A distant future, which turned out to be not a brotherhood of the intelligent, but a cruel world of competition, where nothing is disdained in the struggle for dominion in the galaxy. Where the world is ruled by a naked force. Where the total extermination of entire races is the norm. Where the weapon is an annihilation missile and the omnipotent artifact Forerunner. Where the battles of the fleets of combat starships redraw the map of the galaxy with bloody seams. It so happens that even death is not final, but only a brief respite between battles. By the will of immensely ancient and powerful creatures, Alexander Sergeev did not die back in 1989, his soul was transferred to the twenty-fourth century to accomplish the impossible: to save humanity doomed to destruction, betrayed by the allies and forced to confront a powerful enemy.