Recaps

Chen Mengchuan’s team discovered life beneath Europa, launched humanoid robots and began building a Martian city while advancing faster-than-light travel. The arc ended with Chen urging national delegates to unite as the Earth Federation and prepare for possible alien civilizations.

• Chen Mengchuan expanded weapons research while Multi-Arm Crabs built a gravity weapons platform on Mars that could threaten Tiansuo.
• Chen Mengchuan, Toni, Zhang Dongyu and the exploration team discovered a vast ocean beneath Europa’s ice, documented hundreds of species and encountered a creature nearly a kilometer long.
• Jiang Yingrong resigned to study Europa’s life, while the discoveries drew worldwide attention through Tenzhi Technology’s Europa World website.
• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu launched Tenzhi Technology’s humanoid robot program, overcame public fears about lost jobs, and delivered millions of robots to households and care organizations.
• Chen Mengchuan approved Chen Xiaoyun’s plan for a Martian city, and the team excavated and built Qiming City before Zhao Wanyu selected settlers from nearly two billion applications.
• Su Ruifeng and Chen Mengchuan’s teams improved Space-time Traversal, enabling a shuttle to travel 1.296 million kilometers instantly and later testing a probe at 228 times the speed of light.
• Chen Mengchuan and Zhao Wanyu gathered national representatives in Qiming City to promote the Earth Federation.
• Chen Mengchuan warned the delegates that unknown alien civilizations could threaten humanity, showed them Europa’s life and declared that Tenzhi Technology had already begun preparing as frightening images appeared on the gravity screens.

Chen Mengchuan declared war on the nations that rejected the Earth Federation, and the Federation took shape after the Island Nation was devastated. Humanity then explored Rainbow Star, where its clashes with the Lizardfolk led to conquest while an expedition far from home was destroyed by an unknown force.

• Chen Mengchuan declared war on the nations that opposed the Earth Federation, and Tenzhi Technology defeated the Island Nation after its forces attacked the hovering spacecraft.
• After neutral nations joined the Federation, Achen oversaw sweeping reforms that consolidated government systems, redistributed resources, and reshaped human society.
• Toni reported four planets in the Barnard's Star system, and Chen Mengchuan sent 120 spacecraft to explore Rainbow Star, where they discovered intelligent civilizations.
• Chen Mengchuan approved Toni's expedition to Rainbow Star, and more than one million people traveled there aboard eight thousand spacecraft.
• The explorers encountered numerous local civilizations and traded with Orc tribes, while Chen Mengchuan's researchers found deposits of Metal Yu and investigated its unusual properties.
• Lizardfolk forces destroyed a human base and killed spacecraft crews, so Chen Mengchuan ordered a retaliatory bombardment and the conquest of their kingdom.
• The Lizardfolk King surrendered to Toni, while Chen Mengchuan recognized that human forces were vulnerable in close combat and researchers began studying a mineral that disrupted gravity.
• A spacecraft completing a traversal 407 light-years from the Solar System was torn apart by a flash of light.

After the Musca Civilization destroyed humanity’s defenses and encircled the Solar System, Chen Mengchuan led humanity’s scattered survivors toward a massive counterattack. The human fleets struck the enemy with nuclear missiles, but suffered heavy losses as the battle continued.

• Chen Mengchuan learned that an unknown civilization had destroyed a human exploration ship near HD112410 and ordered humanity’s evacuation from the Solar System.
• The Earth Federation evacuated millions to Rainbow Star and other star systems, while Chen Mengchuan’s group settled on Cuihai Star and began rebuilding.
• Chen Mengchuan received footage showing the Musca Civilization had attacked and occupied the Solar System, then gathered surviving human fleets for a return campaign.
• Achen detected more than 23 billion Musca spacecraft surrounding the Sun and a complete Dyson Sphere, leading Chen Mengchuan to warn humanity that Earth might be lost.
• Representatives from humanity’s core regions debated whether to retreat or fight, then appointed Guo Deyu to command a ten-million-ship counterattack.
• Guo Deyu launched Operation Apple Peel, sending forty-eight human fleets through space-time traversal to strike the Musca fleet with nuclear missiles.
• The Musca Civilization counterattacked, forcing human fleets to scatter and sacrifice rear guards while Chen Mengchuan ordered Achen to analyze enemy weapons.
• Guo Deyu regrouped surviving ships into dispersed formations and launched another surprise nuclear attack, declaring that humanity had won as the strike hit the enemy.