The Duplicate

A colony. A wonderful, untouched, cruel and honest world. It has absorbed new inhabitants, if not with open arms, then at least in a friendly way—sharing its riches with them. In its boundless expanses, settlements of people have appeared: people increasingly set up on the new place “the way you should, like owners.” There’s work and worries enough for everyone; rather, there aren’t enough people.
A pastoral idyll? No. A colony is not only romance. This world touches the strategic interests of the great powers of the Earth, being a weighty argument in the political game. And that means that the romantic enthusiasts who decided to colonize a new world on their own are still waiting for confrontation with the leading special services of the Earth. Or rather, it has never, in essence, stopped. But will Ladigin and his friends manage to stand their ground in this struggle? No one can give a definite answer to that question.