The everyday life of the best minds on the planet is like this: chopping wood, dreams of dancing at Napoleonic balls and indispensable conversations with the red cat until the morning. Also, Doctor of Economic Sciences Grigoriev developed a rescue plan for the first domestic expedition to Mars, organized by the ZASLON corporation, that had suffered a disaster. Yes, this also happens - Russian scientific and technological progress breaks through another sky-high growth bar, but opportunity happens again. Hopes for a bright space future go to hell when captain of the military space forces Ivan Tatarinov is doomed to starvation among a planet inhabited only by robots. Are economic sciences that strong and are they capable of solving high-tech problems? From the village of Kochubeevsky to Mars!