2635. Dyle learned that the Earth is called the “Eternal City” from his pilot. Gerda rarely spoke to the artificial intelligence that formed the core of the stormtrooper's cybernetic system. Even mentally. Dyle believed that man did not like him... Three decades of the Galactic War claimed many millions of lives and turned the Earth into a technocratic desert, where there were up to a hundred cybernetic systems per living person. The commander of the combined forces of the space fleet of the Earth Alliance, Admiral Tabanov, on the eve of a decisive battle with the Free Colonies, is faced with a choice: to win the war, relying on artificial intelligence, and turn the remnants of humanity into slaves of machines, or to equalize the odds with the enemy, refusing to use combat cyber mechanisms.. .