About the book: year / What do you know about immortality? Have you met people who can live several lives? Would you like to become one of them? The questions to which young Victor de Paile was looking for answers led him to the remote corners of the galaxy, forced him through fire and water, deprived of the most valuable, but gave him something new. Will a person be able to pass all the tests prepared for him by fate , and remain yourself? The world of the Empire, which has been colonizing the galaxy for many centuries, is huge. Hundreds of systems, thousands of planets and orbital stations. The highways stretched between them make it possible to travel from one end of the galaxy to the other. Neurointerfaces, AI and the terraforming of planets have become commonplace, and among those who hold the fate of ordinary people in their hands, there is an ongoing secret war for the possession of ancient technologies that will change man's understanding of the universe.