Junk Guild member Lowe Guele departed for Mars, leaving both the "Out Frame" mobile suit and his partner, the artificial intelligence "8", in the care of journalist Jess Rabble. But when he returns to Earth, he's greeted with a new era of chaos. A breakaway faction of Patrick Zala's ZAFT have staged a terrorist attack. As fragments of Junius Seven rain down on Earth, Lowe jumps back into the action! Meanwhile, the D.S.S.D. seeks to develop peaceful uses for mobile suit technology. Things have gotten interesting on Earth while Lowe was gone!