About the book: 2017 / It all started when the engine on the old space schooner of a rogue trader failed. They had to make an emergency landing on the icy plateau of a dead planet. What the traders accidentally discovered under a layer of ice came to life, and the threat of enslavement loomed over the existence of the Star Empire, and all civilized worlds. Everything would have happened this way if Sergei Krotov, an ordinary soldier of the Soviet army, who, by chance, ended up from the Afghan War in the Borderland, had not stood in the way of the space conquerors. But even here, in space, he had to do what he really didn’t like, but knew how to do best - fight…