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The Seagull had that from the beginning. The box-like module we see it carrying in every scene other than at Beemerra, where it was carrying Analyzer's power frame, is capable of carrying up to 22 people. That said, it's nowhere near large enough to fit more than maybe 10-12 Space Marines at most. More importantly, the Marines will want something armoured and armed, of which the Seagull is neither.

I don't think so. We see them use two Seagulls, one that's destroyed at Enceladus and the second one which they use to dispense sonobuoys in Episode 13 against the UX-01 and in Episode 16 at Beemerra before it is finally destroyed by "friendly" fire on Leptopoda (Prison Planet 17) in Episode 21. After that we never see the Seagull again, so it's safe to say those were the only two that were aboard. We have confirmation in Episode 17 that there is a matching starboard hangar (we see them bring Type-100 #04 to the hangar deck with the starboard wing facing outboard, and then the next scene sees the Type 100 flying from the starboard side of Yamato), so probably I'd say the second Seagull was initially in the starboard bay. My guess is they only did CG animation of the port side hangar to cut down on production costs, so at some point we have to assume they moved it to the port side for some reason (and then had it back in the starboard side when Melda's Czvarke was taken aboard in Episode 10). The dust-jacket of the Garmillas design book also shows this hangar with a Seagull in it, albeit at different scale compared to what we see animated. The Earth design book has coverage of the design on pages 94-97 for the blister hangars. They show the possibility that two Type-100s could be stored in each hangar (one above the other, probably forward of the main hangar door). Through Episode 21, we see only the one Type-100 in the hangar bay at one time though. I'd say each hangar bay had two Type-100's (for a total of four, hence ship #4) and one SC-97 Seagull (for a total of two). The hangar bay is about 26 metres long and going by one detail drawing on p96 is 16m wide with the control area, platform, and storage area covering 7m of that. The bulbous part which protrudes from the main hull is thus 9 metres wide and the illustration shows has an 8-metre height clearance. The assault transport in Yamato 2 Episode 13, looks to be considerably bulkier. I'd be worried about both its height and its width as far as fitting into the Seagull hangar goes, the Seagull itself is a tight squeeze. To top that off, there's the question of the nose loading ramp. They'd have to engineer a different boarding gantry, especially if they were loading heavy equipment aboard. Overall though, I think that they'll have to find somewhere else to launch it from.

I remember reading somewhere that at launch time, each side hangar had one Type 100 and one Seagull. I'll see if I can dig it up, but I'm having no luck at the moment. We know that Yamato had two of each craft, initially. I'm assuming we're still talking about the dropship/tank Yamato launched at Telezart in Episode 13, which is what I believe Dobber and GMK were talking about earlier. That ship is clearly much bigger, with the flight deck above the troop cabin, and the main body being at least 6 metres wide and 2.5-3 metres high (with the cockpit area on top of that and the overall height of the ship being over 5 metres). It might fit in those hangars, but I imagine it would be a very tight squeeze if it did.

Next month. Ran out of time to do both it and the episode commentary, and the latter took precedence. Currently have my head buried in the script book that came with Volume 3 of the Complete Works, because there are a few scenes in Episode 12 where the subs don't make sense.

I'll be good. I promise I think you'll see it. It's too cool a design not to use, and is more robust and larger than the Seagull. The only question is, where to put it? Considering its size compared to anything else carried in 2199, the assault transport is going to find it hard to find hangar space.

Firstly, Hi all. First time poster here. My overall opinion on Ark of the Stars? Loved it. Saw it twice in Tokyo last December and again just last week when my Blu-Ray got here. Enjoyed it in both forms, was really impressed by the rework they did for the Blu-Ray release. My only quips? One continuity issue which I thought was an unnecessary mistake, and one piece in the dialogue that just didn't fit. When everyone's seen the movie and ready to discuss it, I'll be happy to join the discussion. One thing I wanted to clarify on a recent discussion was this one about the Stork's origins: It's actually a redesign of the craft we see Kodai and his team use to assault the reflex gun base on Pluto in Episode 8 of the original series (scroll down to the fourth row of images). As a side note, I'd love for them to put out a 1/72 Stork kit.