About the book: 2012 / Only eight centuries will pass and humanity will settle across the nearest star islands. Build giant space battleships. Will find brothers in mind. Learn to penetrate the spatial wormholes of the Dark Paths. But all these achievements will not make people happy, will not protect them from viruses, mental epidemics, economic crises and manic rulers. And then unknown monsters will come from the abyss of the Dark Aggregate of Orion. And then the secret service of the Galactic Empire will send an expedition to the planets orbiting ancient red stars. There, where cephalopod giants live in the oceans, and in the depths of the basalt plateau is hidden the mysterious Nursery of the Gods, a witness to the primordial eras of the Cosmos.