Having escaped death at the stake of the Inquisition, free pilot Pop finds himself aboard an Imperial destroyer fighting against superior enemy forces. Having begun to get used to the new world, he is recruited as a cook on board a transport ship, not suspecting that it was this ship, or rather its cargo, that became the object of attention of the Brotherhood, a pirate union of this galaxy. Its ruler, Emperor Number Twenty-Seven, planned to redraw the map of the universe based on his vision of a new world order, leaving his opponents no choice but to fight the forces of the Imperial Navy. Other worlds, space battles, political games and many different adventures - the hero will have to go through all this in the book “Brotherhood”, the first in the new series “The Sign of the Basilisk”.