The challenge has been issued. The corporation's agents are breathing down the Zeus team's backs. The Galactic Security Service has unleashed bloodhounds, including the investigator who once put Rain behind bars. It would seem that there is no chance... But when true friends are nearby, and a silver corvette is carried away into the heady blackness of space, everything is not so bad. Rain decides to find allies. To do this, he will have to convince the leaders of the pirate clans to oppose the Exo Matrix corporation. But how can this be done when pirates care about nothing but power and money? There is only one way out: to impose your own game, in which victory means glory and a battle fleet. Defeat is death. Bets are placed. Load your carbines, gentlemen!