"Miyako Sogabe is the protagonist of Stardust. She was an undercover operative for a military reconnaisance unit, who failed in her mission to protect her lover and informant, then discharged after failing a psyche-eval, but was hired as a bodyguard for a strange and shy corporate executive, Brecht Vanderberg, to protect him from a conspiracy that threatens to change the very nature of life itself...and involves her sister, Keiko, a scientist."