Less than a month passed after the first clash with the Suitians, when their cruiser, unexpectedly attacking a Space Federation service ship, was repulsed and exploded. People saved the surviving strangers. And since there were wounded among those, as a gesture of goodwill, the command decided to return the prisoners home. And so it happened that senior lieutenant Vitaly Yuryevich Chur with a group of diplomats was sent to establish the first contact between the races. But it didn’t work out...