Recaps

Lin Fan asked Liang Xue about their childhood and learned that they had been close before he lost his memories at nine. Liang Xue explained that she had waited years for him, and the chapter ended with Lin Fan revealing that his amnesia began after an injury.

• Lin Fan summoned Liang Xue and asked her to tell him what he had said to her as a child.
• Liang Xue recounted how Lin Fan had followed her growing up, promised to marry her, and received her first kiss when his family moved away.
• After Lin Fan lost his memories on his ninth birthday, Liang Xue waited for him to remember and was heartbroken when she later saw him with Emma Campbell.
• Liang Xingchen arranged for Liang Xue to become Lin Fan's adjutant, but Lin Fan treated her as a stranger when they met again.
• Liang Xue described confronting Lin Fan in his mech cockpit, where he told her he had lost his memories after being injured ten years earlier.

After Liang Xue told Lin Fan about the hardships she had endured, he comforted her and decided he wanted both her and Emma. He and Liang Xue grew closer over a meal, while a photo of them reached Liang Xingchen on the Fourth Fleet forum.

• Liang Xue cried in Lin Fan's arms after telling him her story, and Lin Fan resolved to accept her alongside Emma.
• Liang Xue fell asleep, and Lin Fan carried her to bed and stayed beside her until she woke.
• Liang Xue woke to find Lin Fan asleep by her bed, and the two teased each other before heading to the cafeteria hand in hand.
• Lin Fan learned that Liang Xue had grown up eating few meals with meat and fed her a piece of chicken.
• Someone posted a photo of Lin Fan feeding Liang Xue chicken on the Fourth Fleet forum, where Liang Xingchen saw it.

Liang Xingchen learned that Lin Fan and Liang Xue had grown close, then brought reinforcements, a flagship, and Lin Fan’s promotion to major general. After the fleet completed its promotions, Lin Fan and the Federation’s leaders prepared to test humanity’s first experimental Warp Drive Engine.

• Liang Xingchen watched a video of Lin Fan feeding Liang Xue and suspected Lin Fan had recovered his memories, then resolved to ask him about the Campbell family girl.
• Liang Xue and Lin Fan grew closer, while Liang Xingchen arrived three days later with reinforcements, promotion orders, and a silver-white command ship for the 101st Task Force Fleet.
• Liang Xingchen promoted Lin Fan to major general, triggering system rewards and new missions, including destroying 3,000 Oakes Empire warships despite the ceasefire.
• Lin Fan and Liang Xingchen inspected the Warp Drive Engine project, and Bai Zixuan said testing could begin in three days.
• Lin Zhen, Liang Xingchen, and Lin Fan watched as Bai Zixuan prepared to test the experimental engine by warping a frigate from Mars to Earth.

The Federation's first warp drive test ship crossed the 200 million kilometers between Mars and Earth in 1.14 seconds, demonstrating a speed of 585 times the speed of light. The story leaves the drive undergoing expanded safety tests while the energy shield project struggles with inadequate power supply.

• The test frigate warped from Mars to Earth orbit in 1.14 seconds, and its crew reported that the ship and personnel were unharmed.
• Elder Bai explained to Lin Zhen and Liang Xingchen that the result meant a speed of 585 times the speed of light, but said the drive needed extensive testing before it could be installed across the fleet.
• The test ship warped back to Mars in another 1.14 seconds, confirming the first-generation engine's speed, and Lin Zhen resolved to reconsider Federation policies in light of the breakthrough.
• Bai Zixuan began producing ten more engines for testing, and Liang Xingchen assigned a variety of warships to evaluate them.
• The energy shield project stalled because current nuclear reactors could not supply power as quickly as the shield consumed it, while fusion reactors remained beyond the Federation's capabilities.
• Lin Fan kissed Liang Xue until she fled his room in embarrassment.

Lin Fan received a system mission to raise his Artillery Command and Evasion Command to A within a month, earning Fusion Technology to solve the Energy Shield’s power problem. After completing the mission in seclusion, he woke to find both abilities at A and went to find Bai Zixuan.

• Lin Fan received a temporary mission to raise Artillery Command and Evasion Command to A within a month, with Fusion Technology as the reward.
• Lin Fan gave Bai Zixuan the Gene Enhancement Potion and told him he would research fusion technology in seclusion; Bai Zixuan asked Liang Xingchen for money and people.
• Lin Fan told Liang Xue to bring him meals and keep others out of his office, then spent the month training while she guarded the door and found him asleep each visit.
• Lin Fan woke after a month, received the Fusion Technology reward and a 2% increase in brain development, and saw that his Evasion Command had reached A.
• Lin Fan checked his status and decided to go find Bai Zixuan.

Lin Fan emerged from a month of seclusion with a breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion technology, then left for the Interstellar Military Academy to give a command department lecture. The chapter ended as his battleship Uranus arrived at the academy’s spaceport, astonishing the assembled students and instructors.

• Lin Fan gave Bai Zixuan his Nuclear Fusion research data, and Bai Zixuan realized humanity had been focusing on the wrong problem.
• Bai Zixuan called Liang Xingchen to demand money and personnel, prompting Liang Xingchen to suspect Lin Fan had completed Fusion Technology.
• Lin Fan reunited with Liang Xue in his office, where Liang Xingchen interrupted them to announce the academy’s invitation.
• Lin Fan and Liang Xue set out for the Moon aboard the Uranus, and three days later the warship arrived at the Interstellar Military Academy’s spaceport.
• The students and instructors recognized the ship as Lin Fan’s personal battleship and watched it approach in surprise.

Lin Fan arrived at the Interstellar Military Academy to teach combat experience, where Emma Campbell and Liang Xue clashed over his old bet with Emma. During his lecture, a system mission prompted him to shock the students, and he told them to forget the knowledge in their textbooks.

• Lin Fan arrived at the academy with Liang Xue and introduced himself to the students as a nineteen-year-old Major General commanding the 101st Task Force Fleet.
• Emma Campbell reminded Lin Fan of their bet that she would become his girlfriend if he became a general within a year, and Liang Xue challenged her over it.
• Lin Fan ordered Emma and Liang Xue to stop arguing and leave, after which Emma said she would be going to Mars Base after graduation and Liang Xue warned Lin Fan not to touch her for a month.
• At the academy lecture hall, Lin Fan received a system mission to deliver a shocking speech in exchange for Quantum Communication Technology.
• Lin Fan began his lecture by telling the students to forget the useless knowledge in their textbooks.

Lin Fan lectured at the academy on Hundred Variations of Formations, arguing that commanders should devise tactics first and build formations to suit them rather than rely on the Ten Great Formations. After teaching more than fifty variations, he arranged to continue the next day, while Li Fulai proposed making his ideas a required course; Liang Xue later fed Lin Fan in front of Emma, leaving him to sigh that his hopes for a big wife and little wife were still distant.

• Lin Fan dismissed the textbook approach to fleet formations and explained that formations should serve tactics, not constrain them.
• Lin Fan introduced Hundred Variations of Formations and taught the cadets how to break fixed formations into smaller components to create new ones.
• After six hours, Lin Fan had covered only more than fifty variations, so he asked Liang Xingchen to let him stay another day and finish the lecture.
• The cadets praised Lin Fan's ideas over dinner, and Li Fulai asked to compile them into a book and make them a required course.
• Liang Xue fed Lin Fan while Emma stood nearby, and Lin Fan realized Liang Xue was acting to make Emma jealous.

Lin Fan received Quantum Communication Technology and returned to Mars Base with Liang Xue, while Emma planned to join his fleet the following year. He welcomed Wood Scott into the 101st Task Force Fleet, unaware that Wood had secretly infiltrated the base to carry out orders for Lord Adams.

• The system rewarded Lin Fan with Quantum Communication Technology and an opportunity to enhance one personal ability, which he chose to save for later.
• At the spaceport, Emma and Liang Xue reconciled after a private conversation, and Emma warned Lin Fan not to mistreat Liang Xue before announcing she would report to Mars Base next year.
• Lin Fan and Liang Xue returned to Mars Base aboard the Uranus, where Lin Fan found Wood Scott waiting with a transfer order to join the 101st Task Force Fleet as a staff officer.
• After Lin Fan left, Wood contacted Lord Adams and confirmed he had infiltrated the fleet’s base to rescue the Ninth Prince, assassinate Lin Fan, and abduct Liang Xue.

In Federation Year 59, Lin Fan brought Bai Zixuan Quantum Communication Technology and attended the first activation test of the nuclear fusion reactor. The reactor reached its target output and operated stably for an hour, confirming its success.

• Bai Zixuan’s research team completed the first phase of short-range warp tests and prepared long-range tests while gene serum trials showed improved strength and lifespan.
• Lin Fan gave Bai Zixuan a storage card containing Quantum Communication Technology, and Liang Xingchen arranged for experts to join the project.
• Lin Fan, Liang Xue, and Bai Zixuan watched researchers activate the nuclear fusion reactor, which reached a stable output of 9.8 million kilowatts.
• The nuclear fusion reactor ran for an hour without problems, and the researchers celebrated its success.

Humanity celebrated the successful nuclear fusion experiment as the Federation expanded its clean energy program and advanced warp drive research. Meanwhile, Wood Scott rescued Duolun Oakes from detention, but was confronted at the port just as the escape was underway.

• Lin Zhen and Ed Campbell discussed nuclear fusion's success, the need to accelerate lunar helium-3 mining, and the Scott Family's suspicious presence in the Fourth Fleet.
• Six months later, the Federation had built fusion facilities, while Bai Zixuan's team neared completion of warp drive testing and made major progress with quantum communications.
• Wood Scott and two Scott Family confidants killed the guards at Duolun Oakes's detention room and freed him on Adams's orders.
• Duolun hid inside a box, and Wood's group carried him through the base to a transport ship at the port.
• As Wood was about to board the ship, someone questioned him about what he had carried inside.

Wood helped Duolun escape aboard Transport Ship 0287 and took Liang Xue hostage. Lin Fan mobilized to pursue them, while Duolun expected to rendezvous with Adams's fleet in the Asteroid Belt.

• Wood knocked Liang Xue unconscious and kept her as a hostage after Duolun recognized her as Liang Xingchen's daughter.
• Duolun and Wood hijacked Transport Ship 0287, killed its captain, and secretly redirected it toward the Asteroid Belt.
• Lin Fan learned that Duolun had escaped and Liang Xue had been taken, then ordered the fleet to prepare for pursuit.
• Liang Xingchen agreed to ready the Fourth Fleet, and Lin Fan sent him a plan through his private communicator without explaining it over the phone.
• Lin Fan diverted his fleet toward Sector 027, while Duolun learned the Fourth Fleet had mobilized and taunted the captive Liang Xue.

Liang Xingchen ordered a desperate assault against the Oakes fleet, while Lin Zhen had the Scott Family arrested over the enemy’s passage through the Asteroid Belt. Harvey Scott revealed that Wood had manipulated the family’s plans, and his account led Ed to suspect a connection to an incident seven years earlier.

• Liang Xingchen ordered the First through Fifth subfleets to attack toward Sector 010, despite the danger to his daughter aboard Wood’s Transport Ship.
• Lin Zhen ordered Ed to arrest the Scott Family and discover how the Oakes fleet had bypassed the Federation’s defenses.
• Harvey Scott realized that Wood may have used the family and remembered an incident from seven years earlier.
• Ed’s forces arrested the Scott Family, and Harvey told Ed that Wood had taken advantage of their plan to help Duolun escape.
• Harvey asked Ed to remember how Wood had returned to the Scott Family, prompting Ed to suspect that the events of seven years earlier had been part of Wood’s scheme.

Liang Xingchen turned the Fourth Fleet’s battle with the Oakes Empire into a circular pursuit, setting a trap while the hijacked Transport Ship escaped toward Jupiter. Liang Xue remained a prisoner aboard it, and Duolun granted Wood permission to claim her as his reward.

• Liang Xingchen sent the Fourth Fleet’s assault force against the Oakes Empire’s weaker flank, forcing Cody to redirect 10,000 warships to protect the Transport Ship carrying Duolun.
• Liang Xingchen ordered his assault force and main fleet to curve around, drawing Cody’s ships into a circular chase in which four fleets pursued one another.
• Jiang Hai warned Liang Xingchen that the Fourth Fleet was outnumbered and would eventually be destroyed in the war of attrition, but Liang Xingchen told him to maintain course and said the trap depended on Lin Fan.
• The Transport Ship escaped toward Jupiter with nearly 900 escorting Oakes warships after the Fourth Fleet was blocked from pursuing it.
• Duolun praised Wood for his role in the escape and granted his request to have Liang Xue, who glared at Wood as he looked at her sinisterly.

Lin Fan used his saved ability upgrade to reach S-rank Mech Piloting and led a mech squadron to rescue Liang Xue from Prince Duolun’s escort fleet. The ambush destroyed most of the enemy carriers and split the fleet, leaving Lin Fan ready to attack the transport ship.

• Lin Fan upgraded his Mech Piloting ability to S-rank and launched from Uranus with Zhang Hu and 298 other elite mech pilots.
• Scouts reported that Duolun’s escort fleet was entering the ambush zone with Liang Xue’s transport ship at its center, and Liang Xue felt her matching pendant vibrate.
• The 101st Task Force Fleet attacked the escort fleet’s carriers, destroying 28 of its 35 carriers before the fleet completed its turn.
• The nine thousand concealed mechs attacked the escort fleet from behind as the human fleet retreated into asteroid clusters.
• The escort fleet split its forces, leaving just over a hundred warships to guard Duolun’s transport ship, and Lin Fan ordered his mechs to attack.

Lin Fan’s elite mechs ambushed the escort fleet and gave him a chance to board the Transport Ship and rescue Liang Xue. He freed her from Duolun’s men and left to rejoin the battle, ordering Zhang Hu to kill everyone on the bridge.

• Lin Fan led three hundred elite mechs in an attack that disabled escort warships and disrupted the fleet protecting the Transport Ship.
• Lin Fan, Zhang Hu, and their mechs cut into the Transport Ship and entered its cargo hold, while ten mechs guarded the hull.
• Duolun ordered Wood’s men to take Liang Xue to the escape pods, then demanded that they kill her when she resisted.
• Lin Fan arrived on the bridge in time to shoot one of Wood’s men and rescue Liang Xue, then defeated another attacker with his bare hands.
• Lin Fan freed Liang Xue, told her they needed to return to her father’s battle, and ordered Zhang Hu to leave no one alive.

Lin Fan rescued Liang Xue, killed the Ninth Prince, and directed the human forces to trap and destroy the Oakes fleet. The chapter ended with the Oakes commander learning that the Ninth Prince was already dead as reinforcements closed in.

• Lin Fan ordered the Ninth Prince and the other captives killed, then explained to Liang Xue that the Oakes invasion made the prince's survival strategically useless and that the enemy had targeted his wife.
• Will told Lin Fan that a fleet of roughly 5,000 warships was approaching, and Lin Fan confirmed it was friendly while ordering Will to keep the enemy occupied without engaging head-on.
• Lin Fan led Liang Xue and the mech pilots away from the transport ship, while Will used asteroid cover to prevent the Oakes fleet from turning back to help the Ninth Prince.
• The Oakes commander learned that the human reinforcements had arrived and ordered his fleet to retreat toward the transport ship while sacrificing ships to cover the escape.
• Lin Fan took command of the thirty-two incoming human fleets and assigned them to attack the Oakes forces across the battlefields.
• The Oakes commander learned that the Ninth Prince's body had been found aboard the transport ship and despaired as his fleet continued retreating under attack.

Lin Fan led thirty-one support fleets toward Sector 016 and revealed the plan he and Liang Xingchen had devised to trap the Oakes Empire fleet. The battle turned in the Federation’s favor as Lin Fan’s forces encircled the enemy’s tail-biting formation, leaving Cody with no way to avoid defeat.

• Lin Fan left one fleet to rescue survivors and clean up the battlefield, then took command of the remaining thirty-one fleets and explained the tactics he had planned with Liang Xingchen.
• Liang Xingchen learned that Liang Xue had been rescued, Duolun and Wood had been killed, and the support fleet was on its way, so he told Jiang Hai the outcome would be decided within two hours.
• Lin Fan divided his forces into two groups and ordered them to attack the flanks of the Oakes Empire’s Four Snakes Biting Their Tails Formation from both sides.
• Cody realized his fleet would be destroyed whether it stayed in formation or broke away, while Liang Xingchen ordered the Fourth Fleet to strike if the enemy exposed its flanks.

Lin Fan’s reinforcement fleets inflicted heavy losses on the Oakes Empire fleets and formed a crossfire to stop Cody’s desperate assault. As Cody ordered his ships to charge through, Liang Xingchen moved to encircle their rear and flank.

• Lin Fan ordered Reinforcement Fleets A and B to fire on the Oakes Empire fleets’ flanks, destroying thousands of warships.
• Cody decided to turn toward the human reinforcement fleets and break through their formation rather than suffer further flank attacks.
• Lin Fan split his 2,400 warships into three groups to create a crossfire against the advancing Oakes Empire fleets.
• Cody ordered a desperate assault through the crossfire, accepting heavy casualties to escape toward the Asteroid Belt.
• Liang Xingchen ordered the Fourth Fleet to attack the enemy’s right rear and tail, coordinating a three-sided encirclement with Lin Fan.

After defeating the Oakes Empire vanguard, Lin Fan and Liang Xingchen planned an ambush for Adams’s 90,000-warship follow-up fleet. Three days later, Adams encountered the roughly 15,000 surviving human warships and ordered his fleet to attack.

• The Fourth Fleet counted 4,886 warships and 3,617 mechs lost, while the Oakes Empire lost 30,000 warships and Ninth Prince Duolun.
• Liang Xingchen explained that Wood had used the Scott Family’s influence to control asteroid detectors and feed the humans false information.
• Lin Fan proposed adapting a tactic from his graduation simulation, and Liang Xingchen approved the plan and assigned Lin command of the left wing.
• After clearing the battlefield, the surviving human fleet moved deeper into the Asteroid Belt to prepare an ambush.
• Adams concealed Duolun’s death from his fleet and continued toward the humans with 90,000 warships.
• When scouts found the roughly 15,000-ship human fleet, Adams assumed it was humanity’s last force and ordered his fleet to crush it.

Lin Fan and Liang Xingchen’s ambush trapped Adams’s 90,000 warships in a crossfire, forcing the Oakes fleet to flee while taking heavy losses. Just as Adams thought the casualties were manageable, another human fleet appeared ahead to block his escape.

• Adams ordered his 90,000 warships to attack the human rearguard, but human fleets appeared on both flanks and the retreating ships turned back, forming a three-sided encirclement.
• Adams ordered the Third Imperial Guard Legion to turn and flee, but two more human fleets appeared ahead and began firing on the fleet’s front.
• Lin Fan and Liang Xingchen discussed how the apparent 55,000-warship force used mechs to disguise nearly 50,000 warships and agreed to destroy roughly half of Adams’s fleet.
• Adams’s fleet endured crossfire while escaping, losing about 7,000 warships as one-third passed through and about 15,000 as two-thirds passed through.
• A new human fleet of about 5,000 warships appeared directly ahead of Adams’s fleet in a reinforced formation.

Liang Xingchen, Lin Fan, and Jiang Hai used disguised fleets and a coordinated ambush to destroy most of Adams's force and drive the survivors back to Jupiter. After the Fourth Fleet's battle report stunned the Federal leadership, Ed proposed promoting Lin Fan and putting him in command of the reorganized First Fleet.

• Liang Xingchen let Adams's fleet appear to break through his formation, then split his ships to attack it from the sides as Lin Fan and Jiang Hai closed in from behind.
• The Fourth Fleet's three-sided attack destroyed more than forty thousand enemy warships, and Adams ordered his battered survivors back to Jupiter Base.
• The Fourth Fleet ended its pursuit, rescued surviving crew members, and returned toward Mars Base.
• At the Federal Presidential Palace, Lin Zhen and his aides heard that the Fourth Fleet had won both battles using tactics proposed by Lin Fan.
• After viewing the campaign details, Ed proposed promoting Lin Fan to lieutenant general and appointing him commander of the reorganized First Fleet.

Lin Fan was unanimously promoted to lieutenant general and appointed acting commander of the Federation's First Fleet. His system issued a three-phase mission to drive the Oakes Empire from the Solar System and revealed that it was still in its novice period.

• Ed argued that Lin Fan's achievements and wartime ability outweighed concerns about his age, and the aides unanimously approved his promotion.
• Lin Zhen announced that Lin Fan would become a lieutenant general and acting commander of the First Fleet until he became a general.
• Three days later, Liang Xingchen awarded Lin Fan his lieutenant general insignia and ordered him to lead the First Fleet.
• Lin Fan received system rewards for completing his missions, including rewards for exceeding the sub-fleet command requirement.
• The system issued Lin Fan a three-year mission to drive the Oakes Empire out of the Solar System and explained that completing three assessment phases would upgrade it to the official version.

After his promotion to fleet commander, Lin Fan studied the civilization levels and the Orion Arm’s star chart, then brought Bai Zixuan the Brain Development Potion research. The chapter ended with Liang Xingchen asking Bai Zixuan for a report on the potion’s costs and the number of people it could help.

• Lin Fan returned to the 101st Task Force Fleet’s base after Liang Xingchen put him in command and assigned Liang Xue to join him.
• Lin Fan read the civilization-level guide and learned that the Federation was only a quasi-Level 4 Civilization, while the Orion Arm held over ten thousand civilizations, including a Level 4 Civilization.
• Lin Fan found that the Oakes Empire was a relatively weak Level 3 Civilization but still controlled thirty-eight star systems, far more than humanity’s single Solar System.
• Lin Fan gave Bai Zixuan the Brain Development Potion documents, and estimated that the potion could raise ordinary people’s brain development to around 15–20%.
• Bai Zixuan tried to call Liang Xingchen, who cut off the call, then received Liang Xingchen’s message asking how many people the potion could serve and how much it would cost.

Adams awaited the Emperor’s judgment after taking responsibility for the Third Imperial Guard Legion’s losses, while Lin Fan prepared the First Fleet to receive new graduates. Emperor Ramiro Oakes ordered Adams to launch a final all-out attack against humanity, promising to execute him if he failed.

• Adams sent the Emperor a report accepting responsibility for the defeat and asking to be executed alone.
• Emma learned that Lin Fan had become a lieutenant general and acting commander of the First Fleet, then kept her assignment there instead of transferring to the Fourth Fleet.
• Lin Fan addressed more than 30,000 academy graduates assigned to the First Fleet at Mars Base.
• Ramiro ordered the execution of the Third Imperial Guard Legion, but Ross persuaded him to send the legion into a final attack instead.
• Ramiro ordered Adams to attack humanity with all his remaining forces, telling him that failure would mean death.