It's rumored that these three can only be found on the planet Tenrei, and each comes with a hefty price tag: using one depletes some of your life force, and using them in succession is potentially fatal. The three rarest (and most dangerous) are #4, #9, and #13. Caster shells, being of a bygone era, are rather hard to come by. There are 20 different types of Caster shells (or should I say spells) of varying effect and availability. Caster spells are especially effective against Tao magic (such as that used by the Kei Pirates) and are least effective against weapons of a similar era (Ron MacDougall, for example, also has a Caster). It's a gun that fires shells of crystallized Mana. Though capable of using many types of guns, his personal sidearm is a piece of archaic magic technology called the Caster. The ship also carries a battery of missiles and a breaching hatch.Įven on foot, Gene does not go into a fight unprepared.

The arms can either grapple directly or carry a weapon (such as an axe or a machine gun). The Outlaw Star is a grappler, meaning that its primary weapons systems are centered around two robotic arms. As captain of the Outlaw Star, he operates the combat systems. Unaccustomed to space travel, Gene has initial bouts of space sickness, but once he gets over it, he learns how to fly and to fight very quickly. When he later recognizes the MacDougall's ship as one of the ships involved in the raid, he eventually adds Ron and Harry to his hit list. He survived only because he had been thrown into the only available escape pod, and the memory of that tragedy sometimes haunts him (it also explains his hatred of Space Pirates). Five years before, he lost his father in a Space Pirate raid. Strangely, though, Gene also possesses a fear of space at the same time as a desire to reach it. Now, the Kei Pirates want Melfina and the Outlaw Star back, so Gene has become a marked man, racing through space on a course to destiny. In her memory, Gene renames the XGP the Outlaw Star and gives it its rebellious red look. Hilda goes down helping Gene escape in the XGP. Second, his run-in with Hilda leads him on a course toward his new ticket to space: a brand new space grappler! But it doesn't come without a price. First, he discovers the case Hilda's carrying contains a bio-android. Little did he know just what a life-changing event taking this job would mean. Then came 'Rachel Sweet' (really the infamous 'Hot Ice' Hilda), who requested Gene's services as a bodyguard. For the time being, though, he and his partner Jim eked out their living doing odd jobs for whoever needed their services.

From his home on Sentinel III, Gene Starwind always looked up into the night sky and dreamed of the day he could roam the stars.

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