Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan stopped a coup attempt during negotiations and helped defeat the rebel fighters, but learned that Liang Xue had ejected in an escape pod. After contacting her and confirming she was alive, he left to lead a rescue team.

• Lin Fan learned that more than 5,000 fighters were heading for the space station, while a third of the Oakes fleet's warships had lost control.
• Weide tried to kill Adams and confessed that he and the First Prince's followers had launched the fighters to prevent an agreement; Lin Fan disarmed and killed him.
• Lin Fan activated the space station's concealed propulsion modules and escorted Adams toward the fleet with 9,000 mechs.
• Six thousand mechs fought the incoming fighters, destroyed more than 2,000, and forced the Orc Rebel Army to retreat.
• Lin Fan learned that Liang Xue had ejected in an escape pod while leading a rescue mission, contacted her, and then set out with Zhang Hu and nine pilots to find her.

Lin Fan led a mech squad to rescue Liang Xue while the Orc Rebel Army advanced on the 101st Task Force Fleet. He pulled Liang Xue from her escape pod and brought her into his cockpit as the fleet prepared to engage.

• Lin Fan ordered Zhang Hu and nine other pilots to launch with him and rescue Liang Xue, then directed the fleet to form an assault formation and target the Orc fleet’s two battlecruisers.
• A squadron of Orc fighters approached Liang Xue’s escape pod, and Lin Fan destroyed the fighter about to fire before shooting down six more.
• Zhang Hu split his squad to cover Lin Fan while he rescued Liang Xue, and the other pilots engaged the approaching fighters.
• Liang Xue climbed out of the escape pod and squeezed into Lin Fan’s cockpit, clinging to him during the ongoing battle.
• Lin Fan shot down two more fighters and ordered Zhang Hu’s squad to withdraw toward the warships.

Lin Fan led the 101st Task Force Fleet into battle and shattered the Oakes rebel formation with a central breakthrough and rear encirclement. After the fleet gained the advantage, Liang Xue remained determined to learn whether Lin Fan had truly forgotten their childhood connection.

• Adams told Ed that he trusted Lin Fan to defeat the rebels while his adjutant reported on the battle.
• Lin Fan and Liang Xue escaped their pursuers through an asteroid field, and Liang Xue asked whether he remembered what he had told her eleven years earlier.
• Lin Fan explained that he had lost his memories before age nine, and Liang Xue decided to ask her father about it when they returned.
• Lin Fan returned to the bridge and ordered the 101st Task Force Fleet to focus fire on the rebels' two Battlecruisers.
• The 101st Task Force Fleet destroyed both Battlecruisers, pierced the rebel formation, and deployed behind its left and right flanks to encircle it.
• Adams praised Lin Fan's central breakthrough and rear deployment.

Lin Fan’s fleet trapped and destroyed the Oakes rebel fleet, completing his mission to destroy 500 Oakes warships and earning Energy Shield Technology. After reviewing his losses, Lin Fan judged that he still had much to improve.

• Lin Fan’s fleet mined the rebels’ path forward and encircled them, forcing them to turn and face the attack.
• The rebels sent their fighters after Lin Fan’s flanking forces and charged his Battlecruisers, so Lin Fan opened a gap and ordered his fleets to close behind them.
• Lin Fan’s fleet formed a U-shaped encirclement and destroyed the last rebel warship ten minutes later.
• The mission rewarded Lin Fan with Energy Shield Technology, and he ordered his fleet to clear the battlefield and search for survivors.
• The preliminary report recorded 348 rebel warships destroyed, while Lin Fan’s fleet lost 18 warships, 2,184 mechs, and about 5,000 personnel.

After the funeral, Lin Fan gave Bai Zixuan complete technical documentation for Energy Shields, prompting a new research project that could give the Federation a major advantage over the Oakes Empire. Liang Xingchen also told Lin Fan that Liang Xue had asked about his childhood amnesia and hinted that the two had been close when they were young; Lin Fan summoned her to his office for answers.

• Liang Xingchen and Lin Fan honored the fallen, then went to the laboratory to see Bai Zixuan’s Warp Drive Engine work.
• Lin Fan gave Bai Zixuan technical documentation for Energy Shields, and Bai Zixuan said the technology could help the Federation defeat the Oakes Empire within two or three years.
• Liang Xingchen agreed to ask the President for more top researchers, while Bai Zixuan expected the first Warp Drive Engine prototype to be ready the following week.
• Liang Xingchen told Lin Fan that Liang Xue had asked whether he suffered from amnesia and hinted that Liang Xue and Lin Fan had been more than acquaintances as children.
• Liang Xingchen said Lin Fan might soon be promoted, then Lin Fan returned to his office and summoned Liang Xue to ask about their past.

Lin Fan asked Liang Xue about their childhood and learned that they had been close before he lost his memories at nine. Liang Xue explained that she had waited years for him, and the chapter ended with Lin Fan revealing that his amnesia began after an injury.

• Lin Fan summoned Liang Xue and asked her to tell him what he had said to her as a child.
• Liang Xue recounted how Lin Fan had followed her growing up, promised to marry her, and received her first kiss when his family moved away.
• After Lin Fan lost his memories on his ninth birthday, Liang Xue waited for him to remember and was heartbroken when she later saw him with Emma Campbell.
• Liang Xingchen arranged for Liang Xue to become Lin Fan's adjutant, but Lin Fan treated her as a stranger when they met again.
• Liang Xue described confronting Lin Fan in his mech cockpit, where he told her he had lost his memories after being injured ten years earlier.

After Liang Xue told Lin Fan about the hardships she had endured, he comforted her and decided he wanted both her and Emma. He and Liang Xue grew closer over a meal, while a photo of them reached Liang Xingchen on the Fourth Fleet forum.

• Liang Xue cried in Lin Fan's arms after telling him her story, and Lin Fan resolved to accept her alongside Emma.
• Liang Xue fell asleep, and Lin Fan carried her to bed and stayed beside her until she woke.
• Liang Xue woke to find Lin Fan asleep by her bed, and the two teased each other before heading to the cafeteria hand in hand.
• Lin Fan learned that Liang Xue had grown up eating few meals with meat and fed her a piece of chicken.
• Someone posted a photo of Lin Fan feeding Liang Xue chicken on the Fourth Fleet forum, where Liang Xingchen saw it.

Liang Xingchen learned that Lin Fan and Liang Xue had grown close, then brought reinforcements, a flagship, and Lin Fan’s promotion to major general. After the fleet completed its promotions, Lin Fan and the Federation’s leaders prepared to test humanity’s first experimental Warp Drive Engine.

• Liang Xingchen watched a video of Lin Fan feeding Liang Xue and suspected Lin Fan had recovered his memories, then resolved to ask him about the Campbell family girl.
• Liang Xue and Lin Fan grew closer, while Liang Xingchen arrived three days later with reinforcements, promotion orders, and a silver-white command ship for the 101st Task Force Fleet.
• Liang Xingchen promoted Lin Fan to major general, triggering system rewards and new missions, including destroying 3,000 Oakes Empire warships despite the ceasefire.
• Lin Fan and Liang Xingchen inspected the Warp Drive Engine project, and Bai Zixuan said testing could begin in three days.
• Lin Zhen, Liang Xingchen, and Lin Fan watched as Bai Zixuan prepared to test the experimental engine by warping a frigate from Mars to Earth.

The Federation's first warp drive test ship crossed the 200 million kilometers between Mars and Earth in 1.14 seconds, demonstrating a speed of 585 times the speed of light. The story leaves the drive undergoing expanded safety tests while the energy shield project struggles with inadequate power supply.

• The test frigate warped from Mars to Earth orbit in 1.14 seconds, and its crew reported that the ship and personnel were unharmed.
• Elder Bai explained to Lin Zhen and Liang Xingchen that the result meant a speed of 585 times the speed of light, but said the drive needed extensive testing before it could be installed across the fleet.
• The test ship warped back to Mars in another 1.14 seconds, confirming the first-generation engine's speed, and Lin Zhen resolved to reconsider Federation policies in light of the breakthrough.
• Bai Zixuan began producing ten more engines for testing, and Liang Xingchen assigned a variety of warships to evaluate them.
• The energy shield project stalled because current nuclear reactors could not supply power as quickly as the shield consumed it, while fusion reactors remained beyond the Federation's capabilities.
• Lin Fan kissed Liang Xue until she fled his room in embarrassment.

Lin Fan received a system mission to raise his Artillery Command and Evasion Command to A within a month, earning Fusion Technology to solve the Energy Shield’s power problem. After completing the mission in seclusion, he woke to find both abilities at A and went to find Bai Zixuan.

• Lin Fan received a temporary mission to raise Artillery Command and Evasion Command to A within a month, with Fusion Technology as the reward.
• Lin Fan gave Bai Zixuan the Gene Enhancement Potion and told him he would research fusion technology in seclusion; Bai Zixuan asked Liang Xingchen for money and people.
• Lin Fan told Liang Xue to bring him meals and keep others out of his office, then spent the month training while she guarded the door and found him asleep each visit.
• Lin Fan woke after a month, received the Fusion Technology reward and a 2% increase in brain development, and saw that his Evasion Command had reached A.
• Lin Fan checked his status and decided to go find Bai Zixuan.

Lin Fan emerged from a month of seclusion with a breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion technology, then left for the Interstellar Military Academy to give a command department lecture. The chapter ended as his battleship Uranus arrived at the academy’s spaceport, astonishing the assembled students and instructors.

• Lin Fan gave Bai Zixuan his Nuclear Fusion research data, and Bai Zixuan realized humanity had been focusing on the wrong problem.
• Bai Zixuan called Liang Xingchen to demand money and personnel, prompting Liang Xingchen to suspect Lin Fan had completed Fusion Technology.
• Lin Fan reunited with Liang Xue in his office, where Liang Xingchen interrupted them to announce the academy’s invitation.
• Lin Fan and Liang Xue set out for the Moon aboard the Uranus, and three days later the warship arrived at the Interstellar Military Academy’s spaceport.
• The students and instructors recognized the ship as Lin Fan’s personal battleship and watched it approach in surprise.

Lin Fan arrived at the Interstellar Military Academy to teach combat experience, where Emma Campbell and Liang Xue clashed over his old bet with Emma. During his lecture, a system mission prompted him to shock the students, and he told them to forget the knowledge in their textbooks.

• Lin Fan arrived at the academy with Liang Xue and introduced himself to the students as a nineteen-year-old Major General commanding the 101st Task Force Fleet.
• Emma Campbell reminded Lin Fan of their bet that she would become his girlfriend if he became a general within a year, and Liang Xue challenged her over it.
• Lin Fan ordered Emma and Liang Xue to stop arguing and leave, after which Emma said she would be going to Mars Base after graduation and Liang Xue warned Lin Fan not to touch her for a month.
• At the academy lecture hall, Lin Fan received a system mission to deliver a shocking speech in exchange for Quantum Communication Technology.
• Lin Fan began his lecture by telling the students to forget the useless knowledge in their textbooks.

Lin Fan lectured at the academy on Hundred Variations of Formations, arguing that commanders should devise tactics first and build formations to suit them rather than rely on the Ten Great Formations. After teaching more than fifty variations, he arranged to continue the next day, while Li Fulai proposed making his ideas a required course; Liang Xue later fed Lin Fan in front of Emma, leaving him to sigh that his hopes for a big wife and little wife were still distant.

• Lin Fan dismissed the textbook approach to fleet formations and explained that formations should serve tactics, not constrain them.
• Lin Fan introduced Hundred Variations of Formations and taught the cadets how to break fixed formations into smaller components to create new ones.
• After six hours, Lin Fan had covered only more than fifty variations, so he asked Liang Xingchen to let him stay another day and finish the lecture.
• The cadets praised Lin Fan's ideas over dinner, and Li Fulai asked to compile them into a book and make them a required course.
• Liang Xue fed Lin Fan while Emma stood nearby, and Lin Fan realized Liang Xue was acting to make Emma jealous.

Lin Fan received Quantum Communication Technology and returned to Mars Base with Liang Xue, while Emma planned to join his fleet the following year. He welcomed Wood Scott into the 101st Task Force Fleet, unaware that Wood had secretly infiltrated the base to carry out orders for Lord Adams.

• The system rewarded Lin Fan with Quantum Communication Technology and an opportunity to enhance one personal ability, which he chose to save for later.
• At the spaceport, Emma and Liang Xue reconciled after a private conversation, and Emma warned Lin Fan not to mistreat Liang Xue before announcing she would report to Mars Base next year.
• Lin Fan and Liang Xue returned to Mars Base aboard the Uranus, where Lin Fan found Wood Scott waiting with a transfer order to join the 101st Task Force Fleet as a staff officer.
• After Lin Fan left, Wood contacted Lord Adams and confirmed he had infiltrated the fleet’s base to rescue the Ninth Prince, assassinate Lin Fan, and abduct Liang Xue.

In Federation Year 59, Lin Fan brought Bai Zixuan Quantum Communication Technology and attended the first activation test of the nuclear fusion reactor. The reactor reached its target output and operated stably for an hour, confirming its success.

• Bai Zixuan’s research team completed the first phase of short-range warp tests and prepared long-range tests while gene serum trials showed improved strength and lifespan.
• Lin Fan gave Bai Zixuan a storage card containing Quantum Communication Technology, and Liang Xingchen arranged for experts to join the project.
• Lin Fan, Liang Xue, and Bai Zixuan watched researchers activate the nuclear fusion reactor, which reached a stable output of 9.8 million kilowatts.
• The nuclear fusion reactor ran for an hour without problems, and the researchers celebrated its success.

Humanity celebrated the successful nuclear fusion experiment as the Federation expanded its clean energy program and advanced warp drive research. Meanwhile, Wood Scott rescued Duolun Oakes from detention, but was confronted at the port just as the escape was underway.

• Lin Zhen and Ed Campbell discussed nuclear fusion's success, the need to accelerate lunar helium-3 mining, and the Scott Family's suspicious presence in the Fourth Fleet.
• Six months later, the Federation had built fusion facilities, while Bai Zixuan's team neared completion of warp drive testing and made major progress with quantum communications.
• Wood Scott and two Scott Family confidants killed the guards at Duolun Oakes's detention room and freed him on Adams's orders.
• Duolun hid inside a box, and Wood's group carried him through the base to a transport ship at the port.
• As Wood was about to board the ship, someone questioned him about what he had carried inside.

Wood helped Duolun escape aboard Transport Ship 0287 and took Liang Xue hostage. Lin Fan mobilized to pursue them, while Duolun expected to rendezvous with Adams's fleet in the Asteroid Belt.

• Wood knocked Liang Xue unconscious and kept her as a hostage after Duolun recognized her as Liang Xingchen's daughter.
• Duolun and Wood hijacked Transport Ship 0287, killed its captain, and secretly redirected it toward the Asteroid Belt.
• Lin Fan learned that Duolun had escaped and Liang Xue had been taken, then ordered the fleet to prepare for pursuit.
• Liang Xingchen agreed to ready the Fourth Fleet, and Lin Fan sent him a plan through his private communicator without explaining it over the phone.
• Lin Fan diverted his fleet toward Sector 027, while Duolun learned the Fourth Fleet had mobilized and taunted the captive Liang Xue.

Liang Xingchen ordered a desperate assault against the Oakes fleet, while Lin Zhen had the Scott Family arrested over the enemy’s passage through the Asteroid Belt. Harvey Scott revealed that Wood had manipulated the family’s plans, and his account led Ed to suspect a connection to an incident seven years earlier.

• Liang Xingchen ordered the First through Fifth subfleets to attack toward Sector 010, despite the danger to his daughter aboard Wood’s Transport Ship.
• Lin Zhen ordered Ed to arrest the Scott Family and discover how the Oakes fleet had bypassed the Federation’s defenses.
• Harvey Scott realized that Wood may have used the family and remembered an incident from seven years earlier.
• Ed’s forces arrested the Scott Family, and Harvey told Ed that Wood had taken advantage of their plan to help Duolun escape.
• Harvey asked Ed to remember how Wood had returned to the Scott Family, prompting Ed to suspect that the events of seven years earlier had been part of Wood’s scheme.

Liang Xingchen turned the Fourth Fleet’s battle with the Oakes Empire into a circular pursuit, setting a trap while the hijacked Transport Ship escaped toward Jupiter. Liang Xue remained a prisoner aboard it, and Duolun granted Wood permission to claim her as his reward.

• Liang Xingchen sent the Fourth Fleet’s assault force against the Oakes Empire’s weaker flank, forcing Cody to redirect 10,000 warships to protect the Transport Ship carrying Duolun.
• Liang Xingchen ordered his assault force and main fleet to curve around, drawing Cody’s ships into a circular chase in which four fleets pursued one another.
• Jiang Hai warned Liang Xingchen that the Fourth Fleet was outnumbered and would eventually be destroyed in the war of attrition, but Liang Xingchen told him to maintain course and said the trap depended on Lin Fan.
• The Transport Ship escaped toward Jupiter with nearly 900 escorting Oakes warships after the Fourth Fleet was blocked from pursuing it.
• Duolun praised Wood for his role in the escape and granted his request to have Liang Xue, who glared at Wood as he looked at her sinisterly.

Lin Fan used his saved ability upgrade to reach S-rank Mech Piloting and led a mech squadron to rescue Liang Xue from Prince Duolun’s escort fleet. The ambush destroyed most of the enemy carriers and split the fleet, leaving Lin Fan ready to attack the transport ship.

• Lin Fan upgraded his Mech Piloting ability to S-rank and launched from Uranus with Zhang Hu and 298 other elite mech pilots.
• Scouts reported that Duolun’s escort fleet was entering the ambush zone with Liang Xue’s transport ship at its center, and Liang Xue felt her matching pendant vibrate.
• The 101st Task Force Fleet attacked the escort fleet’s carriers, destroying 28 of its 35 carriers before the fleet completed its turn.
• The nine thousand concealed mechs attacked the escort fleet from behind as the human fleet retreated into asteroid clusters.
• The escort fleet split its forces, leaving just over a hundred warships to guard Duolun’s transport ship, and Lin Fan ordered his mechs to attack.