The Emperor of the Hallsworth Empire had been assonated. A cousin seized the throne putting to death all of the legitimate heirs to the throne. An Imperial Guard, who had sworn to protect Imperial family, found out about the purge of surviving Empress and her child. Unable to save the Empress he smuggled the child out of the Hallsworth Empire to the Federation. There he met Gérard Lécuyer and turned over the child for him to raise. After fifteen years the Emperor found out about this betrayal. He placed a bounty on the heads of the Imperial Guards and the child. Hunted by assassins and fearing that he would put his family in danger Gérard Lécuyer sends the grown woman to seek aid with some of his friends as he goes to lead the assassins away from her and his family.