Long-range intelligence and security intrigues, terrorists and political extremists all this fell on Leon, like a thunder in the clear sky. But an even greater revelation awaited him ahead of .. As it turned out, cats arrived in the Outer Colony not at all to train a young cat here, and not even then (!) to please their combat brother here. So why are they here? This question is intended to answer the second book "Cat", and at the same time to put a number of other, no less pressing, questions. For example, what is the fate of Svetyl Starn and what is a stellar maneuvering fund?