What can a person do for the sake of huge money? Yes, anything if a check for a billion credits is at stake! Alexey Pankratov didn’t think twice about agreeing to the proposal of the developers of Galaktion, a computer game with complete immersion in virtual reality. Still would! Your own spaceship, a team of experienced players, tempting conditions for participation and a billion dollar prize at the end! But why is the first person of the state and the richest man on the planet interested in the project? What use are they to ordinary players? The answers lie somewhere out there, in the interstellar abyss of Galaktion...