After a quiet boy named Kaname joins the class, Mio reaches out to him, hoping to help the odd boy settle into his new environment, but when he starts showing up at her house all the time, she begins to be frightened of some nameless wickedness.

"Six months from now, detailed schematics anonymously uploaded to the Internet will describe, in perfect detail, how to build a faster-than-light engine for $200 in easily-available parts. Space travel will become instantly--and chaotically--democratized. The entire cosmos will be within reach of all humankind - without organization, authority, or limitation. This comics anthology is about what happens next."-- cover page 4.

"Before Hisako Saski is even born, her parents make a deal on her behalf. In exchange for a first-class education and a boost out of poverty, Hisako will marry Adem Sadiq, a maintenance engineer and self-styled musician who works the trade lanes aboard his family's sub-light starship, the Hajj. Hisako is not happy when she finds out about the plan. She has little interest in the broken branch of physics the deal requires her to study, and is not keen...