The first colonial transports of Humankind, sent into a little-studied anomaly in space, come out into a three-dimensional continuum—not into the orbits of “paradise planets,” as promised by the advertising brochures of the sending companies. The people who have just come to after cryogenic sleep face the search for a livable world and the struggle with biotopes hostile to humans.
The crew of the colonial transport “Krivich” after a subspace jump because of a miscalculation finds itself in an unexplored region of the galaxy. The alternative is simple: find an oxygen planet or die. But even if the search turns out successful, that doesn’t mean the new home will welcome the owners with joy; it may start a war against the invaders, using all its forces and resources.