Story
In the year 2348, humans have been exploring space for the past four centuries, and have established contact with various alien civilizations. People now emigrate from one planet to another, and life is generally good. However, some problems arise with a couple of alien races, so the Earth Federation begins its research in creating a Plasma weapon to help protect the Earth from any possible outside threats. Dr. Edward Bilstein: a Nobel Prize-winning physicist for the Earth Federation, uncovers the secret to humanity's "sixth sense": a technique for capturing the energy of the human mind and discovers how to use it as an energy source he calls "Plasma Power". The specific Plasma weapon is built, using mental power as its basis and that Bilstein is able to gain fame and fortune for the invention, but it is soon discovered by the Earth Federation that Bilstein had experimented on innocent people during his research on Plasma Power and that he's immediately arrested and exiled from Earth, being imprisoned in a satellite orbiting Planet Zeta. Word of Earth's possession of a super weapon immediately spreads throughout the galaxies and that it instantly reduces hostile confrontations while the name Dr. Edward Bilstein is completely forgotten from within the minds of everyone. However...four years later, a report from Zeta states that an Earth Federation army base from upon the planet was attacked and destroyed by a small group of rebels calling themselves the "Fourth Empire" and that Bilstein, who had built himself a powerful cyborg body and managed to escape from the satellite prison on Zeta, is the one who's leading this group of dangerous individuals. With similar reports coming from nearby planets and realizing that the specific pattern of attacks is leading right back to Earth, a panicked Earth Federation has only one recourse: to find people who could utilize Plasma Power in their own accord and attempt to stop Bilstein in a last, desperate effort before the mad genius can invade and conquer Earth and the rest of the universe with his nascent Fourth Empire. All of Earth's hopes rest in the project codenamed "Star Gladiator".
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