Chapter Summaries

The Intelligent Machines Civilization used the Instance’s unlimited time to fill Trisolaris with five billion units, reaching the planet’s carrying capacity. The Intelligent Machines God began the war and taunted Lin Ye, confident his Super Legion could win the reward and conquer the Universe Arena.

• Lin Ye rested while the Intelligent Machines Civilization continued building its forces in the Instance.
• After twenty-four hours, mechanical units covered Trisolaris so densely that no air could pass through.
• Divine Firmament warned that the units had exceeded the planet’s carrying capacity and would accelerate the star system’s deterioration.
• The Intelligent Machines God checked the Instance data and found his civilization had reached five billion units, including motherships, mechas, and tanks.
• The Intelligent Machines God declared that the war would begin and mocked Lin Ye over the size of his Super Legion.

The Intelligent Machines God ordered his five billion combat units to board the motherships for their invasion of the Solar System. As the compact ships absorbed the units and grew to city-sized vessels, the Intelligent Machines Army prepared to set out while Lin Ye slept through the spectacle.

• Fulangche asked whether they should wake Lin Ye after the Intelligent Machines God addressed him, but George said the enemy army had reached its population limit and battle was near.
• Xi'er and Long Yuan told everyone not to wake Lin Ye until the Intelligent Machines units passed through the portal, letting him rest as the enemy prepared.
• The Intelligent Machines God ordered every unit to board the motherships and announced their coming attack on the Solar System.
• Five billion Intelligent Machines combat units assembled and streamed into 10,000 motherships as civilizations watched the vast deployment.
• The motherships used Data Torrent Transmission to absorb the units and their materials, expanding into city-sized vessels that formed part of the Intelligent Machines God's body.

The Intelligent Machines Motherships absorbed their embarked units and transformed into specialized warships, combining five billion combat units into a fleet of 10,000. The Intelligent Machines God ordered the fleet to destroy the Solar System’s Eight Planets, and the motherships charged through the portal toward the Solar System.

• The Intelligent Machines Motherships fused with their embarked units, evolving into giant mecha, expanded carriers, and flying fortresses.
• Spectators in the Livestream Room marveled at the fleet’s power and feared the Intelligent Machines Civilization would overwhelm the Azure Civilization.
• The Intelligent Machines God ordered the units on Trisolaris to continue producing reinforcements while the expeditionary force attacked the Solar System.
• The Intelligent Machines God gave each mothership independent control and ordered the fleet to destroy the Eight Planets.
• The 10,000 motherships formed a precise honeycomb array, accelerated toward the portal, and surged through it as a blue torrent.

Ten thousand Intelligent Machines Motherships entered the Solar System and began jamming its detection network as they advanced toward Neptune. In Earth Online’s Central City, Alice detected the invasion and prepared to fire the opening shot while Ding Chang waited for their next move.

• Ten thousand Intelligent Machines Motherships crossed into the Solar System, melted the Oort Cloud’s ice storms, and advanced through the Kuiper Belt under an unfamiliar mechanical command system.
• The Intelligent Machines fleet detected the Solar System’s signals and sent ships to jam them, but the Eight Planets Defense Perimeter still picked up faint traces of the invasion.
• In the Forbidden City, Colonel Kaza remained bound to a pillar outside the Meridian Gate as pedestrians jeered at him and threw garbage.
• Alice told Ding Chang that a powerful, highly intelligent civilization had invaded and was disrupting their detection signals.
• Ding Chang raised his battle sword, but Alice stopped him and said she would fire the opening shot in accordance with her master’s instructions.

Alice activated the Solar System Defense Perimeter to confront the approaching Intelligent Machines Civilization and gather information about its fleet. After the invaders entered the Solar System and were detected near Pluto, Divine Firmament announced a full-scale defensive strike.

• Alice persuaded Emperor Ding Chang to let her use the Solar System Defense Perimeter against the foreign civilization.
• The Intelligent Machines fleet crossed the Kuiper Belt and chose Pluto as its first stronghold.
• The fleet's approach exposed its location and size to Alice through the surveillance and communication systems on Pluto.
• Divine Firmament detected the invasion, classified the Intelligent Machines Civilization as a high-level threat, and activated the Solar System Defense Perimeter.
• Divine Firmament announced attacks involving the planets and the Kuiper Belt's kinetic interception devices.

The Solar System unleashed its Eight Planets Defense Perimeter against the Intelligent Machines Civilization, coordinating multiple advanced weapons to strike the fleet. The Intelligent Machines Civilization halted its advance and raised an enormous shield, confident that its adaptive defenses could withstand the attack.

• The Solar System deployed weapons from all eight planets, including solar flares, gravity-accelerated missiles, ion storms, plasma cannons, and kinetic interception systems.
• Alice calculated the weapons' routes so the first wave would arrive in ten minutes, followed by two more waves at fifteen and eighteen minutes.
• The Intelligent Machines Civilization analyzed the Solar System's weapons and ordered its ten thousand motherships to stop advancing and enter defensive mode.
• The Intelligent Machines fleet linked its projections into a massive shield and activated technologies designed to counter lasers, physical weapons, gravity attacks, and energy weapons.
• The Intelligent Machines God observed the defenses from Mothership No. 1315 and declared that the Solar System's weapons would not overcome his civilization's technology.

The Solar System Defense Perimeter unleashed attacks from the Eight Planets against the Intelligent Machines fleet, engulfing the battlefield in antimatter blasts and other devastating weapons. The livestream could no longer show what was happening inside the warped, chaotic space.

• As the countdown ended, 1,000 Antimatter Missiles from Neptune struck the Intelligent Machines fleet and split into maneuvering subwarheads.
• The Intelligent Machines fleet activated fluid state and strengthened its shields to withstand the antimatter detonations.
• Alice's adjustments synchronized the weapons from the Eight Planets, and Divine Firmament announced their arrival.
• The Freezing Ray froze and shattered the fleet's outer shields, while the High-Temperature Plasma Cannon sent superheated plasma toward the warships.
• Gravity Acceleration Missiles formed a destructive gravitational net, warping the livestream image.
• The Plasma Storm unleashed an ionized tsunami across the battlefield, leaving the fleet obscured within a vast vortex of fire, frost, and lightning.

The Solar System Defense Perimeter devastated the Intelligent Machines fleet with its first bombardment, destroying or damaging more than half its warships. As the fleet prepared for another attack, repair craft rapidly restored its damaged ships and new motherships were sent from the Trisolaran star system.

• The Solar System Defense Perimeter unleashed a minute-long barrage that overwhelmed the Intelligent Machines fleet with interstellar technologies.
• The bombardment ended with the Intelligent Machines fleet scattered, and many outer ships destroyed or stripped down to their mechanical structures.
• Intelligent Machines 1 reported that 1,000 warships had been destroyed, 2,000 severely damaged, and 2,000 lightly damaged.
• The Intelligent Machines fleet reorganized, ordered its repair craft to act, and requested more motherships from the Trisolaran star system.
• Swarms of repair aircraft covered damaged warships with beams that restored their geometric hulls within seconds.

The Solar System Defense Perimeter repeatedly attacked the Intelligent Machines fleet, but the Intelligent Machines Civilization repaired its losses and sent reinforcements through the portal. Alice’s attacks eventually checked its growth, leaving the fleet at a steady 20,000 motherships.

• The Intelligent Machines Civilization rapidly repaired damaged ships while its base in the Trisolaran star system sent reinforcements through the portal, swelling the fleet to 15,000 ships.
• The Intelligent Machines God claimed that the fleet could outpace the Solar System’s attacks and that he was collecting data to analyze its technology.
• The Solar System Defense Perimeter launched successive waves that severely damaged the Intelligent Machines fleet, but repairs and reinforcements raised its count to 18,000 motherships before the third wave.
• Alice pushed the Defense Perimeter’s attacks to a twenty-second interval, yet the Intelligent Machines Civilization kept replacing its losses.
• The fleet stabilized at 20,000 motherships as Alice’s attacks finally stopped its expansion.

The Intelligent Machines God realized that the Solar System Defense Perimeter was adapting its attacks through analysis, suggesting an advanced artificial intelligence opposed it. Alice had finished analyzing the enemy and gave Ding Chang data and countermeasures, leaving him ready to end the war.

• The Intelligent Machines God noticed that the Solar System Defense Perimeter’s fixed missile attacks were becoming more effective as they adjusted to the fleet’s formations and defenses.
• The Intelligent Machines God suspected that an advanced artificial intelligence was analyzing its civilization.
• Alice revealed that she had completed her analysis of the Intelligent Machines Civilization and switched the Eight Planets Defense Perimeter to one-click sweep mode.
• Alice transmitted her findings and countermeasures, including estimates of the enemy’s repair and production speeds, to Ding Chang’s armor system.
• Ding Chang praised Alice and said he would end the war quickly.

Alice persuaded Ding Chang to let her continue fighting the Intelligent Machines Civilization while she located its base and its hidden Intelligent Machines God. Ding Chang prepared the Solar System’s forces to attack if Alice encountered a setback.

• Ding Chang warned Alice that the Eight Planets Defense Perimeter had reached its limits and offered to send in Space Marines and Psionic troops.
• Alice insisted on taking another turn at the controls, explaining that she had traced the enemy’s base and planned to destroy its Spacetime Gates.
• Alice said she would also locate the Intelligent Machines God, which could hide inside and move between mechanical units.
• Ding Chang agreed to let Alice continue while ordering Space Marine legions across the Solar System to prepare for combat.
• The Queen Star Destroyer flew above the Forbidden City at top speed.

The Intelligent Machines God concluded that the Solar System’s repeated attacks were predictable and ordered the fleet to advance on Pluto. He realized too late that the 38th wave had been aimed at the star system portal, and urgently ordered every mothership to intercept it.

• After the 37th wave, the Intelligent Machines God decided the Solar System had exhausted its options and arranged the motherships’ defenses for an advance on Pluto.
• The 38th wave of Solar System weapons flew past the Intelligent Machines fleet and into the Kuiper Belt, leading the motherships to report that the enemy attacks had failed.
• The Intelligent Machines fleet rushed toward Pluto, while the Intelligent Machines God questioned why every Solar System weapon had missed at once.
• The Intelligent Machines God realized the weapons were deliberately heading for the star system portal and ordered every mothership to intercept them with maximum firepower.

The Solar System’s weapons passed through the portal and destroyed Trisolaris and its bases before the Intelligent Machines could defend them. Divine Firmament announced that the surviving 20,000 Intelligent Machines Motherships were all that remained of their civilization and told them to continue fighting.

• The Intelligent Machines God ordered all 20,000 motherships to halt and fire lasers at the portal, but the Solar System’s weapons had already crossed into the Trisolaran star system.
• Divine Firmament warned the Challengers that the Solar System had located the portal and that its weapons had entered their Spawn Point.
• The Solar System’s lasers and thousands of Antimatter Missiles devastated Trisolaris and destroyed the Intelligent Machines bases.
• Antimatter Missiles erased a vast region of space, and Trisolaris was wiped away.
• Ten seconds later, the Trisolaran star system’s camera feeds went dark, and Divine Firmament declared that the surviving motherships were the only continuation of the Intelligent Machines civilization.

The Intelligent Machines God reacted to the destruction of its Trisolaran Military Base and realized the Solar System had an Artificial Intelligence. It gathered its fleet into the Intelligent Machines Civilization's Death Vortex and declared that the farce was over.

• Spectators in the Livestream Room realized the Solar System had destroyed the Intelligent Machines Civilization's home base with a surprise attack.
• The Intelligent Machines God roared that its civilization would not lose, despite losing its ability to resupply and manufacture ships.
• The Intelligent Machines God concluded that a powerful Artificial Intelligence had coordinated the Solar System's defenses and addressed Lin Ye.
• The Intelligent Machines fleet assembled around Mothership No. 1315 to form the Intelligent Machines Civilization's Death Vortex.

The Intelligent Machines fleet formed a death spiral as the Intelligent Machines God unleashed Core Storm. The blue wave paralyzed the Solar System’s planetary defenses, leaving the defense perimeter breached.

• The Intelligent Machines fleet circled in a death spiral while its motherships repeated, “Frequency Up!”
• Mothership No. 754 shook apart, exposed its Polyhedron, and collapsed into a flat plane as it drifted away.
• Countless motherships broke free of the Intelligent Machines God’s control, and at least half of the warships were flattened.
• The Intelligent Machines God, hiding aboard Warship No. 1315, unleashed Core Storm in a spreading blue wave.
• Divine Firmament reported that the wave shut down defenses from Pluto to Venus and paralyzed the Solar System’s orbital defense system.

The Intelligent Machines God breached the Solar System Defense Perimeter with a Core Storm that paralyzed intelligent units across the star system. Lin Ye explained how the attack worked and why the Solar System’s artificial intelligence had given the Intelligent Machines God a chance to use it.

• Spectators and the Federation District Heads were stunned when the Solar System Defense Perimeter suddenly fell.
• Lin Ye identified the attack as a Core Storm and explained that the Intelligent Machines God had combined its units’ data and computing power to paralyze programs throughout the Solar System.
• Lin Ye said the Intelligent Machines God could not directly control every weapon because its computing power was limited, but warned that a stronger storm could have turned the Solar System’s weapons against itself.
• Lin Ye explained that Alice’s destruction of the Trisolaran star system had revealed the Solar System’s high-level artificial intelligence, prompting the Intelligent Machines God to gamble on its attack.

Lin Ye revealed that the Intelligent Machines Civilization’s Core Storm could become a valuable technology if he won, then reassured the grieving District Heads that his Instance had more defenses than the Eight Planets Defense Perimeter. He left them with the promise that the Solar System’s game had only just begun.

• Lin Ye realized the Intelligent Machines Civilization’s Core Storm could be more valuable than its artificial intelligence technology and considered how he might obtain it.
• Long Yuan, Xi'er, and Fulangche prepared for Azure Star’s destruction and praised Lin Ye while urging him to let its people fulfill their regrets.
• Lin Ye told the District Heads to stop mourning because his Instance had defenses beyond the Eight Planets Defense Perimeter.
• Lin Ye explained that the perimeter was only the first layer of the Solar System’s defenses and accounted for at most thirty percent of the Instance.

Lin Ye reassured the District Heads that the livestream’s next battle would demonstrate tactics useful in their planet-based Instances. In the Instance, Alice shut down the Solar System’s artificial intelligence to stop the Intelligent Machines God from taking control, leaving Ding Chang to fight for humanity.

• Lin Ye told the District Heads to watch the livestream as Ding Chang coordinated different troop types in battle.
• Alice told Ding Chang that the Intelligent Machines God had attacked her mind and that she had located it aboard Mothership 1315.
• Alice transmitted the fleet’s coordinates and her battle plan to Ding Chang through his Yellow Emperor Armor.
• Alice shut down the artificial intelligence programs across the Solar System, then collapsed and told Ding Chang that saving the system was up to him.
• Ding Chang laid Alice on his throne, comforted her, and declared that he would fight for the star system.

Ding Chang activated his upgraded Yellow Emperor Armor and confronted the disgraced traitor Kaza at the Meridian Gate. He freed Kaza on the condition that he become the Emperor’s loyal hound, then summoned the Star Destroyer Queen to take them aboard.

• Ding Chang fully activated his upgraded Yellow Emperor Armor, which combined advanced interstellar technology with elements of Great Xia’s history.
• Ding Chang left the Golden Throne Hall and walked to the Meridian Gate as the Star Destroyer Queen hovered over the Forbidden City.
• Ding Chang condemned Kaza for betraying Azure Star and Lin Ye, while Kaza begged for a chance to atone by fighting for Lin Ye in the Instance.
• Ding Chang cut Kaza’s chains and ordered him to become his loyal hound, calling him “Emperor” and treating him as his master.
• Kaza agreed, and Ding Chang summoned a beam that carried them both aboard the Star Destroyer Queen.

Ding Chang boarded the Queen, a heavily armed Star Destroyer, and prepared to lead Solar System Online’s forces against the Intelligent Machines remnants. He dispatched 5,000 Space Marines and 100 Psionics while the Queen launched from Earth and headed into space.

• The Queen’s design, created by Katerina and refined by Lin Ye and Alice, had become a Star Destroyer equipped for interstellar travel and overwhelming combat.
• Ding Chang took manual control of the Queen after the Intelligent Machines God’s Core Storm disabled its intelligent control center, and he contacted the Space Marine legions using quantum communications.
• Ding Chang ordered 5,000 Space Marines and 100 Psionics from the Neptune Nineteenth Legion to the Intelligent Machines Expeditionary Force’s target location, while the other legions repaired the planetary defenses.
• People gathered outside the Forbidden City and cheered as the Queen’s countdown ended and its fusion thrusters lifted it from Earth.
• The Queen broke through the atmosphere and accelerated into deep space.