The edge of explored space. Cruelty, xenophobia, hostility. Humanity is not able to live in peace even with itself. And when alien races enter the arena, and the human race itself is about to be destroyed, the struggle of the colonies for independence only intensifies. Sergei Krasnov is again in the whirlpool of galactic intrigues, he is entrusted with another task. His goal is a planet located 1200 light years from the Sun. It is there that there is something needed by the all-powerful race of the forerunners. Something for which humanity can receive forgiveness from them.