Big Gete Star
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The Big Gete Star is a fictional machine seen in the sixth movie of the Dragon Ball Z anime franchise. It was once a self-aware computer chip that becomes integrated with the villain of the fifth movie Coola, who takes it over and uses its resources to plunder planets for their energy.
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[edit] Birth of a machine-planet
Lost deep in the junkyards of space, a single alien computer chip drifted among thousands of abandoned spaceships and satellites. Over time the chip became sentient, and soon developed a means of propagating itself. It began to absorb the mass and energies surrounding it, growing larger in scope until it became a giant machine-planet, capable of taking in objects far larger than itself.
While assimilating mass, it one day took in the remains of Coola, long thought to have perished in the fires of Earth's sun. Instead what was left of the tyrant merged with the Big Gete Star's main computers, with Coola's brain strung up with wires at the machine's core. In essence, Coola now was the Big Gete Star.
He generates a great many robot guards and clones of himself, with these enhanced Metal Coolas having strength far beyond what he had in his past encounter with Son Goku. Sometime later Coola then sets a course for New Namek, intent on draining the planet and using the Namekians there as fuel. Once he has had his fill and the planet is left for ruin, he plots to visit Earth to have his revenge.
[edit] Welcome to the Big Gete Star
As his sentries round up the remaining Namekians, Dende calls upon Earth's warriors for help; Goku, Gohan, Kuririn and Piccolo, with Muten-Roshi, Oolong, and Yajirobe along for the ride. They are met there by Metal Coola: the clone is an easy match for Goku even as a Super Saiyan, with the rest being captured and taken to be chopped up to power the planet. The core of the star monitors the fight's progress, instantly detecting and repairing any flaws to its creation's design, making it so it will not suffer the same setbacks again. Even the unlikely arrival of Vegeta does little to sway the tide, and it's only through teamwork that Metal Coola is at last destroyed.
But the Big Gete Star did not house a single Metal Coola alone - hundreds, if not thousands, now stood over the horizon, prepared to attack. The two Saiyans are overwhelmed and taken to the core of the ship to have an audience with Coola, who blithely reminisces on the events that led to him becoming the brains behind the machine. He plots to drain Goku and Vegeta of all their energy for his own purposes, but their power is too much and begins to overload the capacity of his systems. The Saiyans then flood the Big Gete Star with energy, causing it to crumble and his remote-controlled dolls to self-destruct, while Coola himself begins to lose his hold on the planet.
His adoptive body burning all around him, an irate Coola fashions a final vessel for himself out of wires and attempts to throttle Goku. But Vegeta uses the last of his strength to cut Goku free of his grasp, and a final shot of ki destroys the organic half of the Big Gete Star from the inside out.
With the "brain" gone the Big Gete Star loses semblance, disintegrating over New Namek. Vegeta takes no chances at a rebirth and crushes the original chip in his hand.
[edit] Trivia
Like most people, places, and objects in the Dragon Ball Z universe, the Big Gete Star gets its name from a pun. The "gete" in Big Gete Star comes from getemono, which roughly means "cobbled together". "Star" is a reference to another (albeit more famous) planet destroyer, the Death Star of the Star Wars universe.
Coola getting a new lease on life through foreign aid is reminiscent of another vanquished DBZ movie villain, Garlic Junior. During his stint in the television series, Garlic Jr. is able to escape the confines of his Dead Zone when his home-planet (Makyo) comes close in orbit to Earth. Once the source of his power is destroyed, however, he is quickly drawn back into the void.
