Harlock: Space Pirate (2013) - full transcript
2977: For many years a mighty battle has been raging across the galaxies as 500 billion humans, whose forebears were exiled from Earth, plan to return to what is still called home. Forced to flee a ravaged Earth, humans have now depleted the corners of the galaxy to which they fled. Earth has now become the most valued and precious resource of all, controlled by the corrupt Gaia Coalition which governs the human race across the different galaxies. Having been exiled and vilified during the battle of the Homecoming War, Captain Harlock and his trusted crew of the Arcadia battle cruiser are the only hope mankind has of discovering the secrets that the Gaia have kept hidden. The Coalition has demanded Harlock's death and the Gaia Fleet's new leader, Ezra, calls on his younger brother, Logan, to infiltrate the Arcadia and then assassinate Harlock, thus forever eradicating the one man standing between the Coalition and their complete control of the Universe. Logan must make a very personal sacrifice and discover that things are not always as they seem. All the while Captain Harlock and his crew will continue his mission, seeking revenge against the Coalition and establishing the return to Earth.
The human race has spread across the galaxy, founding colonies on distant planets.
Their population increased, until it exceeded billions of inhabitants
But resources were exhausted, the birth rate collapsed, and the human race is now in an era of decay
A movement began that advocated a return to Mother Earth.
But the planet did not support repatriation
A huge conflict for the right to return started, known as
"The Homecoming War"
And a governmental structure was born, the "Gaia Coalition", to end the war.
The Gaia Coalition declared Earth to be "a sacred place" where no-one was allowed to enter.
The planet became a symbol to view from a distance, even as the colonists on planets were dying out.
There was, however, a man who resisted...
and continued to venture into the depths of space.
A space pirate, immortal in the last century, and challenging warships of the Federation.
Wanted by the Gaia Coalition, code S-00999
His name is-
Kids these days, they don't know any better.
Always chasing after goddamn rainbows,
thinking there's something out there for 'em.
Velda's shutting down. I hear they've started evacuating.
The entire planet's gone in the crapper.
It's not the planet.
The whole human race is doomed.
Hope that can wait until I finish this bottle.
Another retraction ship?
No, hear that?
It's a battleship.
Wait!
We weren't any different in my day.
Just dove in head first like lemmings into the sea.
The Arcadia...
Hurry, before it leaves!
But space is a monumental beast.
The human race?
"In the vastness of space and the immensity of time",
we are less than a tiny speck.
Maybe even less.
What were we looking for out there?
We crossed the solar system, passed the Milky Way...
It didn't matter where we went.
We found nothing.
We thought lightspeed travel will change our lives,
but it only made us realize the sad, hard truth.