Cora Harper joined the Alliance military to develop her unusual biotic abilities. Four years of service in a detachment of Azarian paratroopers who call themselves the “daughters of Talain” turned her into a skilled and dangerous hunter. But, returning to human space, she becomes a stranger among her own, and therefore agrees to work in the “Andromeda Initiative” project, under began with one of the pioneers, the mysterious Alec Ryder. They will have to prepare for one hundred thousand colonists a journey on which the fate of human civilization will depend. When a rival organization steals important experimental technology, Cora is tasked with recovering it before it is used against the Initiative and the mission is derailed before it even begins. For the first time in Russian!