About the book: 2006 / The inhabited galaxy is vast. People, dragons, arachnes, and guards live in it. And not only them. Archaeologists find countless artifacts of other peoples who have gone somewhere else. Intelligent races are approximately equal in strength; they would have long been at each other’s throats if it were not for the Order of Aarn, created one and a half thousand years ago by the great mentat Ilar ran Dar. A strange, unlike any other civilization... Only those intelligent people of all races who have rejected such universal galactic values ​​as self-interest and power can enter the order. In all the worlds of the galaxy, Aarn saves their future “brothers” and “sisters”, those for whom honor and love are not an empty phrase, those who want and can create, those who have the silver wind of the stars in their hearts. The Order seems like an indestructible rock, its strength is unimaginable, but…