This war, known as the Fifth Space War, has been brewing for a long time and begins suddenly. Soldiers of the Earth Federation and the Democratic Alliance, led by Mars, clash in a bloody battle. But behind the flames of space combat lurks a sinister figure—the Secret Advisor: a man (or a monster?) who, under cover of a fratricidal war, decided to become ruler of the entire Galaxy. Civilization turned out to be on the brink of destruction—yet on the path of the bloody maniac stood Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Preobrazhensky and his “Revival,” an organization that united the best sons of humanity. And there is also the Survivor, an envoy of distant times, who helps to preserve and implement the Main sequence of events…