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