The dust is human. Rukkio K.

The Red detachment fell victim to betrayal, but those who managed to creep around the empire rumors about the death of Adrian Marlo turned out to be false - he returns from Sielsin's captivity. Adrian manages to meet with Emperor Wilhelm and warn of the threatening danger: Selsini knows the imperial tour route and at any moment they can attack. But Wilhelm refuses to stop the journey, because he does not want to appear in a coward in front of his subjects. And Adrian receives another impossible task from the ruler: to capture the secret base of extrasolarians, crazy scientists who have entered into an alliance with Sielsins...