LoGH Mystery Ship
Scott Swoboda (scotswo1@airmail.net)
Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:00:59 -0600
Today I received another shipment of Galactic Heroes garage kits and the
"Hyperion" is one of them!! Also shipped were Dusty's trusty
"Triglav", and the "Agateram" flagships.
I could use some help from the newsgroup in identifying the fourth, and
final, flagship they shipped. It is quite mysterious, and may revive
this newsgroup a little. The clues:
1. I can roughly translate the katakana as something along the lines of
"Masasoito" and has 115I on its bow.
2. The mystery flagship appears to be a sister ship to the "Hyperion"
3. There is a picture of it on Ming's Galactic Heroes web page
at:
http://looney.physics.sunysb.edu/~daffy/LoGH_ships.html
It is the green one between the "Ku Horin" and the "Agateram," with
the mysterious name of "??" Hmmmm, sounds MYSTERIOUS.
4. The resin base which comes with the kit has the emblem of El-Facil
on it; the only one I've ever seen among all my Galactic Heroes garage
kits. I went back over my tapes, and it doesn't appear in Commodore
Lynch's flashback regarding his capture while making a strategic
withdrawl. He seemed to be commanding a bunch of standard Free Planets
cruisers from a standard Free Planets battleship (like the "Ulysses").
Does anything else EVER happen on El-Facil? I haven't seen the fourth
series yet. I don't even recall if El Facil was ever re-captured by the
FPA, or if it was simply abandoned.
SECRET SPECIAL MYSTERY: There were 4 different decals with the mystery
ship; the oddest one was apparently for the Free Planets, and features a
giant eyeball shape with AE13 beneath it. Another had a giant HP with
202 located beneath the P.
Regards,
Scott Swoboda