Space has never been and will never be peaceful. Hundreds and thousands of civilizations found their beginning and their end in it. In star systems devastated by wars, after centuries, timid sprouts of intelligent life appear again, often coming from outside. Everything is repeated and repeated again. The history of the galaxy is cyclical...Avar slave traders have known about Earth for a long time, and if not for its extreme distance from trade routes and, in general, the borders of the inhabited Star Commonwealth, it is still unknown how earthly history would have turned out. And so, only a few hundred thousand people disappear on earth without a trace, a fraction of a percent, if you look at the total population... Nikolai did not want and did not plan to disappear anywhere. He was happy with everything on Earth too. But fate decreed otherwise... Who knew that an ordinary charter flight could end so unconventionally. And now he is forced to start a new life as a patient freed from pirates in the rehabilitation department of the naval hospital of the Aratan Empire. Not the worst option. Surely those who did fly to the Avar Empire will agree with this.