Recaps

Lin Fan learned that the Oakes Empire had been destroyed and received a mission to make the Human Federation hegemon of the Orion Arm within a century. After rescuing twelve winged women from the imperial palace, he discovered they were warriors from the Io Federation and wondered whether their civilization had no men.

• Lin Fan confirmed the Oakes Empire’s destruction with the system and accepted its final novice mission to make the Human Federation hegemon of the Orion Arm within one hundred years.
• Liang Xue showed Lin Fan Zhang Zhiwei’s report that his troops had captured winged women in the Oakes Imperial Palace.
• Lin Fan ordered Zhang Zhiwei to bring the women aboard and told ground forces to rescue any other Angels they found.
• After quarantine, the twelve women told Lin Fan they were warriors from the Io Federation, captured by the Oakes people during the war.
• One Angel asked Lin Fan why he looked like them despite lacking wings and breasts, prompting him to suspect the Io Federation was an all-female civilization.

After tests showed that humans and angels could have children, Lin Fan sent the findings to the Federation, which dispatched Vice President Ed Campbell to establish relations with the Io Federation. The First Fleet reached the Io capital system, where Commander Catherine detected the approaching fleet and issued a warning.

• Lin Fan learned from the examination report that angels were genetically similar to humans, could reproduce with them, and had exceptionally long lifespans, then sent the report to the Federal Presidential Palace.
• Lin Zhen and Ed decided to send Lin Fan to establish diplomatic relations with the Io Federation, and Ed agreed to lead the delegation.
• Ed joined Lin Fan aboard the Uranus, and the First Fleet departed for the Io Federation with 382 rescued angels.
• After thirty-nine days, the First Fleet entered the Io capital system, where Commander Catherine detected the unfamiliar fleet and requested support.
• The Io Federation Capital Sphere Garrison Fleet warned the approaching ships to stop and identify themselves.

The Io Federation’s Garrison Fleet discovered an unknown fleet of 20,000 warships, prompting the Third Legion to mobilize. A communication revealed that Angela had reunited with her sister Catherine, while Lin Fan explained that his fleet had rescued the Angels from the Oakes Empire and implied they possessed a Warp Drive Engine.

• Aierfei ordered the Third Legion’s 300,000 warships to deploy after learning that an unknown fleet had entered the Capital Sphere.
• Catherine learned that the unknown fleet consisted of 18,000 battlecruisers and 2,000 carriers, and told her garrison fleet to keep warning them while awaiting reinforcements.
• Lin Fan asked Angela to speak with the Io Federation, and Catherine recognized her missing younger sister when the communication connected.
• Lin Fan told Catherine that the Human Federation had captured the Oakes Empire’s Capital Sphere and returned the rescued Angels to their homeland.
• Angela defended Lin Fan as her rescuer, and Catherine realized his fleet’s sudden arrival suggested it had a Warp Drive Engine.

Catherine and Aierfei realized that the humans likely possessed Level 4 technology after Lin Fan demonstrated the Uranus's Energy Shield, and Aierfei decided to approach them respectfully. On Planet Io, Queen Bella approved Aierfei's plan to visit the human flagship and confirm their intentions.

• Catherine suspected the humans had Warp Drive Engines, while Aierfei learned they had destroyed the Oakes Empire and rescued captive Angels.
• Lin Fan ordered a Battlecruiser to fire at the Uranus, whose Energy Shield effortlessly blocked the Ion Beam and convinced Catherine that the humans were a formidable civilization.
• Catherine sent the video of the shield demonstration to Aierfei, who ordered her to avoid offending the humans and announced she would visit their flagship.
• Aierfei's report reached Queen Bella and the eighteen tribal leaders, who reacted with alarm to the possibility of another Level 4 Civilization.
• Bella agreed that Aierfei should personally visit the human flagship to confirm their intentions.

Lin Fan told Legion Commander Aierfei that human and Angel genes were 99.9% compatible and explained that the Human Federation wanted to establish diplomatic relations with the Io Federation. Aierfei agreed to contact the Angel Queen, while the Human Federation’s Vice President prepared to discuss the matter with her.

• Aierfei arrived aboard the Uranus and reunited with her sister Catherine, while Angela tearfully embraced Catherine.
• Lin Fan welcomed Aierfei and explained that the Humans had rescued the Angels because the two races looked alike.
• Lin Fan revealed that tests showed Angel and human genes were 99.9% compatible, a result that shocked Aierfei.
• Lin Fan said the Human Federation wanted to establish diplomatic relations with the Io Federation and that its Vice President had come to discuss the matter with the Queen.
• Aierfei said she would contact the Queen and inform her of the discovery and diplomatic proposal.

Queen Bella welcomed Ed Campbell and Lin Fan to Io Star with the Io Federation’s highest ceremonial honors as the two sides prepared to establish diplomatic relations. After Bella mistook Lin Fan for a guard, Ed revealed his identity and status, leaving Bella apologetic and Lin Fan’s attempt to reassure her making the misunderstanding worse.

• After hearing Aierfei’s report about humanity’s 99.9% similarity to the Angels, Queen Bella agreed to diplomatic relations and ordered the ceremonial fleet to welcome the Human Federation delegation.
• Twelve ceremonial Angel Battleships escorted the Uranus to Io Star, where Ed and Lin Fan were greeted by a grand guard of honor and Queen Bella.
• Ed introduced himself to Bella as the Human Federation’s Vice President, and he and Lin Fan followed her into the Angel Palace.
• Bella mistook Lin Fan for Ed’s guard and offered to arrange a place for him to rest, prompting Ed to reveal that Lin Fan was a War God, the commander who destroyed the Oakes Empire, and the President’s only son.
• Lin Fan told Bella that he did not mind the mistake, but his words made her think he was offended, and he turned to Ed with a rueful smile.

Ed negotiated diplomatic relations and tariff-free trade between the Human Federation and the Io Federation, while proposing free love between humans and Angels. Bella eagerly accepted after realizing natural reproduction might help avert the Angels’ extinction, and Ed and Lin Fan began scheming to match her with Lin Zhen.

• Ed offered Bella Energy Shield devices and Warp Drive Engines with tracking safeguards, and Bella accepted the terms.
• Ed asked why the Angels had no males, and Bella said the topic was forbidden but confirmed that only female Angels remained.
• Ed proposed tariff-free trade and free love, and Bella agreed immediately because she hoped natural reproduction could save the Angels from genetic decline.
• Lin Fan inferred that the Angels’ biotechnology-based reproduction had flaws and decided Bella would be a perfect match for Lin Zhen.
• Ed and Lin Fan independently planned to set Lin Zhen up with Bella, while Lin Zhen remained unaware at the Presidential Palace on Earth.

Lin Fan and Ed persuaded Queen Bella to travel to Earth and consider having a child with President Lin, while negotiating equipment sales and trade with the Io Federation. Bella agreed to leave after completing her handover, unaware that President Lin had been volunteered as her prospective partner.

• Lin Fan suggested that Bella have a child with President Lin, and Ed helped persuade her by presenting it as a symbol of friendship between their civilizations.
• Bella agreed to travel to Earth and asked Lin Fan to teach her how to have children, but Lin Fan told her to seek President Lin's guidance instead.
• Ed agreed to sell the Io Federation twenty thousand Energy Shield systems and Warp Drive Engines per year in exchange for Federation credits, while warning Bella to keep the Warp Drive Engines secret.
• Bella agreed to complete the handover within ten days and then lead an Angel delegation to Earth.
• President Lin remained unaware that Ed and Lin Fan had arranged for Bella to visit him as a prospective wife.

Lin Fan brought Queen Bella and the Io Federation delegation to Earth, where Bella met President Lin Zhen and immediately asked when they could have children together. Lin Zhen realized Lin Fan and Ed had arranged the proposal and shifted blame between themselves, then invited Bella to discuss official matters first.

• Aierfei took office as the Io Federation's new Angel Queen, and the Third Legion began plans to refit its warships instead of returning to the front lines.
• Queen Bella led an angel delegation to Lin Fan's fleet, and they traveled through warp to Earth, where the Human Federation welcomed them with a ceremonial fleet.
• Lin Fan, Liang Xue, Emma, Queen Bella, and Ed arrived at the Federal Presidential Palace, where Lin Zhen greeted the delegation.
• Queen Bella was captivated by Lin Zhen and asked when they could have children together, leaving him and his aides stunned.
• Ed blamed Lin Fan for proposing the marriage, while Lin Fan said Ed had told Bella about it, and Lin Zhen recognized their joint attempt to set him up.
• Lin Zhen agreed to discuss official matters with Bella first, postponing their personal conversation.

Lin Fan visited his mother’s grave, then learned that Lin Zhen and Queen Bella planned to have a child together. The next day, Lin Fan and his companions headed to Marshal Saunders’s office, where new appointments were about to be announced.

• Lin Fan took Liang Xue and Ava to pay respects at his mother’s grave while Lin Zhen held talks with Queen Bella.
• Lin Fan learned that Lin Zhen and Bella planned to discuss having children that night, and Lin Zhen sent Lin Fan, Liang Xue, and Emma to a hotel after dinner.
• The next morning, Lin Fan teased Lin Zhen about Bella, then left with Liang Xue and Emma to collect Chris for his orders.
• Lin Fan told Chris that he might be appointed to command the Third Fleet and hinted that they would remain under the same command.
• Lin Fan, Chris Rhodes, Liang Xue, and Emma Campbell reported to Marshal Saunders, who began announcing the latest appointments.

Lin Fan and his companions received promotions and appointments to build the Federation’s First Legion at Horton, with orders to prepare for a future campaign against the Kabart Empire. Lin Fan arrived at Horton with the First Fleet, where the former Oakes military-industrial hub was being transformed into a major Federation base.

• Saunders promoted Lin Fan to general, Chris to lieutenant general, Liang Xue to major general, and Emma to brigadier general.
• Saunders appointed Lin Fan commander of the First Legion, headquartered at Horton, and assigned Chris to command its Second Fleet.
• Lin Fan agreed to defeat the Kabart Empire within five years, while Saunders said the Federation would continue trading with it until Lin Fan was ready.
• Lin Fan promised Chris he would help Ava enter the legion after she graduated from the Interstellar Military Academy.
• More than twenty days later, Lin Fan led the First Fleet to Horton, where industrial robots were converting the former Oakes warship factories and Bai Zixuan directed a new space research city.

Lin Fan reorganized the First Legion to promote capable officers despite their ranks, then visited the space research city and reunited with Bai Zixuan. Bai Zixuan described major advances in warp drives, plasma cannons, and near-light-speed engines, while the research city remained under construction.

• Lin Fan concluded that the Federation’s planned fleet expansion would require relaxing rank requirements and received Saunders’s approval to select commanders based on ability.
• Lin Fan announced the new promotion policy, which most officers supported while some conservatives, especially in the Third Fleet, opposed it.
• Lin Fan planned for Emma to command the Third Fleet and Li Cangqiong to take over Emma’s First Division Fleet once the Third Fleet was established.
• Lin Fan visited the nearly completed space research city, where Bai Zixuan reproached him for not bringing research cards for five years.
• Bai Zixuan told Lin Fan that researchers were testing a faster second-generation Warp Drive Engine and Plasma Cannons, and were developing an engine capable of near-light speed.

A year after Lin Fan returned to Horton, he transformed the system into a major warship-production hub and developed its Life Planet into a vacation world. He also established the Federation Star Military Academy to train active-duty officers, where the first class was already exposing students who had enrolled only to pad their credentials.

• Horton’s renovated warship complexes began producing up to 10,000 warships annually, with further renovations expected to raise output to roughly 50,000.
• Lin Fan began turning Horton’s Life Planet into a vacation planet for Legion personnel and their families.
• Lin Fan established the Federation Star Military Academy in orbit around Horton to train promising active-duty officers from across the Federation.
• Lin Fan set strict graduation assessments and warned that students who failed after idling away their studies would be reported to their Legion Commanders.
• The academy’s first class began with more than 5,000 officers from the First and Second Legions, and instructors had already identified over 500 students who were padding their credentials.

Lin Fan watched Emma’s Third Fleet drill and ordered her to improve its coordination efficiency, then contacted Liang Xingchen to ask for a favor. He began explaining the situation to Liang Xingchen, but the chapter ended before he made his request.

• Lin Fan and Liang Xue watched the Third Fleet practice rapid formation changes near Resource Star 37.
• Liang Xue defended Emma and her adjutant, Xia Tina, noting that the fleet had made strong progress in only half a month.
• Lin Fan ordered Liang Xue to tell Emma to raise the fleet’s coordination efficiency by at least thirty percentage points within another half a month.
• Lin Fan returned to the First Fleet’s base and asked Liang Xue to connect him with Liang Xingchen.
• Liang Xingchen agreed to hear Lin Fan’s request, and Lin Fan began explaining the situation.

The Io Federation and Oakes Empire prepared to fight over Seris, and the Federation agreed to join the Io Federation’s campaign in exchange for control of Kerfi and the systems beyond it. Lin Fan secured Li Cangqiong a chance to earn merit in the coming battle, and the chapter ended with orders sending him and ten thousand warships to rendezvous with the Second Legion.

• The Io Federation invited the Federation to help attack Seris, offering it Kerfi and the Star Systems beyond it after the war.
• Lin Fan and Liang Xingchen discussed staffing shortages, credential-seeking officers, and Li Cangqiong’s temporary transfer to the Second Legion.
• Lin Fan told Li Cangqiong he could join the Seris Corridor campaign as commander of the First through Tenth Division Fleets.
• Marshal Saunders ordered ten thousand warships from the First Legion to assist in the campaign, and Lin Fan formally ordered Li Cangqiong to depart for Liers and rendezvous with the Second Legion.

Viers prepared to lead 500,000 warships and a fleet of civilian vessels through the Star Path to attack Serbia and escape the forces surrounding him. Meanwhile, Lin Zhen told Lin Fan that Bella was about to give birth and that Lin Fan would soon have another younger brother.

• Viers concluded that his forces were trapped between humanity and the Io Federation, with supplies to last only ten years.
• Viers chose to break through Serbia, gathering 500,000 warships and about 300,000 supply, transport, industrial, colony, and civilian vessels.
• Viers ordered the border legion to enter the Star Path first, with the other vessels scheduled to follow a day later.
• Lin Fan received a communication from Lin Zhen while resting in the Horton Star System.
• Lin Zhen informed Lin Fan that Bella was about to give birth and that he would have another younger brother.

Lin Fan learned that Lin Zhen and Bella were expecting a son, then heard the first naturally born male Angel had arrived. As the Federation and Angels celebrated the baby’s birth, Lin Fan and Liang Xue agreed to have a child after the Kabart Empire was dealt with.

• Lin Zhen told Lin Fan that Bella was nearly due to give birth to their son and urged him to have a child of his own.
• Lin Fan explained that he, Liang Xue, and Emma were too busy to raise a child until after the Kabart Empire was dealt with.
• Bella went into labor, and Lin Zhen called the medical team to take her to the prepared delivery room.
• After nearly twenty hours, Bella gave birth to a boy with wings, the first naturally born male Angel in more than ten thousand years.
• Lin Zhen announced the birth, and people across the Federation and the Io Federation celebrated and sent blessings to the baby.
• Lin Fan asked Liang Xue to have a child with him after they dealt with the Kabart Empire, and she agreed.

Li Cangqiong joined Liang Xingchen’s command on Liers and attended a battle-planning meeting for the Seris Corridor. After Ailena outlined the corridor’s three nodes, Li Cangqiong questioned the distances shown on the Star Chart, and she identified the region as the Miracle Star Domain.

• Li Cangqiong reported for duty to Liang Xingchen, who praised Lin Fan for securing him the chance to command a fleet.
• Liang Xingchen introduced Li Cangqiong to Jiang Hai and Sophia Duncan, commander of the Third Fleet, who recognized him from the mecha competition and invited him to join her fleet.
• Jiang Hai connected the virtual conference system, bringing in Ailena and Joanna, the Io Federation’s Third and Fifth Legion commanders.
• Ailena described the forces and the three nodes of the Seris Corridor, while Li Cangqiong questioned the short distances between the locations on the Star Chart.
• Ailena told Li Cangqiong that the region was known in the Io Federation as the Miracle Star Domain.

Li Cangqiong warned that War God Viers might break out of Seris after learning the Oakes Empire's Capital Sphere had fallen, using the closely spaced stars of the Miracle Star Domain to escape or strike beyond the Io Federation. The commanders rushed to reinforce Serbia, but Joanna received word that Viers's fleet was already attacking the Star Path defenses.

• Ailena explained that the Miracle Star Domain's nine star systems lay unusually close together, and Li Cangqiong realized Viers might already know about the Capital Sphere's fall and humanity's new capabilities.
• Li Cangqiong reasoned that Viers would likely try to break out rather than wait at Seris, and Sophia agreed that he would seek a way to escape certain death.
• Li Cangqiong warned that Viers could seize the Miracle Star Domain or pass through it to threaten civilizations beyond the Io Federation.
• The commanders agreed to reinforce Serbia: Ailena prepared to lead twenty thousand refitted warships, Joanna ordered the Star Path defenses strengthened, and Liang Xingchen's group set out to provide support.
• Joanna announced that Viers's fleet was already passing through the Star Path and fighting the defenders.

As the Viers Legion established a bridgehead at Serbia, Joanna faced the likely destruction of the Fifth Legion. Li Cangqiong proposed a series of strategic withdrawals to wear down the enemy, and Aierfei ordered Joanna to retreat to Hilsay.

• The Viers Legion overwhelmed the Io Federation's defenses and established a bridgehead at Serbia's Star Path exit.
• Joanna warned that the Fifth Legion could hold out for only two hours, while Li Cangqiong argued that staying would waste the fleet without protecting the rear.
• Li Cangqiong proposed using the Io Federation's speed advantage to withdraw from each Star System after exploiting its Star Path defenses, starting with a retreat to Hilsay.
• Li Cangqiong planned for Ailena to take a fleet to Mihorton while his own forces headed toward Hilsay as reinforcements.
• Aierfei ordered Joanna to lead the Fifth Legion to Hilsay and establish a new Star Path defensive line.

Viers chose to advance toward Hilsay and planned to split his forces afterward to break through the Io Federation’s defenses. Joanna’s Fifth Legion reached the Star Path to Hilsay first, and Liang Xingchen assigned the fleet’s next moves as Viers’s vanguard followed.

• Aierfei ordered Joanna to withdraw the Fifth Legion from the Star Path defensive line and retreat to Hilsay.
• Joanna evacuated the fleet and starport logistics personnel, then led the Fifth Legion through the Star Path toward Hilsay.
• Viers concluded that the Io Federation was using successive defensive lines to wear down his isolated legion, and chose to advance toward Hilsay rather than Mihorton.
• Viers ordered his vanguard and follow-up fleets to head for Hilsay, planning to divide his forces after taking the node.
• Joanna reported that Viers’s legion was following half an hour behind, and Liang Xingchen ordered Ailena to bring her fleet to Hilsay while Joanna repeated the Serbia defense and then withdrew along the shortest Star Path.

Joanna’s Fifth Legion withdrew from Hilsay after inflicting heavy losses on the Viers Legion, whose commander then split his forces to advance through separate Star Paths. Liang Xingchen and Ailena joined forces at Hilsay and divided their commanders between Lenser and Poole to pursue the enemy.

• Joanna’s Fifth Legion held a defensive line at Hilsay, trading losses with the Viers Legion until Joanna ordered a retreat toward Feren.
• Viers chose not to pursue Joanna and ordered the Kindling Plan, splitting his forces across the Io Federation’s Star Paths.
• Viers divided his final 360,000 warships and their support vessels between the routes to Lenser and Poole.
• Liang Xingchen arrived at Hilsay with three Second Legion fleets and ten fleets commanded by Li Cangqiong, then Ailena joined him with 20,000 warships.
• Ailena reported that the Viers Legion was heading toward Lenser and Poole, and Liang Xingchen assigned Ailena, Sophia, and Li Cangqiong to Lenser while he and Jiang Hai went to Poole.

A 50,000-warship United Fleet gathered at the Star Path exit, where Sophia teased Li Cangqiong and announced she would seek a transfer to the First Legion. When Viers's first 2,000 warships emerged, the fleet destroyed nearly all of them in a single barrage, leaving Viers shocked and awaiting the scan results.

• A 50,000-warship fleet under Sophia's command formed a defensive line around the Star Path exit to intercept the Oakes Empire fleet.
• Sophia repeatedly invited Li Cangqiong to join her fleet, but he refused and reaffirmed his loyalty to Lin Fan.
• Sophia told Marshal Saunders she would apply to transfer to the First Legion after the campaign, then teased Li Cangqiong that he would not escape her.
• Sophia ordered the fleet to destroy each wave of Viers Legion ships as it emerged from the Star Path.
• The United Fleet's opening barrage hit 2,000 Viers Legion warships and left only twenty-eight survivors.
• Viers received the survivors' report and ordered them to identify the enemy fleet immediately.

Viers’s fleet was trapped in the Star Path and destroyed by the shielded forces of the Io Federation and humanity. After the battle, Sophia tried to recruit Li Cangqiong, then revealed she planned to transfer to the First Legion.

• Viers learned that 50,000 enemy warships, including 30,000 human battlecruisers, were waiting at the Star Path exit and ordered his ships to fire as soon as they emerged.
• Viers discovered that the Io Federation’s Energy Shields could withstand the attackers’ salvos, and he rejected his adjutant’s suggestion to use fighters.
• The enemy destroyed Viers’s fleet as it exited the Star Path, leaving the region silent after the last industrial ship was eliminated.
• Sophia, Li Cangqiong, and Ailena reviewed the destruction of the Viers Legion in the Virtual Meeting Room, and Sophia complained that the battle had been too easy.
• Sophia asked Li Cangqiong to join her fleet, but he refused; she then told him she had arranged to transfer to the First Legion.

After the Battle of Lenser, Liang Xingchen learned that Sophia Duncan and the Third Fleet were being permanently transferred to Lin Fan’s First Legion. Lin Fan discovered that Sophia had arranged the transfer to pursue Li Cangqiong, and the chapter ended with the transfer confirmed and Li promoted to acting commander of the Fourth Fleet.

• Saunders told Liang Xingchen that Sophia and the Third Fleet would permanently transfer to Lin Fan’s First Legion, leaving Liang suspicious and confused.
• Lin Fan told Liang that he had not requested Sophia’s transfer and was unaware that Saunders had a granddaughter named Sophia.
• Li Cangqiong explained that Sophia had repeatedly invited him to join her fleet and had said she would transfer to his legion after he refused.
• Liang described Sophia as a capable commander who became more formidable against strong enemies, and warned that Li was the target of her attention.
• Three days later, Saunders officially transferred Sophia and the Third Fleet to Lin Fan’s First Legion as its Fifth Fleet.
• Lin Fan received approval to appoint Li Cangqiong acting commander of the Fourth Fleet, and Li was promoted to colonel for his performance in the Battle of the Seris Corridor.