Micoatli's day has come, and a new Emperor has taken the throne. Long live Emperor Leonidas! He is destined to rule for the next thousand years. The imperial race was over, and the lives of the rest of the surviving applicants immediately depreciated. Who knows how much benefit they will now bring to the Great Dominions and whether the newly-made ruler wants to settle scores with former competitors? And then there's the Trapping Web reopened on Earth, increasing the number of pretenders in the galaxy.

While the losers lick their wounds, and the heads of the Dominions minimize the consequences for their peoples, journalists are trying to predict the first steps of the new Emperor. But Leonid is in no hurry to use Extervit's powers. He doesn't seem to care about his new subjects at all. And it is not surprising, because the troops of the Ts civilization have already captured the ship of the Greatest Stella and the life of the girl that Lenya Voskresensky has been looking for for a whole year is again in danger ...