Chapter Summaries

Bilodis's Second Fleet was trapped when a Void Dragon disrupted its warp jump, but Lin Tian arrived with the First Legion's First Fleet and ordered Bilodis to withdraw. Lin Tian prepared to confront the approaching dragon swarms while the Stargate Ship assembled a Star Gate.

• Bilodis ordered the Second Fleet to warp away from the Void Dragons, but its engines failed because a special Void Dragon was emitting warp-interruption interference.
• Bilodis found the interference source, protected by a swarm of roughly three million Void Dragons, and ordered the First Formation to attack while the main fleet prepared to break out.
• A Super Star Gate channel opened beside the Second Fleet, and five hundred thousand unfamiliar warships marked First Legion, First Fleet emerged.
• Lin Tian contacted Bilodis, told her to withdraw because her fleet lacked Spatial Shields, and said the First Fleet had completed its refit.
• Bilodis agreed to leave as the Stargate Ship began assembling a Star Gate, and Lin Tian turned to face the approaching dragon swarms.

After the Federation wiped out nearly all the Void Dragons, Ipros gambled on devouring a star, only to be stopped by a mysterious voice that offered him a route to safety. The chapter left Ipros facing a multicolored passage to a distant galaxy where he could evolve beyond the reach of Advanced Civilizations.

• Hypnos watched the Spatial Shield-equipped First Legion slaughter his kin and feared the Federation would exterminate the Void Dragons before he could evolve.
• Lin Fan ordered Lin Tian to trap the Planet Devourer in the Muse Starfield and erase it with a Zero-Point Bomb rather than risk capturing it.
• The Federation cleared the Muse Starfield except for Feins, leaving Ipros and several million Void Dragons surrounded.
• Ipros approached a star, hoping its energy would trigger his next evolution despite the risk of being destroyed.
• A mysterious voice warned Ipros that he could not yet devour a star and opened a multicolored passage to a distant galaxy where he could survive and evolve.

Farn sent Ipros through a passage, then confronted Lin Hong over the Alphart Civilization’s forbidden interference and humanity’s secret origins. Meanwhile, Lin Tian’s forces detonated a Zero-Point Bomb at Feins, erasing the Star System and apparently killing the Planet Devourer and all Void Dragons.

• Ipros entered the passage Farn had opened, and Farn and Lin Hong appeared at the spot he had left.
• Farn accused Lin Hong of violating the iron laws by creating humanity and demanded that Lin Hong ignore his experiment with Ipros.
• Lin Hong agreed to stay silent about Farn’s actions but warned him not to reveal the council’s secret plan.
• Farn created a fake Planet Devourer and vanished, followed by Lin Hong.
• Lin Tian ordered the Zero-Point Bomb detonated at Feins, and the blast devastated the entire Star System.
• A reconnaissance ship confirmed that Feins had been erased, the Void Dragons had been killed, and the Planet Devourer was gone.

After Lin Tian reported that the Planet Devourer had been eradicated, Lin Fan learned from the system that a Transcendent Civilization had intervened and that the threat remained. Lin Fan ordered Lin Tian back to Losart and planned for his children to gain command experience before the Federation returned to the Milky Way.

• Liang Xue told Lin Fan that Lin Tian had reported the Planet Devourer’s eradication, and Lin Fan checked the mission panel.
• The system revealed that the Planet Devourer had survived intervention by the Alphart Civilization, revised the eradication mission to an S-rank mission, and warned that Alphart would not interfere again for at least a thousand years.
• Lin Fan wondered about the system’s origins and other possible universes, but the system urged him to focus on developing the Federation.
• Lin Fan told Liang Xue to have Lin Tian lead the First Legion back to Losart.
• Liang Xue reported that Lin Yu and Lin Kexin had earned enough merit to be promoted to colonel, and Lin Fan ordered them assigned to Lin Tian to gain experience commanding a galactic fleet.

By Federation Year 103, Lin Fan had unified the Large Magellanic Cloud while military buildup accelerated ahead of the Federation’s agreement with the four major alliances. At the Viers Defense Line, mounting Zerg assaults strained the allied forces, and the alliance leaders debated opening Warp Drive Engine purchases to Level 3 Civilizations so their fleets could reach the front faster.

• Lin Fan completed the unification of the Large Magellanic Cloud, becoming the first administrator to unify an entire galaxy in the Federation’s satellite galaxy plan.
• Bellt ordered reinforcements to sectors A718 and A815 after each came under attack from ten billion Zerg, as repeated assaults continued to stretch the Viers Defense Line.
• Bellt judged the line’s eventual fall inevitable because Zerg numbers were growing faster than allied forces and the 2,000-light-year front had no protected key points.
• Verto told the leaders of the four major alliances that the situation was worse than expected and that Bellt’s report showed the defense line could not hold indefinitely.
• Xis argued that allied forces could not reach the front quickly because Level 3 Civilizations lacked warp capability, and he again urged the leaders to let them purchase Warp Drive Engines.
• The Virtual Meeting Room fell silent after Xis’s proposal.

The four major alliances agreed to sell Warp Drive Engines to Level 3 Civilizations, requiring them to send warships to fight at the Viers Defense Line and secretly placing backdoors in the engines. Xis then ordered Lin Zhen to assemble an Orion Arm fleet for the First Main Arm, and Lin Zhen secured a year before departure while concealing humanity’s ability to reach Hangu Pass in seven minutes.

• Verto, Moros, Hussein, and Xis agreed to open Warp Drive Engine sales to Level 3 Civilizations, with backdoors and a treaty requiring the engines to be destroyed after the insectoid crisis.
• The four major alliances announced the sales, and Level 3 Civilizations placed huge orders as Level 4 Civilizations rapidly increased engine production.
• Xis told Lin Zhen that the Orion Arm must contribute a joint fleet to the Viers Defense Line because the insectoids’ overwhelming numbers threatened the four major alliances.
• Lin Zhen asked for a year to assemble the fleet at Hangu Pass, concealing that humanity could gather there through Stargates in seven minutes.
• Xis accepted the delay and set the Orion Arm fleet’s departure for the First Main Arm one year later.

After Xis warned Lin Zhen that the Viers Defense Line might not hold for long, Lin Zhen and Lin Fan accelerated preparations for the insect extermination operation. Lin Fan began organizing a 300-million-warship force and sought a way to rapidly obtain the resources it would require.

• Lin Zhen told Lin Fan that Xis had warned them to strike earlier, and Lin Fan said the Viers Defense Line might last only about a dozen years.
• Lin Fan said Bai Zixuan's Bug Nest Channel destruction project was taking shape and should be completed within three years.
• Lin Fan planned to assemble 200 million warships from Losart's fleet, and Lin Zhen ordered an additional galaxy-level elf fleet and a 90-million-warship force from affiliated civilizations, bringing the total to 300 million.
• Lin Zhen appointed Lin Fan commander-in-chief of the expeditionary fleet in one year, while Liang Xingchen would remain at Hangu Pass.
• Lin Fan realized the fleet buildup required a huge influx of resources and suddenly came up with an idea to make affiliated civilizations contribute much more.

After the Federation announced a massive shopping promotion to celebrate the Planet Devourer’s death, Calvin recognized an opportunity for the Titaro Civilization and summoned economists and merchants to plan its purchases. Subsidiary civilizations across the Large Magellanic Cloud followed suit, launching a region-wide buying frenzy.

• Calvin reviewed reports showing the Titaro Civilization had expanded to twenty-seven Star Systems and grown dramatically in strength.
• Calvin found the Federation’s promotional event page, which offered coupons, discounted goods, refunds, and rewards for high-volume exchanges.
• Calvin ordered his deputy to gather every economist and successful merchant in the civilization to find the best deals.
• Calvin’s deputy raised concerns about the vast number of people involved, but Calvin insisted the order was vital to the civilization’s future.
• Leaders of Federation subsidiary civilizations began gathering their own teams, and the Large Magellanic Cloud’s e-commerce festival began.

With points running low during the Federation’s shopping event, the Titaro Civilization and other affiliated civilizations traded more resources for points. A year later, Lin Fan returned to the Milky Way with his expeditionary fleets and learned that Lin Zhen had built him a Gonggong Titan-class Warship.

• Calvin’s experts calculated that the Titaro Civilization could retain 40 percent of its resources and trade the rest for points, so Calvin ordered the plan carried out and expanded resource extraction.
• Affiliated civilizations contributed resources, and Lin Fan used the supplies he received to buy Bio-human soldiers, production lines, and materials for warship production in Losart.
• In Federation Year 104, Lin Fan led 300 million warships through the Super Star Gate to Hangu Pass, where Liang Xingchen awaited him with a billion warships.
• Liang Xingchen told Lin Fan that Lin Zhen had prepared a new Gonggong Titan-class Warship for him, and Lin Fan inspected the enormous vessel.

Lin Fan set out with the Federation’s 1.3 billion warships aboard the formidable Gonggong, hiding its Spatial Teleportation Technology by traveling through Hangu Pass. Meanwhile, Verto prepared to intimidate the arriving Human Federation fleet at the Viers Defense Line.

• Lin Fan reviewed Gonggong’s capabilities and learned that its Zero-Point Energy and weapons made it vastly more powerful than the Titan-class warships of the four major Level 5 Civilizations.
• Liang Xue reported that the 1.3 billion warships had been organized into thirteen Star System Legions, and Lin Fan ordered the expeditionary force to depart in ten minutes.
• Lin Fan said goodbye to Liang Xingchen and chose Hangu Pass instead of the Super Star Gate to keep the Federation’s Spatial Teleportation Technology secret.
• Losart’s First and Second Legions, Bilodis’s Third Legion, and the Federation’s First Star System Cluster entered the wormhole toward the Galactic Core Channel.
• Verto learned that the Human Federation would arrive that day and ordered Sterling to give its fleet a ruthless show of force.

Sterling used a Queen Bug Faction security inspection as a pretext to intimidate the Human Federation’s expeditionary fleet at the wormhole. Lin Fan ordered Lin Tian to refuse inspections and defend the fleet, while Sterling ordered his forces to advance toward it.

• Sterling received orders from the Vera Alliance’s leader and claimed that the garrison needed to inspect passing ships for Queen Bug Faction infiltrators.
• Lin Tian’s fleet emerged from the wormhole, and the Vera garrison demanded that its warships shut down their engines for boarding inspections.
• Lin Tian refused the demand, formed a defensive formation, and contacted Lin Fan for instructions.
• Lin Fan told Lin Tian to reject inspections, warn the Vera fleet to stay at least one million kilometers away, and activate Spatial Shields if the garrison acted hostilely.
• Sterling reacted angrily to Lin Tian’s warning and ordered the Vera fleet to advance into combat formation despite his adjutant’s concerns.

The Human Federation and Vera Federation faced off as Lin Tian explained Vera's demand for inspections to Vilette, who brought the dispute to Xis and the other Level 5 leaders. Their confrontation was interrupted when a Titan-class Warship emerged from the wormhole.

• The Verner Union fleet arrived and Vilette tried to contact Sterling, but the Vera Federation commander refused to speak with him.
• Vilette contacted Lin Tian, who explained that Vera had demanded the Human Federation shut down its engines and allow boarding inspections.
• Vilette called Xis, who summoned Moros, Hussein, and Verto to an emergency virtual meeting.
• Xis explained the dispute, and Moros and Hussein criticized Verto for provoking the Human Federation.
• A massive silver-white Titan-class Warship emerged from the wormhole, leaving Verto and the others stunned.

The Human Federation’s Titan-class Warship emerged into the Galactic Core Channel, and its advanced defenses and Gamma Ray Cannon revealed its Level 5 strength to the other civilizations. As Verto’s fleet faced overwhelming odds, the leaders in the Virtual Meeting Room urged him to stand down, while Xis privately worried that the Federation’s rise would cost him influence.

• Sterling ordered the Vera Federation’s one hundred million warships to raise their Spatial Shields and charge their cannons after they received the Human Federation’s warning.
• Lin Fan ordered the Human Federation’s warships to raise their Spatial Shields and prepared the Gonggong’s fortress-cannon-grade Gamma Ray Cannon to fire.
• Sterling learned that nearly two hundred million Human Federation warships had Spatial Shields and that more than a billion remained behind them, then discovered the Gonggong was charging a Gamma Ray Cannon.
• Moros mocked Verto over the Human Federation’s revealed strength, while Xis worried that Lin Zhen’s rise would force him to share the Xio Alliance’s benefits.
• Hussein urged Verto to move his fleet aside, and Xis proposed waiting until after the insectoid crisis before the leaders joined forces against the Human Federation.

After the Vera Federation backed down and cleared the wormhole passage, news spread across the Milky Way that the Human Federation had forced a Level 5 Civilization to yield. Verto escorted Lin Fan's fleet toward the Viers Defense Line, following the route through seventeen warp nodes.

• Xis, Hussein, and Moros agreed that the other Level 5 Civilizations would eventually move against the Human Federation, and Verto ordered Sterling to stand down and let the fleet pass.
• Sterling shut down the Vera Federation warships' weapon systems and cleared the passage, while Verto posted a recording of their retreat on the Xio Alliance terminal.
• Civilizations across the four alliances discussed the Human Federation's arrival and its Titan-class Warship, while Xis ordered Verto to escort Lin Fan to the Viers Defense Line.
• Verto contacted Lin Fan, waited for all 1.3 billion Human Federation warships to assemble, and sent him the route through seventeen warp nodes.
• Lin Fan ordered the fleet to follow Verto's designated route toward the Viers Defense Line.

The Human Federation expeditionary force reached the Viers Defense Line, where Lin Fan met Commander Bert and accepted responsibility for the battered A211 Defense Zone. After seeing the vast scale of the war and the insect swarm’s attacks, the Federation and its allied fleets prepared to deploy to the front.

• Bert welcomed Lin Fan and praised the Human Federation for committing seventy percent of its forces to support the war.
• Lin Fan asked where his fleet was needed, and Bert assigned him the A211 Defense Zone, whose defenders had lost more than half their ships.
• Lin Fan reviewed the deployment file and learned that fewer than 400 million warships remained in A211 after a force of 1.5 billion had been stationed there.
• Lin Fan told Bert he would head to the front immediately, then had Liang Xue distribute the defense line details to the commanders.
• The affiliated commanders from the Large Magellanic Cloud were shocked by the scale of the forces and losses at the Viers Defense Line.
• Lin Fan ordered all fleets to prepare to depart for A211 in three minutes.

Commander Odo prepared the depleted A211 Defense Zone to hold off a 70-billion-bug swarm until the Human Federation fleet arrived. The defenders unleashed a desperate counterattack with bomb-carrying fighters, inflicting heavy losses on the bugs through suicidal explosions.

• Odo learned that the A211 Defense Zone had fewer than 200 million warships capable of defending against the approaching swarm, while the Human Federation fleet would arrive 45 hours later.
• Odo ordered emergency repairs and recruited Dare-to-Die Squads to prepare the defense line for the 70-billion-bug attack.
• Forty-two hours later, Odo deployed nearly 360 million warships, including battered ships crewed by Dare-to-Die Squads, and ordered all forces to fire when the bugs entered range.
• The defenders' artillery killed billions of bugs, but the swarm closed to within 100,000 kilometers of the formation.
• More than 10 billion bomb-laden fighters charged the swarm, and their pilots detonated their bombs when Combat Bugs attacked, killing themselves and many bugs.

As the Zerg overwhelmed the Viers Defense Line, Odo’s forces sacrificed damaged warships to hold them back until the Human Federation’s Gonggong arrived. Lin Fan’s Gamma Ray Cannon fired through the swarm, leaving everyone stunned by its destructive power.

• The carrier-based fighters were wiped out, and Combat Bugs breached the defense line, forcing crews to overload their reactors and destroy their ships along with the attackers.
• Odo learned that the defense line had held for two hours and received the Human Federation’s warning to clear the Gamma Ray Cannon’s beam path.
• The remaining warships began evading the marked path as nearly forty billion Combat Bugs attacked the front of the formation.
• Lin Fan’s Gonggong arrived ahead of the main fleet, and its crew began firing the fully charged Gamma Ray Cannon.
• The cannon’s beam swept through the bug swarm, reducing everything in its path to nothing and stunning both defenders and Zerg.

Lin Fan used Gonggong’s Gamma Ray Cannon to devastate the Bug Race swarm, then led Odo’s garrison fleet in wiping out the survivors. The A211 Defense Zone was left clear before the Federation’s main fleet arrived.

• Lin Fan ordered Gonggong’s sustained Gamma Ray Cannon beam to sweep across the swarm, destroying billions of Combat Bugs and severely wounding more.
• After the cannon reached its irradiation limit, scans showed only 3.2 billion Combat Bugs remained fully combat-ready.
• Lin Fan sent Gonggong toward the survivors and ordered the A211 Defense Zone commanders to follow and attack.
• Odo ordered nearly 200 million warships to advance behind Gonggong and remove their restrictions on firing near the Human Federation ship.
• Gonggong and the garrison fleet destroyed the remaining Bug Race forces in less than an hour.

Bert learned that the Human Federation’s Gonggong had destroyed the swarm at A211 Defense Zone with a weapon far beyond the Four Great Level 5 Civilizations’ capabilities. After Bert released the battle report, the Four Overlords focused on seizing humanity’s energy technology, and three supported attacking the Human Federation.

• Bert received Odo’s report and watched footage of the Gonggong arriving at A211 and destroying the swarm with its Fortress-class Gamma Ray Cannon.
• Bert realized the Human Federation possessed energy technology far superior to that of the Four Great Level 5 Civilizations and feared they would attack humanity to take it.
• Bert released the battle report through normal procedures despite his concerns about provoking a war.
• Moros asked the Four Overlords what to do after they watched the battle footage.
• Verto and Xis urged an immediate attack on the Human Federation, while Hussein agreed with sharing the technology but argued they should first resolve the insect race crisis.

After the Four Alliances demanded the Human Federation hand over its energy technology, Lin Fan prepared to confront their fleet at A211. The coalition was stopped by the Federation’s Warp Interruption Devices, and its commander encountered a mysterious spatial anomaly.

• Lin Fan ordered Liang Xue to establish a three-light-year buffer zone around A211 after the Federation’s Gamma Ray Cannon fire exposed its energy technology.
• The Four Alliances issued a notice demanding the Human Federation share its energy technology within forty-eight hours, angering Odo and many Level 3 Civilizations.
• A joint fleet of thirty-five billion warships headed toward A211, while Lin Fan waited for its arrival and considered supporting Odo’s civilization.
• The Federation’s Warp Interruption Devices forced the coalition fleet out of warp before it reached A211.
• Trister learned that the fleet had detected an unfamiliar spatial anomaly ten million kilometers ahead and ordered the bridge to display it.