Yuri was walking through the Mallarator one day, hoping to score some leftover grub. He'd worked through meal time, and he was the captain of the ship, so he was hoping there'd be a little extra left over the cooks cound scrounge up.
As he turned a corner, something red, brown and translucent caught his eye. It looked like...
"No way..."
Standing before the prison-calloused eyes of Yuri was the ghost of his mentor, Nia.
"Nia, is that you?"
Nia looked at him with a manical look in her eye.
"It WORKED! This woman's connection with you allowed me to breach the world of death and come back to the realm of the living!"
Yuri took out his plasmic blade: this being was not Nia, and he would not let her memory be defiled!
But he had forgotten she was a ghost and cut straight through her. He tumbled onto the deck.
"Who... who are you!?" he cried angrily. The possessed spirit of Nia turned to face him.
"I am GENDO IKARI, and I am here to harvest the power of the sun to reawaken the sleeping Ancestral Race and bring about the end of all individual identity!"
"You heinous bastard!" Yuri yelled, furious at this man for defiling Nia's soul for his own ends. "You're worse than the American public school system!"
Gendo/Nia laughed and phased through the ship's wall. Yuri threw a tracker at him... but he again forgot they were a ghost, and the tracker simply stuck to the inner wall of the corridor. Yuri ran off without noticing, ready to track his own ship if need be.
And that's how Yuri the Man flew his ship in a circle for 5 days straight.