The Ranger

What could be more romantic than the profession of a Ranger? Only the same profession—plus a bonus in the form of, well, a hunting cat, i.e., a cat. New worlds, new people, new circumstances—each next step is into the unknown!

Glory of a pioneer, universal respect, a maiden’s love… That’s how it was. In dreams. In reality, it turned out not so rosy. The partner— a red-haired ulcer and a lover of pleasures.

A girl? Well, yes. There is such a thing. Red-haired ulcer number two. And she also has her own cockroaches in her head (surely also red ones).

New worlds? How about that! Lucky to end up in the First Far Away— barely managed to escape with our legs from Nakhodka. And it wouldn’t have been so bad if that were all! But then there was Nereida—a resort planet, a pearl of the Federation. For everyone except the Ranger, his girl, and his cat.

Never agree to work at a secret scientific research base, especially if the scientists are playing with the legacy of the Firsts. We barely got out—intercepting, literally, the last ticket to paradise.

And who could have thought that even moving to Acheron wouldn’t come without consequences—thanks to the hack work of Major Tarasov! Imagine—finding a missing archaeological expedition on a tropical archipelago! Easy as pie.

But Ranger Oleg Denisov didn’t come out empty-handed. Because nothing is more valuable than love and friendship. Even such peculiar friendship as once happened with the cat Petrović.