Channel 5 Headquarters is a recurring location in the Space Channel 5 series. It is the main place of business for the network in the Space Channel 5 series. It is located in space near Earth.
History[]
Space Channel 5[]
The headquarters first appear during the cutscenes where Hoorg discusses plans about the invasion with other Morolians, though during these scenes, it's not revealed yet that they are inside Channel 5's headquarters.
Hoorg discussing plans in the Channel 5's headquarters.
Later in the fourth report, after being revelead that the Morolian's brainwashing signal's frequency was the same as Channel 5's, Ulala, along with Pudding and Jaguar, go to the headquarters to investigate and they discover that the Channel 5's CEO, Chief Blank was the one responsible for the Morolian's invasion.
It can be seen in the background one last time as Ulala and friends march to the end of the galaxy.
The Boardroom[]
The Boardroom.
The level begins at the boardroom, where it is revealed that this is the place where Hoorg and other Morolians have been planning their attacks with Blank watching them in the back. The boardroom is a large room with red walls and neon light and a big white monitor in the back. At the boardroom's center, there is a large dark red table with red floating chairs, which is where the Morolians make reunions. Behind this table, there is another table where Blank watches them.
The level begins with a shooting segment where Ulala must save the Morolians in the room. When this segment is over, Blank runs away.
Hallway[]
A Hallway in Channel 5.
After leaving the boardroom looking for Blank, Ulala finds Space Michael being forced to dance by Morolians in a hallway blue hallway, and starts a dance battle against the Morolians to save him. After saving Space Michael, Ulala is attacked by blue cannons, and she needs to shoot at them to protect herself.
In the Extra Mode version of the Report 4, three Channel 5 Policebots will replace Space Michael, if the amount of views the player has as Ulala leaves the boardroom is between 85% to 89%.
The Control Room[]
The Control Room.
During one's first playthrough, Ulala goes after Blank in the Control Room. While playing a completed saved, Extra Mode, Ulala will travel to this location again if the rating are 89% or below. The Control Room is key location in the HQ that leads to some of the most important areas such as the Main Antenna. This area is a dark room with huge rotating monitors with the Channel 5's logo.
In this area, Ulala finds and saves the Keyboard Grrrl. Afterwards, she finds Blank, who taunts her and leaves in an elevator. Blank leaves Hoorg and some Morolians to attack her and a shooting segment begins, where Ulala must save Hoorg and the Morolians from Blank's brainwashing control. Once this segment is over, Ulala goes after Blank again in the main antenna.
The Recording Studio[]
The Recording Studio.
In Extra Mode, if the rating are at 90% or above when Ulala completes the last dance battle in the Hallway, Ulala will travel to the Recording Studio instead of the Control Room, The Recording Studio is where all of the shows on Channel 5 are filmed and several workers of Channel 5 can be found being forced to dance there. It is an empty white room that can create studios of Channel 5's shows. The Channel 5 studio set is actually virtual, as in there’s no actual set props.[1] Ever since the creation of this technology, the time and cost of creating a set has been immensely reduced, and that has made it possible to produce programs more efficiently.
The studios of a News Show from Channel 5.
When Ulala arrives at the recording studio, the studio of an unnamed virtual News Show will appear. This studio is white, with a white and red table, two red chairs and a monitor showing space with a white Channel 5 logo in the center. In this studio, Ulala will find the News Show's presenters, Brent Suzuki and Ms. Valala Petrie, being forced to dance and will be able to rescue them in a shooting segment.
The studios of a Quiz Show from Channel 5.
After rescuing Brent Suzuki and Ms. Valala Petrie, the virtual News Show studio will disappear and the recording studio will make the studio of an unnamed Quiz Show appear. This studio's floor is filled with blue circles with pink lines and at its back, there is a purple wall with five futurist elevators, neon lights, yellow stars and a drawing of Saturn. Next to this wall, there is a blue panel filled with question marks. This studio also has a blue auditorium with white chairs.
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"Alien Up-Down Quiz".
In this studio, there is first a shooting segment where Morolians and hostages appear in the elevators in the wall. Among the people being forced to dance, there are Lucy LeBeaux, who only appears at the end of the segment if the player doesn't miss any move and Lance Sterling, who appears at random, only if the player miss certain moves. Once the shooting segment is over, Ulala will find Xiao Xing Lum being forced to dance by the Morolians and will be able to rescue him in a dance battle. Once the dance battle is over, the Quiz Show studio will disappear and Ulala will find Blank running away from her. She will chase Blank to the main antenna and this level's section will be over.
The Main Antenna[]
The room below the Main Antenna.
In both the normal and the Extra mode version of the Report, Ulala will go to the room below the Channel 5's antenna after the second section of the level, regardless if it is the Control Room or the Recording Studio. It is a large yellow room with yellow and blank circles in its floor. This is where the battle against Evila happens.
Giant Evila on the surface of Channel 5's headquarters
After Ulala defeats Evila, the room will open up to the outside, revealing Giant Evila, standing on the station with the Astrobeat and Fuse in its clutches. Ulala, with Jaguar and Pudding's help, must destory Giant Evila's missiles and attack her core. As Ulala is subsequently trapped in the Blank dimension, those who Ulala's has helped thus far appear on the surface to to give her their support. Once Ulala is freed, her and her supports have one last dance against Blank on the surface before delivering the final below to him using the energy gathered by the Antenna.
If Ulala fails at delivering the final blow, the Antenna will instead break apart and Ulala will whine "Nah" before the game transitions to a game over.
Space Channel 5: Part 2[]
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The Headquarters in Part 2.
The Channel 5's headquarters appear again as a location in Part 2. At the end of Report 3, Ulala receives a message from Space Michael who reveals that the headquarters are being attacked by the Rhythm Rogues, which makes Ulala, Fuse and Noize immediately go there to investigate.
When the fourth report begins, the robots attack Fuse's spaceship, making Ulala go to the headquarters on her own. The level begins with a shooting segment outside of the headquarters, where Ulala must defeat the robots and save the Space Police. The level's first section ends with Ulala landing on the Headquarters.
Hallway[]
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Ulala running through a Channel 5 hallway.
Inside the studio, there's a segment where Ulala and the Police run through the headquarters hallways, looking for Space Michael. The hallways have blue floor, white and blue walls, celling with red lights and several floating TVs with the Channel 5's logo. In the Space Chanel 5 Part 2 Sugoku Sugoi Guide Book, this space is called the Cheerleader Corridor.
In these hallways, there is a shooting segment where Ulala fights against robots and save the Channel 5's employers, including Space Cheerleaders, Brent Suzuki, Ms. Valala Petrie and Lance Sterling. In the Extra Mode version of the report, Ulala finds Xiao Xing Lum and even Chief Blank being forced to dance by the Rhythm Rogues. At the end of the hallway, Ulala finds a door to the Control Room closing and she rushes to go inside it before the door closes.
The Control Room[]
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The Control Room in Part 2.
The Control Room from the first game returns to Part 2, and it is where Space Michael is located. In this game, all of the monitors are red and it is revealed that this room contains a secret elevator that goes to the headquarters' core.
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A secret elevator from the Control Room.
When Ulala reaches the Control Room and finds Space Michael, Shadow appears and challenges her for a dance battle. When the battle begins, the elevator to the core is activated and starts going down with Ulala, Space Michael and Shadow on it. The elevator is round and contains many circles in different shades of blue. Around the elevator there are walls with many cyan lights.
The Core[]
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The Channel 5 headquarters's core.
When Space Michael is rescued, he joins Ulala and accompanies her to the core, a round room which is the heart of the studio. It has walls of multi-colored dots and stereos embedded into the walls. It should be noted that the Core is resilient, but only to an extent. It can't take too much intensity from a dance- or sing-off before collapsing. If that should happen, the whole of the Channel 5 Headquarters will explode from the instability.
When Ulala and Space Michael reach to the core, they meet Purge in person for the first time and Ulala will need to defeat him in order to proceed in the level. When the battle ends, the core starts collapsing itself due the intense sing-off battle against Purge, leading the headquarters to its self-destruction.
Escape Passage[]
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Ulala and Noize escaping through a hallway.
When the core starts collapsing itself, Noize appears driving the Astrobeat Jr. and saves Ulala and now, they both must escape the headquarters before it explodes. When escaping, they pass through a red hallway with red circles in its wall. As the level goes on, they reach a black hallway with yellow circles and red stripes. During this entire segment, Ulala and Noize are chased by flames and electricity. When Ulala and Noize reach the exit, the Channel 5's headquarters explode.
Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash![]
The Channel 5's Headquarters are reconstructed in the time gap between Part 2 and Space Channel 5 VR. Its locations are limited to the Lounge Space and Studio
Channel 5's Lounge Space[]
Channel 5's Lounge Space.
When the player starts the game, they are taken to the Space Channel 5's Lounge Space, a dark room with black walls and blue floor filled with lamps, chairs, tables and monitors showing the Channel 5's logo.
In this room, the player will have access to the game's main menu, where they will be able to select one of the games mode (Story Mode, Arcade, Trial Dance, and so on).
Channel 5's Studio[]
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The headquarters in Space Channel 5 VR.
Besides the Lounge Space, the only other location of the Channel 5's Headquarters that appears in the game is a room which appears to be a mix between the Core and the Control Room appears during the game's tutorial. Internally, it is referred to as "Ch5 studio."
Other Appearances[]
- Sonic Riders: The headquarters made a brief cameo appearance in the Sega Illusion circuit.
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- The Channel 5 Headquarters is the only location in the series to appear in every Space Channel 5 game.
- How Fuse managed to get inside the Channel 5 HQ with his Astrobeat at the the end of the Report 4 (in the sequel) is totally unknown.
- The Channel 5 logo's design seen on the station's outside varies from a scene to another in both games.
- In the first two games, the Channel 5's headquarters is the fourth level.
- Oddly, in the Space Chanel 5 Part 2 Sugoku Sugoi Guide Book, the Control Room is referred to as the "Recording Studio."