For a long time they flew from the icy depths of space to a small blue planet in search of what was the meaning of their existence for these amazing creatures. The fact that aliens calling themselves "yautzha" found in the inhabitants of this planet, calling themselves "people," is an ideal hunting object for an ideal predator. Mighty. Ferocious. Ruthless. Predator with a capital letter. As time went on, man walked through space, every year pushing his habitat, and predators followed him. But until the second half of the twenty-seventh century of the new era, the clashes between people and yautja were rather isolated. And suddenly everything changed. Many almost one-time cases of attacks on spacecraft and bases along the entire border of the Outer Ring. Thousands dead. Not only warriors, but even women and children. Is it really yautzha, contrary to the nature of loners, united for the first time for centralized expansion?