Recaps

Lin Ye opened his Stellar-level Solar System Online Instance against the Green Vine Civilization, trapping its hundred million challengers in a hostile environment with enormous stakes. The Green Vine Army rallied to pursue the mission despite the risk of annihilation, as the challenge began.

• Lin Ye chose the Green Vine Civilization as the first challenger for Solar System Online, and the Arena announced a public livestream.
• The Green Vine Civilization filled all one hundred million challenge slots under Ruitute’s command, while its leaders expected an easy victory over Azure Star.
• The Instance opened on Trisolaris, where the three suns and brutal weather killed millions of Green Vine troops before they could establish their Spawn Point.
• Divine Firmament revealed that the challengers had 48 hours before Trisolaris’s destruction and that environmental debuffs would persist throughout their stay.
• Divine Firmament introduced the Solar System, Earth, and the Instance’s detailed worlds, impressing spectators and unnerving the Green Vine Army.
• Turet learned that Solar System Online had no fixed time limit and that the Solar System might attack Trisolaris, then demanded the mission details.
• Divine Firmament set missions to destroy or occupy Earth, the Sun, or the Solar System, with a one-million-Star-Yuan penalty if every Challenger died.
• Lin Ye said he wanted to wipe out the Green Vine Civilization’s hundred million core members, while Mier rallied the challengers to fight for the two-million-Star-Yuan reward.

Lin Ye’s Solar System Online annihilated the Green Vine invasion, earning the Azure Civilization rewards and drawing new challengers. He then raised the Instance’s stakes and selected the Intelligent Machines Civilization, whose forces began their challenge by occupying Trisolaris.

• Mier rallied Turet and the Green Vine survivors, and the fleet set out for the Solar System with Kaza as an adviser.
• Divine Firmament revealed a portal at Proxima Centauri, but Turet’s fleet emerged in the distant Oort Cloud, stranded far from Earth and short on supplies.
• Alice activated the Solar System’s defenses, which disabled the Green Vine ships before a freezing laser and antimatter strike destroyed the fleet and killed its challengers.
• Divine Firmament declared the Green Vine challenge a failure and awarded Lin Ye technologies and Star Yuan, while Solar System Online received a Stellar-level rating.
• Lin Ye returned to the Federation Tower, urged the District Heads to develop their own Instances, and decided to open Solar System Online again to attract challengers.
• Lin Ye chose to challenge the Intelligent Machines Civilization with a one-billion-Challenger Instance and a five-million-Star-Yuan reward, despite the risk of Azure Civilization’s annihilation.
• The Intelligent Machines Civilization accepted the challenge, and its forces occupied Trisolaris, built up a military base, and aimed their weapons at the three fixed stars.

The Intelligent Machines Civilization built an immense fleet in the Trisolaran star system and invaded the Solar System, where Alice coordinated the Eight Planets Defense Perimeter. After Alice lured the enemy’s weapons toward its home base and destroyed Trisolaris, the Intelligent Machines God unleashed a Core Storm that paralyzed the Solar System’s defenses.

• The Intelligent Machines Civilization destroyed Alpha Centauri A and B, stabilizing Trisolaris around Proxima Centauri and clearing its harsh conditions.
• BT1315 built up five billion combat units and launched an invasion fleet of 10,000 motherships through the portal into the Solar System.
• Alice persuaded Ding Chang to let her command the Solar System Defense Perimeter, and the Eight Planets’ weapons battered the invading fleet.
• Alice analyzed the enemy and used successive attacks to force the fleet to reveal its tactics, while repairs and reinforcements raised its strength to 20,000 motherships.
• Alice sent the Solar System’s weapons past the enemy fleet and through the portal, where they destroyed the Intelligent Machines Civilization’s bases and wiped out Trisolaris.
• BT1315 gathered the surviving motherships around Mothership No. 1315 and triggered the Death Vortex, flattening at least half the fleet.
• BT1315 unleashed Core Storm in a spreading blue wave that shut down defenses from Pluto to Venus and paralyzed the Solar System’s orbital defense system.

The Intelligent Machines God crippled the Solar System Defense Perimeter, but Ding Chang led the Solar System’s counterattack. The defenders captured the enemy’s technology, and Divine Firmament raised Solar System Online’s difficulty rating to Galaxy-level.

• The Intelligent Machines God used Core Storm to paralyze programs across the Solar System and bring down its defense perimeter.
• Lin Ye told the District Heads that the perimeter was only the first layer of the Solar System’s defenses.
• Alice located the Intelligent Machines God aboard Mothership 1315 and sent Ding Chang her battle plan before shutting down the Solar System’s artificial intelligence programs.
• Ding Chang took command of the Queen and led the Neptune Nineteenth Legion against the Intelligent Machines fleet.
• The Solar System fleet repelled the enemy barrage and destroyed Mothership 1315, but the Intelligent Machines God escaped to another warship.
• The Intelligent Machines God assembled his surviving forces into a vast army, and Ding Chang deployed the Space Marines against them.
• The Psionics captured the Intelligent Machines God’s core data and turned his army against itself, destroying it.
• Divine Firmament awarded Lin Ye Intelligent Machines technologies and five million Star Yuan, then raised Solar System Online’s difficulty rating to Galaxy-level.