The Earth Federation government was late both in assessing the situation and in launching a punitive action. Meanwhile, the separatists—not only incited by the League and the Union, but also actively supplied with everything they needed—captured smaller terminals and part of the fleet, putting up stubborn resistance. Without engaging in major sea and air battles, they struck from the shadows. About the unfortunate attempt to storm one of the small Floaters in the Federation zone tried not to remember.
Can you imagine a planet made entirely of water? They named it Drop. Located at the intersection of important space routes, Drop became a place where the interests of the Earth Federation, the Union, and the League of Free Worlds collided.
Humanity that spread across the entire Galaxy never became united. Military confrontation, economic troubles, the problem of contact with alien life—these contradictions tearing the world apart won’t let the pilot of a flyer, Alexander Shaban, rest either: first he ends up on the not entirely well-off planet Prokna, and then—on Drop. And then it turns out there is some mysterious Aura…