Space Battleship Yamato Planets - Our Galaxy

Our Galaxy

• Alpha Orionis (オリオン座アルファ星): a red star in the constellation of Orion, which the Yamato passes close to on its journey to Iscandar. The Gamilons have booby-trapped the area with electromagnetic nets (called the Space Net in Star Blazers), missile bases, and caches of an energy-consuming ecto gas.

• The Octopus Protostar Cluster (オクトパス原始星団): (Octopus Channel in Star Blazers) a group of eight proto-planets surrounded by stormy gas clouds, in which a black hole is reputed to be present, making navigation extremely hazardous. However, it is believed there is a safe strait through the centre of the cluster.

• Draco (恐竜惑星): a planet near the edge of our Galaxy, resembling prehistoric Earth. In the second season, Comet Empire General Goland hunts Draco's dinosaur-like creatures for recreation, before leaving and ordering his missile fleet to destroy the planet from orbit.

• Telezart (テレザート星): a planet just outside our Galaxy featured in the second season, Telezart was once an interstellar hub, home to many and diverse forms of life from other star systems. However, a devastating world war broke out between the various racial groups, provoking a telepathic woman named Teresa (Trelaina in Star Blazers) to use her immense powers to destroy all life, an act she regrets. In the second season it is the objective of the Yamato to reach Telezart and learn from Teresa of the menace of the Comet Empire. Teresa ultimately uses her psionic powers to self-destruct the planet in an attempt to destroy the White Comet. While the planet's detonation did not destroy the White Comet as Teresa had hoped, it did inflict tremendous damage on the Comet Empire, as well as blowing it far off its intended course toward Earth. This gave the Yamato more than enough time to reach Earth first and warn the Earth Defense Council, allowing them to mount a counter-offense against the White Comet's arrival.