Loner: Aquanaut

What should you do if you suddenly discover that you are incurably ill and there’s only a little time left? A serious question; the answer is ambiguous. Someone will throw up their hands, and the illness will eat them away long before the time prescribed by doctors. Someone will cling to life and fight to the last. But any of them will cling to the real hope of surviving—even if, to do so, they have to go to the stars. You only need a tiny thing: believe it.

Sergey Poshnavov, one of our contemporaries, believed. And now he is an aquanaut on a distant planet in Oceania. Resource extraction, battles with pirates and predators, intrigues, standing up to crime, working in the security service. Yes, it’s fun for him now—nothing else can be said. But who will say that a second chance at life isn’t worth it? Not everyone will say that.