[Kevin]: I received a mission here for the Strategic Investment Department to take Penacony. I'll also be attending the Harmony Festival soon.
[Kevin]: Su, Cosmo, Chijie, and I plan to use this opportunity to take out [Diamond], seize his seat, replace all of The Ten Stone Hearts with our own people, then strike while the iron is hot and take out Oswald from the Market Expansion Department. After that, we'll run for the new board director position. What do you think? Interested in making a big move?
Qianyi: Oswald's Doomsday Has Arrived.
Penacony was the Star of the Grand Festival in the Asterna System, a land of dreams, a luxurious hotel suspended above the dark starry sky, and a vacation destination where interstellar celebrities traded toasts and wealthy guests from countless worlds spent money like water.
People came here seeking the dreams buried deep in their hearts, dreams they had long desired, entering the dream pool of the hotel and stepping into a dream realm where every wish could come true.
Yet few guests paid attention to Penacony's history. A thousand years ago, this place had been a frontier prison built by the IPC. Exiled criminals endured a long and arduous journey to arrive here, where they were forcibly assigned a dangerous mission—repairing the leaks of [Memory Substance] into the real star system.
[Memory Substance] was the carrier and material of human memories and consciousness. Its importance was obvious from its applications alone.
Memory Zones, Dream Bubbles, Synesthesia Dreams, and the like were all aggregates of Memory Substance. Penacony's beautiful dream, at its core, was a vast aggregate composed of Memory Substance.
Yet Memory Substance had uses beyond that. In the hands of the Memokeepers of the Flowing Light Memory Court, it was used as a carrier for preserving slices