She could become the head of the campaign for the election of her brother, as her father, the prime minister, wanted. She could become a debutante without one thought in her head, as her mother wanted to see. Instead, after graduating from college, Chris Longnife enlisted in Cosmoflot. Becoming an officer, with a detachment of space infantrymen, she saves a little girl. She supplies food to hungry people on a rain-soaked planet. And then the skipper announced that he was going to start a war with the Earth.