This book is not only the stories of Star Wars, it is a fantasy world invented by Bill Fawcett and David Drake, who gathered under their banner the color of American science fiction: Anne McCaffrey, Robert Sheckley, Michael Resnick, Christopher Stasheff. After the fall of the last Empire, the inhabited Universe plunged into the abyss of feudal barbarism. Intelligent races were looking for a way to survive in conditions of general chaos. For the interplanetary Alliance, which united humanity and its allies, mutual support became this way. For several years now, the Alliance Battle Fleet has been waging a merciless war with space pirates - the bloodthirsty Halians.