The ancient homeland of humanity, planet Earth, has not existed for more than two and a half centuries. Blown up by alien nomads from another branch of the Galaxy, it forever remained in the memory of people as a lost paradise. But thanks to virtual reality technologies, the descendants of earthlings scattered throughout space returned to the surface of the destroyed planet recreated from ancient maps. One of them, Denis Maksimov, a junior lieutenant of the Star Guard of the Russian Empire, becomes a fighter in the world of the game “Liberation of Terra”. An unusually valuable prize falls into his hands, which instantly and radically changes the measured life of a simple lover of virtual games...