About the book: 2022 / The end of the twenty-second century. Humanity has joined the Union of Intelligent Races and is now participating for the first time in a closed competition, where the main prize is won not by the team, but by the entire race. The fight will be fair, the victory will be well-deserved, the reward will be great. But why can’t we talk about victory? What is unknown even to the Elder Races of the Galaxy? Sixteen participants - representatives of different Races - are already at the start. Fans and judges sit at the screens. Join us too! The story is part of a series of works about the office, but the events take place a hundred years after the “Three Ls”».