Man proposes, and the Official Service disposes. A man wants to live with his family in peace, raise a son, and get a new profession. The Official Service wants to destroy the Free Ones and conduct a new experiment. On Earth-n, carrying a fragment of the Russian Sum, the first open conflict breaks out between the Official Service and the Free Ones. In four portals, “anonymous war” has been going on for two years already—something the local population doesn’t even know about.
The planetary system is surrounded by a gigantic fleet of combat and missionary ships. The war in the portals is only a small episode of the Official Service’s global experiment, which the Free Ones are trying to prevent. So what happened? Can you understand what’s going on on Earth-n by working as a military doctor in a mobile hospital or as a “space cab driver”? And how could this new war end for the Russian Sum?