Captain Sokolovsky is preparing for a scheduled raid on Orkhida when his ship, RK-239—also known as “The Shell”—receives a trainee to undergo practice in extreme conditions. The crew of RK-239 awaits adventures and mysteries, and also a rescue operation, because Sokolovsky and his team work in the NSS—the Non-Orbital Search and Rescue Service. So who are the Pumps? And what connects the captain with the young trainee, Pashka Ivanov? What’s going on across the Russian Sector? Read all about it in the adventure novella “The Point of No Return.”