A long time ago, in a Galaxy far from here...The Galactic Empire is gaining strength. It seems that the Sith managed to exterminate all adherents of the Light Side. But it only seems... The book includes three large stories - a kind of prehistory of the “Middle of the Night” trilogy. They lift the veil of secrecy over some events that happened to the main character several years before the start of the story of the first book. In that period, which has so far been ignored by other authors of the Expanded Universe.