Sergei Marenin, a nineteen-year-old son of a farmer, dreams of leaving provincial Silvan. Suddenly his wish comes true, but not at all in the way he dreamed. Instead of becoming a starship pilot, Sergei first falls into slavery and then becomes a reluctant militant, forced to fight bloodthirsty aborigines on a planet prohibited from colonization. He is constantly in mortal danger, and only the help of a mysterious artifact, once found by Sergei at the crash site of an archaeologists' starship, helps him survive. v 1.0 - Corvi - recognition, proofreading, conversion, creating the structure of a book; One day, the owners of an artifact come into contact with a guy and demand his return, otherwise threatening to destroy all intelligent life in the Universe...