Adrian spent half a century searching for the lost planet Vorgossos, hoping to come into contact with the mysterious Cielsin aliens. To end the four-hundred-year war, he leads a band of mercenaries and travels beyond the borders of the Solarian Empire. He will have to face betrayal, witness terrible experiments and meet not only aliens with whom he wants to make peace, but also creatures who have abandoned their humanity. And also the immortal hero of ancient legends and the sworn enemy of the human race - an enemy who, it seems, has his own designs on Hadrian... The success of the mission will bring peace such as history has never known. If Adrian fails, the Galaxy will burn. For the first time in Russian!