Former Brigadier General Dean and now Captain Igor Lavrov is still far from completing his main task, but the most pressing problems seem to have been resolved. An attack from an external enemy has been repulsed, all charges have been dropped, and a new high position opens up excellent prospects. But, as you know, if it seems to you that everything is fine, then you simply don’t know everything... The enemy is preparing a new strike, the force of which threatens the Federation fleet with an inevitable crushing defeat, the internal enemy is far from defeated, but from somewhere in the depths of space the scene a third force emerges, whose role in the upcoming battle is not yet completely clear.