The distant future, which turns out to be not a brotherhood of the intelligent, but a cruel world of competition, where in the struggle for dominion in the galaxy they do not disdain anything. Where the world is ruled by naked force. Where the wholesale extermination of entire races is the norm. Where the weapons are an annihilation rocket and an all-powerful Forerunner artifact. Where battles between fleets of combat starships redraw the map of the galaxy with bloody seams. It happens that even death is not final, but only a short respite between battles. By the will of immensely ancient and powerful beings, Alexander Sergeev did not die back in 1989, his soul was transported to the twenty-fourth century to accomplish the impossible: to save humanity from death, doomed to destruction, betrayed by its allies and forced to confront a powerful enemy.