Section One-Canon Characters

CANON CHARACTERS-EARTH. This list will cover some main characters-This is not a complete list of Star Blazers characters.

First appeared in the fourth episode of Star Blazers I, crashing into the Argo before her first warp, although he was mistakenly identified as "Conroy" and overdubbed with his voice (the hair in the right eye gives it away when you watch the episode), Hardy served with the Black Tigers during first series although he wasn't seen again. He reappeared in the second series as the second squadron leader of the Tigers, and had plenty of fracases with his foil, Sergeant Webb Knox, on the way to Telezart, mostly because Knox seemed to think he could borrow his Tiger whenever he felt like it, and of course, in Hardy's words, "Nobody flies mah plane!". He also got in very, very deep with Venture once over spreading scuttlebutt about him and Trelaina. If there's a "scuttlebutt express" on the Argo, he's usually the engineer. :-) He apparently died in Yamato 2 when he was last seen going down in a death-dive near the Gatlantis, but the crash wasn't shown, unlike in Arrivederci Yamato. Needless to say, this death was also cut out of Star Blazers, and he has returned in my Visions saga, as well as in the second Comico comic series, and loads of other fan fiction and fan art both here and on the other side of the Pacific. Quite a popular character. Must be the cool hairdo, attitude, and his neat Southern accent in the US series.

In the Iscandar story, this character was Orion's second-in-command in the engine room of the Argo. However, he brooded during the cruise about what might happen if they got back to Earth...and everyone was already dead from radiation poisoning due to the planet bombings? He was disciplined for this a few times by Orion, but he must have brooded about it quite a bit and convinced a good-sized group of his friends of the same thing. As a result, they hatched a plan (of course, without permission from Avatar, Wildstar, or Queen Starsha) to set up a new colony of humanity on an empty island on the empty planet Iscandar. The flaws in their plan included the fact that: 1) Diamond Island was near a very geologically unstable part of Iscandar...and 2) Nova Forrester was an unwilling, kidnapped participant in Sparks' scheme. Kidnapping any female to use for unwilling breeding stock for about 12 guys is reprehensible enough, but kidnapping the XO's girlfriend showed a serious lack of intelligence on Sparks' part. Sparks and company refused to heed Wildstar's warning that Diamond Island was due to blow in an earthquake and get overcome by a tsunami, so he and his band paid the ultimate price...luckily, Nova had enough sense to get away from this bunch, getting rescued from Diamond Island with a broken wrist and being the sole survivor of the whole tragic mess. Lesson to Nova: do not go off on errands with assistant engineers with kooky looks in their eyes. :-)

This intelligent but nerdy (probably because it was his first space voyage) character first appeared in SB/Yamato 2 in the middle of the series. Despite his geekiness, he was a valued right-hand man to Sandor. In Yamato 2, he helped Sanada pinpoint the weak spot at the bottom of the Gatlantis and then died when the computer room he was in was hit by a Cometine attack. Needless to say, this death, too, was cut out of Star Blazers, as was the entire scene where he had aided Sandor. He has reappeared in several fan fiction pieces, and the Visions storyline just happens to be one of them. He also grows up a bit in my alternate storyline on his second voyage on the Argo.

This officer first appeared in Star Blazers/Yamato I episode # I in the year 2199 as the Chief Commander of the Earth Forces (his title in the Japanese series is Chokan or Chief Commander of the EDF.). He has maintained that position ever since in every Yamato movie and series and every episode of Star Blazers. He is a decisive, disciplined but noble General who will always try to do the right thing, even if it might mean skirting a regulation or two. He is especially friendly to the Star Force since Captain Avatar was apparently a close friend of his, and he developed a rare respect for and faith in the qualities of young Derek Wildstar even when the rest of the EDF Command only saw Wildstar as nothing but a wild rebel. His instincts have helped save Earth several times over, and he is a stern but good man.

This officer appeared in Star Blazers/Yamato 2 as the Commander's Chief of Staff. He is in direct day-to-day command over the Fleet, and he does not approve of any disciplinary breaches, even for what might be a good reason. He wanted both the Star Force and Captain Gideon severely punished for breaches of discipline, and he was the actual officer who, over Singleton's objections, tried to shoot down the Argo with a battle satellite when the Star Force mutinied in 2201. He is a tough officer, not tolerant of any breaches of discipline and acting strictly-maybe a bit too strictly-"by the book." He continues as the second-in-command of the EDF in my Visions saga and was seen again in the canon series in Yamato-The New Voyage (possibly in a scene not used but detailed in one of the Perfect Manuals; I can't recall right now) and in Yamato/SB III (but without his mustache, so he was a little hard to spot).