Chapter Summaries

Li Qingsong landed his fleet on the Second Planet and rapidly built an industrial base as the Havilah Civilization launched a coordinated assault. With his forces nearing collapse, he prioritized constructing Clone Factories to rebuild his dwindling clone workforce.

• Li Qingsong used landed Energy Spaceships, Industrial Spaceships, and Supercomputer Spaceships to establish the Second Planet’s initial industrial system.
• The fleets from Planet One and Planet Three arrived, and the Havilah Civilization attacked with overwhelming force.
• Li Qingsong committed his remaining warships to defending the planet while driving industrial production at full capacity.
• Li Qingsong diverted tens of millions of clones and industrial materials to build Clone Factories, producing the first fifty million clones after six months.
• As the front line neared collapse, the newly produced clones built more Clone Factories instead of joining other production, accelerating the recovery of Li Qingsong’s forces.

Li Qingsong expanded his clone force to five billion after discovering his consciousness-link limit had risen to 3.5112 billion. With his industrial system fully staffed, he rapidly produced vast numbers of warships and weapons, reversed the space battlefield, and began his counterattack against the Havilah Civilization.

• Li Qingsong kept delaying the counteroffensive while producing clones, then measured his maximum consciousness links at 3.5112 billion.
• Li Qingsong continued production until he had five billion clones and a fully established industrial system on the ravaged planet.
• Li Qingsong sent his clones and Blueprint Humans to staff idle facilities, causing industrial output to surge across the board.
• Li Qingsong produced more than 300,000 Mercury-class Battleships and over a million Unmanned Warships in one year, while assigning clones to combat control and tactical planning.
• Li Qingsong reversed the battlefield situation after decades of resisting the Havilah Civilization and began his counterattack.

Li Qingsong overwhelmed the Havilah Civilization with an expanding fleet, forcing it to mobilize its entire population and military. As Haimolan considered retreat, a leader warned that the Iron Law of limited supplies would make escape dangerous, and Haimolan decided to activate the Calamity Plan.

• Li Qingsong deployed 800,000 warships, surpassing the Havilah Civilization’s capacity to control 600,000 at once.
• Li Qingsong sent successive fleets to planets, moons, and supply routes, expanding his forces across the Lyra G16 Star System to 2 million warships.
• The Havilah Civilization mobilized its population and increased its frontline force, raising its simultaneous warship capacity to 1.6 million.
• Li Qingsong’s fleet continued growing to 2.6 million and beyond, while Haimolan saw the Havilah forces and population becoming exhausted.
• Haimolan proposed retreating from the star system, but a civilization leader warned that limited supplies could make escape unsustainable.
• Haimolan decided to activate the Calamity Plan.

Li Qingsong continued building a Unified Force Field system to crush the Havilah Civilization before turning his attention to the Machina Calamity. When the Havilah fleet evacuated Planet One and prepared to flee from Planet Three, Li Qingsong surrounded it and blocked its advance, but the Havilah Civilization challenged his claim to represent a destroyed Human Civilization.

• Li Qingsong maintained his military advantage while constructing the single-use machines needed to unleash the Unified Force Field, estimating that the system would take another ten years to complete.
• The Havilah Civilization evacuated Planet One to Planet Three, destroyed its facilities across the system, and gathered its main fleet to depart.
• Li Qingsong recognized the Havilah fleet's escape attempt and sent roughly three million warships to surround it at Planet Three.
• The Havilah fleet advanced under the protection of roughly six hundred thousand escort ships, but Li Qingsong's forces blocked its path and attacked.
• Li Qingsong broadcast accusations at the Havilah Civilization, which replied that Human Civilization had already been destroyed and asked why it was still being pursued.

Li Qingsong realized the Havilah Civilization’s interest in capturing him was tied to the supposedly destroyed Human Civilization, and resolved to defeat and capture them for answers. As the battle devastated Planet Three, Haimolan ordered the Calamity Plan, and an elite Havilah fleet broke away before its carriers self-destructed.

• Li Qingsong inferred that the Havilah Civilization wanted to capture him because of his connection to Human Civilization, but hid his curiosity and vowed to destroy the Havilah Civilization in the Lyra G16 Star System.
• Stray rounds from the battle bombarded Planet Three, heating its atmosphere beyond 2,000 degrees and making the gas giant glow crimson.
• Haimolan watched Planet Three burn from the Honor Warship and ordered the execution of the Calamity Plan.
• An elite Havilah fleet of around twenty Aerospace Carriers and thousands of escorts broke away and pushed toward Li Qingsong’s defensive line.
• Li Qingsong’s forces halted the fleet after a costly fight, and the twenty Aerospace Carriers self-destructed.

Li Qingsong watched strange flame-like entities emerge from the Havilah fleet’s self-destruction and attack his forces, first shrugging off physical weapons and then destroying his Energy Shields. As his warships suffered widespread failures, the Havilah Fleet renewed its assault on his defensive line.

• Li Qingsong saw twenty blazing suns split into countless points of light that spread through space and targeted his technological constructs.
• Li Qingsong ordered his forces to fire Energy Cannon shells, but the shells passed through the flame-like entities without affecting them.
• The entities fired powerful lasers, destroying satellites and mines and damaging unmanned and manned warships.
• Li Qingsong realized the Havilah people had sent the entities behind his defensive line to cover their escape and believed their laser attacks could be resisted.
• The entities attached themselves to his warships’ Energy Shields, destabilizing the shields and disrupting the ships’ equipment until many lost combat capability or exploded.
• The Havilah Fleet’s main force at Planet Three launched another fierce assault against Li Qingsong’s defensive line.

Li Qingsong faced the Havilah Fleet’s all-out assault while millions of unidentified objects attacked his defenses and rear bases. He let the battered fleet escape rather than leave his bases exposed, but destroyed much of its force, including an estimated half of the Havilah Civilization’s population.

• The Havilah Fleet unleashed its full strength as millions of flame-like unidentified objects attacked technological constructs on both sides and threatened Li Qingsong’s bases.
• Li Qingsong shifted from blocking the Havilah Fleet’s escape to attacking it indiscriminately and inflicting losses on its living forces.
• Li Qingsong’s forces destroyed Havilah Residential Spaceships and an Aerospace Carrier, killing millions of Havilah people in the explosions.
• The Havilah Fleet accelerated away, and Li Qingsong stopped pursuing when it reached the limit of his Super Distance Communication.
• Li Qingsong estimated that his forces had destroyed over 400,000 Havilah warships and 100,000 Residential Spaceships, leaving the fleet badly damaged and half the civilization’s population dead.

Li Qingsong struggled to defend his fleets from the flame-like unidentified creatures, which conventional weapons could barely harm. After discovering that thermal and high-energy radiation could destroy them, he developed a lightweight Energy Artillery weapon that could track and target them.

• Li Qingsong found that most of his weapons could not damage the flame-like unidentified creatures, while nuclear explosions could destroy them with thermal and high-energy radiation.
• The creatures devastated his ships, satellites, defenses, and logistics, forcing Li Qingsong to gather his fleets around three Major Planets and rely on his limited hydrogen bombs.
• Li Qingsong concluded that he needed small, precise weapons that could deliver thermal and high-energy radiation in large numbers.
• Li Qingsong developed a lightweight Energy Artillery weapon that could lock onto and rapidly track the creatures.

Li Qingsong developed and mass-produced Strong Nuclear Excited State Energy Artillery shells, using them to destroy most of the flame-like unidentified creatures. As his forces prepared to finish the purge, the remaining creatures abruptly raced toward the star at the center of the system.

• Li Qingsong’s forces fired about 10,000 new Energy Artillery shells, and one shell detonated close enough to destroy an unidentified creature.
• Li Qingsong upgraded the production lines and expanded shell output from one million on the first day to over ten million per day.
• Li Qingsong launched a counteroffensive, and although most shells missed, successful hits eliminated their targets.
• Over one month, the number of unidentified creatures fell from more than nine million to fewer than one million.
• The remaining unidentified creatures stopped engaging Li Qingsong’s forces and rushed toward the star at the center of the system.

Li Qingsong drove most of the flame-like creatures into Lyra G16 and captured roughly one hundred thousand Havilah survivors, offering them a place in Human Civilization if they cooperated. Interrogation revealed that the creatures were an intelligent Calamity Civilization called the Electromagnetic Cataclysm.

• Li Qingsong pursued the flame-like creatures toward Lyra G16, but more than twenty thousand entered the star before he withdrew his fleet to establish a defensive line.
• Li Qingsong began salvaging Havilah wreckage and found about one hundred thousand survivors, most of them civilians.
• Li Qingsong told the Havilah survivors they could join Human Civilization if they obeyed, and they cooperated with screening and interrogation.
• Li Qingsong learned little about whether Human Civilization had perished, but resolved to search for the remaining Havilah fleet and uncover its secrets.
• A Havilah low-ranking official told Li Qingsong that the flame-like beings were an intelligent Calamity Civilization known as the Electromagnetic Cataclysm.

Li Qingsong absorbed the Havilah prisoners into the Veller Clan and learned that their civilization had failed to tame the calamity creatures. After Lyra G16’s spectrum changed in a way that could reveal an intelligent civilization, he decided to stay and prepare for the likely arrival of the Machina Calamity.

• Li Qingsong interrogated the Havilah prisoners, learned of their failed thousand-year effort to tame calamity creatures, and appointed Wa Xi Luoluo chief of the Veller People.
• Momo Lansi instructed Wa Xi Luoluo and the other Veller officials on integrating into Human Civilization, warning them never to say that humans looked alike.
• Probes reported that Lyra G16’s spectrum had changed, and Li Qingsong suspected the calamity creatures were affecting the star.
• Li Qingsong realized the biological spectral change could expose the star system to distant civilizations and attract the Machina Calamity.
• Li Qingsong decided his fleet could not escape in time and chose to remain in the star system to prepare for battle.

Li Qingsong committed to developing in the Lyra G16 Star System and fighting the Machina Calamity, while expanding his forces and training Wukong AI. After more than ten years of preparation, an unidentified high-energy laser struck one of his warships from the star, leaving him on alert.

• Li Qingsong decided to face the Machina Calamity in a fight to the death if it came to the Lyra G16 Star System.
• Li Qingsong directed his 3.5 billion consciousness links toward research, clone production, and stockpiling Unified Force Field devices, planning to build a force of 10 billion clones.
• Li Qingsong launched costly live-fire exercises to improve Wukong AI, destroying warships and consuming large quantities of combat facilities.
• More than ten years passed as Lyra G16's star activity continued to resemble a biosignature, without causing Li Qingsong further trouble.
• An unknown high-energy laser from the direction of the star struck one of Li Qingsong's warships, and he realized neither his forces nor the Electromagnetic Cataclysm creatures had fired it.

Li Qingsong discovered that Electromagnetic Cataclysm Lifeforms had learned to concentrate Lyra G16’s light and use the fixed star to attack his forces across the system. After suffering heavy losses, he ordered a fleet of hydrogen-bomb ships to advance on the star and cleanse its surface.

• Li Qingsong found that beams from Lyra G16 were striking his ships, bases, and installations throughout the system, though his surveillance had detected no approaching enemy.
• Li Qingsong’s analysis revealed that the beams were concentrated Fixed Star Light, and he identified the Electromagnetic Cataclysm Lifeforms on the star as their source.
• Li Qingsong realized the lifeforms could use the fixed star as an effectively inexhaustible weapon, while his forces struggled to predict or withstand their attacks.
• Li Qingsong ordered hydrogen bomb production increased and had specialized Heavy Transport Ships built to carry the bombs near the fixed star.
• Li Qingsong sent ten thousand hydrogen-bomb transport ships toward Lyra G16 to make the stellar surface harsher and destroy the Electromagnetic Cataclysm Lifeforms.

Li Qingsong detonated hydrogen bombs near Lyra G16 to destroy the Electromagnetic Lifeforms, but they returned and adapted to the attacks. After a second, stronger cleansing failed, he tried sending them a message in the Havilah language.

• Li Qingsong’s fleet detonated five hundred million hydrogen bombs near Lyra G16, disrupting the star and making its biological markers disappear for a time.
• Less than two years later, the Electromagnetic Lifeforms reappeared and resumed attacking Li Qingsong’s ships and facilities.
• Li Qingsong ordered thirty thousand hydrogen bomb spaceships to detonate 1.5 billion bombs near the star, tripling the previous attack’s strength.
• The Electromagnetic Lifeforms returned even faster after the second cleansing and renewed their attacks, leading Li Qingsong to consider negotiation.
• Li Qingsong used materials left by the Havilah to send a powerful message to Lyra G16 in the Havilah language.

Li Qingsong tried to negotiate with the Electromagnetic Cataclysm creatures, but they refused to stop pursuing technological civilizations, leaving him to consider retaliation. Meanwhile, the battered Havilah Fleet discovered a much larger fleet closing in on them.

• Li Qingsong offered to divide the fixed star and planets with the Electromagnetic Cataclysm creatures, but they vowed to exterminate all technological intelligent civilizations and follow him wherever he fled.
• Li Qingsong realized he could not escape the creatures by relocating and angrily threatened to respond to their refusal.
• Chief Haimolan learned that Human Civilization had launched another powerful hydrogen bomb attack on Lyra G16 and believed it was trapped in a futile struggle with the Electromagnetic Cataclysm.
• Haimolan prepared to choose a star system where the Havilah Fleet could recover, but an unidentified fleet was detected near them.
• The Havilah Fleet went into radio silence, and further observations showed the approaching fleet was at least three times larger and closing at roughly 3,000 kilometers per second.

Li Qingsong dismantled a dwarf planet, turning its material into hundreds of billions of small celestial bodies while preparing to attack the Electromagnetic Lifeforms. With only the planet’s small core remaining, he sent them a message.

• Li Qingsong diverted industrial capacity to build a fleet near a dwarf planet so he could dismantle it and throw its fragments into the star.
• He assembled a thousand Space Elevators and used Strong Nuclear Material cutting tools to slice the planet into cubes for storage in orbit.
• Li Qingsong’s ships processed the planet’s water ice into hydrogen and oxygen, supplying fuel and power to the machines dismantling it.
• Over more than twenty years, the planet shrank as its mountains and ravines were excavated, creating an Asteroid Belt of roughly 500 billion small celestial bodies.
• Li Qingsong left the small cube-shaped core untouched and sent a message to the Electromagnetic Lifeforms.

Li Qingsong threatened the Electromagnetic Cataclysms with the destruction of Lyra G16 Star, but they refused to surrender, so he destroyed them. Meanwhile, Haimolan's fleet debated fleeing an approaching enemy until a nearby signal announced, "I caught you."

• Li Qingsong threatened to crash 500 billion small stars into Lyra G16 Star unless the Electromagnetic Cataclysms surrendered.
• The Electromagnetic Cataclysms vowed to kill all technological civilizations, and Li Qingsong decided to destroy them.
• Haimolan learned that an externally triggered eruption at Lyra G16 Star had likely eliminated the electromagnetic lifeforms.
• Haimolan's leaders debated splitting their fleet to escape an unknown pursuer less than 300 billion kilometers away.
• A secretary reported that an electromagnetic signal came from less than 10 million kilometers away and said, "I caught you."

The Havilah Civilization lost a desperate battle against the Black Mountain Civilization, a vastly superior Machina Calamity Fleet. Haimolan realized the enemy had likely come for the Human Civilization and threatened collective suicide to force the Black Mountain Civilization to negotiate.

• Haimolan ordered the Havilah Fleet to abandon concealment and fight after the enemy exposed their location.
• Three months later, the Black Mountain Civilization had nearly destroyed Havilah's fleet and demanded its surrender.
• Havilah's senior leaders resolved to commit suicide rather than be captured, but Haimolan reasoned that the enemy had come to pursue the Human Civilization.
• Haimolan asked the Black Mountain Civilization to speak with him, and when it ignored his message, he threatened to destroy the fleet and kill everyone in Havilah.

Haimolan offered the Machina Calamity an alliance, arguing that Havilah’s soldiers and research could complement its industrial capacity and help it capture Human Civilization. The Machina Calamity agreed, but Haimolan then announced that Havilah had conditions for the alliance.

• Haimolan proposed collective suicide as leverage, and Havilah’s leaders and people supported negotiating with the Machina Calamity.
• Haimolan told the Machina Calamity that Human Civilization was a more valuable target and sent it Havilah’s records of their war with the humans.
• The Machina Calamity agreed that capturing all humans would be difficult and asked Haimolan how Havilah could help.
• Haimolan proposed combining Havilah’s surviving soldiers and research with the Machina Calamity’s warships and industrial capacity.
• The Machina Calamity accepted Haimolan’s alliance proposal, and Haimolan declared that Havilah had conditions.

Haimolan negotiated a surrender deal with the Machina Calamity, securing 10 billion human captives and a limited military force in exchange for helping capture Human Civilization. Meanwhile, Li Qingsong’s cubes struck the Lyra G16 star, clearing the way for him to develop technology without restraint.

• Haimolan demanded safety guarantees, enough military power to resist a betrayal, and 10 billion human captives; the Machina Calamity rejected his terms at first.
• The Machina Calamity offered 10 billion captives and a force of no more than 200,000 warships, which could delay betrayal long enough for Collective Suicide and inflict losses on its fleet.
• Haimolan accepted the deal, and the Machina Calamity moved its fleet 20 million kilometers away to escort the Havilah fleet toward a nearby Star System.
• After the communication ended, Haimolan collapsed from exhaustion, and the civilization leaders rushed to help him.
• At the Lyra G16 Star System, Li Qingsong sent 500 billion cubes crashing into the star, then said he could finally develop technology without reservations.