The situation in the border worlds turned out to be far more dire than anyone could have predicted. Twenty years of nonstop war completely destroyed trade routes. Supplies were cut off, pushing dozens of colonies to the brink of slow, yet agonizing and inevitable destruction. The states are inactive. They are too busy fighting each other to pay attention to the troubles of their borderlands’ inhabitants. The only thing that can save them is a habitable world where most of the population can be evacuated. But all exoplanets known to humanity have already been taken. All except one.
In these circumstances, Alex Yankovsky, by the will of fate now commanding two major warships, has nothing left to do but begin gathering forces for an invasion into the world from the deadly grasp of which he miraculously escaped just a little over a year ago. But what awaits them down there? Salvation? Or a disgraceful death? In any case, retreat is already far too late.