Price : | |
Weight : | 150 g |
Director : | Kunihiro Mori , |
Year : | 2004 |
Genre : | Boy Series Animation , |
Subtitle : | Chinese , English , |
Language : | Japanese , |
Video Format : | NTSC , |
Audio Format : | AUDIO STEREO , |
Discs : | 1 |
Region Code : | ALL , |
Model : | DVD9 , |
In a future where Mars is covered in one massive ocean, except for the peak of Olympus Mons, with humans living in drifting city-ships. The Martian economy is based mostly on the readily available resource, water, the planet's main export . The cease fire of the Pan-Galactic war however, has reduced the demand for the export of water, driving Martian economy into recession.
The ocean-covered environment makes a perfect setting for commercial trade ships and pirates using submarines, who regularly raid the city-ships for supplies. The most renowned and feared of the pirate vessels is the Ship of Aurora, which makes a habit of reselling its booty cheap so that it can be redistributed to the less fortunate folk. Such a problem do the pirates pose that the Earth government, which controls Mars, dispatches elite units to deal with the threat of piracy. Using specialized underwater mecha called Round Bucklers, allows them to seek and engage their talented and very elusive prey. Iornilcy (sicsic), one of the elite Round Buckler divers of the Earth Forces is an old friend of Gram's. Thus the setting for in which the main protagonist, Gram, to team up with the crew of The Ship of Aurora is set.
Soon after being fired from his most recent place of work, Gram is offered a job helping a smuggler steal goods from the military warehouses. He refuses, and instead finds himself going to the warehouse district to help a friend. During their escape, the Ship of Aurora attacks the city ship Adena. While in the process of saving his friend, Gram falls into the ocean. Gram is saved by a Round Buckler that appears which seems to come for the pendant he wears. Gram would soon find that this pendant is a Mars Aborigines artifact called the "Mark of the Chiefs". With a link to this mysterious Round Buckler, Gram is led into an association with the crew of the Ship of Aurora.