When news spread about the fall of the “Close Horizon,” no one was surprised: the ship was cheap and old. The surprise came later, when it turned out that the survivors of the passengers would be met not by an ordinary rescue mission. One of the best combat crews of the space fleet would have to fly to the abandoned planet that had taken the ship’s wreckage. Even that was strange, but soon the crew of the “Northern Crown” learns that two more ships carrying soldiers of the special corps have been assigned to help them.
Now everyone is interested in only one question: what secret did the “Close Horizon” take with it onto the burning plains of Adran—the planet that once belonged to the Legion?