An alternative reality, but very close to us. After the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in 2008, Republican John McCain came to power in the United States and began an active anti-Russian campaign. The Russian government, in order to support the national idea and for the long term, is throwing significant amounts of money at the revival of the domestic lunar space program, which leads to the emergence of a lunar orbital station and a small permanent base on the surface of the Moon. In 2020, American politicians, feeling the loss of NASA's primacy in space, and in order to maintain the status of the main country in the world, they are launching a multi-stage operation to provoke Russia into a military conflict not only near Kaliningrad on Earth, but also in space - in the area of the Earth’s natural satellite...