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- Century is divided into two regions: The hectic, progressive Konurba and the district, in which humans live as in the time before the First World War. Since the two areas are by a fence from each other separated, the inhabitants of the Konurba do not know those of the district in reverse and, yet a group distrusts to the other one. Rob edge universe, a boy from the Konurba, lives since the death of its nut/mother alone with its father. After this dies in an accident, Rob is sent into a national boarding school. Because of the there dominant brutal customs, Rob decides to run away from the boarding school. It decides to flee into the district since it experienced that its nut/mother grew up there. In the district it on Mike GIF Ford, the son land aristocrat, meets who explains itself ready to hide Rob in a cave. When Mikes discovers nut/mother the hidden boys, she offers to Rob after initial hesitating that he could live as a nephew from Nepal at the family. Fast Rob lives in the world of the land aristocracy and starting from September goes oneself the two boys together to school. There they become acquainted with Daniel Penfold, an older pupil, who is not content with the social order. While Mike begins to be interested in Penfolds ideas, Rob faces them very sceptically. During the Weihnachtsferien Mike and Rob spend some days with the Penfolds, where they learn Daniels older brother Roger to know. This was a soldier criticized likewise in the China war and the social order. Finally a rebellion breaks loose, in which also Mike and the Penfold brothers are involved. When the revolution is finally struck down, Mike flees. One it visits Rob at night and explains to it to go into the Konurba in order to begin the revolution from there out with konurbanischen allied one again. On the following day Rob is brought from a rider patrol to the governor. The latter opens to it, one knew from the outset that Rob originates from the Konurba. Now Rob is to become a guard so mentioned, a that, which is to guarantee the continuance of the society. It is to also announce it, if Mike contacts it. This is then submitted of a brain operation, which is to ensure that he does not have revolutionary thoughts more. At first Rob agrees, but in the end him the lyingness of this society becomes clear. Rob recognizes that also its father supported to return and decides this revolution to the Konurba in order it it to add.
- The series is based on the real-life adventures of Graf (Count) Felix von Luckner, who commanded the sailing commerce-raider Seeadler for the German Navy in 1916-17. Von Luckner captured and sank 15 Allied merchant ships in the Atlantic and South Pacific oceans between January and July 1917, with only one person being killed, accidentally. Seeadler eventually ran aground on an atoll in the Tahiti group of islands, but von Luckner wasn't ready to give up his war - he sailed to Fiji in an open boat hoping to capture another ship to resume raiding but was eventually arrested and imprisoned in a PoW camp in New Zealand - from which he escaped three months later, stealing another ship, though he was recaptured a few days later and spent the rest of the war in New Zealand.
