In a distant, distant galaxy... However, in the eleven-dimensional space-time continuum, distances are not so important, in general, somewhere there lived the Tairian Empire. She quietly mined fossil mana, with which she supplied half of her world, won the Great War with dark forces, which she was very proud of, and became mired in corruption. In general, she did everything that empires usually do. It was here that Lorenza Paulsona-Olteste happened to be born. The young Oberleutnant of the Secret State Police had two shortcomings from the point of view of his superiors - honesty and love for his homeland. Of course, the capital didn’t like people like that. After all, hand washes hands, and mutual responsibility unites everyone... As a result, he did not stay in the capital’s administration for long and soon, with a transfer order, he was forced to go to a distant colony, to a new duty station. But before you engage in battle with the spies of the elven queen Victoriel in the jungles of mysterious Karnataka, you still need to get to your new duty station, investigating sinister and not so sinister crimes along the way.