It was called “Vera” - an alien spaceship that once destroyed the Shahran Empire. And now, three hundred years later, “Faith” returns, this time threatening the Commonwealth, a state of people that unites many star systems. Finding itself on the brink of death, humanity is relying on its secret weapon - deadly outsider-class cruisers. Elegant and beautiful on the outside, but ugly and strictly functional on the inside, almost all of them bear the names of murderers and maniacs. These vessels were designed in secret, assembled in the far reaches of the galaxy, and sent flying without ceremony. They are staffed by specially selected people who are too crazy and dangerous to live in society, but too outstanding to get rid of. And now one of the “outsiders”, the ship “Charles Manson”, takes the battle where “Vera” once won, in the Shahra system. Outcasts and psychopaths, those who are despised and feared throughout the Commonwealth, become its only hope, because only they can challenge the "Faith" and, perhaps, defeat it. But even they have no idea what they are about to face...