The galaxy has again become a battlefield between two powerful interplanetary powers. The troops of the totalitarian Syndicate and the democratic Alliance are waging a war that, it seems, has no and will never end. For a long time, no one was able to achieve complete success, but one day the people of the Alliance were unexpectedly lucky... The head of their troops was John Geary, who had emerged from a century and a half of suspended animation, the legendary commander of the beginning of the war, whose very name sounds like a curse for the Syndicate. At an hour when almost the entire Alliance fleet was captured by the enemy, and most of the commanders were killed, he managed to stand at the head of the remnants of the army, fight - and win. But now the threat to the Alliance comes not from without, but from within. A rebellion is brewing in the fleet, led by stands the highly experienced captain Falco, who does not want to tolerate the power of Giri. Many are ready to follow him. Soon the fleet, which has already suffered huge losses, may find itself split in two...