noun: coda; The concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure. The concluding section of a dance, especially of a pas de deux or the finale of a ballet in which the dancers parade before the audience. A concluding event, remark, or section.

A bar, on Heavy Meldar. Two viewpoints. Two brothers. One destiny. Sometimes the Gears of Fate require a little push...

CE 2874. The road to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions - but how do you pinpoint the moment when a man's feet take their first step onto that road? Most commentators believe that for Captain Harlock, it was the moment he realised he'd been fighting for the privilege of others to return to Earth. But it actually began several years before that... (CGI-verse, Prequel)

As Harlock builds his fledgling crew and works towards his plan to reset the universe, he can't escape the ghosts that haunt him… in more ways than one. 2013 movie-verse.

There are times when it's hard being a bad-ass space pirate, and not all the trouble in your life comes from bounty hunters, the SDF, the Alliance Fleet or Machine People trying to kill you... (CGI 'verse, unspecified time after Frozen Harvest)

Investigating reports of a devastating experimental weapon, Harlock (Yama) and Zero encounter rather more trouble than they counted on when they discover a small child who isn't exactly what he appears to be... (CGI 'verse, 6 years or so after Frozen Harvest, with apologies to the 1975 manga "Diver Zero" by Leiji Matsumoto...!) (Rated M for language)

A new threat emerges to challenge Harlock and the crew of the Arcadia - a strange race of women with a power over plant life, who burn like paper when killed... To find out who they are and what they want, Harlock must first rescue Tadashi Daiba, who vanished four years ago - the night these creatures murdered his mother... CGI verse, 12 years after 'Frozen Harvest'.

Things are changing on the Arcadia, and the new Captain Harlock is trying to find out why. (2013 movie-verse)

Once upon a time two shabby drifters and one skanky ho were left staring at the sky watching as Tochiro's sister was whisked away by airship only minutes after her rescue. Determined to get her back and put a stop to the Organisation, our "heroes" are now on the hunt for a ship - and a crew. First stop: Traders' Fork's only Bar, Bonk and Grill, run by former crewman of Harlock's...

Heiligenstadt in Oberfranken - Summer, 2868... At the funeral for the Graf of Schloss Greifenstein, events are set in motion that will play out a personal tragedy against the prelude to war... Because if there's one thing a young Harlock forgot, or ignored, it was the old warning "be careful what you wish for..." (CGI verse, prequel)

Space is like an ocean... and like an ocean, sooner or later, whatever you throw away into it has a way of washing back upon the shore. No matter how hard the Gaia Sanction tried they forgot this cardinal law: secrets have a way of getting out... (CGI verse, Yama-as-Harlock, set after Red Shift Blues)

Fate has a way of catching up with you, as Harlock senior was about to find out...

"The Days of the Dead": During the events of Frozen Harvest, across the galaxy at the end of known space, a gate began to open... now, once a year, something haunts the corridors of the Arcadia on the anniversary of the Battle for Earth, during the Graveyard Shift - the same hour the previous captain is said to have died and then vanished. (CGI-verse)

There are many paths to Arcadia. (2013 movie-verse.)

Whilst the Arcadia tries to escape the Gaia Fleet following the battle for Earth, Kei tries to keep her new, wet behind the ears captain alive (despite his best efforts to the contrary...!) Along the way, maybe two lost, lonely people can find a beacon in the darkness... Note: CGI-verse, prequel to Frozen Harvest. Revised Dec 15th 2018

When a container with a tragic cargo is taken on board the Arcadia, Harlock's resident pain-in-the-ass crewman, Ali, turns out to be the best man for the job of making those responsible pay dearly - but old enemies lead the mouthy pirate into so much trouble, even Harlock might not be able to pull him out... (post-Frozen Harvest: Yama-Harlock, Ali)

Captain Harlock CGI 'verse, post-film: The Arcadia's new captain gets thrown in right at the deep end... Following an unmanned cargo ship to a frozen planet leads to a grim discovery. The trail leads to the planet La Metal, with terrible implications for the future of humanity. Welcome... to the machines! (Revised to Ch.17 29/05/2017)

This is what happens when I've come across one too many slash fics with a certain pairing... I needed an antidote, and you have been warned! Incidentally, this is a totally stand-alone bit of "what if", and is in no way related to my ongoing continuity...

What happened in the dark space between the destruction of the Earth and the Arcadia's rebirth? (2013 movie-verse)