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RENTON MEETS EUREKA The story begins with the daily life of 14-year-old Renton Thurston. He lives with his grandfather, Axel, works in his garage, attends school, and leads a very boring and unfulfilling life. As the son of the great military hero Adrock Thurston, Renton generally chafes under the expectations placed on him due to his parentage. His father died many years ago, leaving Renton to be raised by his older sister, Diane, until she too disappeared in a quest to continue their father’s work. Before her departure, Diane left Renton a Compac Drive. This device would, from time to time, display a single message, "Eureka." Renton’s only escape from his day-to-day drudgery is his ref board, a device that allows him to ride trapar waves. He modeled the board after the one used by his idol, Holland, the leader of the independent militia known as Gekko State, and dreamed of one day escaping his dull life and joining Gekko State to live a life full of adventure. A dream he finally realizes when a strange girl named Eureka crash-lands her LFO— the legendary Nirvash "TypeZERO"— on his grandfather's house, asking for repairs. Renton falls for Eureka almost at first sight, as he is greatly impressed with her piloting skills and fascinated with her intuitive understanding of LFO technology, particularly the Nirvash. Oddly enough, even though there is a port for one, the TypeZERO does not appear to use a Compac Drive to interface with its human pilot as do all other LF0s. When Renton points this out, Eureka allows him to install his own Compac Drive, though nothing happens. Renton’s grandfather appears less than thrilled by Eureka’s presence, and angrily offers her something he was hiding from everyone: a device called the "Amita Drive". Before the Amita drive could be installed, the military launched a missile attack against Axel’s garage. Eureka manages to get Renton and his grandfather out of the garage and then flees in the Nirvash to draw the fire of enemy LFOs away from them. Axel instructs Renton to deliver the Amita drive to Eureka to unleash the TypeZero’s full power. Rushing to reach her, Renton discovers he can now ref as never before— even completing his first cut-back drop-turn, an extremely difficult ref maneuver. When he finally was able to fly to the Nirvash's cockpit and install the Amita Drive, Renton activated the Nirvash's powers, provoking the mysterious phenomenon called the "Seven Swell" in a desperate attempt to save Eureka from an attack from the military. It is interesting to note that not long after the phenomenon, Eureka said that the Nirvash spoke to her attributing the energy powering the Seven Swell to Renton. Afterward she asked him to join Gekko State and his grandfather reluctantly lets Renton go. GETTING USED TO THE GEKKO-GO After a few weeks aboard Gekko State's ship and HQ, the Gekko-Go, Renton discovered life on board wasn't as exciting and glamorous as he had thought. He was always doing menial jobs and suffering initiation pranks from more senior crew members. His ability to co-pilot the Nirvash was initially limited by motion sickness he experienced in the high speeds at which LFOs maneuver. Despite Renton's awkwardness, both Holland and Mischa note a remarkable increase in the performance levels of the TypeZERO and assign Renton as the co-pilot for the time being. This fact, unfortunately, did not seem to improve his relationship with Eureka, as her adopted children Maurice, Maeter and Linck constantly competed with him for her attention. They viewed him as a threat that could someday take her from them and did everything in their power to make his life miserable. As he endured all of these ordeals, Renton eventually managed to find his place among the crew. He even managed able to prove himself as an LFO pilot and became a full fledged member of Gekko State. But the Seven Swell phenomenon was not ignored by the government, and in order to attend this matter, they recommissioned Dewey Novak, an officer who was in prison (and later revealed as Holland's older brother), to his former position. After gaining his job back, he began to assemble allies like Dominic Soleil, a young officer who was his eyes and ears during his incarceration, and Anemone, a girl about the age of Eureka, and pilot of the LFO Nirvash Type "theEND". Anemone later fought against Eureka and Renton once, and was almost successful in bringing them down. However, contact with a spherical gaseous anomaly known only as a "Coralian" at that time eventually rendered both girls unconscious. Apparently Dewey is not just following orders form the army, but has his own plans for Eureka, the Nirvash, and even Renton himself, whom he refers to as "the son of the king". As the military's hunt for Gekko State escalates, things start to get worse for Renton. As his piloting skill and affinity with the Nirvash grows, he and Eureka begin to grow distant from one another. After an incident in which the Nirvash is hijacked by an old excavator (and in which Holland takes his frustrations out on Renton), Renton blows off Eureka's offer to let him be the pilot of the Nirvash. A hurt and lonely Eureka proceeds to attempt to return to the planet, only to be pulled out by Renton in a barely-recognizable state. In order to treat Eureka, Holland risks his life in a suicide mission to retrieve a disciple of Bodala. When he is cornered by KLFs, Renton and the Nirvash destroy them; in the process, Renton realizes the cost of the war he is participating in. When he attempts to reconcile with Eureka, she becomes frightened by him, and this becomes a final rejection for Renton— he bails out of the Gekko-Go. CHARLES AND RAY Wandering arround the country, Renton met Charles and Ray Beams, a couple of LFO freelancer pilots, and ended up living with them for a while in their ship, the Hakucho-go. The three passed their days together happily just like a family, but what Renton didn't know is that they have unfinished business with Holland, and were hired in a mission to defeat Eureka and retrieve the Nirvash. After they discover his true identity, they tell him all the truth and assure him that they would accept any decision he makes, with no regrets. But Renton's mind in that moment was set only in one goal, to return to Eureka's side. With that in mind he leaves them. Things in Gekko State weren't any better. Eureka started to realize her true feelings for Renton, and was missing him to the point of even not being able to pilot the Nirvash. Everyone was blaming Holland for his treatment of Renton and even Holland's girlfriend, Talho, urged him to bring Renton back. Just after Holland left with his LFO in search of Renton, he discovered that the millitary was setting a blockade around the Gekko-Go, and immediately returns to plan their escape route. Upset that Holland broke his promise to bring Renton back, Eureka heads out alone on a ref board to search for him— Renton arriving at the Gekko-Go's position only moments later— finding instead a trap set by Charles and Ray. Just when she was trying to warn the Gekko-Go, the Hakucho-Go opened fire on her, and Charles scrambled his LFO. When Charles was about to capture Eureka, Renton arrives with the Nirvash to save her. Reunited, the pair used the power of the Amita Drive to defeat all of the enemies without killing a single soldier. But Charles and Ray didn't quit. They decided to change tactics and infiltrate by themselves on the Gekko-Go, but Holland thought ahead of them and prepared some countermeasures, like putting Eureka and Renton in confinement, with the excuse of punish them for disobedience, because he knew they were the Beams' main target. The fight against the intruders was fierce, but in the end Charles was killed by Holland, and Ray managed to escape with a violent diversion. Curiously, during the invasion, the Nirvash started to move by itself, as if it was reacting to Renton and Eureka's moment of danger. According to Jobs and Woz, its archetype (that is, the being housed inside the LFO) evolved by the influence of the Amita Drive and their combined efforts, thus demanding a upgrade in its hardware, a task only possible in an appropriate factory. Ray returned alone to the Hakucho-go and prepared a full-scale suicide attack against the Gekko-Go. Her intention was to take revenge on Holland, because he killed Charles, and on Eureka, because from her point of view, she was responsible for an accident in the past that made her unable to bear children, and stole Renton, whom she loved as a son, from her. Even without the help of Eureka, Renton or the Nirvash, the rest of the crew managed to defeat Ray, destroying her with her ship in the process, but Holland himself was severely injured, and without enough supplies to replenish his blood, they had to recource to a transfusion. The only compatible donor was Renton, but Talho was against it at first. For some reason, she didn't want Holland to receive blood from someone related to Diane, but in the end she was the one who asked Renton to save him. After the transfusion, Eureka told Renton that even though they became so close, she still didn't know much about him, and she wanted to hear more about his life, but when he asked her for the same thing, she hesitated. THE WAR BEGINS While Holland was unconscious, Talho decided that the group should set for the military research center in Tresor, where the Nirvash was created in order to repair it. On the way there, she also told Renton the truth about Gekko State and Eureka. According to her, Gekko State's true mission is to fullfill the wishes of Adrock Thurston in creating a future where humans and the "Coralians" (hidden beings that live in the planet) can coexist. In order to attain that, their one hope is Eureka, who is actually a humanoid coralian, discovered years ago by human scientists. Eureka, who was afraid of Renton's reaction to this revelation, became very relieved when he said that his feelings for her would not change just because of it. Fortunately, the researchers and engineers in Tresor agreed to help, as many of them are good friends of Holland and Eureka, and they have, as Renton put it, "Grandpa's smell" (meaning, because they were technologists, one look at the Nirvash would compel them to help). However, during the restoration procedure, the Nirvash was moving out of control as if it was rejecting the repair work. According to Eureka, the Nirvash did not want to return to its former state, a theory supported by Greg Egan (aka Doctor Bear), an archetype specialist and Mischa's former husband. According to Dr. Bear, the Nirvash's archetype now demands a new hardware that would allow it to transform into a high-performance jet. Just before the upgrades were concluded. The Ageha Squad (a group of well trained children assembled by Dewey), launched the first attack on the Coralians. Three missiles were launched from orbit, piercing the ground and provoking a reaction from Coralians that emerged to the surface and attacked a nearby city, killing most of its inhabitants. Shortly thereafter, the Coralians withdrew, leaving dead humans and Coralians alike. Despite their distance from the counterattack, both Eureka and Anemone were seriously affected, to the point of collapse. According the U.F. government, the recent wave of earthquakes that plagued the world were a message from the Coralians to humans demanding their departure, but the spaceship that brought mankind there is not operational enough for them to leave, and thus they declared war on the Coralians. Just when the Tresor scientists finished their work on the Nirvash, the Gekko-Go received a transmission from Axel Thurston, informing that the Nirvash's new ref board was completed. He also told them that he would lift it and let it flow in the trapar waves to a rendevous point where they could retreive it. Just when Axel was about to leave his workshop, the place was surrounded by U.F. soldiers who discovered its location, and with the help of a friend, he broke through the military's blockade and managed to launch the Nirvash's board almost according to his plan. Meanwhile, the Ageha Squad launched a second strike on the Coralians, and under Dewey's authority, ordered Anemone to observe them closely with theEND, despite Dominic's protests about her condition. Just before she scrambled, she heard that the Gekko-Go was in the vicinity to obtain the Nirvash's board, and, ignoring her orders, set out to do battle with the TypeZERO. Eureka and Renton scrambled with their LFO even without its board, and managed to retrieve it in midair. The Nirvash TypeZERO Spec2 was finally complete, and far overpowered by its new abilites, Anemone had no option but to withdraw. Even after theEND's defeat, neither Dewey nor the Ageha Squad seem worried about Gekko-State or the Nirvash, as their plan was already set in motion, and they are confident that nobody could stop it now. |
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