Chapter Summaries

The narrator and his companions met Gotak's Grand Chancellor, Biberlu, and were escorted to the hidden queen aboard her flagship. The queen revealed that she personally controlled the supposedly AI-driven Queen Fleet, then began introducing herself with an extraordinarily long name.

• Jill demanded to meet Gotak's queen, while the narrator challenged the Kingdom officers over her absence.
• Biberlu introduced himself as Gotak's Grand Chancellor, and Qian Qian examined and knocked on his reflective spherical body before he explained that changing color was a greeting.
• Biberlu said the queen could not leave her throne without risking control of the fleet, so the narrator and his companions traveled to her command center.
• The group found a young girl seated motionless on an immense throne, and the narrator declared Pandora the winner of their seven-minute staring contest.
• The queen explained that the Queen Fleet's supposed artificial intelligence was a facade and that she controlled the fleet herself to preserve the Free Kingdom's morale.
• The narrator asked the queen's name, and she began reciting her exceptionally long full name.

Fina explained that the universe was a prison-like pasture where the Shepherds controlled wandering civilizations and forced them into wars. After revealing why she had come to meet the fleet, she told A Jun and the others, “You are hope.”

• Fina introduced the Shepherds as powerful, unpredictable beings who treated every other civilization as Lambs and herded them through a universe from which none could escape.
• Fina explained that the Shepherds ordered civilizations to fight one another, and Pandora and Viska angrily prepared to attack them before A Jun and Older Sister stopped the girls.
• Fina revealed that a detection device in the Jettas Star Ring had falsely identified a Shepherd among the fleet, prompting her to come in person and conceal the danger from General Jane.
• When A Jun asked why she had shared so much confidential information, Fina paused and said that the visitors were hope.

The Queen asked the narrator’s group to help the Gotak Free Kingdom escape the Shepherds, while Tawell uncovered strange self-operating Imperial war machines with mutated control systems. The narrator left the investigation to Tawell and returned to find the Ai Er Light’s Spirit Web Plaza turned into a victory banquet.

• The Queen explained that the Gotak Free Kingdom sought technology to escape the universe and asked the narrator’s group for help against the Shepherds; he agreed to help defeat the Empire Rebels.
• The narrator and the Imperial leaders returned to the Ai Er Light, where Tawell summoned him to report a discovery about the mutated Imperial war machines.
• Tawell revealed that captured fighters and an Assault Ship had no pilots, and their control devices operated autonomously through an unfamiliar language and behavioral rules.
• The narrator told Tawell to investigate the machines carefully and avoid exposing Shilin traits to the natives, then worried about the missing Lilina as he returned upstairs.
• The narrator found Spirit Web Plaza packed with Imperial heroes celebrating their victory, caught the injured Hero King Jill drinking, and saw Zeratul lamenting that he had no mouth.

During the celebration aboard the Ai Er Light, Ding Dang accidentally got drunk and unleashed divine plants that overwhelmed the Heroic Spirits and trapped the party for hours. After she sobered up, Zeratul reported that the fleet had reached Planet Jettas and the First Exploration Team had found traces of Archbishop Lilina.

• The Heroic Spirits celebrated their victory aboard the Ai Er Light while Chen wondered how the injured were recovering so quickly, and Ding Dang explained that she could heal them within three hours.
• Ding Dang fell into a wine jar, got drunk, and unleashed wild vines and man-eating flowers across the mothership, forcing everyone to flee.
• Chen and the others tried to fight the plants with chainsaws, but the vines captured the Heroic Spirits and left the group hanging until Ding Dang sobered up five hours later.
• Ding Dang woke and failed to understand why everyone was angry with her, while Zeratul announced that the fleet had exited hyperspace near Planet Jettas and that the First Exploration Team had found traces of Archbishop Lilina.

A Jun learned that the Shepherds had declared a new Great War and delayed the fleet’s departure to help Queen Fina by targeting Shepherd forces. Fina revealed that she had once been human and now lived in a Shepherd body, while A Jun discovered why she responded so readily to the Empire’s higher-ups.

• A Protoss Exploration Team found evidence of the Temple Legion’s activity in the eastern Great Nebula and sent word of a lead on Lilina.
• Jane warned A Jun that the Shepherds had announced the end of the balance cycle and that the Federation fleet’s departure could leave Gotak exposed.
• A Jun visited Queen Fina, who confirmed that the fleet they sought had been active in the eastern Great Nebula and gave him coordinates for Shepherd Supervisory Teams.
• A Jun ordered the Empire Admiral to prepare surprise attacks on several Shepherd Supervisory Teams and postponed the fleet’s departure to help Gotak.
• Fina disconnected from her throne and explained that she had once been human, that a Gotak pirate leader had revived her using a Shepherd body, and that her body resonated with high-ranking Shilin Apostles.

The narrator discovered that Fina’s human brain was connected to a Shepherd body and resolved to confront the Empire rebels after they plunged the universe into war. After destroying the Shepherd Supervisory Team, he revealed a fabricated account of the Empire to Fina, who urged him to hide his forces’ identities and agreed to help manage the fallout as he prepared to travel to the Great Nebula.

• Fina explained how her brain operated through a Shepherd body and why she needed its strength and processing power to govern Gotak.
• Jane reported the arrival of the Shepherd Supervisory Team, and the narrator ordered a Hyperspace Strike that destroyed them.
• Lin Xue warned the narrator that ancient, dangerous forces existed in the universe and that reinforcements were being sent to the Red Giant Star Base.
• Fina recognized the narrator’s forces as Shepherds, and he invented a story about an Imperial expedition against ancient rebels to explain their presence.
• Fina advised the narrator to conceal his forces and identities to prevent panic, then asked whether he planned to kill her; he reassured her and prepared to leave for the Great Nebula.

The group traveled through the Great Nebula to retrieve Lilina, then teleported to a Protoss outpost and found it abandoned and badly damaged. They boarded the base to investigate, with Older Sister proposing that they search for corpses.

• Sakura complained about being bored aboard the Void Skimmer while Tawell studied the Great Nebula and urged the group to investigate its core.
• The Void Skimmer crossed the Great Nebula’s outer layers and emerged into the space beyond it.
• The group used the teleportation controller to reach a nearby Protoss base, where they found dead communications, failed power, shattered defenses, and no visible inhabitants.
• Older Sister ordered the ship to approach, and she, Viska, the narrator, and several Heroic Spirits boarded the outpost.
• After confirming the base had no artificial gravity, Older Sister suggested they search for corpses.

The group investigated an abandoned asteroid base and discovered that a powerful fleet had attacked it before its garrison withdrew. They hid when an unidentified ship approached, and the chapter ended as the battered vessel landed and Viska began listening in on its communications.

• Viska restored artificial gravity and assessed the base, concluding that its defenses had failed after the Psionic Energy Reactor was struck and the garrison had retreated.
• Viska recovered a Protoss Probe’s memory core and decoded its record of a massive fleet using a spatial weapon to attack the base.
• Medusa and the other Heroic Spirits reported that the residential, storage, and production areas were empty, with no bodies or signs of looting.
• Sakura reported that a small ship was approaching, so the group cloaked and waited inside the abandoned base.
• A heavily damaged ship landed, and Viska hacked its unguarded communications channel.

The narrator’s group watched a Privateer Group arrive to scavenge the abandoned Protoss base, then began secretly frightening them when they threatened to destroy it. As the scavengers formed a defensive line and brought down combat mechs, one mech wandered directly in front of Viska.

• The Privateer Group landed, surveyed the base, and began searching it for valuable technology while discussing their scavenging operation.
• The scavengers found almost nothing because the Protoss had stripped the base bare, so Baker ordered them to bring down combat mechs and blast the buildings apart.
• The narrator warned the Privateer Group over their radio, and Viska threw Ham across the platform, convincing the scavengers that something supernatural was happening.
• Baker ordered the group to form a defensive line, while the narrator’s allies gathered around them to frighten them further.
• The Privateer Group deployed five combat mechs, and one mech stepped directly in front of Viska.

Viska dismantled a Privateer Group mech while Older Sister’s curse caused escalating disasters at the abandoned base, and Ding Dang unknowingly deflected a meteor when a pirate invoked her. After the Privateer Group fled, the group followed its ship to seek clues about Lilina and the missing Protoss Vanguard Team.

• Viska climbed onto a Combat Robot and tore it apart while its terrified pilot and the Privateer Group panicked.
• Older Sister warned that her curse was worsening the base’s failures, and a mech blue-screened as the Privateer Group tried to retreat.
• A meteor struck the base, while Ding Dang diverted another after a Privateer Group leader prayed to the Life Goddess.
• The Privateer Group escaped, and Older Sister identified the prayer and ritual as evidence that its members had encountered Lilina’s Temple Legion.
• The base was destroyed by asteroid bombardment, and the group followed the Privateer Group ship to search for Lilina and the Protoss Vanguard Team.

A Jun, Older Sister, and Viska infiltrated the Privateer Group’s battered space station by posing as smugglers seeking its boss lady. They reached her quarters and found her berating a man on a floating screen.

• A Jun rejected Viska’s plan to attack the station and agreed to Older Sister’s idea of infiltrating it.
• A Jun persuaded the station’s guards to grant their shuttle landing access by claiming they had valuable technology and wanted to meet the boss lady.
• Viska’s unprotected arrival on the exposed landing platform terrified the spacesuited workers, and the privateers escorted the group inside.
• Bo Han led them through the station, where Baker and Ham challenged their identities and mistook them for officials selling stolen military technology.
• A Jun, Older Sister, and Viska entered the boss lady’s plain quarters and found her scolding a middle-aged man on a screen.

The narrator and his companions followed clues from Bonnie to the Temple Legion’s hidden route and opened a dimensional passage by triggering the collapse of a star. The Temple Legion returned to Imperial territory, and the narrator reunited with Lilina, who admitted how frightened she had been stranded before teasing him about their reunion.

• The narrator met Privateer Group leader Bonnie, who described the Temple Legion’s violent visit to Silicon Mine Star and revealed that Lilina had left her a marked curse and a lollipop as identity tests.
• Bonnie led the narrator’s group to a dying star that concealed the Temple Legion’s passage, and the narrator used Avalon’s law-interference system to start the star collapsing.
• The dimensional barrier opened, allowing the Temple Legion to enter the Empire First Legion’s territory through a beacon channel, and Bonnie returned to her station with obsolete technology as payment.
• The narrator reached Red Giant Star Base and found Lilina waiting in a lounge, where she embraced him and then argued with him over how he held her.
• Lilina thanked the narrator for coming to rescue her and confessed that she never wanted to feel stranded in another world again, then teased him about her earlier affection.

Lilina and the Temple Legion returned to the Empire’s forces, and Lilina briefed the war council on the rebels’ strength, behavior, and the Eastern Star Sector. As the group considered how to exploit the sector’s chaos, they received word that rebels had attacked Planet Jettas in the Western Star Sector.

• The narrator learned that Lilina had been stranded with the Temple Legion, fought pirates, and hidden in deep space to avoid exposing themselves to the rebels.
• Lilina reunited with the narrator, Older Sister, Viska, Siweisi, and the heroic spirits, then declared a war council to plan her revenge.
• Lilina explained that the rebels greatly outnumbered the Empire’s forces but acted without memory or adaptable intelligence, potentially allowing their behavior to be exploited.
• Lilina described the Eastern Star Sector’s warring factions and reported that the rebels appeared to support the Angel Legion.
• A report arrived stating that General Pandora had detected a rebel force attacking Planet Jettas in the Western Star Sector.

After Silvia’s uncontrolled power destroyed the rebel motherships near Jettas, Chen Jun returned to check on her while Siweisi outlined the Empire’s war strategy and its planned Death Star Fortress. Silvia appeared recovered, and Chen Jun learned that Gotak’s Sphere Prime Minister wanted to meet him.

• The Federation fleet annihilated the rebel force near Jettas, and Qian Qian reported that Silvia had caused half the enemy ships, including the flagship, to self-destruct.
• Chen Jun decided to return to Jettas to check Silvia, while Siweisi presented plans to stabilize the Western Star Sector, draw rebel forces into the Eastern Star Sector, and harass their scattered Supervisory Teams.
• Siweisi revealed the plan to transform the Red Giant Star into a Death Star Fortress capable of attacking the Great Nebula’s core, and Chen Jun admitted he had approved the proposal without understanding it.
• Chen Jun found Silvia safe in an Isolation Chamber, confirmed that her energy was balanced, and allowed her to leave.
• Qian Qian told Chen Jun that Gotak’s Sphere Prime Minister wanted to see him.

Biberlu asked for Federation forces to help the Gotak Free Kingdom retake Crystal Peak, and the narrator launched a blitzkrieg against its Gustar Church occupiers. The enemy fleet and orbital defenses were destroyed, but the Federation had no orbital bombs, leaving the narrator’s Older Sister to propose an improvised solution.

• Biberlu delivered Queen Fina’s request for help reclaiming Crystal Peak, and the narrator agreed to send Federation forces.
• The narrator explained Crystal Peak’s strategic and mineral value, then ordered the Federation fleet to destroy Gustar’s forces within twenty minutes.
• The Ai Er Light deployed a miniature black hole while Pandora and Viska attacked Gustar’s carriers, and Federation ships overwhelmed the enemy fleet.
• Nova reported that she had captured the Orbital Cannon Ring Command Center but could not disable its cannons, so the narrator ordered them to self-destruct.
• The Gustar forces collapsed, but the narrator realized the Federation lacked orbital bombs and could not bombard Crystal Peak without damaging its valuable ore.
• Older Sister offered to draw a large-diameter design on two rolls of paper as a solution to the bombardment problem.

The Federation crippled Crystal Peak’s defenses with Older Sister’s gravity curses and launched a planetary invasion. During the landing, Wood learned that Suigintou was arriving, only to find himself surrounded by hundreds of chibi Suigintous and their toy-like vehicles.

• Wood realized the Federation could not bombard Crystal Peak directly, so Older Sister created cursed paper beacons to make orbital wreckage fall onto the planet’s energy stations.
• The wreckage overwhelmed Crystal Peak’s anti-aircraft defenses and destroyed its forty-six major military energy stations, allowing the Federation to begin its landing operation.
• Wood, Lilina, and the Heroic Spirits landed on Crystal Peak; Cu Chulainn survived a crash after his landing craft’s deceleration engine failed to activate.
• The Federation forces cleared resistance across the planet while Lin Xue contacted Wood and told him Suigintou was coming to join him.
• Wood and Lilina found themselves surrounded by hundreds of miniature, three-headed Suigintous in assorted combat gear, as toy trucks carrying more Suigintous arrived.

The narrator discovered that the alchemists had created more than ten thousand powerful Q-version Suigintou bodies for the Misaka Sisters and Suigintou to command. Suigintou arrived fully repaired alongside a gigantic Titan Suigintou, and the chapter ended with her army welcoming the narrator on the alien battlefield.

• The narrator inspected a Kusanagi Kyo Suigintou, which breathed elemental fire and singed his face.
• The narrator organized the dolls into formations and realized that Misaka Sisters controlled most of them through alchemical bodies linked to the Misaka Network.
• The Misaka Sisters explained that alchemy grandmasters, Bubble, and Lin Xue had turned Suigintou’s repair work into a competition that produced thousands of specialized dolls and a Titan Suigintou.
• The narrator saw the 101-meter Titan Suigintou arrive and heard Misaka 10086 describe its elaborate weapons and questionable practical value.
• The repaired Suigintou appeared, teased the narrator, and offered her legion’s help in the war.
• Suigintou directed her dolls to arrange an “Extraterrestrial Welcome You” banner on the battlefield.

The Federation Army defeated Gusita’s last stronghold on Crystal Peaks after the Cute Army rescued the miners and dismantled the Fusion Bombs. With the planet secured and preparations underway for the next campaign, Rider told the narrator that Sakura seemed unwell.

• Gusita’s troops held the Crystallized Quartz Mining Station hostage with miners and Fusion Bombs while demanding a Transport Ship to escape.
• The Misaka Sisters and their chibi warriors infiltrated the mine, eliminated sentries, and rescued the hostages through a Teleportation Gate.
• Sakura Matou created an Information Barrier and dismantled the Fusion Bombs’ remote controls, removing the invaders’ leverage.
• The chibi army withdrew as a giant doll appeared and attacked, ending the battle against the remaining Gusita forces.
• The Federation Army celebrated its victory, prepared to leave Crystal Peaks, and planned attacks on the Shepherd Supervisory Teams within twenty-four hours.
• Rider told the narrator that Sakura seemed wrong and asked them to check on her.

The narrator discovered that Sakura could resonate with Crystal Peak and amplify communications, then built a planetary antenna to extend Sandora’s Mind Stealer Beacon across the star system. The system overloaded and shut down, but the narrator planned to lure Gusita forces into the beacon’s range as war against the Shepherds began.

• Sakura resonated with Crystal Peak, boosting Shadow City’s signal strength tenfold and revealing the planet’s antenna-like properties.
• The narrator asked Fina to let the Federation defend Crystal Peak, and Fina agreed while confirming that an offensive against the Shepherds would begin in twenty-four hours.
• The narrator built a spiral communication tower at Crystal Peak’s South Pole and connected Sandora’s psychic power to the planet-wide amplifier.
• The Mind Stealer Beacon spread through the star system and could control intelligent life entering its range, but the amplification system overloaded and shut down.
• The narrator planned to withdraw the main forces and use controlled Gusita troops to lure reinforcements into the beacon’s range, while more than a hundred Shepherd Supervisory Teams came under simultaneous attack.

The Imperial Army’s Hunting Force launched a galaxy-wide campaign against the rebel Supervisory Teams, triggering panic among civilians and forcing governments to order their worlds to stay out of the conflict. After directing the operation and balancing several fronts, the narrator visited Titan Suigintou in the Lower Hangar and found her playing with real aircraft.

• The Imperial Army destroyed hundreds of rebel Supervisory Teams across the Southern and Northern Star Sectors, and reports of the attacks spread throughout the universe.
• Governments ordered their colonies to remain calm, avoid the battle zones, and halt unauthorized interstellar travel.
• Siweisi reported the Hunting Force’s results and losses, while the narrator ordered it to disperse its attacks and avoid provoking a premature large-scale battle.
• After the briefing, the narrator complained about the many Three-Headed Suigintous aboard the Ai Er Light and headed to the Lower Hangar with Suigintou.
• The narrator found Titan Suigintou staging a playful aerial battle with a real single-soldier fighter and Viking, then called for Tawell.