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In the distant future, humanity has been able to go beyond the Solar System thanks to the discovery of the new material orichalt (, Oriharuto). Humanity has created I-Machines (I, I mashin), enormous robots that can function in hostile conditions. They are always searching for Orichalt. I-Machines work by transferring the human pilot's consciousness into the robot's operating system through the use of Orichalt; in this way, the human becomes the machine. Maya Mikuri, an Alliance Academy student, is operating an I-Machine when she encounters mining pirates and becomes a crew member of their mining starship as a result of the incident. She and the rest of the crew soon learn that the government has been keeping a secret about Orichalt's deadly forces. Even worse, the crew may be the only ones who can stop these forces from obliterating human civilisation.