The San Magnolia Republic has long been under attack by unmanned weapons
from the neighboring Empire. Against this onslaught, the Republic has also
deployed similar weapons, narrowly avoiding great loss of life and impending
disaster-or at least that's how it seemed.
The truth is that it has never
been possible to have no casualties. Young men and women drawn from the
Republic's supposedly non-existent 86th district are organized into the "86
unit" and then ordered to pilot the "unmanned weapons" before heading to
battle