Two hundred years after the events chronicled in Deathstalker Destiny, it is a Golden Age for the Human Empire. The Empire is at peace with all the worlds in its domain, embracing clones, espers, aliens and former bitter enemies. Lewis Deathstalker is a descendant of the legendary Owen and foremost among the Paragons, an elite force of noble warriors in service to a benevolent constitutional monarchy. But when the newly crowned king appoints Lewis as his official Champion, the seed of ruin is sown in the ranks of the Paragons. A jealous and powerful enemy plots to bring down the Empire from within, just as a vast unstoppable evil foretold of in Owen's time descends upon humanity from the vastness of uncharted space.