The games are over. The confrontation with the powerful Elder races reaches a completely new level. What can a pitiful handful of people oppose to a cunning and insidious enemy who owns hundreds of inhabited worlds? For them, we are just trash, an experiment, entertainment in a galactic political game, but the Immortal has a chance to disrupt their plans, because the mighty beast lost his vigilance, left his toys unattended and fell asleep, and the sleeper can be taken by surprise.