Interstellar: This Scrappy Little Squad Wins Again

After Jiang Qi enrolled at the Federation’s First Military Academy, she made a name for herself in one battle.

Not because she was especially strong.

While everyone else was busy taking exams, she was busy picking up trash in the testing grounds.

While others piloted advanced mechs, she piloted a wreck.

While others relied on overwhelming mental power, she used a wrench to dismantle the weakest parts of her opponents’ mechs one by one.

Later, by a twist of fate, she also assembled a problem squad that became famous across the entire school.

The striker could take on five opponents at once, but couldn’t find her way back to the dorms.

The genius mech engineer was a germaphobe who wanted to quit the team every single day.

The scout was socially anxious in real life, but online could argue with eight hundred people at once.

The medic smiled all day long, yet no one on the team dared leave her medical bills unpaid.

Everyone waited to see when these five problem students would break up.

But as they waited...

First place in the freshman tournament.

First place in the school tournament.

And first place in the military academy league.

Eventually, the entire star system arrived at one conclusion:

Never underestimate any piece of junk Jiang Qi picks up.

Because you never know what she’ll cobble together from it in the next match and use to send your whole team out of the arena.

A reporter asked, “Your squad always takes first place. What’s your secret?”

Jiang Qi thought for a long time.

“Maybe it’s because we’re broke.”

“?”

“Can’t be helped.”

“We can’t afford to lose.”

From then on, the whole star system knew:

This squad had the shabbiest gear, the smallest budget, and members who were each more unhinged than the last.

And somehow, they were so broke that all they had left was first place.