Kandall

**Kandall** is a first-class engineer who works in the Advanced Technology Laboratory, aboard on the Gra Valkas imperial battleship *Valcer*, the flagship of the 1st Advanced Fleet.

## Personality

Kandall seems to be confident and proud of his abilities, and although he speaks politely, he has an irreverent attitude and remarks. He studied at Imperial University with his classmate named Naguano who was a very talented person.

## Chronology

### New World War Arc

After the destruction of the 2nd Advance Fleet on the Great Naval Invasion of Japan, Commander Mirkenses and Staff Officer Deluncia, who was aboard on 1st Advance Fleet's flagship *Valcer*, heard the voice from the radar observer in the bridge that 50 JASDF's aircraft was coming to decimate them at the 200km distance. Deluncia spoke to Mirkenses that it was fortunate to be able to detect it at the 200km distance which gave plenty of time to intercept. Horrifically impressed and feared by the previous radar turbulence and the swift destruction of the 2nd Advanced Fleet, Mirkenses recalled the documents on Japanese guided weapons she had read earlier and regretfully began to realize that those documents seemed to be true, not ludicrous propaganda. Deluncia told her that enemies may use guided ammunition which it kept jamming devices distributed in advanced technology laboratories available. She called up a first-class engineer **Kandall**, who worked at the Advanced Technology Research Institute, for more information about Japanese weapons.

When Kandall arrived in the bridge to meet them, he explained how Japan's arsenal worked based on information collected in Japanese weapons books taken at Mu, even though he and Mirkenses still skeptical about Japan guided missile technology. According to him, to counter Japan's incoming missile attacks, he would deploy the prototype jammer created by the Advanced Technology Research Institute to disturb the missile guidance so Japan would have less accuracy hitting them as well as flares to distract infrared navigation systems, metal scraps to jam active radar guidance systems. Though Kandall was confident that the prototype will work, it is based on the assumption that flares and chaff were 100% effective and that guided missile technology had not improved in the last 40 years. They were impressed by Kandall, who shows absolute confidence in front of an unprecedented enemy.

After the ninety-two Naval Air Corps interceptors fought with 12 JASDF F-15J fighters in the sea area about 100 km east of the fleet and all of them failed except Kura Dirkmy, Mirkenses heard a faint voice that all interceptors destoryed. She ordered to prepare for the anti-aircraft combat when the enemy was coming. She called Kandall to take the final defense of the guided bullets. He also independently cooperated with the staff of each ship to prepare the guided bullet deception device.

As the first wave of anti-ship missiles was launched, the 1st Advanced Fleet desperately tried to shoot them down to no avail as the Type 93 anti-ship missiles were too fast for their anti-aircraft batteries and Antares fighters to hit. The Gra Valkas Cruiser *Bernante*, Destroyer *Barrister*, Battleships *Pete*, and *Licata* all deployed their jammer devices and threw flares and chaff into the air to deceive the missiles. He saw the cruiser *Bernante* with absolute confidence. However, much to their horror, the countermeasures were far too primitive to fool the ASM-2 missiles with an advanced inertial guidance system and infrared image tracking. Each ship was either sunk or disabled. Kandall was shattered in his mind at the uselessness of his latest invention to counter guided-missiles to point that he even assumed that Japanese guided missiles were using magic to make chaffs and flare unable to fool them.

After that, he did not participated in the naval battle where the wave of anti-ship missiles began striking the 1st Advanced Fleet mercilessly, but he was vaporized by the explosion from the missile impact.