About the book: 2011 / The Empire is unshakable, like a giant glacier. But under the indestructible thickness of ice, geysers of passions boil and volcanoes of cataclysms ripen. Pirates and rebels, adventurers and intelligence officers, heroes and ordinary subjects of the Empire, unexplored worlds and an enemy lurking in the darkness of space - all this has formed a motley mosaic of existence.