The war between Concordia and the United Nations, led by the Russian Directory, became one of the largest astro-political upheavals of the third millennium. Armadas of armored ships clashed in space. Hundreds of combat starships—battleships, aircraft carriers, frigates, and monitors—pounded into each other with streams of steel and fire. Using the factor of sudden operational surprise, Concordian landing forces captured key border planets: Grozny, Clara, Luchiya, and Machaon.
In those terrible days, when the fate of the Fatherland hung by a thread, the pilots of combat flugger ships rushed to defend Russia. Repelling massive enemy raids, attacking enemy starships through deadly cannon fire from anti-air guns, they buried the Concordians’ hopes for a quick victory. Then came the turn of the general battle—the Battle for the Eight Hundredth First Parsec…
The hero of the epic “Pilot,” Lieutenant Andrei Rumyantsev, is in the active fleet. What awaits him, and the pilots of the 19th separate air wing, in the fateful battles of 2622?