Pluto (2199)



Pluto is a dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the solar system, usually beyond the orbit of Neptune. It serves as the home of the Pluto Frontline Base, the main operating center of the Great Garmillas Empire's siege of Earth during the Garmillas-Earth War. In the Garmillas language, Pluto is called "Plat" ("The Trap on All Sides").

Overview
Pluto is a world dominated by ice, with a craggy surface marked by impact craters. A thin atmosphere surrounds the dwarf planet. In 2199, due to environmental modifications made by the Garmillas Empire, oceans of liquid water exist underneath the frozen surface. The moons Charon, Nix, and Hydra orbit Pluto ("Messenger of Iscandar", "The Trap on All Sides", "The Sun Sets on Pluto").

History
Following the defeat of a Garmillan military force by the United Nations Cosmo Navy at the Second Battle of Mars in the early 2190s, the alien invaders withdrew to Pluto, began alterations of its environment to more closely match their needs, and established a heavily fortified military facility equipped with a reflection satellite cannon. With this device hidden inside a frozen Plutonian lake and a network of satellites in orbit, they began using nearby Kuiper Belt objects as planet bombs to hurl at Earth. The Garmillas continued their siege for years, protected by Pluto's distance and their own superior technology while Earth was reduced to a wasteland.

Earth forces made one of their nearest approaches to Garmillas-occupied Pluto during Operation M on January 17, 2199, when a vanguard ship closed to two hundred thousand kilometers. About a month later, the alien presence on Pluto ended soon after the launch of the space battleship Yamato, a highly advanced and heavily armed UNCN vessel. Yamato advanced directly on Pluto during Operation M-2 while its fighters went around to the far side of the dwarf planet and flew low to the ground in search of the enemy base. The Garmillas brought the battleship down into one of Pluto's oceans, but Yamato used the frozen waters to hide and to draw attention until the fighters completed their mission. After the base was obliterated, the remaining Garmillas forces abandoned Pluto ("Messenger of Iscandar", "The Trap on All Sides", "The Sun Sets on Pluto").