Jane Caraway is an ambitious young woman attending the Earther academy at the capital in North Castle, the planet she was brought to by her adopted parents after she was left not only a refugee on a strange planet, but an orphan too.

A bright mind and an enthusiastic inventor, Jane considers herself extremely fortunate to receive an invitation to the capital to attend school from the newly instated Earther Minister Gordon Moorhouse, but her studies are placed on hold when she is summoned to Minister Moorhouse's private apartment within the capital building.

All the things Jane could have imagined on her way there, she never suspected that she would be sent off world on the adventure of her life, or that she would find outside of the capital the rest of the Zion galaxy is not the Utopia she naively believed it was.