What are the capabilities of Goruba, dispatched to execute the History Correction Plan…!?
This series explains the mechanics of battleships and other mecha appearing in the Space Battleship Yamato remake series, spanning from Yamato 2199 to REBEL 3199. Part 12 covers Dezarium’s mobile fortress, the Automatic Planet Goruba. We’ll explain both the 2205 version and the version appearing in 3199.
Explanation by Yuka Minagawa
See the original post at Hobby Japan Web here
● Specifications & Performance
Total Height: 10km
Aircraft Carried: Numerous Catapillar Assault Fighters
Carries numerous Garm-Biu multi-legged annihilation tanks
● Artillery Weapons
Super-Large Gravity Field Convergence Beta Cannon
Large-Caliber Heavy Neutron Beta Cannons ×8 (Main Armament)
Also equipped with numerous defensive armaments including anti-aircraft/anti-ship missiles, Heavy Neutron Alpha Cannons, and Heavy Neutron Beta Cannons.
Goruba dispatched under the “History Revision Plan”
After the conquest of Dezarium’s new capital, a total of six Gorubas were deployed in Earth orbit. Among these, Goruba Enam headed toward the Icarus Observatory to recover the “Fragment of Iscandar” and was destroyed by Yamato‘s Wave Cartridge Shell.
Phase-Shift Armor
Goruba’s Phase Shift Armor neutralized even the Dessler Cannon, possessing power equivalent to Yamato‘s Wave-Motion Gun. While Phase Shift Armor is used throughout Dezarium’s armor, the level of resistance varies depending on the energy output, allowing for countermeasures.
Capture Field
Using the Capture Field enables the connection between subspace and normal space. It can detect and capture entities moving through subspace, bringing them aboard the ship.
The automated planet Goruba was dispatched alongside the Grand Reverse from the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2205 to the Solar System in 2207 as Dezarium’s mobile fortress to execute the “History Revision Plan.”
Beyond its role as a mobile command center, Goruba possesses celestial body towing and relocation capabilities, having transported Iscandar during its 2205 deployment (the Iscandar Incident).
Goruba deploys fields using four large celestial body manipulation field generators mounted on its sides and five paddle-shaped celestial body towing/ejection field generators located on its underside, enveloping the target celestial body. This field provides inertial control, allowing the celestial body to move by free-falling toward the gravity gradient field generated by Goruba. These field generators can also control gravity in any space around Goruba, inducing a “gravity turbulence effect,” which is also utilized as an offensive capability.
Additionally, Goruba possesses the ability to warp targets enveloped within its celestial body manipulation field. However, the Goruba’s own energy output is insufficient for this purpose, necessitating the use of the Dezarium Hammer as an external energy supply unit. The Dezarium Hammer serves to destroy other celestial bodies near the target as needed, converting them into energy resources and transferring them to the Goruba.
Furthermore, the Goruba possesses offensive capabilities vastly exceeding those of a standard battleship. Its eight large-caliber heavy-nucleon beta cannons, serving as its main armament, are enlarged versions of the heavy-nucleon beta cannons mounted on the Hyades-class, Pleiades-class, and their modified variants.
A gravity field convergence-type super-large beta cannon is mounted on its underside. This cannon deploys a celestial body traction/projectile field generator to create a gravitational gradient along its line of fire, then fires an energy projectile. This gravitational gradient functions as a barrel, continuously accelerating the energy projectile while suppressing energy dispersion off-axis. Though its destructive power falls short of Wave-Motion Guns, its rapid-fire capability makes it one of Dezarium’s strategic weapons. Additionally, it carries numerous defensive armaments, including anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, heavy neutron alpha cannons, and heavy neutron beta cannons.
What characterizes the Goruba as a mobile fortress is its defensive capabilities utilizing phase-shift armor, even more so than its offensive power. Phase-shift armor is a system that generates counter-phase waves to cancel out colliding energy waves themselves, fundamentally differing from Migo-Vezar coatings or wave barriers (Geshtam Walls) that deploy fields on the armor surface. This mechanism causes colliding energy to be released from this dimension as quantum fluctuations. Utilizing immense power capable of transporting celestial bodies, the Goruba’s phase-shift armor can nullify not only positron beams but also the enormous energy generated by wave cannons. Furthermore, by exploiting this property to cancel electromagnetic waves, the Goruba can render its hull completely into stealth mode.
In effect, the Goruba strategy, which nullifies even Wave-Motion Gun firepower, was deemed pivotal to the Defense Force’s counter-Dezarium strategy. Following its encounter during the Iscandar Incident, development of wave cartridge ammunition by Second Lieutenant Shiro Sanada proceeded.