Chapter Summaries

Verto launched a full-scale war between the Vera Alliance and the Freedom Alliance, while Lin Zhen and Ed responded by planning to unify the Orion Arm’s Minor Arm. The chapter ended with the Human Federation mobilizing Liang Xingchen, the Io Federation, and its subsidiary civilizations for expansion.

• Verto ordered a full-scale offensive, and 20 billion Vera Alliance warships clashed with 20 billion Freedom Alliance warships along the route between the First Main Arm and the Fourth Main Arm.
• Babareya learned that Verto had gone to war, unaware that the attack on Verto’s trade hub by the Sephira Consortium was the main cause.
• Lin Zhen and Ed watched the Xio Alliance discuss the fighting and agreed that the Human Federation should bring the Orion Arm’s Minor Arm under its control.
• Lin Zhen and Ed assigned Liang Xingchen to lead the campaign, planned to coordinate with the Io Federation, and decided to involve the Loulan Sector’s subsidiary civilizations.
• Ed issued a war mission to the subsidiary civilizations, whose fleets eagerly prepared to take part.

Lin Fan’s fleet escaped a Babawi Empire force of 900,000 warships by deploying a disguised Warp Interruption Device, leaving Babarot’s fleet stranded. Babareya identified the device’s likely cause and ordered Babarot to search for it.

• Ed gathered a campaign force of 32 legions and 9.5 million warships to conquer the Orion Arm’s Minor Arms.
• Lin Fan’s fleet raided Babawi Empire No. 11917 Small Trade Hub and destroyed its Garrison Fleet.
• Babarot arrived with 900,000 warships, but Lin Fan deployed a disguised device and warped his fleet away.
• Babarot’s warships could not activate their Warp Drive Engines, and three days later he learned that Lin Fan had raided No. 11827 Small Trade Hub.
• Babareya told Babarot that a Level 5 Civilization’s Warp Interruption Device could cause the failures and ordered him to find and destroy it.

Babarot pursued Lin Fan’s fleet through the trade hubs but was repeatedly deceived by its mid-warp course changes. After reporting the problem to Babareya, he received reinforcements and authority to mobilize nearby Level 3 Civilizations, then ordered them to defend the trade hubs.

• Babarot had a warship investigate disguised wreckage, which exploded, and confirmed that his fleet’s warp capability had recovered.
• Babarot’s fleet warped to Small Trade Hub No. 11827, but Lin Fan’s fleet escaped before it arrived.
• Babarot pursued the fleet toward Small Trade Hub No. 11768, only to learn that it had changed course and attacked Small Trade Hub No. 11829.
• Babarot told Babareya that he needed more forces, and Babareya authorized seven additional fleets and control over the Level 3 Civilizations under Large Trade Hub No. 012.
• Babarot ordered those civilizations to send legions to neighboring trade hubs, with at least one legion stationed at every small trade hub.

Babarot mobilized the Babawi Empire and its subordinate civilizations to contain Lin Fan, while Lin Fan continued disrupting trade hubs and avoided decisive engagements. At the Human Federation’s campaign assembly, Candice told Liang Xingchen that Queen Aierfei planned to abdicate after the campaign and that the throne would pass to the first male angel born in ten thousand years.

• Babarot deployed fleets and ordered twelve Level 3 Civilizations to surround the Lehman Empire and withdraw from trade hubs when Lin Fan attacked.
• Lin Fan recognized that the Babawi Empire was concentrating its forces but continued disrupting its trade network while avoiding a decisive battle.
• Liang Xingchen gathered with allied commanders at Epsilon Eridani, where 9.5 million warships had assembled for the campaign against the Orion Arm's Minor Arm.
• Candice told Liang Xingchen that Queen Aierfei wanted to abdicate after the campaign because she found ruling dull.
• Candice explained that Aierfei and the Twelve Tribes leaders had chosen the first male angel born in ten thousand years as her successor.

Liang Xingchen and Candice agreed to combine the Human Federation and Io Federation fleets to subjugate the Minor Arm’s Level 3 Civilizations while subsidiary forces handled weaker civilizations. A month after the plan was set, their forces appeared in the Sesia Civilization’s Capital Sphere and triggered its first war alarm in over a thousand years.

• Candice explained that Lin Tian was being groomed as the Io Federation’s New King because of his intelligence and special identity, while Aierfei wanted to leave the Angel Palace.
• Liang Xingchen outlined a campaign to subjugate the Minor Arm’s thirty-seven Level 3 Civilizations and leave Level 1-2 Civilizations to the subsidiary allied forces.
• Liang Xingchen proposed that all twenty-three human and angel legions advance together to reduce losses, and Candice agreed.
• Liang Xingchen named the Sesia Civilization as the first target and detailed a plan to destroy its capital defenses and remaining Main Legions.
• One month later, the allied fleet appeared in the Sesia Civilization’s Capital Sphere, and the war alarm sounded.

Liang Xingchen’s United Fleet destroyed Sesia’s Capital Sphere, while Lin Fan ended his nearly three-year campaign against the Babawi Empire and secretly returned to Shanhai Pass. The chapter left Lin Fan back at Virallas as Babarot kept searching for the supposedly withdrawn Lehman Empire fleet.

• Liang Xingchen’s nearly seven million Level 4 warships overwhelmed Sesia’s 800,000 defenders and began purging its territory.
• Lin Fan decided his campaign had achieved its objectives and ordered Will to execute Evacuation Plan Three.
• Lin Fan used empty regions beyond Star Systems to evade Babawi surveillance and return toward Shanhai Pass.
• Babarot found no further attacks on trade hubs and ordered them to stay on alert for another year, believing the Lehman Empire fleet had withdrawn.
• Lin Fan arrived at Virallas and reflected that he had been away for nearly three years.

The Io Federation fleet attacked the Otto Empire during its ten-thousandth anniversary parade, overwhelming the empire’s forces with Energy Shields and superior firepower. Emperor Muella contacted Babareya for help, and Babareya was shocked to see the fleet identified as the Io Federation.

• During the Otto Empire’s anniversary parade, a massive fleet appeared at the Capital Sphere and opened fire on the gathered warships.
• Commander Matvey ordered the Otto Empire’s ships to concentrate their fire, but the enemy’s Energy Shields left their attacks ineffective while the empire suffered heavy losses.
• The Otto Empire’s database identified most of the attackers’ ships as belonging to the Io Federation, despite the Federation being recorded as a mid-Level 3 Civilization.
• Matvey ordered the legions to close the distance and urged Muella to contact the Babawi Empire.
• Muella showed Babareya footage of the battle, and Babareya questioned whether the attacking fleet was really the Io Federation.

Babareya discovered that the Io Federation had become a Level 4 Civilization and ordered Babaniir to assemble a massive force to destroy it. As the Otto Empire’s fleet was crushed, Muella tried to flee while Matvey stayed behind to fight.

• Babareya told Muella to escape into the Void Zone and send coordinates for a rescue, and Muella ordered Matvey to arrange his flight.
• Matvey assigned 300 warships to escort Muella, who departed while Matvey remained with the Otto Empire’s forces.
• Liang Xingchen’s faster fleets kept their distance and wore down Matvey’s forces with bombardments, while Liang Xingchen noticed Muella’s fleeing ships.
• Babareya summoned Babaniir and ordered him to eliminate the Io Federation.
• Babareya authorized one hundred legions, or thirty million warships, to assemble and depart for the Minor Arm in one year.

Babania sent Babarot and ten legions to scout the Io Federation before the Empire’s main punitive force arrived. Their first warp ended unexpectedly in the Void Zone, so Babarot used an old report to redirect the fleet along the Starless Belt.

• Babania proposed sending Babarot’s ten legions ahead to gather intelligence on the Io Federation, and Babareya approved.
• Babarot received Babania’s order at Tyler, reviewed the reports about the Io Federation, and prepared his fleet to depart.
• Babarot ordered the ten legions to warp toward the Or Republic’s Capital Sphere, but the fleet abruptly dropped out of warp in the Void Zone.
• After finding no suspicious objects, Babarot recalled Babavile’s report about unstable space in the Starless Belt.
• Babarot ordered the fleet to follow the coordinates along the belt’s edge, and the warships successfully entered warp.

After the Starless Belt blocked Babarot’s fleet from warping through, Babania ordered him to take the Taylor Star Path to Serbia and investigate what lay beyond. Babarot gathered three million warships at the Star Path’s entrance and began the journey.

• Liang Xue reported that a three-million-ship Babawi Empire fleet was heading toward the area where Babavile had been released.
• Babarot and his ten legions failed to warp through the Starless Belt and spent three months searching its edge for a passage.
• Babarot reported the failure to Babania, who suspected the Io Federation might control Virallas and Serbia.
• Babania ordered Babarot to travel through the Taylor Star Path, fight if he could defeat the force there, and otherwise escape and continue his intelligence mission.
• Babarot assembled his fleet at the Taylor Star Path’s entrance and ordered the warships to enter.

Lin Fan gathered the fleet commanders to discuss the Babawi Empire’s approaching invasion through the Star Path, expected in about three years. The commanders debated defenses against the first wave of roughly three million warships, and Victor proposed retreating from the Star Path after a brief delaying action to fight along the Starry Sky Defense Network.

• Liang Xue reported that the Babawi Empire’s exploring warships had gathered at Taylor, and Lin Fan concluded they planned to cross the Starless Belt via the Star Path.
• Lin Fan convened the commanders and explained that the Federation had 980,000 warships available against an expected first wave of around three million Babawi warships.
• Boris proposed blocking the Star Path’s exit with minefields, but Chris Rhode explained that the mines would constrain the Federation more than the enemy.
• Victor argued that the Federation should hold the Star Path briefly, then retreat once the enemy gathered more than 300,000 ships and wear them down along the Starry Sky Defense Network.
• Lin Fan judged Victor’s proposal promising and thought he should be cultivated.

Lin Fan heard proposals from Emma and Sophia for defending Shanhai Pass and explained why he had refused reinforcements. He left the commanders preparing to face the Babawi Empire’s advance force without weakening the campaign to unify the Minor Arm.

• Emma proposed mass-producing Railguns and using dense, concealed bombardments to ambush the enemy, and Lin Fan considered the tactic promising.
• Sophia tried to offer her own plan, but Lin Fan guessed that she wanted to charge into the enemy formation and create chaos, leaving her speechless.
• Bernice asked why Shanhai Pass had not requested reinforcements from the fleets in the rear.
• Lin Fan explained that headquarters was unifying the Minor Arm and that sending reinforcements would disrupt the broader campaign.
• Lin Fan said he had rejected reinforcements because he believed Shanhai Pass could defeat the Babawi Empire’s advance fleet on its own.

Lin Fan visited Bai Zixuan to find a weapon that could be rapidly produced before the Babawi Empire’s vanguard fleet arrived. Bai revealed an abandoned Ten-Shot Railgun, which Lin Fan ordered into production and tested against an Orca-class Battleship, leaving its shield damage report pending.

• Lin Fan told Bai Zixuan that the Babawi Empire’s vanguard fleet would arrive in about three years and asked him to design a mass-producible Railgun.
• Bai Zixuan showed Lin Fan and Liang Xue an old Ten-Shot Railgun that fired ten projectiles at 0.99 times the speed of light.
• Lin Fan ordered Liang Xue to coordinate with Bai Zixuan to start producing ten million Railguns.
• Lin Fan asked Bai Zixuan to help test the Railgun against an Orca-class Battleship parked one astronomical unit away.
• The Railgun fired ten projectiles that struck the Orca-class Battleship’s shield, and Lin Fan’s crew awaited a damage report.

Lin Fan oversaw a test of the new Railgun and arranged for Lyca Crystals to power it, allowing Bai Zixuan to prepare it for mass production. He then inspected the Starry Sky Defense Network, whose core weapon was a devastating Star Cannon, as construction continued for the campaign.

• The new Railgun struck an Orca-class Battleship with ten simultaneous shells and depleted 12% of its Energy Shield.
• Lin Fan decided to use Lyca Crystals to power the Railgun and ordered Liang Xue to request fifty million from Earth.
• Lin Fan instructed the tester to tell Bai Zixuan to modify the Railgun's energy system and design attitude-control thrusters before mass production.
• Lin Fan and Liang Xue inspected the Starry Sky Defense Network, which consisted of 13.8 million Fixed Defense Platforms and a Star Cannon.
• Lin Fan learned that the Star Cannon could destroy everything across a beam 200,000 kilometers wide, but required ten thousand Lyca Crystals per shot and could fire only once every thirty minutes.

Lin Fan reviewed the Starry Sky Defense Network's progress as the war across the Milky Way took a turn when Hussein learned that the Vera Alliance had framed the Xio Alliance. Hussein decided to join the war, while Xis secretly smiled after he left the meeting.

• Lin Fan saw that the Starry Sky Defense Network was 89% complete, while the Star Cannon had reached 68%.
• The Xio Alliance attacked a Zola Alliance shipment, and Hussein confronted Xis, who denied responsibility and proposed baiting the attackers.
• Hussein and Xis captured 178 Vera operatives after trapping their fleet, then learned they had been sent by Verto to provoke a war between the Zola and Xio Alliances.
• Hussein decided to enter the war across the Milky Way and asked Xis for a route through the Galactic Core Channel.
• After Hussein left the Virtual Meeting Room, Xis smiled.

The Zola Alliance sent 50 billion warships through the Xio Alliance’s defensive line and attacked the Vera Alliance’s undermanned galactic-core passage. Oleg prepared to hold the line while Verto confronted the unexpected threat, and the two fleets began firing.

• The Zola Alliance assembled 50 billion warships and entered the galactic-core passage after the Xio Alliance opened its defensive line.
• Oleg warned that the Vera Alliance had transferred 40 billion warships to the main battlefield, leaving only 10 billion to defend the passage.
• Oleg learned that the approaching 50 billion warships belonged to the Zola Alliance and issued a Level One War Order.
• Oleg told Verto the defensive line could hold for only three months at most, then cut off their emergency call to organize the defense.
• The Zola Alliance vanguard advanced within firing range, and both sides ordered their fleets to attack.

Oleg’s exhausted Vera Alliance defense line faced a breakthrough by the Zola Alliance’s 2 billion Level 5 Civilization Bakeland Republic warships. Vera’s Defense Platforms damaged the attackers with spatial-barrier projectiles, but the Bakeland Republic warships began striking the platforms in return.

• After fifteen days of fighting, Oleg’s depleted forces faced the Zola Alliance’s attack with its Level 5 Civilization warships.
• Oleg recognized that the Zola Alliance was clearing the center for the Bakeland Republic warships and ordered the Level 4 ships aside and the Defense Platforms to prepare.
• The Bakeland Republic warships broke through before the central fleet could withdraw, and their Spatial Shields repelled the Level 4 attacks.
• Oleg ordered the Defense Platforms to fire despite more than 500 million Vera warships still being in the line of fire.
• The Defense Platforms’ spatial-barrier projectiles destroyed 1 million Bakeland Republic warships, and the Bakeland Republic fleet attacked the defensive facilities.

Oleg ordered the Vera Alliance defenders to abandon their defensive line and charge into a close-range melee, inflicting devastating losses on the Zola Alliance before the line fell. The Zola fleet entered Vera Alliance territory as Verto faced a new threat: the Freedom Alliance announced it would send 50 billion warships to the Galactic Core Channel.

• Oleg judged that the Vera Alliance could not stop the Bakeland Republic's Level 5 warships and ordered his fleets to charge the Zola Alliance's attacking formation.
• The Vera Alliance fleets crashed into the Zola Alliance's frontline ships, creating a melee that kept the Zola reserves and Bakeland Republic fleet from providing fire support.
• On the twenty-fifth day of the war, the Vera Alliance's defensive line fell; all 10 billion defending warships were destroyed, while the Zola Alliance lost 8.5 billion Level 4 warships and more than 300 million Level 5 warships.
• Moros learned that the Zola Alliance had breached the Vera Alliance's outer gateway and believed Verto had arranged the earlier attack using replicated Xio Alliance ships.
• The Zola Alliance's remaining fleet charged into Vera Alliance territory as Verto mobilized to intercept it.
• The Freedom Alliance announced that it would send another 50 billion warships to the Galactic Core Channel.

Babania launched the Babawi Empire’s expeditionary force toward Taylor despite his growing sense of danger. Two years later, the Zola Alliance’s invasion overwhelmed Vera’s defenses, forcing Verto to order a full alliance mobilization as vast territories and two Level 4 Civilizations were lost.

• Babaniir assembled a hundred legions of the Babawi Empire’s remaining forces and confirmed that Babarot’s scouting fleet was still years from reaching Virallas.
• Babania, troubled by a worsening sense of danger, ordered the expeditionary force to depart for Taylor.
• The Zola Alliance broke through Vera’s Galactic Core Channel defenses, while the Freedom Alliance committed fifty billion warships to its own front against Vera.
• Vera’s reinforcements halted the Zola Alliance’s first fifty-billion-ship force, but another eighty billion Zola warships soon entered Vera territory.
• Verto ordered a full alliance mobilization, barely stopping the Zola advance after more than a tenth of the First Main Arm fell and two Level 4 Civilizations were destroyed.

The Babawi Empire launched an invasion through the Star Path at Shanhai Pass, where the Io Federation ambushed its vanguard. After a costly hour of fighting, the Babawi Empire established a tenuous foothold at the exit, leaving the Federation’s defenses under growing pressure.

• The Vera Alliance and Freedom Alliance continued their brutal war in the Galactic Core Channel as Moros pressed his attack.
• The Io Federation positioned its legions at Shanhai Pass to defend the Star Path exit against the expected Babawi Empire invasion.
• Babarot sent the first 3,000 Babawi Empire warships out of the Star Path, where concentrated Federation fire destroyed more than 1,000 of them.
• Babarot dismissed the intelligence identifying the enemy warships as Io Federation vessels, then ordered his fleet to establish a bridgehead.
• After an hour and 300,000 warship losses, the Babawi Empire secured a tenuous foothold at the Star Path exit with more than 60,000 warships.