
Tiger beats them all and Captain Jang intervenes, discovering they are other space junk collectors. Her screams alert Tae-ho and Tiger who rush to save her, but they are ambushed by a group of masked people. She wanders away to find a snack, and while outside there is a debris impact that causes her to be blown into space as Tae-ho desperately witnesses it behind a airlock.Ī masked man follows Kot-Nim to the toilet in the factory. After one year of homelessness, Tae-ho becomes desperate and gambles, neglecting Su-ni. She rekindles his humanity and Tae-ho finds himself unable to hurt others - as a result, he is dismissed from the force, made homeless and reduced to a non-citizen. He notices a baby still alive in the arms of a dead woman and adopts the girl. On one of his voyages, Tae-ho shoots and boards a ship that carries several fleeing non-citizens and kills them all. As a child soldier, Tae-ho was Soldier 01 at the age of 17. Bubs puts makeup on Dorothy and tells her the story of Tae-ho. Captain Jang finds papers in Dorothy's backpack and goes through them. Tae-ho dismisses the idea and goes to set up another call with Kang Hyeon-u to rearrange the exchange.ĭorothy and Tae-ho find tomatoes on the plant that Dorothy had helped revive from a dead tree, and sell them. Tae-ho ignores her, thinking she is a robot, while Tiger becomes friendly with her and suggests keeping her.


When asked by Jang what her name really is, Dorothy says Kot-Nim is her Korean name. The trio make it back to the ship and Dorothy busies herself drawing and playing. As she watches Dorothy protect Tae-ho and Tiger, something clicks in Jang's mind. She also notices the man who came to collect Dorothy shouting after her and calling her Kot-Nim. Captain Jang is watching everything through a feed on the ship. Dorothy's eyes change color, and the trio are protected from the blast by a sort of force field around them. Tiger and Tae-ho locate Dorothy when Soldier 01 zeroes in on them and shoots her blaster. UTS soldiers are lain in wait and a massacre ensues. Tae-ho and Tiger carry Dorothy to a night club to collect the ransom, but she wanders off in the crowd. Tiger finds Dorothy drawing in his cabin and starts a conversation with her, as he finds himself drawn to her. They call back and, assuming the other party to be part of the Black Fox group, negotiate two million dollars for returning Dorothy. The crew also finds a smartphone in Dorothy's bag with several missed calls from someone named Kang Hyeon-u.

News reports say that she is a robot named Dorothy, and has a weapon of mass destruction inside her created by the terrorist group Black Fox. His sole life aim is to pay for the authorities' recovery team to locate her body tracker before she drifts out of orbit and gets lost in space forever.Īfter picking up a car floating in orbit, they discover a child in it. Tae-ho, once a child soldier, is on a search for his daughter (Su-ni) who was lost and ejected into space after a space debris collided with the station they were staying at. Her crew was killed and Sullivan survived, so she changed identities and had an eye transplant. Captain Jang was one of the child geniuses sponsored by UTS and created several hi-tech inventions for the company but, after discovering the company's true workings, became a pirate and tried to assassinate James Sullivan.
#Space sweepers skin
Bubs used to be a robot soldier but now helps repair the ship and cast the net for space junk while saving up to get a complete skin graft. Tiger Park handles the ship's machinery and was a drug baron on Earth.

Victory's crew has Kim Tae-ho, Tiger Park and Bubs (an android), all led by Captain Jang. The plot follows such a crew of space sweepers and their ship, the Victory. Many non-citizens from all across the globe work as space sweepers, collecting space debris floating in Earth's orbit and selling it to the company factory for survival. To regulate the population in orbit and keep an eye on the non-citizens, UTS governs them via a strict set of rules and taxes. The UTS Corporation builds a new orbiting home for humanity that mimics the natural processes on Earth however, only a chosen few are permitted to ascend and become UTS citizens, while those remaining on Earth breathe in [[air pollution|Apples. In the year 2092, Earth has become nearly uninhabitable.
