About the book: 2019 / 23rd Century, the golden time of humanity. The solar system has long ceased to hold people. But humanity is too diverse, there are many nations and faiths, and the gates of acceleration cannot provide a stable connection between the periphery and the center. And the earth itself, the homeland of humanity, can become an arena for a battle between different factions. All sorts of cults are flourishing in distant worlds, threatening to spread to neighboring worlds. And in the depths of space darkness awakens.