Cima becomes human the moment you understand she was already dead before the war ended. The show takes a woman you've watched commit atrocities and asks you to hold two truths at once: she did the unforgivable, and she was abandoned to rot for following orders nobody wanted to acknowledge. By the end, you're not forgiving her. You're just seeing the person underneath the uniform, and that changes everything.

Ahead of Episode 13, Cima reflects on where she came from, and her history plays out through flashbacks. Following orders, she and the soldiers under her command gassed a Side 5 colony with G-3 nerve agent. For that atrocity, people from their own nation shunned them. As the conflict drew to a close, her commanding officer denied her permission to fall back to Axis. With Mahal, the colony they called home, repurposed as a weapon, Cima and her troops found themselves cut off and without anywhere to go. A single-episode special, it is a mecha action drama tied to the Stardust Memory storyline.