The Minerva follows the Girty Lue into the debris belt that surrounds Earth, and sends Shinn and his comrade Lunamaria Hawke in pursuit of the enemy mothership. However, Neo has tricked the ZAFT pilots into following a decoy.
PLANTs that lasted one and a half 
years finally came to an end
und den PLANTs, der anderthalb Jahre andauerte,
fand nach dem Kampf …
e as PLANTs se estendeu por um 
ano e meio até finalmente acabar,