Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan told the Federation’s leaders that the Moy people descended from the same Ancient Alphart bloodline as humanity but had been altered with foreign genes that gave them their inheritance ability. He said he could remove those genes, but the Moy people would not agree to lose their talents, and the Federation could not merge with them yet.

• Lin Zhen opened the meeting by asking how the Federation should relate to the Moy Union and whether it should intervene in the war with the White Tiger Empire.
• Bai Zixuan and Li Lizhi, supported by Wei, warned that merging with the Moy people risked genetic problems, and the Federation’s leaders agreed not to do so.
• Lin Fan explained that the Moy people’s inheritance came from foreign genetic fragments that activated instinctive abilities as needed.
• Li Lizhi told Wei that Lin Fan was known as the Federation’s Father of the Interstellar Age because he had provided many of its major technologies.
• Lin Fan said he could remove the Moy people’s foreign genetic fragments, but they would resist losing their inheritance, and he added that a solution was possible when the time was right.

Lin Fan told the Federation that the Moy people’s inherited instincts were nearing a fatal limit, giving the Federation leverage to help them and form an alliance. Meanwhile, Nina identified Farn as the likely source of the Moy people’s genetic changes, but the Moy Union lacked the technology to investigate their long-term effects.

• Lin Fan explained that Nina had reached the Critical Point of self-destruction and that future Moy generations could die from inherited instincts overwhelming their brains.
• Sanders and Lin Yu supported a limited military alliance with the Moy Union, and Lin Zhen and the other Federation officials voted in favor.
• Aym recognized Nina’s account of Farn’s genetic alterations as consistent with the Farn Holy Canon.
• Nina told the Moy Union’s Supreme Commanders that they needed to determine the effects of their altered genes, but their biotechnology and genetic research were too primitive to do so soon.

Nina shared humanity’s analysis that the Moy people’s altered genes would cause their extinction within three generations, prompting the Supreme Commanders to connect the findings to Congenital Brain Death. They agreed to ask humanity for help, and Nina contacted Lin Fan after Larnass offered his unborn son as a test case.

• Nina forwarded Lin Fan’s report to the Supreme Commanders, and Aym angrily rejected its claim that foreign gene fragments would destroy the Moy people within three generations.
• Antonio linked the report to Congenital Brain Death, a worsening disease that had killed 18 percent of Moy newborns.
• Larnass proposed asking humanity to treat the disease and revealed that his pregnant wife’s fetus had a 99.9 percent chance of being affected.
• Larnass asked Nina to seek help while ensuring his wife’s safety, offering his family as a test case with his wife’s consent.
• Nina received the other Supreme Commanders’ approval and contacted Lin Fan.

Lin Fan confirmed that human genetic technology could save Larnass's unborn son, but removing the foreign genes responsible for the Moy people's inherited knowledge would leave the child without that ability. The Moy Union postponed alliance talks to await the outcome as its forces faced a perilous battle against the White Tiger Empire.

• Nina introduced Lin Fan to the other nine Supreme Commanders, who asked him to confirm that humanity could address the Moy people's congenital brain-death problem.
• Lin Fan explained that saving Larnass's son would require removing foreign genetic fragments, which would also eliminate the child's inherited knowledge.
• Larnass accepted that his son would receive no inherited knowledge and arranged for his wife to travel to the Renos Supercluster for treatment.
• The Moy Union's Supreme Commanders held off on deciding about an alliance until they could see the treatment's results.
• At the Current Mouth between the Milse and Liss Superclusters, the Moy Union's forces faced more than five trillion White Tiger Empire warships with just over one trillion ships at the defensive line.

Larnass arrived at the Federation’s Renos headquarters with his wife, Hathaway, to have specialists examine their unborn son. The experts confirmed the child’s inherited knowledge would cause brain death after birth unless treated, and said they could resolve the problem in half an hour.

• Aierfei welcomed Larnass’s escort fleet at the Current Mouth and led it through the Federation’s defense line.
• Larnass sensed two peak Tenth Order Dark Energy Users and hundreds of Ninth Order users among the Federation forces, leaving him shocked by their strength.
• Aierfei, Zi Ling, and Wang Hai greeted Larnass and Hathaway at the Nether Battle Star and escorted them to its medical center.
• The genetic specialists confirmed that Larnass and Hathaway’s son had inherited more knowledge than his brain could hold and would die when it activated after birth.
• The specialists assured Larnass and Hathaway the condition could be resolved in half an hour, then asked whether they should begin immediately.

After Leader Hong completed Hathaway’s genetic surgery and removed the foreign genetic fragments, Larnass learned that his son would need to acquire knowledge through education rather than inheritance. Aierfei relayed Lin Fan’s offer to let the child study in the Federation and receive enhancement potions, leaving Larnass astonished by humanity’s capabilities.

• Larnass anxiously waited outside the surgery room until Hathaway, Leader Hong, and the others emerged a few minutes later.
• Hathaway told Larnass that their son had been saved, and Leader Hong explained that the child would not inherit the accumulated knowledge of previous generations.
• Larnass worried that the Moy Union had no education system for teaching children from scratch.
• Aierfei relayed Lin Fan’s proposal to send the child to the Federation, where he could study and receive brain development and genetic enhancement potions.
• Aierfei explained that the Federation’s latest intermediate genetic enhancement potion could multiply physical capabilities and extend lifespan beyond ten thousand years, while brain development potions greatly accelerated learning.
• Larnass, shocked by the Federation’s advances, asked Aierfei to explain brain development potions.

After learning that the Federation could remove the foreign genes causing congenital brain death and provide genetic enhancements, Larnass reported the findings to the Moy Union’s Supreme Commander Conference. The commanders reconsidered their assumptions about humanity’s strength and ended by proposing a Bloodline Alliance with the Federation.

• Larnass and his wife tested their fetus for three days, and Moy medical experts found no sign of congenital brain death.
• Larnass reported the Federation’s treatments and enhancements, then declared that he would undergo the procedure to remove his foreign gene fragments.
• Amos condemned Larnass’s decision as blasphemy, but Aym argued that the Moy Union should keep or remove the genes based on whether they were beneficial.
• Nina urged the commanders to settle relations with humanity and seek military aid before the Milse Supercluster fell.
• Larnass revealed that the Federation’s forty billion warships in the Renos Supercluster included at least two peak tenth-rank and several hundred ninth-rank dark energy users.
• The commanders reconsidered their belief that the Moy Union was stronger, and one proposed a Bloodline Alliance with the Federation.

The Moy Union and humanity formed a Bloodline Alliance, and half a year later the Human Federation sent reinforcements to the Moy Union’s desperate defense of Milse Supercluster. Lumbard learned that the arriving force consisted of one war star and 10 billion warships, leaving him stunned.

• Nina proposed a Bloodline Alliance between the Moy people and humanity, and Aym praised the name as the Supreme Commanders backed the proposal.
• By Federation Year 184, the White Tiger Empire had driven the Moy Union into a costly war of attrition at Stell Galaxy in Milse Supercluster.
• Lumbard rejected his deputy’s suggestion to retreat, explaining that Milse was a hub whose fall would expose several other Superclusters.
• Lumbard received word that the Human Federation fleet would arrive in five days and that Moy fleets must cooperate with its operations.
• Lumbard learned the reinforcements consisted of one war star and 10 billion warships, and he was dumbfounded by their small size.

Lumbard cleared the White Tiger Empire’s hyperspace interference devices so Wang Hai’s human fleet could arrive and explain its plan to seal the Sder Current. The operation would require evacuating everyone within 5,000 light-years before the fleets withdrew and the humans deployed a Doomsday Bomb.

• Lumbard ordered the Moy fleet to destroy all thirty-seven enemy Hyperspace Interference Devices in one coordinated attack.
• More than ten billion Hyperspace Windows opened, and Wang Hai’s human fleet arrived and contacted Lumbard.
• Wang Hai told Lumbard that the Human Federation would seal the Cosmic Current, leaving no life within 5,000 light-years for ten thousand years.
• Wang Hai outlined a plan to evacuate the affected area, clear enemy interference devices, withdraw the defensive fleets, and deploy a Doomsday Bomb at the Current Mouth.
• Lumbard agreed to begin the evacuation and said it should be completed within three days.

The Federation and Moy Union decided to seal the Stell Galaxy Cosmic Current with Doomsday Bombs, evacuating personnel before carrying out the plan. Meanwhile, Bonifacio mistook the Moy defenders’ retreat from Milse for a surrender and believed the White Tiger Empire had secured the supercluster.

• The Federation and Moy Union chose to block the Stell Galaxy Current Mouth, forcing the White Tiger Empire to take a long detour to attack through the Milse Supercluster.
• Wang Hai received confirmation that personnel had evacuated, leaving 250 billion defensive warships and about 30 billion reserve warships in the combat zone, and ordered the operation to begin.
• Bonifacio heard that Moy reserve fleets had withdrawn and that only 30 billion warships remained behind the defensive line, but ordered his forces to continue as usual.
• The White Tiger Empire detected Moy ships targeting its Hyperspace Interference Devices, and Moy forces destroyed the devices.
• The Moy defenders opened Hyperspace Windows and retreated, leaving Bonifacio convinced that the Moy Union had abandoned Milse and that his campaign had succeeded ahead of schedule.

Wang Hai’s forces withdrew from the Milse Supercluster’s defensive line and sent a Doomsday Bomb through a single Hyperspace Window. Bonifacio dismissed the bomb after it appeared to cause no damage, until his frontline fleets suddenly stopped responding.

• Bonifacio refused to delay the Moy fleet’s retreat with more Hyperspace Interference Devices and ordered his fleets to let the enemy withdraw.
• Wang Hai ordered the Moy fleets to retreat and deployed the Doomsday Bomb, while more than a million warships were lost during the withdrawal.
• After nearly 300 billion Moy warships left the defensive line, Bonifacio ordered his fleets to expand into the vacated area.
• A single Hyperspace Window opened, and an unidentified conical object emerged from it.
• Wang Hai detonated the Doomsday Bomb, but Bonifacio’s frontline fleets reported no losses.
• Bonifacio ordered his fleets to investigate the detonation site, then learned that he could no longer contact them.

Bonifacio discovered that the Moy people’s weapon had killed the crews of warships entering the Milse Supercluster, leaving their ships intact, and halted the fleets still approaching. After unmanned vessels failed to explain the lingering lethal energy, he asked the White Tiger Empire to seek technical guidance from the Fario Civilization.

• Bonifacio examined surveillance footage and found that crews aboard frontline warships and newly arrived ships had all died, despite the ships remaining intact.
• Bonifacio ordered fleets not yet in the current to stop and sent unmanned reconnaissance and utility ships ahead to investigate.
• Over the next month, more than 500 billion warships entered the Milse Supercluster and lost all their crews, leaving Bonifacio increasingly desperate.
• Unmanned ships gathered data and recovered Doomsday Bomb fragments, but the White Tiger Empire’s scientists could only confirm that unexplained energy lingered near the current’s exit.
• Bonifacio ordered the findings sent to the imperial capital and requested that the Fario Civilization provide technical guidance.

The Fario Civilization learned that the Moy Union had deciphered more black hole data than it had as a Ninth Order Civilization and saw it as a dangerous rival. Unable to attack or secretly aid others against it under Azure Dragon Universe rules, Nevitt decided to urge civilizations under Fario’s command to watch out for and help one another.

• The White Tiger Empire sent the Fario Civilization intelligence about the Moy Union’s black hole data, alarming the newly risen Super Civilization.
• Fario’s leaders called for the Moy Union to be eliminated or for the White Tiger Empire to receive secret support, while Nevitt considered the restrictions imposed by the Azure Dragon Universe.
• Nevitt recalled how the Alphart Civilization and other Super Civilizations had prevented Fario from destroying the Aurora Civilization, and how the Azure Dragon Universe forbade Super Civilizations from attacking ordinary civilizations.
• Nevitt told his subordinates to message all civilizations under Fario’s command and tell them to watch out for and help one another.

Nevitt revealed that Super Civilizations could not attack ordinary civilizations or interfere in their wars, so the Fario Civilization would exploit the rules by urging its subordinate civilizations to support one another. Bonifacio recognized the implication of Fario’s broadcast reply, leaving the White Tiger Empire expeditionary fleet aware that other civilizations might join its war against the Moy Union.

• Nevitt explained that the Super Civilizations and Transcendent Civilizations were forbidden from attacking ordinary civilizations or interfering when one challenged a Super Civilization.
• Nevitt proposed telling Fario’s subordinate civilizations to support one another as a loophole that would let them attack the Moy Union without Fario acting directly.
• Fario sent the White Tiger Empire a broadcast message saying that everyone in the same camp should support one another.
• Bonifacio inferred that Fario’s message meant it could not provide direct military aid but would allow its subordinate civilizations to help the White Tiger Empire.

The Moy Union and humanity salvaged nearly 300 billion White Tiger Empire warships, while Lin Fan declined half because the Federation lacked crews. Six months later, news that the Aurora Civilization had fallen and a vast coalition was gathering against the Moy Union left its Supreme Commanders desperate, until Nina reminded them they could defend every Current Mouth as they had in the Milse Supercluster.

• The Moy people recovered nearly 300 billion abandoned White Tiger Empire warships, and Lin Fan refused the Moy Union’s offer to give the Federation half.
• The Federation’s lack of soldiers kept it from putting its existing reserve warships into service, and Lin Fan remained uninterested in acquiring more ships or technology.
• News spread that the Fario Civilization had replaced the defeated Aurora Civilization, would not intervene in ordinary wars, and that 238 Ninth Order Civilizations and five other Tenth Order Civilizations would join the White Tiger Empire against the Moy Union.
• Arno and Aym realized the Aurora Civilization’s defeat explained why the White Tiger Empire had broken the ceasefire and why the Aurora Civilization could not be contacted.
• Nina challenged Aym’s despair by reminding him that the Moy Union had previously stopped the White Tiger Empire at a Current Mouth, and the Supreme Commanders recognized they could defend all the Current Mouths leading to their territory.

Nina proposed using humanity’s Doomsday Bomb to contain the Fario Civilization, and the Moy Union invited Lin Fan to discuss the plan. Lin Fan learned that super and transcendent civilizations could not attack ordinary civilizations directly, but Fario’s subordinate civilizations had assembled a vast coalition fleet.

• Nina proposed using the Doomsday Bomb to stop external threats, and Aym said Lin Fan needed to be consulted because the technology belonged to humanity.
• Nina contacted Lin Fan, who joined the Moy Union’s virtual meeting and learned that the Aurora Civilization had fallen and the Fario Civilization had risen to replace it.
• Aym explained that Fario was the White Tiger Empire’s suzerain and that the Aurora Civilization had once mediated a conflict between the White Tiger Empire and the Moy Union.
• Aym told Lin Fan that super and transcendent civilizations were forbidden from attacking ordinary civilizations, though Fario’s subordinate civilizations could still act.
• Aym revealed that six Tenth Order civilizations and 238 Ninth Order civilizations had formed a coalition with several million billion warships.

Lin Fan agreed to help the Moy Union seal its external Current passages as an alliance of more than two hundred civilizations began its invasion. The Moy Union’s defenses inflicted enormous losses on the allied fleets, and Lin Fan ordered the next phase of their plan to begin.

• Nina and the other Moy Union Supreme Commanders asked Lin Fan to seal every external Current passage except those linked to the Federation, and he agreed.
• Over nearly three years, the allied forces assembled across ten Superclusters, then entered the Currents to attack the Moy Union.
• When the allied fleets arrived at the ten Current Nodes, Lin Fan ordered the defenders to hold the line and maintain maximum firepower instead of sealing the passages immediately.
• The Moy Union’s fleets destroyed more than a hundred billion allied warships per day while suffering mounting losses of their own.
• As the battle intensified and the gap between the forces narrowed, Lin Fan ordered every defensive line to begin acting according to plan.

Bonifacio’s command staff analyzed the Moy Union’s sublight withdrawal and advised pursuing while dispersing Allied fleets to reduce the threat of the Doomsday Bombs. Lin Fan explained to Larnass that the withdrawal was bait designed to make the Allies believe the Moy forces were clearing the Current Mouths for a bomb attack, encouraging them to keep sending fleets through.

• Bonifacio ordered the Allied command staff to investigate why the Moy Union was withdrawing while maintaining fire.
• The command staff concluded the Moy forces were retreating at sublight speed to preserve their numerical advantage and destroy pursuing fleets.
• Bonifacio ordered the Allied fleets to continue pursuit, then directed other forces to break through Hyperspace Interference and disperse against the Doomsday Bomb threat.
• Larnass questioned Lin Fan about the purpose of using the Moy fleet as bait.
• Lin Fan explained that the withdrawal made the Allies suspect the Moy were clearing the area to use Doomsday Bombs, so they would keep sending fleets through the currents if they could pin down his fleet.

Lin Fan’s plan trapped the Allied Fleet in a year-long pursuit through the Moy Union’s vast Hyperspace Interference Array, costing the Allies more than a hundred trillion warships. When Nina reported that several Allied fleets were nearing the array’s outer edge, Lin Fan ordered the fleets to begin the next phase of the plan.

• Bonifacio ordered newly arrived Allied warships to split off and pursue the retreating Moy fleets, believing he had understood their objective.
• The Allied Fleet discovered that the Moy Union had filled the region with individually configured low-power Hyperspace Interference Devices, preventing the Allies from rapidly spreading out their forces.
• For a year, the Moy fleets retreated at sub-light speed and destroyed successive Allied pursuit waves, while the Allies struggled to advance through the interference array.
• The Moy fleets retreated 0.2 light-years and destroyed more than a trillion Allied warships in each war zone, leaving the Allied Fleet with losses exceeding a hundred trillion vessels.
• Nina told Lin Fan that Allied fleets in several sectors were nearing the outer edge of the Interference Array, and Lin Fan ordered all fleets to begin the predetermined plan.

Lin Fan began the final stage of the operation by ordering the Decoy Fleets to destroy the Allied Forces' Hyperspace Interference Devices and withdraw. Commander Bonifacio realized the Zero-Point Armaments were meant to clear a path for an attack on the Allied Forces' main fleet.

• Lin Fan received reports that the Decoy Fleet had destroyed 119 trillion enemy warships and that the Chese War Zone was closest to breaching the Interference Array.
• Lin Fan ordered all Zero-Point Armaments detonated after a thirty-second countdown and told the Decoy Fleets to withdraw once the enemy interference devices were cleared.
• Bonifacio's command detected Zero-Point Particles inside the Grand Interference Array and ordered frontline fleets to maximize their Dark Energy Shields.
• Bonifacio deduced that the Zero-Point Armaments would destroy the Allied Forces' Hyperspace Interference Devices and realized the enemy's target was the main fleet.