He is the best pilot of the Solar Military Space Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Zatonov. Who else could be entrusted with command of a secret mission deep behind enemy lines? A mission that must decide the outcome of a war that has been dragging on for more than forty years with irreconcilable enemies, slowly but surely pushing back earthlings on all fronts. She is an ordinary doctor at the space base, Captain Suzanne Martinez. But, as it turned out, the success of the mission depends no less on her. Will they succeed? And most importantly, will the boy-duke, devoted to his Natasha, and the Great Empress believe them in three thousand years?