Ronin has joined the Empress's Galactic Army, which he believes to be his ticket away from the degenerate Upside society; his ticket toward a place in the galaxy where humans live as they were meant to live. While serving, he hears of a secret mission to a planet called K'Tara, the place he's been searching for. But will he be able to get Julia, the girl who saved him on Earth, away from the planet, so that she may accompany him? His inexperience may very well only make matters worse for him.