The Oriole will fly. Godver E.

Even before the start of the era of space expansion, mankind on Earth refused the further development of reasonable machines in favor of a simple imitation of the mind sufficient to perform practical tasks. But centuries later, on a remote planet Shatrang, the question of creating a genuine machine mind arises again. The commander of the colonial base, Colonel Smirnov sees in the development of Iskins who can use the phenomenon of “temporal intuition”, is the only chance to resolve the technological crisis. But there is a disaster: during the flight to one of the mountain scientific stations, the best pilot-test pilot Darmyn Denis Abramtsev is dying. The accident looks inexplicable and casts the future of the project to doubt.