When sniper SSGT Belinda Watt is found innocent of the death of General Bloodworthy, the Guardian Council, a fraternal organization of combat officers, swears revenge.

She is spirited off to an obscure, Jupiter-size rocky planet Magnus--by an intelligence officer secretly sent there to discover why their precious Lithium Oxycarbide production has fallen so drastically.

Once there, the two reluctantly join forces, only to discover the Guardian Council is there, too, diverting the precious metal in order to take over the planet--and the entire Galactic Federation!

Then the Magnus Guardian Council discovers she is there.