King Kam IV died in 2045—no, the Na Kama'aina didn't off him ... I don't think—and the faction of the government that had backed him retained just enough influence to put the successor he'd designated on the throne: his son, Gordon Ho. At age twenty-five, our boy Gordon became King Kamehameha V, and still wears the funky yellow-feathered headdress of the Ali'i .