About the book: 2007 / "Independent". A spaceship that again and again sets off on adventures - sometimes fun, and sometimes deadly... Newly made lieutenant enters into a war with the captain's favorites - mutant rats, warning of danger... Who will win? The first mate is haunted by nightmares of the most impossible kind, and the mechanic plays spatial checkers with an invisible enemy... What is happening? A giant asteroid, which suddenly changed its trajectory, is about to collide with a research station. The simplest solution is to shoot the asteroid from the Independent's guns. Why is the captain hesitating? And this is only a small part of the stories that the Independent team is ready to tell.»!