The year is 2174. Two years after the events of Zone of the Enders, Dingo Egret is working as a miner on Callisto when he stumbles across a hidden Orbital Frame named Jehuty. BAHRAM forces arrive to seize it, and Dingo climbs in to fight them off. During the engagement, he faces a BAHRAM frame called Nephtis and seems to defeat it — only to be overpowered by Anubis, Jehuty's superior twin, piloted by BAHRAM's leader Colonel Ridley Hardiman, known as Nohman. Nohman asks Dingo to rejoin him. Dingo refuses; Nohman shoots him and leaves him to die in the wreckage.