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| “ | Too late dusters! Today, I make history. Me, Manéo Jung-Espi- | „ |
| — Manéo Jung-Espinoza | ||
Manéo "Néo" Jung-Espinoza was a hotshot slingshot racer from Ceres. In an effort to impress his girlfriend Evita, he adjusted his trajectory during his run to pass through the Ring, and in doing so, inadvertently activated it.
Biography[]
Throughout the series[]
In "Delta-V", Manéo, with his self-made racing ship, the Y Que, just set a new slingshot record on the Jupiter-6 Run , a slingshot race around 6 orbital bodies of Jupiter, and is now heading for Saturn. He sends out a message to his girlfriend Evita on Ceres, telling her that next he will beat another record there.
Months later, when he gets to Saturn and slingshots around it, he is annoyed that news about the Ring kick him out of the newsfeed headlines all the time. When he further receives a reply from Evita, telling him that since he is always away from her, she will break up with him, and that she is together with his brother right now, he falls in a deep depression.
To impress Evita and the entire slingshot-scene, he then decides to take a new course towards Uranus and the Ring beyond it, with the goal to be the first to fly through the Ring and therefore write history. Several months later he gets there, and ignoring the warnings from MCRN Hammurabi that he is flying in restricted space, he heads directly towards the center of the then-inactive Ring. But as he flies into the ring construction, the defences of the slow zone are triggered, as he had been traveling at interplanetary velocities, and he is subjected to massive deceleration forces in excess of 100 G and therefore liquefied almost instantly.
However, his ship, the Y Que, stayed intact and was drawn into a parking orbit around the Ring Station.
Media[]
Appearances[]
Notes[]
- The song Manéo is listening to at the beginning of the episode is a remake of the Deep Purple song "Highway Star" (1972), with new lyrics in belter language.[1] [2] [3]
- The 2nd song in the episode (I'm so alone) is a belter version of the song "All by Myself", originally by Eric Carmen (1975).[4]
Trivia[]
- The actor playing Manéo's brother, Adam Bogen, already portrayed the slingshotter Bizi Bitiko back in Season 1 episode "CQB".
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Belter lyrics:
Namang na gonya take my ship, mi gonya race it till I'm xush.
Namang na gonya beat my ship, ong gonya bek da fash da losh.
Translation:
Nobody gonna take my ship, I'm gonna race it till I'm happy.
Nobody gonna beat my ship, it's gonna break the speed of light. - ↑
Highway Star - original lyrics
- ↑
Deep Purple's "Highway Star" on Wikipedia
- ↑ "All By Myself" on Wikipedia
External links[]
Manéo's Flight (full) on YouTube