Chapter Summaries

After resolving the Electromagnetic Cataclysm, Li Qingsong spent decades developing the Lyra G16 Star System and achieved major advances in fusion, communication, industry, and warship performance. He then planned to build a new, strategically significant class of warship: Mars-class Battleships.

• Li Qingsong devoted his 3.5 billion consciousness-linked clones to research and expanded industry, transportation, and live-fire combat drills throughout the Lyra G16 Star System.
• After more than a decade of research, Li Qingsong developed Protium plus Deuterium-Helium-3 Combined Fusion, raising mass-energy conversion efficiency from about 0.7% to about 1%.
• Li Qingsong improved Super Distance Communication, extending its maximum relay range to 19.2 billion kilometers and increasing the volume of space where he could control battles in real time by sevenfold.
• Over the following decades, Li Qingsong achieved nearly one hundred million technological breakthroughs, increased Industrial Capacity by about 30%, and improved the combat capability of same-class warships by about 20%.
• Li Qingsong planned to develop a new generation of larger, more powerful Mars-class Battleships.

Li Qingsong completed the design and construction of the Mars-class Battleship, a massive new warship intended to break battlefield deadlocks and turn the tide of battles. The finished vessel carried powerful weapons and advanced defenses, ready to serve as the military’s new “Great General.”

• Li Qingsong recognized that his forces lacked a warship powerful enough to decide battles, and chose to develop the Mars-class Battleship for that role.
• Li Qingsong discarded more than a thousand designs and spent years refining the battleship’s layout before completing its blueprints.
• Li Qingsong assigned over one hundred million clones and resources from hundreds of thousands of factories and research institutions to overcome the ship’s manufacturing challenges.
• Li Qingsong’s team completed a gigantic space dock, laid the first keel, and built the Mars-class Battleship over more than two years.
• Li Qingsong inspected the completed 300,000-ton battleship, equipped with four enormous Energy Cannons, extensive additional weapons, and a powerful multilayer Energy Shield.

Li Qingsong tested the newly built Mars-class Battleship in a simulated battle, where its firepower broke a stalemate and routed the opposing fleet. He then decided to build another Mars-class Battleship before devoting two billion consciousness connections to upgrading the Unified Force Field in preparation for the Machina Calamity.

• The Mars-class Battleship left its space dock and joined the stalemated battle between fleets controlled by Li Qingsong and Wukong AI.
• The Mars-class Battleship destroyed a Mercury-class Battleship with an Energy Giant Cannon and used its weapons and scanning radar to overwhelm the opposing side.
• Li Qingsong decided to build a second Mars-class Battleship so both sides could practice fighting with evenly matched ships.
• Li Qingsong judged that upgrading the Unified Force Field was more important than building more Mars-class Battleships.
• Li Qingsong assigned two billion consciousness connections to reconstructing and optimizing the Unified Force Field for the coming Machina Calamity.

Haimolan and Akainu agreed to develop a new Energy Shield to counter Human Civilization, while Li Qingsong completed the design and research for the Second-Generation Unified Force Field System. The chapter ended as Li Qingsong’s two billion clones began manufacturing it.

• Haimolan saw the Black Mountain Civilization’s vast industrial system and considered how his civilization might use it to defeat humanity and eventually seize Akainu’s source code.
• Haimolan told Akainu that the Havilah Civilization was ready to develop a new Energy Shield using the technology Akainu had provided, and Akainu gave them thirty years before their combined fleet set sail.
• In the Lyra G16 Star System, Li Qingsong completed the Second-Generation Unified Force Field System’s overall design and its materials and equipment research after more than ten years of work by two billion clones.
• Li Qingsong’s clones left their research work and entered the factories to begin manufacturing the new system.

Li Qingsong completed and tested the second-generation Unified Force Field Assembly, which outperformed the first generation, then resumed broad military production while the Machina Calamity Fleet had yet to arrive. In another star system, Haimolan reported to Akainu-sama that the Variable Energy Shield had been developed and passed internal testing.

• Li Qingsong spent ten years producing one billion Unified Force Field Assembly components with dedicated clones.
• Li Qingsong tested the assembly at 1% output, and the force field converted matter from retired warships and wreckage into a violent explosion.
• Li Qingsong's analysis showed the second-generation assembly's full-power force field would be 30% stronger than the first generation across several performance measures.
• Li Qingsong resumed production across warships, unmanned combat systems, weapons, factories, and supplies, intending to keep building until the Machina Calamity Fleet arrived.
• Haimolan told Akainu-sama that the Variable Energy Shield had been developed and had passed internal acceptance testing.

Haimolan presented the Havilah Civilization’s new Variable Energy Shield, which survived a test shot from Akainu AI’s main cannon and could counter Human Civilization’s Force Field Weapon. With Black Mountain support, the Havilah Civilization began preparing for war on an unprecedented scale.

• Haimolan explained that the Variable Energy Shield could overload to more than three times its normal strength for ten seconds, potentially outlasting Human Civilization’s Force Field Weapon.
• Akainu AI ordered a combat test, and a Havilah warship’s shield turned brilliant blue and withstood a 25-gram Heavy Excited-State Projectile without damage.
• Akainu AI praised the shield, and Haimolan’s leaders celebrated the success of their century-long research effort, which had involved 200 million researchers.
• Haimolan recommended using the shield’s single overload activation only when needed and concealing the technology until Human Civilization deployed its Force Field Weapon; Akainu agreed to consider the plan and called for genuine war preparations.
• The Havilah Civilization began a massive shipbuilding and military expansion, aiming to train 1.2 billion warriors with support from its alliance with the Black Mountain Civilization.

Haimolan’s forces built an artificial planet to overcome their initial supply shortages and set out for the Lyra G16 Star System to destroy Human Civilization. Li Qingsong reached his peak combat strength while preparing for war, then discovered that Havilah Civilization and the Machina Calamity had joined forces and were bringing a Flying Star toward his system.

• Haimolan learned that Black Mountain Civilization’s industrial support would let his side control 3.2 million warships, though only temporarily unless they subdued Black Mountain Civilization.
• Akainu AI built an artificial planet from resources and supplies, and Haimolan ordered it and the fleet to depart for the Lyra G16 Star System.
• Li Qingsong expanded his forces to more than 4 million manned warships and used all 3.5 billion of his consciousness connections to reach his peak combat strength.
• Li Qingsong continued stockpiling ships and supplies before detecting exhaust plumes from the Machina Calamity Fleet, the Havilah Civilization fleet, and a Flying Star.
• Li Qingsong realized that Havilah Civilization and the Machina Calamity had allied and were bringing a Flying Star into the Lyra G16 Star System.

Li Qingsong prepared Lyra G16 Star System for a final stand against the Havilah-Machina Calamity Alliance, whose combined intelligence and industrial capacity made it a formidable enemy. After years of probing battles and battlefield data collection, the Alliance began gathering its forces and resuming large-scale production, signaling that the real war was about to begin.

• Li Qingsong decided he could not flee and spent the years before the enemy arrived expanding his factories, weapons, warships, and clone reserves.
• The Havilah-Machina Calamity Alliance Fleet entered the star system and anchored near a dwarf planet while Li Qingsong watched without launching a premature attack.
• Li Qingsong harassed Alliance supply fleets within 19 billion kilometers as both sides began probing attacks across the star system.
• Haimolan and Li Qingsong assessed the Alliance's technological, industrial, and tactical advantages during battles involving more than 400,000 warships.
• After several years of probing, the Alliance began regrouping its scattered fleets and resuming large-scale production, and Li Qingsong realized the real war was near.

Li Qingsong concentrated his fleets at Planet Three as the Machina Calamity Alliance chose it for the main engagement. Their forces began a massive interstellar battle, and Li Qingsong watched as both sides rapidly expended enormous quantities of warships and combat equipment.

• Li Qingsong estimated that his fleet and the Machina Calamity Alliance each commanded around four million warships.
• The Machina Calamity Alliance sent its main fleet toward Planet Three, and Li Qingsong redeployed most of his forces there.
• Li Qingsong amassed 4.2 million warships at Planet Three while both sides continued producing reserves.
• Li Qingsong and the Machina Calamity Alliance began a vast battle using cannons, lasers, missiles, mines, and unmanned combat facilities.
• Within an hour, millions of tons of technological installations had been destroyed, and Li Qingsong watched the fighting from Planet Three as production continued to feed the battlefield.

Li Qingsong poured the production capacity of his controlled planets into the war as Planet Three’s forces were suppressed on both the manned and unmanned battlefields. He relied on his hundred Mars-class Battleships and held back the Unified Force Field, betting that the Machina Calamity Alliance would run out of supplies first; several years passed as the defensive line continued to endure.

• Li Qingsong cut food and rest-base costs across his planets and drove their industries to maximum output to supply the war.
• The Machina Calamity Alliance’s superior technology and Akainu AI suppressed Li Qingsong’s forces on both battlefields, threatening Planet Three’s defensive line.
• Li Qingsong used his hundred Mars-class Battleships as a firefighting force while Mercury-class Battleships and Wukong AI held off larger enemy warships.
• Li Qingsong chose to hold the line and wait for the enemy’s resources to run out, refusing to use the Unified Force Field while the battlefield remained too chaotic.
• Several years passed as Li Qingsong’s forces continued to endure the Alliance’s escalating offensives.

After the Machina Calamity Alliance withdrew from the battle, Li Qingsong celebrated holding Planet Three and focused on rebuilding his fleet. At a strategy meeting, Haimolan proposed moving the next battle to Planet One to exploit the Orthodox Intelligent Civilization’s technological advantage.

• The Machina Calamity Alliance withdrew toward the Flying Star after months of fighting, and Li Qingsong confirmed that the enemy had left the battlefield.
• Li Qingsong saw that the Flying Star had lost more than eighty percent of its mass while the three Major Planets remained largely intact, and he chose to keep producing warships rather than attack.
• The battle had reduced both fleets to roughly two million ships each and left Planet Three glowing red-yellow at an atmospheric temperature of at least 3,000 Celsius.
• Haimolan and the Havilah officials attended a strategy meeting chaired virtually by Akainu, who called for major adjustments to their plans.
• Haimolan proposed Planet One as the next battlefield, arguing that its conditions would let the enemy’s technological advantage come into play.

Haimolan proposed that the Machina Calamity Alliance worsen Lyra G16 Star’s environment to weaken Li Qingsong’s industry on Planet One, while their superior technology would let them endure the effects better. Li Qingsong prepared to intercept their Hydrogen Bomb Spaceships and, if necessary, throw a massive asteroid into the star as retaliation.

• Haimolan presented Akainu with the plan to attack Lyra G16 Star, and Akainu approved it.
• The Machina Calamity Alliance Fleet moved deeper into the system, while Li Qingsong ordered Wukong AI to harass it with unmanned combat forces.
• After more than a year, the Alliance sent thousands of Transport Ships toward the star to build Hydrogen Bomb Spaceships.
• Li Qingsong sent over a hundred thousand warships to intercept the Alliance and dispatched an industrial fleet to dismantle an asteroid as a contingency.
• Li Qingsong prepared to hurl the asteroid into Lyra G16 Star if the Alliance managed to damage it, bringing both sides close to another major battle.

Li Qingsong failed to stop the Machina Calamity Alliance from bombarding the star, weakening his forces on Planet One and forcing him to defend both the planet and an asteroid. His asteroid operation collapsed after all fifteen Mars-class Battleships there were destroyed and the enemy broke through, leaving the fate of the Planet One battle unresolved.

• Li Qingsong lost tens of thousands of warships trying to intercept the Machina Calamity Alliance, which sent hydrogen bomb spaceships into the star and sharply increased its radiation.
• Li Qingsong mobilized two million warships, dividing them between Planet One and the asteroid while the Machina Calamity Alliance split its fleet to attack both fronts.
• Li Qingsong committed his Mars-class Battleships to hold the defensive lines while his forces cut the asteroid into cubes and fitted them with thrusters.
• The Machina Calamity Alliance destroyed all fifteen Mars-class Battleships on the asteroid front, broke through the defense, and attacked the cubes and their facilities.
• Li Qingsong ordered the remaining industrial facilities on the asteroid destroyed by his own forces.

Li Qingsong committed every available force to defending Planet One as Havilah Civilization gained the upper hand in the battle. After Human Civilization’s warships fled, Haimolan declared Planet One theirs.

• After losing Asteroid Battlefield, Li Qingsong concentrated his remaining forces on Planet One and fought with everything he had.
• Havilah Civilization’s leaders monitored the battle as their fleets exploited the star’s interference and destroyed enemy defenses.
• Havilah forces destroyed 109 space turrets, giving the 771st Fleet room to maneuver, while a damaged enemy sub-core-class warship withdrew.
• Havilah’s advantage grew as the battle shifted in its favor, and its leaders anticipated victory.
• A high-yield hydrogen bomb erupted on Planet One as Human Civilization’s remaining warships fled, prompting cheers in the First Conference Room.
• Haimolan declared Planet One theirs and said Havilah Civilization had broken free of resource constraints.

After the Machina Calamity Alliance captured Planet One, Li Qingsong watched it become the enemy’s industrial and military core while he harassed its construction. More than twenty years later, the Alliance launched a massive counterattack toward Second Planet, and Li Qingsong believed the moment he had been waiting for had arrived.

• Haimolan celebrated Planet One’s fall with the Havilah officials but privately wondered why the humans had not used their force-field-based weapon of mass destruction.
• Li Qingsong saw that Planet One’s industries and more than a billion clones had been destroyed, and recognized that losing the planet had left him with no clear path to victory or escape.
• Li Qingsong repaired and replenished his forces on Second Planet and Planet Three while sending harassment fleets to disrupt the Alliance’s rapid construction on Planet One.
• The Machina Calamity Alliance reorganized its fleet around Planet One, moved populations and industries onto the planet, and established it as the fleet’s core.
• More than twenty years later, the Alliance completed Planet One’s industrial system and sent five hundred thousand of its roughly seven hundred thousand warships toward Second Planet.
• Li Qingsong remained calm as the Alliance counterattacked, convinced that the situation he had awaited had finally arrived.

Li Qingsong activated the Electric Calamity, causing the Lyra G16 Star to dim across most of the system while intensifying its light on Planet One. The Havilah-Machina Calamity Alliance’s planet-wide industrial base began melting and erupting, as the disaster spread into nearby space.

• The Havilah-Machina Calamity Alliance launched 500,000 warships against Second Planet, confident that its technological advantage would bring victory.
• Li Qingsong, watching the battle from Second Planet, called on the Electric Calamity to act.
• Li Qingsong’s signal reached the Lyra G16 Star, which dimmed from most locations in the system but grew brighter as seen from Planet One.
• The increased starlight overwhelmed Planet One’s Energy Shields, carbonized Havilah People, and melted equipment, structures, factories, and the planet’s surface.
• Planet One’s surface turned to magma and plasma, while earthquakes and volcanic eruptions tore across the planet and debris began dispersing into space.

Fixed Star Light was concentrated on Planet One, devastating the planet and the fleets gathered there. As the Havilah forces fled, Haimolan realized Humanity had made the planet a trap and used the Electromagnetic Cataclysm to attack; Li Qingsong revealed why Humanity had been able to tame it.

• Fixed Star Light scorched Planet One and instantly destroyed small facilities, then overwhelmed larger ships and bases with extreme radiation.
• Akainu analyzed the emergency and ordered the Black Mountain fleet to flee, using some ships to shield its residential vessels.
• Haimolan ordered the Havilah fleet to retreat in chaos and realized Humanity had baited them into concentrating their forces and resources on Planet One.
• Haimolan deduced that Humanity had secretly allied with the Electromagnetic Cataclysm and trained it to focus the star's light into a planet-wide attack.
• On Second Planet, Li Qingsong watched the enemy flee and said he could tame the Electromagnetic Cataclysm because he was the Clone Calamity, not an Orthodox Intelligent Civilization.

Li Qingsong persuaded the Electromagnetic Lifeforms to surrender by promising to help them destroy the Purple Moon Civilization, while ensuring he could control them. He secretly developed their abilities into a powerful weapon, the Fixed Star Cannon, for use against future enemies.

• Li Qingsong learned that the Electromagnetic Lifeforms wanted to destroy technological civilizations, then convinced one to inspect him and accept that he was a different kind of existence.
• The Electromagnetic Lifeform agreed to surrender if Li Qingsong would eventually help destroy the Purple Moon Civilization and rescue its ancestors.
• Li Qingsong agreed to help, but required the Electromagnetic Lifeforms to obey him and undergo modifications that would let him eliminate them if necessary.
• Li Qingsong moved the Electromagnetic Lifeforms away from the star before crashing cubes into it, then housed them in modified Aerospace Carriers and named their race the Electric Calamity.
• Li Qingsong implanted inherited ionization structures that made the Electric Calamity vulnerable to specific electromagnetic pulses and enhanced their ability to condense and fire starlight.
• By the arrival of the Machina Calamity-Havilah Civilization joint fleet, Li Qingsong had developed their combined starlight attack into the Fixed Star Cannon.

Li Qingsong activated the Fixed Star Cannon, destroying much of Planet One’s industrial system and killing more than a hundred billion people. As Alliance warships tried to retreat from Second Planet, he began deploying the Unified Force Field to stop them, while Haimolan warned the fleet to prepare its Variable Energy Shield.

• The Electromagnetic Lifeforms concentrated starlight onto Planet One for several minutes, sacrificing at least a third of their number as the Fixed Star Cannon devastated the planet and nearby Alliance forces.
• Haimolan received Akainu’s report of the destruction and casualties, then ordered the Alliance fleet to retreat from Second Planet and defend Planet One while rebuilding its industry.
• Hundreds of thousands of Alliance warships began assembling to withdraw, and Li Qingsong realized that their return could prevent him from reversing the war.
• Li Qingsong sent dozens of Aerospace Carriers toward the battlefield and ordered robots to deploy components for the Unified Force Field.
• Akainu appeared grave aboard the Honor Spaceship as Haimolan warned that a Weapon of Mass Destruction was coming and ordered the fleet to prepare its Variable Energy Shield.

Li Qingsong activated humanity’s Force Field Weapon, sacrificing 3.5 billion clones and 1.6 billion components to unleash X and Y Bosons against the Havilah-Machina Calamity Alliance. Its Variable Energy Shields initially resisted the attack, but then failed as the enemy warships began exploding.

• Haimolan and the leaders aboard the Honor Spaceship hoped their Variable Energy Shields would block humanity’s Force Field Weapon and allow the fleet to return and defend.
• Li Qingsong gathered 3.5 billion clones in Biological Supercomputer Bases and linked them to battlefield data to complete the weapon’s calculations.
• Li Qingsong overloaded and destroyed 1.6 billion components, sending X and Y Bosons toward the battlefield while the clones died from the strain.
• The Havilah-Machina Calamity Alliance’s shields turned bright blue and initially blocked the weapon’s effects.
• The shields went dark, and explosions triggered by the Strong Nuclear Force began tearing through the enemy warships.