Chapter Summaries

Han Yang decided to manufacture firearms for the Resistance Army after realizing that money alone could not help it pressure the Ita. His first attempt to produce gun barrels failed because his steel was too weak, so he turned to money to overcome the technical shortfall.

• Ma Qingnan concealed his despair about restoring Earth and wished that Pangu could provide the Resistance Army with weapons.
• Han Yang concluded that the Resistance Army needed weapons, not just financial support, and decided to make firearms for it.
• Han Yang chose an old firearm design and directed robots at Jade God Star Grand Canyon to produce steel barrels.
• A sample barrel burst during testing, and Han Yang found that impurities in the steel made the barrels too weak.
• Han Yang realized his current metallurgical knowledge could not solve the problem quickly and decided to use money to find a solution.

Han Yang solved the materials and production problems holding back his firearms program, then used the Hope Spaceship’s arrival to send weapons to the Inner Solar System. The ship departed carrying a large shipment while Jade God Star Base began expanding with newly delivered supplies.

• Han Yang recruited metallurgy lecturers to find a way to produce steel pipes that met specifications, and he used a centrifugal filtration proposal to resolve the problem.
• Han Yang completed the Vengeance Type 1 rifle and tested its power, accuracy, and reliability.
• Han Yang deployed twenty-five thousand robots to build and operate ten crude production lines, raising output to one thousand guns and several hundred thousand bullets per day.
• The Hope Spaceship arrived at Makemake with more than six hundred cargo containers of supplies, and robots unloaded them in the Grand Canyon.
• Han Yang’s robots loaded one hundred thousand guns, one hundred million bullets, and related cargo onto the Hope Spaceship.
• The Hope Spaceship departed for the Inner Solar System as Jade God Star Base began expanding and upgrading its facilities.

Han Yang expanded Makemake Base by bringing a supercomputer online and starting local robot production, then set ambitious long-term goals for building up its industry and weapons. Meanwhile, the Hope Spaceship secretly sent weapons cargo into the Solar System through disguised Revival Group cargo ships.

• Han Yang built a supercomputer base in the Grand Canyon mine and redirected its waste heat to the cultivation base.
• Han Yang established robot manufacturing facilities that began producing thirty robots a day and repairing several more, reversing Makemake Base’s labor shortage.
• Han Yang resolved to expand Makemake’s factories, raise its technology to Human Civilization’s level, and build an interstellar warship within a hundred years.
• The Hope Spaceship began decelerating and released cargo containers filled with guns and ammunition toward the Inner Solar System.
• A Revival Group cargo ship secretly collected fifty concealed containers carrying weapons and transported them to Neptune, where the cargo was distributed among ships bound for other planets.

Han Yang secretly distributed weapons from a large shipment and chose the Restore Earth Organization on Mercury for its first arms delivery. Ma Qingnan’s group learned that Pangu’s new support was one thousand guns and one million bullets, giving them a chance to overcome their desperate shortage of weapons.

• Han Yang hid the Revival Group’s shipment of one hundred thousand guns and one hundred million bullets across the Solar System, then selected the Restore Earth Organization for an initial delivery.
• Ma Qingnan and more than three hundred fighters attacked a criminal club at Living Base 767, killing over two hundred people and rescuing more than a hundred women, but suffered heavy casualties.
• Ma Qingnan’s senior members warned that their lack of guns, ammunition, and training made further attacks too dangerous, so they postponed an assault on the 775-3 Steel Factory.
• A fighter rushed in with news from Pangu, and Ma Qingnan learned that the new support was one thousand guns and one million bullets.

The Restore Earth Organization verified and recovered a massive shipment of firearms and ammunition from Pangu, then began preparing its fighters for training and future operations. The chapter ended with the fighters eagerly rushing to claim new guns.

• Sun An showed Ma Qingnan and the Restore Earth Organization leaders a decoded message offering a thousand guns and a million rounds of ammunition.
• Wu Dehu led a team to a crater, uncovered the weapons, inspected them, and took samples back to the base before observing a ten-day period without contact.
• After nothing happened, the organization confirmed the shipment and covertly moved the weapons to a secret warehouse at Living Base 768.
• Ma Qingnan and the senior members resolved to train the fighters and use the weapons to rescue prisoners at the 775-3 Steel Factory.
• Wu Dehu announced that every fighter would receive a new gun and ammunition, prompting Brother Wang to abandon his old firearm and rush to the range.

Wu Dehu and the Rebels launched a surprise assault on the 775-3 Steel Factory, freed its workers, and killed manager Wang Fa. Zhou Li and Zhou Qiang refused to flee and joined the fight against the Ita and their collaborators.

• Wang Fa tortured Zhou Qiang and threatened Zhou Li until she agreed to obey him, but gunfire suddenly erupted outside the factory.
• Wu Dehu led hundreds of armed Rebels into the factory, overwhelming the guards and destroying its surveillance and defense systems.
• Zhou Li held Wang Fa back as he tried to escape, allowing the Rebels to capture him and force him to open the factory gates before they killed him.
• Wu Dehu gave the freed workers money and sent them to hide in the slums, but Zhou Qiang and Zhou Li stayed behind and asked to join the Rebels.
• Wu Dehu accepted Zhou Li and Zhou Qiang into the fight.

After the Rebels destroyed a steel factory on Mercury, Wang Cai searched the slums but failed to find them and arrested more than a hundred suspected accomplices. Over the next two years, armed uprisings spread across dozens of planets, leaving the revolt growing beyond Mercury.

• Wang Cai arrived at the wrecked 775-3 Steel Factory, discovered his brother Wang Fa dead, and realized the Rebels had drawn the guards away with coordinated attacks.
• Wang Cai sent more than a thousand guards and security officers into the slums, where they arrested more than a hundred alleged Rebel accomplices but failed to find the Rebels.
• Wang Cai fired into the deserted streets in rage, while slum residents watched from hiding with hatred.
• The Mercury authorities ordered a harsh crackdown but paid little further attention to the factory attack.
• Red Mountain Army, Earth Party, and other anti-Rebel groups launched armed uprisings on several planets, and more than thirty organizations revolted across dozens of planets over the next two years.

The Guard Team intensified its crackdown on the Rebels while searching for the source of their weapons, and Ma Qingnan decided to exploit their belief that the Rebels had an armory. Wang Cai led an assault on a suspected weapons factory, only to find machines that looked more like textile equipment before a blinding light and violent wind struck.

• Wolf ordered the Guard Team to intensify its crackdown and demanded that Liu Kai find the Rebels' armory within three months.
• Liu Kai vowed to uncover the Rebels' weapon supply after Wolf threatened his position.
• Ma Qingnan realized the Guard Team was searching for an armory and planned a trap with the Restore Earth Organization's leaders.
• Supervisor Wang Cai led guards to a suspected armory in 768 Living Base and exchanged fire with the Rebels.
• Wang Cai's troops entered an underground space filled with machines that looked like textile equipment, then a blinding light and violent wind swept through it.

The Restore Earth Organization’s attack on Mercury’s 768 Base killed hundreds of guards and sparked a wave of resistance, but the Guard Team’s crackdown pushed the Rebels back into hiding. Under pressure to stop the Rebels, Liu Kai learned that dozens of organizations bought everyday supplies through Han Yang’s Revival Mall, though the volume of sales made the purchases difficult to trace.

• The Restore Earth Organization opened the passage between 768 Base and Mercury, killing the guards inside with heat and vacuum before escaping.
• News of the 768 Massacre spread across the Solar System, inspiring resistance groups and prompting the Guard Team to intensify its crackdown.
• Ma Qingnan warned his senior members to lie low as the Guard Team increased surveillance and large-scale Rebel operations became harder to carry out.
• Captain Wolf berated Liu Kai for failing to find the arms factory or capture senior Rebel members, and Liu Kai resolved to increase pressure on the Rebels.
• Fan Hua told Liu Kai that eighty-nine Rebel organizations bought daily supplies from Han Yang’s Revival Mall, but Liu Kai recognized that the mall’s huge volume of sales made their purchases hard to identify.

Liu Kai planned to raise prices at Revival Mall to expose the Rebels, but Han Yang rallied influential Blue Army loyalists to pressure him into abandoning the plan. Han Yang then decided Liu Kai could not be left alive and began preparing a surprise at the weapons production base on Makemake.

• Fan Hua suggested reducing Revival Mall's sales so the Rebels' supply purchases would become easier to detect, and Liu Kai praised him and approved the plan.
• Wang Qing warned Han Yang that Liu Kai intended to raise Revival Mall's prices by 50 to 100 percent to expose the Rebels.
• Han Yang contacted dozens of Blue Army loyalists in influential positions, asking them to intervene in his name as Revival Group's owner.
• Lü Wei, You Jun, Shi Long, Zhang Heng, Wang Qing, and others appealed to Liu Kai, who abandoned the price-hike plan under pressure.
• Han Yang decided Liu Kai could not be left alive and directed more robots to gather at the nearly completed weapons production base on Makemake.

Han Yang expanded Jade God Star Base’s weapons production center and automated planting base while overseeing the research center. He planned to use the growing weapons supply to support the Resistance Army against Liu Kai.

• Han Yang coordinated construction of a weapons production center designed to manufacture firearms, grenades, ammunition, and other equipment at large scale.
• Han Yang planned to finish the weapons center within two months and supply the Resistance Army after the Hope No. 2 Spaceship arrived.
• Han Yang considered how new weapon types could undermine Liu Kai’s efforts to suppress the Resistance Army.
• Han Yang inspected the automated planting halls, which produced crops and industrial materials across two thousand square kilometers of cultivation area.
• Han Yang turned his attention to the research center, where he had established specialized laboratories, supercomputer centers, and imported fusion power systems.

Han Yang expanded Jade God Star Base’s manufacturing and research capabilities, concealed the base beneath a camouflaged steel lid, and completed a weapons factory. Hope No. 2 Spaceship arrived to exchange supplies for tens of thousands of tons of weapons and equipment, then departed for the inner Solar System.

• Han Yang used his laboratory-made chips and robots to support the base’s computing, research, and industrial operations as its mobile robot population passed one million.
• Han Yang built a steel lid over Jade God Star Base and camouflaged its completed sections to hide the base from outside view.
• Han Yang prioritized aerospace manufacturing and planned to pursue ion propulsion instead of chemical rockets or atmospheric aircraft.
• Han Yang completed the weapons base and produced guns, armor, communications equipment, ammunition, and other supplies.
• Hope No. 2 Spaceship arrived at Makemake, delivered supplies, took on tens of thousands of tons of weapons and equipment, and departed for the inner Solar System.

Han Yang detected that Jade God Star Base was changing Makemake’s environment, so he installed systems to contain its heat and exhaust. He then tested a newly developed ion thruster and confirmed that it produced measurable thrust, marking a major research breakthrough.

• Han Yang learned from covert monitors that Makemake’s surface temperature and near-surface particle density had risen, likely because of Jade God Star Base.
• Han Yang directed robots to install underground coolant pipes and freeze the base’s exhaust into solid waste, preventing further environmental changes.
• Han Yang sent a roughly 500-kilogram test device into orbit around Makemake and began the 1,102nd ion propulsion experiment.
• After a day and night, Han Yang measured the device’s orbital altitude rising about two millimeters and confirmed that his ion thruster had produced macroscopic thrust.

Han Yang continued developing an experimental Ion Thruster while Ma Qingnan’s resistance group struggled to survive the Guard Team’s growing pressure on Mercury. Mysterious people began approaching smuggling rings across the solar system, and one offered Lu Hong a vast supply of weapons at astonishingly low prices.

• Han Yang retrieved the Ion Thruster prototype from orbit and began another round of research at Jade God Star Base.
• Yang Lei stayed behind to cover Ma Qingnan, Wu Dehu, and the other senior members’ retreat, then shot himself as the Guard Team closed in.
• Ma Qingnan and the others escaped to a temporary base, where he resolved to keep the resistance alive while waiting for Pangu to act.
• Mysterious people began approaching smuggling rings across several planets and moons instead of contacting resistance organizations.
• A wrapped, mechanical-looking man offered Lu Hong 100,000 rifles, millions of bullets, grenades, and body armor at prices far below market rates.

Lu Hong agreed to work with Fuxi, who promised to deliver weapons in exchange for minerals of equivalent value. After receiving orbital coordinates, Lu Hong took the Lone Courage to retrieve the first shipment and learned that its cargo was firearms and ammunition.

• Lu Hong initially suspected Fuxi was trying to scam him, but Fuxi offered to deliver the goods before receiving payment.
• Fuxi told Lu Hong to collect the cargo containers near Mercury and send gravelstone or dullgold into space as payment.
• Lu Hong agreed to the arrangement, and Fuxi promised to send orbital data within three months.
• After two and a half months, Lu Hong received the coordinates and ordered his crew to take the Lone Courage to the cargo containers.
• Lu Hong stayed at a distance while technicians inspected the container and confirmed it held firearms and ammunition.

Lu Hong received a shipment of weapons from Fuxi, paid for it with rare minerals, and began selling the goods on Mercury. He realized that other smuggling bosses had received similar shipments and were undercutting his prices.

• Lu Hong inspected the weapons salvaged by the Lone Hero, arranged for the cargo to reach Mercury, and ordered his men to pay Fuxi.
• After gathering gravelite and dullgold, Lu Hong sent the minerals into space as payment while smuggling rings across several worlds did the same.
• Han Yang chose not to collect the minerals, avoiding the risk that the crates carried tracking or listening devices, and used the trade to undermine the Pluto Development Strategy.
• Lu Hong offered weapons and ammunition at low prices, and distributors quickly bought a third of his shipment.
• When Lu Hong contacted gangs and private security teams, he learned that rival smuggling bosses were selling weapons even more cheaply and suspected Fuxi had supplied them too.

Lu Hong sold a huge weapons shipment at falling prices as cheap guns spread through Mercury’s lower society, escalating gang violence and resistance to official abuse. At the Makemake weapons base, production continued, and Ma Qingnan sensed that the opportunity he had awaited was near.

• Lu Hong cut prices, refunded longtime distributors by wholesaling guns at 3,000 each, and watched the market settle at roughly 2,500 per gun.
• A street peddler sold a handgun and bullets to a young man for 800, giving him an affordable way to protect his family.
• A gang leader sent his armed members to attack the Stone Gang, only to find that the Stone Gang also had guns and body armor.
• A fruit peddler shot a Public Security officer who tried to extort him and send him to the steelworks, then left to seek refuge with a gang as other stallholders revealed their guns.
• Weapons production continued at full capacity on Makemake, while Ma Qingnan sensed that the opportunity he had awaited was approaching.

As cheap, abundant weapons spread across the planets, Ma Qingnan saw the Guard Team lose control and ordered the Restore Earth Organization to attack a textile factory. Earth Guard Deputy Captain Liu Kai was tasked by Captain Wolf with finding the weapons’ source, and he arranged to track a smuggling ring’s next transaction.

• Ma Qingnan realized that widespread access to weapons had weakened the Guard Team and given resistance groups room to operate.
• Ma Qingnan ordered his people to attack the 226-9 Textile Factory and rescue their suffering compatriots.
• Liu Kai faced Captain Wolf, who demanded an explanation for the renewed flood of weapons and gave him one last chance to find their source.
• Liu Kai learned that a smuggling ring had been bringing weapons in through the Space Elevator and paying with rare minerals.
• Liu Kai ordered the authorities to let the ring conduct another transaction and plant tracking devices in the mineral cargo.

The Mercury Guard Hall’s traps repeatedly failed to catch the arms dealer, and Supervisor Zhou accused director Xue Ping of leaking the operations. Xue Ping endured torture and truth serum without confessing, and an interrogator finally killed him, believing he had shown the courage of a warrior.

• The Mercury Guard Hall watched a weapon-payment crate drift into the Sun and concluded that a mole had exposed their trap.
• The Guard Hall planned a secret bait operation, but another monitored crate also crashed into the Sun without the buyer appearing.
• Supervisor Zhou accused Xue Ping of tipping off the arms dealer, then ordered guards to seize him and torture him.
• Xue Ping denied being a traitor through days of torture and truth serum, while Supervisor Zhou insisted he was a loyal Rebel agent.
• The interrogator found Xue Ping broken and asking to be killed, bowed to him, and stabbed him in the chest.

Supervisor Zhou concluded that the arms dealer had never collected the decoy cargo, and Deputy Captain Liu Kai approved stricter inspections and weapon confiscations to curb gun proliferation. As the Security Bureau tightened controls, Han Yang announced a cheaper weapons shipment to smugglers across the planets.

• Supervisor Zhou ordered Cai Long and Jiang Dawei interrogated, then realized the arms dealer had not collected any of the decoy shipments and ordered Jiang Dawei killed.
• Supervisor Zhou reported the failed sting to Deputy Captain Liu Kai and recommended intensified space elevator inspections and large-scale weapon confiscations.
• Liu Kai approved the plan to restrict the flow of weapons into Mercury, and Security Bureau guards increased inspections at Mercury Port.
• Ma Qingnan learned that confiscations and inspections were raising black-market prices and worried the Security Bureau would refocus on the resistance, but he trusted Pangu to act.
• Han Yang learned of the Security Bureau's response and told major smugglers that cheaper weapons and equipment would arrive in stages within three months.