This time the courtyard of Kshi-Na is waiting for an extremely exciting event—the embassy of neighboring Lianch. The southern neighbor starts a game in which he’s willing to sacrifice a great deal. A war is brewing, in which there won’t be any winners. And Nick Durov can only sadly note: xenophobia, religious and racial strife, intolerance—these happen not only in the sad past of Earth. But this isn’t Earth at all—on Ngi-Un-Lian there are their own intricacies…