Franz Valleymunt
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 Ensign Franz Valleymunt (796 UC (487 IC / 3596 CE)) | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Affiliation: | Free Planets Alliance |
| Rank: | Ensign |
| Status: | Alive (796 UC (487 IC / 3596 CE)) |
| Spouse(s): | Therese |
| Played by: | Shigeru Nakahara |
Franz Valleymunt (Japanese: フランツ・ヴァーリモント) was an ensign of the Free Planets Alliance, who participated in the invasion of the Imperial frontier planet Kappahl in 796 UC (487 IC / 3596 CE). He served in the 7th Fleet. (LOGH: 'Liberation of the Frontier Zone')
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History
When Franz was young, he dreamed of living on an uninhabited planet with a wife and children away from all the violence and bloodshed wrought from the Alliance-Imperial War. He studied botany and civil engineering in college in furtherance of this goal.
During the Invasion of the Imperial Territory military operation launched by the Free Planets Alliance, Franz was charged with providing food to the colonial citizens on the frontier planet Kappahl that they had "liberated" from the Galactic Empire. Imperial soldiers had come to frontier planets in anticipation of the Alliance's invasion and took the food stores and ruined the fields of said planets as a "scorched earth" strategy against the Alliance.
Franz's knowledge of botany and engineering came to good use, when he used technological sprinklers to restore the fields to an arable state where food could grow again. Franz and his fellow FPA soldiers were then invited to a feast as thanks, where Franz grew close with Therese, the daughter of the household head who threw the feast. Therese and Franz bonded over their shared dream of living on a vacant planet, with a spouse and children.
Unfortunately, things took a turn for the worst when Alliance soldiers started pillaging food from the citizens on Kappahl due to a shortage. The soldiers assaulted Therese's father and raided his house when they learned he had been hiding food there, taking all of the food stores away. This turns the citizens against the FPA, and Franz is assaulted by the rioting, hungry citizens until being saved by Therese who points out all the good Franz did for Kappahl.
Further clashes occur between the Imperial citizens and Alliance soldiers, culminating in the soldiers destroying the house of Therese's father with tank fire, killing him and his fellow citizens. Franz comforts Therese in her grief, having ultimately decided to resign as an ensign and desert the FPA military. Franz and Therese walk away, prepared to begin a new life together on some distant, uninhabited world as husband and wife, away from all the carnage.(LOGH: 'Liberation of the Frontier Zone')
Appendices
Appearances
- LOGH:
- 'Liberation of the Frontier Zone' (only appearance)
Background information
Kappahl is the name of the planet given in the DVD features.
