Cheerful spacemen celebrate the New Year, organize a mushroom hunt and measure their male beauty. At the Carnival orbital station, preparations for the next race are in full swing. OZK is acquiring new personnel and wards... while clouds are gradually gathering over their heads. As it turns out, humanizing cyborgs is only half the battle; teaching people to be human is much more difficult. Not all of them are happy with the activities of the UGC, especially after another development by its cybertechnologists, which threatens to turn into a huge scandal. And Kira has to make a difficult decision, and the “Space Brain Eater” team has to help implement it.