A group of college kids inherit a warship and decide to fund their own war by selling the footage of it. The moral rot sets in immediately. Every decision costs lives, every broadcast deal is another compromise, every victory feels like another reason to keep going even when you know you shouldn't. This isn't a show about heroes saving a planet. It's about ordinary people discovering how easy it is to become the thing you were supposed to fight against.
A training cruise meant to cap off graduation takes a dark turn when the 73rd class of cadets from the Defense University of the small planet Kibi learn that the aggressive Kingdom has declared war, and their home government gives up without resisting. Stranded aboard the newly commissioned starship Amaterasu, the young trainees decide to fight a war of their own to free their homeworld. Lacking the money to keep the ship running and supplied, they strike a deal with a galactic news network, selling the rights to air their battles on an exclusive channel seen across the system. What begins as a way to fund the fight turns into entertainment. The cadets find themselves stars of a reality show that could get them killed, and they periodically turn to unusual tactics to push up their ratings. The line between combat and spectacle blurs with each passing episode.
