Hoshino Yumemi

It is thirty years after the failure of the Space Colonization Program. Humanity is nearly extinct. A perpetual and deadly Rain falls on the Earth. Men known as "Junkers" plunder goods and artifacts from the ruins of civilization. One such Junker sneaks alone into the most dangerous of all ruins—a "Sarcophagus City." In the center of this dead city, he discovers a pre-War planetarium. And as he enters he is greeted by Hoshino Yumemi, a companion robot. While dodging detection from war machines in a ruined city, the protagonist enters a building with a dome on the roof to search for usable supplies. Once inside the dome, he meets Yumemi, who offers to show him a special commemorative projection especially reserved for the 2,500,000th customer, although he is in fact the 2,497,290th customer. Despite his aggravation with her, he agrees to attend her show. However, the projector device, "Miss Jena", has broken down and is in need of repair. After he repairs it,Yumemi starts the show, presenting a projection of the starry sky, something that cannot be seen from the surface because of the polluted skies. The power goes out in the midst of the show, but Yumemi proceeds through the rest of the event with no visuals at the request of the protagonist. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world. It is said that due to the depletion of natural resources, overpopulation, and the failure of the Space Exploration Project, humanity has virtually eradicated itself through biological and nuclear warfare, turning a once prosperous civilization into complete ruin, cast in darkness and poisoned by constant rain from nuclear fallout. One military invasion in the past was at Mare Nectaris. The bloodshed continues 30 years after the war in a dystopic world via automated war machines, which kill anyone trespassing into their territory. Of the remaining humans, there are those known as "junkers" who go around scavenging for anything in order to survive; the protagonist in the story is one. The main location where most of the story takes place is the fictional Flowercrest Department Store in a derelict city. It is based on the real Matsubishi Department Store of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka in Japan, although the planetarium on the rooftop is fictitious. The onset of the story takes place within the planetarium which is where the protagonist first meets Yumemi. The most prominent feature in the room when a show is not taking place is the large black planetarium projector called "Miss Jena", which is placed on a stage in front of the seats. The planetarium has electricity when the protagonist arrives, but only for a short time. Once a year, for 168 hours, electricity in the planetarium is operational, but the projector is broken. The rest of the floors in the department store are in ruins; mold and rats run rampant.

“You are our 2,500,000th customer.”

“What do you think about the planetarium? That beautiful twinkling of eternity that will never fade, no matter when…”

“They said that in the Heaven of Robots, everything that a robot wished for would come true.”

“That there not be…separate heavens… for robots…and humans.”

I will always want to work with humans. That's why ... to tell the truth... I have no need for heaven. But if ... it came to be ... that I was invited into heaven ... Please, sir, I beg of you. Don't split heaven in two. As I am a cheap model, I cannot shed tears ... But if I was equipped with that function ... I think I would be crying now. I will look after the Planetarium. I will make sure I am careful. Please enjoy your journey everybody. I am Yumemi Hoshino. Thank you for such a beautiful name. I will send out a maintenance call, but no one will receive. I cannot contact the support center at the moment. I have sent an emergency satellite call, but I cannot find a broadcasting satellite. I feel a little scared. We robots exist to make human beings happy. For it to have hit out like that means it was doing something it didn't want to do. I know a lot about that. Because I'm malfunctioning, too. Tonight there is a special secret we are going to share with you. The Planetarium is also a time machine. It can manipulate time to take you from the distant past to the undiscovered future. Please remember this, everybody. In the world of stars, one does not long for something unattainable, because even when life is mundane ... Please remember the stars that you have seen here. And some quotes from the Junk Hunter. I started to walk. Where are the stars? Where could I go to see the stars? In this broken world, that was the one thing on my mind. I've got the star charts in my mind. I could go on but I’ve prolly put more than enough.