About the book: 2020 / Life outside the Federation is full of difficulties. The Colonial Sphere is shaken by internal problems, star systems one after another become bargaining chips in the confrontation between growing empires, the growing Alliance is trying to dictate its will to its neighbors... but this is only one side of the coin. Two states huddled on a tiny continent in the middle of the ocean, a war stretching out for many years , human lives, thousands burning in the fire of nuclear explosions... a tragedy hidden from prying eyes by an indifferent emptiness - this is the true face of newfound freedom.