"Tell me what you did for Shinra." In the years after Meteorfall, Yuffie Kisaragi plays journalist and secures an interview with an elderly former employee of the company, who's willing to talk on one condition.
The Ctarl-Ctarl Empire: what other words conjure up so much political animosity and scorn among humankind? The vast realms of the children of Terra never came together with such purpose but to resist the belligerence of that interstellar realm, and will never again. What will the crew of the Outlaw Star do when the Empire calls back one of its long-absent daughters?
In AC 195, five Gundams come to Earth in Operation 'M', testing the strength, virtue and intelligence of officers and soldiers of the world's armed forces. After failing his first encounter, one ex-engineer has a chance at a better outcome, and takes it. An effort to reconcile 'Gundam Wing' with 'The Glory of Losers', from the perspective of those in OZ.
On a freighter orbiting Bothawui, a Twi'lek mercenary named Mariss confronts her Chiss boss about what exactly he has planned for their little merry outfit, and consider a future with and without the Jedi Order.
He's a bit of a jerk, but don't call him Ivan, and don't remind him that his purpose in life, as the final boss in the air combat arcade shooter 'Smolensk Strike', is to get downed by a airborne killing machine piloted by a unsuspecting quarter-jockey. A Bad-Anon meeting where an end-game boss finally gets something off his chest.
Before the Third World War, three doctors commissioned to create a bio-gynoid for Locus-Solus do too a good a job. An origin story for Niihama's Puma Sisters, Anna and Uni, the two most expensive, and most dangerous, bio-mechanical "love dolls" ever built. Ended with sequel, 'Knowing You Exist'. [Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex/Dominion Tank Police]
On Ryloth, a Chiss mercenary looks at recruiting a down-on-her-luck outlaw, and the two consider the strangeness of those circumstances, and the potential profit that could be made from them.