After three bloody galactic wars, the inhabitants of the Earth Federation manage to conclude a peace agreement with their overly warlike enemies - the non-humanoid race inhabiting the Orion Khanate. Local wars are dying down. Slowly, step by step, humans and Orions learn to respect and appreciate each other. It seems that all the strife and grievances are in the past, but... One half-forgotten story of an attack by the Orions on a remote colony of earthlings and the flight of the colonists “to nowhere” suddenly finds its – alas – bloody continuation. A small squadron of Orion patrol ships, with earthlings on board , comes under heavy fire from star cruisers “saving Holy Mother Earth from the damned Khan - Satan.”