Prologue - The Circumstances of the Summoning

0077. 9. 18 Unadministrated World 64.

Unadministrated World 64 is an abandoned planet... Its vitality has long been exhausted, abandoned wilderness stretches across the planet.

Countless ruins and abandoned fields dot it, the people who once lived there long ago left for places unknown. Even flora and fauna is exceedingly rare.

The cost to revitalize the depleted planet back to the point a settlement could be established exceeds the expected profit it would generate. And so it now sits empty, letting the nature run its course.

A few reasons it was not completely neglected was due to archaeological investigation of its ruins and keeping the planet free of criminals using it. And also because the TSAB armed forces liked using it as a training ground. Amongst the scholars who came to study out of curiosity, the ruins and the civilization that once resided there came to the conclusion that it was not a particularly dangerous location.

That may have been too premature a judgment (trans alt: that may have been careless of them).

After all, there must have been a reason why an entire people uprooted themselves completely to migrate elsewhere.

Fortunately, the incident revealed that the ‘reason’ was not as dangerous as it could have been.

At the time, it seemed the very incident itself would shake the entire TSAB but it ended far more peaceful than imagined.

Though in reality, the situation would not have gotten quite as serious if it had happened to anyone but the woman involved.

If she had not gone there as an instructor, then Mobile Six would not got involved with a Lost Logia case. Instead she ended up absent from the case and became the protagonist of another story (alt trans: ended up playing a leading role in another story).

If Takamachi Nanoha (age 20), the Ace of Aces had not mysteriously went missing in a dimensional anomaly.