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Kasumi- The Tuned (調律種) refer to people like her and Inia. Her telomere were engineered to keep her young so as to maximise her powers, and thus looks roughly three years older from when she met Takeru. At that time she had an artificial personality formed from the memory data she read off Sumika's brain but communication with Takeru and 00 Sumika led her to losing that and getting her own. After the events of Alternative she worked towards unifying mankind and her efforts got recognised which resulted in her becoming the first commissioner of United Mankind. Yoshimune says that the instructions for her aged design were "like Ruri in the Nadesico movie".

Inia- Has the ability to see the future. Also engineered to stay young to begin with. Joined up with the Alternative 4 project after the events of TE and remained with Kasumi ever since.

Yuuko- Lost in a political struggle about the Eurasian hive management within the UN and was imprisoned after the Alternative 4 Project concluded. Several weeks later she was freed by a group supporting her and went underground, and became internationally wanted for treason against mankind. She was involved in multiple civil wars but ultimately secretly contributed to the peace meeting between the representatives of all types of humans. She was given treatment to stop aging when aiding non-Naturals (自然種) and so still looks around 30.

The types of humans are

-Naturals (自然種)- Regular humans

-Tuned (調律種)- ESPers

-Artificials (人造種)- 00 Units

-Synthesised (合成種)- "BETAbrids" (BETA hybrids?)

-etc. (suggesting that there might be more than these)

The image boards from pages 16-23 were given to the Alternative manga guy to help him illustrate the stuff Kasumi was talking about in her speech.

Operation Hope Diamond- Yoshimune refrains from discussing much because "lethal spoilers". The leaders of a certain faction carried out a large operation to stop the machinations of another faction. The image board has two types of space-capable 4th generation senjutsuki with new equipment.

Me101P Fenrir- A 4th gen developed in secret by a certain faction using all the information from a certain project which they obtained secretly from another faction. Can handle 1-0 G environments.

XF-2000a Typhon- A real 4th gen made by taking the tech gained from a certain senjutsuki using all the data from a certain project and using it on another certain base senjutsuki with the premise of use in 1-0 G environments. Later mass produced by the UN.

Both have new swords, space flight units, and high output particle cannons.

Moon War II- The old immigrant ships were modified to be used as projectiles in kinetic bombardments against the moon. Typhons were mass-produced by this point.

Operation Olympus- Dozens and hundreds of G-17b Hercules-class Space Bombardment Fortresses (the latest Susanoo model) bombarding Mars.

"Abandoned One's Revenge"- A group of those who were destroyed for their faith when they fulfilled their duty as insurance in the wake of a certain incident used the BETA in a plan to wipe out mankind for revenge.

"Heartless One's Strike Back"- Taking advantage of the results of a certain large event, a group wanting to regain lost standing uses the results of their secret research, a corps of BETA senjutsuki, to plunge humanity into chaos.

BETA senjutsuki: "Senjutsuki using BETA, or senjutsuki-type BETA? They use regular senjutsuki weapons though."

Elpis-class jump-capable space mothership- 8800m, mankind's largest battle-ready jump-capable starship. Basically a warping self-sustaining war-ready city-state. Capable of jumping on its own without a catapult, though catapults are necessary for fulfilling missions in deep space like in other galaxies within a realistic timespan. Has large-scale self-sustaining life support functions which means that even with its entire crew of several dozen thousands is awake it can still function as a generation ship.

Phase space transport catapult Fomalhaut- Labelled as a "Gate" in the last chapter of the comic to simplify things for readers. Actually a long range jump catapult using the results of research on element G. Does not require a gate on the other side. Though this sounds like it being a one-way trip, ships can construct modular catapults on the other side to come back. Catapults have authorisation processes and self-destruct mechanisms to prevent use by enemies.

Sirius-class jump-capable starship- 2880m. Has high capabilities in battle, exploration and life support, and a single ship is said to be equal to two companies (24) of Hercules-classes in terms of assault power. 24 of these ships escort the envoy fleet to the Siliconian home planet.

Jumps are not affected by any physical phonemena which means no time dilation and "no coming back to earth to find a message written on it with one character the wrong way" -Yoshimune

F-47 Ishkur: 8th generation senjutsuki, developed for use in the envoy fleet. 7th generation senjutsuki were defined by G Generators that could keep them running for ten years without refueling, particle cannons, and rutherford fields that could hold back a fort laser class laser fired at full power for 15 minutes. Development went stagnant for a time after the first 7th gen was introduced in 2031 but numerous civil wars had the various factions try for peace resulting in United Mankind forming in 2043, and the project to contact the Siliconians and development on the 8th gen began the year after. Three years later and the 8th gen was capable of 0-3 G environments, and had extreme long range particle cannons, fully self-sustaining life support, and movement by gravity control and short range warps making them capable of independent interstellar expansion. Yoshimune says that since these are for space use they'll probably be called something else since "surface" no longer applies, and also that they look like "MH-ish" (referring to FSS) and are in "the territory of super robots".