A quarantine planet with a shaky, artificially maintained climate. A capricious plant that reacts negatively even to radio communications in the atmosphere. An orbital base filled with super-expensive tubers and ready to either respond to the enemy with fire or explode. The priest who controls the harvesters in Parnik, wild aborigines outside the border of Parnik... And also cosmopolitan agents, space pirates and employees of warring intelligence services, ready to grab each other by the throat... How to untie this Gordian knot, prevent a bloody war that will simply destroy the unique conditions that have developed on the planet Regostan? And most importantly, is it worth doing?..