Major Kazantsev, who is also an operative of the supranational organization "Fractal" under the operational pseudonym Ragman, during his next mission he falls into an incredible trap - on an interstellar alien ship. And the Galaxy that appears before him is far from the common ideas about blasters, space fleets and wars. There is a struggle going on there, but a very strange one, and the Earth is just one of the bargaining chips in it. What next? Will it be possible to get into other realities? To a world in which the USSR has survived and is actively pursuing space expansion. This time it was not me who did the cover