When the Day came - the virus infected all artificial intelligence. Humanity, settled far beyond the Earth, lost touch with most of its colonies. The European Union, the Empire and the United States are desperately fighting for the remnants of a well-known territory. A random find gives a chance for an advantage in the war, but the Special Forces operation promises to be bloody. The beginning of a chess game in which a piece or pawn is sacrificed for the sake of gaining an active position is called a gambit, but this time instead of pieces there are living people, and on the scales there is honor, conscience, love and extreme necessity.