Spacecraft and mechanics in the Harlock universe
Section Two: Mazone spaceships
The Mazone flagship Docrass Queen Lafresia's flagship from Space Pirate, the Docrass is by far the largest ship in the Mazone caravan, and shrugs off the Arcadia's pulsar cannon blasts as if they were spitballs. Harlock and crew must eventually board the ship and confront the Mazone and their queen personally. It seems that it took the designers a while to settle on what the ship should look like, so earlier glimpses may look little like the ship that appeared in the final confrontation. Even pretty dull-eyed viewers will probably notice a ridiculous amount of similarity between the Docrass and Alberich's flagship from Harlock Saga. I'm sure some looney fan out there has an entire continuity theory hinging on this.
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The Zoness (Mazone fighter carrier) Serving as both a battleship and a fighter carrier, the Zoness is the most commonplace vessel in the Mazone caravan, with numbers in the thousands. Depending on which episode you're watching, the Zoness may dwarf the Arcadia in size, or be barely larger than a Cosmowing. Either the Mazone really liked this standard design, or no one gave the animators any specs. I'm leaning towards B.
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Interstellar battleship Essentially the same as the standard battleship design, only larger and with a glowing white hull. The glow might be a shield, or might be purely decorative. They never make this terribly clear. A battleship of this design transports the surviving Tokargan warriors, including Zoll, into combat range of the Arcadia.
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Pyramidda (large-class battleship) A heavily armed, large-scale battleship, the Pyramidda makes only the occasional appearance. During her captivity by the Mazone, Mayu is interred aboard a Pyramidda for a time. Supposedly three times the Arcadia's size according to the Space Pirate Roman Album, when seen on-screen together, they appear pretty much the same size.
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Mazone fighter designs
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Civilian transport A flotilla of ships that carry the Mazone citizens, which Harlock allows Queen Lafresia to take away peaceably after her defeat.
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The Mazone pennant A gigantic black sphere that crashes into the middle of Tokyo, the pennant is an interstellar beacon intended to guide the Mazone caravan to earth (their older beacon, housed in a pyramid on the sea floor, was deemed too weak for the job.) Dr. Daiba dubs it a "pennant" as a comparison to the flags humans had planted on other planets as signs of ownership. The ideographs on the pennant supposedly read "This is the second homeland of we, the almighty Mazone," even though they change in number and design about every time we see the darn thing. Crazy-ass aliens and their stupid languages.
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The Sphinx gun A huge laser weapon hidden within the innards of the Great Sphinx of Egypt. Having passed undiscovered by man for over five thousand years by the time of Harlock, it was at last found by the young Mitsuru Kiruta when he buried his younger sister Tami in the Sphinx's guardianship. He attempts to use the weapon in an elaborate plan to destroy the Arcadia, but his target obliterates the weapon and the Sphinx with it, archaeological wonder or no. (Do yourself a favor and just pretend that this is even slightly plausible.)
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