Experiment. Book 3. Echo of an Alien Mind. Episode 1

Survivors gathered around Damitar, and he founded an underground city on neutral territory—one that can rival the people’s main capital, Stargard, in miracles. Under his leadership, the new squad achieved its first major victory, but it proved short-lived and bitter to the taste. The cause was a war on multiple fronts—more than two. A century ago, a hyperspace pocket swallowed the fleet of a mighty civilization, and now the consequences of that battle threaten the world that has become Dmitry Voyevodin’s temporary home.

The besieged capital, where hope struggles with despair, sees him as a threat or, on the contrary, as the last hope. But these dangers are nothing compared to an ancient mind—alien and cold—whose view of everything living is simply an error.

Before he even understands the consequences of victory, Damitar ends up imprisoned, where reality and illusion merge, time becomes unreliable, and the only salvation is oblivion. Here he encounters a being—beside whom even Elemian machines seem close and almost familiar. While Damitar fights to keep his sanity, his people try by force to prove their right to be called the squad of Prince Voyevodin.

Damitar is at the center of a confrontation between different forces, where it’s hard to determine who is friend and who is enemy. He must find out what is stronger: the чужий mind that seeks to change the world, or the human will that refuses to surrender. And this is only the beginning.