Well, well, well... it seems pup-ups isn't the only thing this series' producer has been slacking off with lately. Recaps are missing! But I guess no-one missed them much... But now we're back! And with the last installment of a three-part bonanza of episodes, detailing the memorable flight of our comrades, first to Taku Joukai to change the world, and now to Oceania, to shake it. Will they succeed? That we don't know. But they sure as hell gonna do a lot of damage finding out!
So what was so memorable about this flight anyway? Well, in Taku Joukai, our Heroes got a little more then they expected: Anansi did indeed open the key, but he also freed the Gi from whatever chains he used to have. We hope the Gi still wants to take care of his precious citizens like he did before. Meanwhile, the great nation's economy is reeling from the shock, and ships are once more going in and out this huge market. But the Gi already closed off one moon. Are we having a rerun of Plant 17? Let's hope not. A TAI's mind is a very strange place to visit... and the Gi's, being a giant bureaucracy, maybe even stranger then most.
After their little detour in Gi-land, the gang moves on to Oceania. However, things are not as easy as they'd wish. When the guns of war start thundering in far-off Elysium, even Edessa shakes a little. Ships blow up, some say accidents, others know it's terror, and when our heroes wait, they learn the Illustrious Combine, the conglomerate of obscenely wealthy merchants and traders, wants to rally the troops to defend that bastion of free flow of cash, Owl Cross. Would the gathered ships of a hundred worlds be enough to stop the huge navies of the Theocracy and their new best friends, the Cerbrians?
In Edessa, Hill pays a visit to his friendly neighborhood arms dealer, and Powell just pays. Hey, Bill, psst, Rain is the one with the endless money, ok? But I guess Powell is the good guy here, cause he indeed pays all of Hill's bills. On the other hand, that buys weapons and bombs that kill innocent people, so maybe no one is really all that "good" here. Hill also shuts Yehuda ben-Sela out of buying any more weapons, which ruffles some feathers.
Past the Edessa gate and into Cilicia, our main troupe meet the might of Cerberus, or at least that part of it that is on this side of the Nexus. They wander why, but get no answers. Meeting them before they exit this exquisite small system is Fregatten Kapitän Molotov (who, they find out later, is actually the only son of Korpsführer Gregor Molotov, commander of the Sky Force). Molotov, finding one giant robot on Libby, decides to look away, winking at young Amberly that "not all officers in Cerberus are bought and paid for". Will our heroes decide to follow this lead? Probably not. Ah, well.
Molotov letting them through, the team is in Hispania, the richest system in the Rust Belt. They sit down to eat (Powell being the good guy and paying again), dishing out the plot to whomever is in the room. The girls, being Zoë, Gale, and Saif, have a nive chat, while the boys, being Powell, Hill, Zebulon and Rain (yes; no Anansi for you!) talk shop. With dinner over, they move on, only to get cockblocked (or is it robotblocked?) at the gate again. The nice folks over at the Hispania Port Authority won't let the robot leave the system, so they leave it in Powell's capable clutches, and move on. to Lima.
Lima! Glorious Lima! Wondrous Lima! Disastrous Lima! Here, in Piranis, the big boisterous space station right next to the Lima/Hispania Wormgate, they settle down to do some serious thinking. How to get past the gate? To do that, they get in bed (not literally; for that we have the girls) with the Prosperity Group, a nice bunch of miners (yes, miners again) who agree to smuggle their ships (the Veil and Libby) past the giant Condors and into Theocracy-occupied space. Because that's how nice they are. Some adventures later, meeting with some mysterious Parthians, baked smugglers, and menacing miners, they do the job and can move on. In the meantime, they also meet Ardemos and Arsinios, and lose Yehuda to some assassins. Finally, the elusive terrorist is caught.
We leave our brave heroes, resting aboard the "Moby Dick", a giant white ship that looks like a penis, preparing themselves to their greatest channel yet: breaking into Plant 17, finding out the Big Secret, rescuing Hill's family, and maybe, just maybe, staying alive.
Will Zeb ever reunite with his beloved Robot? How about Molotov?
Did someone remember to pick-up some more PostIts?
Will Arsinios and Rain ever become friends?
And did someone remember to tell Gale they're loading the Veil, or is Rain heading for another scolding?
All this, and oh so much, much more, on the next episode of... "Owl Crossings" the show that never ends with same of number of kick-ass people it started with!
Ja mon!
