On the border between the Burnt Field—an anomalous gravity zone between the Unified Galaxy and the Koklurna Empire—a new threat is discovered: a wandering planet. Deep in its interior is a virus that brings death. It moves through the Galaxy and is about to catch up with populated planets… Tyl Teonu and his team have to figure out how to stop it. Meanwhile, the familiar life of the head of the criminal police is falling apart—political intrigues threaten to swallow him whole, and on the loose there is a criminal whom everyone around has already declared dead. He’s close… Who will win in this confrontation? And will the Unified Galaxy be able to become truly unified to survive?