The three of them are radically different from regular marionettes in that they act on their own free will and seem to have their own full personalities. The main character of the story is Otaru Mamiya, a regular boy from the country of Japoness whose life is changed by finding Lime (and eventually Cherry and Bloodberry). Marionettes are also used as general-purpose robots, given tasks such as heavy-labor and combat duty. Yet, they are completely devoid of personality and sentient behavior, thus they are mostly regarded as objects and status symbols. To substitute for women, Terra II's inhabitants created marionettes, robots which physically resemble females and fill their role in society, mostly as companions for men. However their equipment was not able to produce female clones from male genetic material, which resulted in an all-male population (note that this is actually opposite of what is actually true - it would be much harder to come up with Y chromosome from females but closely possible to make females by just duplicating the X chromosome which men already have). Six nations are created, each ruled by six direct clones of the original colonists, while the nations themselves are populated by genetically modified clones. With no means to return or contact Earth, they decided to colonize the planet using clones of themselves. Six men escaped using an emergency pod and managed to land on the surface of the planet. 300 years before the beginning of the story, the human colony ship Mesopotamia suffered a major disaster which killed almost everyone on board. The series is set in Terra II, a planet far from Earth.
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