Lost in distant space, the Volga super-class castle liner drifts among the alien stars of the Dark Zone of the Milky Way, and events on board are gaining momentum. The young Prince-Defender Maxim Alexandrov and Tsesarevna of the Russian Star Empire Ksenia Zimneva continue to be forced to be in the virtuality of the game "Liberation of Terra," while in reality their allies and opponents are building new plans and trying to reshape the world to their taste.