Recaps

Chen Mengchuan revealed Tenzhi Technology’s planetary-class Plasma Cannon on Mars and announced plans for a vast network of similar weapons to defend against alien civilizations. When the United States delegation challenged whether the cannons could threaten Earth, Chen Mengchuan’s answer enraged the national representatives and left the gathering in chaos.

• The representatives saw a gigantic planetary weapon installed on Mars, and the delegations erupted in anger and alarm.
• Chen Mengchuan identified it as a planetary-class super-giant Plasma Cannon and said Tenzhi Technology had built twenty-three, with plans for many more throughout the Solar System.
• Chen Mengchuan invited representatives from every nation to speak, and a white-haired woman from the United States asked whether the weapon might be turned on Earth.
• Chen Mengchuan said Tenzhi Technology would never target Earth under human control, but added that they would not do so once humanity’s objectives aligned against interstellar civilizations.
• The representatives interpreted Chen Mengchuan’s answer as a threat and loudly protested, demanding to know whether he was declaring war on Earth’s nations.

France, the Island Nation, and several other governments condemned Tenzhi Technology and declared they would defend national sovereignty, while Russia abstained from the decision. The Chinese representative then took the microphone, and his opening words caused the venue to erupt again.

• The French representative denounced Chen and Tenzhi Technology, declaring that France would never compromise or yield.
• The Island Nation representative echoed France’s condemnation and vowed to take up arms if necessary.
• Several other governments protested Tenzhi Technology’s weapon as the venue divided into opposing camps.
• The Russian delegation chose to abstain, prompting uproar and speculation about its relationship with Tenzhi Technology.
• The Chinese representative stepped to the podium, and his first sentence set off another uproar.

At a meeting on Mars, China and Pakistan supported establishing the Earth Federation, but more than 80 percent of national representatives opposed it. Chen Mengchuan accepted the vote’s result, then declared that Tenzhi Civilization would go to war against every country and region that had opposed the Federation.

• China declared its support for Tenzhi Technology and called for humanity to unite by establishing the Earth Federation, while the United States delegation stayed silent.
• The Island Nation and many other governments opposed the Federation, while Pakistan and countries with close ties to Tenzhi Technology supported it.
• More than 80 percent of the 233 country and regional representatives voted against establishing the Earth Federation.
• Chen Mengchuan told the representatives that the meeting was over and that spacecraft would return them to Earth.
• Chen Mengchuan declared war on every Earth country and region that had opposed the Earth Federation.

After Chen Mengchuan declared war on the countries opposing the Earth Federation, Tenzhi Technology's leaders and governments around the world reacted to the looming conflict. The Island Nation mobilized for war as public anger and boycotts against Tenzhi Technology spread, leaving the world increasingly divided.

• Chen Mengchuan told Tenzhi Technology's leaders to settle internal affairs and said Earth's weapons could not harm them, while the others resolved to support him.
• Chinese government representatives convened a core meeting, discussed Chen Mengchuan's declaration, and agreed to focus on China's own affairs.
• U.S. officials decided not to oppose Tenzhi Technology, recalling the destruction of the Seventh Fleet and the technological gap between them.
• The Island Nation's leaders declared the highest wartime alert, issued military orders, and announced Tenzhi Technology's declaration of war through the media.
• People in the Island Nation criticized their government and its opposition to the Earth Federation, while reserve soldiers assembled across the country.
• After the global conference details became public, people around the world flooded Tenzhi Technology's website with hostile comments and began boycotting its products.

After most Earth governments rejected the Earth Federation, Chen Mengchuan declared war on the opposing nations and told Tenzhi Technology’s employees why he believed humanity needed to unite. He then revealed a fleet of thousands of spacecraft and ordered A-Chen to launch it, leaving its destination unstated.

• Media and netizens across China rallied behind Tenzhi Technology as Earth’s nations mobilized and entered the highest level of war readiness.
• Chen Mengchuan addressed Tenzhi Technology’s employees, explained that more than eighty percent of governments had opposed the Earth Federation, and declared war on the opposing nations.
• Chen Mengchuan said that advanced technology could help provide for everyone and make the war the start of a new interstellar age.
• Tenzhi Technology’s executives watched as thousands of spacecraft appeared in formation in space, though they did not know when the fleet had been built or who controlled it.
• A-Chen appeared in a humanoid robot body, confirmed she was ready, and launched the spacecraft through blue origin point rings at Chen Mengchuan’s command.

As global unrest escalated, Tenzhi Technology deployed spacecraft over major cities around the world, prompting evacuations and military mobilization. When the Island Nation’s officials ordered an attack on the ship over Jingdō City, Chen Mengchuan told Achen to carry out their plan, and the spacecraft redirected the missiles into the city.

• Governments worldwide entered war readiness as protests, resignations, attacks on Tenzhi Technology businesses, and threats to overseas Chinese spread.
• Tenzhi Technology spacecraft appeared above core government and economic cities around the world, triggering war alerts and mass evacuations.
• The Island Nation’s officials ordered its forces to shoot down the spacecraft hovering above Jingdō City.
• The Island Nation launched missiles at the spacecraft, but Achen used its antigravity devices to halt and redirect them.
• The missiles exploded across Jingdō City, devastating part of the city and causing severe casualties among the Island Nation’s forces.

The Island Nation launched a full-scale attack on Tenzhi Technology’s ships, but Achen used gravity fields and antigravity barriers to force the weapons’ explosions back onto the ground. The attack devastated more than a hundred cities and wiped out the Island Nation’s ground forces, leaving the watching nations shaken by Tenzhi Technology’s power.

• The Island Nation’s Prime Minister ordered a full assault on the hovering Tenzhi ships after an earlier missile strike was intercepted and killed hundreds of soldiers.
• Island Nation forces fired thousands of missiles, shells, and rockets at the ships across more than a hundred cities.
• Chen Mengchuan told Achen to end the attack, and Achen used gravity fields and barriers to suppress the incoming weapons and their explosions.
• The explosions devastated more than a hundred cities and killed every Island Nation soldier in the blast zones.
• Achen reported that the explosions had ended and the Island Nation military had not launched another attack, while other nations watched the destruction in alarm.

Chen Mengchuan ordered the destruction of the Island Nation’s remaining military forces after Tenzhi Technology’s spacecraft devastated its cities. As survivors emerged from underground shelters, Achen asked whether to launch humanitarian rescues, and a United States commander declared that the war had ended.

• At the Martian base, Achen asked Chen Mengchuan whether to destroy the Island Nation’s remaining aircraft and ships, and Chen agreed.
• Achen ordered the spacecraft to fire electric-field proton bombs, destroying the Island Nation’s deployed combat aircraft and vessels.
• Sun Zhongyong asked Chen Mengchuan about the white projectiles, and Chen explained how the electric-field proton bombs worked.
• Achen reported that civilians, including women and children, had survived in underground shelters and asked Chen Mengchuan whether to conduct humanitarian rescues.
• Island Nation citizens emerged from the shelters and saw the devastated cities, while the United States fleet’s commander said the war ended there.

After the destruction of Island Nation, Tenzhi Technology’s leaders argued over responsibility for the millions killed while Chen Mengchuan remained withdrawn. Governments worldwide accepted the Earth Federation, and Zhao Wanyu issued its first decree placing national administrative networks under A-Chen’s oversight as the transition began.

• Sun Zhongyong, Xu Shuwei, and Toni debated the deaths of more than six million people in Island Nation, and Xu Shuwei punched Toni before Toni tripped him in return.
• A-Chen appeared and stopped the fight, while Chen Mengchuan continued to refuse visitors; the next day, Zhao Wanyu and A-Chen mediated a reconciliation between Xu Shuwei and Toni.
• After Island Nation’s destruction, opposing nations and then neutral nations including the United States and Russia agreed to establish the Earth Federation.
• Zhao Wanyu convened the second Global Government Delegation Exchange Conference and announced the Federation’s first decree, requiring governments to connect their administrative information to Tenzhi Technology’s particle network for A-Chen to oversee.
• The decree required countries to adopt a unified administrative software system with more than four hundred language modules, while preserving existing government policies during the transition.

The Human Earth Federation centralized national resources and armed forces under Achen and national representatives, auditing public servants and restructuring their pay. Within months, global law enforcement, public services, and resource distribution were reorganized, establishing what historians called the New Order of Human Civilization.

• Achen and 2,789 national representatives consolidated governments’ state-owned assets and assessed public servants’ minimum gray-income values.
• Most civil servants and law enforcement personnel accepted their assessments, while others requested asset tracing; the Federation recovered gray income and rebalanced public-sector pay.
• The Federation completed unified control of law enforcement and armed forces, deployed surveillance devices and gravity mechs, and retrained personnel.
• Criminal incidents declined, and more than 300,000 criminals were sent to Federation prisons for sentencing and reeducation.
• The Federation collected detailed population records, resettled homeless people, improved medical care, and created new jobs through resource redistribution.
• Human civilization’s systems changed rapidly, and historians and social researchers called the transformation the New Order of Human Civilization.

Chen Mengchuan reviewed the Earth Federation’s progress and the exploration of nearby star systems. Toni reported that his team had discovered four Earth-like planets in the Barnard's Star system.

• Achen told Chen Mengchuan that the team had explored fourteen stars in the Alpha Centauri system and found no planets suitable for human habitation.
• The Earth Federation’s reforms resolved hunger, stabilized society, expanded education, and accelerated scientific research and space exploration.
• Toni arrived with the Barnard's Star report and explained that his team had investigated the nearby red dwarf.
• Toni announced that the team had found four Earth-like planets in the Barnard's Star system.

Chen Mengchuan learned that explorers had found four planets orbiting Barnard's Star, including one with vast green vegetation and regions potentially suitable for human survival. He ordered ten groups of deep-space exploration craft to investigate it, while wondering whether intelligent life inhabited the planet.

• Toni told Chen Mengchuan that the project team had discovered four planets around Barnard's Star, including a giant planet with potentially habitable tropical regions.
• Toni revealed that instruments had detected extensive green vegetation on the planet, and Chen went with him to the exploration project team.
• Chen and the team examined a model of the planet, which showed oceans, ice caps, green regions, and a ring of planetary debris.
• Chen ordered ten groups of deep-space exploration craft to prepare to explore the planet.
• As the project team celebrated, Chen wondered whether the planet's life included advanced civilizations and how they compared with humanity.

The Earth Federation’s exploration fleet arrived at Rainbow Star, a huge Earth-like planet whose colorful magnetic fields appeared to create habitable green belts along its tropics. As spacecraft descended toward the surface, the explorers discovered buildings beneath the greenery.

• Scientists debated how Rainbow Star could have oceans and plants despite its enormous size and expected gravity.
• Chen Mengchuan and other astrophysicists proposed that overlapping magnetic fields caused the planet’s uneven gravity and supported its tropical green belts.
• Zhao Wanyu joined Chen Mengchuan to watch as 120 exploration spacecraft arrived in Barnard's Star System.
• Chen Mengchuan ordered the spacecraft to spread out and begin low-altitude exploration, and they landed across the planet.
• The team watched spacecraft descend along the tropical green belts and saw buildings on Rainbow Star.

Chen Mengchuan and the exploration team confirmed that Rainbow Star supported two intelligent civilizations, then observed and captured a Lizardfolk from one of them. The chapter ends as the team turns its attention to the separate Orc-like civilization on the planet.

• The exploration team discovered extensive settlements on Rainbow Star and confirmed that the planet had intelligent life.
• Toni explained that Rainbow Star’s civilizations had not developed spaceflight, and the team identified distinct civilizations near the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
• Chen Mengchuan watched the vessel approach a Lizardfolk settlement, where the residents launched hot-air balloons and attacked it with bows and crossbows.
• Chen Mengchuan ordered the Gravity Multi-Arm Crab to capture a Lizardfolk, and the vessel escaped the settlement’s attack.
• Chen Mengchuan asked Toni about the other region, and the screen showed an Orc-like civilization living among crowded stone buildings.

Chen Mengchuan’s team encountered the Orc civilization on Rainbow Star and discovered that its people wielded extraordinarily strong metal weapons. After the Orcs destroyed a Gravity Multi-Arm Crab, Chen decided to pursue conquering the planet for its resources and unknown metal, pending Earth Federation procedures.

• Chen Mengchuan ordered a Gravity Multi-Arm Crab to descend and collect an Orc specimen while the Orcs attacked the spacecraft with enormous spears.
• A huge winged beast rammed the spacecraft, but the anti-gravity force field repelled it and sent it falling away.
• The Orcs with large round heads resisted the defensive electric field and smashed the Gravity Multi-Arm Crab apart with powerful metal clubs.
• Toni noted that the clubs seemed harder than dense steel, and Chen decided to conquer Rainbow Star for its unusual material.
• Zhao Wanyu said the decision had to follow Earth Federation procedures as Chen considered occupying the planet and its resources.

Toni persuaded Chen Mengchuan to approve a human expedition to Rainbow Star, despite Chen’s concerns about its dangers. The Earth Federation announced the expedition and opened recruitment, stirring excitement across humanity.

• Toni asked Chen Mengchuan to let him lead a team to establish a human outpost on Rainbow Star, and Chen warned him about the planet’s unknown civilizations and dangers.
• Chen Mengchuan agreed to let Toni choose his team, while Toni promised they would go only when safety was assured.
• Zhao Wanyu scolded Chen Mengchuan for agreeing, then offered to select Earth Federation members to protect Toni and keep him in check.
• Chen Mengchuan learned that Toni had already confirmed more than a hundred people for the expedition.
• The Earth Federation announced the Rainbow Star expedition, recruiting one million people and dispatching eight thousand interstellar spacecraft, prompting people around the world to sign up.

As the Earth Federation's fleet departed for Rainbow Star, Chen Mengchuan focused on recruiting young researchers and preparing weapons for the mission. He secretly assigned Toni a squad of combat robots carrying experimental disintegrators, leaving Toni unaware of the weapons but willing to accept the extra protection.

• The Earth Federation sent eight thousand spacecraft and over one million explorers toward Rainbow Star in Barnard's Star System.
• Chen Mengchuan worked to bring young recruits into Mars's weapons research institutions and equipped the expedition with compact Plasma Cannons.
• Chen Mengchuan secretly arranged for A-Chen to monitor Toni and assigned him combat humanoid robots armed with experimental Eternal Particle Interference Molecular Disintegrators.
• Toni noticed he had more and different humanoid robots than other explorers, guessed they were combat models, and accepted their protection.

The exploration ships mapped Rainbow Star’s unusual gravity and diverse intelligent species, including the powerful but nonaggressive Vine People. As the fleet neared the planet, Toni trained to pilot a gravity mech outside the ship, prompting Chen Mengchuan to transfer Toni’s project duties to Chen Xiaoyun.

• The vanguard ships found more than seventy-eight intelligent life groups in the portions of the tropical green zones they had explored.
• Researchers recorded that Rainbow Star’s gravity ranged from 0.613 times Earth’s gravity in the tropical zones to thirty-five times Earth’s gravity at the equator.
• The exploration ships documented the Vine People’s social habits and strength, including their ability to destroy a Gravity Multi-Arm Crab.
• The eight thousand ships approached Rainbow Star while the explorers studied how to operate medium-sized gravity mechs.
• Toni spent long hours training to pilot a gravity mech outside the ship, ignoring Chen Mengchuan’s concerns.
• Chen Mengchuan transferred most of Toni’s project authority and duties to Chen Xiaoyun.

Feng Changjiang traveled with the Earth Federation expedition to Rainbow Star, spending the voyage training to pilot gravity mechs. The fleet arrived and paused near the planet, where the travelers viewed its beauty before preparing to enter orbit.

• Feng Changjiang, a Tenzhi Technology University student, continued training in gravity mechs during the journey to Rainbow Star.
• Feng Changjiang spoke with Toni about their impending arrival and agreed to view the planet from the spaceship.
• The spaceship decelerated and stopped near Rainbow Star as more than a million humans aboard over eight thousand ships watched it in awe.
• Artificial Intelligence Achen announced that the journey had concluded and that the spaceships would enter Rainbow Star's orbit and proceed to their landing sites.
• Feng Changjiang closed his eyes as the fleet prepared to enter orbit.

Toni and his expedition began establishing a base on Rainbow Star and surveying its surroundings. After speaking with Chen Mengchuan, Toni said he would stay until they understood the planet and its resources, leaving Chen to consider who could take over Toni’s projects.

• Xu Shuwei told Chen Mengchuan that the newcomers had arrived, and they discussed Toni’s departure and Chen Xiaoyun handling the workload.
• Toni’s spacecraft landed on Rainbow Star, where the expedition deployed Multi-Arm Crabs to build a base and sent teams out to survey the area.
• A-Chen organized the work, and the humans completed a five-meter-high wall enclosing the hill within a day.
• Toni told Chen Mengchuan that the planet had abundant vegetation and described nearby lifeforms, including a bipedal group that used metal weapons and armor.
• Chen Mengchuan asked when Toni would return, and Toni said he would stay until the expedition understood the planet and its resources.
• After ending the call, Chen Mengchuan considered who could take over Toni’s other projects.

After half a month of exploration on Rainbow Star, Chen Mengchuan reviewed its vast biodiversity, intelligent populations, mineral resources, and humanity’s expanding contact with local civilizations. Human towns endured attacks from Orc and Lizardfolk forces before the fighting stopped, and the chapter ended with the discovery of yu, the metal Chen Mengchuan had been seeking.

• Chen Mengchuan learned that Rainbow Star had more than 30,000 recorded species and 392 intelligent life populations, including over 30 rudimentary technological civilizations.
• Chen Mengchuan took interest in the Lizardfolk kingdoms, whose population exceeded 150 billion but whose people still believed their world was flat.
• Humans established trade with Orc tribes for their metal rods, while Orc children arrived in human towns and educators began learning the tribes’ languages.
• Orc and Lizardfolk forces attacked more than 800 human towns, but humanity’s gravitational barriers and forceful expulsions stopped the fighting with little killing.
• Toni and the Earth Federation’s mid-level leaders pursued diplomatic relations with local civilizations, while Chen Mengchuan held back his doubts.
• Humanity surveyed more than 200,000 mineral veins, including deposits of yu, the metal Chen Mengchuan had been waiting to find.

Chen Mengchuan learned about Metal Yu and the thousand-year lifespans of War-tier Orcs on Rainbow Star as humanity expanded its exploration across nearby star systems. With most discovered civilizations far less advanced than humanity, he focused on accelerating space travel and seeking civilizations capable of meaningful technological exchange.

• Chen Mengchuan studied Metal Yu, a rare, extremely durable metal prized by Lizardfolk and Orcs, and learned that War-tier Orcs wielding inherited clubs made from it had fought the Multi-Arm Crabs.
• Chen Mengchuan confirmed with A Chen, Toni, and scientists that the oldest War-tier Orcs had lived for more than a thousand years, prompting the Earth Federation to send biologists and chemists to investigate.
• The Earth Federation expanded exploration to 270 star systems and found 78 planets with life, most of them suitable for human habitation but home to civilizations far behind humanity.
• Chen Mengchuan continued searching for a civilization with technology comparable to humanity's and added researchers to the Eternal Universe Particle, Space-time Traversal, and Space Folding departments.
• Chen Mengchuan worked with the Space-time Traversal and Space Folding teams to pursue faster space jumps, hoping to extend humanity's reach and find new sources of progress.

A powerful Lizardfolk army overwhelmed humanity’s first base on Rainbow Star, bypassing its gravity defenses and breaching its spacecraft. Chen Mengchuan ordered the fleet to withdraw and then authorized a large-scale retaliatory strike.

• The Lizardfolk army charged through the human base’s gravity field and smashed through its walls.
• Toni received the distress alert, and human spacecraft rushed to reinforce the besieged base.
• Lizardfolk warriors breached more than a hundred spacecraft and killed crew members inside them.
• After hearing Toni’s report, Chen Mengchuan ordered the ships to retreat and regroup at high altitude.
• The Lizardfolk destroyed the base as the surviving human fleet gathered overhead.
• Chen Mengchuan authorized the spacecraft to fire their Plasma Cannons indiscriminately at the attacking Lizardfolk.

After the Lizardfolk destroyed a human base and killed more than 4,200 people, Chen Mengchuan ordered a devastating counterattack and the conquest of their kingdom. The discovery of a radioactive magnetic mineral opened a new research direction, while Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu faced the loss and the end of any chance for peace.

• Chen Mengchuan reviewed the battle report, recognized humanity’s weakness in close-range warfare, and watched the Lizardfolk celebrate their victory at the ruined base.
• Chen Mengchuan’s forces annihilated the Lizardfolk gathering at the base with beams of light, then he ordered the commanders to conquer the kingdom.
• Nearly ten thousand human spacecraft appeared above the Lizardfolk capital, forcing the kingdom to surrender within hours.
• A-Chen reported that a crescent-shaped radioactive magnetic mineral could disrupt gravitational fields, and Chen Mengchuan and Toni assigned researchers to analyze it and learn how the Lizardfolk used it.
• Zhao Wanyu visited Chen Mengchuan after seeing the casualties, and he embraced her as he concluded that humanity and the Lizardfolk had only conquest or destruction left.

Chen Mengchuan found that exhaustion among researchers was contributing to stalled weapons projects, including the Space-Cutting Weapons Research Center’s Source Point Circle displacement technology. On Rainbow Star, Toni accepted the Lizardfolk King’s formal surrender, while an exploration spacecraft 407 light-years from the Solar System was destroyed just after exiting space traversal.

• Chen Mengchuan reviewed the Space-Cutting Weapons Research Center’s records and found no progress on Source Point Circle displacement technology.
• Chen Mengchuan recognized that researchers’ fatigue and unmet needs for rest were contributing to delays across weapons projects.
• Toni and the other commanders arrived at the Lizardfolk royal palace and listened to music recounting the fate of Lizardfolk civilization.
• The Lizardfolk King knelt before Toni and offered a staff and crescent magnet, marking the kingdom’s submission.
• An exploration spacecraft ended its space traversal 407 light-years from the Solar System and was immediately torn apart by a flash of light.