About the book: year / That night Batygin did not sleep. He was tormented by a vague premonition, some vague and subtle sensation... They moored at the iron asteroid B434c in a distant unexplored sector, there was only impenetrable darkness around, and the ribs of the colossal size of the stone reflected dimly in the ship’s windows. Another week of research work and they will fly home, besides, the war on Titan that seemed to be burning forever seems to be dying down. But the trauma will remain in the souls of experienced warriors, that nagging feeling of emptiness and hopelessness. He was thinking. Suddenly a green light lit up on the ceiling - Captain Vlasyev himself called it. And this is at twelve at night ship time?! It's simply mind boggling. Batygin hastily got dressed and ran to the captain’s chambers along the circular corridors - the windows were black, green lights flashed past indicating the way. The Olivia McCallister was returning from an expedition to distant unexplored frontiers, returning almost empty, with the exception of a few fragments of meteorites and photographs of newly discovered dead planetoids.