The game has begun! Trillions of inhabitants of a dozen galaxies gazed at their holovisors, watching as fighters from hundreds of young worlds fought tooth and nail for the right to exist. The winner buys life for his civilization, the loser deserves the destruction of the entire planet! And our compatriot finds himself in this meat grinder, and what’s more, his partner is not a squire, like others, but a simple boy from an orphanage. But the Russians, as you know, do not give up!