Total Eclipse provisional spoiler summary

Yui gets shot, she survives because of her SUPER CARBON WATCH (that is a limited item for the Type-74 sword project people) but decides to fake her death (so she can investigate who tried to kill her in secret?)

Yuuya is told she is dead and this is kind of a bummer to him, but he decides to honor her memory by using his test pilot expertise to make the Shiranui the MOST POWERFUL MECHA EVER. (because they jobbed to the Terminator which was inferior to the Berkut? And if they can't make something better than that, some Japanese America-hating retards will try and make a deal with the USSR to use Soviet TSFs instead of American, though later DIA guy says that would never have really flown)

Around this time he spends more time with Cryska, relationship points up. And Cryska's esper power starts to inexplicably weaken for some reason.

Yui comes back after a while. Yuuya reaction is like "oh you're alive? that's pretty cool I guess", he's giving more thought to how he's going to make THE MOST POWERFUL SHIRANUI EVER that can fight berkuts and raptors.

Around this time is when Yui has a talk with Heinemann about his history with her father and Yuuya's mom, because of the watch. Heinemann knew Yui's father (Tadamasa) and uncle and Yuuya's mom (Mira) through the Akebono Program, it is established that Yui's dad is also Yuuya's dad and he gave up his position to go be with Mira, but that Yuuya's mom up and vanished when she got pregnant because she could be used as leverage against Yui's dad (this was before Tadamasa returned to Japan). Though Tadamasa never knew she was pregnant and she never told him. Thus Yui and Yuuya are half-siblings. Heinemann knew who Yuuya's parents were, he personally requested Yuuya as XFJ test pilot because of this.

Also Heinemann was in love with Yuuya's mom and considers the machines he designs to be his and her children, and wants their children to populate the world, and is succeeding because many of the TSFs in the world now are descended from his designs. He was behind the leaking of the Tomcat designs to the Soviet Union which was part of this.

His excuse is that "I made all this shit in the first place you dicks, I can do what I like with it". He's kind of eccentric like that.

(btw and Yui and Yuuya's father, Tadamasa, he died at Yokohama hive. G bomb.)

Yui mopes a bit and talks to Stella about her feelings. She makes the nikujaga for Yuuya saying HERE'S THE NIKUJAGA RECIPE I GOT FROM MY FATHER IT IS EXACTLY LIKE THE RECIPE YOUR MOTHER USES IT USES PEPPER WHICH IS UNUSUAL FOR JAPANESE ISN'T THAT INTERESTING HUH NUDGE NUDGE HINT

HERE YUUYA THIS IS THE TAKAMURA FAMILY SWORD THAT IS TO BE PASSED TO THE ELDEST SON OF THE TAKAMURA FAMILY. I WANT YOU TO HAVE IT. HINT HINT.

He goes "oh that's cool I like pepper on my potatoes, thanks for the cool sword" and has no clue.

Anyway when Yuuya presents his plan for the POWERFUL SHIRANUI with more SPEEED and vanes Heinemann says "Ha ha we can do better than that, by using this ten year old American machine that I designed." and whips out the Shiranui Second Phase 3 that does what Yuuya wanted to do but better, by incorporating the design of the old YF-23 from ATSF. They weren't originally going to build where the Americans could see them from across the base, but they REALLY need to fight those Russkies.

And then after they build it obviously people notice, and the CIA doesn't take kindly to Heinemann handing state secrets to the Japanese, and chuck the entire XFJ team in gaol under investigation for espionage. When he's questioned about it his excuse is that it just LOOKS like a Black Widow but it isn't a Black Widow and you're stupid faggots for assuming that they're the same thing just because they look the same, it doesn't have active stealth or the refueling system (though it actually did). He submitted fake blueprints that looked perfectly innocent and unoffending and then just bullshitted them in the face. Apparently only Unit 1 (Yuuya's unit) has the top secret banned for export shit, Unit 2 (the blue one) doesn't.

Yuuya is let out of the lockup allegedly because he's loyal American F-22 test pilot and is cleared for that info anyway or something, the brigadier general who sent him to Alaska (a friend of Yuuya's FUCKING JAPS grandfather who as it turns out actually cares for Yuuya and asked the brigadier general to take care of him) pulled some strings to get him out. Meanwhile Cryska's power weakens so much that the Soviets decide she's useless, and decide to just kill her by not giving her her esper meds and see how long she lasts like that.

Yuuya gets wind of it from Inia, and the Defense Intelligence Agency (because Central Intelligence wasn't enough) come to him and offer him a deal, he will steal the Shiranui Second Phase Three, break into the Soviet base and kidnap the Scarlet Twins and facilitate their defection to Freedomland under cover of being a deserter, in exchange they can get the XFJ people out of incarceration and Yuuya can come home to Freedomland and get his shiny promotion (he wasn't actually sent to Alaska as a punishment, it was more like an internship and he would be promoted on his return, Leon volunteered for XFJ but was turned down), and he is hero who save poor girls from evil communists who experiment on humans. He is to avoid combat as much as possible, they'll just sort of half-assedly go after him under the pretext that he is a deserter. The Soviets will just wake up and find Kriska and Inia missing because the DIA hack their cameras and Inia helps him dodge guards.

However scientist dude changed the password on her cell so they had to have him to open it and knock him out, but he woke up and sounded the alarm while they were busy talking to Kriska because Yuuya is best spy. They get separated from Inia and attacked by Sandek in the Scarlet Twins' Terminator. Yuuya beats Sandek in the Su-37 who says "well have fun with Cryska's last few days of life because she didn't get her immersion tank treatments", she needs those every now and again to not die. Now that Yuuya has outright fought the Soviets the Americans and UN people really have to chase him for going rogue instead of what they were going to do earlier and sorta half-ass it.

They dick around Alaska waiting for a chance to go back and get Inia. Russians chase them, then Argos chases them, then Argos fights the Russians that chased them, but they fight a crazy killer Inia in a berkut with an esper pod who is sent to kill them.

Cryska removes her ESP limiter and contacts Inia, which resonates with the esper clone in the pod who gets Cryska's memories through the prafka link, who stops Inia. They extract Inia and Cryska shoots the pod esper with an apology for killing her other self.

And then Yui shows up to have a sword duel with Yuuya as the snow falls around them, she's using the other Shiranui Second Phase 3 because her Takemikaduti is still broke from the terrorist attack. They charge at each other with swords, fade to black and there's a sword in the ground, Yuuya is gone, and Yui talks about this is how the men of the Takamura family are like, huh, making his choice to be with the woman he loves. Be happy, Cryska.

(Incidentally thanks to Yuuya stealing the Shiranui Second Phase 3 Unit 1, the CIA can't pick it apart to prove that Heinemann was bullshitting them. CIA guy wants to take Unit 2 and pick that apart, but DIA guy tells him he'd just embarrass himself because obviously Heinemann wouldn't have put the offending stuff in there and left it for them to examine).

Then Cryska dies in Yuuya's arms of newtype cancer a few days later. Elements involved are
-her love for him could just be because of Inia's influence
-because Inia is a psycho who thinks the trauma Yuuya's shitty childhood is a real turn-on second only to Yui's past traumas
-but Yuuya says that doesn't matter what matters is she loves him, he loves her too
-she tells Inia her will or something?
-she does not regret loving Yuuya
-she wants the three of them to be able to live normally together in the next life

Instead of meeting up with the DIA like he was supposed to to hand Inia to them, Yuuya decides he wants to bury Cryska in the homeland that she loved (plus maybe the DIA guys might use Inia for experimentation or something) and runs off to Kamchatka.

So at Kamchatka he meets up with Latrova who is actually not dead, along with probably most of Zhar after they were attacked by what Yuuya assumes must have been the esper in the pod (Martika) because the Scarlet Twins were somewhere else at the time. She's currently underground in the care of bald russian officer base commander dude, he joins them because now the Russians, Americans and Japanese are all after him because he fucked them all over.

He buries Cryska and marks her grave with a rock, promises to move her to her real homeland (the Alternative 3 research facility) some day when they take back Europe. When Inia hums the snow maiden song at her grave Latrowa identifies the song and explains the fairy tale.

Then we get a timeskip to Operation Ouka. I suppose Yuuya was just counting trees or something during this time (speculah joke).

Yuuya and Latrova with Zhar were supposed to be heading to Japan for reasons unknown but Yuuya and Latrova decided to link up with the Soviet force in charge of the diversionary attack on Evensk Hive.

Squadron of esper pod-controlled Berkuts led by a white Berkut with a dude and a pod which totally rape Hive 26 because the lasers can't fucking hit them and wipe out all the lasers. And then a nine laser fort BETA appears that doesn't give a shit about friendly fire and starts vaporizing everything. The first fully charged shot alone vaporized a few hundred orbital divers flying at it at supersonic (twenty times the speed of sound) speed as well as a few dozen armoured space destroyers. The second shot took vaporized the entire second division of the Soviet pacific fleet and damaged or destroyed 40% of all the TSFs participating in the operation.

The esper squadron goes out of control because of Inia being around while the prafka is jacked to maximum, the dude gets chucked to the BETA to get eaten and the Berkuts just sorta chill around the battlefield not getting hit by the laser fort because prafka is like the Zero System and lets them see a little into the future somehow.

Laser Fort keeps raping everything and its vacuum-generating superlaser is making huge storm clouds jamming communications so they can't tell UN high command about the problem, though they can still receive. Somebody wonders if a G-bomb would work and someone else says it probably won't because it could probably overload G-bomb Rutherford fields with pure firepower causing the bombs to go off prematurely.

Bunch of Russians blow themselves up with S-11s to clear the way to the Laser Fort, some Zhar kids attack it and get vaporized. Latrova decides she has to S-11 the Laser Fort, calling Yuuya her son from a foreign land.

Yuuya starts yelling about how he wants to protect everything and shit while we have a montage of Argos and Yifei with their own countries in their own favorite TSFs fighting across the world, then snow maiden singing starts and Cryska's ghost appears because of the prafka, Yuuya, Inia, her memories and the esper clone pods doing some SCIENCE stuff to cause Zeta Gundam. Yui seems to hear the song (it's just a "!?" when the song starts)

The clone Berkuts all turn blue flames and become Funnels for the Shiranui Second. Latrowa and Natasha and Inia are clearly seeing the blue flame, Sandek who's chilling on a ship with the other espers and Soviet officers and scientists sees the whole thing from far away (ring of light makes it look like a total eclipse GET IT GET IIIIIIT) sees it and is all YEAH HE WAS THE BEST CATALYST AFTER ALL with his smug look.

The Laser Fort starts trying to snipe at A-01. Inia says Kriska is with them (he's not HEARING things, and the blue flames are the prafka, but the ghost itself miiiiiiight be him seeing things). Yuuya and Inia in Shiranui with ring of flaming Berkuts charge the Laser Fort.

The end.

Epilogue - 2002 - hundreds of thousands of people died but we humanity won so there.