This is a success story. The story of how a rootless orphan, who grew up in the slums of the dirtiest garbage dump on the planet Eurus, makes a rapid career in the Military Space Forces of the Torben Empire. This is a story of survival where everything is decided by the ability to fight daily and hourly for a piece of bread, for a place by the fire, for the right to live until dawn. Eric Mintz went from a nameless pupil in a godforsaken orphanage on the edge of the world to a brilliant officer, whom the Emperor himself awarded the highest order of the empire, the Star and Sword. But between then and now there were years of incredible work, ups and downs and, of course, space battles in which heavy missile carrier pilot Lieutenant Mintz led his attack frigate in suicidal attacks on enemy ships. And these were successful attacks, because otherwise our story would have ended much earlier.