Many do not believe in intelligent life in the Universe, but few doubt the universal operation of uniform physical laws. But it was precisely with intelligent life and zones where conventional physics gives way to magic that the earthling ship Archilus, sent to the closest star to us, Tau Ceti, encountered. It would seem that such incredible external conditions should give rise to in their inhabitants feelings and actions that are not similar to those familiar to us, but this is not so. Not distinguished by the features of Superman in earthly conditions, an ordinary specialist, Captain Jeremy Griffith, in deep space is capable of performing a feat, and the formidable and the unapproachable Merinda Neskat from the planet Brishan may well behave like an earthly person.