About the book: 2020 / The first two books in the series about the Albi Empire were written by the author in 2017. The adventures of the heroes on the exotic planets of the giant universe organically flow into the space opera genre. Not long ago, Captain Barthez and his earthling friend Tom Chernov appeared in the inhabited universe and challenged Emperor Albi. But Admiral Barthez was already able to unite all the pirate houses of the Free Worlds Belt and thousands of combat starships to fight the Empire. The unimaginable size of the Albi universe conceals enough dark corners where a pirate soul can easily part with a pirate body. And a guarantee of a long life for a captain is the ability to quickly raise a blaster and mastery of a cutlass. And of course, pirate luck, luck, which is important to see in time in the black abyss of the ship’s screens. The intrigues of imperial intelligence, sabotage groups, spies of all stripes cannot prevent a grandiose space battle of dozens of imperial fleets and thousands of pirate starships.