Yukikaze

Jaded by his inhumane reconnaissance missions, Rei Fukai only trusts his plane, Yukikaze; an unknown aircraft attacks Rei.

Rei lies comatose, wounded in combat, while Bukhar continues to conduct tests on FRX-00.

Something happens aboard Banshee IV, a mammoth flying aircraft carrier circling plane Fairy at a broad orbit, and its proximal combat system suddenly goes berserk, shooting down a friendly aircraft as it tries to land. But what is the cause?

Mave has been outfitted with the new Super Phoenix Mk XI engine, and Rei and Bukhar are ordered backed to Earth to conduct a combustion test in its atmosphere. Mave leaves planet Fairy and plunges into the hyperspace Passageway heading for Antarctic.

FAF's Brigadier General Cooley, Major Bukhar, Command-in-Chief Laitume and the System Corp's chief commission Linneberg sit on the grass by the taxiway, speaking over tea. Their tense discussion is interrupted, however, with word that Colonel.