1 - Like a Shooting Star

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    If the god of the universe
    created these stars,
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    then who exactly was it that brought about
    the origins of us humans- no, of all life?
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    Is destruction the only thing
    from which all things are born?
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    If so, then mankind must
    forever go on fighting.
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    I wonder how many fleeting lives have
    been lost in this universe as a result.
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    I may have a habit of running away
    as soon as anything bad occurs,
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    but no matter what happens,
    I'm not going to run away now.
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    I may have a habit of bursting into tears,
    even though I understand it in my mind,
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    but since I am aiming higher,
    I'm not going to cry now.
[02:13] ---
    I'm tired of hearing that
    things will turn out all right.
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    Don't bury your head in your hands.
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    Instead give your positive gauge a clip!
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    In time it will all feel
    just like it should!
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    Deeply, deeply,
    it's becoming etched in my mind
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    that someday, this will all be real.
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    Both the unchanging mornings
    and the never-ending nights.
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    I'm off and running for tomorrow's sake.
[03:14] ---
    Picking up enemy fleet ahead.
[03:16] ---
    Range: 2800.
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    Roughly 15,000 enemy ships total.
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    Allied Nobility fleet approaching!
    Range: 2500!
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    1500 to go before our guns are
    within effective firing range.
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    Vetti-sama, your orders?
[03:50] ---
    It is within sight.
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    We will be victorious.
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    I am now taking command
    in place of Vetti-sama!
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    All ships, prepare for battle!
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    Commence fire!
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    Fire!
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    1st and 2nd armadas, guns to port!
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    All turrets, rotate to port!
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    Fire!
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    Impact!
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    Adjust range!
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    Ready... all turrets fire!
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    3rd and 5th ships damaged!
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    The flagship has been hit aft!
    Fires have broken out inside!
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    The enemy's third armada
    has been silenced.
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    Right on schedule.
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    Shift targeting to Cornelie.
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    E-enemy squadron sighted to port!
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    Enemy 1st and 5th armadas
    completely silenced!
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    3rd and 7th armadas have
    also begun withdrawing!
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    Now to polish off the enemy fleet!
    All ships, forward!
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    Fire, fire, fire away!
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    All ships, commence retreat!
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    The 14th armada has been silenced!
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    The last defensive line has been breached!
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    Excellency, your decision?
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    Launch... launch the fireworks...
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    They're signaling surrender.
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    Curse you, Vetti!
    You call yourself a nobleman?!
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    Just where has the Allied Nobility
    led us during these last 20 years?
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    They have advanced the privilege
    of the nobility alone,
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    lined their own pockets,
    and squandered our precious resources!
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    But by your heroic actions, their corrupt,
    devilish faction is no more!
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    However, I do not believe
    the reconstruction of the galaxy
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    will happen automatically.
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    It all rests upon your labors!
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    We will rely upon our own state,
    and upon our own citizenry!
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    The reason for this is that the future
    of our galaxy exists only within ourselves!
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    And so, here and now,
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    I declare the formation of a new empire
    to unite the galaxy!
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    But I knew...
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    This was not the beginning of peace;
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    it was nothing more than
    the start of a new age of chaos.
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    In order to clear the way
    toward this blockaded world,
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    the times called for a savior.
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    And so did I.
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    In the beginning, there was
    the God of the Black Cross.
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    God created the heaven and the earth.
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    The earth was without form, and void,
    and darkness was upon the face of it.
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    And God said, "Let there be light."
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    And the light divided the darkness.
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    When the light streamed forth,
    it was called Day,
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    and when the light streamed
    not forth, it was called Night.
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    And the evening and the
    morning were the first day.
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    As the God of the Black Cross
    has loved me,
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    so have I loved you.
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    If ye keep my commandments,
    ye shall abide in my love;
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    even as I have kept the
    God of the Black Cross' commandments,
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    and abide in His love.
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    As I have loved you, love one another.
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    Now, in keeping with
    the traditions of old,
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    we now perform this marriage ceremony.
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    Out of the depths of darkness
    have I cried unto thee.
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    I pray thee, hear my voice.
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    Let thine ears be attentive
    to the voice of my supplications.
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    If thou shouldest mark iniquities,
    who shall stand?
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    I wait for the savior,
    and in his word do I hope.
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    My soul waiteth for the true savior
    more than they that watch for the morrow.
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    For He that defendest thee now
    shall defend thee even unto eternity.
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    Place your certificates of regency
    for Nerkia and Rodney here.
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    At last, the time
    when the wool of Rodney
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    and the textile techniques of Nerkia
    are joined has arrived.
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    How long I have waited for this day!
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    May you find happiness
    in the light of the Cross.
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    Tonight, soleil is joined,
    and an eternal vow is made.
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    Are there any objections?
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    If there are no objections,
    let silence be your response.
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    Very well, the ceremony of the kiss...
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    I object!
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    The time is at hand!
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    You must learn the longsuffering
    pain of the masses,
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    and the blood and tears that
    have been shed, for your luxury!
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    Bishop, what in the world?
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    Silence! I am...
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    ...Michel Volban, of the People's Army!
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    Forward!
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    My beloved friends,
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    I have come only to tell you
    things as they are.
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    Those of you with
    the heart to hear, hear me!
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    Once, the emperor in name only,
    Vetti Sforza, made this declaration:
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    "The future of our galaxy
    exists only within ourselves!"
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    However, the only thing that
    existed in his false heart
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    was a wasteland of
    his own famished appetites!
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    We will spare your lives
    if you do not resist us.
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    Who is it that wants only a portion
    of the nobility to grow scandalously fat,
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    while the rest of us die as slaves?!
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    Please surrender at once!
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    I love the galaxy!
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    That is why I will win its freedom!
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    Everyone! We're going to
    put down the nobility ourselves!
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    We've taken the residential
    district and the ports!
[13:33] ---
    Good.
[13:35] ---
    We've secured the power plants, too.
[13:37] ---
    Mm-hmm. Well done all around.
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    They were fairly weak. Strange...
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    I've just received word that
    Nerkia and Rodney are now...
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    ...completely under the control
    of the People's Army!
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    However, my friends, we have
    not come to liberate you!
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    We cannot force you
    into the vortex of battle!
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    But if you are prepared to fight
    alongside us, then my friends,
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    I promise you-
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    Our future lies together with your courage!
[14:19] ---
    Michel! Michel! Michel!
    Michel! Michel! Michel!
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    Nicely done, Michel-sama.
[14:28] ---
    Nice work!
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    Mm-hmm, thanks.
[14:42] ---
    W- what is this?!
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    Bad news! The Holy Imperial
    fleet is approaching!
[14:47] ---
    What?!
[15:00] ---
    The first attack wave was successful.
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    Maconnais-sama, your orders?
[15:06] ---
    Don't interrupt my dinner!
    Do whatever needs to be done.
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    Yes, sir.
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    Ready main cannons!
    Target Nerkia and Rodney territories!
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    Fire!
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    T- this wasn't the agreement!
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    Please don't hurt our territories!
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    The fireworks! The fireworks!
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    Crimson Virginia, give me strength!
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    Michel-sama, quickly!
[15:56] ---
    Sylua, what are you doing?!
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    Oh, right...
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    Everyone join up with the main force!
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    So, it was a trap after all...
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    Theodoric!
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    This is bad! The Imperial Fleet
    has launched a sneak attack!
[16:26] ---
    What?! Did word of
    our operation leak out?!
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    Anyone who has free hands,
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    please fight back using
    this territory's ships!
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    Launch at once! Our ship as well!
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    Remember to leave the main dish!
    If Michel is hurt, they'll purge me!
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    Fire!
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    Why? Why are they not aiming for my ship?
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    How frail. Him, a savior? That's a laugh.
[17:39] ---
    The enemy fleet is attempting
    to surround our ship.
[17:43] ---
    So that's what this is...
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    M- Michel-sama! Bracered at 3 o'clock!
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    What?!
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    Message from Michel!
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    "Main force, return to base."
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    He's gotta be kidding!
    We've gotta help him!
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    Yeah!
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    Please wait! We cannot allow
    ourselves to be wiped out here!
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    Let us escape, as Michel told us to do!
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    Are you saying we should
    leave Michel in the lurch?!
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    It's me that they're after.
    I'll lure them away.
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    How are you going to fight by yourself?!
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    I have a plan.
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    All right!
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    Men! We're withdrawing
    from this area at full speed!
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    The People's Army's main force
    has begun fleeing.
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    Let them be. Our objective is Michel.
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    Michel-sama, there's a final message
    from the main force.
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    "Come back alive."
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    Lure the enemy fleet to
    join us in the bracered!
[19:29] ---
    The enemy ship has
    fallen completely silent.
[19:32] ---
    It appears they are surrendering.
[19:33] ---
    Well, they should have
    done so in the first place.
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    M- Maconnais-sama!
    There is a bracered approaching!
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    Maintain altitude!
    Don't go against the flow!
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    Do something, quickly!
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    Jean!
[20:49] ---
    Jean! Wake up, Jean! Are you all right?!
[20:52] ---
    Yes, Michel-sama.
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    Sylua!
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    I'm all right.
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    Come about 180° and
    withdraw at full speed!
[21:06] ---
    I can't. The engines were
    knocked out in that impact earlier!
[21:09] ---
    What?!
[21:10] ---
    Message from the enemy ship.
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    "Surrender at once,
    or we will shoot you down."
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    If you thought you could get away,
    you were greatly mistaken.
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    Inform them that if they will ensure
    the safety of the lives of the others,
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    I will surrender.
[21:31] ---
    You mustn't! You are the savior
    of the People's Army!
[21:35] ---
    He's right! Once you've surrendered,
    Michel-sama, this ship will be attacked!
[21:40] ---
    Let's fight, Michel-sama!
[21:41] ---
    No! Fighting any further
    will gain us nothing.
[21:45] ---
    Then I am going with you.
[21:46] ---
    So am I-
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    Hurry it up, would you?
[21:54] ---
    Please understand, you two. This is
    the last thing I'll ever ask of you.
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    Michel-sama...
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    Michel-sama!
[22:08] ---
    Michel-sama!
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    They're signaling surrender.
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    Good decision. I'm going to
    ascertain with my own eyes
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    this man whom Vetti-sama
    is so particular about.
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    So this is the end...
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    The People's Army really
    does need a savior.
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    Not me, a true savior.
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    A shooting star?
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    M- Maconnais-sama!
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    That is when I first met you.
    At that moment, everything began...
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    "Like a Shooting Star"
[23:15] ---
    ...Cleo.
[23:23] ---
    It's twilight already in the
    glass city of mistaken notions
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    where we exchanged farewells
    among the countless lights.
[23:34] ---
    After making that pinky promise,
    the finger that lied to you
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    developed a hangnail,
    and still hurts a little even now.
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    We called each other's names,
    we spoke each other's names,
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    and the world where you and I
    once met keeps spinning around.
[23:55] ---
    After these tears fall,
    will they be forgotten?
[24:00] ---
    After the sadness melts away,
    will I be able to see?
[24:06] ---
    Quivering and shimmering
    in this glistening world,
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    they grow cold and dry up
    as I grasp them in my hands.
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    Even if this world were made of nothing
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    but lies and nonsense,
    I probably wouldn't care.
[24:28] ---
    Somewhere on this world,
    I am here singing,
[24:34] ---
    so please, may you be here
    on this world, smiling.
[24:49] ---
    A gust of wind that cut
    through the blackness of space
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    pierces Maconnais' giant ship.
[24:55] ---
    Is this a god or a devil
    that has appeared?
[24:57] ---
    Next time on Glass Fleet, "Like the Wind"
[25:00] ---
    "Like the Wind"
[25:01] ---
    The galaxy in revolution. Renaissance.