While Erich was off fighting in the Centennial War Games, which the Alfheim Dominion held once every century. His wife, Erika, was on a mission of her own. Unlike Erich, who was dispatched by the State to represent their Empire within this major intergalactic undertaking. Erika was on a mission of her own making, one which she had previously failed to conclude in a satisfactory manner.
Erika was in the world of Erich's birth, which had been ravaged by the Naraku Hive Fleet during the war with Terminus. Since then, the world had been restored almost perfectly. If it weren't for the fact that the majority of the original inhabitants were now deceased, one might not even have been able to tell that a major war had taken place in this world, and so recently at that.