In 2132 AD, fifteen-year-old Kassiana's life was royalty. Born on Nemal, the richest of the Paradise Planets, she had no idea how the people of Earth-the Gaians-suffered. But her idyllic and harmonious life was shattered when she was forcefully kidnapped and taken to live among them on a flooded Earth. There, the Gaians were divided by their assigned star scores, surviving on meager food rations, and under the constant threat of sonic beatings from the U.N.O.E. mediation officers. Singing in nea...