Aki, full name Hino Tadaaki, grew up in a rural planet in the corner of our neighboring galaxy. The planet had been “colonized” by earthlings, and following the colonization, civil war erupted. Aki’s family could no longer support raising him, being forced to sell him into the alien slave trade before the age of 6. While enslaved, he was exposed to a myriad of experimentation, torture, and abuse.