Meyl

**Meyl** is a gunnery captain of the battleship *Grade Atlastar* of the Gra Valkas Empire.

## Appearance

In the novel version, Meyl is a man on the cusp of retirement and sporting a white, receding hairline.

## Chronology

### New World War Arc

After the destruction of the Super Heavy Bombing Unit and the 44th Task Force on the Great Naval Invasion of Japan, Supreme Commander Caesar ordered the main fleet of the Great Fleet at full speed toward the JSDF base in Nahanath. Without refueling his ships, the entire fleet is now on a one-way mission in an apparent suicidal attack to destroy the base.

During the middle of a naval battle, the one frontmost of three turrets on the battleship *Grade Atlast*ar was knocked out by an anti-ship missile, but the other two turrets were still fine, sporting massive cannons that represent the technological superiority of the empire. Captain Luxtal asked gunnery captain Meyl in the bridge of the flagship *Grade Atlastar* that they would lose in a decisive battle if Japan would enter within the range of their attacks. Meyl answered him with absolute confidence to believe they would pulverize Japan to smithereens with the world’s most powerful guns at their disposal. With the achievements of countless victories, including the feat of having shot down an aerial battleship under their belt, they were brimming with absolute confidence.

When the cannon turrets fired three gigantic shells up to an altitude higher at 11,900m above sea level, JMSDF Aegis destroyers of 4th Escort Flotilla seemingly broke apart their formation as if to run away from the advancing lone battleship. The *Grade Atlastar* pushed forward. Three massive columns of water jutted out from the ocean. While the calculations were done in which the landing distances measuring, the next shells were loaded in. The front and rear cannon turrets slowly turned to aim at the Aegis destroyer *Chōkai* and fired the five shells. The Aegis destroyer *Chōkai* launched a ship-to-air guided missile and landed directly on the 46cm shell midair, setting off the shell’s fuse and letting off an intense fireball in the sky.

Dozens of seconds later, Meyl let out an astonishing remark that the five shells from the *Grade Atlastar* landed in the ocean, producing big columns of water. He saw Japan intercepted the shell mid-flight at speeds. It was impossible. The fact was that they didn’t stop it with their armor or avoid it with speed, but they intercepted it in midair. At the same time he realized that Japan could block their hands, he was reminded that they were hopeless in terms of airpower.

Meyl felt the tingle of a fear he had never felt before. Captain Luxtal spoke to him Japan only intercepted one shell that just meant that they could not intercept all of them. Commander Caesar ordered them to pushed on with the attack as the battleship *Grade Atlastar* still stood firm. However, when the JSDF 5th Surface-to-Surface Missile Regiment fired six Type-12 surface-to-ship missiles to finally destroy the *Grade Atlastar*, one of the missiles landed close to the bridge of the *Grade Atlastar* enveloping everything in its proximity in an intense explosion. Meyl and other officials included Caesar and Luxtal inside the bridge were vaporized in an instant as explosive flames engulfed the ship.