The famed Imperial pilot and duelist, General Prall Sabik, has agreed to battle a prototype new mech. Thus she and her lover, Major Cassara Nell, are pulled down into a dangerous, desperate game engineered by the capricious android known as Maximal Value.

Under the burning Utah sun, a walker pilot named Eve is captured handily by an ATGM team, with one Private Lily Jones serving as her warden on the way back to base. However, Jones quickly finds that there’s far more to this strange girl than she first thought….

Alex’s roommate Jake recently got a cybernetic brain implant and Alex has unlocked the codes to directly interfacing with Jake’s implant and to reprogram him.