Our compatriot Ilya Davydov unexpectedly found himself in another world, in the body of the deposed King Imran, who was nicknamed Bloody for his atrocities and sentenced to death. He is waiting for a scaffold and a guillotine knife, but at the last moment another was executed, and Ilya was sent to a hard labor planet. And now he has to deal with the new world, where star empires flourish, fight aliens from another galaxy, regain his freedom and restore the honest name of King Imran, defamed by the rebels.