In 4034 A.D., the mighty Mercatonnia that unites many races, led by the archimandrite Lyuseferus, the cult of the Underling, and the anarchists from beyond the limits converged on the edge of the galaxy in the Yulubis system, at the gas giant Naskeron. All it took was a rumor that the inhabitants of Naskeron possess a key to the so-called “inhabitants’ list”: whoever finds this legendary algebraic transformation will gain access to the coordinates of portals of a vast network of transport wormholes running through the galaxy. However, the inhabitants are the oldest sentient race that, over billions of years, has managed to populate most of the gas giants of the known universe—and they guard their secret with jealousy.
The slow race, which fundamentally does not join any alliances, coalitions, or other empires of the “faster” peoples. Observers communicate with them, trying to understand this people and obtain any new knowledge. One such observer, Fassin Taak, accidentally obtained what threw half the galaxy into chaos and became the beginning of the strangest searches in his life…
First time in Russian: the most massive space opera of the new century.