Zero rushes to rescue a transportation ship under heavy attack of space pirates. He finds Death Shadow III there. But, he soon finds it is a fake and destroys it. On the planet nearby, Zero discovers numerous castoff skins of the humans who made their body mechanized! It is a mass grave. It is the reason why Harlock attacks the transportation ship. Zero learns that they do not want the public to know how they dispose the human bodies and throws his anger to the chairman of the Earth Union. The chairman explains the plan that the Earth Union got the permission of Zeth Water to give "Karyu" to Zero, pretending the Earth Union accepts Helmetear's experiment. Helmetear is on the special mission given by Zeth Water, the governor general of outer solar system. Zero goes down to the planet to give a promise that all the skins will be buried after his operation is over. He meets beautiful Maetel there. Maetel feels bright hope on Zero and tell him to go to a star where her friends constructing Technologia, a New World of harmony between the flesh & blood humans and the mechanized people. Maetel is afraid that it will be attacked by Helcastle soon, the gigantic space fortress sent by Zeth Water.

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