Saxid

**Saxid** is a captain of the Phishanus-class 100-gun ship-of-the-line *Mewright*, who commands the Parpaldia Imperial Navy Eastern Fleet of the Duro Defense Force to attack the mainland of Japan.

## Personality

Saxid was requested by the Foreign Affairs Department to represent the empire’s fleet at a past Eleven Country Leadership Conference held every year at Cartalpas in the Holy Milishial Empire. He was able to get the opportunity to witness for himself the mechanical warships deployed by Mu. He learned about Mu weapons, the superiority of technology, which he shuddered in fear, but he heard that Japan may export weapons from Mu.

## Chronology

### Japanese-Parpaldian War Arc

Before the Duro Air Strike, Captain Saxid received the order from emperor Ludius and his military officials in the 42 ships-of-the-line of the Imperial Navy’s Eastern Fleet and Oversight Army in the port of Duro to set out to invade Maizuru City in Japan and punish the Japanese before ready to leave port.

At the beginning of the Battle of the New Sea of Japan, the 42 ships-of-the-line of the Duro Defense Force were over 300km east of the Duro. They had been unable to reach both the Imperial Army base at Duro and their commanders in the Eastern Fleet earlier after the destruction of industrial factories and the imperial army base by the JMSDF BP-3C strategic bombing. Captain Saxid, who stood side with the vice captain on the Phishanus-class 100-gun ship of the line *Mewright*, looked out towards the front ocean. He asked the vice captain of weapons from Mu, but the vice captain believed they would succeed if they learned from Japan on the level of Mu after making the mistake of underestimating them in Fenn. Saxid nodded at him and turned his gaze back to the ocean in front of them. One of their lookouts shouted at them from above that ship spotted on the horizon, approaching the fleet. Saxid took out his telescope and pointed it at the horizon. After some searching, he finally spotted the outline of a ship on the horizon. He then gave the telescope to the vice captain. They saw the two JMSDF Hayabusa-class patrol boats, which sailed fast. Saxid ordered the sailors of all ships to prepare for combat thru a manacomm transmission from the flagship *Mewright*. Soon after, the ships-of-the-line began to prepare for a fight. Sailors on and below deck ran to their stations as they performed standard procedures.

Saxid screamed at them out to a fire. The magic cannons from the ships-of-the-line fired the cannonballs at them, but the *Hayabusa* patrol boat began turning at its bafflingly high speed, missing the cannonballs from behind it. Then *Hayabusa* patrol boat fired the Oto Melara 76mm main gun at the target of the fleet at a range of 6km. The 76mm round landed direct hits onto the Parpaldian 80-gun ship of the line *Gelill*, blowing a gigantic tower of flame and sinking.

Saxid and the vice captain were shocked to witness the Hayabusa and Umitaka patrol boats bombarding the attack fleet with their main guns and utterly crushing the fleet, mercilessly killing the soldiers and crews. The moment that the Oto Melara 76mm main gun of the Hayabusa patrol boat turned to the ship-of-the-line Mewright and fired the round at it, exploding it. The ship-of-the-line Mewright sank shortly afterward where Captain Saxid and the vice captain were killed. All 42 ships were sunk. Thus the single operation mounted by the empire to threaten Japan itself had failed, left to be written in the footnotes of history.

## Trivia

* Saxid only appears as a character in the light novel.