Recaps

Ding Chang and Trump led Earth’s forces against the Zerg, only to discover that Insect Star itself controlled the Broodmothers and could regenerate. After Trump and Ding Chang sacrificed themselves, the surviving forces destroyed Insect Star, and the Firmament announced that Earth’s losses had triggered the Technological Explosion buff.

• Ding Chang sent Earth’s forces to attack the Magma Sea Broodmother, but the particle-beam barrier destroyed only a decoy before Insect Star healed and produced a new Broodmother.
• Ding Chang sent Trump to attack the Far North Swamp while keeping a reserve fleet, but the Broodmother’s buffs let the Zerg overwhelm the expeditionary force.
• Trump breached the Broodmother’s defenses and detonated his antimatter energy block, killing himself and apparently destroying her.
• Ding Chang noticed that the Zerg remained organized after Trump’s blast and ordered the forces away, but Insect Star split open and swallowed the expeditionary force before the Broodmother emerged again.
• Ding Chang deduced that Insect Star was a living creature controlling the Zerg and ordered the survivors through the Dimensional Gate while the Heart of Gold launched a Stellar-Class Nuclear Bomb.
• Ding Chang held back twenty Leviathans in the Yellow Emperor Mecha as Insect Star swallowed the bomb, then died in the resulting explosion that destroyed the planet and the Heart of Gold.
• Herlu and the returning Earth Allied Forces learned that Ding Chang and Trump had died, and Herlu ordered them to kill the remaining Zerg as the Firmament announced the Technological Explosion buff.

After defeating the Zerg, Lin Ye gained control of Azure Star and Kazi Star as the world entered the interstellar arena. He founded a Federation, began designing Solar System Online with Alice’s help, and watched Kaza prepare to challenge the Green Vine Civilization.

• Earth Online’s technological buffs let humanity destroy the Zerg forces, capture a Leviathan, and win the Instance showdown.
• Divine Firmament restored Azure Star, promoted it to a Level One Civilization Planet, and appointed Lin Ye its Civilization Guide.
• Lin Ye took control of Kazi Star, imposed an Instance program, and learned that Azure Star’s points and ranking left it vulnerable to rival civilizations.
• Lin Ye founded the Azure Star Interstellar Federation, made the former settlement commanders and Katerina its regional rulers, and ordered them to develop technology and build cosmic-scale Instances.
• Lin Ye began creating Solar System Online, generating the Sun and planets and planning technologies including a Dyson Sphere, Space Marines, Psionics, and a Star Destroyer.
• Creation Space designed Alice, who pledged to help complete Solar System Online and advance humanity’s technology under Lin Ye’s authority.
• Kaza rejected Lin Ye’s leadership and gathered two million residents to challenge the Universe Arena, while Lin Ye judged that their defeat would not endanger Azure Star if they protected its resources and technology.
• Lin Ye and the regional leaders watched Kaza’s group enter the Green Vine Civilization’s Tree Spirit Abyss as spectators across the war zone mocked Azure Star’s challenge.

Kaza led two million Challengers into the Tree Spirit Abyss, where his fake quantum fleet and outdated weapons failed to protect them from the Tree Spirit Legion. After the Challengers were erased and Azure Star lost Star Yuan, Lin Ye studied the enemy Instance, prepared Azure Star for the Universe Arena, and began expanding Solar System Online.

• Kaza brought two million Challengers into the Instance, where Divine Firmament assigned him command and set a mission to breach a Plant Neural Network Command Center within 240 hours.
• Kaza assembled a large arsenal and claimed to have more than ten thousand invisible Quantum Universe Spaceships, but Lin Ye recognized that his technology was fake.
• The Tree Spirit Self-Defense Legion attacked Seed Star 1, and the Challengers’ copied, poorly operated weapons failed to damage the enemy while their forces suffered heavy losses.
• The Tree Spirit Legion overwhelmed the survivors, formed the Ancient Tree Aerospace Battleship, and killed nearly all the Challengers as Kaza hid in the sewers.
• Kaza offered the Tree Spirit Legion information about Azure Star, but they extracted his memories through the Rooting Ritual and killed him, after which Divine Firmament erased the two million Challengers for failing to pay the Star Yuan penalty.
• Lin Ye reassured the regional leaders that Kaza had revealed little of value, analyzed the Tree Spirit Abyss’s weaknesses, and told them to adapt Earth Online as a template for their own Instances.
• Lin Ye prepared Azure Star for its coming Arena entry by assigning the regional leaders new work, ordering Singh to establish a Federation currency, and asking Brahma to unite the planet through faith.
• Lin Ye reviewed Solar System Online’s progress, ordered Alice to begin building a Star Destroyer Fleet with its first ship named Blue Star, and decided to expand beyond the Solar System using The Three-Body Problem as inspiration.

Lin Ye built a Trisolaran civilization Instance, organized Azure Star’s leaders and gathered intelligence on rival civilizations while Alice strengthened Solar System Online. He set a one-week deadline for war and planned to use Azure Star’s protection period to challenge other civilizations and exploit the Instance rules.

• Lin Ye created Trisolaris and the Trisolarans in Creation Space, then began designing Sophons, Droplets, and an Antimatter Engine for the new Instance.
• Lin Ye linked Solar System Online and the Trisolaran civilization through Dimensional Gates, placing each world’s gate in hazardous locations and stripping technology from Challenger Spawn Points.
• Lin Ye met with Archbishop Brahma, approved the God Ye Church’s expansion, and heard the District Heads present their Instance designs, including Long Yuan’s Variable Star, Xi’er’s Iron Star, and Fulangche’s Eternal Domain.
• Lin Ye reviewed the proposed currency with Prince Singh, then studied rival Instances and identified the Machine Intelligence, Demon Mountain, and Crow civilizations as major potential threats.
• Lin Ye chose the Green Vine Civilization as his first Instance opponent and asked Katerina to provide the Queen’s data so he could upgrade it into a Star Destroyer.
• Lin Ye saw Alice’s completed Solar System defenses and the Blue Star Star Destroyer, then used his weekly correction to complete Sophon technology and ordered mass production.
• Lin Ye gave Alice a one-week deadline to prepare fleets and weapons for war, while she agreed to upgrade the Queen and prepare Star Destroyers, Sophons, and Droplets.
• Lin Ye learned Divine Firmament’s rules for Instance challenges and planned to use Azure Star’s remaining protection period to challenge other civilizations, earn Star Yuan, and later attack the Crow Civilization.