Alcatrand

Alcatrand is a location featured in the F-Zero Farukon Densetsu anime. It first appeared and was mentioned (not picked up by Dreadopp and Zedopp's fansubs) in Lap 2 - Captain Falcon, then later shown in Lap 9 - Jody's Secret and Lap 28 - Black Shadow's Invitation (it was not picked up by Dreadopp and Zedopp's fansubs in Lap 28).

## History

Alcatrand is located in a section of the galaxy where the Galaxy Police store all of the high profile criminals. The 5th installation is located on an unknown planet, and serves as a storage for criminals in coldsleep. It was first mentioned in Lap 2.

Zoda was a criminal once stored here, until he was revived in the year 2196, due to Black Shadow and Dark Million breaking into the facility and incapacitating the guards. Dark Million also modified Zoda on the spot before he had risen. Alcatrand had since then been destroyed, but was revisited by Jody Summer in Lap 9. Although it had been destroyed, and various other coldsleep cases had been opened, Zoda had used it as a secret hideout in the same episode.

It was mentioned and seen again in Lap 28 - Black Shadow's Invitation, when Dr. Stewart arranged to meet with Dark Million in order to revive Roy Hughes. In Lap 50 - Black Shadow, a Galaxy Police officer reports that Alcatrand (mistakenly translated as an "Atlanta base" by Dreadopp and Zedopp in the fansubs) has been destroyed by a flood, due to the odd occurrences throughout the galaxy as a result of the Dark Matter Reactor.

## Appearance

The planet that Alcatrand is located on is of a blue color, with an equally blue ring around it. It seems to have a day and night cycle with a winter climate. When Jody returns to the coldsleep prison in Lap 9, there are blizzards and snow. However, when Dr. Stewart arrives to the area in Lap 28, the snow remains, but it is daylight, without any blizzards.

## Trivia

* Alcatrand's name is most likely a reference to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, famous for its high-security military prison.
* Although the fansubs by Dreadopp and Zedopp say "Planet Alcatrand" when Jody plans to go to Alcatrand, Jody only audibly states the name and nothing else. Every other instance of Alcatrand mentioned by name also lacks the Japanese word for "planet," which is mentioned in other cases when referring to planets. In addition, Dr. Stewart and Jody's conversation about Alcatrand in Lap 9 confirms that it is only the name of the cold sleep prison installation.
	+ The 4Kids English Dub also mistakenly refers to Alcatrand as a planet.
* Judging by its ring system, the planet that Alcatrand is located on, is shown to have its rotational axis tilted sideways, much like planet Uranus in our solar system.
* It is not known for certain if Miss Killer was also revived at Alcatrand, as all the footage only focuses on Zoda, Black Shadow, and Dark Million.
	+ Given the fact that her past and true self (Misaki Haruka) had gone missing after the East Bank incident in the past (and F-Zero Climax adds on to say she was mistaken for one of Zoda's associates in the episode recaps), and the presence of other opened coldsleep cases, it is very possible that she was also revived here.
	+ However, she and her machine only first appeared in Lap 8 - Miss Killer Puzzle, in the year 2201. Zoda was revived 5 years prior. So either this is a detail overlooked by the anime, or Haruka was possibly kept in stasis for 5 years after Zoda's revival and was awakened in 2201.