Unlike his friend from the school of subalterns Toot, the future captain Chachu did not shine with the antiquity of his family. But once, while still a child, he managed to ride on His Highness Prince Kirnu’s own bomb carrier. This happened in the last peaceful year of Saraksha before the devastating atomic war, in which there were no winners. And then everything changed. As a student, Bath found himself in the very epicenter of the bloody Khontian rebellion and miraculously survived, joining the retreating detachment of the Battle Guard. From now on, his path was predetermined: the battles of the first Khontian, the school of subalterns, the meat grinder of a new war with the former province, even more terrible and senseless. Then there will be injuries, a fight with white submarines on the coast, our own and other people's blood. The path of a combat officer, an imperial without an empire. But no matter what happens, Chachu will not forget the endless lands under the wing of the bomber, which for a very long time formed a single state...