Unable to fully bring down Yakov Zlyukhin, Lieutenant Colonel Fyodor Sbondin draws in Sigmund Beznogiy’s case again by promising him the cruiser “Madman,” on which Sigmund served in the past. The cruiser will be Sigmund’s—if he steals Zlyukhin’s drug shipment. Only after they loaded the ship, the cruiser was attacked—and it, along with the cargo and the crew, was sent to the planet Prikhamye on the border of explored space. There, all of them were waiting for aggressive space “cockroaches” interested in the cruiser’s cargo.