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S1E1 - Outside The Atmosphere

  • Opening shows a passenger SSTO, destroyed by a single screw smashing into it.
  • This event explains the change in public opinion and political will that lead to the creation of debris collectors.
  • Ai Tanabe (main character, newbie astronaut assigned to debris section) meets her colleagues
    • Fee Carmichael - Captain of the debris collector ship DS-12 "toybox"
    • Yuri Mihairokov - First mate of toybox
    • Hachirota "Hachimaki" Hoshino - astronaut who collects debris from toybox
    • Philippe Myers - debris section chief clerk
    • Arvind "Robbie" Lavie - debris section assistant clerk
    • Edelgard Rivera - debris section secretary handling paperwork
  • Toybox is dispatched to collect a piece of debris, a commemorative plate celebrating peace in "Mananga", and to drop it into the atmosphere to burn up.
  • Navigation displays shows the ships intercepting the plate and performing a retro burn to drop it.
  • Toybox deploys a wishbone (a tiny ship with just a seat, open frame and an engine) to rendezvous with the debris.
  • An argument ensues about destroying the plate (a symbol of peace) just to save the satellite it's on a collision course with (a military spy satellite).
  • Hachimaki attaches a small thruster to the plate.
  • Debris section deliberately delay the de-orbit burn to send it down in a beautiful light show over "Mananga".
  • Or maybe it was just to earn overtime ;)