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Open File
Open file in chess is a file with no pawns of either color on it. An open file can provide a line of attack for rooks or a queen, just like the sky pirates and the Royal flagship's joint effort to deceive the Ades Fleet.
Fam Fan Fan and Giselle Collette are Sky Pirates who ride smaller vanships called Vespas where they capture battleships with other Sky pirates led by Giselle's father, Atamora, with Dio also a member as well. Meanwhile at the Grand Lake, the Princesses of the Kingdom of Turan, Liliana il Grazioso Merlo Turan and her younger sister, Millia il Velch Cutrettola Turan, are preparing for a peace treaty with the powerful Ades Federation led by Premier Luscinia Hafez, Liliana childhood friend. However, the peace treaty is a ruse to capture the princesses which the larger Ades fleet attacks the unprepared Turan fleet. The Sky Pirates learn of the attack and head to the Grand Lake where Fam offers to rescue the Princesses in exchange they surrender their flagship Lasas to them which Liliana agrees much to Millia's shock. Thanks to Fam and the Sky Pirates, the Ades fleet is tricked into shooting each other due to smokescreens and faked light signals and the fleet is fooled into believing the Lasas has sunken. Now under the safety of the Sky Pirates, Liliana orders to head back to the Turin capital Iglasia to prepare for Luscinia's next attack.
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Fool's Mate
Fool's mate in chess also known as the Two-Move Checkmate, is the quickest possible checkmate, like Liliana's foiled plan to break through the enemy fleet and sink its commander ship.
Liliana forms an alliance with Atamora's Sky Pirates in helping the Turan fleet against the invading Ades fleet while she has Fam and Giselle escort Millia back to Iglasia who is holding battle plans for their father, the King of Turan. Liliana plans to use the Lasas in a surprise attack to scuttle Luscinia's flagship, the Impetus which will cause a disarray within the Ades fleet. With the civilians fleeing Iglasia, the King asks Fam and Giselle to send Millia to the Imperial villa in the East for her safety. As the Ades and Turan fleets battle, Liliana acts out her plan but it fails when Luscinia's assistant Alauda boards the Lasas, kills the crew and kidnaps Liliana. Learning of her sister's abduction from Dio, Millia begs Fam to go to the Impetus and rescue Liliana. With Dio acting as a decoy, Fam, Giselle and Millia sneaks inside the Impetus and confronts Luscinia in the command center. Instead, Luscinia tells them the history of their planet Earth, the Exile ships and the people who boarded them. Liliana begs Luscinia to stop the war as she's willing to surrender but Luscinia won't change his mind for his vision of peace. Luscinia recites a Mysteria which sends Liliana into a trance and surrounded by light, forcing Fam, Giselle and Millia to escape. When a beam of light from Liliana hits one of the planet's moons, it drops down to Iglasia to reveal it is an Exile ship and destroys Iglasia, killing everyone there including the King. By the time Fam and Giselle wake up after crashing their Vespa, Fam finds Millia mortified seeing Iglasia destroyed and blood flowing from the capital into the sea.
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Light Squares
Light squares are the light-coloured squares on the chessboard, in an allusion to the white balloons released during the “Okuribi” ritual.
The Third and Fourth Ades battle fleets led by Generals Orang and Sorush defeat the battle fleets of Notos and Luscinia reports the surrender of Turan to the Ades Federation child Empress, Sara Augusta. Sara wishes to the conquer and regain the lands for its original inhabitants who's ancestors were driven out and taken by immigrants of Exiles like Turan, telling Luscinia and his Generals to continue their work including finding all of the keys to the Exiles. At the Sky Pirates fortress Kortoffel, Millia blames Fam for not rescuing Liliana and is upset in seeing Lasas sold and turn into scrap metal. When Millia causes a commotion trying to ride Fam's Vespa to regain her sister's chalice that was bought a Sky Pirate, Fam, feeling sorry for her, helps Millia get the chalice back. Meanwhile, Millia's butler Teddy is invited into Giselle's family home where she explains the Sky Pirates are refugees who were forced off their lands by Ades because they were descendents of Exile immigrants. After finally getting back the chalice and returning home, Fam tells Millia her past revealing she was an orphan adopted by Atamora after surviving a vanship crash whens she was a baby and her dream to see the return and win the Grand Race of vanships when the world was still at peace. Arriving at Kortoffel, the residents perform “Okuribi”, a candlelight ritual to honor those who died in battle and return their souls to the skies. Watching this, Millia apologizes to Fam and vows to change herself. After Millia gets a haircut by Giselle, Dio informs everyone that the mysterious battleship Silvius has been spotted which Fam plans to steal.
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Dubious move
In chess a Dubious Move is a move that may be considered a mistake, like Fam's plan to hijack the Sylvius.
Fam plans to steal the infamous ghost battleship, the Silvius for Millia to regain her kingdom. After discussing what type of ship the Silvius is with Dio and Giselle, they conclude the ship is a hit and run aircraft carrier. On the day of the operation, Fam, Giselle and several Vespa pilots ride off to the Silvius with Millia and Teddy tagging along on Dio's vanship. After tricking the Silvius to head into a valley, Fam gives a message to the crew of the Silvius to surrender. But the Silvius, commanded by Tatiana and her executive officer Alister, ignores Fam's message and moved on. Fam and the Sky Pirates try to stop the ship using various tricks but none of them work on the Silvius which at one point Tatiana herself chases off Fam and Giselle with her red vanship while her vanship pilots capture Fam's crew. With the Silvius escaping to the Grand Lake, Fam and Giselle take a desperate gamble by sneaking into the Silvius but realize too late to learn that the room they just enter was a waterlock, revealing the Silvius is also a submersible ship. Fam and Giselle are brought to the bridge to meet Tatiana and Alister where Tatiana ridicules Fam for trying to steal the Silvius. Nevertheless, Tatiana offers to free Fam and Giselle if she helps the Silvius steal 15 Ades battleships intact. Fam accepts her offer after Tatiana mocks Fam that she can't do it, just as Dio, Millia and Teddy arrive at the bridge.
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Touch and move
The touch-move rule in chess specifies that, if a player intentionally touches a piece on the board when it is his turn to move, then he must move or capture that piece if it is legal to do so, like Fam's determination to keep her promise to help Millia rebuild her kingdom.
Millia learns from Tatiana and Alister about the deal Fam made with them much to her anger over how reckless she is. Because they are still "prisoners" of the Silvius, Fam and Giselle are not allowed to contact the Sky Pirates but are allowed to use anything aboard the Silvius to help them with their deal with Tatiana to steal the Ades battleships. As Fam and Giselle plan their first mission with the help of the crew of the Silvius, Dio admits to Fam that he's actually a scout for the Silvius. Millia is disheartened on losing her homeland upon learning the Ades Federation will officially annex Turan but Fam consuls her that home is anywhere with the one's you care. In their first mission to steal two Ades battleships at an outpost, Fam, Giselle and Olaf, the Silvius chief mechanic, disguises themselves as Ades couriers and trick the noble in charge of the outpost to leave, allowing them and their crew to steal the two ships without bloodshed. Meanwhile at the Silvius, Millia, encouraged by Fam's words, temporarily takes over the ship's kitchen with Teddy and announces on the loudspeaker to the crew that she is forming the Turan Government-in-Exile by taking over several rooms in the Silvius which Tatiana allows it. As Fam and the rest celebrate their first successful mission, at the capital of Ades, Morvarid, Sara officially announces Ades' annexation of Turan and later, Luscinia visits Liliana at her bedside.
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Over Step
To "over-step" in a game of chess, the player runs out of time for their remaining moves in a time control game. This usually results in the forfeiture of the game since the player no longer has time to move. Fam and Gisele's maneuver to make a last-second comeback in the race prevented such outcome.
Fam and Giselle have captured eight Ades battleships with seven more ships to go. Elsewhere, Dio and Fam sent flyers announcing the Turan Government-in-Exile. As more nations form alliances with the Ades Federation, Sara orders her Generals to conquer more Exile nations. Meanwhile, Fam, Giselle and Millia head to the city of El Dorado to participate in an underground vanship race where Fam makes a bet with an Ades noblewoman named Roshanak Babar where if she beats Babar's vanship pilot in the race, Fam gets Babar's battleship Nahid. Roshanak agrees but on the condition that if her pilot wins, she gets Millia. Unfortunately for Fam, Babar's pilot is a former Grand Race competitor. Elsewhere, Luscinia accuses a group of Ades nobles of treason, claiming their ships which were stolen by Fam were in fact given to the Turan Government-in-Exile and orders his assassins to purge them. During the underground vanship race, Fam and Giselle are unable to overtake Babar's pilot but on the final lap, Fam and Giselle makes a dangerous gamble by ejecting fuel from their vespa to lose weight, make a dangerous sharp turn by hooking to a pillar, overtaking Babar's pilot and winning the race. As Fam, Giselle and Millia celebrate, Roshanak takes the lose with good stride. With their new catch, everyone heads back to the Silvius while Fam scolds the Silvius mechanic crew for not betting on her.
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Weak square
In chess, weak squares are squares which cannot be defended by a pawn, thus open to occupation by an enemy piece, like Fam and Giselle's plan to make an opening and break from the Ades forces' ambush.
Sara announces to her subjects in Morvarid about the arrest and purge against the nobles who were working against Ades and plans to attack the nations North of the Grand Lake. Despite showing a strong face to the crowd, Sara secretly confides to General Vasant that she is sad for people who die in her name. Meanwhile, Tatiana and Alister learn that the first nation that Ades will be attacking North of the Grand Lake will be Glacies, but that nation has an isolationist policy and would attack anyone who enters their country. They hope Vincent can convince them otherwise, to join their side while the Silvius heads to their border. Elsewhere, Giselle is starting to doubt her friendship with Fam as the latter continues to get close with Millia and Fam's overconfidence to capture 8 battleships being transported to Ades instead of capturing one ship to finish their deal with the Silvius. As Fam and Giselle head to the harbor where the Ades ships are, they are join by Atamora and his Sky Pirates who are glad to see Fam and Giselle are safe and are also heading to same area as well. However, they realize too late that they went straight into a trap when the Third Ades Fleet lead by General Orang appears from the sky and bombards the Sky Pirates with their new auto-cannons. As they try to find a way to escape, Fam and Giselle have an idea and signal the Sky Pirates to bait Orang's fleet into heading into a valley. They shoot a glacier, dropping it and sending a strong gust of wind to everyone. This sends a giant flock of Grand birds to blind the fleet, allowing Fam, Giselle and the Sky Pirates to escape. As everyone laments their lost, Atamora's Sky Pirates head home while Fam and Giselle, who wishes to go back home, heads back to the Silvius. Unfortunately, Fam and Giselle were followed by the First Ades Fleet lead by General Sadri who gives an ultimatum to the Silvius; surrender Millia to them or be destroyed.
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Distraction
In chess, distractions are moves performed to conceal a player's real strategy. The Silvius uses this tactic heavily in order to escape the Ades fleet.
With the First Ades Fleet and Silvius engaged in battle near their border, Glacies launch Rocket Vanships towards the combat zone. Meanwhile, despite Sadri's message to the crew of the Silvius to surrender Millia and themselves in exchange for their safety, Tatiana ignores his demands and orders her crew to prepare for battle. They attempt to break through the Ades Fleet formation with skilled use of vanships and a smokescreen. The Silvius seemingly escapes the fray only to encounter Sadri's flagship, the Anshar. Under heavy attack, Tatiana orders the Silvius to the mountain range near the Glacies border. Feeling responsible for the current situation, Fam asks Tatiana to allow her to help, and she immediately sets out to do so by capturing one final battleship to fulfill their agreement. In a rush, she takes Millia as her Navi. With the Silvius hiding in the clouds and suffering damage from the Ades Fleet's depth charges, Tatiana orders the Silvius to head towards the weakest point of the mountain side. They blast it with their weapons to enable passage of the ship through. At the same time, the Rocket Vanships arrive and begin their assault on the Ades Fleet. Sadri orders most of the fleet to leave the Glacies border, with only the Anshar and three other battleships to continue the pursuit of the Silvius. One of the Rocket Vanships attaches a cable on the Silvius and orders the crew to surrender. A massive chunk of debris ejected by the earlier mountain blast suddenly hits the Silvius, forcing the ship under the clouds. The attached Rocket Vanship is dragged under and their crew is knocked unconscious. As the Rocket Vanship swings helplessly Fam and Millia rush to its aid until the crew regain consciousness. Another Glacies vanship destroys the cable and escorts their colleagues away from the Silvius. With the Silvius skilfully avoiding a crash into the Grand Lake, Fam flies around to the underside of the Anshar. Millia shoots and disables the Anshar's Claudia engine, forcing the crew to abandon ship. With the resulting capture of their 15th and final battleship, Fam and Millia return to the Silvius and a heroes' welcome. As the credits roll with the theme song "Starboard [Silky Wind ver.]" by Hitomi Kuroishi playing, pictures of the first fourteen battleships Fam and her friends captured are shown.
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Connected passed pawn
Connected passed pawns are pawn pieces of the same color that are both in adjacent files and do not have opposing pawns in front of them. This refers to Fam and Giselle's friendship with each other.
Dio returns to the Silvius to give flowers for Fam for her birthday but can't find her. Meanwhile, Giselle has a fight with Fam as the former feels the latter takes her for granted as her Navi and is going back to Kortoffel. Due to their fight, Fam joins Dio leading an extraction crew to retrieve the Anshar. Fam admits to Dio that she has been so reliant on Giselle that she never consider her feelings which Dio tells her to apologize to Giselle or she will regret it like how he never got the chance to apologize to his late Navi. Feeling responsible for the animosity between Fam and Giselle, Millia tries to help fix it and accompany Giselle to a market. As she discuss her and Fam's childhood with Millia, Giselle realize she can't hate Fam forever as she is like a sister to her and returns to the Silvius. As Fam remembers Dio's advice, she joins the Silvius crew cleaning the ship's deck and start to play hockey with them. When Fam finally reunites with Giselle, both of them reconcile which Giselle and Millia joins the hockey the game with Tatiana and Alister joining as well. As the crew of the Silvius celebrate Fam's birthday and officially accept Fam, Giselle, Millia and Teddy as part of their crew, they get a surprise visitor, the Commander of the United Anatoray-Disith Forces, Vincent Alzey.
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Illegal move
An illegal move is a move that is not permitted by the normal rules of chess. Luscinia tricks the crew of the Silvius by using a peaceful negotiation as a means to ambush them.
At the Grand Lake, Atamora presides in a ceremony to commemorate the alliance between Anatoray and Turan. Thanks to the battleships Fam and Giselle captured, Millia now has a new Turan fleet to battle Ades. As everyone on the Silvius celebrate while the Sky Pirates sends flyers asking the other nations join the Anatoray/Turan alliance against Ades, Vincent asks Atamora if there is any nation powerful enough to join them which the latter suggest the isolationist Glacies. Meanwhile, Dio introduces Fam, Giselle and Millia to Alvis Hamilton, who has the ability to control Prester's Exile. Dio and Al explain to them how females in the Turan Royal family can control an Exile and the ability is passed down from daughter or sister if the current one dies. Since Millia doesn't have this ability, this confirm Liliana is still alive much to Millia's relief. The Impetus suddenly arrives at their location and much to everyone's surprise, the ship is flying the Turan flag as Liliana is on board. The Silvius greets Liliana where she thanks Millia for gathering the new Turan fleet and Anatoray for protecting Millia. But Liliana reveals a surprise when she reveals that, as the new Queen of Turan, she has made peace with Ades and joined their alliance much to the Turan Forces joy but shock to Millia, Vincent and Tatiana. Luscinia later arrives and gives the Silvius ten minutes to surrender and join them or be attack. Millia refuses to accept the Turan/Ades alliance but Liliana warns if she doesn't join her, she will no longer recognize Millia as a Princess of Turan but an enemy. As the crew on bridge discuss whether to accept Luscinia's offer since the Turan Forces are more loyal to Liliana than Millia, Fam thinks Luscinia is controlling Liliana but Millia knows that her sister is doing this willingly. With their time limit up, Liliana orders the Turan fleet to attack the Silvius. At the same time, the Third Ades Fleet attack Kortoffel. As Vincent escapes with Al on the Urbanus with the Silvius covering them, Alauda and his assassins board the Silvius. Fam, Giselle and Millia are forced to escape and despite Dio and the Silvius crew's efforts to stop them, Alauda's assassins manage to shut down the Silvius's engine, sinking the ship. As Fam's vespa is chased by three Ades vanships, a patrolling Glacies Rocket Vanships spots them.
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Backward pawn
A Backward pawn is a pawn that is behind a pawn of the same color, but cannot advance without putting itself in danger. This alludes to the fact that the episode is centered on a flashback.
Ten years ago, Empress Farahanaz of the Ades Federation opens the Grand Race to celebrate the peace treaty between all the countries of Earth including inviting delegates from Glacies. Despite the celebratory atmosphere, there are still tension and hatred between the natives of Earth and immigrants of Exiles. Farahanaz and her Guild bodyguards, Luscinia and Alauda greet the King of Turan and his daughters, Liliana and Millia. While Millia is scared of Luscinia, Liliana has a crush on him after he helps her get up from falling. Meanwhile, Fam, Giselle and Giselle's mother has come to see the race to support Atamora who is competing in the race along with his co-pilot Kaiser while at the same time, Fam wants to find relatives of her late parents. As Farahanaz, Luscinia and Alauda head to the private booth, they witness Vasant being harass by other Ades soldiers due to the fact she has been chosen to give flowers to the winners of the race and her annexed homeland is an Exile nation. After comforting Vasant, Farahanaz reveals to Luscinia and Alauda that she regrets the lives that were lost due to the wars and the racism by the natives to the Exiles and ask them for her help to make the world a peaceful place where children like her baby daughter Sara can live in. Atamora and Kaiser win the Grand Race where the crowds cheer with happiness which inspire Fam to join the race one day and Farahanaz showing Sara the people's joy. But during the award ceremony, a group of Exiles attempt to assassinate Farahanaz to avenge their dead comrades, prompting Luscinia and Alauda to stop them while Kaiser sacrifice his life to protect Farahanaz. In the growing confusion, one of the assassins attempts to shoot Liliana for getting in his way which Farahanaz sacrifices herself to protect her. Angered by Farahanaz's death, Luscinia goes on a rampage and kills the Empress' assassins, injuring his left eye in the process which Alauda subdues him to calm him to stop him from attacking Liliana. As Fam sees the grief and horror of everyone over Farahanaz death, Fam wakes up to find herself, Giselle and Millia on board a snow truck, driven by the Glacies pilots who rescued them, heading towards Glacies.
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Block
A block refers to when a player uses one of his own pieces to physically block the movement of his opponent's piece. This refers to the Glacian forces moving to intercept the invading Ades fleet.
In Anatoray, the Urbanus is attacked by Federation assassins who are attempting to target Alvis. However, Dio manages to kill the assassins and spirit Alvis away in his vanship. Meanwhile, Fam regains consciousness and discovers that she, Giselle, and Millia had crash landed in Glacies and were rescued by Glacies pilot Dian. Because Fam and Giselle can't speak Glacian (which is spoken in Russian), Millia, who knows and speaks the language, acts a translator between them and Dian. Remembering that Fam and Millia saved her pilots lives, Dian provides shelter for the girls as well as the necessary supplies to repair their vespa. In Ades, Luscinia begins planning the invasion of Glacies. To the surprise of some of his commanders, Luscinia decides that the vanguard of the attack will be composed entirely of the fleets from Ades' provincial territories including those from Vasant's homeland. Back in Glacies, Fam begins to befriend Dian despite the language barrier, telling her of her dream to reinstate the Grand Race so that vanship pilots from all nations can fly in the same sky in peace. Dian is not convinced, and sees the aurora borealis, a grim omen. She explains that the last time it was seen was the eve before the last Grand Race where Farahanaz was assassinated. It was that event that convinced Glacies to become fully isolationist due to their belief that foreign nations could not be trusted. The next day, Fam and Giselle finally succeed in repairing their vespa, and Fam allows Dian to pilot it. Dian discovers what it's like to fly in an open air vanship for the first time and is quite impressed. However, with the vespa fixed, Dian prepares to return to her base, though she expresses her wish to fly with Fam again in more peaceful skies. Fam, Giselle, and Millia leave Glacies, hoping that the Silvius is okay. However, they encounter the Ades vanguard fleet, and wonder why it is composed entirely of ships from the provincial nations. They then see the Ades main fleet nearby. Realizing that the vanguard fleet is merely a decoy, Fam turns around to warn Dian of the impending attack.
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| Special Features |
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Audio Commentary
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Audio Commentary
Featurette(s)
Textless Songs
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Episode 9,5 - A Recap Episode.
Spinoff Series: Friday Night #1-7 |
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ENGLISH: Dolby True HD 5.1
JAPANESE: Dolby True HD 2.0