Expansion. Book 4. At the Scorch of Cibola

Events of the millennial future - humanity and Earth! When the Ring suddenly opens - a gateway to a thousand unknown worlds of another galaxy... Colonists arrive on the strange planet Ilus and begin to mine lithium, but the company to which the UN gave Ilus forbids them from doing so. Terrorist attacks, war! But Golden, captain of the spaceship "Rocinante", undertakes to stop the conflict and fights with Mertree, the leader of the expedition of that greedy company. But the dormant mechanisms of this artificially created planet are determined to destroy both sides, all the people who have arrived! And it is not for nothing that Golden, a clear avatar of the ideal detective Holmes, enters into battle not only with Mertree - the reborn evil genius Moriarty? - but also with the planet's genocidal program - and wins! And peace comes: the company is inclined to cooperate with the colonists...