The Army is the main antagonistic faction in the 1986 Studio Ghibli movie Castle in the Sky. They are an army that seeks to find the ancient city of Laputa and uncover its secrets.
History[]
General Muoro led the army in the search for Laputa. Colonel Muska, however, used them to catch Sheeta and discover the secret of Laputa too. They called Warship Goliath and were about to go searching for Laputa in the morning, but Sheeta's stone raised a Laputian robot and it tried to get to Sheeta to protect her. Goliath destroyed it, but Sheeta managed to escape with the Dola Gang & Pazu thanks to the robot protecting her and handing her off to them just before it was destroyed. However, Muska found her Aetherium crystal among the rubble. They then left to search for Laputa, but so did the Dola Gang by following them. They found Laputa thanks to the light of the crystal, which guided them there, and along the way, inflicted heavy damage on the Dola Gang's ship after finding them in the clouds.
They later took the Dola Gang prisoner upon arriving at the castle and raided the lower parts of it to collect its treasures. However, they soon found out that Muska had sabotaged their communication equipment by destroying all their radios and that he had been spotted entering a secret part of the castle in the center with a couple of his agents, so they search for an entrance. Despite trying to enter forcefully with dynamite, it was ineffective, only for them to suddenly hear Muska over the intercoms, who then lets them in by opening a door for them. He then demonstrates, much to their collective awe and shock, the true firepower of Laputa by dropping an atomic bomb-like blast into the ocean and declaring his intention to take over the world with it. After General Muoro responds with an attempt to shoot him due to seeing just how mad he is, but it fails due to to him only appearing before them using a projection, he proceeds to drop the general and a good chunk of the army to their deaths by opening up the floor beneath them. The remaining portion of the army hastily retreated to the Goliath and tried to fight back, but Muska then activated an army of robots that overwhelm and quickly destroy the Goliath, causing the remaining soldiers to fall to their deaths.
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