Welcome to the Bican Continents—the land of steam fleets, imperial claims, and sea raiding.
Here, on the archipelago between two superpowers, a small but bold and excellently armed pirate state has existed for one and a half centuries. Repelling any attempt at invasion, it keeps the entire intercontinental sea tense and prevents anyone from feeling safe.
After the death of his beloved wife, the captain of a merchant ship, Jack Siniyma, decides not to be tied to marriage anymore and devotes his life to raising his only daughter—Agniya. He brings her up the way he would raise his son and the heir of his business. Agniya is eighteen: she is sure that one day she will stand on the bridge of the “Orca” instead of her father, but her youth and trusting nature don’t let her see how cruel and treacherous the world around her is—and what wild future fate has already prepared.
Watch on the pages of “Lightning” as Agniya goes from an ordinary girl to a formidable leader of pirates.