Alexander Shulgin, and after him Andrei Novikov, hoped that the Duggurs, a collision with which in one of the alternatives almost cost Shulgin his life, would remain only an episode in their adventure-rich fate. However, the matter turns out to be much more serious, and the possibilities of new enemies are much more varied. There is a real threat of the Duggurs seizing the Earth of the Main Historical Sequence and ending its further existence. St. Andrew's Brotherhood begins the battle again in time and space. Now his field is South Africa at the end of the 19th century. And not by chance. After all, the Anglo-Boer War that flared up there and then, which our contemporaries know about at best from the novels of Conan Doyle and Boussenaard, has much more significance for the future than just an episode in British colonial policy...