About the book: 2002 / ...One hundred and fifty years have passed since the day when the sudden transformation of the star Antares into a supernova cut off several systems colonized by earthlings from the rest of humanity. ...A century and a half of silence. And then - the appearance of a warship of the Earth's fleet on the small, ordinary planet of Alta. A spaceship crippled in battle, with no one alive on board.... So, the earthlings are at war with someone? Captain Drake and his military expedition will have to break through the radiation nebula formed in place of Antares and get to Earth AT ANY COST. Get there to offer your military assistance in the fight against intelligent aliens who recognize only one right - THE RIGHT OF THE MIGHTY...