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Boy Meets Girl:
Hibiki Tokai is a third-class citizen who is a parts mechanic. When he
boasts to his co-workers that he can and would steal a Vanguard, which
is one of the Empire's elite combat vehicles used for defending
themselves against the Mejale, he finds himself boxed in by his own
words. In order to silence his doubting co-workers, he has to sneak
abord the battleship Ikazuchi and find the Vanguard with the marked
part on it that makes it his. However, everything doesn't go as
planned, as the Ikazuchi takes off for orbit 2 hours ahead of time
with Hibiki stranded on board. As if things couldn't get any worse,
the Ikazuchi also comes under attack by a group of fearsome women from
Mejale - and not just any Mejale women, but pirates!
Found out by the Tarak crew and facing execution for being a stowaway,
Hibiki comes face to face with a real live woman in the midst of all
the fighting, who he immediately runs away from, despite her overly
friendly attitude. But the real threat may not come from the Mejale
pirates, but from the Tarak ships, whose commander has decided he
would rather destroy the Ikazuchi rather than let it fall into enemy
hands...
And Then I Don't Know What To Do:
Hibiki finds himself captured by a ship full of women after being
abandoned by his fellow citizens, with the exception of two other
unlucky men - Bart Garsus, a cowardly, self-proclaimed
"helmsman" and Duero, a highly educated student who had
become a doctor on a whim to stay alive. Things look pretty dire for
the men - but while the pirates are deciding about the fate of their
new male prisoners, a mysterious enemy begins an attack on them.
Now, in a life or death battle, everyone, even the men, must work to
escape this new threat. Bart manages to weasel his way into piloting
the ship, and Duero makes use of his medical skills. A despondent
Hibiki, left without anything to contribute, feels that he can do
nothing to change his pathetic existence - that is, until the
vice-commander gives him some words that he will soon not
forget...
This Is How I Will Live:
The threat is past, but the new ship is unstable, leaving the crew
baffled at how to operate it. One by one, the men are taken from their
cells in order to try to help out with the repairs of the ship.
However, there may be no time for lounging around, as Dita and
Gascogne go missing on a supply and information-gathering mission, and
the ship plunges into a nebula and asteroid field that threatens to
tear the ship apart. It's left to the crew to once again work together
to overcome their difficulties. In the aftermath, the crew discovers
that it will take 270 days to get home, as they have been thrown to a
remote part of space. With this new knowledge, the men and women
realize that working together is a necessity to get themselves home.
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