The free worlds consider the Republic of Night to be an incarnation of hell, a predatory monster obsessed with the “white mold” of militant feminism. Only the lazy did not speak out about the methods of its colonial policy. And now Leon will have to see these methods with his own eyes, go through many circles of hell and heaven in order to understand for himself: what is the price of Expansion? What happens on worlds recently annexed to the Republic? Is the devil as scary as he is portrayed to be? Or maybe the outcome is much more complicated, and it’s not only and not so much about the daughters of the Republic, but about banal human nature?.. It’s not for nothing that they say in the Republic: “Expansion is not an easy walk among the stars.”