Ten Old Earth years ago, The Mighty Draas, a highly evolved alien species that had first posed as friends to the humans, attacked humankind. Crushed by the machinations of the Draas emperor Raathmor and the brute force of the Draas armada he commanded, the humans lost the war. Left with no option but to flee, they went into hiding. The year is 9 Yugam and the Draas Empire now rules the human home system and its allied worlds. When Kae's father was killed in the slums of Kan-Siakh, Kae was thrown into a life of slavery under a sadistic master, a stinking Oreg by the name of Sashimi. With nothing much to live or hope for, all Kae cared about in the ten Old Earth years that he served the monster, was Prize, a beautiful Apsa. But when Kae stole a holo-projector from a group of Reptyds, something he had only thought to be a shiny trinket that he would use to bargain with his master, he suddenly finds himself entangled in a web of interstellar proportions that will fling him to the furthest corners of known space.