About the book: 2006 / Humanity has colonized hundreds of planets. Now in the Galaxy, the descendants of earthlings – and “strangers” – live, trade and fight side by side. But war - cruel, terrible - falls on one planet after another. Friends become enemies, enemies become allies, and peacefully coexisting races shed each other's blood. The next world to enter a senseless galactic war could be Liaden... and this will be the end of it. How to stop the inevitable?!