Chapter Summaries

Tang Xiao awoke aboard a stranded interstellar colonization mothership after apparently being transported into the Star Wars universe. The Mainframe told him the ship had reached a habitable planet and asked him to begin colonization, and Tang Xiao headed for the bridge to take command.

• Tang Xiao witnessed a vision of Star Wars fleets fighting and planets suffering destruction before a mysterious voice said fate would reward his choice.
• The Mainframe awakened Tang Xiao from hibernation and explained that the mothership had reached a habitable planet but could not jump again because its Hyperspace Core was unresponsive.
• Tang Xiao learned that the mothership carried 600,000 residents, 50,000 crew members, and five billion cryo-embryos, and that he was its Administrator.
• Tang Xiao suspected he had transmigrated into the Star Wars universe and worried that the mothership would be vulnerable there.
• The Mainframe urged Tang Xiao to take command because supplies were scarce, and he agreed to go to the bridge.

Tang Xiao organized the mothership’s first work teams and learned that it had landed beside a potentially colonizable moon. After recognizing the vessel as the Kushan Mothership from Homeworld, he wondered whether his dream had been real.

• Tang Xiao toured the bridge, where the Mainframe explained that the ship was near a gas giant with nine moons and only one potentially suitable moon for colonization.
• Qi Jian outlined the need to extract helium fuel and awaken pilots, and Tang Xiao appointed him temporary Chief of Staff.
• Tang Xiao reviewed the hibernating crew, rejected the demanding Master Class candidates, and awakened Normal Class engineering, logistics, maintenance, and agriculture teams.
• The Mainframe identified the vessel as a civilian colony mothership with limited armament and displayed its enormous crescent-shaped design.
• Tang Xiao recognized the vessel as the Kushan Mothership from Homeworld and wondered whether his dream had been real.

Tang Xiao learned that the mothership was nearly defenseless, despite having a vast database of spacecraft designs, and ordered preparations to secure supplies and explore the planet. He named the colony Dawn Star Planet, but remained anxious about the possibility that they had landed in the Star Wars universe.

• Tang Xiao discovered the mothership had only five Arrow-class Scouts and five Blade-class Light Fighters, while its shipyard could not build larger vessels without a separate Space Shipyard.
• The Mainframe revealed that the database held designs for many spacecraft, including the Spear of Adun, but the Research Department would need to analyze unfamiliar technologies before they could be built.
• Tang Xiao learned that supplies were critically low and crops had withered, so he ordered more fighters, pilots, a planetary scouting mission, and fifty Marines placed on standby.
• Qi Jian reported that the colony's available weapons were conventional firearms, and Tang Xiao ordered him to begin the security and scouting preparations.
• Tang Xiao named the habitable planet Dawn Star Planet and declared it their new home, while privately worrying about their isolation and the possibility of a Star Wars battlefield.

Tang Xiao chose a landing site on Dawn Star Planet and oversaw the start of the first colony. Though he remained unsettled by his inability to return home, he committed himself to building the colony and preparing for the dangers ahead.

• Qi Jian reported that helium-3 extraction had begun and presented seventeen possible landing sites for Tang Xiao to choose from.
• Tang Xiao selected a site near mountains, water, and grasslands, then sent Marines and construction workers to establish a settlement.
• The Kushan Mothership entered synchronous orbit around Dawn Star Planet and began dropping modular buildings and infrastructure to the surface.
• Tang Xiao woke farmers and maintenance workers from cryosleep, appointed Graham village chief, and grew the colony to fewer than a hundred people.
• Tang Xiao accepted that he might never return home and began studying the Interstellar Colony Construction Guide to prepare for the future.

Tang Xiao inspected the colony on Dawn Star Planet, recognized its native Ewoks and realized the planet was Endor in the Star Wars universe. After he mysteriously fell asleep and caused nearby objects to float, the Mainframe reported that the mothership had intercepted a hyperspace communication from the planet.

• Tang Xiao met his new bodyguard, the T-850, and learned that mass-producing the robots was impractical because they required rare tantalum alloy.
• Tang Xiao visited the colony, where village chief Graham showed him the settlement and reported sightings of intelligent native life-forms.
• Tang Xiao identified the natives as Ewoks and recognized Dawn Star Planet as Endor, then ordered Graham to make cautious contact while strengthening the colony's defenses.
• Tang Xiao fell asleep while standing as nearby objects floated, and Graham and T-850 confirmed what had happened.
• The Mainframe interrupted Tang Xiao with news that the mothership had intercepted a hyperspace communication sent from Dawn Star Planet.

Tang Xiao captured three armed visitors who had sent a hyperspace transmission and confirmed that he was on Endor, which he called Dawn. He expanded the colony’s staff and studied the Star Wars timeline, but still could not determine the current era.

• Tang Xiao sent Marines to investigate the transmission’s source and ordered T-850 to capture the three people hiding in a cave.
• T-850 used a cargo crate to overwhelm the visitors, and the Marines took them prisoner while Tang Xiao ordered their hideout searched and their language analyzed.
• Tang Xiao used gestures to learn that the visitors had traveled from Corellia through Tatooine to Endor, and confirmed the planet was part of the Star Wars world.
• Tang Xiao awakened several Elite Class biologists to study Dawn’s ecosystem and appointed Daphne Clement to lead colony construction and administration.
• Tang Xiao mapped the major Star Wars conflicts and concluded that Dawn’s lack of nearby war signs placed them before the Second Galactic Civil War, leaving the exact era unknown.

Master Dooku and Senator Palpatine discussed the Republic’s corruption and a disturbance in the Modell Sector, while Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi set out to investigate it. Palpatine then received orders from his master to intensify the dispute on Malastare.

• Master Dooku told Master Yoda that Senator Palpatine had helped secure a Senate motion to send the Judicial Fleet to Niele, then criticized the need for personal connections to rescue the planet.
• Master Yoda told Qui-Gon Jinn to travel to the Modell Sector with Obi-Wan Kenobi and investigate a growing disturbance in the Force.
• Master Dooku thanked Senator Palpatine for helping Niele and agreed that the Republic needed more people committed to reform.
• Senator Palpatine asked Master Dooku to investigate trouble in the Modell Sector, and Dooku decided to send bounty hunters from Serenno.
• Palpatine told his hidden master that he was using Dooku to further his aims, and his master ordered him to add another spark to the dispute on Malastare.

Tang Xiao confirmed that the Galactic Republic was still led by Phineas Valorum and that the Battle of Naboo had not yet happened, placing Dawn Star Planet before the coming crisis. He decided he needed a Master Class politician and discovered that Legendary Class personnel had unlocked after his awakening.

• Tang Xiao questioned the three captured men and learned that Phineas Valorum was Chancellor and that no war had yet occurred on Naboo.
• Tang Xiao recalled how the Battle of Naboo would bring Sheev Palpatine to power and lead to the Clone Wars and the Republic's fall.
• Tang Xiao concluded Dawn Star Planet needed a politician to build alliances and gain influence in the Galactic Senate, but ruled out Clement and Qi Jian.
• Tang Xiao noticed that the personnel list now included Legendary Class and asked the Mainframe when it had unlocked.
• The Mainframe explained that Legendary Class figures became available after Tang Xiao awakened, but could cause chaos if awakened without sufficient strength.

Tang Xiao reviewed the conditions for awakening Legendary figures and began testing his newly awakened Force abilities. After examining the mothership’s military proposal, he rejected the Blade II-class fighter in favor of pursuing a more powerful design as he prepared for war.

• Tang Xiao learned that visible Legendary figures would negotiate their conditions before awakening and chose a ruthless political operator as a possible ally against Palpatine.
• Tang Xiao discovered he could use the Force, but his attempts to lift and move a teacup ended with it shattered and its fragments scattered across the bridge.
• Qi Jian presented the Staff Department’s proposal to strengthen the mothership’s defenses by developing the Blade II-class fighter and infrared laser weapons.
• Tang Xiao ordered the establishment of a Physics Research Department to study infrared laser weapons and set a goal of increasing Blade-class fighter production to one hundred.
• Tang Xiao rejected the Blade II-class fighter as too small an improvement and decided to pursue the CF/A-17 Wraith fighter from StarCraft.

Tang Xiao ordered research into infrared laser weapons and the CF/A-17 Wraith fighter, while a malfunction stranded a small spacecraft before the colossal mothership. The startled crew realized their hyperspace diverter had failed deliberately and found themselves facing the enormous vessel.

• Tang Xiao ordered construction of an engineering research station and tasked Guan Yan, Feng Yongwang, and Qu Xuewen with studying infrared laser weapons and the Wraith fighter.
• Guan Yan estimated that infrared laser weapon research would take a month, while Feng Yongwang said adapting the Wraith fighter could take at least a year.
• Tang Xiao promised the researchers personnel and materials, then watched their demands consume the colony’s newly built-up reserves.
• Kunto, Feraci, and Spade discovered that their spacecraft’s hyperspace diverter had failed as they dropped out of hyperspace.
• The crew saw a gigantic crescent-shaped spacecraft orbiting a planet and realized their arrival had been deliberate.

Tang Xiao captured three smugglers who worked for the Hutts, then awakened Cun Te (Trent), a legendary pilot and adventurer from Freelancer. He gave Cun Te the seized YT-1000 freighter and sent him to inspect it.

• Kunto, Feraci, and Spade surrendered to Tang Xiao’s forces after their ship was disabled and escorted aboard the warship.
• Tang Xiao questioned the smugglers, learned they worked for the Hutts around Tatooine, and ordered them imprisoned.
• The Mainframe announced that Tang Xiao could awaken a Legendary figure, and he identified the available recruit as Cun Te (Trent).
• Tang Xiao visited Cun Te in the medical bay, offered him the captured spaceship, and Cun Te accepted.
• After completing his examination, Cun Te headed to the hangar to inspect the YT-1000 light freighter.

Tang Xiao oversaw the colony’s rapid expansion while confronting shortages, infrastructure problems, and the need for better waste disposal on Dawn Star. He abandoned his impractical plans to generate power from fecal waste and instead created a Public Health Department to build sewage treatment centers, then agreed to attend the first test of an infrared laser weapon.

• Tang Xiao managed the growing colony as Dawn Star’s population, mining operations, and construction expanded, while jobs and transport ships remained in short supply.
• Tang Xiao proposed pumping sewage and fecal waste into a mountain reservoir to generate electricity, but Daphne Clement and Guan Yan explained why the plan would fail.
• Tang Xiao suggested purifying fecal waste into drinking water, and Clement, Qu Xuewen, and Feng Yongwang persuaded him to give up the idea.
• Tang Xiao and the experts agreed to build centralized sewage treatment centers, and Tang Xiao established the Public Health Department to oversee them.
• Norris Barry discussed a proposal to strengthen the colony’s cohesion with Tang Xiao, while Guan Yan reported that the infrared laser weapon analysis was ahead of schedule and its first test would take place that afternoon.
• Tang Xiao offered Guan Yan his mushy chocolate, and she fled after seeing him eat a large spoonful.

Tang Xiao established the Social and Cultural Department to create a shared history for the Fourth Civilization, while his people tested new weapons and began studying Galactic Standard. Norris-Bari’s team presented a sweeping fabricated history, which Tang Xiao praised before revealing that it had a serious problem.

• Tang Xiao appointed Norris-Bari to lead the Social and Cultural Department and tasked the department with creating a history for the Fourth Civilization.
• Guan Yan’s team successfully tested an infrared laser weapon, which destroyed a drone from two hundred kilometers away.
• Tang Xiao attended a Galactic Standard class and made the language mandatory for the civilization’s citizens.
• Norris-Bari and the Social and Cultural Department presented a history describing Earth Civilization’s wars against the Zerg, the Purification Protocol, and the Shabnash.
• Tang Xiao praised the history’s story and its explanation for the mothership’s diverse technologies, then told Norris-Bari that the proposal had a very serious problem.

Tang Xiao established the Fourth Civilization’s fabricated history and imprisoned its creators as History Guardians, then prepared the crew for a future war. After recurring dreams of a watching eye, he met Dublak Kunto and Mars Feraci, who asked to leave the Endor system.

• Tang Xiao dismissed Norris Barry and the other ten Social and Cultural Department members from their roles, making them secret History Guardians who would live in isolation.
• Tang Xiao declared that the survivors were the Fourth Civilization and the Fourth Calamity, and ordered the Mainframe to implant fragmented versions of their fabricated history into the hibernating residents.
• Tang Xiao chose new specialists to rebuild the Social and Cultural Department and compile history textbooks.
• Tang Xiao woke from a recurring dream of a vast eye watching him on a desert planet and learned that Dublak Kunto had come to speak with him.
• Dublak Kunto asked Tang Xiao to let him and Mars Feraci return, explaining that they worked for the Hutts and had brought cargo from Dawn Star Planet.

Tang Xiao forced Kunto and Feraci to work for the Fourth Group and planned to accompany them to Tatooine to deliver their cargo to Jabba. He formalized the Fourth Civilization, named its colony Dawn City, and began creating a secret military force called the Fourth Legion.

• Tang Xiao rejected the Ewok-hunting operation but agreed to let Kunto deliver the cargo to Tatooine for Jabba if Kunto and his crew joined the Fourth Group and surrendered their ship, the Cheap Hunter.
• Mars-Feraci attacked Tang Xiao, who hurled her aside with an invisible force and offered Kunto and Feraci a choice between working for him or dying.
• Tang Xiao made Feraci stay behind while he prepared to accompany Kunto to Tatooine, and Kunto realized she was being held as a hostage.
• Tang Xiao officially named the group Fourth Civilization, established the Fourth Group, and named the developing colony Dawn City.
• Tang Xiao required families to adopt Cryo-embryos and ordered a secret military base where the first hundred soldiers began training as the Fourth Legion, marked with the symbol 4TH.

Tang Xiao traveled with Cun Te and Kunto to Tatooine, seeking someone he believed would be crucial to the coming war. The group reached Mos Eisley and met Truda, who warned Kunto that Jabba’s people had been looking for him.

• Tang Xiao asked Cun Te to take Kunto to Tatooine, then announced that he would join them to find someone important to the future war.
• Cun Te agreed to bring Tang Xiao, and Tang Xiao kept his knowledge of the future secret by attributing it to the Force.
• Cun Te piloted the YT-1000 through three hyperspace jumps to Tatooine, where Kunto contacted Mos Eisley Port and renamed the ship the Lancer.
• Kunto explained that Tatooine had no official government and chose a berth at Truda’s place because Truda worked for Jabba and knew him.
• The Lancer landed outside Mos Eisley, and Truda greeted Kunto by saying Jabba’s people had been searching for him and his delivery was overdue.

After arriving on Tatooine, Tang Xiao learned that the Skywalker family lived in Mos Espa Port and belonged to Watto, but Jabba’s ties to the region made approaching them risky. In a Mos Eisley bar, a drunk man proposed kidnapping Tang Xiao for ransom.

• Truda told Kunto that Jabba’s people were coming to collect the cargo, and bounty hunters took it while paying Kunto only 2,000 Upiupi coins instead of the agreed 5,000.
• Cun Te tried to reassure Kunto and invited him and Tang Xiao to drink in Mos Eisley.
• On the way, Kunto warned Tang Xiao to stay away from IG-41, who carried the heads of Quarren gang members.
• Tang Xiao paid the bartender for information and learned that the Skywalker family were slaves of Watto in Mos Espa Port, Hutt Gaddula’s territory.
• A drunken man shoved Tang Xiao at the bar and suggested kidnapping him to demand ransom from his Homeworld.

Tang Xiao and his crew accepted a dangerous commission from Hego Damask II to retrieve Semir from Makito and deliver him to Roon. They received an advance and were ordered to depart immediately, with only eighty-nine standard hours to reach their destination.

• Tang Xiao, Cun Te, and T-850 beat up a group of Hedgehog Gang thugs after Tang Xiao's anger surged during the fight.
• Cun Te learned that the crew needed more work and negotiated with a Falin woman who offered them a job for twenty thousand Wupi.
• The Falin woman introduced the crew to their employer, Hego Damask II, who hired them to collect Semir on Makito and take him to Roon.
• Tang Xiao recognized Hego Damask II and hid his reaction while Cun Te accepted the commission after Tang Xiao nodded.
• The Falin woman paid Cun Te five thousand Wupi in advance and warned the crew to leave immediately and avoid crossing their employer.

Tang Xiao recognized Hego Damask II as the Sith Lord Darth Pregas and accepted his commission, weighing the danger against the chance to secure the InterGalactic Banking Clan’s aid for the Fourth Civilization. Meanwhile, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi arrived in the Endor system to investigate a disturbance in the Force and discovered remote mining stations.

• Tang Xiao decided to postpone his trip to Mos Espa and depart aboard the Lancer to fulfill Hego Damask II’s time-limited commission.
• Kunto explained the InterGalactic Banking Clan’s power, while Tang Xiao considered whether the Fourth Civilization could use Hego’s influence to prepare for the coming war.
• The Lancer entered hyperspace as Tang Xiao wondered whether to build a connection with Hego or disappear after completing the job.
• Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi followed residual ripples in the Force to the Endor system, where they found mining stations and transport ships near a gas giant.
• Qui-Gon Jinn cautioned Obi-Wan Kenobi against letting his emotions cloud his judgment.

Tang Xiao learned that Qui-Gon Jinn had arrived at Endor after detecting the colony’s enormous mothership, and he recognized the Jedi Master despite Qui-Gon’s cover story. He invited Qui-Gon aboard and concluded that he could no longer avoid the coming conflict across the galaxy.

• Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi detected the huge object orbiting Endor and contacted its inhabitants, claiming they needed supplies and repairs.
• Tang Xiao discussed Blade-class fighter upgrades with Dr. Guan Yan and Qi Jian, then arranged to awaken two scientists and pursue the requirements for awakening an aerospace chief engineer.
• The Mainframe informed Tang Xiao that travelers were requesting permission to board, and he took over the communication.
• Tang Xiao recognized Qui-Gon Jinn as a Jedi Knight, while Qui-Gon explained that he had come because the Republic needed to investigate the object at Endor.
• Tang Xiao said the mothership was a civilian colony vessel whose Republic paperwork was being processed, then invited Qui-Gon aboard.
• After the call, Tang Xiao decided he had to face the galaxy’s coming transformation and war rather than remain passive.