Recaps

Babadiila mistook the Sprayer Bugs’ range and lured his fleet within striking distance, where their overwhelming firepower destroyed most of his ships. His flagship was then blasted apart, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Babadiila ordered more than 800,000 warships to approach the Sprayer Bugs, believing their attack range was only 500,000 kilometers.
• Socrates ordered the Sprayer Bugs to charge and fire at Babadiila’s fleet from 1 million kilometers away.
• The Sprayer Bugs tore through the fleet, destroying nearly all the warships caught in their first barrage.
• Babadiila ordered the remaining ships to scatter, but the Sprayer Bugs split into swarms and pursued them.
• The Sprayer Bugs reduced Babadiila’s fleet to fewer than 100,000 warships, then destroyed his flagship with a concentrated barrage.

Lin Fan and Liang Xingchen concluded that intelligent forces were directing the insect race, while Lin Fan prepared Shanhai Pass for the Babawi fleet. When the Star Path returned to normal, the Babawi ships emerged into a massive encirclement, and Babania learned that more than thirty million enemy warships awaited them.

• Lin Fan and Liang Xingchen watched the battle footage and suspected that intelligent bugs were commanding the insect race.
• After Babania failed to break his fleet out of the insect swarm at De'ao, Lin Fan ordered the stargate modules separated and deployed a hemispherical fleet around the Star Path exit.
• The first Babawi wave emerged at Shanhai Pass and found itself surrounded by more than thirty million warships instead of insect forces.
• The enemy fleet destroyed all but a few hundred of the arriving Babawi ships in its first attack, and the survivors retaliated before expecting to be destroyed.
• Babania learned that the Star Path had returned to normal, then watched footage of the enormous enemy fleet surrounding the exit.

Babania discovered that nearly 36 million enemy warships were waiting at Virallas and concluded that his forces could not win a direct battle. After consulting Babareya, he gathered 500,000 warships at the Star Path exit, where the enemy prepared to destroy them with a Star Cannon.

• Babania sent probing waves through the Star Path and concluded that the enemy fleet consisted of Level 4 or quasi-Level 4 warships.
• Babania decided to gather enough ships at the Star Path exit to warp away and wage guerrilla warfare, then informed Babareya of the battle and his plan.
• Babareya approved Babania’s plan so the Babawi Empire could gain time to mobilize and expand its forces.
• After more than eight hours and several million losses, the Babawi Empire assembled 500,000 warships at the exit.
• The enemy commander ordered a Star Cannon fired at the assembled fleet.

Babania’s fleet suffered catastrophic losses from the enemy’s Long-Range Gamma Ray Cannon, leaving him to order a desperate retreat from Virallas. He learned that warp was impossible there and fainted on the bridge.

• Babania’s command terminal detected an incoming ray attack that destroyed about 450,000 of the 500,000 assembled warships and crippled many of the survivors.
• Babania regrouped another 500,000 ships ten hours later, but the second Star Cannon attack destroyed more than 60% despite his precautions.
• Babania ordered the frontline fleet to warp away and told later fleets to retreat as soon as they emerged from the Star Path, explaining that even a small force could wage guerrilla warfare.
• Babania’s adjutant reported that warp was impossible within Virallas, and Babania fainted on the bridge.

After Babania fell unconscious during the disastrous battle at Virallas, his adjutant Babaruiro requested tactical guidance from headquarters. Babareya assembled the Empire’s senior commanders, but they concluded the expeditionary fleet was doomed and urged the Empire to prepare for a larger war.

• Babaruiro took command after Babania collapsed, then requested tactical guidance because he could not manage the fleet’s dire situation.
• Babareya summoned more than a thousand current and retired commanders to a Virtual Meeting Room and asked Babaruiro to explain the battle.
• Babaruiro’s report revealed that the Babawi fleet was outnumbered and trapped against an enemy with terrain advantages, powerful weapons, and the ability to block warp travel.
• Babatena declared the situation a dead end and advised Babareya to expand the fleet by one hundred million warships within ten years and seek help from the Vera Alliance.
• Babareya and the assembled commanders accepted that the expeditionary force at Virallas could not be saved.

Babareya appointed Babatena Grand Marshal as the Babawi Empire faced certain defeat. Babatena revealed a secret method to destroy the Star Path between Taylor and Virallas, leaving Babaruiro with a desperate plan to delay the enemy.

• Babareya appointed Babatena Grand Marshal and gave him command of the Empire's armed forces.
• Babatena encouraged Babaruiro to face his likely death as a soldier rather than surrender his final choice to the enemy.
• Babatena dismissed the other meeting participants and told Babareya and Babaruiro that a secret archived by Babator described how to destroy a Star Path.
• Babatena explained that destroying a Star Path would spread special particles across thousands of light-years and make warping impossible in that region.
• Babatena told Babaruiro to operate one hundred billion Warp Drive Engines simultaneously within the Star Path and force open a warp passage.

Babatena ordered the Babawi Empire fleet to activate its Warp Drive Engines inside the Star Path, hoping to collapse it and create a chance for the Empire to survive. The plan destroyed the Star Path and the fleet vanished, leaving their fate unknown.

• Babatena explained that activating hundreds of billions of Warp Drive Engines could collapse the Star Path, and Babaruiro agreed to lead the mission.
• Babaruiro took control of the fleet's warp systems while Babania approved the plan and ordered it carried out immediately.
• The fleet activated its Warp Drive Engines despite warnings that most were overloaded, and Babaruiro and Babania rejected requests to stop.
• The Star Path trembled, shattered, and dissolved into particles, while the Babawi Empire's army disappeared without a trace.

After the Star Path connecting Shanhai Pass and Taylor vanished, Bai Zixuan suspected it had been destroyed by the Babawi Empire. A test then revealed that warp travel could trigger catastrophic spatial distortions, narrowly saving Liang Xingchen from sending his fleet into danger.

• Lin Fan sent an unmanned reconnaissance ship to investigate the Star Path after Bai Zixuan urgently warned him to check it.
• The reconnaissance ship found that the Star Path entrance had disappeared, and Bai Zixuan said he had detected its collapse after sensing over a hundred billion unnatural energy sources.
• Lin Fan ordered Liang Xingchen to take sixty-five legions to Taylor and determine whether the enemy warships had been lost in the collapse.
• Lin Fan urgently stopped Liang Xingchen's departure and brought him into a Virtual Meeting Room to watch a Research Department test.
• A test ship's warp engine malfunctioned, warping and cracking space around a distant Orca-class Warship until the ship was crushed beyond recognition.
• Liang Xingchen realized the test had exposed the danger his fleet might have faced if it had warped to Taylor.

After the Star Path’s collapse made jumps unsafe, Bai Zixuan spent a year studying the foreign particles causing the problem. He developed a way to store them safely in crystals and revealed they could power a Super Star Gate for a year.

• Bai Zixuan explained that foreign particles had disrupted the universe’s rules and that the universe might take decades to expel them, while Lin Fan refused to wait that long for the Babawi Empire to rebuild.
• Bai Zixuan said he had leads on a solution, and Lin Fan gave him full support to investigate.
• A year later, Bai Zixuan and his team completed their research at a laboratory near Virallas Star.
• Bai Zixuan showed Lin Fan and Liang Xingchen a special crystal that isolated Zero-Point Particles from the surrounding universe.
• Bai Zixuan revealed that the crystal’s Zero-Point Particles held enough energy to keep the Federation’s Super Star Gate running for a year.

Lin Fan learned that Zero-Point Particles could power the Super Star Gate and restore warp travel, then prepared to have the new energy system installed. Meanwhile, the insect race overran the Triangle Empire and forced the Vera Alliance to retreat toward the First Main Arm.

• Bai Zixuan explained three ways to address the loss of warp travel: wait, collect Zero-Point Particles to speed the universe’s recovery, or use the Super Star Gate.
• Lin Fan realized the Zero-Point Particle crystal could power the Super Star Gate for a year and asked Bai Zixuan to install the new energy system, which he said would take three days.
• Verto recalled the Vera Alliance fleet as the insect race swept through the end of the First Main Arm.
• Hasso’s forces were defeated by the insect race’s second wave, and the Triangle Empire’s emperor and leaders fled to the Vera Federation.
• Moros faced the strange reversal of the Freedom Alliance being saved by the insect swarm.

Verto persuaded the leaders of the four major alliances to end the Milky Way War and unite against the rapidly expanding insect race. The four leaders agreed, and Verto proposed forming a United Fleet of trillions.

• The Vera Alliance's 10 billion warships fought 10 trillion insects, including a trillion Sprayer Bugs, as the battle grew more difficult.
• Verto met with Xis, Moros, and Hussein and urged them to end the Milky Way War and exterminate the insect race together.
• Verto showed footage of the insect race's cocoons and larvae covering every Life Planet and terraformed planet in the First Main Arm's outer section.
• Xis, Moros, and Hussein agreed to set aside their conflicts and join forces against the insects.
• Verto proposed organizing the largest United Fleet in Milky Way history, numbering in the trillions.

Verto persuaded Moros, Xis, and Hussein to recruit subordinate Level 3 Civilizations as the main force against the Zerg, with alliance fleets transporting their warships to the front. Three months later, the United Fleet gathered at Shanhai Pass as Bai Zixuan’s crude spatial bomb delayed its advance, and Lin Fan ordered the Super Star Gate activated.

• Verto proposed using Level 3 Civilization warships against the Zerg, and Moros, Xis, and Hussein realized those ships could damage the shieldless enemy.
• Hussein raised the problem of transporting Level 3 warships without warp technology, and Verto explained that alliance transport ships and battle stars could carry them to the front in waves.
• Moros, Xis, and Hussein approved the plan, accepting that Level 3 Civilizations would bear the primary losses.
• Bai Zixuan developed a crude spatial bomb by combining Zero-Point Particles with ten Warp Drive Engines, delaying the fleet’s departure by three months.
• At Shanhai Pass, Liang Xue reported that the Super Star Gate was ready, and Lin Fan ordered it activated.

Babatena assembled the Babawi Empire’s expanded fleet and believed the destroyed Star Path would keep the enemy away, but five unidentified craft suddenly appeared inside the Capital Sphere. Their strange design and unexplained arrival left Babatena searching for answers.

• Babatena oversaw the production and redeployment of 27 million main battle warships and the conversion of 50 million civilian vessels into Fire Support Ships.
• Babatena trusted that destroying the Star Path would prevent the enemy from reaching the major spiral arms, unaware that the Federation had developed Spatial Teleportation Technology.
• Five small craft emerged from a spatial passage inside the Capital Sphere and headed toward the assembled Babawi fleet.
• The Empire’s surveillance network detected the craft, and Babatena ordered his officers to contact and scan them.
• The scan revealed that each craft had no weapons, ordinary materials, and ten Warp Drive Engines, leaving Babatena baffled.

Lin Fan and Liang Xingchen deployed five unmanned craft carrying Zero-Point Bombs into the Babawi Empire's Capital Sphere. The bombs opened warp passages that twisted vast regions of space, destroying millions of warships and leaving Babatena stunned.

• Lin Fan ordered the five packages activated after the staff estimated their strike would cause 35 to 40 million in damage.
• Babatena realized the five craft were unmanned and heading toward major warship deployment sites, then ordered nearby fleets to intercept them.
• Lin Fan’s team activated the Zero-Point Bombs, forcing all ten Warp Drive Engines inside each craft to open warp passages.
• Babawi interception fleets fired on the craft, but the bombs triggered five immense regions of warped space and Spatial Rifts.
• More than twenty million Babawi warships were destroyed, and Babatena demanded to know which Advanced Civilization was attacking.

A Zero-Point Bomb attack devastated Babatena’s fleet in the Babawi Empire’s Capital Sphere, prompting him to urge Babareya to activate the Kindling Plan. Humanity began the next phase of its operation, while Babatena ordered an interception of ten new unidentified ships.

• Spatial Rifts tore through the Capital Sphere for half an hour, destroying 49 million of Babatena’s 77 million ships and troops.
• Babatena ordered an urgent call to Babareya to implement the Kindling Plan.
• Lin Fan and Liang Xingchen proceeded with their battle plan, and ten decoy ships resembling Zero-Point Bombs entered the Super Star Gate.
• Babatena’s earlier Kindling Plan had moved Babareya and 500 billion selected Babawi people to Relsas, with Verto’s approval to settle in the First Main Arm.
• After detecting ten unidentified ships, Babatena ordered his fleet to retreat and sent ten Dare-to-Die Squads to intercept and destroy them.

Lin Fan’s fleet poured through the Super Star Gate into the Babawi Empire’s Capital Sphere while Babatena tried to organize a counterattack. With 3.3 million warships assembled, Lin Fan ordered his forces to advance and meet the Babawi fleet head-on.

• Babatena sent ten Dare-to-Die Squads to destroy the ten unarmed ships that had been frightening his fleet into retreat.
• After the decoys were destroyed, Lin Fan’s fleet began arriving through the Super Star Gate in waves of one hundred thousand warships every twenty seconds.
• Babatena recognized Lin Fan’s forces from the Virallas attack and ordered his fleet to turn and surround the Gate’s exit.
• Babatena’s sixteen million main battle warships raced toward the Gate, while twelve million refitted Fire Support Ships fell behind.
• Ten minutes later, Lin Fan arrived aboard the Uranus with more than 3.3 million warships organized into 330 detachments and ordered them to advance.

The Federal Fleet fought the much larger Babawi Empire fleet using Lin Fan’s unpredictable maneuvers and precisely timed fire, leaving Babatena and his adjutant baffled by the lopsided losses. The battle continued with bizarre attacks unfolding across the battlefield.

• The two fleets exchanged fire, and the Federal Fleet spread into a loose formation as they closed to within one million kilometers.
• Babatena noticed that his fleet had destroyed only 2,175 Federal warships while losing 12,000 of its own, and called Lin Fan a monster.
• Lin Fan issued rapid commands from the Uranus, directing Federal sub-fleets to maneuver, regroup, and fire in coordinated patterns.
• Federal sub-fleets fired into a location where more than 200,000 Babawi warships were maneuvering, destroying over a hundred ships as they arrived.
• A Babawi legion’s concentrated volley mostly missed when its Federal targets scattered, then Federal rapid fire struck the legion while it could not evade, destroying nearly a thousand warships.
• Bizarre, coordinated exchanges continued across the battlefield.

Babatena recognized that Lin Fan’s fleet was inflicting devastating losses and ordered a retreat toward Relsas, leaving a million warships exposed to cover the withdrawal. Lin Fan anticipated the retreat and coordinated with Liang Xingchen, whose six million warships warped away to strike as the Babawi fleet prepared to jump.

• Babatena saw that the Babawi Empire fleet had lost 1.2 million warships against only 150,000 enemy losses and decided to abandon the Capital Sphere.
• Babatena ordered the fleet to retreat toward Relsas and placed one million warships on the formation’s outer perimeter to cover the warp.
• Lin Fan recognized the Babawi fleet was preparing to flee and ordered the Warp Interference Device activated while his rear legions prepared for ultra-short-range warps.
• Liang Xingchen understood Lin Fan’s plan, divided his six million warships into groups, and prepared four attack points.
• Babatena turned the fleet toward Relsas and ordered its Energy Shields deactivated as Liang Xingchen warped his six million warships away.

Lin Fan’s Federation forces crushed the Babawi Empire’s fleet after disabling its warp drives and destroying its rear fire-support ships. Babatena surrendered, and the Federation took control of the Babawi Empire’s remaining warships and the Capital Sphere.

• Babatena’s fleet dropped its shields, and Federation warships warped behind it to launch a surprise attack.
• Babatena ordered his ships to retreat, but their warp drives malfunctioned under a blockade, and more than eight million warships were destroyed before their shields came back up.
• Lin Fan sent Liang Xingchen to destroy the Babawi Empire’s twelve million modified fire-support ships while the main battle continued.
• Liang Xingchen destroyed the fire-support fleet, and Babatena surrendered after his main fleet fell below three million warships.
• Lin Fan accepted the surrender to preserve Federation forces and gain access to Babawi technology and intelligence.
• The Federation took control of the Babawi Empire’s remaining warships and the Capital Sphere.

After capturing Babylon, Lin Fan led humanity’s elite forces to Relsas to secure the sole passage between the Orion Arm and the Four Major Spiral Arms. He found the system abandoned and in chaos, and ordered it cleared within three days so it could become a military stronghold.

• After the Babylon battle, the Federation assigned the scattered Babawi fleets and remaining star systems to the Civilization Allied Forces to conquer.
• Lin Fan took command of the Hangu Pass War Zone, with 80% of the Federation’s forces and at least half of the Io Federation’s forces designated for his command.
• After a week of reorganization, the Federation forces departed for Relsas, while Liang Xingchen commanded more than 20 million allied warships.
• Lin Fan’s fleet arrived at Relsas and found its planets deserted and lawless after the Babawi evacuation left residents without a way out.
• Lin Fan ordered his forces to clear Relsas within three days and make it a clean home.

The Milky Way Allied Forces gathered at the Viers Defense Line while the insect race multiplied unchecked, prompting Verto to call for a preemptive attack. The chapter ended with Hussein and the others reacting in shock to Verto’s proposal to destroy billions of planets.

• The Milky Way Allied Forces assembled 850 billion warships at the Viers Defense Line, which the insect race had left unchallenged for a year.
• Verto told Hussein, Moros, and Xis that the Babawi Empire had been driven from the Orion Arm and that Babareya was heading toward the First Main Arm.
• Xis realized the Human Federation had defeated the Babawi Empire far sooner than he had expected.
• Verto reported that the insect race had multiplied several times over the past year and argued that the alliances should stop waiting defensively.
• Verto proposed launching annihilation strikes against planets in the insect race’s Star Systems, and Hussein angrily challenged him over destroying billions of planets.

Verto proposed destroying planets occupied by the Zerg, provoking objections because the Planetary Life Convention forbade such attacks. The four alliances amended the convention to permit them during an extragalactic invasion, then prepared a fleet to strike the Zerg’s planetary bases.

• Hussein reminded Verto that the Planetary Life Convention prohibited destroying Life Planets, and explained how the convention had been established to preserve the Milky Way’s order.
• Verto insisted that the other leaders find a way to stop the Zerg without attacking their foundation, while the leaders acknowledged that ground warfare would be prohibitively costly.
• Xis supported Verto and proposed a temporary exception to the convention for an invasion by an extragalactic race that could not otherwise be defeated.
• Hussein and Moros accepted Xis’s proposal, and the leaders agreed to discuss their military plan.
• Ten days later, the alliances amended the convention, deployed hundreds of billions of warships along the Viers Defense Line, and formed a fifty-billion-ship guerrilla fleet to destroy Zerg-occupied planets at the end of the First Main Arm.

The Federation prepared for a long war against the insectoids while humanity focused on clearing the Orion Arm, fortifying Hangu Pass, and exploring the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies. Lin Tian ascended the throne as King of Angels and announced that the Io Federation would begin merging with the Human Federation.

• The four Level 5 Civilizations organized 50 billion warships into 250,000 raiding units to attack more than five billion insectoid targets over a prolonged war.
• Humanity continued purging civilizations across the Orion Arm and prepared Hangu Pass with heavy forces and Warp Interruption Devices.
• Lin Zhen planned to send twelve expeditionary corps to explore the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies using Spatial Teleportation Technology.
• Queen Aierfei announced that Lin Tian would succeed her as King of Angels, and the Io Federation accepted his succession.
• In Federation Year 98, Lin Tian ascended the throne and decreed that the Io Federation and the Human Federation would begin formal merger negotiations.

Lin Tian relaxed at home while the Human Federation and Io Federation negotiated their merger, then asked Lin Zhen for a mission slot to search nearby galaxies for elves. When Lin Zhen refused, Lin Tian used his authority as King of Angels to make the slot a condition of the negotiations.

• Lin Zhen scolded Lin Tian for causing a major political upheaval and then lounging around at home.
• Lin Tian complained that serving as King of Angels would confine him to Angel Palace for a thousand years and that he was not interested in human or angel women.
• Lin Tian asked Lin Zhen for a place in the expeditionary force so he could lead an angel legion in exploring a satellite galaxy.
• Lin Tian explained that he wanted to find elf girls, since the Milky Way's known civilizations had no elves.
• Lin Zhen refused Lin Tian's request, so Lin Tian ordered Chieftain Christine to make his mission slot a necessary condition in the merger negotiations.
• Lin Zhen left the villa in exasperation after Lin Tian pointed out that he had given him an entire federation.

Lin Tian became a Federal Fleet admiral and was ordered by Lin Fan to report to Hangu Pass for two years of training before leading an expedition to the Large Magellanic Cloud. As the Human and Io Federations began merging, Socrates responded to devastating raids by ordering a full-scale Zerg assault on the Viers Defense Line.

• The human negotiation team agreed to Lin Tian's request, and the former King of Angels became a Federal Fleet admiral and commander of the expeditionary force to the Large Magellanic Cloud.
• Lin Fan ordered Lin Tian to report to Hangu Pass within a week for two years of training, and Lin Tian reluctantly accepted after Lin Fan threatened to arrest him.
• In Federation Year 99, the Human Federation and Io Federation began a merger expected to take about two years.
• The four major alliances' strike units used warp travel to destroy Zerg planets, leaving Socrates furious and unwilling to share his territory with a higher-level Bug King.
• Socrates ordered all mature Zerg to assemble and attack the Viers Defense Line, sending trillions of bugs surging toward it.