Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection (宇宙戦艦ヤマト 復活篇)

The infinite expanse of the universe...

A place filled with silence and light...

Our Solar System is about 30,000 light years away

from the Galactic Center.

Earth.

The planet that, like a mother, gave birth to us and raised us.

At the center of the Milky Way,

there is a space-time void with a mass two million times that of our sun:

a black hole.

A black hole...

A pitch-black hole whose grasp not even the slightest ray of light can escape.

The density in the deepest parts of that hole makes it so gravity is infinite.

At the beginning of the 21st century,

Professor Hawking suggested the possibility

that the radiation emitted by these bodies during vaporization

contains information about the matter that was sucked in.

Even in the 23rd century,

black holes remain a phenomenon unfathomable to mankind.

Thus, humanity is still not aware that black holes are the true rulers of the space-time continuum.

No one has yet realized that they are sentient life forms.

Like a young lion approaching humans in the savanna,

feigning curiosity at first,

and then reacting in a completely different way...

Earth was suddenly faced with a black hole.

Space Battleship Yamato.

17 years have passed since it sunk into the seas of the migrating planet Aquarius.

It is the year 2220 AD.

On Earth, mankind is confronted with an unprecedented crisis:

a dark stellar body with a gravity so enormous not a single ray of light can escape,

a black hole.

Every second, the black hole, hailing from a distant corner of the galaxy, gets closer to Earth.

Gravitational signatures detected at 12 o'clock!

Distance: approximately 25 space km!

What are those?

I have never seen ships like that before.

How many ships are there?

We have detected about 900 and counting.

900?!

At 2 o'clock!

Another unidentified fleet at 9:48!

We're being surrounded.

Captain, this is an ambush!

Hailing all ships!

Mark all unidentified vessels as hostile!

Kamijou, fire!

Fire! Fire! And fire again!

Those bastards...

Eat this!

All fighters, engage the enemy!

Protect the emigrant ships!

We're losing pressure quickly!

Disengage from the battlefield.

Warp!

Captain Kodai!

For freighter Yuki.

Yes.

Here you go.

Captain!

It took three months to arrive...

Thanks.

Is it from your wife again?

I really envy you.

Hello dear, how is the sea?

"The universe is a sea, and the freighter is my ship."

Isn't that what you always said?

Miyuki and I are eagerly awaiting your safe return.

Shipwreck detected!

Where's that shipwreck?

According to the map, it's 150 space km away at 4 o'clock.

We'll rescue the survivors.

Engine at full power!

Going full power with this shabby engine...

this has got to be a joke!

Shut up and do it!

How long have you been on this ship?!

R-Right.

Full power forward!

This is awful.

Look for survivors.

A survivor?

Looks like the barrier isn't broken.

Help him.

Damn!

You will pay for this!

Wait!

We're allies!

Allies?

H-Hey!

Emigrant ships from Earth?

Right.

I was part of an escort fleet transporting 300 million people to Amarl.

300 million people?!

Were you attacked by them?

Y-Yes!

Damn!

Move!

All right, she can still fly.

Sakurai, locate the enemy's position.

Roger.

Damn them...

Wait!

Don't shoot yet!

Here they come.

Grab on to something!

What's your name?

Earth Defense Force 1st Lieutenant and Tactical Officer Kamijou Ryo.

Kamijou, prepare the main battery!

Preparing main battery.

D-Distance: 3000!

C-Captain! We're going to collide!

Keep your cool, Sakurai!

We're going to crash!

Full throttle!

Now! Fire!

Firing main battery!

We did it!

Well done, Kamijou.

You've got some skill.

That's Captain Kodai for you!

Well done.

Captain Kodai...

The legendary captain of the Yamato...

We'll head back to Earth immediately.

Mayday! Mayday!

Who the hell are they?

Why are they attacking us?!

Here they come!

H-Help us!

When did this happen?

It has been sent through the booster relays a few times.

The footage is three days old.

Why were they attacked?

This is a massacre!

Who's the enemy?

We don't know.

Chief.

Shouldn't we postpone the departure

of the Third Emigration Fleet until we know more about the situation?

We can't send transport ships there knowing they will be destroyed!

Continue as planned.

With all due respect...

Has Kodai returned yet?

Kodai-san?

He's the only one who can save the Earth from this danger.

We don't have much time.

Chief, we've been contacted by the Solar System Communication Bureau.

Displaying transmission on screen B.

Okay.

This is the Solar System Communication Bureau.

Deep space cargo vessel Yuki will be be warping out within the system.

Kodai...

You've come back...

Excuse me, Captain.

We're ready to warp out.

Okay, I'll be right there.

It's been three years, huh.

I bet your daughter has grown up into a fine lady.

Yeah.

We're finishing our last jump.

We've finally returned to Earth!

Aquarius.

This observation footage has been colored, processed and fast-forwarded

to make it easy to understand.

I hadn't expected this...

This is a black hole that doesn't move according to any pattern we've observed.

We're calling it the "Cascading Black Hole."

Yes, sir.

Are we certain it will devour the Earth?

Yes.

We have run the calculations over and over.

We are certain that it's passing through the Solar System.

It's unavoidable.

We estimate eight million seconds before it reaches Earth.

In other words, Earth has just three months left until its destruction.

Yes.

We first observed this black hole three years ago.

We gathered astronomers from all around the world,

and organized daily conferences to discuss countermeasures.

Altering the black hole's trajectory, destroying it...

terraforming one of the frontier planets

and temporarily taking shelter there...

They even looked into shifting the Earth's orbit.

Eventually, they came to the conclusion

that none of these possibilities were feasible with our current technology.

Mankind's only hope is to seek refuge in the vastness of space.

I've put Shima-kun in charge of the emigration plans,

and finalized the preparations for the evacuation of mankind while helping them understand this decision.

I've heard that the crew of the salvaged ship was escorting people to Amarl.

Indeed.

Amarl is located in the Sairam System.

Our destination is its moon.

Will we be able to create a second Earth?

This is the route of the Second Emigration Fleet.

Displaying map on screen C.

Any intel on the fleet that attacked us?

No, we have no intel on them yet.

Will the Earth vanish...

without leaving behind a trace?

This planet that the Yamato has protected...

Indeed.