Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan’s fleet found that Life Planets across the Large Magellanic Cloud had become dead planets, then encountered a powerful dragon-like species fighting the Titaro Civilization. After the Titaro commander requested help, Lin Fan considered using the civilization to learn what had happened in the galaxy.

• Lin Fan and Liang Xue confirmed that another system’s Life Planet had been drained of its core energy and become a dead planet.
• Lin Fan ordered the fleet to jump toward a Star System five hundred light-years away.
• The dragon swarm overwhelmed the Titaro Civilization’s fleet, while Commander Calvin learned that reinforcements would not arrive for seventy days.
• Calvin spotted an unfamiliar fleet of three million battleships and, unable to identify it in the database, ordered his forces to send a distress signal.
• Lin Fan watched the battle footage, took interest in the dragons, and discussed sending Lin Tian to answer the Titaro Civilization’s call for help.

Lin Tian led the Federal Fleet against the dragon swarm, exploiting its limited range and slower speed to destroy thousands of dragons while keeping the fleet out of danger. The dragons tried to flee and then turn back to attack, but Lin Tian continued to control the engagement from a distance.

• Calvin ordered the surviving Seventh Fleet warships to retreat as the dragon swarm turned toward the arriving Federal Fleet.
• Lin Tian ordered the Federal Fleet to attack at five million kilometers, then pull back when the dragons closed to two million kilometers.
• The Federal Fleet's Plasma Cannons tore through the dragon swarm, killing dragons in just a few shots as they gathered into an assault formation.
• After losing more than ten thousand dragons, the swarm leader turned the survivors to flee, but the faster Federal Fleet pursued and fired on them.
• When the dragons turned back to attack, Lin Tian had the Federal Fleet evade along curved paths and watched the swarm leader's furious expression.

Lin Tian captured several dragons alive after the Human Federation fleet overwhelmed them, and Lin Fan invited Calvin aboard to discuss the region. Calvin realized the Federation had arrived from another star system and grew even more respectful.

• Lin Tian ordered the fleet to stop firing and slowly cripple the dragons with secondary cannons so they could be captured alive.
• After an hour, Lin Tian’s fleet had immobilized two ordinary dragons and badly wounded the leader dragon, while the rest had died.
• Lin Tian asked Lin Fan to send experts to advise on handling the surviving dragons, and Calvin recognized that the fleet had deliberately captured them alive.
• Lin Fan and Calvin connected by communications, introduced themselves, and Lin Fan invited Calvin aboard for a meal and a discussion.
• Calvin understood that Lin Fan’s fleet had come from another star system and accepted the invitation with deep respect.

Lin Fan questioned Calvin about the Large Magellanic Cloud and learned how the Planet Devourer destroyed the Fein Federation. The remaining civilizations had united under the Estelle Empire to resist the creature, which was now consuming planets to recover its strength.

• Lin Fan asked Calvin about the star system’s powers and the creature he had encountered.
• Calvin explained that the Fein Federation and the Estelle Empire had once been the two Level 4 Civilizations in the region, and that lower civilizations depended on their warp technology to travel between star systems.
• Calvin said the Fein Federation’s attempt to create a space-surviving lifeform caused it to mutate into the Planet Devourer, which grew by consuming energy and planets.
• The Planet Devourer bred giant offspring, destroyed the Fein Federation in a costly battle, and continued devouring planets to recover.
• Calvin told Lin Fan that the region’s civilizations had rallied behind the Estelle Empire to fight the Planet Devourer.

Lin Fan examined a star chart to choose a base in the Large Magellanic Cloud and decided the inaccessible Sirius Sector was ideal for his fleet. After Calvin returned to his flagship, he watched a strange ship in Lin Fan’s fleet being dismantled by robots.

• Lin Fan ruled out the former Fein Federation territory because the Planet Devourer had devastated it and its threat remained poorly understood.
• Lin Fan studied the star chart and noticed the densely populated Sirius Sector, which the Estelle Empire and Fein Federation had left unclaimed.
• Calvin explained that a ten-light-year Void Zone surrounded the Sirius Sector and prevented warp travel, but Lin Fan said his fleet could cross it.
• Lin Fan chose the Sirius Sector as the center of his new administrative region and ordered the fleet to head there with the Stargate Ship deployed.
• Calvin returned to his flagship, where his deputy showed him footage of a massive, bloated ship being dismantled by robots.

Lin Fan established a stargate and left a fleet to defend Laclais before sending his forces into the Sirius Sector. After Qin Tian reported Aode’s extraordinary resources and unclaimed life-bearing planets, Lin Fan chose it as the future capital of the Large Magellanic Administrative Region.

• Lin Fan told Calvin that he would leave a large stargate and a Sector-Class Fleet at Laclais, and Calvin gladly agreed.
• Lin Fan assigned Li Cangqiong and Sophia to remain at Laclais with the Third Expeditionary Fleet and help establish an outpost.
• Lin Fan activated the stargate and sent Qin Tian’s vanguard fleet through to the Sirius Sector for reconnaissance.
• Qin Tian reported that Aode held 278 planets, including three unclaimed Life Planets, sixty-seven Terraformable Planets, abundant resources, and nine asteroid belts.
• Lin Fan selected Aode as the future capital and ordered all fleets except the Laclais garrison to depart for it.

Lin Fan welcomed Earth’s fleet and Bai Zixuan to Aude, then oversaw the colony’s rapid development. He learned that a Sector-Class Fleet from the Estelle Empire had arrived at Laclais and allowed it to send representatives to Aude.

• Earth’s fleet arrived in the Aude system, and Bai Zixuan confronted Lin Fan before accepting two storage cards containing new technology data.
• Lin Fan used his points to upgrade the redemption module to Level 5 and obtain Spatial Shield Technology and Miniaturized Unidirectional Spatial Barrier Technology.
• Construction crews built modern cities on Aude II, where six hundred million colonists were settled under Lin Fan’s administration.
• Li Cangqiong informed Lin Fan that a Sector-Class Fleet from the Estelle Empire had arrived at Laclais to support the Titaro Civilization.
• Lin Fan authorized contact with the Estelle fleet and allowed its representatives to travel to Aude.

Seventy days after leaving Cuiset to aid Laclais, Bilodis found the system thriving under the protection of the Human Federation, a powerful civilization from the Milky Way. She accepted Li Cangqiong’s invitation to meet the Federation’s Governor in Deao and learn his intentions for the Large Magellanic Cloud.

• Bilodis left Cuiset with one million warships to answer Laclais’s distress call, leaving 800,000 ships behind as garrison forces.
• After seventy days, Bilodis arrived at Laclais and found it bustling with spacecraft and construction instead of destroyed by Void Dragons.
• Bilodis’s adjutant detected an unfamiliar fleet of about one million warships beside a thirty-kilometer stargate.
• Bilodis and Li Cangqiong were startled by how much their appearances resembled each other, while Li Cangqiong recalled his bet with Lin Tian about elves.
• Li Cangqiong told Bilodis that the Human Federation had rescued the Titaro Civilization from the Void Dragons and was a quasi-Level 5 Civilization from the Milky Way.
• Bilodis asked about the Federation’s intentions, and Li Cangqiong invited her to meet Governor Lin Tian in Deao, where the Federation was building its Large Magellanic capital.

Bilodis traveled through the Stargate from Laclais to Deo, where Liang Xue welcomed her and explained how the spatial passage worked. She then met Lin Fan aboard a battle star still under construction, beginning a diplomatic meeting between the Human Federation and the Estelle Empire.

• Bilodis arrived in Deo moments after entering the Stargate and asked Liang Xue why the journey had seemed instantaneous.
• Liang Xue explained that seven minutes had passed without Bilodis perceiving time inside the spatial passage, then guided her warship to the fortress spaceport.
• Bilodis asked about the unfinished fortress and learned from Liang Xue that it was a battle star still under construction.
• Lin Fan warned Lin Tian to behave himself before Liang Xue announced Bilodis's arrival.
• Bilodis and eight other elves entered the reception room, where Bilodis and Lin Fan introduced themselves and shook hands.

Lin Fan told Bilodis that the Federation had originally intended to conquer the Large Magellanic Cloud, but suggested that the elves might share a deeper connection with humans and Angels. After Bilodis agreed to an examination, Lin Fan speculated that some unknown force had arranged the emergence of these similar races.

• Lin Tian hid his envy when Liang Xue glared at him as he watched Lin Fan greet Bilodis.
• Lin Fan bluntly admitted that the Federation had planned to conquer and rule the Large Magellanic Cloud, then said his intentions had changed after meeting Bilodis.
• Lin Fan introduced his winged younger brother, Lin Tian, and explained that the Angels were an official member state of the Federation.
• Lin Fan proposed that the elves might be related to humans and Angels, and Bilodis agreed to a physical examination.
• After Bilodis and the others left with Liang Xue, Lin Fan told Lin Tian he suspected an unknown force had arranged the appearance of similar races.

After Bilodis reported the Federation’s offer to Queen Alwen, Alwen agreed that joining the Human Federation was the elves’ only hope against the Planet Devourer. She asked Lin Fan to send a Stargate Ship to Seran, and he assigned Lin Tian to travel with Bilodis.

• Lin Fan reviewed Bilodis’s report and asked what she planned to do; Bilodis said she needed Queen Alwen to decide.
• Bilodis privately told Alwen about the situation, and Alwen asked how long the Estelle Empire could resist the Planet Devourer.
• Bilodis warned that the Empire’s strategic balance would collapse once the Planet Devourer launched a full-scale offensive.
• Alwen agreed to join the Human Federation and asked Bilodis to request a Stargate in Seran.
• Lin Fan agreed and sent Lin Tian aboard Bilodis’s warship to build Stargates in Seran.

Lin Fan laid out a three-phase plan to destroy the Planet Devourer and negotiated the Estelle Empire’s entry into the Federation. Queen Alwen agreed to the merger after securing protections for Estelle and its allied civilizations, and the empire officially joined in Federation Year 101.

• Lin Fan planned to suppress the Void Dragons with rapid-response fleets, arm Level 3 Civilizations, and ultimately destroy the Planet Devourer with Zero-Point Bombs.
• Queen Alwen led the Estelle Empire’s negotiation team, and Lin Fan offered terms matching the Io Federation’s agreement.
• Alwen accepted the merger terms, including equal citizenship, converted military ranks, and two seats in the Presidential Palace.
• Lin Fan and Alwen agreed that civilizations failing potential assessments would not be eliminated but could not join the Federation’s affiliated civilization system.
• The Estelle Empire officially joined the Federation in Federation Year 101.

After the Estelle Empire joined the Human Federation, Lin Fan announced that Federation rapid-response fleets could reach any attacked region in ten minutes. When the Hera Republic came under a massive Void Dragon assault, the Federation arrived in nine minutes and began rescuing its forces.

• The Estelle Empire announced that it would join the Human Federation, shocking the civilizations of the Large Magellanic Cloud with news of a Level 5 civilization.
• Lin Fan announced that Federation rapid-response fleets could respond to Void Dragon attacks anywhere in the galaxy within ten minutes.
• After two hundred thousand Void Dragons invaded the Hera Republic, Marshal Kelt sent a distress signal to the Federation.
• Lin Fan ordered Li Cangqiong to lead the First through Fifth rapid-response fleets to the Hera Republic's Capital Sphere.
• As the Hera Republic's forces fought five hundred thousand Void Dragons, Strack's Sixth Fleet was overrun and Strack asked his allies to open fire on him.
• The Federation fleet arrived nine minutes after the distress signal, attacked the dragon swarm, and told Kelt to withdraw his remaining front-line ships.

After the Federation’s rapid-response fleet rescued the Hera Republic from a Void Dragon attack, Lin Fan used the Federation’s rising prestige to recruit subordinate civilizations. The review accepted 218 Level 3 and 1,189 Level 2 civilizations, which gained access to the Federation’s exchange platform and ways to earn points.

• Li Cangqiong’s fleet routed the Void Dragon Swarm attacking the Hera Republic, and Lin Fan received 100,000 System Points for the victory.
• News of the rescue spread across the Large Magellanic Cloud, raising the Federation’s prestige after its rapid-response fleet arrived in nine minutes.
• After further rescues, Lin Fan announced that the Federation would recruit subordinate civilizations and sent its terms to Level 2 and Level 3 civilizations.
• More than 100,000 civilizations applied, and after three months of screening, 218 Level 3 and 1,189 Level 2 civilizations passed.
• The accepted civilizations received platform terminals offering equipment and warships in exchange for points earned through resources, technologies, or Federation tasks.
• The Federation planned to send reassessment teams to civilizations that could not earn points through the available contributions.

Lin Fan and the researchers tested a new Spatial Shield, which successfully repelled plasma shots and attacking drones. The final test began with a restrained Void Dragon released near the shielded Test Ship.

• The Rapid Response Fleet expanded its counteroffensive, pushing the Void Dragons' territory back by a thousand light-years.
• Bai Zixuan activated the Test Ship's Spatial Shield while Lin Fan, Alwin, Bilodis, and others observed.
• The shield absorbed three plasma shots and redirected them behind the Test Ship without damaging it.
• Dozens of drones rammed the Test Ship and reappeared on the opposite side, completing the second test.
• The researchers released a restrained Void Dragon to begin the final test of the Spatial Shield.

The Void Dragon attacked the Test Ship but its Spatial Shield redirected and distorted his strikes, leaving him confused and badly injured. Bai Zixuan shut down the shield, severing the Void Dragon’s neck, and the researchers were left considering what the test had taught them about spatial technology.

• The Void Dragon fired an energy beam at the Test Ship, but its Spatial Shield absorbed and redirected the attack.
• The Void Dragon charged and repeatedly struck and bit the motionless Test Ship, while the Spatial Shield caused his attacks to pass through him and shattered his teeth.
• Bai Zixuan ordered the Test Ship to deactivate its Spatial Shield.
• The Void Dragon tried to pull his head back through the shield, but shutting it down severed his neck and killed him.
• Bai Zixuan said the test had given him a new idea, while Lin Fan reflected on the limits of humanity’s knowledge of spatial technology.

After the Spatial Shield tests, Lin Fan ordered mass production and fleet refits, and the Federation began equipping its fleets with the new technology. Months later, Bilodis’s Second Fleet entered Basa Sector and detected the Planet Devourer’s main force swarm ahead.

• Lin Fan ordered the Research Department to mass-produce Spatial Shield devices and the Military Department to prepare existing warships for refits.
• The Research Department completed its production plan in ten days, and Lin Fan assigned the first million devices to Bilodis’s Second Fleet.
• Over the following months, the Third Legion pushed the Void Dragons back into the former Fein Federation’s territory, where Bilodis saw widespread destruction caused by the Planet Devourer.
• Bilodis became convinced that Zero-Point Bombs could destroy the Planet Devourer after Lin Fan showed her their specifications and past test records.
• Bilodis’s fleet detected five million Void Dragons ahead, identified as the Planet Devourer’s main force swarm.

Bilodis faced five million Void Dragons from the Planet Devourer’s main force clan at Rassers, while Lin Fan ordered Lin Tian to send two Bio-human fleets from the sealed Losart project to support her. The Second Fleet began firing saturation volleys as the dragons closed in, but the opening attacks barely damaged them.

• Liang Xue told Lin Fan that Bilodis had encountered five million main force clan Void Dragons at Rassers and that battle was imminent.
• Lin Fan asked whether Lin Tian was still at Losart, where a top-secret Bio-human fleet project had produced warships and soldiers under a complete blockade.
• Lin Fan ordered Lin Tian to depart with two fully organized fleets of the First Legion.
• Lin Tian ordered the First and Second Fleets to prepare for deployment and the Super Star Gate to activate after hearing that Bilodis was in danger.
• Bilodis ordered the Second Fleet to fire in saturation mode as the Void Dragon Swarm closed within five million kilometers.
• The first salvo struck the main force clan Void Dragons but caused little damage, and Bilodis expected casualties to rise as the attacks accumulated.

Bilodis tested the Federation’s Spatial Shield against the main-species Void Dragons and used the First Formation to draw the swarm into a tight cluster. With the shield proving immune to the dragons’ long-range attacks, the main fleet prepared a concentrated barrage against the gathered swarm.

• Bilodis ordered the First Formation to charge while the rest of the Second Fleet retreated and fired through its warships, demonstrating the Spatial Shield’s ability to absorb and redirect allied attacks.
• The Void Dragons’ energy beams struck the First Formation, but the Spatial Shield left the warships undamaged, and Bilodis ordered them to enter the swarm.
• The First Formation charged through the Void Dragons and then slowed down, prompting the swarm to pursue and surround it.
• Bilodis ordered the main fleet to stop retreating, form a reverse arc, and concentrate fire on the compressed swarm.
• The First Formation continued firing from inside the swarm as the Void Dragons crowded around it and left behind countless shattered fang fragments.

Lin Fan warned that the Void Dragons might be hiding a much larger force despite Bilodis’s tactical advantage, and sent Lin Tian’s fleet toward Rassers. His suspicion proved correct when more than twenty-five million Void Dragons emerged from nearby planets and moved to surround the Second Fleet.

• Lin Fan praised Bilodis’s battlefield tactics but questioned the small number of Void Dragons and explained that the Planet Devourer could evolve new biological abilities.
• Lin Fan told Liang Xue that he was more concerned about the planets surrounding the Second Fleet and sent a warning to Bilodis to scan them.
• Bilodis ordered warships to scan the nearby planets after receiving Lin Fan’s message.
• More than twenty-five million Void Dragons emerged from the planets and charged toward the Second Fleet from every direction.