Recaps

Lin Fan unified the Milky Way and began extending the Human Federation into other galaxies, while Lin Yu encountered the Brilliant Empire and prepared it to face the Purple Cloud Empire. The arc ended with Lin Yu’s forces attacking Hei Sha’s tribute fleet as it retreated through a wormhole.

• The Human Federation revealed its power and affiliated civilizations, then Lin Fan delivered Zero-Point Energy technology to Bai Zixuan, whose team produced ten million energy crystals.
• Lin Fan offered the Vera Federation a choice between independence and joining humanity, and a referendum led the Vera people to choose subsidiary status and relocate to Triangulum.
• Nearly all Milky Way civilizations signed subsidiary treaties, and their forces helped dismantle the Big Three until the system recognized Lin Fan had unified the Milky Way.
• Bai Zixuan’s team collapsed the Bug Nest Channel, while Lin Fan became marshal and Commander-in-Chief and approved plans to use Hyperspace Engines and intergalactic migration.
• Lin Yu’s fleet reached the Andromeda Galaxy and met the Brilliant Empire, whose Emperor Aimeni sought Federation protection and whose records revealed the Purple Cloud Empire’s devastating Neutron Battle Star.
• Li Lizhi proposed turning the Neutron Battle Star into a black hole, and the Federation and Brilliant Empire began building a research base and gathering asteroids to produce Neutron Degenerate Matter.
• Hei Sha’s fleet headed to collect tribute from the Brilliant Empire, and Lin Yu’s forces ambushed it near a wormhole before Hei Sha ordered a retreat through the passage.

The Federation destroyed the Purple Cloud Empire’s Neutron Battle Star, then uncovered three hidden Planet-class Warships and turned its attention to the Blazing Fire Empire. Li Lizhi’s team captured and activated a second Neutron Battle Star, leaving Su Yan to report their situation while the enemy headed for the outpost.

• Emperor Bourne stripped Hei Sha of his Imperial Fleet positions after the unknown force destroyed or crippled tens of millions of warships, then ordered his council to plan a response.
• Lin Yu’s forces lured Chi Shi’s fleet into attacking illusory facilities on Saka, ambushed it, and trapped Lan He’s Neutron Battle Star with Neutron Degenerate Mass Spheres.
• Li Lizhi’s team caused the Neutron Battle Star to collapse into a black hole, while Lin Yu learned that two immortal beings from a Transcendent Civilization had watched the battle.
• Farn revealed that the Alphart Civilization had created the Neutron Battle Stars and gave Bern control of three hidden Level 7 Planet-class Warships.
• Woston encountered the hidden warships near the Blazing Fire Civilization, escaped their capture attempt with a Zero-Point Bomb, and reported that their phase shields resisted the blast.
• Lin Yu sent Jiang Sen to draw the Blazing Fire Empire’s forces toward its Capital Sphere, where humanity destroyed Lan Wei’s ten-million-warship fleet and forced Carter to summon the Planet-class Warships.
• Su Yan’s team breached the outpost, defeated its guards, and captured the Neutron Battle Star’s command crew and control room.
• Li Lizhi studied the battle star’s manual and activated the vessel, whose Super Gravity Field destroyed an unmanned warship as Silver Fox headed for the outpost, and Su Yan used Li Lizhi’s Phase Communicator to report to Lin Yu.

The Federation mobilized to confront the bug invasion and accepted the Three-Eyed Empire as a member state while preparing to protect its refugees. As the Empire’s Vita Defense Line collapsed under the Queen Bugs’ spatial attacks, Mu ordered a retreat to the Capital Sphere and stayed behind to cover it.

• Li Lizhi disabled Silver Fox’s three Dark Star-class Warships with a pulse, allowing Federation forces to attack the helpless vessels.
• Wang Jun’s mech squads broke through the Blazing Fire Empire’s defenses and Lei Li stopped Lan Feng’s Zero-Point Energy overload at the energy depot.
• Farn killed two Queen Bugs and offered Alba greater power in exchange for destroying the Human Federation.
• Lin Fan ordered five galaxy clusters and allied fleets to assemble near the Bug Nest Channel, where the Three-Eyed Empire was evacuating.
• Liang Xingchen negotiated with Wei, and the Federation invited the Three-Eyed Empire to become its 236th member state after tests confirmed genetic compatibility.
• Lin Fan promised to help hold back the bugs while the Three-Eyed Empire evacuated, and Wei joined the fleet heading to the battlefield.
• Mu’s Special Heavy Fleets suffered catastrophic losses against the Tier 3 Queen Bugs and their guards, while the Empire’s conventional forces were overwhelmed.
• Mu ordered the fleets to withdraw to the Capital Sphere, then led a covering force that became trapped among the bug swarms.

The Federation crushed the Zerg assault at the Vita Defense Line, then Li Cangqiong’s expedition uncovered Alba’s hidden forces and Lin Hong revealed humanity’s origins and a distant threat. The story left Lin Fan preparing to accelerate the Federation’s wars as the battle against the Zerg continued.

• Lin Fan brought the Federal Fleet into the Galactic System, used Zero-Point Missiles to destroy the Queen Bugs, and joined forces with Mu and Xiu to reinforce the Vita Defense Line.
• Alba evolved into a Bug Emperor and summoned Aliya, Emil, and Gayasi to bring their broods to the Mels Star Cluster for a new holy war against humanity.
• Lin Fan sent Li Cangqiong and Li Lizhi behind enemy lines, where they found a Spatial Fault concealing Alba, a trillion bugs, and a being vastly stronger than a Tier 3 Queen Bug.
• Lin Hong confronted Farn and trapped him in Outer Dimension Space, while Li Cangqiong’s fleet broke the Spatial Fault and attacked Alba’s forces with Zero-Point Missiles.
• Lin Hong told Lin Fan that humanity descended from the Alphart, that the Black Radiance Universe might arrive within ten thousand years, and that humanity was the Alphart’s final hope.
• After Lin Hong’s projection vanished, Lin Fan decided to accelerate the Federation’s wars, while Li Cangqiong’s fleet faced another Bug Nest Channel and continued fighting the Zerg.