About the book: year / The Toad sometimes not only strangles, but also shoots from all the tower guns. The junior commander of the Gladius raider, Viktor Sereda, became convinced of this the hard way when, together with the surviving crew members Kopanygin and Tappy, he was forced to urgently eject to the planet Gaganda. Moreover, this had to be done under heavy fire from the Vescusian cruiser. The Vescusians turned out to be non-humanoids and most resembled gray-brown-crimson toads, for which they received the nickname sebooms. But what is the demand for toads? They need to be wet! From all turret and turretless guns to complete clearing! True, sebums were in no hurry to agree with this. And oddly enough, some earthlings did not agree with this. Traitor-pacifists managed to penetrate even the hastily created Volunteer Fleet. Well, Sereda’s conversation with these guys was especially brief....