The people of the Dark Star Cluster Empire (暗黒星団帝国 Ankoku Seidan Teikoku) live on the metal planet Dezarium in the Dark Star Cluster, a double-galaxy 200,000 light years from Earth. Although humanoid, they are in fact bionic, having given up the pleasures of human flesh in exchange for longevity. They appear in the movies Yamato: The New Voyage and Be Forever, Yamato.
- Deider (デーダー, Dēdā?): commander of the flagship Pleiades. When the Gamilas fleet attacks the Black Nebula forces mining their homeworld and cause the planet's destruction, Deider in turn attacks them and pins them down in the seas of Iscandar. When the Yamato attacks, he attempts to position his ship between the Earth vessel and Iscandar to discourage use of the Wave Motion Gun, but is destroyed when Iscandar moves to safety due to volcanic eruptions.
- Japanese voice artist: Kōsei Tomita
- Mölders (メルダーズ, Merudāzu?): supreme commander of the Black Nebula Empire's forces in the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading from his massive space fortress, the Autostar Goruba, which fights off both the Yamato and Desler's fleet.
- Japanese voice artist: Kōji Nakata
- 2nd Lt. Alphon (アルフォン少尉, Arufon shōi?): an intelligence and technology officer in the Dark Star Cluster Empire's invasion of Earth, he gains his own quarters on the conquered planet, and saves the life of a wounded Yuki, with whom he falls in love. When she proves unable to return his affections, he releases her to join a human resistance movement, and vows that if she defeats him next time they meet, he will help her to stop the invasion. In fact he is mortally wounded by another soldier, but he dies in Yuki's arms, confessing to her that life has been empty and meaningless for his people since their conversion to bionics.
- Japanese voice artist: Nachi Nozawa
- Great Emperor Skulldart (聖総統スカルダート, Seisōtō Sukarudāto?): Leader of the Dark Star Cluster Empire.
- Japanese voice artist: Tōru Ōhira, Banjō Ginga (PS2 games)
- Sada (サーダ, Sāda?)
- Japanese voice artist: Yumi Nakatani
- Kazan (カザン, Kazan?)
- Japanese voice artist: Mugihito
- Commodore Grotus (グロータス准将, Gurōtasu junshō?): Commander of the Gorba fleet.
- Japanese voice artist: Banjō Ginga
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