Nadesico Episode 12

Episode: 12  Episode Title: Those unforgettable days

Episode 12

Date: 2197

During a minor battle with the Jovians the targeting systems onboard the Nadesico begin to malfunction, the ships sensors log United Earth vessels as enemies and feed this information to the Aestavalis causing their missiles to lock onto UE fighters when they open fire. The UE is forced to retreat from battle, and the Jovians are so confused that they also retreat.


A team of engineers is dispatched to locate and eradicate the fault in the targeting system, but as soon as their shuttle begins to approach fro docking, the Nadesico's automatic threat warning system targets them and launches a missile, destroying their shuttle.

Ruri manages to regain control of the computer, and when the shuttles escape pod is recovered the engineers begin to work on the combat systems. Working with Ruri, they find that because the Nadesico was fired on by the United Earth during its escape to Mars, and because it was used to penetrate the Earth's defensive shield Episode 2 and 3 - Leave the blue Earth to me), the computer has determined that the United Earth must be its enemy.


The engineers want to terminate the Nadesico's compute programs and install another program of their own, even though it would mean that the information from the ships missions would have to be destroyed.

 Ruri protests, saying that the ships computer is so advanced that it has reached a level of self awareness, and that it would be killed if they erased it, but the engineers do not listen to her and begin to install a program that will erase the computer ships programs and replace it with their own software.


Seiya and Ruri came up with a plan to save the ships computer and asked Akito to go into the ships data repositories to destroy the sections that were making the Nadesico attack the United Earth. Akito uses a virtual reality system to enter the ships data store as a virtual Aestavalis, but he discovers that the computer has generated a digital guard robot using information from Akito's anime collection. Using his knowledge of the Anime character that the computer is defending its self with, Akito becomes an even more powerful virtual robot and destroys the guardian. He is then able to delete the data that the computer is using to determine that the United Earth is its enemy.

Seiya destroys the UE program and replaces it with a dummy program so that they think that their software was installed. Ruri thanks Akito for saving the computer and begins to develop her own emotional attachment to him.

With the new software seemingly installed and the ships computer operating normally, everbody goes ack to fighting the war.