"Hey," said Zouichi to what looked like a large red robot leaning against the hangar wall. He was still lugging his motorcycle over one shoulder, but apparently decided that the floor of the hangar, while not technically road, was close enough to set the bike back down on the ground.

"I'm looking for a red spacecraft. It's probably 18.8 meters long, with white trim and a cannon mounted on its ventral side -- about the length of the plane itself. Have you seen anything like that?" Of course, there was always the possibility that they were storing it in some other form, but it had always been kept as a fighter on his last ship.