It’s only cool in fairy tales to be a princess of a small, cozy kingdom, but in life everything is different. Especially if you are the princess of the Barren Islands - a small underdeveloped state on a planet inhabited by people from Earth. Elizabeth Strum had just such a dubious fortune, but nature endowed her with an unbending will and many talents. At the age of eleven, Vetka hunts dugongs, enters a midshipmen's school where girls are not accepted, and wins a battle with pirates. But all this is child’s play compared to the achievements and victories that awaited Elizaveta-Vetka in the near future. The princess decided to turn her kingdom into the most technologically advanced and powerful country not only on her home planet, but also in the Galaxy. It soon became clear that not all inhabitants of the Barren Islands liked this idea. Vetka and her lover Rick were opposed by adherents of the secret order of “grays” who hate any progress...