Max Gray graduated with honors from the Academy, became a first-class pilot and ended up in the Third Strike Squadron - an elite detachment that acts as a kind of unit of the Security Service. Next, the PR specialists of Max's father tried, making him a real hero. But this played a cruel joke on him - Max became a real outcast of the squadron. Many simply hated him. But even that turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg. The main thing is ahead. Who would have thought that Max, whom everyone around him considers a pampering of fate, was destined for so many trials?.. To be shot down by the rebels, join their number and end up being captured by a detachment of corporants - all this was definitely not part of Max Gray's plans. Such misadventures cannot be so easily deleted from your life and start from scratch. Unless you go in search of another fate to where no one knows you and will not ask unnecessary questions. And since Max is no longer here, he goes beyond the horizon - to the Commonwealth of Worlds. Perhaps his life will get better here.