Bianqi was a serving Grade B engineer at Thomas Industries.
He had arrived in the Gold Rock World Cluster forty-eight years ago.
Originally, Bianqi's overseas assignment in this Medium Star Region had been scheduled to last twelve years.
But unfortunately, when his cross-region assignment had only just reached its halfway point, the Wizard Civilization army sealed off the star region, cutting off Bianqi's path home.
In truth, even before the Wizard Civilization army arrived, the Federation had maintained a small number of escape routes.
But at the time, those permitted to evacuate first were the Federation's military-industrial scientists, high-tech specialists, elite engineering personnel, and the like.
Only after them came ordinary engineers like Bianqi, mecha and warship maintenance workers, logistics staff, and so on.
Yet there was another group whose evacuation priority was even lower than Bianqi's and the others'—the military's soldiers!
Naturally, Bianqi had failed to catch the golden window to evacuate the Gold Rock World Cluster.
There were many Federation noncombatants like him, probably several million throughout the entire Gold Rock World Cluster.
Human lives were the cheapest thing in the Galente Federation... After all, with so many Life Planets and habitable planets established, the Galente Federation's total population exceeded that of Wizard Civilization humans by tens of thousands of times.
The thought that he might die in this unfamiliar yet familiar star region made Bianqi's eyes sting whenever it crossed his mind over the past two years.
He was only a little over a hundred years old this year, still in the prime of life by the Galente Federation's average lifespan standards.
Bianqi had a child, conceived by his wife just before he left the Galente Federation to work away from home.
The fierce war with the Wizard Civilization in recent years had also created immense pressure