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1 | Book | Volume | Chapter | For novel | Scripted | Plot point |
2 | 1 | 1 | Prologue | Yes | Yes | Intro |
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4 | 1 | Yes | Yes | Attack on the diplomatic mission/civilian freighter | ||
5 | Yes | Yes | Valeca's family and Derak's speech, Eric leaves for an emergency meeting with the Council | |||
6 | Yes | Valeca goes out with Aeje, they meet a Fleet recruiter who tries to get them to join | ||||
7 | Yes | Yes | UEL president discussing fleet movements against FACET | |||
8 | Yes | FACET attack group converges on Ceres | ||||
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10 | 2 | Yes | Yes | Carrier incident | ||
11 | Yes | While Valeca's at work, President Derak announces the attack in the Belt and declares war on UEL | ||||
12 | Yes | Valeca meets the recruiter again, who tells her about how he served with Carriuss in the Belt, then tries to enlist as an engineer at a shipyard | ||||
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14 | 3 | Yes | Yes | Valeca and Aeje talking about Valeca's enlistment and drinking beer | ||
15 | Yes | Yes | Amira Bennett and her task force make their way towards Ceres | |||
16 | Yes | Yes | Valeca talking to her parents and boarding a ship to begin training | |||
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18 | 4 | Yes | Yes | Valeca begins training aboard the Zeal Unfettered, meets Olivia Young | ||
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20 | 2 | 5 | Yes | Jennar promises Eric that Valeca's task group won't be deployed to the front lines if he helps him raise support for the war | ||
21 | Yes | Introduce Nicola | ||||
22 | Yes | Valeca talks to Jaen again about counselling, ultimately declines | ||||
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24 | 6 | Partial | Yes | President Ayonagi and Admiral Akimbi discuss UEL preparations for the First Battle of Ceres | ||
25 | Yes | First Battle of Ceres; UEL forced to retreat | ||||
26 | Partial | Combat training | ||||
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28 | 7 | UEL survivors regroup in Mars orbit | ||||
29 | Maher Industries receives its first load of salvage from the battle, including frames and equipment from FACET Arks | |||||
30 | More training with Valeca | |||||
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32 | 8 | Graduation from Basic | ||||
33 | Yes | FACET fleet command assigns Valeca to the Neuro-Interface Feedback System test program | ||||
34 | Yes | NIFS briefing and training | ||||
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36 | 9 | Yes | UEL begins refitting some of its ground model ARK for space combat | |||
37 | Stalemate between FACET and UEL for several months | |||||
38 | Construction on various UEL prototypes begins, including the Sentinel on Mars | |||||
39 | Yes | Eric Florn makes another media appearance speaking in favor of the war and learns of Valeca's reassignment | ||||
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41 | 3 | 10 | Yes | Second Battle of Ceres | ||
42 | Yes | After several months of distinguishing himself in combat, Nicola is selected as CAG | ||||
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44 | 11 | Yes | Valeca begins having nightmares after the battle | |||
45 | Yes | Introduce Ambakisye by showing a briefing to President Derak about his growing presence in the media | ||||
46 | Yes | Herrick opens up to Valeca about his humor masking fear and insecurity | ||||
47 | Yes | Nicola and Amira Bennett talk about his past and piloting skills, and he is promoted to captain | ||||
48 | Yes | The Zeal Unfettered receives orders to proceed to Mars and capture the Sentinel | ||||
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50 | 12 | Yes | Flashbacks to Valeca's NIFS training | |||
51 | Yes | Admiral Moleschenkova returns to the UEL fleet after hiding out on Ceres, reports on FACET troop movements | ||||
52 | Yes | With the UEL's primary defensive line largely broken, FACET advances on the secondary defensive line with most of its Belt occupation force | ||||
53 | Yes | Battle of Kirkwood 2.08 | ||||
54 | Yes | Herrick is badly wounded and evacuated to the reserve fleet's medical facilities | ||||
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56 | 13 | Yes | Eric Florn has a conversation with Councillor Geoff Marquis about his support for the war | |||
57 | Yes | Nicola and the Terranova fall back to Mars after retreating from Kirkwood 2.08 | ||||
58 | Yes | UEL forces receive space model mobile suits | ||||
59 | Yes | Nicola is decorated as an ace pilot and given a promotion as commander of a new ARK strike force | ||||
60 | Yes | Olivia reassures Valeca that Herrick's injuries weren't her fault and that he'll likely recover, but Valeca continues to blame herself as a result of her scores from training | ||||
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62 | 4 | 14 | Partial | Ambakisye and his group lead a demonstration in Destiny against the war | ||
63 | Yes | The Zeal Unfettered crew is informed of Herrick's death | ||||
64 | Partial | Herrick's funeral | ||||
65 | Yes | Valeca talks to Jaen about Herrick's death, is promoted to strike group subcommander | ||||
66 | President Ayonagi meets with Admiral Strathmore about the coordination of Mars' defenses and urges Maher Engineering to hurry with testing of the Sentinel prototype | |||||
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68 | 15 | Partial | Derak, Jennar and others discuss plans for the invasion of Mars and the Sentinel capture operation | |||
69 | Valeca hears about the Scourge of Vesta and wonders when she'll have to fight him | |||||
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71 | 16 | Partial | Battle of Mars | |||
72 | Partial | Valeca is escorted to the Maher compound by marines in order to fly the Sentinel prototype back to the Zeal Unfettered | ||||
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74 | 17 | Valeca's convoy is attacked by Michelle (see Sonder) and her ARK team | ||||
75 | FACET invasion results in a cease-fire agreement to protect civilians | |||||
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77 | 2 | 5 | 18 | FACET occupation of Mars begins | ||
78 | President Ayonagi reacts to Governor Mangasaryan's apparent treason | |||||
79 | Nicola's strike force arrives too late for the battle in orbit, so he joins them with the retreating Mars fleet instead | |||||
80 | A UEL spy aboard the Zeal Unfettered gives away its location before a trial run of the Sentinel | |||||
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82 | 19 | Nicola and Michelle are assigned to capture or destroy the Sentinel while the rest of their force attacks the Zeal Unfettered | ||||
83 | Yes | Valeca is taunted by other pilots who believe falsely that her father pulled strings for her to pilot the Sentinel | ||||
84 | Valeca fights off the UEL scout party (with Michelle in her new protoype suit) but the Sentinel and the Zeal Unfettered are both damaged, the latter with casualties | |||||
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86 | 20 | Valeca disciplined by Jaen | ||||
87 | A UEL sneak attack on the Mars occupation fleet causes President Mangasaryan to denounce the League, while Derak and Jennar plan a secret strike against UEL lunar defenses | |||||
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89 | 21 | Admiral La Ganah begins to hunt for the UEL spy aboard the Zeal Unfettered | ||||
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91 | 6 | 22 | UEL commandeers corporate mass drivers on the Moon as artillery in preparation for the coming FACET advance | |||
92 | The Zeal Unfettered's task force is held in secret reserve for the attack on the Moon | |||||
93 | Traitor's identity is revealed as Akiko Hanji when she reports back to UEL intelligence about the secret fleet's location | |||||
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95 | 23 | FACET's first attempt at taking the station beyond the Moon at Sun-Earth L2 ends in disaster | ||||
96 | Valeca loses her left arm in combat | |||||
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98 | 24 | Eric Florn's support for the war begins to waver as it becomes more bloody and protracted, making his first public speech against it | ||||
99 | Aeje Miyaka enlists in the FCF | |||||
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