Despite being initially intended as a parody on space opera, mythological and religious cliché, the novels embody a complex set of ideas on the fundamental principles of the world's structure and development, and the directions of the civilizations' possible future.
The central conflicts are based on the assumption that the face of super-civilization must be defined by its comprehension of the Universe as a whole: the understanding of its elementary, most basic (and thus most deeply and widely operative) laws.
Snegov's career in literature was a hard one: being subjected to repression during Stalin's rule, he remained under informal suspicion in later life.
The planned novel's design differed from the mainstream Western science fiction, as Snegov put it, in just one feature: being optimistic about the future.
Snegov has cut the text significantly for this edition; the first two books were revised most dramatically, their size being reduced by more than 15% (mostly at the expense of the non-action scenes, alien civilizations' depictions and details revealing the heroes' characters).
At the beginning of the narration, the main character Eli Gamasin, engineer of suns, travels to the world Ora where a conference of various star people is being held.
Arriving there at the world Sigma humans and their allies become witness of the cruel war crimes of the "Destroyers" and become a combatant party.
First attempts to penetrate the barriers of the star cluster fail but finally the Destroyers are able to trap three ships and to take the crews of these cruisers including Eli Gamasin and his family as prisoners of war.
Orlan, a high ranking commander, takes the humans to a concentration camp and delivers Eli to the Highest Destroyer.
There Eli takes his chances and in a broadcast debate he praises the values and way of life of human kind and their allies.
The third book introduces one or two persons probably belonging to the ancient and mysterious race of Ramirs, whose nature may be completely alien to us planet-dwellers.