What did I say about secrets? So, forget it. Now there are so many of them in my life that it just makes me sick. There are too many deaths, too many betrayals and too many sinister mysteries. It's all too much for one once happy-go-lucky guy. And all because I carelessly contacted Pierre Vigneron. The everyday life of a black archaeologist turned out to be very far from romantic delirium. However, there is nowhere to retreat, you have to put up with the little things in life, among which the opening of ancient tomb ships, contacts with the AIs of the First Ones, clashes with the Yakuza and hyperjumps into the unknown are not the worst. Real troubles were just waiting for me. The Ark - the coveted prize - became the curse of Pierre's team. And, worst of all, there is now no way out of the Program...