Up comes an enigmatic archer with extraordinary martial skills from a remote desert world. Song Chunshi, mentored by military academy instructor Carol Nofei, has neither the advanced tech nor the psychic powers prevalent in this interstellar age. But her mastery of ancient combat arts and uncanny survival instincts have merited an invitation to the exclusive Imperial Military Academy. But Chunshi has a secret: She's a time traveler from Earth, trying to find a way back home. Shrouded in the educational system of the Bauhinia Empire's most prestigious academy, she has to juggle both her studies and her true objective. With only a bow, an enigmatic internal energy system, and a cache of just unlocked starstones, she enters a realm of mechas, psychic powers, and interstellar politics. "Chronicles of a Deserted Planet Traveler" is a species of crop fantasy + space opera; one woman's long, hard journey from a desert hell world deeper into the heart of an interstellar empire in its decline. After all, this genre-defying tale is one about adaptation, survival and the search for power — not to conquer, but to return home.