Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo entered the Brotherhood’s city, planned how to cripple its systems and fleet, and infiltrated the Brotherhood to investigate its secrets. He returned to Four Directions Security Company to buy weapons, where his Life Energy Stone triggered an appraisal robot’s protective measures.

• Yang Bo toured Four Directions Security Company and asked Ruth about buying Electromagnetic Bombs, but learned he needed asset verification to view their specifications.
• Yang Bo explored the Brotherhood’s city, mapped its energy systems, and planned to target the fleet, weapons systems, and Brotherhood leadership.
• Yang Bo used online information and Training Ground access to identify wealthy families’ Mecha Warehouses and locate the Brotherhood mission system’s mainframe beneath a lake.
• Yang Bo registered with the Brotherhood as an independent contractor and used its training systems to investigate the organization’s infrastructure.
• Yang Bo presented a Life Energy Stone to Roman at Four Directions Security Company, and the appraisal robot detected its strong energy and shielded it.

Yang Bo traded two Life Energy Stones for 200,000 multipurpose Electromagnetic Missiles and 100 automatic loading and launch systems, which Four Directions Security Company agreed to deliver in about half a month. He returned to the casino planning to provoke the Brotherhood through Bart’s identity, then noticed someone following him.

• Yang Bo negotiated with Wang Rui and secured an order for 200,000 Electromagnetic Missiles in exchange for his Life Energy Stones, plus 100 automatic loading and launch systems.
• Four Directions Security Company’s directors speculated about Yang Bo’s identity and the missiles’ intended use, then ordered production and delivery to begin.
• Yang Bo returned to the casino to rely on his winnings for expenses and planned to use Bart’s identity to provoke the Brotherhood into gathering.
• Yang Bo left the casino after winning more chips and realized someone was following him.

Yang Bo used Bart’s identity to declare war on the Brotherhood, then attacked Pandora Planet’s spaceport with the missiles he had bought from Four Directions Security Company. After disabling the planet’s communications and defenses, he landed on a B-Class Battleship as its crew fled.

• Yang Bo rejected Wang Rui’s attempts to entertain him and let Four Directions Security Company believe he was a cautious, wealthy client backed by powerful interests.
• Yang Bo recorded Bart warning the Brotherhood to withdraw its bounty within three days, then sent a second video declaring war when the deadline passed.
• Yang Bo inspected the two hundred thousand Electromagnetic Missiles, secretly disabled their protections, took control of the warehouse and launch systems, and arranged the missiles into a launch array.
• As Bart, Yang Bo broadcast his declaration of war and fired missiles that crippled Pandora Planet’s spaceport systems, radar, communications, and orbital Vigilance Satellites.
• Yang Bo flew his mecha to a docked B-Class Battleship while its crew escaped in pods, and one crew member offered to serve as his loyal knight.

Yang Bo seized Pandora Planet’s four B-Class Battleships during an electromagnetic missile barrage and announced that he was targeting the Brotherhood. The battleships began destroying Brotherhood assets as the planet’s authorities watched, leaving the Brotherhood’s position unclear.

• Yang Bo offered the battleship crews payment and relocation in exchange for loyalty, then took control of the Fieldlie with Carson’s help.
• Yang Bo rushed to the second B-Class Battleship, persuaded its soldiers to surrender, and destroyed its Quantum Communication Module while taking control.
• As more than thirty waves of Electromagnetic Missiles disabled Pandora Planet’s systems, the planet’s commander lost contact with all four B-Class Battleships.
• Yang Bo announced that he had seized the four battleships and declared war on the Brotherhood, warning residents not to attack his ships.
• Yang Bo ordered the battleships to destroy Brotherhood properties and assets, and the bombardment began across Pandora Planet.

Yang Bo, disguised as Bart, used four B-Class Battleships to devastate the Brotherhood on Pandora Planet while declaring war only on the organization. As the Emperor and governments weighed the consequences, Bart sent the other cities a list of his subordinates’ family members and asked that they be brought to the spaceport.

• Bart’s warships bombarded Brotherhood strongholds and publicly warned Pandora Planet’s cities not to interfere, while drones and robots hunted the organization’s leaders.
• Yang Bo gathered information from people who hated the Brotherhood and directed the warships to verified targets, gaining Grandmaster-level Combat, Mecha Piloting, Mecha Repair, Forging, and Medicine Crafting skills as people died.
• Yang Bo’s forces destroyed the Brotherhood’s training grounds, headquarters, businesses, and concealed bunkers, including one struck with Super High Temperature Incendiary Bombs.
• Jerry Butler told Yang Bo that the Emperor wanted him to stop, but Yang Bo refused to be told how to act; the Emperor then considered Bart’s power and the danger posed by his four battleships.
• The Alliance House of Representatives called an emergency meeting, while the Federation government avoided responding to Bart’s attack.
• Bart sent the other eleven cities on Pandora Planet a list of his subordinates’ family members and requested that they be taken to the spaceport.

Yang Bo’s fleet destroyed the Brotherhood’s core in a brief assault, prompting Pandora Planet’s cities and military personnel to scramble for the group’s assets and defectors. As Bart’s second-phase mission continued, Yang Bo gathered supplies, received messages from acquaintances, and launched a mech lottery livestream that immediately drew over two billion viewers.

• Yang Bo’s battleships eliminated the Brotherhood’s core members and destroyed key industries in Brotherhood City, ending the war after twenty-two minutes.
• Bart announced the fleet’s victory and demanded that Pandora Planet send his subordinates’ families to the spaceport while the other eleven cities moved to occupy Brotherhood City.
• Carson brought more Pandora Fleet personnel over to Bart, and the remaining crews abandoned their posts, stripping battleships and the spaceport of equipment, ammunition, and supplies.
• The eleven cities transported the defectors’ families to the spaceport, while Yang Bo answered messages from Allen, Ning Xue, Su Ruoxin, and Lu Bin.
• After the Alliance government announced emergency measures against assassin organizations and withdrew Bart’s other bounties, Yang Bo started a paid livestream lottery for old mechs that quickly surpassed two billion viewers.

Yang Bo, posing as Viscount Bart, gave away mechas and evacuated his people from Pandora Planet before leaving with four captured B-Class Battleships. He negotiated with the Aquamarine Empire Emperor to keep the fleet under imperial oversight, and Su Ruoxin was sent to join him.

• The Pandora Planetary Council rushed officials to fulfill Bart's demands while Bart raffled off two thousand mechas to a huge livestream audience.
• Carson confirmed Bart's family members had arrived, and Bart ordered the fleet to depart Pandora Planet; he also sent for four raffle winners who wanted to immigrate and for Ruth, Roman, and Wang Rui and their families.
• Bart's fleet left Pandora Planet and entered Silent Navigation as the planet's security forces fought over Brotherhood City and rounded up Brotherhood members.
• After reaching Kalaya Province, Yang Bo called Su Ruoxin and asked whether he could keep the four battleships outside the Empire's territory.
• Su Ruoxin persuaded the Aquamarine Empire Emperor to let Bart retain the battleships if two-thirds of the fleet's personnel were imperial and its actions received the Emperor's approval.
• Yang Bo accepted the conditions, and the Emperor sent Su Ruoxin and others to meet Bart and board the fleet.

Yang Bo prepared to exploit the Pirate Alliance’s attack on Li John and to deepen divisions among players in Prince Holden’s Domain by rewarding Luo Lan. Back on March Star, he learned Annie had won a Generation Six Mecha and saw Alliance news condemning nobles after the Brotherhood was wiped out.

• Yang Bo offered the fleet’s staff money and help relocating to either the Alliance or Empire, then left aboard the Fortune Battleship as Li John.
• The Pirate Alliance assembled a mixed fleet to attack Li John, while Yang Bo planned to use his ability to track enemy movements and defeat them.
• As Prince Holden, Yang Bo promoted Lan Bo to chief steward, rewarded him, and promised land, housing, and more benefits for outsiders.
• Yang Bo expected Lan Bo’s unequal rewards for Old Noble and New Noble players to worsen divisions in Prince Holden’s Domain.
• Annie told Yang Bo she had won a Generation Six Mecha, and Su Wei reported that an Empire noble had wiped out the Brotherhood.
• Yang Bo saw an Alliance headline asking whether nobles were butchers.

Yang Bo read Alliance reports and online speculation that portrayed Viscount Bart as a butcher and suggested the Aquamarine Empire Emperor had secretly backed his destruction of the Brotherhood. The Emperor privately grappled with the rumors and the unanswered questions about Bart’s rapid capture of the battleships, while the Empire, Alliance, and Federation began dividing up the Brotherhood’s assets.

• Yang Bo and the three women discussed misleading Alliance coverage, Annie’s prize mecha, and online claims that Bart was someone’s White Glove.
• Su Wei argued that Bart’s operation required outside intelligence and technical help, though she doubted the Emperor had been involved.
• The Aquamarine Empire Emperor worried about how Bart had gained control of the battleships and how defending him would strengthen rumors of imperial involvement.
• The Emperor chose not to explain the matter publicly while waiting for Su Ruoxin to meet Bart and clarify what had happened.
• Alliance politicians and Federation officials avoided taking a public stance, while officials across all three nations began seizing and dividing the Brotherhood’s businesses and assets.
• Yang Bo noticed that Imperial news outlets were praising Bart.

Aquamarine Empire media praised Bart after he destroyed the Brotherhood, while his enemies feared his growing reputation and plotted to undermine him over control of four B-Class Battleships. Yang Bo recognized the political trap and, back home, revealed that he could forge Sky Rend for Su Wei, Siya, and Annie.

• Empire news outlets praised Bart for defending his family and territory, while the Wu Family, Zhang Family, and other conspirators worried about their lost bounty money and exposed transfer channels.
• Bart's enemies met in a Virtual Conference Room and agreed to stir up public debate over the four battleships, recruit an A+ Level assassin, and seek a chance to eliminate Bart.
• Alliance and Empire websites argued over who should own the battleships, and Yang Bo realized that someone was manipulating the debate to test Bart's political ties and provoke a conflict.
• Su Wei wondered whether she could reach Bart's level, and Yang Bo promised to forge Sky Rend weapons that she, Siya, and Annie could control without Biochips.
• Yang Bo explained that the Brotherhood operation had raised several of his skills to Grandmaster level, then demonstrated his Sky Rend as it swam around the room.

Yang Bo challenged the Pirate Alliance as Li John and placed a massive bet on his victory while preparing the Fortune Battleship for the coming fight. He supplied Zhang Bozhen and Wang Muxue with intelligence about the pirates’ attack plans, then began testing whether his Grandmaster forging skill could improve an Interstellar Creature.

• Yang Bo demonstrated Sky Rend to Su Wei and the other two women before returning to the Fortune Battleship and posting Li John’s challenge to the Pirate Alliance.
• Yang Bo bet five billion Credit Points on Li John to win and placed a reshaped Interstellar Creature aboard the ship to help operate it.
• Yang Bo, disguised as Bart, sent Zhang Bozhen intelligence that the pirates planned to lure the Ninth Fleet and launch a surprise attack on March Star as a backup plan.
• Zhang Bozhen delivered the intelligence to Yang Bo, and Wang Muxue received it and ordered the Ninth Fleet to end leave and restrict outside contact.
• Yang Bo began reshaping an Interstellar Creature to test whether his Grandmaster forging skill would raise its quality.

Yang Bo examined his Grandmaster skill attributes and tested how his abilities affected Interstellar Creatures, the Fortune Battleship, and a Space Mecha. After returning to Viscount Bart’s fleet, he learned that a decisive battle between the Pirate Alliance and Li John was unavoidable, though Carson expected Li John to lose.

• Yang Bo reviewed his Grandmaster abilities and shaped twenty increasingly lifelike Interstellar Creatures to operate the battleship’s gun turrets.
• At the Fortune Battleship’s Captain’s position, Yang Bo sensed the ship’s movements and condition as if he were the battleship itself.
• Yang Bo piloted a Space Mecha and used the combined effects of his skills to detect its wear and identify potential optimizations.
• Yang Bo transformed into Bart and returned to Viscount Bart’s fleet, where Carson reported that the Pirate Alliance had sent a mixed fleet to fight Li John.
• Carson explained that neither the Pirate Alliance nor Li John could avoid the battle and predicted that Li John would lose because he lacked experience commanding battleships.

Yang Bo arranged for most of the immigrants to go to the Alliance, then discovered that his Swimming attribute let him guide the Fortune Battleship with gravitational forces, improving its speed and turning efficiency. He relayed the Pirate Alliance’s revised plans to Zhang Bozhen and Wang Muxue as the Ninth Fleet prepared to respond.

• Yang Bo discussed Li John’s prospects with Carson, who suspected hidden support and sabotage, while Yang Bo decided to bet on Li John winning.
• Yang Bo signed an agency contract with a large Alliance law firm to collect immigrants, while the Empire was expected to arrange transport for the others.
• Yang Bo experimented aboard the Fortune Battleship and used surrounding gravitational forces to improve its speed and reduce the distance and time needed to turn.
• Yang Bo sent the pirate fleet’s coordinates and plan to Zhang Bozhen, who forwarded the information to Yang Bo; Wang Muxue then ordered the fleet out of the spaceport.
• The Pirate Alliance noticed that the Ninth Fleet had left its route and switched to a backup plan, while Yang Bo learned of the change and passed the information to Wang Muxue.

Disguised as Viscount Bart, Yang Bo arranged Alliance immigration for most of the people aboard his four battleships and monitored the pirate fleets threatening March Star’s route. He then met Su Ruoxin’s transport and cooperated with an unidentified imperial team sent to take over the battleships.

• Yang Bo met Horn of Horn Law Firm, who arranged immigration applications and contracts for more than thirty thousand people and praised Bart’s attack on the Brotherhood.
• After the immigrants left, Yang Bo tracked the pirate mixed fleet through the Mental Seed and discovered that its attacks were part of a staged scheme to rob ships and defraud an insurance company.
• Wang Muxue received Yang Bo’s intelligence about the pirates and suspected that Zhang Bozhen was connected to the Tianze Star incident.
• Yang Bo returned to Bart’s battleship to meet Su Ruoxin’s transport and told Carson and the crew that another group would take over their ships.
• Yang Bo sent the mysterious imperial team the crew’s identities, granted temporary authorization, and accepted an invitation to board their vessel for a meeting.

Yang Bo secured four B-Class Battleships for the royal family while keeping ownership, then prepared an ambush against a pirate Joint Fleet targeting Li John. He also uncovered a separate pirate operation tied to an Alliance business scheme and sent the evidence to Zhang Bozhen shortly before Wang Muxue’s expected clash with the pirates.

• Yang Bo transferred the four B-Class Battleships to Su Wu for the royal family to operate while retaining ownership, then left aboard the Xue Er after visiting Su Ruoxin.
• Yang Bo returned to the Fortune Battleship, took the Spatial Coordinates from the four battleships, and positioned himself along the pirate Joint Fleet’s route to ambush it.
• Yang Bo identified the Joint Fleet’s ships and planned to attack its rear formation first, hoping to make the pirate crews preserve their own strength and flee.
• Yang Bo hid the Fortune Battleship behind an asteroid and waited for the Joint Fleet while monitoring Wang Muxue’s coming encounter with a stronger pirate Special Mixed Fleet.
• Yang Bo sent Zhang Bozhen evidence that the pirate attack on transport ships was part of a scheme involving a transport company and an Insurance Company, shocking Zhang Bozhen and Butler Niu.

Zhang Bozhen and Wang Muxue prepared to let a pirate attack unfold so the Ninth Fleet could strike legally, using Yang Bo’s intelligence about the planned raid on Roman Transport Company. As the three cargo ships approached March Star, their commander and crew followed the required safety procedures, unaware that the commander was helping the pirates.

• Zhang Bozhen told Butler Niu to delay notifying the Insurance Company so they would not expose Ninth Mister’s people and could preserve their connection to Ninth Mister.
• Wang Muxue reviewed Yang Bo’s intelligence and planned to wait for Roman Transport Company’s distress signals before attacking the pirates under Alliance procedures.
• Wang Muxue learned that Roman Transport Company was colluding with pirates to defraud Sunday Insurance Company and adjusted the Ninth Fleet’s course to receive the convoy’s distress call.
• Wang Muxue studied the pirate fleet’s formations and planned a flank attack on the group robbing the transport convoy.
• The Roman Transport Company commander told the three cargo ships’ crews to maintain course and monitor their signals, while secretly expecting the pirates to take the crew hostage.

Roman Company's three transport ships encountered the Pirate Alliance's ambush, and Wang Muxue's Ninth Fleet arrived to rescue them. After the pirates panicked and began to scatter, Wang Muxue ordered the Ninth Fleet to attack with its Main Cannons.

• Roman Company's transport fleet detected unknown warships, confirmed they were likely pirates, and sent a distress signal as the pirates identified themselves and threatened the ships.
• Fifty minutes later, Wang Muxue's Ninth Fleet received the distress call and activated its systems before reporting the situation to Alliance Fleet Headquarters.
• Alliance Fleet Headquarters ordered Wang Muxue to rescue the transport ships and strike the pirates, while the Roman Group president ordered the ships to follow the Ninth Fleet's route data.
• The Ninth Fleet revealed its position beside the pirate fleet, and the pirates panicked as the transport ships changed course toward rescue.
• After Wang Muxue received Council authorization to use the Main Cannons and learned the pirates were about to scatter, she ordered the Ninth Fleet into assault formation and opened fire.

The Ninth Fleet attacked the pirate fleets with calculated laser volleys while the pirates tried to seize hostages and break through to Roman Company's transports. By the end, the pirates had taken heavy losses and faced another fire net ahead, with the battle still underway.

• Charlie urged the pirate groups to seize hostages and pressure the Alliance, but the Steel Fang Pirate Crew's leader assigned the groups different tasks under his claimed authority from the Pirate Alliance Council.
• The Steel Fang Pirate Crew attacked Roman Company's transports and sent threats to the Alliance, while the transports turned slightly toward the approaching Ninth Fleet.
• Wang Muxue fired on the Magician Pirate Crew's retreating ships, destroying its flagship C-Class Battleship and forcing its crew to abandon ship.
• The Ninth Fleet laid a laser fire net across the pirates' path, hitting more ships as the pirate groups activated their Energy Shields and tried to turn under fire.
• Yang Bo relayed information to Wang Muxue, and the Ninth Fleet adjusted its cannons as the pirate fleet entered the first fire net.
• After crossing the first fire net, the pirates discovered another ahead, including lasers from Main Cannons, and faced further losses if they could not turn.

The Ninth Fleet forced the pirate fleet to abandon its attack on the Roman Group's Transport Ships and pursued the fleeing warships. After the Alliance announced the victory, reporters publicly challenged the military and Council over the Ninth Fleet's neglect, leaving Yang Bo expecting repairs and a political storm.

• The Ninth Fleet's fire nets hit more pirate warships as Wang Muxue received Yang Bo's report that the pirates had abandoned the Transport Ships and were fleeing separately.
• Wang Muxue directed the Ninth Fleet to pursue the pirates, prioritizing their remaining C-Class Battleships while the Roman Group's three Transport Ships headed safely toward March Star.
• The Alliance Military Department, Alliance Council, and Ministry of Homeland Security confirmed the Transport Ships were safe and announced the Ninth Fleet's battle results.
• Reporters questioned the military spokesperson about the Ninth Fleet's inadequate funding, damaged ships, and understaffing, then pressed the Council spokesperson over its oversight.
• Yang Bo watched the spokespeople flee the press conference and expected public pressure to bring repairs and other improvements to the Ninth Fleet.

After the Ninth Fleet defeated pirates and saved three Roman Group transport ships, public scrutiny of military budgets and corruption put the Alliance military under pressure. Military leaders launched a smear campaign against Wang Muxue and the Ninth Fleet, while Yang Bo and Zhang Bozhen pushed March Star authorities to investigate the military’s failures.

• The Alliance Council announced a review of military appropriations after the Ninth Fleet’s victory drew public attention to its tiny budget and years of suppression.
• Li Yong’s father urged military leaders to keep their records clean, while the other bigwigs planned to minimize the Ninth Fleet’s achievement and smear Wang Muxue as a butcher.
• Yang Bo recognized the online attacks as a campaign by military factions, and Su Wei, Annie, and Siya condemned the accusations against Wang Muxue.
• Zhang Bozhen told Yang Bo that March Star wanted the Ninth Fleet to transfer the pirates so local authorities could pursue people who defended them online.
• Yang Bo suggested the attacks came from military infighting, prompting Zhang Bozhen to involve March Star authorities.
• The March Star Planetary Council held an emergency meeting to seek an independent investigation into military dereliction, while civilians petitioned to remove and investigate the military budget committee.