About the book: 2009 / Yesterday's "space carriers" became the new masters of the Galaxy. After all, they are the non-humanoid inhabitants of the planet Shoal - the only ones who know the technology of superluminal travel, not familiar to other intelligent races. Without Shoulan ships, star systems will simply be cut off from each other - and, realizing this, ugly but powerful “aliens” take away more and more power... But. perhaps very soon the power of Shoul will come to an end. And it will not be the rebel armies that will put it down, but one single person - the captain of the small starship Dakota Merrick. This woman is the first carrier of a mysterious implant that allows the human mind to merge with artificial intelligence, which is superior to the best Shoul pilots…