Space Battleship Yamato (fictional spacecraft)
| First appearance | Space Battleship Yamato |
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| Affiliation | Earth Defense Force (Earth Federation) |
| Launched | 2199 (first launched 1940) |
| Decommissioned | 2203, Recommissioned in 2220 |
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| Class | Yamato-class battleship |
| Registry | none BBY-01 ("2199") |
| Maximum speed | 50 Space Knots |
| Fighters | Cosmo Tiger, Cosmo Zero, Cosmo Pulsar, Cosmo Pulsar Bomber, Cosmo Falcon ("2199") |
| Auxiliary craft | Hospital and Medical shuttles, Type-100 Scout ("2199"), Cosmo Seagull ("2199") |
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| Propulsion | Wave Motion Engine |
| Mass | 62,000 t |
| Length | 285.8 m 333m ("2199") |
| Width | 34.6 m 61.77m ("2199") |
| Height | 77.0 m 99.47m ("2199") |
Space Battleship Yamato was the title spaceship from the anime series Space Battleship Yamato, designed by Leiji Matsumoto in the 1970s. According to the fictional continuity of the anime series, the spacecraft was built inside the remains of the Japanese battleship Yamato. In the American dub of the series Star Blazers, the spaceship has the same origin, but was renamed the Argo (after the mythical ship Argo of Jason and the Argonauts). In Spanish-speaking countries, its name was changed to Intrépido ("").
According to the fictional continuity of the Space Battleship Yamato anime series, the wreck of the World War II battleship Yamato, sunk near Okinawa, was used to hide a military spacecraft created by the Earth Defence Force in the late 22nd century. At this time, Earth was under attack from an alien race, the Gamilons, who were raining down radioactive asteroids that evaporated Earth's oceans and rendered its surface uninhabitable. The new space warship was built "inside" the wreckage of the ancient battleship, which was partially buried in what was now a dry seabed, thus hiding it from the view of the orbiting Gamilon vessels.
The new Yamato spaceship was originally conceived as a "Noah's Ark", designed to transport the best examples of Earth life to seed a new world away from danger. A message from the planet Iscandar was received, containing plans for a space drive called the Wave Motion Engine, which would give a spacecraft immense power and let it travel faster than light. The message also urged humanity to travel to Iscandar (148,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud) and obtain a device which would cleanse Earth of its deadly radiation.
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