Galactik Football Season 1
Adele Strecker
Galactik Football is a seventy-eight episode animated children's television series about a futuristic football team, co-produced by Alphanim and France 2 for Jetix Europe. The series comprised three seasons, and ran from 2006 to 2011[1]
Galactik Football is a French animated television series, co-produced by Alphanim, France 2, Jetix Europe and Welkin-Animation. It started airing its 3rd 26-episode season in territories around Europe in June 2010.
In the universe of Galactik Football, the inhabited worlds of the Zaelion Galaxy compete in Galactik Football, a sport analogous to soccer, but played seven to a side. The game is further complicated by the addition of Flux, which enhances a player's attributes such as speed, strength and agility, or grants special powers such as teleportation. The story follows the fate of an inexperienced Galactik Football team, the "Snow Kids", as they aim to compete in the Galactik Football Cup.
The story begins during a football match between the home team of planet Akilian and the Shadows. Akilans have a direct free kick, to be taken by their captain, Aarch. As he takes the free kick an explosion is heard and an avalanche sweeps over the stadium, marking the beginning of the Akilian Ice Age and the loss of The Breath, Akilian's own Flux.
The plot then jumps forward 15 years. Aarch and his friend Clamp, a robotic technician, arrive back on Akilian for the first time since the game. Aarch aims to create a new Akilian Galactik Football team capable of winning the Cup, and selects a group of talented teenagers for his team: D'Jok, Sinedd, Micro-Ice, Mei, Thran, Ahito, Rocket and Tia. However, Rocket's father and Aarch's brother do not want him on the team and agree only to let him play. On the condition that the newly named Snow Kids will win a match against the incumbent Akilian team, the Red Tigers, who are coached by Aarch's estranged old friend and team-mate Artegor Nexus. During her try-out Tia reveals that she still has the power of the long-lost Breath.
The Snow Kids progress through the competition and one-by-one they develop the Breath of Akilian, despite some intra-team tensions caused by Tia and Rocket's burgeoning relationship and Micro-Ice's unrequited crush on Mei. Unknown to any of them however, is that all seven of the players have been affected by the Meta-Flux, a synthetic undetectable Flux, inadvertently created by Clamp and pirate Sonny Blackbones, that was the true origin of the Akilian Ice Age. This Flux is now coveted by the ruthless General Bleylock, who happily endangers the Snow Kids to get his hands on it.
Following their win of the last GFC the "Snow Kids" prepare to defend their title. However, disaster strikes, first when their goalkeeper Ahito is struck down with a mysterious sickness and then when Rocket, their captain, is banned from playing after he illegally uses the Breath in order to save Tia's life. Because of this ban, D'Jok becomes the new captain.
As the Snow Kids add two players, Yuki and Mark, Ahito recovers on Akilian and Sinedd introduces Rocket to a secret one-on-one sport called Netherball. Rocket soon becomes champion of the Netherball Sphere but the violent attitude of the game takes a psychological toll. Meanwhile, Bleylock has returned and is using the Sphere to siphon off the players' Flux, which he wants to use to manufacture weapons.
Bleylock unleashes the first of these weapons on the Shadows' Archipelago, destroying the Shadow team's Flux, and engineers it to look like the Pirates are to blame. Meanwhile, the loss of the Smog causes Artegor to fall sick; as he is nursed back to health he and Aarch repair their friendship.
Ahito's return to the team revives the Snow Kids' flagging spirits but even after his ban is lifted, Rocket refuses to leave the Sphere to return to his team. Only when Tia challenges and defeats him does he then agree to quit Netherball, and return to the Snow Kids.
The Snow Kids play against the Xenons in the final, and though the match is disrupted by Bleylock's attempts to take revenge, they manage to retain their title, via a penalty shoot-out. Bleylock is betrayed by his assistant Harris, who sabotages his ship, causing his payload to detonate while still aboard and killing him. The shock wave generated by the 2 Flux devices exploding puts Genesis into ruin and snow kids wins GFC again with amazing penalty by rocket.
1 year after their 2nd GF Cup victory in succession, the mysterious Lord Phoenix invites everyone in the galaxy to a special mixed- flux tournament on the planet Paradisia. After a bad friendly match against the Shadows, D'Jok and Mei have an argument causing Mei to dump D'Jok and join the Shadows. Yuki leaves the Snow Kids temporarily to join the Elektras and D'Jok also leaves the team after being recruited by Team Paradisia. A Wamba named Lun-Zia joins the Snow Kids for the mixed- flux tournament, during which the Pirates discover Phoenix is injecting the Multi-flux into Paradisia's core and Harris is blackmailing him. After beating the Snow Kids on penalties, Team Paradisia goes to the final against the Shadows who have beaten the Elektras, when the procedure finishes and Paradisia explodes, ending the tournament. However, everyone on the planet manages to escape with aid of the players affilated with the league.
Harris takes control of Team Paradisia and forces the Flux Society to move the GFC up. Eventually, D'Jok and Mei return to the Snow Kids enough to get them to the Final. Clamp and the Pirates learn about Harris and discover his plans: having Team Paradisia place their Multi-flux in the cup and eliminating every flux except the Multi-flux. After returning to Paradisia and retrieving a sample of the Multi-flux, Phoenix and Harvey, Clamp reverses its power and mixes it with the Xenons, Elektras, Lightnings and Wambas fluxes and a chemical in the Mice Delight to create an Anti-Multi-flux.
Shortly before the final, Sinedd rejoins the Snow Kids as well due to him needing to have his sister see him play. After resigning as coach of the Snow Kids and placing Rocket as coach after they go to play Team Paradisia in the final who have beaten the Elektras, Aarch and Norata attempt to stop a Multi-flux bomb from destroying the Breath so Team Paradisia would undboutably win, but fail. Luckily, Ahito restores it to the Snow Kids and everyone else with Akillian blood in Genesis Stadium, even Sinedd's sister, and Sinedd manages to score them a penalty to beat Team Paradisia. Harris makes Team Paradisia try to touch the cup no matter what, but Magnus and Sonny defeat him and Harvey and Sidney destroy the Multi-flux before they can touch it. Finally Snow Kids win again the GFC.
The Galactic Football League(GFL) is the football organization featured in the GFL Series of books by author Scott Sigler. The GFL is not only a premier sporting league that generates an extraordinary amount of revenue, but its very creation was to foster and promote inter-species cooperation throughout the galaxy. For information about the book series, see Galactic Football League (series)
The GFL is comprised of three tier levels that are supported by conferences. These conferences are structured by skill level with the elite level or upper tier being named Tier One and the lowest level of skill being Tier Three.
One of the main purposes of the GFL is to promote inter-species cooperation. Being competitive in the upper tiers requires a team to be a multi-species organization, working together as a team to employ the skills of different species whose physiology lends them to excel at specific football postions.
In the lower tiers, such as the Purist Nation Football League (PNFL), it is possible to feild a human-only team. However if the team aspires to the higher tiers, it will not be competitive until it intergrates other species. A Human-only team would otherwise be quickly overwhelmed by the size and speed of the non-human players.
The Galactic Football League Era starting in 2658, is a direct result of the Creterakian conquest of multiple species and worlds. By 2651, Creterakian dominance is accepted and the Ki are effectively managing the intergalactic trade routes. However despite increased trade, cross-species violence is still a major problem, so severe it interferes with shipping as vessels are illegally searched and crews harassed or detained based on race. Ki Rebellion piracy is becoming a major problem and organized crime grows stronger by preying on shipping, but still the Creterakians refuse to give any government warships to deal with the piracy problem. In 2652, cross-species violence becomes an epidemic as terrorists do the unthinkable and simultaneously nuke three cities, one in each of the main systems - Earth (Planetary Union), Grinkas (Leekee Collective) and Ki (Ki Empire). Purist Nation terrorists are suspected, but there is no proof.
Realizing they need assistance, the Creterakians ask for help in controlling cross-species violence and piracy. In 2653, Planetary Union officials introduce a plan for "System Police" departments - para-military forces made up of indigenous species that protect their various governments. However, the System Police are not enough to quell the cross-species unrest.
Finally in 2654, the Creterakians admit they need help in improving species relations and collaborate with the League of Planets to introduce non-contact galactic sporting events. The League recognizes that sports have historically brought races together, not only for humans, but for all sentient species. Furthermore, League scientists believe group dynamics that have held true for intra-species race relations will also hold true for inter-species relations. By 2657, the sporting events prove to be a boon to the entertainment and travel industries, but are not producing the predicted cross-species cooperation. This is because physiology differences results in single species dominating various sports. For instance, the Harrah dominate all racing events, the Ki dominate all strength, hand-to-hand combat and throwing events, the Sklorno dominate non-contact field sports like soccer and Humans dominate all hand-eye coordination sports like hockey, archery, etc.
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