Fate works in mysterious ways, and for Fleet Marine Sub-Lieutenant Mikhail LaSalle, his fate was in the hands of an escape pod when the call came to abandon ship during battle. As a member of the Denoyelles family, he was bound by the legacy of his ancestors to a path he never imagined once he was finally free of the pod on an unknown planet, whose inhabitants were living in the dark ages. But what looked like an idyllic life, quickly turned into one of survival, and he intended to survive while bringing peace to this new world.