The Imperial Star lost a young general, while on a distant small energy planet, an unremarkable boy slowly opened his eyes. Lang Dong awakened once more, only to discover he had transformed from a Sentinel into a fragile little Guide. Strange blue fragments within his body kept acting up, and their connection to the insectoid aliens grew increasingly mysterious... His ordinary life began to shift with the appearance of his pirate lord grandfather, Barossa. The great Redbeard Pirate King declared: "A Guide as badass as my grandson must be matched with the strongest Sentinel!" Meanwhile, on the distant Imperial Star, the man hailed as the empire’s most powerful Sentinel had already set out in search of his long-lost closest friend...