There is such a profession—to defend the Motherland. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s a country, a planet, or a galaxy, across thousands of worlds where people live. A special assignment for the officer of the Solar System border service, Artem Romashin, is to find and neutralize on the planet of the Pole of Inaccessibility a combat robot of non-humanoids—a Demon capable of destroying the Universe and already once nearly did it.