“The Displacer” is a science-fiction novel by Andrey Livadny, episode fifty-five, main timeframe 3869, cycle “The History of the Galaxy.”
When Earth’s space destroyers of the “Stiletto” class entered the atmosphere of an insect planet, their inhabitants were practically wiped out. The ruins of cities, wreckage of warships, and millions of corpses—this was all that remained of one of the many families of intelligent insect-like beings. The pilots from Earth had no idea that among the ruins lurked a survivor. And it was exactly this survivor—a bug named Khosh—that, in the future, would have to decide the outcome of the titanic battle for dominance over the Galaxy! The only question is: in whose favor?