On a clear summer morning, residents of the European part of Russia saw the frighteningly huge silhouette of a star cruiser in the sky, and by the evening the whole country listened with bated breath to the president's address on the occasion of contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. After the first negotiations, humanity had a unique opportunity to touch technology , ahead of the development of our civilization by an order of magnitude. But the new partners do not give anything for nothing - and now transports with mercenaries rise from the surface of the planet to work and serve in the Septicolian Empire, weakened by numerous conflicts. On one of the ships, yesterday's student Andrei Stenin, who signed a contract with a trading corporation, leaves the planet. Stan - as the entry in his identifier now reads.