Star Gladiator - PlayStation

The top physicist for the Earth Federation, Dr. Edward Bilstein, uncovers the secret to humanity's "sixth sense": a technique for capturing the energy of the human mind. The plasma weapon is built, using mental power as its basis. Bilstein reaches fame and fortune for the invention, but is quickly exiled when it is revealed actual human bodies were used in his experiments. Bilstein is placed in a floating prison cell that orbits the planet Zeta, and development of the plasma weapon is suspended. Word of the Earth's possession of a super-weapon spreads throughout the heavens, reducing hostile confrontations. The name Edward Bilstein is completely forgotten. Until four years later...

A report from Zeta states that a Federation army base was attacked and immediately destroyed by a small group of rebels calling themselves the "Forth Empire". Several other similar reports come out of other nearby planets. The pattern of attacks lead back to Earth, so the Federation believes Bilstein is coming back for revenge.

A man as dangerous as Edward Bilstein can be stopped in only one way. He must be attacked before he reaches Earth. The Federation Army hastily organises people who can utilise the plasma weapons against their own creator and battle the "Fourth Empire". All Earth's hopes rest in the project codename "Star Gladiators".