Agreeing to deliver an archaeological expedition to a remote system, a free pilot with the callsign “Pop” expected easy money. What could be simpler—pick up the people and equipment, unload them near the ancient ruins of a dead civilization, then head back?
But, as happens in life, all plans went sideways— and not through his fault at all. By pure coincidence, this contract happened to be at exactly the moment when a race previously unknown to humankind decided to test the boundaries of the space inhabited by people. A new crew, the exploration of ancient ruins of a forgotten civilization, large-scale space battles of human fleets and the armadas of the Aliens—all of this is in the final, fifth book of the series “Notes of a Pilot.”