Chapter Summaries

Han Yang integrated Fuxing Dismantling’s makeshift crew and used his dummies and computational power to guide a comprehensive repair plan for the spacecraft. After eight months of work, the ship was restored, but the atmosphere remained tense as the repairs ended.

• Han Yang organized the repair teams and placed dummies, including three on the Evaluation Committee, to identify flaws in the proposed plans.
• The Evaluation Committee gradually trusted the dummies as they uncovered deeply hidden problems, while Han Yang expanded Zhi Xue Web and hired lecturers to build his knowledge.
• After two months, the repair plan passed review, and the teams began sourcing, dismantling, and modifying parts.
• Han Yang integrated thousands of engineers, support staff, and robots as they repaired the spacecraft over eight months.
• Fuxing Dismantling completed the spacecraft repairs, but the building remained solemn and tense.

After eight months, Han Yang’s repair team completed the restoration of the heavy cargo spacecraft, and he rallied the uncertain workers by persuading them to take pride in their achievement. The team began testing the vessel, and its fusion reactor ignited, lighting up the spacecraft.

• Han Yang’s nearly ten-thousand-strong repair team finished piecing the heavy cargo spacecraft back together after eight months of work.
• Han Yang praised the team’s dedication and abilities until its members gained confidence and cheered for Fuxing.
• The team moved to testing and began the spacecraft’s fusion reactor ignition test.
• The reactor generated electricity that powered the spacecraft, causing the previously dark vessel to blaze with light.

Han Yang completed Revival One’s systems testing and sent the refurbished spaceship on lunar and Mars sea trials despite public doubts and the financial risks. The Mars voyage went smoothly, and the ship received its airworthiness certificate.

• Han Yang oversaw the month-long testing of Revival One’s energy, propulsion, and other systems as the team found and fixed thousands of minor faults.
• Han Yang named the ship Revival One at a celebration, while Liu Fujun’s media outlet aired Dr. Li Hongsheng’s claim that the ship was an unsafe farce.
• Han Yang launched Revival One toward the Moon, with the crew, engineers, and robots monitoring the ship as it completed its lunar sea trial.
• Han Yang sent Revival One on a round trip to Mars with qualification reviewers aboard, and the reviewers issued its airworthiness certificate after the voyage went smoothly.

After Revival One obtained its airworthiness certificate, Liu Fujun blamed the success for Yaoxing Media’s falling ratings and subscriptions, then arranged to help other companies poach Fuxing Dismantling’s key staff. He also ordered media programs to question Revival One’s safety and long-haul transport prospects.

• Major media outlets reported that Revival One had passed its airworthiness review, and Yaoxing Media’s credibility and business declined after its earlier attacks on Revival Group.
• Liu Fujun ordered Cai Kun to coordinate with companies seeking to poach Fuxing Dismantling employees, offering to cover part of their recruitment costs.
• Liu Fujun told the person in charge of media programs to record more episodes criticizing Revival One.
• A program’s invited spacecraft expert questioned whether the inexperienced Fuxing team could safely operate the refurbished ship on long-haul voyages.
• Yaoxing Media reported claims that Revival One’s performance was reduced, it had major safety hazards, and an insurance company had refused to cover it.

Han Yang committed Revival Group to shipping its own goods to Pluto aboard Revival One after outside customers and insurers shunned the company. As the heavily loaded spaceship prepared to depart, hundreds of core employees resigned together, threatening the mission at its most critical moment.

• Xu Zhou told Han Yang that Xingyao Media's coverage had fueled distrust, leaving Revival One without insurance or cargo customers.
• Han Yang said he had changed the Nether Development Department's delivery terms so Revival Group would transport its goods to Pluto and bear the risks.
• Xu Zhou calculated that a failed voyage could cause losses of around ten billion and threaten the entire Revival Group.
• Revival Group loaded Revival One with cargo worth 3.7 billion, bringing the ship's mass to more than 200,000 tons as departure preparations continued.
• Xu Zhou told Han Yang that Engineer Zhao, Engineer Li, Engineer Wang, and more than thirty other core employees had resigned, taking hundreds of workers with them.

Han Yang faced a mass resignation engineered by Xingyao Media and the threat of Dajiang Bank calling in Revival Group’s loan, but he kept operations moving with a supposed backup team. After Revival One finished loading, it departed for Pluto amid a wave of negative publicity.

• Zhang Dazhu reported that Xingyao Media had helped Xinghai Group, Taiyang Group, North Star Group, and three other companies poach several hundred Fuxing Dismantling employees.
• Han Yang let the employees leave and claimed outsourced teams could take over seamlessly.
• General Sun told Xu Dong that Dajiang Bank would demand early repayment from Revival Group, and Xu Dong warned Han Yang he could only delay the decision for a few days.
• Han Yang told Wang Qing to threaten General Sun and asked He Jinrong to use his connections and offer gifts to pressure him.
• Revival One finished loading more than a hundred thousand tons of cargo and departed for Pluto as Xingyao Media publicized the resignations and loan threat.

The Revival One Spaceship completed its three-and-a-half-month journey to Pluto, carrying vital supplies for the Pluto bases. After the ship docked safely, the Nether Development Department paid the Revival Group, and the cargo began its journey down the Pluto Seven Space Elevator.

• The Revival One Spaceship accelerated away from Earth as Captain and the ground crew worried about the refurbished ship’s reliability, while Han Yang monitored its millions of system readings and handled minor faults.
• The spaceship passed Mars, the Asteroid Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, then reversed its thrust to decelerate toward Pluto.
• The Revival One Spaceship docked safely at Pluto Port, prompting Han Yang and the relieved employees to celebrate.
• You Jun transferred the supplies’ 4.7 billion CIF payment to the Revival Group, easing its cash-flow problems.
• Mechanical devices loaded the cargo onto shuttle cars at the Pluto Seven Space Elevator port, and Han Yang watched the unloading through the spaceship’s telescope.

Han Yang watched Pluto’s rapid development and planned to use a high-speed transport ship to reach the distant Makemake. After Revival One completed its first delivery and departed Pluto, Han Yang routed it through Neptune to buy cargo, leaving it on its return journey toward Mercury rather than Earth.

• Han Yang surveyed Pluto’s expanding bases and construction, then considered Makemake a safe destination for his plans and Human Civilization’s hope.
• After eight days of unloading and resupplying Revival One, Han Yang bought about 2,000 tons of Pluto’s local goods for its return voyage.
• Liu Fujun grew furious when news outlets praised Revival One’s successful arrival at Pluto, while Xingyao Media spread rumors that the ship had been damaged and scrapped.
• Revival One left Pluto and detoured to Neptune, where Han Yang spent 4.5 billion Human Currency on about 140,000 tons of goods.
• Revival One began its journey into the Inner Solar System and reached Mercury, carrying the Neptune cargo for sale.

Han Yang welcomed Revival One back after its maiden voyage and secured the Interstellar Transportation Committee’s approval for long-range operations. At a press conference, he revealed the ship’s repair costs and profits, showing that its investment could be repaid in about five years.

• Han Yang sold Revival One’s cargo in bulk, completed deliveries, and sent the ship back to Earth carrying more than a hundred thousand tons of supplies.
• Revival One returned to the Dajiang Space Elevator after a voyage of more than 15 billion kilometers, and buyers began collecting their goods as inspectors boarded the ship.
• Han Yang welcomed the inspectors and reporters at the spaceport while his team continued repairing three additional cargo ships, Fuxing-2 to 4.
• After three days, the Interstellar Transportation Committee declared Revival One suitable for long-range interstellar transport operations.
• Han Yang told reporters Revival One had cost 3.61 billion Human Currency to acquire and repair, and its maiden voyage earned an estimated net profit of at least 600 million.
• Han Yang’s figures suggested Revival One could repay its investment in about five years, roughly half the industry’s typical period.

The Revival One completed its maiden voyage successfully, doubling the value of the Revival Group’s investments and leaving rival firms stunned. As North Star and Taiyang’s failed projects led executives to blame Xingyao Media and the Revival Group, Liu Fujun faced lawsuits from nine major groups and a separate suit from the Revival Group.

• Han Yang praised the Fuxing Dismantling and Fuxing Transport engineering teams for completing the Revival One in less than half the time expected.
• Wang Sichen watched the successful maiden voyage and wondered why his work at North Star kept failing, while Zhao Ming told him his own project at Taiyang had failed too.
• North Star executives blamed Liu Fujun and the Revival Group for poaching Wang Sichen’s team and ordered a joint lawsuit against them and Xingyao Media.
• Liu Fujun learned that the nine major groups were suing him for commercial fraud and that the Revival Group was suing Xingyao Media for spreading rumors and slandering it.

Han Yang turned the engineers’ lawsuit and media campaign against Xingyao Media into a decisive defeat for Liu Fujun, then strengthened Revival Group’s finances and expanded its spaceship dismantling and repair operations. Five years later, with a fleet assembled, Han Yang prepared to begin the next phase of his plan.

• Liu Fujun learned that hundreds of former Fuxing Company engineers were suing him and selling interviews about their claims, then fainted as Xingyao Media faced mounting public pressure.
• Han Yang used the scandal to warn Revival’s staff about the value of its team structure and praised Governor Malendin’s ideas to reporters and visiting executives.
• Han Yang coordinated with Wang Qing, He Jinrong, Xu Dong, and You Jun to get the Dajiang Bank deputy manager fired and Xu Dong appointed in his place.
• Revival Group’s businesses expanded, while Han Yang acquired a dismantling company, three repair bases, and twenty-six scrapped spaceships to grow its fleet.
• Five years later, Han Yang looked at the spaceships assembled in space and decided it was time to move on to the next phase of his plan.

Six years into the Pluto Development Strategy, worsening conditions for ordinary people contrasted with the growth of Han Yang’s businesses and Rejuvenation City. Believing he had gained enough knowledge to build a base on Makemake, Han Yang asked Lü Wei to acquire long-distance communications center equipment at any cost.

• The Pluto Development Strategy drew more than sixty million people and vast resources to Pluto, worsening shortages, unemployment, and disorder for ordinary people.
• Han Yang saw economic hardship drive more people to Revival Mall and recognized that he could not address the crisis without challenging the Ita.
• Han Yang advanced his chip technology to a 5-micrometer process, expanded Fuxing Dismantling and other businesses, and helped grow Fuxing Industrial Park into a prosperous hub known as Rejuvenation City.
• Cheng Hong, He Jinrong, and Wang Qing rose to powerful government posts, while Zhi Xue Web expanded across Human Civilization.
• Han Yang judged that his knowledge and research ability could support a base on Makemake and secretly asked Lü Wei to obtain long-distance communications center equipment, offering up to ten billion in funding.

Han Yang secured Ita long-distance communication equipment and secretly sent the cargo ship Rejuvenation 16 toward Makemake, where it was renamed Hope Spaceship. After five months of acceleration and thirteen months of inertial flight, the ship began its five-month deceleration phase toward its destination.

• Lü Wei bought decommissioned Ita long-distance communication central equipment for the Blue Army Organization and arranged its covert handover.
• Han Yang received the equipment and loaded it, along with a reactor, robots, and supplies, onto Rejuvenation 16.
• Han Yang used a staged breakdown and rescue operation to replace Rejuvenation 16 with a decoy ship while the real ship slipped past Pluto toward Makemake.
• Han Yang renamed the real ship Hope Spaceship and remotely controlled it through robots using the long-distance communication link.
• Hope Spaceship accelerated for five months to roughly 5,200 kilometers per second, then spent thirteen months in inertial flight before beginning to decelerate.

Han Yang brought the Hope Spaceship into orbit around Makemake and surveyed the dwarf planet for resources and a concealed base site. He chose a deep canyon and used robots to build a small base, leaving the first stage of his settlement complete.

• Han Yang decelerated the Hope Spaceship and guided it into orbit around Makemake.
• Han Yang released resource exploration satellites and a landing craft to survey the planet.
• Han Yang selected a mineral-rich canyon as a concealed site for his first base.
• Robots prepared a level patch in the canyon and delivered cargo containers of equipment.
• More than a thousand robots assembled a small base in less than a day.

Han Yang completed Makemake’s initial power and industrial facilities, then sent the Hope Spaceship back to the Inner Solar System to collect cargo containers secretly dropped by Renaissance ships. After recovering more than six hundred containers and replenishing its fuel, the Hope Spaceship headed back to Makemake as another round of drops began.

• Han Yang activated Makemake’s fusion reactor, generator, and power grid, bringing one hundred thousand robots and the base’s machinery online.
• Han Yang ordered the Hope Spaceship to leave Makemake, while a Renaissance transport ship secretly released fifty cargo containers and altered their trajectories to avoid Pluto.
• Han Yang arranged for more than six hundred containers to drift in a regular line through space, concealed among the cargo dropped by Renaissance ships.
• The Hope Spaceship arrived after a little over a year, matched speed with the containers, and retrieved them all.
• Han Yang’s robots transferred fuel and supplies from ten containers into the Hope Spaceship, which then accelerated toward Makemake as another round of container drops began.

Han Yang used Makemake’s Grand Canyon to mine iron and expand Jade God Star Base, increasing steel production and building a wide range of industrial facilities. The base also began cultivating sweet potatoes, rubber trees, and sugarcane in underground tunnels, leaving Han Yang with a rapidly growing self-sufficient industrial operation.

• Han Yang sent robots into the Grand Canyon to mine a hematite deposit while concealing waste in the canyon.
• Han Yang used the ore to produce steel, initially making about fifty tons per day and using 3D printers to manufacture needed components.
• Han Yang built a larger blast furnace, raising steel production capacity tenfold to five hundred tons per day.
• Han Yang expanded the base with a foundry, additional furnaces, railways, mining equipment, and factories across the area around the fusion power plant.
• Han Yang established an underground cultivation base divided into zones for sweet potatoes, rubber trees, and sugarcane.
• After the Hope Spaceship delivered seeds and supplies on its second visit, Han Yang began industrial production of the three crops.

Han Yang watched the Ita accelerate humanity’s exploitation and feared civilization would not survive until he could build warships, so he decided to intervene. After asking Wang Qing for information on major rebel groups, he reviewed the widespread uprisings across the Solar System.

• Han Yang assessed the Jade God Star Base’s rapid growth but concluded that developing warships would take at least a hundred years.
• Han Yang decided to slow the Ita’s exploitation of humanity and called Wang Qing for information on vicious rebel forces.
• Wang Qing arranged for relevant departments to send Han Yang a report on rebel groups and their activities.
• Han Yang reviewed the report, which described hundreds of thousands of small uprisings, thousands of larger rebellions, and named organizations across Mercury, Venus, and Earth.

Han Yang used a robot to attract members of the Restore Earth Organization on Mercury and offered them unconditional support, including a cache of precious metals. The news reached the group’s leader, Ma Qingnan, who considered the mysterious offer.

• Han Yang sent several hundred stiff-moving people to settlements across the Solar System to contact resistance groups.
• On Mercury, one of Han Yang’s robots spent days observing a residential district before Restore Earth Organization members kidnapped it.
• The robot revealed that it was there to provide unconditional aid and gave the kidnappers coordinates to five million worth of precious metals.
• The kidnappers’ report passed through concealed channels to Ma Qingnan, the leader of the Restore Earth Organization.
• Ma Qingnan silently pondered the offer from the unknown benefactor.

Ma Qingnan sent an expendable squad to verify a hidden donation and recovered gold bars worth about five million Human Currency for the Restore Earth Organization. After selling and laundering the gold, the organization received the funds, while several hulking men appeared at Living Base 255 and tackled a thin man.

• Ma Qingnan decided to risk investigating the reported donation because the Restore Earth Organization was running short of money and supplies.
• Expendable squad members uncovered a box of gold bars, tested them for tracking devices or radiation, and returned safely to Base 768.
• Ma Qingnan ordered the gold kept under surveillance without contacting the squad and gave the robot a concealed network address before its circuits burned out.
• After ten days without a Mercury Guard search, the squad sold the gold bars and transferred about five million Human Currency into the organization's account.
• Ma Qingnan thought the money could save hundreds of fighters, while several hulking men appeared at Living Base 255 and tackled a thin man.

Han Yang expanded his covert financial support to thirty-one Resistance Army organizations, steadily increasing the aid they received. On Mercury, Ma Qingnan celebrated a fifty-million-unit shipment but rejected an immediate attack on the 775-3 Steel Factory, knowing the Restore Earth Organization still lacked weapons and room to build an arms factory.

• Han Yang gave each of thirty-one Resistance Army organizations an initial gift worth five million Human Currency and used Revival Malls to gather only routine intelligence on them.
• After waiting two months and confirming the groups remained cautious, Han Yang sent a second round of aid worth twenty million to each organization, followed by a third round worth fifty million each.
• A subordinate told Ma Qingnan that Pangu had sent coordinates for the fifty-million-unit aid, and Ma Qingnan recalled how earlier funding had improved the Restore Earth Organization's medical care, supplies, and propaganda.
• Restore Earth Organization fighters urged Ma Qingnan to attack the 775-3 Steel Factory, where indebted workers were exploited and many died each year.
• Ma Qingnan refused to attack until the organization had enough weapons and could build its own arms factory, though he doubted the Ita would allow that under their close surveillance.