Mazon (Units)

Mazon is one of the alien races that are eager to get the planet Earth. Their ruler is Queen Rafflesia.

The Mazon are a race of humanoid plants that resemble human women. They originally hailed from the planet of the same name, but it was destroyed long ago by their own actions, when they finally poisoned their planet to the point where it became uninhabitable. Since then, the Mazons have traveled across the cosmos in search of a new home, forming a planetary conquering empire in the process.

Mazon are plant-based lifeforms, and generally look the same with the standard appearance of Matsumoto's female characters: tall, beautiful women with long hair, lithe bodies, long eyelashes. Since Mazon are plants, they are technically hermaphrodites, allowing them to reproduce by both pollen and seeds. Since the bodies of the Mazon usually resemble ideal earth women, this allowed them to blend into human society and take high positions that their empire could invade.

While most Mazonas look the same, including pale white skin tones, they also have shades of green and blue. Some also have a different hair color, such as black, while most Mazon have blond hair. Given that their bodies are based on plants, they do not have skeletons or vital organs such as brains. They also feed on photosynthesis and chlorophyll by breathing through their skin. Despite their lack of a brain, the Mazons are able to think, and the anime shows that they have a sense of smell. They lack blood, and the closest they have to bodily fluids

Although the behavioral patterns of the Mazon are more or less similar to those of humans, their population has a unique social structure that focuses on finding a new home by any means necessary, treating some individual thoughts as little more than "seeds".

The Mazons tend to be a proud species given their great civilization, often looking down on most of Earth's inhabitants, especially the most corrupt world leaders, whom they can easily control. As a result, they view most earthlings as livestock for their civilization. Most of their losses were also considered collateral, whether human or Mazon.

Apart from Earth, the Mazon have other enemies, including the inhabitants of Tokagi and the ruined Yura, Miime's home planet. However, not all Mazon are hostile, as some of them have actually made friends with the Terrans, including those who were originally sent to kill the Arcadian crew. Some of them just genuinely want to have a home so they can play and enjoy life. Fewer people are even capable of loving strangers, and Mazon, disguised as a nurse, elopes with a doctor as a case in point.

Mazon follow a social insect-like pattern, with the queen leading the rest of the clan with successors in tether. Because they are plants, they do not hold some of the more human political views; some of them even find human taxonomy annoying. While the Mazon are for the most part willing to conquer worlds, a small number are capable of befriending other species, including humans, with character traits such as friendship and even love. The underwater pyramid was also inhabited by some sort of whistling algae, which appears to have been a species separate from Mazon.

As far as superweapons and related structures are concerned, the Mazon have their own language spoken by most of their kind, it also seems to be a global language spoken by all Mazon, not just one of many. However, the Mazon are also capable of speaking languages used by outsiders, including the languages of Earth.

The Mazon are a highly advanced race, with technology that allowed them to travel through space long before Earth existed, complete with a cosmography that shows a large area where the Mazon have traveled, which is stored in a small rod-like storage device. The device, in turn, could store as much data as the human brain could hold, and even more. Other examples of this were robots with a self-healing system, which were considered a dangerous scientific breakthrough. Rafflesia has often used the hologram to communicate with other members from a great distance, even when they are in other solar systems.

When it comes to travel, Mazon ships are able to travel on space waves, allowing them to move from one point to another in a matter of seconds with the help of a special signal. The same technology allowed Mazon to infiltrate Earth undetected.

Mazon ships are equipped with pulsar cannons that rival the Arcadia in firepower and are numerous enough to appear to be another Milky Way from a certain distance. However, many of these ships are either civilian ships or salvage ships captured from conquered worlds. Specialized Black ops spies are equipped with special infiltration tools that can even jam trackers on Arcadia.

Their technology and military were so advanced that Harlock wondered why the Mazon hadn't colonized Earth sooner. Perhaps they also realized that the Decepticons could be much worse than themselves. Although the suspicions were proven wrong, when the Nightmare Syndicate attacked the Rafflesia Mothership in order to "destroy external enemies", Lieutenant Zoltan joined them once more, but he was immediately killed. At the end, when the Syndicate was completely destroyed by killing their leaders, Dai Atlas realized Rafflesia's true motives. Mazons themselves understood that they themselves were to blame for the destruction of their native planet. They really didn't want to harm the Earth, as they realized that they were probably the means to make all dreams come true, even the creation of life on the planet. Therefore, they did not actually try to conquer the Earth, unlike the Decepticons. Dai Atlas once promised that after the war he would finally finish his "Paradise" place where Mazons would be settled, on one of the planets where they would have suitable living conditions. However, at the end it turns out that Mazons no longer exist... they were completely destroyed by the Order of the Dark Crusaders.