Outlaw Star

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Synopsis

Gene Starwind had spent six of his twenty years stranded on the planet Sentinel III, having landed on this world after witnessing his father's death by space pirates. He and young computer genius Jim Hawking had established a small business on the planet doing various odd jobs, with Gene doing a little bounty hunting on the side and Jim backing him up. All during this time, Gene dreamed of returning to space, mostly to get revenge for his father's death. But a lot of things kept getting in the way – namely his fear of space travel, which he wouldn't admit, not even to Jim.

Then one day, Gene and Jim get a job from a young woman named Rachael Sweet, which involved work on the local farms. However, the technology she requested was for something more complicated - mostly biotech equipment. Regardless, the two of them take her on... but something in Gene's guts told him something was wrong with the whole thing.

It turned out Gene's guts were right!

For one thing, Rachael wasn't Rachael at all – she was really "Hot-Ice" Hilda, a spacefaring outlaw who was on the run from one of the Chinese pirate guilds, the 108 Suns, or more commonly referred to as the Kei Pirates. What had happened was that Hilda had stolen from the Kei Pirates two items: a beautiful bio-android named Melfina, who just happened to be the prime navigational unit to the real prize the Kei Pirates were after - the XGP-15A-2, an advanced grappler-type ship capable, with Melfina and Gilliam II, the ship's A.I., of even surviving the random ether streams that flare up in the deep of space... and has the technology that even Gene could use without getting sick to his stomach. But during the effort to secure the ship around the star Farfalas, Hilda ends up sacrificing her life in a battle with the Kei Pirates so that Gene and the others could escape with the ship.

In her honor, Gene named the XGP-15A-2 the "Outlaw Star". Gene and Jim hoped to use the ship for their various business ventures, but more things get in the way... the Kei Pirates in particular, who want to get back the ship and use it - and Melfina - to travel to a section of space known as the Galactic Leyline, the purpose why, they're not saying.

And more things happen to complicate Gene and Jim's lives... namely the arrival of a beautiful assassin named "Twilight" Suzuka, who tried to kill Gene's principal patron Fred Luo, and Aisha Clanclan, a wild and rowdy cat-girl of the war-like Ctarl-ctarl, whose people are also trying to find the Leyline for themselves. Finding his life getting more and more complicated by the day, Gene finally decides to take the Outlaw Star and company to the center of the whole mess of his life – the Galactic Leyline - and find out once and for all the dangers and secrets that it holds!

The Outlaw Star saga continues in the spinoff Angel Links.

(A WORD OF NOTE)

The cable telecast by Time Warner's Cartoon Network of "Outlaw Star" is noteworthy, because the 23rd episode of the series, "Hot Springs Planet Tenrei", was never aired, due to excessive frontal nudity, or fanservice. This episode IS found in the DVD release.

Character list

• Gene Starwind
• Jim Hawking
• Melfina
• Aisha Clanclan
• "Twilight" Suzuka
• Fred Luo
• Gilliam II
• "Hot Ice" Hilda
• Ron MacDougall
• Harry MacDougall
• Gwen Khan
• Swanzo
• Hazanko
• Valeria Vertone
• Duuz Delax Rex

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Related links

• Angel Links