An empire on the brink of collapse. But that’s not the dream Ruslan had. Battles rage on the planets Ivolga and Kappa-4. The Dbiguu race seizes new territories and turns all the inhabitants on them into monsters. And the civil war with the Federation of Thirty Planets has reached New Crimea as well. To save his native planet from biomorphs, Ruslan has to unite with Reich. After all, the skull stitched onto his sleeve isn’t as frightening as the one that could catch fire in the skies.