People worship atomic gods. All science is concentrated in temples, only priests can be initiated into science. The Lord Ruler must constantly maneuver through palace intrigues, carry out the expansion of neighboring planets, suppress the discontent of the priests and the performances of slaves... Clane was born into the family of the Lord Ruler, but was marked by the atomic gods and none of the family expected great achievements from the mutant... (Annotation source - The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.