The 17th expeditionary fleet of the machine-human civilization Krashsh is blocked by the enemy on one of the perpendicular worlds of Primum and has entered into a long struggle. The lack of human resources forced artificial evolution to begin on planet Earth-base. The matter dragged on for tens of thousands of years, only in recent centuries has there been a thin stream of recruits. The fleet needs visionaries, mediators, programmers... The beginning of the story of Colonel Oleg Zloy. The cover was generated by the dream.ai neural network according to the author’s description.