After his recent conquest of planet earth Ming, feeling heartsick that he was forced to kill earthman flash gordon in single combat, and exhausted from his new wife Dale Arden's constant demands for sex has decided to give up his life of galactic domination for a while and become a rogue merc combat pilot. He can now usually be found plying the spaceways in his hyper advanced one man fighter hunting down those people who up til now have escaped justice.