In works dedicated to “misfits”, the main character, having found himself in an era alien to him, and in the past, as a rule, relies on after-knowledge. He necessarily strives to defeat the enemy with the help of weapons of the future era.  And you try to defeat the enemy, if the enemy is stronger than you, and more developed, and his plans are completely unknown to you. And I decided that Subudai-bagatur suited me the most. The son of a simple blacksmith, who never mastered literacy and did not rise to the heights of the culture of that time. I decided to resurrect the hero in those years when the USSR was about to collapse, but send him to act in an era when the exploration of interstellar space was in full swing. There, his intelligence, knowledge, experience will be in demand even when high technology rules the roost.