Escaping death at the stake of the Inquisition, free pilot Pop finds himself aboard the Imperial destroyer, fighting with superior enemy forces. Starting to master himself in the new world, he is recruited by a cook aboard a transport ship, not suspecting that it was this ship, or rather its cargo, that became the object of attention of the Brotherhood - the pirate union of this galaxy. Its ruler, Emperor Twenty-Seven, planned to redraw the map of the universe based on his vision of a new world order, and leaving his opponents no choice but to fight the forces of the Imperial Fleet. Other worlds, space battles, politicians' games and many different adventures - the hero will have to go through all this in the book "Brotherhood," the first in the new series "Sign of the Basilisk."