Unit 5: Precious Thing is the fifth chapter of the manga Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray R.
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Kenaf meets with a woman named Hannah, whose fiance Domio was killed while testing an experimental ZAFT weapon in a GINN. Hannah says that she didn't want Domio to join ZAFT, and she wishes to mourn his loss in peace. Kenaf offers to do anything he can to help. After leaving, Kenaf meets up with Elisa and she asks him what game he's playing. Kenaf explains he made sure that Domio's GINN would fall into Lowe's hands in the hopes of prompting Hannah into action. He wants to see how Lowe reacts to someone who isn't clearly an enemy. At a ZAFT dock, Lowe, Liam, and Kisato sign over Domio's GINN back into ZAFT's possession. Hannah appears and asks Lowe to destroy the GINN because it killed Domio. She doesn't want ZAFT to repair it and use it to kill more people and cause further heartbreak. Lowe tells her there's nothing he can do because the GINN belongs to ZAFT again. A ZAFT soldier tells Hannah not to interfere because they plan on retrieving the test data from the GINN's cockpit. He threatens to arrest her if she doesn't leave, and she tells him he'll regret his actions. Aboard the HOME, Kisato says she feels sorry for Hannah. Lowe notes that the cockpit hatch was melted shut and that it would take ZAFT a while to break it open and get the data. Nearby, Hannah sets off a bomb in the hangar bay, which was provided to her by Elisa. Against everyone's wishes, Lowe heads out in the Red Frame to retrieve the data. Although only two GINNs were destroyed in the initial blast, Hannah plans to destroy Domio's GINN with the remaining explosives. Lowe finds Domio's GINN and quickly breaks the cockpit open. He rips the hard drive out of the cockpit, and Hannah points a gun at him when he gets out. She threatens to shoot him if he doesn't drop the hard drive. When several fuel tanks catch on fire, ZAFT issues an evacuation alert. Hannah says that ZAFT will use that data to make more weapons, and Lowe thinks that's a possibility. However, he saved the hard drive because Domio died for a cause he believed in, and the data could prevent ZAFT from making the same mistake. He tells her that ultimately it's people who pull the trigger, and she should accept the salvation of the drive for Domio's sake. Hannah drops the gun as the area around them explodes. Lowe grabs her and safely returns to the HOME with Red Frame.
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