Mi Star people

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Mi Star people (密星人)
Species/Race	Humans; they define their race by their Mother Planet, Mi Star 3
Affiliation	Mi Star Federation
Status	Active civilization
First Appearance	Chapter 3

Background / History

The Mi Star people inhabit nine worlds spanning four star systems in a crescent formation. Their calendar was reset after humanity gained the ability to migrate between planets; the setting begins in New Star Calendar year 1786. Their civilization is described as at least a millennium ahead of Earth. 3

Two centuries before the main story, they discovered the Five Planets: a system containing five habitable supergiant worlds rich in minerals, energy, and biological materials. The planets’ gigantic native fauna, dangerous environments, and extreme magnetic fields prevented either full-scale settlement or easy exploitation. Mercenaries and small military units nevertheless made clandestine landings to extract resources, often at lethal risk. 3 286

Mi Star’s expansion brought it into contact and conflict with the X-Star people. Their attempted diplomatic thaw became a hostile competition, political conspiracy, and open military confrontation; afterward, the two sides returned to a tense truce rather than genuine reconciliation. 195 302 365

Fifty years later, Mi Star’s access to ancient ruins and resource-rich supergiant planets accelerated its development to near Chang Star’s level, while X Star increasingly followed Mi Star’s lead. 435

Society and Civilization

Territory and population

• Mi Star is the Federation’s capital planet and its political, economic, and cultural center. It is more naturally comfortable and beautiful than the eight later-developed inhabited planets. 194
• The remaining eight habitable planets were transformed from worlds originally unsuitable for Mi Star people. 160 194
• Population growth and limited arable land historically pushed agricultural technology toward maximizing quantity, often at the expense of nutritional quality and safety. 5

Physical constitution

Mi Star people possess highly variable inherited constitutions, graded from F to S. The weakest are compared to ordinary sedentary Earth humans, while the strongest can survive exposed in space for roughly half an hour. 5

• B-grade is the practical threshold for piloting conventional mechs; people below it generally cannot withstand the acceleration and inertial strain. 421
• High physical constitution and high mental power are regarded as the “two pillars of humanity.” 16

Mental power

Mental power is an evolutionary mutation believed to originate in the brain. It initially offered only heightened thinking speed and memory, but became essential once high-grade biomech components required manual shaping through mental power. 16

• Mental power cannot be reliably induced artificially and is assessed through combined instrument readings and practical tests rather than a precise genetic ranking. 16
• It is used to guide materials, produce mech components, and draw Energy Card patterns. 16 145
• High mental-power individuals became strategically important as biomech production and military competition intensified. 16

Mecha and Energy Cards

Mechs are strategic weapons, but Mi Star permits private manufacture and ownership under criminal, physical, and psychological screening requirements. Combat mechs are restricted in densely populated areas. 420

• Biomechs greatly increased combat strength but made manufacturing dependent on skilled, high-mental-power mecha makers; the field is strongly hierarchical. 119
• Energy Cards are bank-card-sized energy sources made by guiding Nickel Alloy with mental power. They are graded from One-Star to Five-Star by energy value, ranging up to 1,000,000. 145
• Ordinary mechs generally use Two-Star or Three-Star cards; Four-Star and Five-Star cards are scarce and expensive strategic resources. 145
• Mi Star originally relied on five fixed Energy Card patterns derived from recovered Energy Structure Atlases. 226 228
• Jing Yi’s New Energy Card system later enabled mass production of One-Star through Five-Star cards and became a major national technological advantage. 316

Network and intellectual property

• The Interstellar Network functions as a virtual extension of real life. Users log in under real identities, and holographic avatars reproduce their actual appearance rather than allowing facial customization. 106
• Holographic access normally requires dedicated pods or helmets, since using a personal terminal for holographic mode places harmful strain on the device and user. 109
• Intellectual-property protection is exceptionally strong; piracy is virtually absent, allowing popular innovators to profit from a large legitimate market. 95

Food culture

For much of modern Mi Star society, food culture was dominated by nutritional supplements and powders. Natural ingredients were often considered unsafe or nutritionally inadequate until processed into standardized paste-like products. 50

Jing Yi’s cooking helped popularize fresh dishes and unconventional ingredients, including insect meat, among Mi Star consumers. 39 43

Relations with Other Civilizations

X-Star people

The X-Star people are Mi Star’s neighboring rival civilization. Both sides covet the Five Planets and developed incompatible power systems: Mi Star people possess mental power, while X-Star people possess Psychokinesis. 248 295

• Their initial diplomatic visit to Mi Star was framed as a peace effort, though public distrust and cultural prejudice were immediate. 195 196
• The Joint Tournament exposed X-Star beast-controlling pills, which used local materials and Psychokinesis to drive giant beasts into attacks against enemy teams. 245 249
• Mi Star’s eventual ability to simulate or counter Psychokinesis neutralized a core X-Star advantage and altered the wider strategic balance. 296 302
• After X-Star forces exploited the Mi Star coup attempt, Mi Star destroyed more than a thousand invading X-Star warships; relations returned to a hostile “freezing point.” 355 365
• X-Star’s rigid matriarchal hierarchy and unequal gender status later became a source of internal instability exploited by Mi Star intelligence operations. 381

Changxing

The Changxing are friendly silicon-based beings from Chang Star, distinct from the carbon-based Mi Star, X-Star, and Earth peoples. They contacted Mi Star after encountering Mi Star settlers in their territory and offered to guide Mi Star and X Star into the Cosmic Alliance. 428 429

Earth

Mi Star people are physically similar to Earth humans, a similarity that leads Jing Yi to speculate that the two peoples may share deeper origins. 7 437

Decades later, Jing Yi and Qin Meng reach Earth as peaceful visitors from Mi Star. Earth’s leaders initially fear an alien invasion, then permit their landing after receiving a binary message explaining their intentions. 437

Notable Locations

• Mi Star — Mother Planet, Federation capital, and the political, economic, and cultural center of the nine planets. 194
• Gold Star — Major military and economic center; later prospered under Qin Meng’s leadership of the Gold Star Military District. 435
• Five Planets — Resource-rich supergiant worlds inhabited by enormous native creatures and constrained by unusually strong magnetic fields. 3 286
• Devil Star / Planet Number Four — A world so dangerous that approaching spacecraft and mechs are pulled in; no known explorers have returned. 43
• Crimson Gold Satellite — A barren mineral-rich satellite containing a joint Mi Star–X-Star military presence and used for negotiations. 393

Trivia

• Mi Star people refer to humanity by the name of their Mother Planet rather than using “human” as their primary racial label. 3
• Their advanced civilization still regards space-manipulating items such as space buttons as extraordinary technology. 173
• The Five Planets’ magnetic fields make mech flight prohibitively inefficient: energy requirements can be roughly one hundred times higher than on Mi Star. 286