Year of the Tsar 2673 AD, and bastard son of the Romanovs NIKOLAI DANTE has bonded with a cyborganic Weapons Crest, an alien combat computer, which gives him accelerated healing and allows him to extrude lethal bio-blades. Following the civil war, Tsar Vladimir the Conqueror has made Dante his troubleshooter, and now he has returned to the fiefdom of Rudinshtein, where lawlessness is rife...