Recaps

Dragon Country destroyed the remaining smaller factions and drove its forces toward Bear Country while its fleet engaged Eagle Sauce Country near Pearl Harbor. Bear Country began its defense of three major cities, and Guderian prepared a stealth bomber strike as the fighting escalated.

• Dragon Country destroyed Eastern Ocean Island with ten thousand missiles, then wiped out Arthur’s forces near Antarctica and made Thousand Islands Country its dependency.
• Xi'er prepared Bear Country’s defenses around Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Volgograd, while Minamoto no Yorimitsu rejected coordination with him and concentrated Eagle Sauce Country’s forces at Pearl Harbor.
• Fulangche led Malaysia’s fleeing Challengers into Bear Country as Dragon Country pursued them, and Dragon Country ultimately killed the remaining Challengers and occupied Malaysia.
• Xiaochuan’s Eagle Sauce fleet fought Dragon Country near Midway Atoll, but Dragon Country’s missiles and defenses destroyed Eagle Sauce ships and reconnaissance drones, revealing the scale of its fleet.
• Xi'er let Dragon Country’s forces advance toward Bear Country’s cities, intending to trigger the second-stage buffs, while Lin Ye watched the battles and judged that Dahe Settlement would fall.
• Dragon Country formed three expeditionary corps against Moscow, Volgograd, and Saint Petersburg, while its fleet redirected toward Pearl Harbor Military Base.
• Mansh coordinated Bear Country’s defense as Dragon Country began a massive artillery and tank assault, and Guderian and Rommel committed Bear Country’s air and submarine forces.
• Guderian joined the air battle, then ordered Challengers to cover a thousand PAK-DA bombers preparing a stealth strike on Dragon Country’s three corps’ central command areas.

Lin Ye’s Dragon Country crushed Bear Country and Eagle Sauce Country after revealing the Nantianmen Project, while Xi'er’s and Minamoto no Yorimitsu’s resistance ended in defeat. The Instance concluded with Lin Ye victorious and the Firmament assessing the Challengers, as Long Yuan prepared to tell Lin Ye what he knew before his advance to LV5.

• Guderian’s PAK-DA bombers launched a sneak attack, but Dragon Country’s WZ-8 aircraft destroyed them, and Dragon Country’s air forces killed Guderian and opened Bear Country’s defenses.
• Rommel ordered Bear Country’s Borei submarines to fire 16,000 Bulava missiles, but Dragon Country retaliated with 200,000 Dongfeng-41 missiles that destroyed Bear Country’s fleets and killed Rommel.
• Mansh died as Dragon Country captured Volgograd and Saint Petersburg, triggering the Firmament’s Battle for Moscow and granting Xi'er command of Bear Country’s wartime forces.
• Xiaochuan, Yamamoto Sanjūhachi, and Fuchikawa Yasuhide fled Pearl Harbor, but Minamoto no Yorimitsu ordered a nuclear and biological strike that killed them and devastated Dragon Country’s fleet.
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu escalated the conflict by ordering attacks on Dragon Country, prompting the Firmament’s sanctions and the declaration of worldwide S3 War, while Dragon Country began the Nantianmen plan.
• Dragon Country revealed its Luan Bird platforms, aerospace fighters, and Chengying Mecha, and Minamoto no Yorimitsu’s launch of 4,000 nuclear missiles was intercepted, with the explosions devastating Eagle Sauce Country’s west coast.
• Dragon Country’s forces attacked Washington, and Minamoto no Yorimitsu killed himself after Dragon No. 75 ordered him to surrender, leaving the Firmament to declare Eagle Sauce Country destroyed and a colony of Dragon Country.
• Xi'er led Bear Country’s forces in the Battle of Moscow, but the Nantianmen weapons destroyed its military, and a Chengying Mecha killed him, and the Firmament declared the Instance a failure and issued the Challengers’ ratings and penalties.

Lin Ye honored Ding Chang’s final wish, then expanded Earth Online with advanced technology and learned of Long Yuan’s evidence about the Firmament. After reaching 108 million points, Lin Ye challenged it and entered a fused war against the Zerg, leaving Azure Star’s people stranded in a wilderness reset.

• The Firmament ended The Great Wall Watch and crowned Lin Ye the top Challenger, while Lin Ye visited the dying Ding Chang and promised him a farewell Instance.
• Lin Ye created Earth Online: The Last Road for Ding Chang, where a military parade and naval battle gave Ding Chang his final farewell before he drowned himself and returned his points to Lin Ye.
• Lin Ye used Creation Space to expand Earth Online with lunar bases, advanced weapons, fusion technology, and other projects, while adding Ding Chang as an NPC commander.
• Long Yuan showed Lin Ye Zhao Jianxin’s vision of Azure Star beneath a dome and explained his belief that the Firmament was imposed by another civilization, then gave Lin Ye ten million donated points.
• Lin Ye completed Earth Online’s technological transformation and reached 108 million points, then confirmed his challenge to the Firmament despite its warnings.
• The Firmament previewed Heart of the Swarm and warned that failure would destroy Lin Ye and cost Azure Star half its infrastructure and population, but Lin Ye resolved to proceed.
• Lin Ye upgraded Earth Online against the Zerg and named it Earth Online: Blue Star Empire, then the Firmament fused it with Heart of the Swarm and reset Azure Star, stranding its people in the wilderness as the challenge began.

The Earth Alliance battled the evolved Zerg across Africa while Ding Chang organized a plan to strike their Motherworld and stop the Leviathans’ recovery. The expeditionary fleet reached Insect Star, where Ding Chang identified two likely targets and began planning how to divide its forces.

• The Firmament opened gates between Earth Online and Insect Star, and three Leviathans carried the Zerg into Africa, where they rapidly established a sprawling base and overran local forces.
• Ding Chang united the Five Permanent Members, whose weapons and armies destroyed the Zerg probing swarms in Europe and Asia, while Lin Ye warned that Africa would be the true battlefield.
• The Leviathans evolved the Zerg, fortified Africa, and forced the Earth Alliance to launch a coordinated campaign under Ding Chang, who also ordered the Spark Plan evacuation and the Star-Detonation Plan assault on Insect Star.
• Ding Chang led the coalition into Africa as Earth’s land and maritime forces attacked from several directions, but the evolved Zerg inflicted heavy losses and the advance stalled.
• Dragon Country’s Mirage and ground forces surrounded two Leviathans, but the creatures called on the Mother Queen, whose green light healed them and restored their strength.
• Ding Chang rejected Trump’s proposal to destroy Earth and led the expeditionary fleet through the Dimensional Gate to Insect Star, while Herlu rallied the forces left behind to hold Africa.
• Ding Chang and Trump surveyed Insect Star, identified twenty Leviathans and ten apparent Broodmothers, and chose two suspected target sites near the poles.
• Ding Chang provisionally named the targets the Far North Swamp and the Magma Sea, then asked Trump for the capabilities of the Star Wars Project’s six ships to plan their deployment.