Garrod Ran, an orphaned teenager scraping by fifteen years after a war that dropped colonies onto the Earth, takes a rescue job and ends up tangled with the Freeden, a mercenary vessel captained by Jamil Neate. The girl he was sent to retrieve, Tiffa Adill, is a Newtype who can see what is coming, and it is Tiffa who uncovers the Gundam X for him. This manga runs the Gundam X story across three volumes.