Astragius, September 7213: a strange man ambushes a military transport, knocks it out, and tells a helpless survivor "Tell Captain Dogman... I've come to see him from hell". He leaves a set of dogtags and disappears.

In spite of a civil war raging nearby in Kummen, the port city of Tabbing is a lively, boisterous place where merciless gladiator fights between ATs is a popular form of entertainment. Carradyne has come to the city after hearing rumors that Galvin Fox, one of the conspirators in the Planpandoll scandal, has been seen there.

While riding his vehicle across a wasteland, Mellowlink comes under fire and is obliged to take cover within the only prominent landmark nearby--a crashed spaceship, the nose of which has buried itself into the earth, leaving the remainder towering above the desert.

While travelling across an old, wreckage-strewn battlefield, Mellowlink's vehicle breaks down. As he builds a campfire he is pricked by a thorn from the Tree of Chekoku, which is supposed to cause "bad illusions".

The Doppa Military Prison is where convicts perform backbreaking labor in a near-depleted Jijirium mine. It lies on an island, and is virtually escape proof since only once a year do the tides drop low enough to expose the "Flower Road" which connects it to the mainland.

Acting on Major Boil's comment that he will "find the real evil" in Coza City, Mellowlink is flying the Major's helicopter there.

In the exciting mini-series finale, all bets are off.