The civilization of intelligent upright lizards has passed several tens of thousands of years along the technological path of development and achieved significant success. Despite the very high level of aggressiveness of its nature, after thousands of years of internal wars between clans, a single monarchy with shades of military dictatorship was established throughout the planet. The main clans compete with each other to place a representative of their own clan on the throne. The planet has enough energy and food for several billion inhabitants. The planet is highly urbanized...Nature is completely oppressed. Technical development exceeds its state on present Earth by an order of magnitude. Civilization has long gone into space and colonized neighboring solar systems. The science of the empire comprehended many of the secrets of the Universe and learned to move quickly in space over considerable distances. In the service of the empire there are a large number of star battleships, cruisers, monitors, large transport ships and hundreds of thousands...