Kim lives a peaceful life with her father as a farmer, until one day a runaway spaceship is detected moving at high speed towards his father's farm. To save him, Kim jumps aboard the ship and manages to land it safely before it crashes. Aboard the ship, he finds a badly injured lone survivor who, with his dying words, begs Kim to bring something to the galactic fleet. He transfer something from his arm to Kim's arm that made Kim a Lensman. Apart from giving Kim unknown powers, it also contains vital information for the Galactic Fleet's victory over the evil Boskone Empire. Kim must now use the Britannia spacecraft to bring the Lense to the Galactic Fleet. But it's no easy task when Lord Helmet of the Boskone Empire is ready to use everything in his power to stop him.