The situation for Zeon is getting desperate after the Federation successfully launches Operation Cembalo - the assault on the space asteroid fortress Solomon. Upon arriving at A Baoa Qu, the Jotunheim is visited by Col. Herbert von Kuspen, an uptight high-rank commander from an elite battalion, who immediately tries to assume command of the ship but meets resistance from both Monique and Prochnow. He brings along a squad of Oggo mobile pods and their pilots he claims are the "Principality's elite soldiers" — who are actually young cadets forcefully mobilized from the homeland. To Monique's shock, the most enthusiastic of the recruits is actually her younger brother Erwin...