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The soil has frozen and is on the verge of death.

Who knows if we'll survive the winter?

The whole planet is starting to freeze.

The sun, the heat of the land...

And the energy efficiency of the Gogdal engines that make up for its loss.

The Witch of Uralia...

Another war?

Yes. This time, I'll be going.

Don't worry. I'll end it soon.

I'll have food sent from the castle's supplies for everyone.

Bieshuna La Gendora.

We will defend the land of Barth to the last.

No matter what happens.

Some of you may feel that this battle is not ours to fight.

But we must go.

As members of the Bolar Federation,

the enemies of the Bolar are our enemies as well.

Until we defeat them, there is no future for us.

That is the reality for Planet Barth.

The sudden cooling of our planet is rendering it barren,

and our fleet is lacking in resources.

But that is true for our enemy as well.

But they've still withstood multiple attacks from the Bolars themselves.

Don't forget! The enemy is an elite force!

If we're going to fight, we must be ready for that!

The fate of Planet Barth rests on our battle with Garmann-Gamilas!

All ships, increase speed!

Our destination is Planet Garmann!

So that's Planet Garmann.

The Gamilas are there, right?

Is that worth crying over?

But... everybody's alive!

They're awfully relaxed,

despite the active war with the Bolar.

It's fine. Everybody's morale is up.

The people they risked their lives to protect are alive on this planet.

I'm sure Sakamoto and Raiden would've wanted to see it.

Visual signal from the Lanbear.

"We warmly welcome our old comrades."

We'll let another ship guide you in. The Deusura III will return to the front lines.

I need to report to command, so I'll talk to you later.

No time to rest, huh?

It's wartime, isn't it?

We're receiving a new guidance signal.

Yamato...

So this was Iscandar's seat of leadership.

Yes. It was built long ago.

Our planet has ruins like this everywhere.

The Bolar never bothered to investigate them, but some of them...

Please stop.

You are not permitted to enter.

Uncle!

Y-You're...

Yu... No...

Sasha?

S-Sasha?

Why? Why do you think that?

I don't know, but...

Sasha Iscandar Kodai.

That's me, Uncle.

No, she was kidnapped two weeks ago!

How could a two-year-old girl...

I was planning to explain all that.

So that's it.

It was two weeks for us,

but to you, it was much longer.

That's it, isn't it?

There's something I must confess to you all.

While investigating the spatial rupture on Saturn,

we happened to discovere a spacetime connection point

that reached a thousand years into the past.

That explanation was not entirely correct.

What we found was actually a ship of ours, adrift.

It was a Pleiades-class from the future, of a type that was not yet being manufactured.

And inside...

There was a fragment of Iscandar.

You mean Sasha?

Yes. The Sasha that I kidnapped and sent to Planet Dezarium.

To weave the circle of time and connect to the history we know.

That ship's phase engine was damaged

and unable to cross through the connection point properly.

It was trying to return to 3199 AD, but it missed slightly.

Instead, it appeared in 3184 AD, 15 years prior to what we call the present.

15 years prior?

Now you understand, I believe, why we needed Sasha Iscandar.

We needed to repeat it.

We put her aboard the same ship we found adrift and sent her out.

We had to teach our past selves about the connection point.

The discovery of the ship carrying her was the beginning of everything.

We learned of the spacetime connection point,

and learned the path we must fellow.

We had to go back a thousand years in the past to change the future.

Sasha Iscandar Kodai.

She is the one being in existence that connects history.

The knot in the circle of time.

If you're really Sasha, then you...

I spent 15 years on the Dezarium Earth.

Why did you hide something so important until now?

To avoid unnecessary confusion.

And why tell us now?

Because Sasha has escaped.

It was several days ago.

She hid herself aboard one of our ships that was heading for this spacetime.

She was discovered and fled,

then disappeared in the war zone between Garmann-Gamilas and the Bolar Federation.

If she's still alive,

then somewhere in this spacetime, there is a 17-year-old Sasha Iscandar.

We wanted to deal with this quietly,

but with the Yamato heading to Garmann, we cannot predict what will happen.

We wanted to share this information with you

to minimize the chaos that could result.

You really don't know where Sasha is?

Correct.

The circle of time has been woven.

I was planning to return her here when the time came.

You expect me to believe that?

You people always...

I don't want to lie to you.

That, at least, I want you to believe.

But I suppose that's impossible.

Sasha...

As you're aware, this girl is not of ordinary birth.

It's unclear if what we know about human biology applies to her at all.

But from a medical perspective, I assure you that she's the same Sasha we know.

No signs of drugs or implants, either.

She's as healthy as she looks.

If this is really true, then the Dezarium...

It proves they're from Earth, 3199 AD.

Even if it's true, it's difficult to accept.

It's not just you.

What do we tell Kodai?

Director Todo, do you believe this?

If Sasha is really that important,

then the Dezarium's original plan was far too haphazard.

Major Alphon's kidnapping of Sasha feels slapped together.

He could have used me to perform it more discreetly.

Director...

Stop calling me that.

When you say it, it sounds resentful.

A position I gained by working with the Dezarium...

It does feel strange.

Sasha. The circle of time.

It doesn't feel like they're revealing secrets.

It feels like the rules I believed in until today have suddenly changed.

It's as if I've found myself in another story altogether.

But...

So what?

We've made our choice already.

We've taken the only path available to us.

We have to keep going forward.

There's no other way for Earth's humans to survive.

I see.

So, Kodai-san's gone to see Leader Desler.

He's not someone an ordinary soldier should easily be able to see.

But it feels like they've been close since Iscandar.

It's a shame. I wanted to see Sasha-chan, too.

You haven't seen her?

I was on a different front of the war than the one where she was rescued.

I've heard the rumors, but I haven't seen her face.

Sorry to make you spend time with us on your leave, Yabu.

It's fine.

I want to hear what's up on Earth, too.

That's awful.

The Bolar's bombing raids have killed many over the past two years.

I've seen so many bodies of children the age of my kids.

It was always a cold planet.

But this year was the worst. The snow didn't even melt in summer.

The crops were a total loss.

Marenel flowers.

So many of them bloomed the first year we colonized this place.

Liza and Reza both loved them.

And now...

The war, the change in the climate...

It's all we can do to stay alive.

We need to work together.

Garmann and Gamilas need to truly come together.

Or there's no future for us.

Daddy! Dinnertime!

It's not just the climate that's strange.

Our Geshtam engines keep getting less and less effective.

Here, and in space.

We've seen that, too.

It's like something's interfering with the wave motion engine.

We observed an unknown current in subspace.

Could it be related?

I don't know.

It's been especially awful these past few months.

The fleet's barely operational.

Something's happening.

We finally got the reflector satellite cannon built, but it's not going to be of much use.

Whether it's a problem for this planet, or...

This is... a ruin?

They look like brand new ships.

Were they left here by Iscandar?

In the distant past, Iscandar came to this planet

in search of races to enslave.

They eventually fulfilled their goal and returned home.

But there was a royal who stayed here and led the Garmanns.

Her name was Shalbat Iscandar.

Shalbat...

It's not just these.

After Gamilas arrived, we began our resource mining

and found over a hundred such battleships.

Battleships...

Are they usable?

Yes.

But there's a problem.

They were all missing their wave motion cores.

We tried installing Gamilas cores, but they haven't worked.

The restoration of these Shalbat-class battleships

will decide the outcome of our war with the Bolar.

Our leader will never give up.

Leader Desler...

I have to apologize to you.

You asked me to take care of Stasha-san's child,

but I couldn't protect her.

I let go of the hand of the one I loved.

But you came to meet me.

If you had refused to meet, saying you weren't worthy,

I would have come to hate you.

Welcome, Kodai.

Leader Desler...

I am ashamed as well.

I know Stasha's wish was the salvation of all the universe.

But I'm about to use Iscandar's relics as weapons of war.

And perhaps that is why they will not open their hearts to me.

But I wanted to show you...

what it is I'm trying to do.

Leader Desler.

About that... The Yamato's wave motion core...

Ram is coming.

Ram?

A duke and valiant general of Planet Barth, one of the Bolars' slaves.

I would've preferred to avoid fighting him.

The Barth are not to be underestimated! They are a formidable force!

They're tough.

And their fleet is small, but they've brought so much of it.

I don't see their infamous Lagendra.

There may be other ships in hiding.

Search carefully!

Signal on radar! It's approaching fast from below!

It's the Yamato!

We're not allowed to get involved in the war against the Bolar,

but everyone has the right to protect themselves.

Everyone, prepare to eliminate the threat!

Sir, the Yamato!

Prepare the reflector satellite cannon.

Don't let our foes near our planet!

The beam is being deflected.

Its output is below expectations.

Currently at 35 barsel.

Keep firing!

We can at least blind them!

Geshtam out signal!

Directly above the holy city!

It's inside the atmosphere!

Release gravity anchors!

Stabilize the ship!

Prepare to fire the Bolar cannon!

At this range, even a weakened Bolar cannon can destroy a city or two.

We sacrificed the lives of many of our comrades for this chance.

Don't miss, Lagendra!

An enemy ship above the holy city?

Shoot it down!

They were all a decoy?

Change course!

Full speed towards the holy city!

What's wrong?

Engine power is dropping!

It's that wave motion interference!

We can't even get to second speed, let alone full speed!

Captain!

I can't guarantee its effectiveness, but...

Let's try it.

Yamato!

What are you doing?

Prepare to die, Leader Desler!

Activate the wave motion core at criticality!

Output at 120 and rising!

The furnace is burning!

Target in range!

Fire!

What?

Enemy ship's Geshtam signal lost.

It's dropping into Luda Spring.

An earthquake?

Now?

What's going on?

The planet is awakening.

Episode 11: Sasha, A Reunion Across Time

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