Chapter Summaries

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.

The four Level 5 Civilization leaders agreed to mobilize the Milky Way against the insect invasion, concentrating the war in the First Main Arm. They also decided to recognize the Orion Arm civilization’s authority and accelerate the transport of Level 3 fleets, then prepared to issue a general mobilization order.

• Verto told the other leaders that insect forces converging on the Viers Defense Line could exceed the current 100-trillion swarm by more than a hundredfold, and the four leaders agreed to stop them at the First Main Arm.
• Verto proposed that every Milky Way civilization contribute forces to the war, and the other leaders agreed that none could remain uninvolved.
• Hussein raised the Orion Arm civilization that had destroyed the Babawi Empire, and Xis argued that its authority should be recognized in exchange for its fleet joining the war.
• Verto reluctantly agreed to recognize the Orion Arm civilization, and Xis volunteered to contact it.
• Xis proposed mass-producing simplified Super Heavy Transport Ships and selling Warp Drive Engines with backdoors to move Level 3 fleets to the front, and the leaders approved the plan.
• The four leaders agreed to issue a general mobilization order for the entire Milky Way.

Lin Zhen learned how severe the insect race threat had become and organized a five-year military buildup for the Federation while preparing to contribute to the Milky Way’s defense. The satellite galaxy plan was moved forward, but Lin Tian’s hopes of finishing training early were crushed by Lin Fan.

• Xis told Lin Zhen about the insect race’s movements and the four Level 5 Civilizations’ meeting, then agreed to give the Federation five years to build up its forces.
• Lin Zhen and Ed planned to deploy the Federation’s available fleets, share insect race intelligence with subordinate civilizations, and expand warship production to 300 million vessels annually within five years.
• The Federation offered subordinate civilizations a ninety percent discount on military equipment and ordered Level 3 Civilizations to produce warship parts while the Federation retained control of core components.
• Lin Zhen set a five-year goal to make Zero-Point Bombs practical and relied on the satellite galaxy plan to provide the resources needed for the buildup.
• Lin Tian thought the plan’s earlier start would let him finish training sooner, but Lin Fan increased his workload to fit the original remaining curriculum into nine months.

After the Federation unified the Orion Arm, Lin Fan’s system upgraded to its official version and issued him a mission to obtain an autonomous galactic-level base within thirty years. Lin Fan realized the twelve satellite galaxies could help him fulfill the mission, setting his sights on the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies.

• The Federation completed its unification of the Orion Arm, and Lin Fan’s system awarded him five million points before beginning a 24-hour upgrade.
• Lin Fan considered the threat posed by the insect race and concluded that closing the Spatial Rift was essential, while resolving to conquer the Milky Way and expand beyond it.
• The system upgraded to its official version and explained that Lin Fan could exchange points for resources, earn them through battles, or receive them for completing missions.
• The system issued Lin Fan a mission to acquire a completely autonomous base of at least galactic level within thirty years.
• Lin Fan realized the Federation’s planned twelve satellite galaxies might qualify and saw a path toward his new mission.

Lin Fan told Lin Zhen about his system and its need for a galaxy-sized territory, and Lin Zhen proposed sending him to establish the Federation’s special subsidiary civilization in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The plan left Lin Fan set to lead the Large Magellanic Administrative Region, equipped with people, legions, and Bai Zixuan, while remaining part of the Federation.

• Lin Fan returned to Earth and revealed the system’s requirements to Lin Zhen, concealing only that he was a transmigrator.
• Lin Zhen proposed establishing a Federation subsidiary civilization and offered Lin Fan leadership of the Large Magellanic Cloud region.
• Lin Zhen promised Lin Fan five billion people, five Federation legions, and Bai Zixuan, in exchange for annual scientific research results.
• Lin Zhen explained that the region would remain part of the Federation but serve as a fully prepared civilization capable of evacuating if the primary civilization faced extinction.

Lin Fan reorganized Hangu Pass’s forces and prepared to leave for a new mission developing a satellite galaxy. After returning to Earth, he learned that he would lead the Federation’s Large Magellanic Cloud mission, with Lin Tian as his deputy commander.

• Lin Fan oversaw Hangu Pass’s restructuring into two Galaxy-Class Fleets, appointing Chris and Jiang Hai as commanders and Li Cangqiong as Jiang Hai’s acting replacement.
• Lin Fan received orders to hand Hangu Pass over to Liang Xingchen and return to Earth with his core officers, while Lin Tian completed his fleet-command training.
• Lin Fan told Lin Tian he would join the Large Magellanic Cloud mission, but kept secret which satellite galaxy he planned to develop.
• Lin Fan completed the handover to Liang Xingchen and returned to Earth with Liang Xue, Lin Tian, and more than twenty core officers.
• Interstellar Fleet Headquarters appointed Lin Fan commander and Lin Tian deputy commander of a mission to explore and develop the Large Magellanic Cloud with three Sector-Class Fleets.