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{{quote| ''"I want to see the stars while looking forward, rather than having to look up."''}}
 
In 2167 AD, the shockwave of Hydrus Beta gone supernova reached Earth and brought about [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]]. Almost two centuries later, humanity managed to restore much of its civilization and although Earth remains severely underpopulated, the scientists discovered a new threat to the planet as well as means to counter it. A second shockwave, now carrying physical remains of the Hydrus star system rather than just radiation, is on its way to the Solar System. But humans have erected enormous space stations called Foundations to span gigantic energy shields over Earth and other inhabited planets to deflect the shockwave. This is the Great Mission, the ultimate achievement of mankind and the greatest hope for its survival.
 
In the year 2356, Shima Katase and her friends enroll at the space academy on Stellvia, the Foundation assigned to Earth. Eventually, despite being mere first-years, they become the ones to confront the second shockwave and defeat it. However, the Great Mission is just their first step on the rocky path to the distant stars...
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** Delicious irony results in the English dub, when those same messages--but with normal English grammar and usage--are recited by voice, at the same time as the Engrish displays on screen.
* [[Broken Ace]]: Ayaka. She's got to be ''the best'', but the kids in the next generation are even better than she is, and she doesn't take it well.
* [[Cameo]]: Shima appears as a girl in a Dating Sim in ''[[Bottle Fairy (Animeanime)|Bottle Fairy]]''.
* [[Can't Catch Up]]: The reason for a lot of Shima's [[Wangst]] is that she's not as good as Kouta.
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Pierre.
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* [[Do Well, But Not Perfect]]
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Akira, bordering the [[Tin Man|Tin Girl]] zone.
* [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]] Multiple times; it happened once 189 years ago, it's happening again with the Second Wave. {{spoiler|And it's happening one more time with the Cosmic Fracture.}}
* [[Exploding Closet]]: Shima cleans up before a study session by cramming all of her [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals|stuffed toys]] into the closet. Jojo notices one sticking out and opens the door.
* [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]]: Notably absent, so that a trip to another Foundation takes several months, which is a [[Stranger in Aa Familiar Land|plot point]].
** Implied to be possible, but at sufficiently astronomical energy costs that it wouldn't be possible with anything smaller than a Stellvia-class station.
* [[Foe Yay]]: Yayoi and Ayaka, during the scene {{spoiler|after Ayaka tries to kill Yayoi out of jealousy, when Yayoi forgives her}}. Afterwards, it's just [[Les Yay]].
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Shima gets more than her share of these.
* [[Heroic RROD]]
* [[Humanity Onon Trial]]: The aliens' actions make sense. Really.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: There are only two in the series, and their humanoid form is [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the representative role they were intended to play in eventual contact with non-human civilizations.
** It is ''not'' a giant robot, far from it. It's a spaceship... a spaceship in human form.
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* [[Les Yay]]: Shima and Rinna, to name the most obvious case.
** What about Shima and Arisa, then?
** And let's not forget Ayaka and Yayoi, which ''somehow'' manages to stay just [[Subtext|subtext]].
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Sort of, {{spoiler|the "cosmic fracture" that destroyed Hydrus Beta and caused both shockwaves}}.
* [[Mid-Season Upgrade]]: Shima receives a mecha of her own for Mission Genesis.
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