Creator-Creator Conflict Reaches Its End. The man lost the war to the car, and is forced to hide like a rat in the corners. Twenty-Sixth - a robot mercenary who joined Detachment 42, is tested for "lice" under the leadership of Sixteenth - a veteran of the first and last war "Gears and Bones." Under the harsh supervision of the elder, Twenty-Sixth will have to complete three tasks that will allow him to become a full-fledged warrior of the state. However, a chain of unforeseen events will force the soldier to reconsider his ideals and decide whether he has a place in a world whose ideology is radically different from his own.