

During the battle, Cale realizes that he may be able to recharge the Titan by converting its systems to use the Drej's bodies of pure energy, but a circuit breaker stalls before he can complete the process. Korso kills Preed by snapping his neck, and Korso seemingly falls to his death in a fight with Cale.Īs the Drej attack the Titan, Cale and Akima fight them off with the help of Stith and Gune. After Korso and Preed arrive, Preed reveals that he has betrayed Korso and made his own deal with the Drej. They discover a pre-recorded holographic message left by Cale's father explaining that the ship's power cells were drained in the escape from Earth, and lack the energy necessary to create a planet. Determined to beat Korso to the Titan, they fix up the dilapidated spaceship Phoenix.Ĭale and Akima navigate the ice rings of Tigrin and dock with the Titan before the Valkyrie arrives. Cale and Akima manage to escape the Valkyrie, but are left stranded on New Bangkok when Korso and the remaining crew leave for the Titan. While resupplying at human space station New Bangkok, Cale and Akima discover that Korso and Preed are planning to sell the Titan 's location to the Drej. The map changes to reveal the Titan 's hiding place within the Andali Nebula: the ice rings of Tigrin, a labyrinthine asteroid field. Akima is rescued by the crew after being jettisoned by the Drej Queen, while Cale escapes the Drej mothership in a stolen fighter and makes his way back to the Valkyrie. On Sesharrim, Drej fighters abduct Cale and Akima and copy the map. Accepting Korso's offer, Cale befriends Korso's pilot Akima Kunimoto and his three alien crew members: first mate Preed, weapons officer Stith, and scientist Gune.Īfter Cale and Korso escape Tau 14 with the Drej in pursuit, Cale's map leads the crew of the Valkyrie to the planet Sesharrim, where the alien Gaoul help them interpret the map, revealing that the Titan is hidden in the Andali Nebula. Korso invites Cale to join the crew of his spaceship Valkyrie as they seek the Titan. The Titan, which was designed to create planets, could ensure humanity's survival by allowing the human race to create a new home planet to replace Earth. Ex-military officer Joseph Korso, a former friend and confidant of Cale's father, tracks Cale down and reveals that the location of the Titan is encoded in his ring, allowing him to find the long-missing ship by following a holographic map in the palm of his hand.


Before he leaves, he gives Cale a gold ring, promising him that there will be hope for humanity as long as he wears it.įifteen years later, with humanity on the verge of extinction following the destruction of their planet, a jaded and cynical Cale works in the salvage yard of space station Tau 14. During the evacuation of Earth, Professor Sam Tucker-head researcher on the Titan Project-leaves his young son Cale in the care of his alien friend Tek as he flees Earth in the spaceship Titan.

Determined to wipe out humanity, the Drej destroy Earth in a massive attack, forcing the surviving humans to evacuate and flee into space. In the year 3028, a groundbreaking scientific project known as "The Titan Project" incurs the wrath of the Drej, a hostile race of aliens with bodies of pure energy, who fear that it will allow humans to challenge them.
