In the midst of the Galactic War, on the orders of Admiral Vorontsov, twenty thousand androids who faithfully served people had their personalities erased, and they turned into mindless robot soldiers. The war ended, and the surviving owners of artificial intelligence decided to take revenge on those who betrayed them. And on one of the planets of the Outskirts, in deep secrecy, clones began to be created to replace people who occupied key positions in the hierarchy of the Central Worlds. It seemed that human civilization was doomed! Against the backdrop of universal cataclysms, what did the fate of the pilot Gleb Dymov and the other half of his soul – “Lonely” Niki-Rachel? But it was they who were destined to play a key role in the fatal confrontation... The novel “Flame of Hope” continues the “Mercenary” trilogy.