Admiral Munetake

Name: Admiral Munetake Age: Unknown (late 30's) Gender: Male Position: Admiral - United Nations Weight: Unknown Height: Unknown Place of Birth: Earth

Background

Admiral Munetake is the United Earth officer on assigned to supervise the crew of the Nadesico, hr serves as a political officer rather than a commander.

Admiral Munetake has the dubious honor of having served on the Earth's flagship during the first battle of mars, it was the Admiral who gave the first orders to fire on the Jovian forces with the ships defensive pulse lasers after their main cannons where shown to be ineffective against the Jovian capital ships. However it was not due to him that the United Earth force was destroyed.

Admiral Munetake was assigned to the Nadesico before it escaped to Mars, it was his men that re took the Nadesico for the UE before being captured by Mr Horry and the remaining Nergal personnel. Jiro Yamada was murdered by one of the Admirals soldiers when they made their escape.

Admiral Munetake became UE officer to the Nadesico when it was brought back to Earth (Episode 8 - The lukewarm cold equation episode) and commanded it through the UE, providing missions and strategic information (Episode 10 - The danger of femininity, and Episode 11 Finding yourself in a routine plot). It was Admiral Munetake that lead the attack against the Jovian Gravitron Rale Gun without briefing the Captain on the weapon.

During the events surrounding the development of the experimental prototype Aestavalis, it was revealed that the soldier who confessed to murdering Jiro Yamada was in fact completely innocent. It was the Admiral who shot Jiro. The feelings of remorse over Jiro's death, and the strains of the war eventually drove the Admiral insane. He commandeered the experimental Aestavalis and used it in a failed attack on the UE Battleship Cosmos, believing it to be an enemy warship. When he tried to activate the main cannon, which had a lethal flaw, it overloaded and killed him. The admiral died in 2198 during the closing stages of the war.

The Nadesico's crew dislike the Admiral and do not consider him to be one of their officers, rather a UE Admiral that occasionally likes to propel them against the enemy but not tell them what they are fighting or how they should kill it.