Ages ago, a man held the cosmos in a grip of fear. An assassin trained by the Galactic Special forces, who's signature for-hire trail of red spread throughout several star systems. He was double crossed on a mission and detained for his crimes. He was sentenced to 16 life terms on the prison planet Archea, in a lightless pit sunk very far into the alien surface. Underground, the prison kept in in a ethereal stasis chamber attached to a series grafted cybernetic implants which slowly drained the last bit of his humanity. As times passed, the outside world slipped into greater peril. The prison planet went bankrupt under the "Great Fall of 2548" and the killer was forgotten, never to be seen again... That is, until his trademark slayings started surfacing across a string of planets. Rumors spread of the old prisoner returning to strike again; made possible by Count Draco Knuckleduster's retrieval of "The Cryptocrystalline Stone", which gave him his freedom. Phantom Starkiller: The Cosmic Ghoul Warrior, must now carry out his dark master's wishes and lead his deathless army...