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http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Shrine/4777/Seikai/seikai.html)
Hmmm... Classified as Science Fiction > Space Opera
A plot synopsis is detailed here (
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Shrine/4777/Seikai/syn_1.html)
If you like stuff like Star Wars and/or Lord of the Rings, you can give it a try. It's like star wars in the sense where space empires duke it out with each other etc etc., and like lord of the rings in the sense where the world is very detailed... down to the languages that they use. The author even invented a new language(Abh) for the purpose of the story and numerous guide books have been written on it(tho it's in jap, sorry. heh)
Tokyopop has just begin selling vol1 of the series, Crest of the Stars : Princess of the Empire, and that's what i've been reading... it was quite a blast. ;P