When the once united empire enters an era of change; when in a breakaway kingdom the army, laws and taxes are privately owned, and in the empire itself they still believe that there should be neither rich, prone to independence, nor poor, prone to rebellion in the country; when in the kingdom the lords look at life as a duel, and in the empire they believe that a free person is not a slave, not a serf, not a serf, and in general a person who does not depend in any way on a private person, but depends directly on the state; when the parties of the heir and the empress are locked in a fight for life and death, then the stranger from the stars, Clyde Vanveylen, may discover too late that he is not a player, but a piece on the board, and that under the words “law”, “freedom” and “ state" he understands something completely different from his partners in the Game of Hundred Fields.