In reality, interstellar war is not at all like the movie! No space fighters, beautiful approaches to the enemy’s tail, bursts of rapid-fire lasers... Lonely wandering in the darkness of space, probing space with a radar and firing from railgun guns over vast distances - that’s what the real thing is interstellar war! And also - political games, the machinations of the special services and the betrayal of the interests of the Motherland... Officer of the Russian Far Space Forces Evgeny Ilyin drank all this in full. He had to go through all the circles of military hell, be captured by the “mummies” - degenerates of the human race - and survive in the meat grinder of the general battle for the planet Eden. And the main thing is to feel in your own skin the true price of someone else’s victory...