Even an old space wolf can be made an offer that is impossible to refuse. Especially if it comes from the Federation Security Service. Andrei Ogonovsky is “invited” to take part in a scientific expedition to the planet Tritellar, for whose inhabitants he is a living legend, covered in the halo of the “savior of humanity.” The goal of the mission is to study and possibly stop the penetration of Aliens onto the planet through a network of randomly opening portals. However, in one of his “colleagues” Ogonovsky recognizes the paratrooper general, retired commander of the Masterfox corps Victor Lancaster, a participant in the bloodiest and most unpredictable battles of the former war. And this suggests that the expedition may not be at all what the Security Service wants it to be. And science will definitely be mixed with politics, and, consequently, blood. But whose is it this time?