In the future, a teenage girl is on a ship with other child laborers. She has several cybernetic advances implanted in her brain that connect her to various computers and grant her increased intelligence. She had wanted to run away because her overbearing mother had found her cybernetic implants disturbing, and had tried to make her live a normal life. The girl pleads with her estranged father and his new partner to help her, and his new partner sends her a cyborg kitty. The girl learns from the kitty that she can sell herself into slavery to a shell corporation that her father had set up in her name. When she reaches adulthood, she will be able to own the company and access her trust fund. She sells herself to the corporation and is assigned to Jupiter. However, her mom strikes back by converting to a sect of Islam that allows her to break her daughter free of her corporate contract. A judge from this sect contacts the girl, who is furious. The girl thinks about how she can get around her mother. She almost gives up, but she remembers her father's creativity, and she comes up with a solution: She will build a settlement on Jupiter and make it her kingdom so that she can determine what laws apply to everyone in her domain. That way, she can nullify her mother's claim over her. The judge rules that her mother's claim is polluted with ulterior motives. The girl, now a queen, invites him to join her and serve as her conscience on the first spaceship mission out of Jupiter to explore the powerful, sentient beings she's detected there.