About the book: year / With the beginning of expansion, humanity remembered what lawlessness, piracy and the rule of the strong are. Space is too big and cruel for anyone to make it safe outside the islands of peace of overpopulated planets. If you don’t want to vegetate all your life in a metropolis or an endless web of station corridors, accept the danger and become part of the crew of a spaceship. Do you want to earn a beautiful life between the stars? You have to take a risk, and there are a lot of opportunities. Many choose to join the Aerospace Forces, but what to do if your path diverges from them? If you have pilot skills and money for a small ship, the choice is obvious. Welcome to the mercenaries. There will always be a job for you on the frontier.