Description: "A thousand or so years from now, people have a very civilized way of settling conflict: each side picks representatives, give them spaceships and have them fly against each other. The team that loses the skirmish also gives up their side's claim. Very handy… unless you happen to have fighters not up to the task.
"Terra team has had it tough lately: Ness' "Red Snappers" team has had things their way. Even with technically superior ships, things are bleak for Terra… and to make matters worse, they only have three pilots. There has been a concerted effort to recruit girls (who are naturally the best pilots, anyway) from the past (specifically, the late 20th century) but despite the best efforts the team keeps losing. They need someone special. They need a pilot of extraordinary skill to crew the new model ship. They need… Yamamoto Yohko (whose reputation certainly proceeds her, and this may not be a good thing).
"All they have to do is convince her that a better life awaits her in the future, that she will have new friends, new videogames, and some powerful hypertechnology (some things will take less prodding than others). Yohko will (if she joins) fight alongside a strange assortment of women and against a even stranger quartet. All of them are out for blood and even the least capable member is surprisingly effective. At stake is, well, everything… every time they go out on a mission.