Roman Prokhorov is a senior developer of artificial intelligence systems for ground combat equipment. His company is taking part in a competition to supply the Federation Ministry of Defense with unmanned walking tanks designed for combat in terraformed planets. It’s just not a fact that the competition will be fair. Competitors' lobbyists, who have access to the highest headquarters, are doing everything to ensure that Roman's corporation miserably fails the tests conducted in the context of large-scale exercises organized by the army and navy. The time frame for preparation is artificially shortened, and combat vehicles with a still very crude and unfinished control system cannot be entrusted to professional military pilots. No one except Roman can navigate the interface, which is not yet really ready for combat use, and he, a civilian specialist who has never driven heavy armored vehicles into battle, has to sit in the cockpit of the control module to try to prevent test failure, which threatens his company with large financial and reputational losses. losses. The story was written as part of the literary competition “Project of Special Significance.”