An alien clumsy body, a strange game from which you cannot leave until the end of the contract, in which only reputation and relations with various factions are important, and the enemies are more than strong and real... The young player Roman agrees to all this, having signed the contract, from the conditions who remembers only the need to control the space fleet in an unfamiliar game called “Perimeter Defense” and the task of surviving for six months. Roman will have to plunge into the puzzling intrigues of the Galactic Empire, figure out where his friends are and where the “outsiders” are, and learn to play by his own rules....