(W/A/CA) Masao Ohtake Hitomi is in the first grade of middle school, where she's in charge of taking care of Hina, her hapless classmate. Her kindhearted nature prevents her from turning down any request for help, and she seems to have a knack for everything she tries. The two traits are a catastrophic combination that lead to Hitomi working downtown as a bartender after school, where her drive toward perfection and skill with customers rockets her to notoriety as a bartending prodigy. When Hitomi's mother finds out about her daughter's nighttime gig, things blow up at home and Hitomi decides to run away.

(W/A/CA) Francois Vigneault When MNGR First Class Jo?o da Silva arrives on the moon of Titan to take charge of Homestead Station, he finds the massive mining colony plagued by tensions between the giant, genetically-engineered Titan workers and the Terran management. As anger mounts, what began as a routine posting quickly turns into something far more dangerous. Phoebe Mackintosh thought she left her fighting days behind her when she turned her back on the 'mixing' circuit. Now, she finds herself caught between a past she'd rather forget and a future she can't predict. Together, they must find a way to pull Homestead back from the brink of disaster... Or Titan might be the spark that sets the entire solar system ablaze.