Another Solar System/Discovery of the New World

Another Solar System

The Explorer picks something up on a distance planet.  Jeff and Hawkins discuss the amount of Drule activity lately.  The teams deploy and form the subunits.  Hawkins advises Captain Newley.  He decides to bring his fleet to join the Explorer.

The teams close in on a planet with two moons and a lot of debris.  The atmosphere can support their kind of life, and it's volcanically active.

In a tent on the planet, there is a Drule communcations outpost surrounded by a survey fleet and a rudimentary base.  Captain Garro, our Swedish Drule captain, is broadcasting to the homeworld that this is a suitable planet for colonization.  Hazar receives his report as Dorma.  Garro sends images of the planet, and Hazar agrees to send Garro assistance, and goes to report to the supreme council.

The Voltron force surveys the planet in a tight group against more of those beautiful background paintings, then the three teams each take to their own environments.  Everyone is impressed at how gorgeous the planet is, and they wonder where the Drules are. 

They're right on the planet with them.  Captain Garro detects the arrival of the Voltron force, and evacuates the base.  We see some neat new designs of ships pick up tanks and they blow up the installation.  Ginger picks up a signal from the Drules, and Jeff sights Garro's retreating fleet.  Rather than attacking, Jeff decides to examine the base.

At the Drule HQ, ships are moving back and forth and Borgam wants to send a fleet to back up Garro.  Hazar enters, takes his place, and orders Borgam to go on. Borgam tells him that the Voltron Force has driven Garro from the planet, and Hazar wants Bargo, who shares Hazar's belief in negotiations to be in charge of the operation.

The air team is landed and greets the landing of Cliff and Crick.  They wonder why the Drules evacuated.  The Explorer splashes down.  A shuttle lands and Hawkins meets Jeff and Cliff.  They all continue wondering what the Drules were up to.  Meanwhile, the teams are riffling through the wreckage of the base.  Lisa finds a star chart.  Crick brings it to the other leaders.  They exclaim at how much it looks like their own solar system.  Uwe?!?!

Commander Valen's fleet meets Garro.  Valen mocks him, and is ready to fight.  Hazar calls and tries to convince Valen not to fight.  Valen agrees.  Then his XO tells him that the Voltron force is entering range.  Valen orders the robeast launched and preparations for combat to occur.  The XO is taken aback, but Valen says Keezor has his back.  They launch what must be one of my favorite robeast designs.

The team members are still going through the Drule wreckage.  Hawkins is waiting for Newley, but they see and emergency flare and Hawkins deploys the Voltron Force.

Newley's ships run across the robeast.  He doesn't seem to be using his flagship.  The robeast and the escort ships tangle, but the robeast is too much for them.  (Newley calls them the Nuclon Computer Escorts).

The Voltron force subunits separate and form Voltron. 

Valen's fleet enters the atmosphere while Voltron flies through wreckage to find the robeast hiding in asteroids near one of the moons.  Voltron takes a crotch missile and almost crashes, then throws solar combat spears, kicks the robeast, and hits him with the raybeam with.  Then the robeast HAS ROCKET ROPES in his FINGERS.  He ensares Voltron, starts electrocuting him, and tries to burn Voltron in atmosphere reentry.  The red hot robeast throws Voltron into the ocean.  They continue fighting underwater.  They get the upper hand and lead the robeast out of the ocean, hitting him with the electro-thermo blasters just as it surfaces.  On the shore, the robeast uses all its weapons to destroy the jungle around Voltron.  Voltron cuts and arm off with the spinning laser blades. then the duel with swords.  First Voltron cuts the antennae from the robeast's head, shatters his sword, stabs through the cockpit, then cuts him in half.

Voltron takes off and sees a huge Drule fleet in the harbor.  Hawkins tells Jeff to wait for Newley's reinforcements and hopes for a peaceful solution.  TO BE CONTINUED.

Discovery of the new World

The Rugger Guard and fleet approach a new planet.  Aki and Ise wonder if it's the Galveston homeworld, and he takes the Rugger teams out to investigate.  They form their subunits while Ise contact Asimov, who will gather the fleets to close in on the planet. The planet has two moons.

On the surface it is not Galveston.  There is a Galveston presence.  Resting soldiers are in the jungles, and there is a camp on the seashore.  Captain Gallo is confident that the planet meets Galveston's immigration requirements.

At the Galveston HQ, Teles is--GUESS WHAT?--looking out his window when Sirk brings him the news.  He views Garro's report, and the planet sounds like a paradise.  Teles orders Sirk to send the Nolan fleet to reinforce him.

The Rugger teams are also enjoying the new planet, which is obviously not Galveston.  Aki sends each team to its specialty for a survey.  As they survey, they discuss where Galveston could be, and that they'd be sure to want this planet.  Aki is distracted by the beauty of the planet.

One of Garro's radar operators detects the air team.  Garro's XO urges him to call for reinforcements, but Garro says his men lack combat experiance, and orders the evacuation.  The ground forces take dropships to the capital ships and they blow up the installations.

Aki's team approaches the eastern continent, and they see the Galveston fleet evacuating.  They give the base a flyby.

Galveston gets word of Gallo's withdrawal, and Raucher sends the Juxon fleet to reinforce them.  He is convinced Nolan's fleet is not enough.  Teles arrives, and Raucher tells him the news.  Teles had insisted on Nolan for this operation because he was more negotiation-minded.

The other Rugger teams arrive at the abandoned base.  Aki, Walter and Keats wonder at Galveston's withdrawal.  The teams, meanwhile are searching through the wreckage.  Then the Rugger Guard lands.  Ise takes a shuttle to meet Walter and Aki.  Ise regrets that they've drive off the Galveston forces.  Kaga finds a map of the current solar system, which mirrors Earth's solar system.  I still don't get this subplot, but WEP must have had some translations for this episode.

Gallo's fleet meets with Juxon's, and Juxon orders them to join forces and return to the fleet.  Then Teles calls Juxon and tries to convince him not to attack--return, but make no aggressive moves.  He wants to try negotiations AGAIN with no interruptions.  Juxon tries to convince him he's the man for it.  His XO tells him that there is an Earth fleet around the planet, and he does an immediate about face and lauches the battle attacker.  The AWESOME barbarian-looking battle attacker.  Seriously, it's like a Xena-and-Hercules robot.

Nagato, Kirigas, Patty, and Mutsu are all still going through the Galveston data.  Aki, Walter, Keats, and Ise suddenly see an emergency flare.  Ise sends them up to support.

Asimov's fleet sees the battle attacker in orbit and moves to engage.  The battle attacker is a decoy to alloy Juxon's fleet to make planetfall without fighting.  The battle attacker tries to take out the fleet before Dairugger arrives.  It destroys ship after ship, and then goes to wait for Dairugger on the far side of the satellites.  The Rugger teams arrive and form the big guy.

Juxon's fleet descends to the southern planet now that Dairugger is engaged with the battle attacker.  Dairugger flies through fleet wreckage, and his hit by the battle attacker's missiles.  He manages to pull up and land, and throws the shot arrows at the battle attacker, which deflects them with its shield.  Dairugger ensares the battle attacker with the electromagnetic whip, and then the battle attacker tangles him up with rocket ropes from its fingers and drags them through the atmosphere, throwing Dairugger into the ocean.  The two mecha fight undersea, the battle attacker starting out with the upper hand.  Then Dairugger throws him and surfaces, hitting him with the miracle beam and throwing him into the jungle.  The battle attacker knocks Dairugger over and tries to cover him in burning vegetation.  Dairugger destroys the battle attacker's shield with the kilders, and then they fight sword to sword.  Diarugger takes to the air and sees the Galveston fleet splashed down on the coast of the southern continent.  Aki is ready to attack, but Ise holds them back . . .