From manga icon Makoto Yukimura, the creator ofVinland Saga!
Its 2078, and eighteen astronauts represent all humanity on its first voyage to Jupiter. And their humanity is more precious than the treasure they seek.
Hachimaki is determined to break free of Earths gravity well by joining the crew of the fusion-poweredVon Braunon its epic first crewed journey to Jupiter. If the giant planet can be successfully reached and harvested for the helium-3 fuel in its atmosphere, the entire solar system will open up to humanity.
But it isnt only worlds whose paths are made by unseen orbits through time and spaceits people, and Hachimaki must confront the tension of tightening his human bonds to Earth through marriage, even as he seeks the far frontierjust as his old captain, Fee Carmichael, must seek that invisible balance of forces with the past, present, and future generations of her own earthbound family. And if Fee and crewmates Yuri and Tanabe aboard the space junk removal shipToy Boxcant stop the long-feared Kessler Syndrome as a war in space threatens to spin out of control and fill orbit with an inescapable cloud of debris, humanity may never journey beyond Earth again!Planetesis an epic saga of family, friendship, and passion in a future not far away!
Planetesis the ancient Greek word for wanderersdescribing both the planets themselves, and the restless protagonists who dream of reaching those distant worlds against an epic backdrop of family, romance, politics, ambition, and war in creator Makoto Yukimuras saga of the human drama of space exploration!
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