Assembled between 2018 and 2025 by the New Empire of Japan , the Yamato was designed to be the flagship of the Mars based exile state's burgeoning presence in space. It's construction represented a fairly substantial section of the budget and expenditure but it was never the less deemed to be in service of the short term and long term goals of the Empire. There was growing fear of the powers of earth launching an attack and as such there was fears that something needed to be done as not only a defensive craft able to engage hostile spacecraft, but also bring the fight to earth if the need arose. The Yamato was such a craft.





At 110 meters long with a crew of a sixty she was by far the largest spacecraft of her day eclipsing their earlier work . Her armament included two turrets with 23cm cannons, four double mounted 20mm point defense turrets and 36 missiles, each one capable of being fitted with a nuclear warhead. For propulsion she was outfitted with a nuclear pulse drive system broadly similar to those proposed for Project Orion. Most notable of all was the fact that she was capable of making the journey from Mars to Earth as she did in 2027 carrying the third New Japanese Embassy to Earth. This caused quite a stir and a surge in space industries followed and is seen as the start of the space race between the two powers.





Ironically enough it fueled an increased rift between the colony and it's mother country by doing so. A nuclear armed warship engaged in such a provocative move appealed to the ultra-nationalists but many of the regular citizens of Japan saw it as unnecessary saber rattling that made them look bad. It and several similar craft appeared as the villains of several prominent animes over the next few years.

