~ HE BEHEADS HIS BEST FRIEND ~ HE BETRAYS HIS OWN KINDRED ~ ONLY HIS PREY CAPTURES HIS HEART Velleius is your typical archetype villain-a renegade warlord and ex-Exeter commander. He is one of the many system lords of the Astrid Empire, from the eighth dimension world of Ascended Entities who are bent on conquest and dominance. Exiled for secretly sheltering a rival prey species-the Aphids, he is hunted down and escapes to the third dimension Earth with his abducted pet slave- the last surviving Aphid-Sothis. Now that he has the beautiful, rare and exotic Sothis back in his grasp, Velleius begins to train it in readiness for battle with the elite Exeter Overlords of Time and to confront the merciless, young warrior queen-Queen Elariia the Cruel. The Queen sent her mercenary assassins after the pair, and Velleius narrowly escapes only to be intercepted by an entire Astrid armada on their way to conquer Earth, where humans are now the new prey-the Vocaloids.Hoping to find a safe haven for his injured pet, Velleius takes Sothis to his native world of Enigma Procyon, a mighty Wolf Rayet blue variable star system in order to heal. There, Velleius plots his tri-fold revenge on his kind, using the Aphid as his Aegis shield and the Aphid's own Vocaloid human lover-Kasuka Imai as bait and the rest of humanity as the ultimate collateral.