Hi All,

I was just trying to track down an anime I saw 
many years ago (back in the early 90s) and it was 
probably an 80s anime. 
Unfortunately at the time I was in Switzerland, 
and hence I don't recall any of the names 
(besides which going from Japanese to German and 
then to English probably makes them irrelevant 
anyway).

But I do recall some of the story, it was a long 
series, a little like Star Blazers, set in the 
future where a robot civilisation wastaking over 
the universe and was setting its sites on Earth. 
Earth send out a great battle cruiser, which they 
thought was invincible, but was dwarfed by the 
robot vessle. Like I said a little like Star 
Blazers. Probably of note, and what would 
pinpoint the anime best was that the robot 
civilisation had its home world on a planet 
inhabited by both people and robots, and they 
(the robots) had become the dominant species, 
they in turn built a massive city, which in times 
of need (and of course this occurs in the series) 
turns into a floating city (space ship) a little 
like a flat disk from memory. Also the size of 
the city was dictated by the orriginal creator of 
the robot civilisation who crash landed on the 
planet and was victimised by the orriginal 
inhabitants (so he built robots to seal off a 
ring around his home and this in the end became 
the limits of the city). From the Earth side (the 
good guys) the story mainly centred on a single 
guy, and had flashes to the earth ship, which had 
only a single memorable character (for me anyway) 
who was the chief scientist / guru who was old 
and venerable and had a beard down to his knees 
(all in white / off white). Anyway the story was 
all about the encounter between the robot 
civilisation and the main character and later the 
massive earth ship (which was dwarfed by the 
robot city / ship).

If this rings a bell with anyone could you please 
let me know as I would love to see it again. Note 
the story may be a little off, it was a while ago 
and the translation thing was probably not the 
best (my German sucks).

Oh the robots had a lot of other smaller ships 
which they generally used to concur the universe, 
the floating city however was a novel point in 
the anime.