Nadesico Episode 5

Episode: 5 Episode Title: Ruri's navigation logs

Episode 5

Date: September 2197


The Nadesico holds funerals for all of the crew who died on board and for all of the colonists who died when the space colony was destroyed, as the Captain Yurika oversees all of the funerals, because there were people from many different cultures on board the space colony, she must perform funerals from dozens of different countries, and makes many costume changes, when she finishes with all of the regular funerals she has to perform the custom funerals. A perk of working for Nergal is a free funeral to your personal specifications. Megumi suggests that, as Captain, Yurika will also be performing any weddings onboard the Nadesico. This upsets Yurika who watched Akito kiss Megumi after returning from the mission to retrieve the mission to retrieve an Aestavalis from the destroyed space colony.

The Nadesico is fully automated and Yurika becomes bored waiting for them to arrive at Mars (a two week journey), during this time she questions what it means to be a Captain, and Ruri answers that based on the computer records, Captains play almost no part actual part in winning or loosing wars, which are now planned out by strategists and computer simulations, and have gone from being old men with years of military experience, to being young beautiful people who act as a figurehead, this does nothing to improve Yurika's mood.

Yurika Meditates on her role as the Ships Captain and enters a Zen trans, Jun takes command of the ship.

During the voyage the Nadesico is repeatedly fired on by Jovians probing their defenses.

Akito, wondering why he must fight goes to the meditations room and finds Yurika already there. Yurika leaves her Zen trans. After constantly thinking about Akito she finds that he is right there and decides that it would be the right time to pursue him, even though she knows that he is involved with Megumi.

2 weeks after the Nadesico's escape from Earth.

The crew begin a mutiny and seize the ship, the officers take hostages and the engineering crew go on strike, Jun is called down to the engineering sections to mediate and discovers that the crew has found a clause in their contracts with Nergal  that prevents any intimate contact between members of the crew.

Before the dispute can be resolved the ship shakes violently and warning signals are activated, Ruri announces that the blast was not a Jovian probe of the ships defenses, and that they were under full scale attack.

The ship launches its robots and enters combat with the Jovan sentries.