When the Day came, the virus infected all artificial intelligences. Humanity, having settled far beyond the Earth, has lost contact with most of its colonies. The European Union, the Empire and the United States are desperately fighting for the remains of a known territory. A chance discovery gives a chance for an advantage in the war, but the operation of the Special Forces promises to be bloody. The beginning of a chess game in which a piece or pawn is sacrificed to gain an active position is called a gambit, but this time instead of figures there are living people, and on the scales there is honor, conscience, love and extreme necessity.