The finale of Toho and Konami's ChouSeiShin trilogy, Chou Sei Kantai Sazer X debuted in 2005. In the year 3000, an evil band of Space Pirates have conquered Earth and covered it in eternal darkness. To stop them, three ships, and their heroic pilots, must go back in time to thwart the initial invasion of the pirates. They recruit a modern man, Takuto Ando, to become the third man of their elite Sazer-X fighting team. Their mission: find the twelve Cosmo Capsules before the pirates do.