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They're what, 5" long? What are they made of? Is that small a model really that expensive?
The yukikaze is about that length and cost me $4, the other one I'm working on is three times that length, but was only $10 off e-fence. Normally both would have been $5-6 in shipping apiece, but I was able to combine the shipping to get it down to $8.
Which seems a bit high, but plastic models are getting REALLY expensive right now, with 1/72nd scale fighters going for about $16-$20.
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(Derek = Harlock? What went wrong for him to become an outlaw?)
Alex (Momoru) NOT Derek (Susumu)...
The names of the characters between the two shows are different, though matsumoto intended for there to be continuity. They tried to tie it together in one of the manga, but it's not exactly a smooth transition.
The way it 'kind of works' is that Harlock is Momoru (alex) and Starsha is Maya. The illmedas destroy iscandar on a 'drive by' with the two barely escaping with their lives. Momoru feels compelled to defend his homeworld, so the two travel to earth and take on new identites - Momoru embracing his distant family ties to the Harlock legacy and joining the solar federation military (so desparate for warm bodies they don't even check his identity), and Starsha becoming 'Maya', the voice of the resistance.
Harlock quickly rises through the ranks and is given command of the heavy cruiser Deathshadow. He is sent to handle the evacuation of a world, and misses out on the big battle of the war where the Solar fleet is defeated. The Federation surrenders and Harlock is forced to return to an occupied earth in defeat to offload the refugees. To prevent the illmedas from making use of the deathshadow post-war, he performs a controlled crash to damage the hull beyond repair - which is where the movie "Arcadia of my Youth" picks up the story. (in the american comic by Ben Dunn, the illmedas are still able to ressurect the Deathshadow, and only with the help of the Dark Victory (another battleship of the same class crewed by renegades only loyal to themselves) is Harlock able to defeat his old ship.
Life on occupied earth doesn't quite work out well for him, especially with Maya/Starsha still making her free earth broadcasts. He meets Tochiro and along with several Tokargans (another defeated race who are now mercs for the illmedas) mount a revolt. Using the battleship Tochiro built in secret single handed (He's Tochiro, he can actually DO that *** since he's the brains behind the contsruction of the Yamato) go to tokarga to find out the illmedas have been lying to the mercs all along and wiped out the entire planetary population. The tokargans commit suicide to save the ship on the way back (LONG story), they get back and the illmedas have captured Emeraldas (ok, also long story) and Maya/Starsha. Net result, maya is killed, harlock gets an eyeball shot out, the Illmedas commander challenges harlock to an honor duel in space, yadda, yadda, yadda. Bottom line is that he and his followers are exiled from earth by the 'legitimate human government' which is little more than an illmedas puppet, beginning the whole 'space pirate' thing aboard the first Arcadia.
The first Arcadia is later destroyed by earth forces AFTER the final defeat of the Illmedas by a corrupt government that is actually being manipulated YET AGAIN by another alien force, the Mazon. Emeraldas saves the crew and harlock at the last moment, but the first arcadia is destroyed along with Tochiro. Emeraldas takes them to their secret asteroid base where Tochiro had been building a second arcadia, the ships computer being a multitronic unit imprinted with a copy of Tochiro's mind... The original 1978 Harlock TV series story would pick up about a month AFTER that.
Though the above timeline isn't entirely official and contradicts itself in several different versions - it's just one of the many different ways the story can be interpreted... Matsumoto makes Berman/Braga look like masters of continuity. If it means telling his story his way, he'll throw out most everything that came before. The 2002 OVA series for example retcons the history of many major characters.
The character has seen a lot of changes since he was first introduced as Captian Kingston back in the 50's.
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I've had a lot of **** going on that's put me in a pretty foul mood, so I've decided to go work on some other hobbies as a distraction...
