King Bulgher ruled Botica with a cautious eye, balancing his duties as sovereign with a father’s protectiveness toward Prince Kelby. He often restricted the prince’s ventures beyond the palace, wary of unseen dangers in a kingdom simmering with political unrest. When the sorcerer Locke’s forces assaulted Botica with colossal mechanized beasts, Bulgher was seized and executed, his death fracturing the realm’s stability and plunging Kelby into grief. Unbeknownst to most, the king had secretly orchestrated S.A.M., a royal companion droid masquerading as a benign friend but engineered as a magitek Cannon Buster—a guardian armed with lethal defenses to shield Kelby from harm. Locke’s invasion, which mysteriously circumvented Botica’s fortified tech-shields, left the kingdom occupied and severed S.A.M. from the prince. Speculation lingered that arcane forces aided the breach, though the truth faded with Bulgher’s fall.