"Mutiny on the Outskirts of the Galaxy" by Roman Zlotnikov, summary Automatic translate

This sci-fi action film was created in 1999. The plot depicts a brutal invasion by an alien race called the Kanskebrons. The invaders are emotionless, operate with digital codes instead of names, and build a society based on total genetic control. The human population is divided into submissive slaves and free forest dwellers. Among these oppressed people, berserkers are born — warriors with a unique gift for foreseeing future events. The berserkers’ ability to sense the Pattern of Battle gives humanity its only chance to regain freedom.

This book opens the fantasy series "Berserkers." The series also includes the novels "Fighters from the Edge of the Galaxy" and "Princess from the Edge of the Galaxy." The current novel in the series is #1.

Prologue

Veteran Major General Semyon Nikitich Prokhorov serves in the Soviet Union’s air defense command bunker. The officer has risen a long way from son of the regiment to general. His family life didn’t work out due to frequent moves. Service became his only reason for being.

While on duty, radars suddenly detect forty thousand targets rapidly descending from orbit. The aliens launch massive strikes, instantly wiping London, Paris, Moscow, and St. Petersburg off the face of the earth. The lights in the bunker flicker and go out. The general launches nuclear missiles and detonates them in the stratosphere.

American three-star general Bob Emerson watches his country’s destruction. Emerson contacts Prokhorov privately. American anti-missile defenses are useless. Emerson hopes that the Russians’ historical stubbornness will help find a way out of this hopeless situation. Defense systems are destroyed, Earth is occupied.

Part One. Among the Dirt and Ashes

Decades later, Earth is subject to the strict dictates of aliens. The invaders raise humans in specialized reservations called kuklos. A five-year-old boy, Uimon, accidentally touches the thorns of the Barrier. The Barrier kills animals and savages, but sensors recognize the boy as a resident. The boy suffers severe poisoning and lies dying for six months.

Hunter Torrey, Yellowhead, nurses his son back to health. Torrey takes Wymon to the End alien center for genetic testing. During the examination, Wymon successfully passes the medical checkup, unknowingly interfering with the equipment.

A gigantic alien ship, the Basic System Destroyer, arrives in orbit. The landing force commander, the operational control module "E-7127," meets with the Planetary Controller. The aliens are concerned about free humans hiding in the forests. The natives demonstrate remarkable survivability. The aliens are clearing out entire settlements.

On the way home, Torrey takes his son hunting. Wymon displays supernatural instincts and kills a huge boar with a precise blow to the eye. Soon, father and son are captured by savage slavers. The captives are rescued by a Christian preacher, Izekiel. He recaptures them from the gang and takes them to a farm in New Pittesburg. Izekiel reads the Bible to them and prepares to fight the cyborgs.

A punitive squad of alien tacts decimates the Izekiel community with laser fire. Uimon and Torrey narrowly escape death and find refuge in a nearby kuklos. The local male, Imnak, oppresses the newcomers. Torrey soon dies while hunting.

Part Two. Biting Rats

Twelve-year-old Oleg lives in a forest village with his sister, Olga. The boy possesses unique reflexes. In winter, a severe famine strikes the village. Wolves attack the livestock. Oleg goes out to get meat, kills a huge deer, and on the way back, he enters a battle trance and single-handedly destroys a massive wolf pack.

The villagers find a wounded young man among mountains of corpses. The village is saved from starvation, but people become terrified of Oleg. Neighbors avert their eyes when they meet. The young man leaves the house and goes off to find the casemates.

Caponiers are underground military bunkers. There, the officers’ descendants have preserved old weapons and strict army regulations. Oleg meets Sergeant Major Leonid Pyanko and ends up at the "Zayachy Bugor" base. He scrubs floors on the so-called Hell’s Strip and endures humiliation.

A rookie is bullied by a hereditary private, Tamarav, and his buddies. The conflict culminates in a brawl in a dark corridor. Oleg defends himself and kills Tamarav with his bare hands. The murdered man’s enraged relatives demand blood feud. The young man faces the death penalty. General Prokhorov, the leader of the caponiers, arrives for the tribunal hearing. The leader realizes that Oleg is a true berserker. The young man begins intensive hand-to-hand combat training under Captain Naumov.

Part Three. Rats Leave Their Holes

Uimon grows up and is sent to build an industrial complex on the reclaimed seabed of the Mediterranean Sea. In the vestibule, savages try to take his identification from him. He is saved by Oleg, in disguise. Uimon discovers his gift for telepathic communication with electronics and forces the portal to let Oleg’s entire underground team through without inspection. The security system malfunctions.

Inside the complex, a group of berserkers secretly steals spaceship parts, assembling their own attack fighters. Oleg plans a large-scale sabotage operation. Oleg’s sister, Olga, also works undercover in the complex. She rescues two slave girls from six rapists and then falls in love with Wymon. Olga realizes the extent of Wymon’s mental abilities.

The E-7127 tactic commander gradually becomes disillusioned with the cold logic of his masters. The cyborg understands that human freedom and emotion surpass the calculations of machines. He takes the human name Roland and defects to the human side. Roland swears an oath of blood brotherhood to Oleg at a primordial fire.

The old Planetary Controller dies as a result of the intrigues of a backup. The new Controller is preparing Earth for conversion into a military factory for the creation of a fleet. The Kanskebrons want to use the genetic material of Earth women to expand the slave population.

Part Four. Rebellion

The humans are mounting a massive rebellion. They secretly plant mines in shipping containers and blow up an underwater tunnel, paralyzing the Mediterranean complex. The Kanskebrons throw all available forces into suppressing the rebellion. Satellite ships incinerate most of the caponiers with plasma strikes from space. The Hare Hill base is reduced to molten ash.

Panic is brewing at the Command Council, but Colonel Dubinsky demands a fight to the end. General Prokhorov leads the remaining armored vehicles and infantry in a frontal assault on the Destroyer. Dubinsky’s sixty-ton tanks draw the fire of thousands of alien cyborgs. Olga takes the controls of a captured fighter. She enters a berserk state and single-handedly destroys the satellite network. Olga’s fighter is heavily damaged and crashes, but regeneration restores her life.

Oleg’s squad penetrates the Destroyer. They fight their way to the central core, destroying the Takts in close combat. Wymon uses his mental gift and establishes telepathic contact with the main artificial intelligence. The ship’s mind calls itself Merilyn and takes on feminine traits. She defects to the rebels. The rebellion is successful.

Oleg arrives at the Lunar Base and defeats the local controllers. The cyborg lunar garrison joins the Earthlings. A few hours later, a punitive squadron of Canskebrons arrives at Earth. Forty heavy pennants prepare to crush the rebels. The Earthlings have no means of repelling the attack. Merilyn uses hidden onboard weapons and destroys the enemy fleet in the asteroid belt. The invaders are destroyed. Oleg becomes commander-in-chief. He and Roland realize they have only won the first battle.