Far, far away, in the folds of the Galaxy’s long-out-of-fashion Western Spiral Arm, unnoticed by cartographers, a tiny, uninteresting yellow star was lost. Around it, at a distance of about ninety-eight million miles, revolves an insignificant green-blue planet, the inhabitants of which are still very similar to their ape ancestors - suffice it to say that electronic watches are still considered a miracle of technology among them.