE and was never rebuilt but that is pure conjecture on my part.
THE RISE OF THE MACHINE EMPIRE

(THE MOVIE LEIJIVERSE VERSION)
The Illumidas were now the undisputed masters of the Milky Way galaxy. The question was
whether or not they could maintain the intergalactic empire they had fought so hard to win. Theirs was a
situation common to most conquering forces: having conquered an empire, the time had come to
maintain it. This the Illumidas were ill-equipped to do. Theirs was a warrior race bred for battle and glory.
They were ill-prepared for the routine tasks of administration and governorship. Few among their people
cared to perform such tasks, seeing instead the glory of the campaign field and the smell of blood on the
battlefield. The only problem with this was that the only wars left to wage were with paperwork and
bureaucratic red tape. The only battles left to fight were with insurgents and terrorists. Illumidas battle
tactics could not handle guerilla warfare because terror and intimidation did not work against hardened
rebels fighting for their beliefs. That is why, within two years of having built their empire, the Illumdias
suddenly found themselves on the verge of losing it. On top of that, all of the confusion and dissention
within the Illumidas Empire did not escape the eye of its old ally on the road to conquest.
No one really knows how or why the Machine Empire chose to build itself first in the Andromeda
Galaxy and not our own. Legend has it that Queen Promethium was briefly exiled there along with her
young daughter Maetel during the LaMaetelian Food Riots of the late 2280s LE. It was there that her ship
crashed on a barren world in an uninhabited area of space. On that world she found the Metanoids: a
humanoid lifeform with advanced cybernetic technology in many ways superior to her own. Not only had
she found a previously unknown life form, she had also by chance found one like her own. The
Metanoids claimed divine origin and the right to rule the universe; however, they lacked the resources to
carry out such bold ambitions. In Queen Promethium they found the leader and ally that they so
desperately needed for the time being, anyway. The Metanoids sent Queen Promethium and her
daughter Maetel back to the Milky Way galaxy with a new ship, troops, promises of friendship and
alliance, and a common goal of a universe ruled by machines a possibility that the helpless Maetel
secretly despised. As for Maetels mother, Queen Promethium never forgot her discovery in the distant
galaxy of Andromeda. Thus it was while wars raged all about the wandering planet LaMaetel and the
humans in the Milky Way fought her designs as best they could, a galaxy away the Metanoids were
quietly building Queen Promethiums new Machine Empire into a force to be reckoned with. That is the
legend, anyway. Whatever the truth may be only the Metanoids and the eternal traveler Maetel know for
certain.
Stage one of the Machine Empires road to intergalactic dominance was complete. It now had a
base of operations with vast resources free of resistance upon which to build. Stage two would see the
rise of the Machine Empire within the galaxy that had originally given it birth.
The fact is that by the time of the Earth-Illumidas War of 2957-2967 LE the Machine Empire was
already an established presence in the Andromeda galaxy. There it had found in the Illumidas its first
major obstacle on the road to galactic power. Queen Promethium wisely chose not to challenge them;
instead, she allied herself with them and offered them whatever technical skills her followers could offer.
The Illumidas pounced on the offer without question. On their end they gained the technology they had
needed for so long to build the stellar empire of which they had always dreamed. On Promethiums end
she got her foot in the door in the process of galactic empire building without having to sacrifice too many
of her own resources in the process. The fact that many of the micro-miniaturized components in
Illumidas warships and weapons were of Machine Empire manufacture was of little consequence to them,
so long as they did the job. It was a choice they would bitterly rue before all was said and done.
When the time came for Queen Promethium to sever her ties with a people she had always
secretly despised she did so with a suddenness and savagery that shocked what few partial observers
were left in the Milky Way. The main Illumidas fleet at Delgraci, which was being staged there in
anticipation of a future strike against the Machine Empire itself, was wiped out in a manner of minutes.
No full report has ever surfaced of what happened at the Battle of Delgraci but the fragments told by
wide-eyed Illumidas soldiers and officers in the days that followed were horrifying. If these reports are to
be believed, and there is no reason to doubt them even though the Illumidas are no more, then their own
ships and weapons turned on them even as they came under fire from Machine Empire guns. It seems
there was more afoot in Queen Promethiums technology alliance with the Illumidas than just a trade deal
to keep its rival for power at bay. On top of that was an apparent personal vendetta aimed at a people
and culture that had always slandered the Metanoids and treated them as an inferior species. The
Illumidas were exterminated whenever and wherever Machine Soldiers found them. Within a month the
Illumidas Empire was no more. Within a year all traces of the Illumidas in both Andromeda and the Milky
Way had been practically wiped clean. The Illumdias, aside from what history they had made and a few
precious artifacts, had been erased from existence. Promethiums campaign of genocide against them
was, as with all of her ventures, a thoroughly efficient one.
The time had now come to bless the known universe with the process of Mechanization. This
cybernetic conversion process, during which almost all traces of emotion were removed, did not sit well
with all non-Machine beings. There were many among them who resisted rather than accepted
Mechanization; however, Queen Promethium was infinitely patient. It had taken her centuries to bring her
designs to fruition within the Andromeda galaxy. She could afford to wait a little longer and put up with a
few more temporary setbacks in order to see the Machine Empire take control of the Milky Way. If war
and conquest failed to achieve her designs then diplomacy, coercion, and subversion offered other
alternatives. All she would have to do was to convince the descendants of the Nine Daughter Races that
Mechanization was not the evil that Captain Harlock, those humans allied with him, and even her own
daughters Emeraldas and Maetel painted it to be. She had learned her lessons from the Illumdias,
arguably the most vicious humanoid race ever to sail the Sea of Stars. All she needed was time and
for the Machine Queen, time was an eternal resource.
2969
Tochiro Oyama decides to convert an old Solar Alliance secret asteroid base located in
the Minervan asteroid belt of the Solar System into a mobile base of operations for
Captain Harlock and the Arcadia. He will eventually name it Deathshadow Island. It is
but one of many such hidden pirate bases that he will set up for Harlock and Emeraldas
over the next few years for resupply and repair across the Sea of Stars.
Implied by the Captan Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 04,
The Color of a Rose). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only
source for this information. This is the same Deathshadow Island so prominently featured in the original
Space Pirate Captain Harlock manga and television series. Captain Harlock and Emeraldas had a number of
such secret bases scattered around the Milky Way galaxy. The mobile SSX base in Endless Road SSX is
one example (Episode 06, x). Another is Harlocks secret asteroid base hidden in the Mars-Jupiter asteroid
belt per Gibsons Captain Harlock: The Fall of the Empire (Volume 01, Transitions). Others pop up from
time to time in the various Harlock anime and manga.
The Illumidas Earth Occupation Forces finish setting up a satellite screening network in
geosynchronous orbit around the planet. It permits monitoring of any part of the Earths
surface as well as any approach by any incoming object from space at any angle.
Completion of the network had been delayed for two years by resource limitations and
interference from Earth resistance forces.
Captan Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 01, An Exchange
of Futures). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only source for this
information.
Death of Lt. Commander Daiba, father of Tadashi and Tsuyoshi Daiba.

Captan Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 01, An Exchange
of Futures). The date happens to be fairly close to Matsumotos own reckoning per Harlock Saga. Tadashi
tells Alberich that his father died two years ago. Well, three is close! Two-and-a-half? -_^
Captain Torian and his crew are declared renegades and outlaws by the Illumidas after
they steal their ship, the former Solar Alliance battlecruiser Dark Victory, and the
experimental Ritelex warp drive that had been recently installed for testing.
Unfortunately for them they do not know how to operate it and warp themselves into
uncharted space after a brief encounter with the space pirate Emeraldas. Their
ultimate fate remains a mystery to this day.
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for this information.
Kanae Hoshino suffers a miscarriage due to overwork. Shortly thereafter Faust

Hoshino leaves home and never returns, throwing in his lot with the Machine Empire.
Kanae tells her young son Tetsuro that his father is dead in order to hide the truth from
him.
From the Galaxy Express 999 television series, the feature film Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda
Terminal, and the manga version of Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy. In the manga story Serene
Dreams (Viz edition, Volume 2) Tetsuro meets the spirit of his unborn younger sister. Her apparent age
places what would have been her birthday about the time that Faust left his family and entered the service of
Queen Promethium. This would go a long way in explaining Fausts motivations for his actions.
Illumidas Supreme Fleet Commander Kelor authorizes the request by General Muda for
Operation Dreadnaught. It is the second major program by the Illumidas Earth
Occupation Forces to build a warship capable of defeating Captain Harlock and the
Arcadia in pitched combat. Joining in the effort, albeit for reasons of his own, is the
human scientist Alexander Nevich. The subject of Operation Dreadnaught will be the
Deathshadow, Harlocks former command and recently salvaged from Heavy Melder.
Captan Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 10, Sins of the
Father, Part 2). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only source for
this information.
The Illumidas launch an unprovoked attack against the asteroid colony of El Dorado in
their unceasing efforts to capture Captain Harlock and the Arcadia. The colony is able
to defend itself and drive off the Illumidas fleet thanks to a joint effort on the part of
Harlock and a Machine Empire delegation headed by Faust Hoshino, Galaxy Railways
regional director.
Captan Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 07, Legacies,
and Volume 09, Sins of the Father, Part 1). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he
remains to date the only source for this information. Harlock appears to reference this event near the end of
Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal, recollecting the time when he and Faust once fought side
by side.
The Arcadias faulty warp core is replaced with a new one courtesy of Lutrain Estarian,
governor of El Dorado.
remains to date the only source for this information. Remember, Tochiro Oyama hadnt anticipated many of
the combat situations the Arcadia would face when he built the ships original engine per Endless Road SSX
(Episode 02, The Renegade Captain). This is the first of several upgrades the original Arcadia will receive
within the next decade.
A sorrowful Dr. Zero leaves his son in the care of Lutrain Estarian and joins the crew of
the Arcadia, much to the relief of a grateful Doc Malone. He is upset over the death of
his wife as well as the fact that he could never give his son the kind of life the boy has
been living with the Estarians the past few years. His apparent failure as a husband
and father is a doubt that will always gnaw at him, driving him to drink and eventually
turning him into a chronic alcoholic.
remains to date the only source for this information. Matsumoto never really tells us how or why Dr. Zero
came to be aboard the Arcadia nor what it was that made him drink all the time; only that he joined sometime
before Yattaran came aboard per Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 23, The Song of the Model
Lover).
Doc Malone leaves the service of Captain Harlock.

Implied by the Captan Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 07,
Legacies, and Volume 10, Sins of the Father, Part 2)
The Machine Empire begins to gather its forces for an all out assault on the Illumidas
In response the Illumidas begin massing a number of fleets at the Delgraci star system.
Their plan is to launch their own offensive against the Machine Empire before the latter
can launch theirs first.
Captan Harlock Returns comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 10, Sins of the
Father, Part 2,), Captan Harlock: Deathshadow Rising comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity
Comics (Volume 03, Ghosts), and Captan Harlock: The Machine People comic book series by Robert
Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 03, Crossroads). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however,
he remains to date the only source for this information.
As part of its planned offensive Machine Empire operatives infiltrates the Illumidas
power structure at all levels. A large part of this activity is done by human-looking
Metanoids under the guise of the Cabal Corporation. It is a well-known merchant
conglomerate that has been doing business in both the Milky Way and Andromeda for
decades. In fact it is owned and operated by the Machine Empire lock, stock, and
barrel.
Captan Harlock: Christmas Special, the Captain Harlock: The Fall of the Empire comic book series, and the
Captain Harlock: The Machine People comic book series, all by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics. Gibsons
material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only source for this information.
The Illummidas complete Operation Dreadnaught. The rebuilt Deathshadow engages

Captain Harlock near Mars. Its overwhelming superiority in firepower enables its
captain, Alexander Nevich, to cripple the Arcadia and force it from the field of battle.
Captain Harlock is himself wounded and captured in the process. Unfortunately for the
Illumidas Nevich has ulterior motives and turns the tables on his sponsors. He and his
crew seize control of the ship, free Captain Harlock, and declare independence as the
nation state of New Macedonia. At the same time Baron Darghunds resistance forces
launch attacks against all major Illumidas ground installations on Earth. General Muda
is eventually victorious and defeats his foes on all fronts but pays a terrible price for his
victory. Over half of his space fleet and a good-sized chunk of his ground forces are
wiped out in the process and once again, Captain Harlock lives and escapes to fight
another day. Nevich is not so lucky. He is killed in the same explosion that destroys
half of the local Illumidas fleet when the Deathshadows damaged warp core explodes.
The wreckage of the Deathshadow dewarps over Heavy Melder and its shattered hull
returns to the grave from which it was briefly resurrected, never to sail the Sea of Stars
again.
Captan Harlock: Deathshadow Rising comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics. Gibsons
material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only source for this information. This
helps explain why we see an intact Deathshadow sitting on the surface of Heavy Melder in Endless Road
SSX (Episode 10, Sorrow in the Sea of Stars) and only the stern section sticking up out of the ground by the
time the first Galaxy Express 999 feature film rolls around.
The past years running battle with the Illumidas and the ever-increasing damage to the
Arcadia cause Tochiro Oyama to contemplate the construction of a second space
battleship for Harlock. He also begins a series of upgrades to the Queen Emeraldas in
order that the ship can realize its full power capacity. That way it can use the offensive
weaponry he has discovered it carries, much to the surprise of Emeraldas.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 31, The Origins of the Arcadia) and Queen Emeraldas (Episode 02,
Eternal Emblem. According to various sources the Queen Emeraldas was originally unarmed. It is armed
by the time Space Symphony Maetel rolls around, however. We know Tochiro was upgrading the ships
engines during this time per Queen Emeraldas so he must have enabled (or maybe added?) its weapons
during the process.
Heavy Red Bourbon, one of the most potent alcoholic drinks ever devised, is invented
by an unknown barkeeper somewhere on the planet Heavy Melder.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 06, Harlock, My Friend). Harlock states in the episode that hes always
wanted to try Heavy Red Burborn during his visit to Heavy Melder at that time. Since he had visited the
planet several times before then he either didnt have to time to try it or the drink simply didnt exist at the
time. The latter is more likely given Harlocks taste for alcohol. Bourbon was his favorite drink, red bourbon
from Andromeda in particular per the background materials for Harmony Golds dreadful Captain Harlock and
the Queen of 1000 Years.
The Arcadia makes a brief layover at the planet Santa Xavier to pick up supplies and
recruit new crewmembers. During the layover a Metanoid spy named Hannibal
manages to infiltrate Harlocks new batch of recruits.
Captan Harlock Christmas Special comic book by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics. Gibsons material is
admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only source for this information.
2970-2971
The Big Galaxy War

Cosmo Warrior Zero series and Cosmo Warrior Zero: Marina Special. Marina Oki describes the Big Galaxy
War as the first great war fought between humans and the Machine Men. The date agrees reasonably
well with Robert Gibsons apocryphal materials for Eternity Comics. According to the contextual evidence in
Gibsons materials (Captain Harlock Christmas Special and Captain Harlock: The Fall of the Empire) the
Machine Empire launched their offensive against the Illumidas in January of 2970. In comparing this with
Matsumoto-sans own materials it seems the Big Galaxy War appears to be three separate events lumped
together into one. The first is the Machine Empires defeat of the Illumidas. The second is the successful
LaMaetelian coup of 2971 that almost put down the Machine Empire. The third is the revived Machine
Empires defeat of the revived Earth Federation a few months later.
January 2970
The Battle of Delgraci
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Without warning or provocation the forces of the Machine Empire attack the Illumidas
on all fronts. The main Illumidas battle fleet at Delgraci is wiped out in a matter of
minutes. The Illumidas are driven from the Andromeda galaxy and are forced to fall
back in all sectors. At the same time the forces of the Machine Empire continue their
relentless advance into the Milky Way galaxy. The speed and savagery of the assault
come as a shock even to the Illumidas. Reports from the front indicate that the
Mechanoid forces are taking no Illumidas prisoners and exterminating them wherever
they find them.
Captan Harlock: The Fall of the Empire comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics. Gibsons
material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only source for this information. There
are indications in Gibsons material that there had been a lot of bad blood between Queen Promethium and
the Illumdias and that she had decided to settle old scores once and for all.
Captain Harlock is forced to sit out the battle between the Illumidas and the Machine
Empire due to the extensive damage the Arcadia had suffered in its fight with the rebuilt
Deathshadow.
Captan Harlock: The Fall of the Empire comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 01,
Transitions). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only source for
this information.
Illumidas High Command refuses General Mudas request for reinforcements and
resupply for his Illumidas Earth Occupation Forces. Instead, they order the destruction
of Earth with a planet bomb. Only a chance encounter with Captain Harlocks forces in
the Mars-Jupiter asteroid belt keeps the bomb from being delivered to Muda. The
bomb is instead destroyed, preventing General Muda from carrying out what will prove
to be his final order from his superiors.
this information.
Earth resistance forces, with the unexpected help of Machine Empire advisors and
heavy weapons provided by the Cabal Corporation, successfully overthrow the
Illumdias Earth Occupation Forces and retake control of the planet within two weeks.
One of the largest battles for the planet is fought and won within the ruins of Megapolis
City itself. Meanwhile, in the North American Sector, General Muda and his top staff
officers manage to escape their headquarters before it is overrun by Earth resistance
forces All other Illumdias on Earth are hunted down and killed to the last man woman
and child.
this information.
The Machine Empire commits genocide against the Illumidas. Not surprisingly, many
of their former subjects put aside any moral qualms and join them in the carnage. The
Illumidas are wiped out to the last man, woman, and child wherever they are found.
There are no known survivors.
Captan Harlock: The Machine People comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 01,
Crossroads and Volume 02, Memorial). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains
to date the only source for this information. This helps explain why you dont see the Illumidas anymore after
Endless Road SSX in the Leijiverse. They were exterminated in the Big Galaxy War.
All Machine Empire forces, both overt and covert, are given strict orders not to interfere
with Captain Harlock, his allies, or their activities.
Falls) and Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 01, Departure of Fate). Commander Leopold blames the
attack on the Three-Nine on Harlock, of whom Queen Promethium was already aware. Gibsons material is
admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only source for the information regarding the
Machine Empires non-interference order. I have yet to discover why or for what reason the Machine Empire
gave this order.
Tochiro Oyama develops the prototype for the Cosmo Dragoon so that Captain Harlock
can hunt down and destroy a Mechanoid spy aboard his ship. He will refine the design
over the next several years into the most powerful energy handgun in the known
universe.
Revelation). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal but it happens to agree with Matsumotos own
musings on the subject. The patent was taken out in 2979 LE per Matsumoto but the gun as such existed
before that. The first time we ever see a Cosmo Dragoon as such in the anime sources is in Cosmo Warrior
Zero, which takes place in 2971-2972. In My Youth in Arcadia, which takes place in 2967 LE, Harlock wears
an old Cosmo Gun (although it is never named as such in the movie). It is safe to presume that he is still
using a Cosmo Gun during Endless Road SSX in 2968 LE because the subject of the Cosmo Dragoon never
comes up. The subject also never comes up in the stories that take place between Endless Road SSX and
Cosmo Warrior Zero. Put it all together and you wind up with an origin date for the Cosmo Dragoon around
2969-2970 almost the same as Gibson says. According to Gibson and artist Tim Eldred the prototype
Cosmo Dragoon was somewhat smaller and had a shorter barrel than the final design.
Mayu Oyama, daughter of Tochiro Oyama and Emeraldas of LaMaetel, is born on the
planet Heavy Melder.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 31, The Origins of the Arcadia).
With the help of the Cabal Corporation the Earth Federation is reborn. It dreams of reestablishing its former space empire despite having almost no resources from which to
begin such an effort.
Conjecture based on Cosmo Warrior Zero. There was an Earth Federation in existence prior to the Big
Galaxy War per the series. The first Earth Federation was formed during the twilight years of the Star Force
per Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars.
The Earth Space Patrol is founded by the Earth Federation. At first it is little more than
a provisional militia charged with restoring order to the war-weary planet. It will become
more over the passing years. Even so it soon gains a reputation for heavy-handed
efficiency. One of its most ruthless and efficient officers is Mitsuru Kiruta. He begins to
advance quickly through its ranks and his peers predict a great future for him.
Conjecture based on Space Pirate Captain Harlock and Harlock Saga: The Rhiengold, as well as the Captain
Harlock: The Machine People comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 01,
Crossroads).
The hastily repaired Arcadia dewarps in Earthspace to find a new Earth government
that has already sold its soul to its new masters in the Machine Empire Captain
Harlock meets with Baron Darghund and others from former Earth resistance
movement. Together they perceive that the Machine Empire has more in store for
humanity than its apparent generosity.
Falls). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only source for this
information. Remember, Harlock already knew the truth about the Machine Empire thanks to Maetel and
Emeraldas.
Prime Minister Triter serves his last term as caretaker leader of the Earth government
in the months following the downfall of the Illumidas. His replacement is a man who
cares more for horse races and golf than he does the affairs of state. It is yet another
indication of the decline and fall of Earth from its position of former intergalactic
prominence.
Implied by Captan Harlock: The Machine People comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics
(Volume 01, Crossroads) and Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 31, The Origin of the Arcadia).
The Cabal Corporation, acting on orders of the Machine Empire, takes control of the old
Illumidas surveillance satellite network in orbit around Earth.
Captan Harlock: The Machine People comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 01,
Crossroads). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only source for
this information.
Neville Cabal, the head of the Cabal Corporation delegation on Earth, kills Baron
Darghund in a duel in the ruined arena of the Hall of Justice. Darghund had
deliberately challenged him to a duel in order to kill him and thus, for a time, thwart the
Machine Empires covert plans to take over the Earth. Captain Harlock comes upon
the scene too late to save his friend. Instead, he kills Neville Cabal in retaliation and
leaves Earth once again to take the fight directly to the Machine Empire. At the same
time the former member of the resistance to the Illumidas vow to fight the Mechanoids
as hard as they did the Illumidas.
Captain Harlock: The Fall of the Empire comic book series by Robert Gibson for Eternity Comics (Volume 04,
Falls). Gibsons material is admittedly apocryphal; however, he remains to date the only source for this
information.
LaMime of Alozorzan leaves the crew of the Arcadia.

Implied by her disappearance between Endless Road SSX and Cosmo Warrior Zero. If you also take
Gibsons admittedly apocryphal materials into account then her departure has to happen about this time, right
about the point where Captain Harlock decides to take on the Machine Empire. No reason is ever given in
any of the official or apocryphal sources for LaMimes departure.
The Arcadia II (aka Death Shadow) launches from one of Captain Harlocks secret
pirate bases on the planet Heavy Melder.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 31, The Origins of the Arcadia). The date is fairly well pegged by a
number of sources, both within the series itself and other official Leijiverse materials. Even Harmony Golds
materials, dreadful as they are, agree with this date. In Harmony Golds English dub Harlock recalls that the
events surrounding the launching of the Arcadia II happened seven years prior to the landing of the Mazone
sphere on Earth in 2977. Most of this episode was effectively replaced by Space Symphony Maetel;
nevertheless, the fact remains that the Arcadia II (aka Death Shadow) was built by Tochiro Oyama for
Captain Harlock around this time. The first time we see the Arcadia II per the chronology is Space Symphony
Maetel so this has to happen here. There is also the completely different origin story for both Arcadias as
presented in the revival works Harlock Saga: Siegfried and Harlock Saga: Great Harlock Gotterdamerung.
This is from where the alternate name Death Shadow comes. Im not going with those in this chronology
because I know more of you have seen the anime than read the manga. -_^
On the planet Sarumakate, where the most secret of all of Captain Harlocks secret
pirate bases is located, the original Arcadia is drydocked for an extensive overhaul and
upgrade. Two years of fighting with the Illumidas have taken their toll on the ship.
Tochiro Oyama also wants to take the time to install a number of modifications and
upgrades he has been planning ever since the Arcadias original design flaws became
evident. Kei Yuki is given charge of overseeing the Arcadias overhaul and upgrade.
Implied by Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 10, On the Edge of the Galaxy and Episodes 14 & 15, Follow
Young Harlock Parts 1 & 2), Queen Emeraldas (Episode 02, Eternal Emblem), and certain events depicted
in Endless Road SSX. I deduce the presence of Kei Yuki with the original Arcadia because she isnt present
when the events depicted by both Space Symphony Zero and Cosmo Warrior Zero take place.
Faust Hoshino leaves his job as a Galaxy Railways regional director to become a
Machine Knight of Queen Promethium.
Implied by Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal.
Nazcas homeworld is occupied by the Machine Empire. His girlfriend Mel is savagely
beaten and left for dead by a Machine Soldier when she tries to stop a little girl from
being forcibly Mechanized. Nazca knows that Mechanization is the only way to save
her life; however, Mel dies on the conversion table before the process can even begin.
The end result is a soulless drone with Mels memories but none of her personality (or
looks, for that matter). Nazca swears vengeance on the Machine Empire and vows to
kill Queen Promethium for what happened to Mel.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 08, A Funeral March for Mother). Nazca summed up his feelings over
Mechanization and what happened to his girlfriend Mel in one poignant phrase: They took away her smile.
The Terrestrial Independent Fleet is formed. It is a space fleet crewed by humans who
have no love for the Machine Empire. Unfortunately, it is more a show of force than a
true modern space fleet. All of its vessels are either rebuilt Solar Alliance ships
recaptured from the Illumidas or relics (some hundreds of years old) from the original
Earth Federation. The new Earth Federation tolerates the existence of the Terrestrial
Independent Fleet for two reasons. First, it has no military of its own save for the Earth
Space Patrol. Second, it lacks the power to do anything about.
Conjecture based on Cosmo Warrior Zero. There was an Earth Federation in existence prior to the Big
Galaxy War per the series. Also, the Karyu was an old ship that predated the series. Some of the ships
flown by the pirates in the series appear to be derived from old EDF designs from the Star Blazers era. It is
highly likely that many of the people serving with the TIF used to be part of the resistance against the
Illumidas but the source materials do not say one way or the other.
Emeraldas and Tochiro Oyama are briefly imprisoned on a mining planet and forced to
endure hard labor pounding rocks for a time until Harlock can come to their rescue.
This friendly little visit is almost the death of Tochrio when conditions on the mining
planet aggravate his already bad health. It takes him a long time to recover. According
to some, he never really recovers his full health after this incidient.
Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years. Yes, its a dialogue goof but an interesting one. We know
Emeraldas and Tochiro shared a number of adventures together (ref.Queen Emeraldas, Episode 04, Siren
the Witch). This probably happened during one of them. It had to have happened before the building of the
Arcadia II because it is spoken of in the past tense whenever the ships construction is recalled. The visit
was probably a lot like Harlock and Tochiros own to the Bad Planet only much worse.
Warrius Zero, Earths most experienced starship commander to survive the EarthIllumidas War, is given the rank of admiral and placed in charge of the Terrestrial
Independent Fleet.
Cosmo Warrior Zero. The part about his having survived the Earth-Illumidas War is probable conjecture
given his age and time in the military.
The former Solar Alliance space battleship Karyu is returned to service as the flagship
of the Terrestrial Independent Fleet.
Cosmo Warrior Zero. Both Harlock and Yattaran refer to the ship as an antique on more than one occasion.
Warrius Zero prefers to call it delicate.
Marina Okis adoptive human parents are killed in the short-lived Arrow War. This is
one of the first skirmishes between humanity and the Machine Empire.
Cosmo Warrior Zero: Marina Special. Marina says the Okis were killed right after her posting to the Earth
Federation destroyer Monsoon, which happened early in her military career. The Japanese dialogue and
subtitles do not name the conflict; only that it was a series of terrorist strikes carried out by Mechanoid
command teams on Earth itself.
Admiral Zero discovers an ancient yet still functional robot in a junk pile on a backwater
planet during one of his first deep space patrols aboard the Karyu. The robots memory
has degraded to the point where it has forgotten everything except that it once served
aboard a famous Earth space battleship. Amused by its antics, Admiral Zero takes the
ancient robot aboard the Karyu and has it rebuilt. He renames it Battlyzer since it cant
remember its original name.
Cosmo Warrior Zero. Yes, folks, Battlyzer is in fact Battlefield Analyzer IQ-9 from Star Blazers per none
other than Matsumoto-san himself.
The last few humans still alive on the planet LaMaetel that have successfully resisted
Mechanization are rounded up and herded into one of the planets original (and now
ruined) cities. There they are given a choice: their freedom if they will be Mechanized
or slavery as humans in the service of the Machine Empire. All choose slavery over
forced Mechanization.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 02, Nazcas Passion and Episode 03, The Night Before the
Revolution).
The Galaxy Railways Space Defense Force (GRSDF) develops the black hole cannon
for use on armed space trains. It is a variation on the standard shock cannon capable
of firing a powerful negative energy blast intended to cause a starship of any size to
implode when hit. This tremendous power is offset to a large degree by its limited
range of 25 space kilometers (i.e. megameters).
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Voyager Emeraldas. The last time anyone fielded black hole weaponry in the
Leijiverse was during the Star Blazers era in the early 2200s.
The attempt to terraform the planet Agri ends in colossal failure when the planets core
collapses from the effort. The lives of everyone on the doomed planets surface are
lost when it implodes. There are no survivors.
Galaxy Railways (Episode 12, Twilight). Captain Bulge tells Manabu Yuki that Makoto Kasanugi, the young
man for whom he has been mistaken, died ten years earlier. He had been part of Agris terraforming team.
The World War II Japanese battleship Mahoroba reappears on Earth some eight
centuries after its mysterious disappearance. The ship is immediately impounded by
Earth Federation officials and its crew subjected to an extensive debriefing. Not long
after the vessel itself winds up in the hands of the Galaxy Railways Space Panzer
Grenadiers. They know the value of the Time Sweeper technology it carries and have
the ship rebuilt as a space battleship in the same manner as the legendary Yamato.
The two twin space battleships, Yamato and Mahoroba, soon become familiar sights
again in the universe as they embark on various missions for their new masters.
Implied by The Ultimate Time Sweeper Mahoroba and Great Yamato mangas. The possibility of time travel
and interdimensional slipping via Time Sweeper technology is explored in such stories as Harlock Saga:
Great Harlock Gotterdamerung and Fire Force DNA Sights 999.9.
Yattaran joins Captain Harlocks crew around this time.

Implied by Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 04, Rhapsody in Gold), Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 05,
Tochiro the Great Samurai) and Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 23, Yattaran: The Song of the
Model Lover). We know Yattaran joined Harlocks crew when the Arcadia II made an emergency stop at
Earth for repairs. Also, we dont see Yattaran aboard the Arcadia in any Leijiverse anime prior to Space
Symphony Maetel. Yattaran acts more immature in both Cosmo Warrior Zero and Space Symphony Maetel
than in any other Leijiverse anime, which might imply he was younger. In later Leijiverse anime Yattaran is
far more mellow and laid back.
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Space Symphony Maetel

Uchuu Kokyoshi Maetel: Ginga Tetsudo Three-Nine Gaiden
According to the official Avex Mode press release this revival Leijiverse anime takes place two years after
the events depicted in Maetel Legend. This is impossible given the continuity of the movie Leijiverse. It
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Empire as such is still in the process of building itself. Actually, the series appears designed to replace the
flashback depicted in Space Pirate Captain Harlock Episode 31, The Origins of the Arcadia. Space
Symphony Maetel fits equally well within either the classic movie timeline or the post-Harlock Saga revival
timeline once you understand this. The show starts three months before LaMaetel settles into orbit as Heavy
Melders moon (per Episode 08, A Funeral March for Mother) and ends about a month later (implied by
Episode 10, Lightning Titan). It also does a beautiful job of resolving the issues surrounding the building of
Great Andromeda and the exile of Queen Promethium as depicted in Adieu Galaxy Express 999:
Andromeda Terminal. This is one of the rare instances of a revival Leijiverse story that actually fixes
existing Leijiverse contradictions instead of causing more.
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Maetel returns to LaMaetel at the request of her mother Queen Promethium. Her
stated reason is to accept her mothers offer to become the new Queen of the Machine
Empire that Promethium is creating. Her real reason is to kill her mother and destroy
the Machine Empire before it takes over the known universe.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 01, Departure of Fate)
Maetel, Emeraldas, and their allies Harlock, Tochiro, and Nazca soon realize that the
various Queen Promethiums they see are not the real ones but cloned copies of
Promethium before she was Mechanized.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 02, Nazcas Passion and Episode 04, Rhapsody in Gold).
An assassination attempt on Maetel by the humans of LaMaetel fails.

Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 03, The Night Before the Revolution).
Captain Harlock is attacked without provocation by the Space Panzers of LaMaetel.

The badly damaged Arcadia II barely manages an escape when it chances upon a
freak wormhole.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 04, Rhapsody in Gold). I note in passing that the Queen Emeraldas as
seen in this series is identical in appearance to how it appears in Cosmo Warrior Zero (classic grey).
Maetel is shocked to discover that her grandmother Lady La Lela is alive and well and
living on the surface of LaMaetels inner core. Lady La Lela opposes the forced
mechanization of her world and tests her granddaughter to see if Maetel has the nerve
and force of will to go up against her own mother, Queen Promethium.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 05, Promethiums Magic Flute and Episode 06, La Lelas Requeim).
Maetel is taken hostage by Commander Leopold when Lady La Lela refuses to back
his planned coup. He does not anticipate that the real Queen Promethium is beyond
such tactics.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 05, Promethiums Magic Flute and Episode 06, La Lelas Requeim).
Queen Promethium orders the final cleansing of all humans from LaMaetel as its total
mechanization nears completion. This prompts a revolt, led by Commander Leopold of
the LaMaetel Space Panzers, which stops the planets mechanization from being
completed and completely destroys its multiple mechanized outer shells. Most of the
humans and a few fortunate Mechanoids escape in a massive space ark, with the
space pirates Harlock and Emeraldas providing cover from their ships. LaMaetels
inner planetary core breaks free of its fiery metal prison; however, the multiple
explosions from the disintegrating shells have changed its course. It is now headed for
the Euphrates star system. LaMaetel will settle into orbit around nearby Heavy Melder
within three months just as Commander Leopold and Lady La Lela had planned.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 05, Promethiums Magic Flute; Episode 06, La Lelas Requeim;
Episode 07, The Way to the Homeland; and Episode 08, A Funeral March for Mother). The space ark
used in the show to evacuate the humans was apparently meant for use during the invasion of Earth back in
1999. At that time it would have been used to ferry LaMaetels civilian population to Earth.
Death of Lady La Lela, mother of Queen Promethium. She uses the last of her life
energy to control the disintegration of the planets outer shells so that its original
planetary core can escape destruction. Her living essence is transformed into a
powerful sphere of energy so that LaMaetel can make the long trip to Heavy Melder
without freezing its surface once again and killing its inhabitants.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 06, La Lelas Requeim; Episode 08, A Funeral March for Mother; and
Episode 09, The Spring of LaMaetel).
Queen Promethium manages to steal part of her daughter Maetels living essence
during the breakup of LaMaetels surface shells. Maetel in turn teams up with her sister
Emeraldas and together they are able to defeat Promethium. Their mothers
Mechanoid body disintegrates into dust as the two barely escape with their lives.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 08, A Funeral March for Mother). This helps explain Promethiums claim
in the first Galaxy Express 999 movie that the Machine Planet Maetel, the second in the series, was part of
Maetel herself. The third Machine Planet (Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal) would have
probably had part of the living essence of Emeraldas had Promethium been successful in stealing it as she
tries to do in the episode. She failed; therefore she had to use her own as she did with the first Machine
Planet.
The planet LaMaetel settles into orbit around Heavy Melder as its new moon.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 08, A Funeral March for Mother and Episode 09, The Spring of
LaMaetel); see also Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 31, The Origins of the Arcadia). The planet is
called Ganba in the earlier version of the story but is in fact LaMaetel per Adieu Galaxy Express 999:
Andromeda Terminal.
Queen Promethium successfully revives herself for the first time. Almost immediately
she begins rebuilding her Mechanoid forces within the Milky Way glaxy. She also
begins construction of Planet Promethium, the first Machine Planet.
Implied by Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 09, The Spring of LaMaetel and Episode 10, Lightning
Titan)
Tochiro Oyama finds the time to help Nazca, Maetels young ally in the fight against
Queen Promethium, build a small space cruiser of his own. Although not as heavily
armed as the Arcadia II it has the advantages of being smaller and more nimble. It is
also equipped with a Galaxy Railways shield generator, courtesy of Maetel.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 11, Leopolds Eulogy and Episode 12, Song of the Wayfarer).
Apparently Tochiro used the occasion to field-test some of the ideas he had in mind for the original Arcadias
upgrade, which was also taking place about this time.
Queen Promethium perfects the combination of LaMaetelian memory storage

technology with Metanoid self-replication to create a new generation of Mechanoids.
These can not only repair themselves but also reconstruct themselves into their original
form (or new forms as directed) as fast as they can process any available raw
materials.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 12, Song of the Wayfarer). Tochiro Oyama figures this out after
analyzing the Mechanoid fly that almost destroyed LaMaetels sole energy production station. It helps explain
how the Machine Empire was able to rebuild itself within the Milky Way galaxy only a year after its defeat at
the end of the series.
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The Battle for Planet LaMaetel

Space Symphony Maetel (Episodes 10, Lightning Titan and Episode 11, Leopolds Eulogy).
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Death of Commander Leopold.

Space Symphony Maetel (Episodes 10, Lightning Titan). He was succeeded as commander of LaMaetels
Space Panzers (and nominal ruler of LaMaetel) by his adjutant Banbarra (not Bernbarrel, as it is commonly
mistranslated).
Construction of Planet Promethium, the first Machine Planet, is completed.

Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 12, Song of the Wayfarer). It was almost complete by the time Tochiro
deduces its existence and location. This implies that at least a month (or less) had passed since the Battle
for LaMaetel. This would allow enough time for Queen Promethium to regenerate herself, rebuild her forces,
and build Planet Promethium from scratch.
Harlock and Emeraldas, with the help of Maetel and her young friend Nazca, attack
Planet Promethium by themselves.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 12, Song of the Wayfarer and Episode 13, A New World Far Away).
Maetel receives the pendant carrying the living essence of her father Dr. Ban during her
escape from Planet Promethium.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 13, A New World Far Away). The pendant was being carried around
during the entire series by a weird-looking Mechanoid cat that always followed her and guided her actions.
Destruction of Planet Promethium, the first of the Machine Empires Machine Planets.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 13, A New World Far Away).
The bounty hunter Sylvania begins her own personal quest to collect the bounty on
Captain Harlocks head.
Implied by Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 05, Tochiro the Great Samurai).
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Construction begins on Planet Maetel, the second of Queen Promethiums Machine

Planets. It will in time become the Machine Empires seat of power within the Milky
Way galaxy.
Space Symphony Maetel (Episode 13, A New World Far Away), the Galaxy Express 999 feature film, and
Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal. It is implied, although never stated, that the third Machine
Planet in the Andromeda galaxy was built around the same time.
A malfunctioning space probe crashes into the space station on Triton, destroying the
station and killing most of its personnel. Among the few survivors is Mitsuko Daiba,
wife of Professor Tsuyoshi Daiba and the stations chief meterologist. Her frantic pleas
for help both before and after the crash are ignored back on Earth. Mitsuko and her
fellow survivors eventually die of asphyxiation when the oxygen runs out in the
compartment in which they have taken refuge. A board of inquiry investigating the
incident wrongfully concludes that Mitsuko Daiba was ultimately at fault for failing to
notice the space probe in time. They claim she never called for help despite ample
evidence to the contrary. The manner in which his mother died and the cover-up that
followed leaves permanent emotional scars on her young son Tadashi.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 04, Under the Flag of Freedom).
An artificial world is created as a moon of the planet Ruelbaez. It becomes known as

Technologia, a place where humans and machines can live together in peace.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 08, Marina Everlasting, Episode 10, On the Edge of the Galaxy, and
Episode 11, The Great Technologia). According to Machine Knight Helmaeter the moon had just been
completed shortly before Zero was given the job of hunting down Harlock.
Captain Harlock secures the last known Daibaran energy crystals for Tochiro Oyama in
his efforts to build the original Arcadias new wave gravity engines. It had taken him a
while to find them in sufficient quantity since all of the crystal mines on Daibaran were
tapped out.
Queen Emeraldas (Episode 02, Eternal Emblem) and Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 06, Harlock, My
Friend). This had to have happened about this time because, according to Tochiro, the original Arcadias
upgrade was almost complete when Zeth Voder forced the confrontation at Technologia.
Humanity unlocks the secrets of first-generation cloaking technology.

Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 03, Flame of Karyu). A cloaking device, i.e. stealth mode generator, was
part of the Karyus standard equipment. Humanity didnt have cloaking devices when it lost the EarthIllumidas war; else it would have used them. It is my conjecture that they were developed during the Big
Galaxy War to aid the Earth Federation in its short-lived fight against the Machine Empire.
Captain Harlock and his pirate allies (including Emeraldas) join Admiral Warrius Zero
and the Terrestrial Independent Fleet in an uneasy alliance against the Machine
Empire.
Cosmo Warrior Zero and Space Symphony Maetel. Both make clear that Captain Harlock fought on Earths
side against the Machine Empire during the Big Galaxy War. In addition, the background materials for
Cosmo Warrior Zero from Enoki Films state unequivocally that Captain Harlock and Warrius Zero fought side
by side at some point in this conflict even though this contradicts the anime itself.
The planet Rubiana is destroyed by the Machine Empire. The survivors vow
vengeance against those who destroyed their homeworld.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 07, The Great Technologia). The exact date is never given but it is implied
that its destruction took place during the Big Galaxy War.
A fierce battle for control of the planet El Alamein is fought between the Terrestrial
Independent Fleet and the Machine Empire. Most of the human survivors eventually
surrender to the victorious Mechanoid forces save for a lone mercenary band hiding in
the wastes. Among the survivors is Luto, son of the late commander of all Earth
Federation forces on El Alamein. The wreckage of the battle, most of it still functional
to varying degrees, will cover large portions of the planets surface for years to come.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 04, The Soul of Grenadier) and Galaxy Express 999 (Episode xx, x). Luto
is the boy who takes charge of the children in Grenadiers absence.
The Machine Empire attacks Earth. This is in retaliation for the assault upon El
Alamein and other similar attacks by human forces against the Machine Empire. The
bulk of the Terrestrial Independent Fleet, led by Admiral Warrius Zero aboard the
Karyu, intercepts a Mechanoid fleet in high orbit and engages it despite a decided
disadvantage in numbers and technology. Zero and his forces are quickly routed and
most major population centers of the Earth are bombarded without mercy. Admiral
Zero and his surviving forces helplessly watch the devastation from their damaged and
disabled vessels.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 01, The Start of the Great Voyage).
The family of Warrius Zero is killed in the Machine Empires bombardment of Earth.
The Big Galaxy War ends with the hasty signing of the Terrestrial Federation Treaty
between the Earth Federation and the Machine Empire. The Machine Empire promises
to halt further hostilities in exchange for greater Mechanoid participation in humanoid
affairs. Human claims of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat are sneered at by
those who know better most notably space pirates (such as Captain Harlock) and
the survivors of the Terrestrial Independent Fleet (led by the now-disgraced Admiral
Zero).
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 03, Flame of Karyu).
The Earth Federation is formally disbanded under the terms of the Terrestrial
Federation Treaty. A Galactic Government is established in its place with humanoid
and Mechanoid lifeforms on equal terms. The former territories of the Earth Federation
are renamed the Terrestrial Federation and are split into two groups: the Planetary
Federation, governing affairs in the Solar System and its neighboring area of space;
and the Extra Solar Cosmic Government, governing all human affairs outside the Solar
System. Under the terms of the treaty the Terrestrial Federation is allowed to wield its
own armed police and paramilitary forces; however, it is not allowed to rebuild itself as
a major interstellar military power. The Earth Space Patrol is assigned to the jurisdiction
of the Planetary Federation. What remains of the Terrestrial Independent Fleet is
assigned to the jurisdiction of the Extra Solar Cosmic Government. The treaty
effectively ends Earths domination of the Milky Way galaxy once and for all.
Admiral Warrius Zero, commander of the Terrestrial Independent Fleet, is courtmartialed and stripped of his command for his failure to prevent the bombardment of
Earth by the Machine Empire The former admiral is demoted to the rank of captain
and given command of the Mirage, an old patrol cruiser policing the Solar System
between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. Most of Zeros old crew from the Karyu, furious
over the way he is being treated by the government, join him in exile as a sign of
protest. As for the Terrestrial Independent Fleet, it is formally disbanded and its ships
and personnel assimilated into the new Terrestrial Federation Peacekeeping Force.
Lt. Colonel Yamaguchi, former chief engineer of the Karyu, is refused his request to join
Warrius Zero in exile aboard the Mirage. He is instead given the formidable task of
rebuilding the battle-damaged Karyu and making the ship spaceworthy again.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 09, The Sad Planet).
Zeth Voder, a Metanoid from the planet Mirisenia, is named by a joint declaration of the
Terrestrial Federation and the Machine Empire to be Governor General of the Planetary
Federation. His chief aide is the Machine Knight Helmaeter, who is in truth the real
power behind his administration. The biggest problem Zeth Voder faces as he comes
to office are the hundreds of ex-mercenaries, former Earth Federation and TIF soldiers
as well as civilians, and space pirates (most notably Captain Harlock and Emeraldas of
LaMaetel) who refuse to acknowledge the authority of the Machine Empire over their
affairs.
From the Enoki Films press release for Cosmo Warrior Zero.
Mechanoid conversion is offered to humanity as a freely given gift by the Machine

Empire rather than forced upon them as had been done the people of LaMaetel. This
time the plan is to win converts to Mechanization by advertising its benefits. This
change in tactics by Queen Promethium proves to be largely successful. Those few
humans who oppose the process are made social outcasts and eventually forced to join
the dregs of society. Those who try to fight it are attacked and killed when possible.
Implied by Cosmo Warrior Zero, Space Symphony Maetel, and Galaxy Express 999.
The physical remains of all humans and humanoids that undergo Mechanization are
dumped on the planet Alvarez for the time being until a more efficient means of
disposal can be found.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 09, The Sad Planet). It is none other than Maetel who discovers this
shocking fact and will reveal it to Warrius Zero and his crew during the course of the series. The more
efficient means of disposal will be dealt with in Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal.
Dr. Zero is given his pet cat Mee as a kitten by its ailing mother while he is working as a
volunteer doctor in one of the bombed-out sections of Megapolis City.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 25, Dr. Zero and Mee). The date is never given but it had to have
happened while major cities of the Earth were in ruins. This limits the event to happening either during the
Earth-Illumidas War or the Big Galaxy War. It best fits here given Mees apparent age (a young cat).
The Metanoids begin having serious doubts about Queen Promethiums tactics towards
humanity. They begin conducting their own covert surveillance of a people they deem
to be their future foes.
Implied by the Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie manga, Cosmo Warrior Zero, and the Galaxy Express 999: Eternal
Fantasy manga.
The Chairwoman of the Terrestrial Federation agrees to be Mechanized. Her motives

are both political and personal. She is also wealthy enough to afford the more humanlooking Metanoid conversion process.
The sister of the Chairwoman of the Terrestrial Federation gets her sibling a present
meant to alleviate her childlessness. It is a six-year-old Mechanoid boy. The
Chairwoman is horrified and refuses to care for it much to the consternation of her
Mechanoid husband.
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Cosmo Warrior Zero

Cosmo Warrior Zero (PlayStation and PC game)
Cosmo Warrior Zero (anime series)
Cosmo Warrior Zero Gaiden: Follow Young Harlock (two-part OVA)
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Warrius Zero is restored to his former command, the old Earth Federation space
battleship Karyu, by none other than the Chairwoman of the Terrestrial Federation. His
orders are to seek out and destroy Captain Harlock, the most feared of all space
pirates.
Zeth Voder and Helmaeter depart the Solar System, following the Karyu from a discreet
distance aboard the Machine Empire space fortress Hell Castle. They suspect there is
more to Zeros mission than meets the eye. Zeth Voder is worried that it might
interefere with his ambitions to seize control of the Machine Empire and declare himself
Emperor of the Galaxy. Helmaeter has her own concerns, which she chooses not to
share with Zeth Voder.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 02, Marinas Impact and Episode 10, On the Edge of the Galaxy).
All human resistance to Machine Empire rule on the planet El Alamein ends with the
departure of the last mercenary warrior, Grenadier, aboard the visiting Karyu. The fight
for the planet finally comes to an end.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 04, The Soul of Grenadier).
Zeth Voder begins manufacturing mass-produced copies of famous pirate ships

manned by lookalike android crews. These are used in horrific and cruel attacks on
human and Mechanoid settlements alike. The idea is to sow doubt and confusion
among those who support the freedom-loving space pirates.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 02, Marinas Impact and Episode 07, The Need to Believe).
A Mechanoid civilian settlement on the planet Serract in the Tohr sector is attacked and
destroyed by Captain Harlock. The attack is a mistake. Harlock was lured into
attacking the settlement by agents of Zeth Voder in order to paint a truthful picture of
him as ruthless and cruel.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 07, The Need to Believe).
Helmaeter, acting on her own, tries and fails to sabotage the Karyu. She knows that
Warrius Zero is closing in on the truth behind his mission to destroy Captain Harlock.
Zero and his crew soon discover that the real reason for their mission is to expose the
results of the Machine Empires Mechanization program for all to see.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 07, The Need to Believe and Episode 08, Marina Everlasting).
The Chairwoman of the Terrestrial Federation is killed by Zeth Voders henchmen once
they discover the real reason behind Zeros mission. Before her death, though, she is
able to transmit vital data regarding Zeth Voder and the Hell Castle battle fortress to the
Karyu.
Captain Harlock has Kei Yuki move the original Arcadia from Sarumakate to the planet
Daibaran with orders to make it spaceworthy as fast as possible. His reasons are
twofold. First, he fears he needs the firepower of the Arcadia (which he knows will be
more powerful than the Arcadia II once finished) in a showdown with Zeth Voder at
Technologia. Second, Daibaran is closer to Technologia than Sarumakate. Harlock

knows Voder is planning to destroy Technologia as a show of personal power. He
wants the original Arcadia as close as possible in the event he needs it to join the battle
fleet of like-minded mercenaries and space pirates he is assembling to defend the
planet. Among these is Emeraldas of LaMaetel, Harlocks pirate ally of old.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 10, On the Edge of the Galaxy).
Captain Warrius Zero forms a temporary alliance with Captain Harlock in order to
defeat a common foe: Zeth Voder and his Hell Castle battle fortress. As a sign of good
faith Harlock has his chief technical expert Tochiro Oyama coat key areas of the
Karyus hull with a new alloy that was to be part of the original Arcadias upgrade.
Harlocks original space battleship cannot be made spaceworthy in time to join the
battle. The Karyu, with its antiquated yet powerful St. Elmos Fire Cannon, represents
the only chance Harlocks battle fleet has of destroying Hell Castle. Adding the alloy
gives the venerable Karyu a better chance of surviving the upcoming battle.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episodes 11, The Great Technologia, Episode 12, War Eternal, and Episode 13,
The Oath).
Captain Harlocks battle fleet is able to save Technologia and destroy Hell Castle
thanks to the bravery of Warrius Zero and his crew aboard the Karyu. The only
survivor of Hell Castle is the Machine Knight Helmaeter. She considers the encounter
with Harlock and Zero a valuable experience in learning not to underestimate the
resourcefulness and determination of humans at bay.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episode 13, The Oath).
Warrius Zero politely refuses Captain Harlocks offer to become a fellow space pirate.
He will try to reform the Terrestrial Federation from within, just as Harlock will fight to
preserve humanitys honor from without. The two part ways as friends.
The planet Sarumakate is almost destroyed by the space pirate Captain Hunter and the
bounty hunter Sylvania in a mad attempt to locate Captain Harlocks legendary store of
treasure.
Cosmo Warrior Zero (Episodes 14 & 15, Follow Young Harlock, Parts 1 & 2).
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Captain Yamanaka is the next space captain tasked with the difficult job of bringing
down Captain Harlock by the Earth Federation. He has at his disposal the Braves,
Earths newest and most powerful space battleship. Yamanaka and his ship prove no
better at stopping Harlock as did Zero and the Karyu and they are defeated in pitched
battle with the Arcadia II. Harlock allows Yamanaka to limp away in his damaged
vessel with his wounded rather than finishing him off. Yamanaka never forgets this act
of honor on Harlocks part.
Space Pirate Captian Harlock (Episode 17, The Skeletal Hero).
Tochiro Oyama is reunited with his distant ancestor, Toshiro Oyama, who now lives in
the present thanks to the Time Sweeper accident aboard the Mahoroba in 2030 LE.
From him Tochiro learns the secrets of Time Sweeper technology. He is able to
improve on his ancestors efforts and build an improved Time Sweeper than not only
permits time travel but also sliding into parallel time streams and alternate realities.
Both Arcadias will eventually be fitted with Tochiros improved Time Sweepers.
Implied by Fire Force DNA Sights 999.9, The Ultimate Time Sweeper Mahoroba manga, and the Harlock
Saga: Great Harlock Gotterdamerung manga. The first has Captain Harlock appearing in an alternate reality.
The second establishes Time Sweeper technology. The third, a revival Leijiverse work, has Captain
Harlock traveling back and forth in time within his own lifetime concerning a dagger his late father Great
Harlock had left him.
Kanae Hoshino is killed by Count Mecha The orphaned Tetsuro Hoshino manages to
find his own way to Megalopolis (nee Megapolis City) and survives on his own for the
next two years. He eventually winds up as the leader of a small gang of street urchins.
Galaxy Express 999 feature film.
Professor Tsuyoshi Daiba stumbles across the existence of the Mazone during his
studies of ancient pre-Diluvial Earth civilizations. The more his research continues the
greater his fear for humanity.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 02, A Woman Who Burns Like Paper).
Tochiro Oyama is captured and held hostage by Siren the Witch. It is part of her plan
to draw out and kill the space pirate Emeraldas, lover of Tochiro and an old enemy of
Siren. The plan succeeds and Siren is successful in wounding Emeraldas; however
she herself is almost killed with Emeraldas shoots Siren with her Cosmo Dragoon. The
timely arrival of Captain Harlock puts an end to the affair and Siren is forced to concede
defeat. She neither forgives Emeraldas nor how she was bested nor will she ever
forget the weapon that almost killed her.
Queen Emeraldas (Episode 04, Siren the Witch). Captain Harlocks use of the Arcadia II in rescuing
Emeraldas and Tochiro implies a date sometime before the original Arcadia was returned to service. Another
factor to consider is that Emeraldas and Tochiro are together as opposed to Tochiro being in service with
Harlock.
The newly upgraded original space pirate battleship Arcadia returns to service and
Captain Harlock wastes no time in putting the ship through a shakedown cruise.
Command of the Arcadia II is handed over to Kei Yuki for the time being. It is her first
experience on her own as a starship commander. It will also set a pattern for Harlock
over the next few years during his fight against the Machine Empire. Kei Yuki will
command whichever Arcadia he himself is not commanding whenever both are in
service.
Implied by Harlock Saga: The Rheingold, Cosmo Warrior Zero, and the first Galaxy Express 999 feature film.
Kei Yuki is conspicuously absent in all three. She had to get her command experience from somewhere if
she is commanding her own pirate ship by the time Captain Harlock: Outside Legend rolls around.
The wife of Boss Antares is killed by Count Mecha during a raid on one of the Counts
many estates.
Galaxy Express 999 television series (Episode 004, Titans Sleeping Warrior).
Owen, a rookie officer in the Sirius Division of the Galaxy Railways Space Defense
Force, is knifed to death by a terrorist during a routine arrest gone awry.
Captain Wataru Yuki, commander of the Sirius Division of the Galaxy Railways Space
Defense Force, is killed in action defending Galaxy Express #707 from an attack by a
battlecruiser of the Alfort Space Fleet. This is also the first encounter mankind has with
the Alfort in known space.
Galaxy Railways (Episode 01, Setting Out). Manabu Yuki was twelve years old when his father died.
Katarina, the girlfriend of GRSDF Officer Schwanehelt Bulge, suddenly breaks off their
relationship without explanation immediately after the death of Captain Yuki. It is a loss
that Bulge cannot cope with and he never speaks to her again.
The construction of Planet Maetel, the second Machine Planet, is completed. It will
become the new seat of power for the Machine Empire in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Galaxy Express 999 feature film. It is implied that construction of the third Machine Planet in Andromeda was
also completed about this time per Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal.
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Harlock Saga
Harlock Saga: The Rheingold (Nibelung no Yubiwa: Rhine no Ogon)

Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie (manga)
Harlock Saga: Siegfried (manga)
Harlock Saga: Great Harlock Gotterdamerung (manga, unfinished)
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Meeme the Nibelung sorceress reveals herself and joins the crew of the Arcadia for a
time. Her presence triggers a series of events that will involve Captain Harlock in the
legends of Valhalla and answer a great many questions about the mysterious death of
his father, Great Harlock.
Harlock Saga: The Rheingold; Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie manga.
All inhabitants of the free trade planet Alucion are wiped out by Alberich of the
Nibelheim for refusing to reveal the location of the Rheingold.
Tadashi Daiba, younger brother of Tsuyoushi Daiba, joins the crew of the Arcadia.
The Dark Planet is destroyed by Wotan, lord of the gods of Valhalla.

The rape of Meemes sister Freya by the Meister brothers.

The Arcadia is called to Valhalla for a showdown with its inhabitants but instead winds
up helping the fight off an assault by Alberich and his Nibelhiem fleet.
The Meister brothers die protecting the Arcadia during the fight with Alberich.
Death of Alberich of the Nibelheim.

The rebuilt space battleship Yamato, crewed by the Galaxy Railways Space Panzer
Grenadiers, observes the Arcadias return from Valhalla.
Harlock Saga: The Rheingold. Most viewers wont understand the Yamatos brief cameo at the end of the
anime unless theyve read the original manga. We learn from the revival Leijiverse manga that Harlock and
the GRSPG had an understanding of sorts and apparently worked together from time to time.
Meeme tells Captain Harlock the story of his fathers death.

Harlock Saga: The Valkyrie manga. I note in passing that this manga, the first of the revivial Leijiverse
stories, gives a completely different story concerning Harlocks youth and the fall of Earth in the 2960s than
was presented in My Youth in Arcadia and Endless Road SSX. Yep, its another one of those infamous
Leijiverse contradictions. *sigh*
Wotan sends his daughter Brunhilde and her fellow Valkyries back in time to 2964 LE in
order to kill Harlock and his allies before they can achieve their destiny. Instead she
renounces her alliegance to her father and dies fighting alongside Harlocks father to
thwart the first attempted Metanoid invasion of the Milky Way galaxy.
From the Harlock Saga: The Valkyire and Harlock Saga: Siegfried mangas despite certain inconsistencies.
The young and future Captain Harlock travels forward in time to recover the pirate
dagger his father Great Harlock had left for him. It is currently embedded in the desk of
the Earth Federation Minister of Defense exactly where Great Harlock had left it in 2964
LE shortly before his final departure from Earth.
From the Harlock Saga: Great Harlock Gotterdamerung manga despite certain inconsistencies.
Having learned the truth behind his fathers death and the extent of Wotans
involvement in it, Captain Harlock swears vengeance. Together with his ally Emeraldas
he dares to take on the gods of Valhalla a second time and bring about their downfall
once and for all.
Harlock Saga: Great Harlock Gotterdamerung manga
The Twilight of the Gods. The Sword of Heaven activates for the second time in its
aeons-long history, completely destroying Wotan, Valhalla, and the race of the gods.
Harlock, Emeraldas, and their allies, who played no small part in the events leading up
to this, successfully escape with their surviving allies and return to our galaxy.
Implied as the logical conclusion for the unfinished portion of the Harlock Saga: Great Harlock
Gotterdamerung manga
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Mimay of Jura is rescued by Captain Harlock from certain death from the carnivorous
plants that have taken over her homeworld. In gratitude she swears service to Harlock
for the rest of her life. Mimay will become Harlocks chief companion and confidant as
the long years pass during his lonely vigil on the Sea of Stars.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 06, The Phantom Menace). Contrary to what some fans have
asserted Mimay never became Harlocks lover. His heart always belonged to his late wife Maya (in this
timeline, anyway) and he consistently refused the advances of other women for the rest of his life.
Professor Tsuyoushi Daiba attempts to warn others about the existence of the Mazone
and the danger that they pose to Earth. His warnings will fall largely on deaf ears over
the next five years. One of the few who believe him is Captain Yamanaka, who has
reasons of his own to suspect that a covert alien force is at work on Earth. His
suspicions are confirmed shortly thereafter when he himself becomes the target of
Mazone assassins.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 17, The Skeletal Hero).
Professor Daiba gets the chance to visit with Captain Harlock about the Mazone threat.
Harlock is one of the few people who believes him, thanks to his earlier encounter with
the Mazone. The pirate and the professor soon develop mutual respect for each other
despite their disparate backgrounds.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 05, To the Shores of Distant Stars). Miss Masu reveals that
Professor Daiba had paid the Arcadia II a visit on an earlier occasion and that she had developed a lot of
respect for him. It is possible that Professor Daibas visit was arranged either by his younger brother Tadashi
or possibly Captain Yamanaka but this is pure conjecture on my part. Captain Harlocks earlier encounter
with the Mazone is depicted in Kaizoku Kikan Arcadia.
The Earth Space Patrol is reorganized as the Earth Garrison Forces. Goro Otowara is
appointed as the new organizations first supreme commander.
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Masu Tsunajima joins Harlocks crew.
(date uncertain)
Space Pirate Captain Harlock.
A human woman named Ryuzu is given an advanced, presumably one-of-a-kind

Mechanoid body thanks to the affections of a wealthy Spanish duke. He discards her
once he learns that her new body is actually a fairly common model. In despair she
exiles herself from Earth, never to return again for the rest of her life.
Galaxy Express 999 television series (Episodes 007-008, The Gravity Grave, Parts 1 & 2). It should be
noted in passing that this was the first time that the Galaxy Railways Space Defense Force ever put in an
appearanc in a Leijiverse anime, although they are never named as such in the story. In the original
television series the character was the elder sister of the Mechanoid singer who was Count Mechas erstwhile
girlfriend. Per the Galaxy Express 999 movie I am making them one and the same.
THE FALL OF THE MACHINE EMPIRE

THE MOVIE LEIJIVERSE VERSION
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2973
Galaxy Express 999

Ginga Tetsudo Three-Nine
Yes, I know this is not the date stated at the start of the television series. This is where it goes in accordance
with the data presented in the Arcadia Roman Album as well as contextual evidence from other related
Leijiverse anime and manga. This date applies to either the original TV series or the feature film. The
feature film is the main reference for this movie timeline; however, events from the TV series are referenced
when they do not contradict those depicted in the feature film.
2973
Emeraldas falls victim to a mysterious illness for which there is no cure.

During its regressive phases she is able to function normally; however,
whenever the disease flares up Emeraldas becomes so ill that she is
forced to remain in bed. She will fight this mystery disease for the rest of
her life.
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Voyager Emeraldas TV special. According to some of my sources this illness
will eventually result in a lonely death decades later. She was never sick before having sexual relations with
Tochiro Oyama. Make of that what you will . -_^
Tochiro Oyama builds his lover Emeraldas an android to take her place
during the times her illness renders her physically unfit to move about or
fight. He also builds her an android crew to help man her ship and assist
with attacks on the Machine Empire.
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Voyager Emeraldas TV special and Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode
13, Final Chapter) despite certain inconsistencies. You can spot an updated version and more realisticlooking version of the Emeraldas android from the TV special sitting on Tochiros workbench in Captain
Harlock: Outside Legend. Im taking this to mean that it was Tochiro who built both the original Emeraldas
android and the android crew depicted in the TV special. Gibsons apocryphal materials tell a different tale.
They seem to imply that Emeraldas purchased her androids on Tastasia from Professor Barradas around the
time of the Earth-Illumidas War and that he also provided the realistic-looking Emeraldas skins for them.
The upgrades to the Queen Emeraldas are completed and the ship is
returned to its original red-and-blue paint scheme.
Implied by comparing the Galaxy Express 999 feature film with the earlier works Cosmo Warrior Zero and
Space Symphony Maetel.
Tochiro Oyama realizes that the debilitating anemia he has fought all his
life will soon claim him. He abruptly leaves Emeraldas without saying a
word about his condition. He pays one final visit to Captain Harlock on
the Arcadia and another to his mother Setsuko on Titan. With her he
leaves a hat, a cloak, and his prized Cosmo Dragoon. Heavy Melder is
his final destination, where he takes up residence inside the wreck of the
Death Shadow. He rebuilds and reconfigures the ships computer for the
last act it will ever perform and then waits for death to claim its prize.
Endless Orbit SSX (Episode 21, Tochiros Goodbye), Galaxy Express 999 feature film, Space Pirate
Captain Harlock (Episode 31, The Origins of the Arcadia), and Queen Emeraldas (Episode 02, Eternal
Emblem) despite certain inconsistencies. The account as given in the Galaxy Express 999 feature film is the
best known and widely considered the definitive one.
Through a remarkable set of circumstances the paths of Maetel and the

young Tetsuro Hoshino cross on Earth. He is exactly the iron-willed
youth for whom she has sought ever since the death of Nazca years
before. Maetel offers Tetsuro a free boarding pass to the Three-Nine on
the condition that she accompany him all the way to its final destination:
the Machine Planet, where anybody can get a machine body for free.
This chance encounter sets off a remarkable string of circumstances that
eventually results in the destruction of Machine Planet Maetel and the
breaking of the Machine Empires iron grip on the known universe.
Galaxy Express 999 feature film.
Maetel saves the life of Emeraldas from her sisters own android
construct on the planet Jewel. It is at this time that Maetel learns
Emeraldas has an incurable illness. Despite this Emeraldas refuses to
see Maetel face-to-face at this time so as not to appear weak in her
sisters eyes.
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Voyager Emeraldas TV special despite certain inconsistencies.
Death of Tochiro Oyama. Thanks to the timely assistance of young

Tetsuro Hoshino the consciousness of Tochiro is captured just before his
body dies and transmitted into the central computer of the original
Arcadia. Tochiro Oyama is now literally the soul of the ship he created.
Galaxy Express 999 feature film. It should be noted thatd both versions of the Arcadia (i.e. Death Shadow
#1 and the green Studio Nue Arcadia) have an interchangeable computer core that can be accessed
through the large dome between the bridge and poop deck of both ships. This made it easy for Tochiros
consciousness to be transported back and forth between the two as required.
Tadashi Daiba, the younger brother of Professor Tsuyoushi Daiba, is

killed in action during Harlocks assault on the Machine Planet on
Tetsuro and Maetels behalf.
Implied by the Galaxy Express 999 feature film. There is an obvious spot for him in the wide shot of the
Arcadias crew at the end of the movie. He should be standing right next to Captain Harlock; however, his
place is conspicuously empty. We dont see him die during the movie, but that doesnt mean he didnt, either.
Besides I gotta make room for the next Tadashi Daiba. :P
Emeraldas leaves her daughter Mayu in an orphanage on Earth and

returns to a lonely life on the Sea of Stars. She knows that hers is not
the kind of life that Mayu should live; also, she knows it was Tochiros
wish that Mayu grow up on Earth. Harlock reluctantly agrees to play the
role of Mayus godfather (and foster parent) even though he feels
Emeraldas is shirking her responsibilities as a parent. It is the beginning
of a rift that will estrange the two space pirates over time.
Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years. The ships computer (Tochiro, i.e. Roger Devlin) reveals it
was Emeraldas who put Mayu in the orphange. It was against his wishes, since he had wanted Harlock to
adopt Mayu as his own daughter. He knew from long years of friendship that Harlock would have been a
better single parent for Mayu than Emeraldas, as events eventually proved. There is no record of Emeraldas
ever seeing her daughter again after leaving her in the orphanage. Apparently when Tochiro died Emeraldas
put the life they once shared behind her and everything that was a part of it including her own daughter.
Cold, yes, but not totally unexpected behavior from a strong-willed woman whos just lost the man in her life.
The fact that Harlock and Emeraldas hardly spoke to each other after Tochiros death is obvious in the postGE999 stories.
Emeraldas returns Tochrio Oyamas body to Earth She buries it on a
lonely hill near the sea just outside of Megapolis City. She leaves his hat
and Tetsuro Hoshinos crude marker behind on Heavy Melder as a
memorial.
Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years. This is to date the only source of how Tochiros body wound
up interred on Earth instead of remaining on Heavy Melder. The latter is my attempt to explain why you keep
seeing Tochiros hat on the wooden cross on Heavy Melder in later Lejiverse anime.
The treasure hunter Irene steals a large sum of money from her GRSDF
boyfriend and subsequently disappears.
Galaxy Railways (Episode 17, The Goddess in Armor).
2974-2975
The Machine War
2974
Queen Promethium revives for the third and final time. As soon as she
is strong enough she relocates to Great Andromeda - the third Machine
Planet, located with the Machine Empires old holdings in the
Andromeda galaxy - and begins to rebuild her empire again.
Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal.
Open warfare ensues across the Milky Way galaxy as many of the
former servants of the Machine Empire rebel against their Mechanoid
masters. The reported destruction of Machine Planet Maetel and the
downfall of Queen Promethium have once again stoked the fires of
freedom in their hearts. All of the Nine Daughter Races regardless of
their background join to fight their former Machine Empire oppressors.
Queen Promethium responds with a scorched-earth policy. If she cant
claim a given world for her Machine Empire then her forces have orders
to destroy all of its life forms as quickly as possible regardless of the
cost. The fighting will not stop until the final collapse of the Machine
Empire two years later in what will afterward be known as the Machine
War.
The planet Andorado is conquered by the Machine Empire

Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal. Meowdar was from Androado. His parents were killed
during the Machine Empire invasion.
The mining planet Daibaran, once famed throughout the galaxy for its Daibaran energy
crystals, is laid waste by forces of the Machine Empire seeking to lay claim to the last of
those crystals. The once proud planet is quickly turned into a world of slag and ash,
with impoverished survivors crowded into shanty towns as close to their former homes
as the intense radiation permits. Only the giant plastisteel slagpiles of nuked cities,
ruined crystal mines, and scrapyards full of wrecked spaceships and the debris of war
remain as a testament to the planets former glory.
Conjecture based on Queen Emeraldas (Episode 01, Eternal Emblem). Neither the manga nor the anime
give any reason for the ruined city we see in the distance from the spaceport at the start of the episode. My
best guess is that it was destroyed in an attack by the Machine Empire. This would also help explain why
Daibaran has become, in effect, the junkyard of the universe instead of the proud mining planet it once had
been.
Mamoru Yuki joins the Galaxy Railways Space Defense Force. He eventually earns a
place with the Space Panzer Grenadiers the elite special forces unit of the Galaxy
Railways.
Galaxy Railways (Episode 01, Setting Out and Episode 02, A Knot in Time). The date is pegged by the
appearance of the Three-Nine on the planet Tabito just as Mamoru Yuki is leaving to join the GRSDF. Look
for the silhouettes of Maetel and Tetsuro in one of the train car windows as Mamoru leaves Tabito for the last
time. Judging from the size of Tetsuros silhouette he is still a young boy and not the war-weary preteen
depicted in Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal. Its a tossup as to whether or not this event
happened during Tetsuros first or second journey aboard the Three-Nine so I split the difference and put it
here.
2974
A young Phantom F. Harlock travels through time and returns to Earth to

claim the dagger left behind for him by his father Great Harlock ten years
before.
Harlock Saga: Great Harlock Gotterdamerung manga
The homeworld of the Mazone is destroyed when its sun goes nova.
They decide to return to their former colony world of Earth, the one world
of all their old holdings in the Milky Way galaxy closest in environment to
their former homeworld, and claim it as their own.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 41: Duel! The Queen Vs. Harlock). Queen Rafelisa tells Captain
Harlock that the migration of the Mazone began five years before the duel they were now fighting (2979 LE).
Claire leaves her duties aboard Galaxy Express #999 in order to reclaim
her original body. Her replacement is Metalmena, a Mechanoid with
ulterior motives
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy manga (). Claires original body was among those stolen when the
Ice Graves of Pluto were looted. This was done by energy-starved Mechanoids looking to stay alive by any
means possible during the confusion within the Machine Empire following the destruction of Machine Planet
Maetel the year before. This supersedes the depiction in Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal of
her actually having died (and staying dead) per the end of the Galaxy Express 999 feature film.
2974
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy

Ginga Tetsudo Three-Nine: Eternal Fantasy
2974
The Machine Empire begins issuing clean capsule energy from the
Machine Planet Great Andromeda in its bid to win the fight for control of
the Milky Way galaxy. In turn the grateful Mechanoids renew their
allegiance with the Machine Empire. Millions of fresh Machine Soldiers
are thrown into Promethiums war effort against the rest of the universe.
One of the heaviest battles in the latter stages of the Machine War takes
place in the streets of Traders Fork on planet Heavy Melder. The
Machine Empires attempt to seize control of the crossroads of the
universe is stopped by a coalition of human forces led by the space
pirate Captain Harlock. Unfortunately, the intensity of the fighting
coupled with the devastating effects of the weaponry used results in the
complete contamination of Heavy Melders atmosphere. The surviving
civilians are forced to relocate to LaMaetel, Heavy Melders moon.
Heavy Melder itself will remain uninhabitable for years to come.
Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal. The Three-Nines conductor relays the story of the battle
to Tetsuro as they pass Heavy Melder on their way to LaMaetel. Maetel and Tetsuro visit Heavy Melder
during their second voyage together in the Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy manga. This seems to
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Space Pirate Captain Harlock. In the original series it was because the planet had been destroyed but now
we have an updated reason for Harlock not searching Heavy Melder for the kidnapped Mayu.
The Machine Empire successfully retakes control of LaMaetel, moon of

Heavy Melder and the original homeworld of Queen Promethium. Even
so, they are unable to root out all of the rebels who are hiding in the
countryside and mountains.
Earth falls victim to the forces of Queen Promethium. Most of its major
cities, including Megapolis City, are destroyed. Savage street fighting
with fanatical Machine Soldiers will become a way of life with the
surviving humans in the long days to come.
2975
Adieu Galaxy Express 999: Andromeda Terminal

Sayonara Ginga Tetsudo Three-Nine: Andromeda Shuchakueki
2975
Death of Faust Hoshino, last Machine Knight of Queen Promethium and

father of Tetsuro Hoshino.
Destruction of the Machine Planet Great Andromeda and final death of

Queen Promethium by the Witch Comet Siren. With the downfall of its
ruler and unifying force the Machine Empire quickly collapses. It leaves
behind two galaxies devastated by years of war.
2975
The Reconvergence
(The point at which the movie and revival Leijiverse
timestreams reconverge into a single timeline)
2975
The rebuilding of Earth begins yet again. Most of the planets major
cities are piles of rubble from over three decades of war and
bombardment by various aliens. Earths food supplies are dangerously
low. A series of star farms are set up on nearby colony planets to
provide enough food to feed the hungry masses. It will not be enough
but the Earth government strives to conceal this fact from the people.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock. The establishing shots for the first few episodes depict the plight of the Earth
and how the government was using subliminal mind control techniques to keep the population docile.
Captain Harlock himself reveals that he has been hoarding stolen food for some time because he knows a
planetwide famine is imminent.
Tobacco is outlawed on Earth planetwide by the current Earth

government.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 28, The Ulysses Nebula). Professor Aihn, an old friend of Great
Harlock and onetime mentor to his son, reveals that this was the reason why he abandoned Earth.
The government of Earth concerns itself with its own affairs and turns
inward, abandoning all thoughts of galactic power for the more

immediate concerns of survival and self-satisfaction.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 01, The Jolly Roger of Space).
The seat of the Galactic Government relocates from Earth to the artificial
planet of Panotpicon. The Solar System is left to its own devices.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 01, Tears for a Star-Filled Sky). The name Panopticon is
Matsumoto-sans nod to Doctor Who, the longest-running sci-fi series on Earth (26+ years).
Mamoru Yuki is killed in the line of duty while his GRSPG unit is in the
act of saving the crew and passengers of Galaxy Express #550 from a
gang of pirates on the planet Misfortune.
Galaxy Railways (Episode 02, A Knot in Time). Manabus elder brother died five years prior to his falling
through the time knot and witnessing it himself in person.
The Mazone begin staging forces and supplies at strategic points in the
Milky Way galaxy in preparation for their planned invasion of Earth.
Implied by Space Pirate Captain Harlock. This apparently involved linking up with all of their garrison forces
they had left behind millennia, perhaps aeons before, in addition to conquering other worlds for new bases.
The Mazone were apparently taking advantage of the intergalactic turmoil that followed in the wake of the
Machine War and the collapse of the Machine Empire.
The planet of New Tokarga is conquered by the Mazone on the outer

fringes of the Milky Way galaxy. It is a world where the few surviving
Tokargans from the Earth-Illumidas war have found a new home, living
and even interbreeding with its indigenious humanoid lifeforms. All are
enslaved by the Mazone. The males are forced to work in whatever
capacity their skills dictate, with their women and families held as
hostages in order to keep them in check.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 21: Ghoram! The Tragic Soldier and Episode 40, And Then The
Angels Sang) despite known inconsistencies. The series was produced before the Tokargans were
reinvented for the feature film My Youth in Arcadia and even their depiction within the series itself is
inconsistent between the two episodes.
2976
Earth Garrison Forces Supreme Commander Goro Otowawra is

dismissed for shooting his wife, whom he claimed to be an undercover
agent for an alien race called the Mazone. His adjutant Mitsuru Kiruta is
named to replace him.
Captain Harlock captures Jojibel, a Mazone soldier. Mimay intercedes

on her behalf and convinces him to let her go. It is a decision she will
later regret.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 20, The Dead Planet Jura).
Captain Yamanaka shoots and kills Wheeler Majis wife Aki in self-defense. Majis
wife was actually a Mazone disguised as a human who had recently received orders to
kill Yamanaka. Maji refuses to believe Yamanaka and almost kills his commanding
officer. He is stopped at the last minute by Captain Harlock, who confirms Yamanakas
story. The Mazone retaliate by kidnapping Maji and Akis daughter Midori.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 17, The Skeletal Hero). The source for the exact date is from the
Harmony Gold dubbed version of the series, Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years. Maji (aka
Wheeler) says that his daughter was kidnapped the year before the Mazone sphere landed on Earth.
Wheeler Maji resigns his commission in the military. He will eventually join Captain
Harlocks pirate crew aboard the Arcadia. His avowed purpose in doing so is that he
will be better able to search the Sea of Stars for his missing daughter Midori.
Harmony Gold dubbed version of the series, Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years. Maji (aka
Acting on his own authority Captain Yamanaka sets out to find and destroy the Mazone
before they can attack Earth in force. His ship, the space battlecruiser Braves, is lost in
the vicinity of the Horsehead Nebula and is never heard from again.
Harmony Gold dubbed version of the series; aka Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years. Maji (aka
A number of Earths astronomers note with alarm a large dark object on

approach to Earth at high speed from beyond the Outer Rim of the Milky
Way galaxy. Among these is Professor Tsuyoushi Daiba, who correctly
interprets it as the first sign of the impending return of the Mazone. His
warnings, plus the less ominous ones of his colleagues, fall on deaf ears.
The only one left who does listen and is willing to act is space pirate
Captain Harlock especially once the astronomers begin to be
assassinated one by one.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 01, The Jolly Roger of Space and Episode 02, A Woman Who
Burns Like Paper).
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2977-2979
Space Pirate Captain Harlock

Uchuu Kaizou Kanjou Herlock
2979
The Great Sphinx, last of the surviving Seven Wonders of the ancient
world on Earth, is destroyed in a firefight between Captain Harlock and
Commander Kiruta of the Earth Garrison Forces.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 14, The Sphinxs Tombstone).
A major invasion by the Mazone to conquer the Earth and claim it as

their new homeworld is thwarted by Captain Harlock. The Mazone are
forced to return to the Sea of Stars in search of another world to claim as
their own.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock.
2980
A worldwide famine strikes the Earth, due in part to the recent ravages of
the Mazone and in part to a severe shortage of food from poor
government planning. The resulting crisis almost topples the current
Earth goverment. Large numbers of people almost starve to death until
Captain Harlock releases the food stores he has been saving for just this
occasion.
Implied by Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 06, The Phantom Mazone).
Death of Mayu Oyama, cause unknown.

Implied by Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 06, A Gentle Smile on the Skull of Memory, Episode
11, Trembling Universe, and Episode 13, Final Chapter). When Mayu appears on Earth to Harlock,
Tochiro, and Kei decades later she is still very much the same little girl from Space Pirate Captain Harlock.
The late Professor Hiltz tells Kei during her out-of-body visit to the dimensional plane that both visitors and
residents take on the appearance of their bodies at the moment they lost them. This is typically at the
moment of death as in the case of Professor Hiltz and his colleagues and with Professor Daiba when he visits
his son Tadashi. If Mayu Oyama were still alive then she would have been an aged adult by the time Captain
Harlock: Outside Legend takes place. This implies that Mayu is dead and that her death took place not long
after the events depicted in Space Pirate Captain Harlock took place.
Captain Harlock, having now lost his last reason to intervene in human
affairs, turns his back on Earth and disappears into the Sea of Stars. He
will not be seen again within the Solar System, save for the infrequent
commerce raid, for decades. The look on his face during this time
scares the living hell out of the few people who are unfortunate enough
to cross him.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 08, A Gentle Smile on the Skull of Memory and Episode 13,
Final Chapter).
2980
Galaxy Railways
Galaxy Railways: Ginga Tetsudo Monogatari
26-episode anime TV series. The date is pegged by the appearance of the Three-Nine (with Maetel and the
young Tetsuro aboard) as Mamoru Yuki is leaving his homeworld Tabito to join the Galaxy Raliways Space
Defense Force. Based on Tetsuros apparent age (from the silhouette in the window) Mamoru Yuki left
Tabito sometime during Tetsuros first or second adventure with Maetel. Galaxy Railways takes place
several years later when his younger brother Manabu decides to join the force.
2981-3015
A number of regional powers vie for galactic dominance in the aftermath

of the Machine Empires collapse and the refusal of Earth to retake the
reins of power. Among these is the Afreesian Empire, which enjoys a
galaxy-wide reputation for cruelty and sadism. The only things that
keeps them from walking the road to absolute power are the military
strength of their neighbors and the growing ire of the space pirate Queen
Emeraldas.
Queen Emeraldas (Episode 01, Eternal Emblem and Episode 02, Friends).
The Space Sheriffs are formed. They are an intergalactic paramilitary police force
headquarted on Panopticon that are even more ruthless than were the Earth Garrison
Forces in their heyday.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 02, For Whom the Friend Sleeps and Episode 04, Yattrans 30Second Bet).
Earth becomes the latest world relegated to the backwaters of intergalactic concern as
the last of its youth and most skilled people leave for better places in the Sea of Stars.
The only humans left behind are those too old, infirmed, or poor to relocate, along with
a token government presence.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 01, Tears For a Star-Filled Sky). Harlock calls Earth the
forsaken world for this reason later in the series (Episode 05, Battlefield: The Tombstone Planet). This was
the same thing that had happened to nearby Mars in the Galaxy Express 999 TV series over six centuries
earlier (Episode 003, The Red Winds of Mars).
Doctor Zero and many members of Captain Harlocks second pirate crew leave Earth
and relocate to the Planet of the Rubbish Heaps. There Doctor Zero opens the Bar
Arcadia. It is a place where he, his former crewmates, and other former space pirates
and mercenaries can drink to the memories of the glory days of their fading past.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 01, Tears For a Star-Filled Sky).
Kei Yuki also becomes disgusted with the recent turn of events on Earth. She recruits
her own crew and resumes a life of piracy on the Sea of Stars aboard her own ship, the
space pirate cruiser Flourite. It is only the third ship in the history of space piracy to
rightfully bear the skull and crossbones as its emblem.
Sabu and Yasu are recruited as part of Kei Yukis pirate crew.
Concerned about steadily declining world population numbers the Tourism Department
of the Earth Space Management Agency mounts its Lets Head Back to Earth
advertising campaign. It quickly proves to be a colossal failure.
Implied by Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 01, Tears For a Star-Filled Sky). You can see one of
the posters mounted on a wall inside the Bar Arcadia.
Captain Harlock receives a summons from Mello, a powerful being living in a parallel
universe. She needs Harlocks help in securing the future of the Earth in her universe.
Harlock accepts the mission and is given a full briefing by Mello as to what he will be
facing. Harlock asks for and receives the assistance of the venerable space battleship
Yamato, one of the few ships aside from the Arcadia suited for the task. Together the
Arcadia and Yamato activate their Time Sweepers and jump into Mellos universe on
this most unusual of missions This will also prove to be one of the last of Captain
Harlocks documented adventures on the Sea of Stars

Fire Force DNA Sights 999.9. I know a lot of people have issues with Captain Harlocks cameo and that of
the Yamato at the end of this OAV. Still, it helps in part to explain what Harlock was doing in between the last
time he visited Earth in 2979 (Space Captain Pirate Harlock) and his reappearance during the Noo crisis
many decades later (Captain Harlock: Outside Legend).
c.3018
Tetsuro Ilita, father of Yukihito Ilita, is born.

c.3025
Queen Emeraldas
Four-episode anime OAV series based in part on the first two volumes of the original four-volume manga
series. Only the first two episodes have been commercially released here in the West.
c.3025
Afrees, the capital of the Afreesian Empire, is completely destroyed by

an unknown negative energy force. The Afreesians disappear from the
pages of galactic history and are never heard from again.
Queen Emeraldas (Episode 03, x).
3047
Yukihito Ilita, the future chief of the Space Sheriffs, is born on Earth in Megapolis City.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 05, A Gentle Smile on the Skull of Memory). The exact location
of Chief Ilitas birthplace is never named. However, given the fact that he is Japanese and the unmistakable
architecture of the city seen in the flashbacks of his youth Id say Megapolis City is a safe bet. This date
assumes Ilita was 12 years old at the time of his fathers death.
3059
Tetsuro Ilita, chief of the Pluto Observatory within the Solar System, dies in the line of
duty. His death away from Earth is considered a disgrace by his tradition-minded
father.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 05, Battlefield: The Tombstone Planet). Date as given on
Tetsuro Ilitas tombstone in the Pluto Observatory masoleum.
Yukihito Ilita is enrolled in a military academy at his own request despite his youth. He
buries any sorrow he might have had for his father in an overachieving effort to become
disciplined and self-sufficient.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 06, A Gentle Smile on the Skull of Memory).
3063
Tadashi Daiba, the son and namesake of his father Professor Daiba of the Universal
Comprehension University, is born. His mother dies not long afterwards, cause
unknown.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 01, Tears for a Star-Filled Sky). This date presupposes that
young Tadashi was 16, the same age as his father, when he first encounters Harlock.
c.3065
At some point during this period the original Arcadia receives its third and final upgrade.
It gets new computer subsystems, data displays, and improved sensors and scanners.
The power and range of its main pulsar cannons is improved significantly. Yattarans
new dimensional gravity engines replace Tochiro Oyamas older wave gravity engines.
The most significant upgrade is the addition of a bow trencher ram, similar to but much
larger and of a different design than that found on the Arcadia II. As before Harlock
uses the Arcadia II to cruise the Sea of Stars while the original Arcadias upgrade is
completed.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 04, Yattrans 30-Second Bet and Episode 06, A Gentle Smile
on the Skull of Memory). We know the original Arcadia was being upgraded because Harlock is using the
Arcadia II during his first encounter with Yukihito Ilita.
c.3067
Yukihito Ilita graduates at the top of his class from the Space Sheriff Academy. His ill
mother, who had contracted a long-term space disease during the familys stay on
Pluto, is unable to attend. She dies at home from her illness even as her sons
graduation ceremony is taking place.
Lieutenant Yukihito Ilita, now an officer on a Space Sheriff patrol cruiser, has his first
encounter with the legendary Captain Harlock. It is one he will never forget and he
later describes it as the only time I have ever felt fear in my life.
3074
The Ninth Solar System Expedition, led by Professor Gustav Karl von Hiltz and based
aboard the scientific survey vessel Fata Morgana, undertakes a study of the aeons-old
ruins of the Rainbow Planet and the long dead civilization that once dwelt there.
Among the teams carefully chosen members is Professor Daiba. Extensive research
by the team of the ruins causes them to deduce the existence of even older artifacts,
possibly intact, within the Hourglass Nebula. An anti-psychotropic drug developed by
one of the team members allows them and their ships crew to withstand the nebulas
unusually strong mental energies as they penetrate to the its heart.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 07, The Moon Waits in the Promised Land and Episode 08, In
the Depths of the Shadow of the Soul). The date of the recovery of the Fata Morgana from the Hourglass
Nebula is part of its Space Sheriff investigation file. Professor Hiltz later tells Kei in the dimensional plane
(per the subtitles, not the spoken dialogue) that they were studying the ruins of an ancient civiliation in the
Ulysses Nebula. The only planet on record in the Ulysses Nebula with such ruins is the Rainbow Planet per
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Episode 29, Struggle for Survival on the Rainbow Planet).
The Fata Morgana discovers the Gate of Yedar at the exact center of the Hourglass
Nebula. Professor Hiltz, Professor Daiba, and the other members of his team debark to
conduct a close-up personal inspection of the Gate. What happens next is a mystery
that will remain unsolved for the next five years.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 07, The Moon Waits in the Promised Land and Episode 10,
Illusion).
Captain Harlock is passing through the Ulysses Nebula on his own business when he
chances upon the spacesuited and unconscious Professor Daiba drifting in open
space. Harlock retrieves his old friend, who is near death, and once revived is
obviously scared out of his wits. Slowly, after he has had time to recover, Professor
Daiba shares the mystery of what happened at the Gate of Yedar to his old friend. He
makes Harlock promise that if he ever acts to awaken the evil he found there then
Harlock will kill him, no questions asked.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 03, The Voice Calling Noo From Afar and Episode 10, Illusion).
Not long after the Space Sheriffs find the badly damaged Fata Morgana adrift near the
planet El Alamein. All of its crew and the research team, save one, are apparently
dead from severe shock. The only body missing is that of Professor Daiba. The
mystified Space Sheriffs promptly impound the Fata Morgana and reassemble it as
best they can for forensic analysis. They also store the bodies of the crew and the
research team in stasis in a warehouse not far from the area where the ship is being
stored.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 03, The Voice Calling Noo From Afar). A translation goof
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renders the location of the discovery of the Fata Morgana as the El Aramein cruising area, located in the 9
Ulysses star system.
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Professor Daiba mysteriously appears alive and well some months after the discovery
of the wreck of the Fata Morgana. He refuses to divulge where he has been and how
he was able to survive both the deaths of everyone on his team and the destruction of
his ship despite repeated and often intense questioning by the Space Sheriffs. Chief
Ilita finally lets him go but correctly suspects that Captain Harlock was involved in
Professor Daibas salvation.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 10, Illusion).
c.3075
Yukihito Ilita is promoted to Chief of the Space Sherriffs.
Implied by Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 01, Tears For a Star-Filled Sky and Episode 06, A
Gentle Smile on the Skull of Memory). He must be middle-aged (at least in his mid-30s) by the time the
series takes place because it is uncommonly rare for anyone in their 20s to be head of any kind of law
enforcement agency. Mid-30s is pushing it a bit but then again, in comparison, Captain Kirk was
supposedly 34 when he took command of the Enterprise in the original Star Trek television series.
Chief Ilita begins rounding up anyone and everyone who ever served on any of Captain
Harlocks pirate crews, are still alive, and who still claims to live the life of a space
pirate. His long-term plan is to use them as bait in an effort to capture Harlock himself.
Every former crewmember they find is arrested on outstanding warrants, some dating
back to the days of the Earth-Illumidas War. Yattaran, the Arcadias former First
Officer, is the first to be apprehended and is promptly deposited in a maximum security
cell inside Panopticon to await the arrest of the rest of his comrades no matter how
long that may take.
3079
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend

Captain Harlock: Endless Odyssey
Pegging the date on this one is harder than it looks. For one thing the stated age of Doctor Zero is way off.
Going by the age of about 60 per his Space Sheriff file would put the series somewhere around 2999 LE,
only two decades after Space Pirate Captain Harlock and which may have been Matsumoto-sans original
intent. This is clearly impossible, though, given the lone fixed date reference that occurs later within the show
itself. The date of Chief Ilitas fathers death from the tombstone in the mausoleum of the Pluto Observatory
is 3059 LE, 80 years after the events in Space Pirate Captain Harlock came to their close (2979 LE). Corn
Pone Flicks has suggested the date of 3079 LE, which is in keeping chronologically with the rest of the story
and the presumed middle age of Chief Ilita at the time the series takes place. My own research supports
their suggestion.
3079
Death of Professor Tadashi Daiba at the hands of Captain Harlock.

Kei Yuki, the last member of Harlocks original crew still living the life of a space pirate,
is successfully captured by the Space Sheriffs.
Captain Harlock reunites as many of his former crewmembers as he can round up to

deal with a new threat facing humanity. Most of these are rescued from imprisonment
on Panopticon, much to the irritation of Chief Ilita and the Space Sheriffs
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 01, Tears For a Star-Filled Sky; Episode 02, For Whom the
Friend Sleeps; and Episode 04, Yattarans 30-Second Bet).
The Earth disappears.

Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 02, For Whom the Friend Sleeps).
Destruction of the Pluto Observatory along with most of Earths defense forces and an
Extra Solar space fleet sent to investigate the disappearance of the Earth and the
sudden reappearance of the Fata Morgana within the Solar System. The only survivor
is Chief Ilita.
At last Captain Harlock sees with his own eyes the aeons-old evil that threatens the
Earth and has the force of will strong enough not only to survive but triumph in the
encounter.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 09, In the Depths of the Shadow of the Soul).
Kei Yuki receives her own facial scar.

Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 10, Illusion).
Death of Chief Ilita.

Captain Harlock is reunited with his late friend Tochiro Oyama (and little Mayu as well)
before finally defeating his enemies and restoring the Earth to its proper place in the
Sea of Stars.
Death of Captain Harlock. He is shot to death by the young Tadashi Daiba with his
own Cosmo Dragoon for killing the young mans father.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 13, Final Chapter). Harlocks death is never shown but the
events in the last few minutes of the episode leave little doubt as to what happened to him.
128-year old Kei Yuki, looking very spry and sexy despite her age, assumes command
of the Arcadia and departs the Planet of the Rubbish Heaps with all who will go with
her. She assumes her late mentor Captain Harlocks role as the champion of freedom
on the eternal Sea of Stars.
Implied by Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 13, Final Chapter). Can you imagine what a Space
Pirate Captain Yuki anime might be like? I wonder if Matsumoto-san will ever tackle it? ^_^
3199
Great Yamato
Dai Yamato
? LE
(date uncertain)
Tadashi Daiba, son of the late Professor Tsuyoushi Daiba, is married and follows in his
fathers footsteps as an academian. He eventually earns a position as professor of
space physics at the Universal Comprehension University. On the side he becomes a
lecturer on ancient galactic civilizations, a hobby he first took up after the events
surrounding the thwarted Mazone invasion of Earth. He eventually moves to the Planet
of the Rubbish Heaps along with his son, the third in the family line to bear the name
Tadashi Daiba.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 01, Tears For a Star-Filled Sky). We dont know how late in life
the second Tadashi Daiba switched careers from space pirate to scruffy professor nor how long he waited
before he married. All we know is that all of this happened before his son was born.
Professor Daiba is given an AI assistant to help him with his research in the virtual
library of the Universal Comprehension University. He programs her in both the mood
and likeness of the late Shizuka Namino, former secretary to the Earth Prime Minister
and onetime Mazone spy and assassin.
Captain Harlock: Outside Legend (Episode 02, For Whom the Friend Sleeps). The real Shizuka Namino
was featured in Episodes 35-37 of Space Pirate Captain Harlock. The reason why she has black hair instead
of red (per the anime) is that her hair was black in the manga original of Space Pirate Captain Harlock. This,
plus other data, would seem to suggest that the manga version, not the anime, of Captain Harlocks dealings
with the Mazone in 2977 AD is the one used for Outside Legend and which is considered gospel in the
revival Leijiverse.
Death of Emeraldas.
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Voyager Emeraldas TV special and reported statements by Matsumoto-san
himself. Leijiverse legend has it that Emeraldas supposedly died from the illness that plagued her for so
many years, alone and without aid on the Sea of Stars, with no one to comfort her in her final hours and still
grieving over the loss of her beloved Tochiro Oyama (as suggested by the various Galaxy Express 999
materials). Fixing an estimated date is impossible given the fact that Emeraldas has an extended
LaMaetelian lifespan.

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LEIJIVERSE INTEGRATED CHRONOLGY

The Big Bang

The Elder Race embarks on a aeons-long project of creating worldships scattered

c.2 billion BC?

A planet-wide cataclysm causes the near-simultaneous eruption of every active

Rise of Juran civilization.

Dawn of intelligent human life on Earth as we know it.

The LaMaetel establish a major colony on the planet Venus.

Rise of homo sapiens, i.e. modern man, on Earth.

Rise of homo neanderthalis, aka Neanderthal Man, on Earth.

Establishment of a dedicated elite warrior caste among the Mazone specializing in

Also assisting humanitys return to civilization unseen is Meeme the Nibelung

The Eurythmians establish a thriving colony on the planet Iskandaa.

The First Intergalactic War

A team of Eurythmian scientist is successful in trapping, imprisoning, and harnessing

The Inward Turning

Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy.

Birth of La Selene Promethium (aka Selen), eldest daughter of Lady La Lela of

Birth of La Andromeda Promethium (aka Promethium), second daughter of Lady La

The First Gamilon Civil War

The Second Gamilon Civil War

The Birth of Christ

Year One of the Leijiverse

A vigorous young feudal culture arises on New Bolar.

Bruce Lewis, et al, The History of the Star Blazers Galaxy.

Height of the Toltec civilzation in Central America.

La Andromeda Promethium, the middle daughter of Lady La Lela of La Maetel,

La Andromeda Promethium, the second of three daughters born to Lady La Lela of

The Harlock estate at Heilgenstaadt in the old German kingdom of Thuringa is

The first historical record appears of a Captain Harlock. He is a respected German

The Japanese settlement at Samurai Creek is attacked by a gang of outlaws disguised

Sinunora, a new recruit to the mysterious Organization, is detailed to keep an eye on

Birth of Phantom F. Harlock I in Germany at the Harlock family estate in Heilgenstaadt.

An ancient city of incredibly advanced technology is uncovered during a strong

Queen Starsha of Iscandar gives birth to her daughter Sasha.

The Gamilon Holy Wars

Birth of Phantom F. Harlock IIs daughter.

Death of the famous rock musician Jimi Hendrix.

Otoko Oidon (I Am a Man)

Hajime Ammamori is born in Tokyo, Japan.

Professor Ammamori, father of Hajime Ammamori, is secretly recruited by La

Discovery of the Darkwood stargate on the far side of the moon.

La Andromeda Promethium, the current Millennium Queen of Earth, becomes

The planet Brumus, eleventh planet in our Solar System, is discovered.

THE QUEEN OF A THOUSAND YEARS

A giant explosion resembling a volcanic eruption opens a large, unobstructed two-mile

Hajime Ammamori learns Yukino Yayois true identity as La Andromeda Promethium,

June and July

The arrival of the planet LaMaetel in Earthspace is marked by a devastating meteor

Queen Millennia television series and feature film.

Death of La Andromeda Promethium, second daughter of Lady La Lela. She dies

THE STORM BREAKS

Helium-3 is discovered to exist naturally in large quantities on Luna, Earths moon. It is

The Legend of Marine Snow

Hajime Ammamori becomes one of Japans most famous space pioneers.

Fire Force DNA Sights 999.9

The Ultimate Time Sweeper Mahoroba

The Earth-Gamilon War

Founding of the Space Cadet School.

The Comet Empire conquers the Magma Star Cluster.