For at least five centuries, the galactic empire has not known major shocks. The daily routine and ceremonial duties “eat up” almost the entire time of the ruler, Paul XVII. Key ministers and other high-ranking courtiers in conversations with the emperor intrigue in black language and talk about conspiracies that threaten the crown. Psi-mediums of almost all inhabited worlds prophesy of impending big and terrible changes. And the students of the capital’s largest university in the empire unexpectedly and do not know why they are organizing a major rebellion ......