Recaps

Cheng Yu completed the Divine Emperor Trial, learned the truth about the world beyond the sandbox, and began building the Annihilator Legion in Universe B3397. After defeating the Mad God’s attack, he upgraded the Iron Throne and sent it toward a planet infected by a meme targeting organic life, while the Mad God reappeared elsewhere in the universe.

• Cheng Yu helped Dermot win the election, then entered the Final Trial and endured an alternate life before waking to face the God Emperor’s guessing game.
• Fat Jack identified himself as the God Emperor, and the white-haired JK appeared, assimilated Fat Jack’s personality, and ordered Grete to devour Belial.
• Cheng Yu restored his body, learned that Small Heavens lay fifty thousand years in the past, and chose to launch Starsea Heavenly Punishment in Third Calamity mode.
• Miss Puppet made Cheng Yu the Legion’s Deputy Core, and Cheng Yu joined the Legendary Sword mercenaries on their journey to Universe B3397.
• Mad God nearly killed Bernard, but Cheng Yu rescued him, defeated Mad God in their ten-move contest, and summoned the Iron Throne to attack the Mad God Fleet.
• Cheng Yu’s Annihilator Legion and the Legendary Sword destroyed the fleet while Mad God escaped, and Cheng Yu ordered the Legion to occupy Universe B3397 and expand its forces.
• Cheng Yu oversaw the Legion’s factories and units, then had the Iron Throne upgraded to Overlord Class with a neutron star as its energy core.
• After Conductor reported meme contamination on a planet where the Supreme Intelligence was located, Cheng Yu sent Artist and the Iron Throne there, while Mad God appeared on a frigid planet elsewhere in the universe.

Cheng Yu destroyed the pirate alliance in the sealed B3397 Star Sector, advanced to Gold One-Star, and investigated Kashi Star as a student at Miskatonic University. Meanwhile, the Legion made contact with the Star Sea Alliance and accepted a Qualification War to decide whether the Mechanicus could join it.

• Cheng Yu ordered Operation Shut the Door and Beat the Dog, sealed the B3397 Star Sector with Regulator 0-9, and trapped the pirate fleets as they gathered for a final stand.
• Yog pulled Cheng Yu into a vision of a dark timeline, where Shub claimed him as her child before Yog returned him to the present.
• The Legion defeated the pirates using its combat units and the Overlord-Class Titan, then Cheng Yu drained Mad God’s power and broke through to Gold One-Star.
• Cheng Yu went to Kashi Star to investigate its mysteries and enrolled as Yuri Constantine at Miskatonic University’s Inner Academy.
• Yuri joined Dile, Tang Lan, Ning Qing, and Bennett McAdam for the entrance test, where they fought dangerous creatures and defeated black-clad attackers connected to the Truth Cult.
• Cheng Yu befriended Bennett and sparred with him, while Dile impressed the students by fighting instructor Qi Yao to a draw.
• The Legion established its headquarters and contacted Owen’s Star Sea Alliance fleet, sending Wisdom Z-6666 as an envoy to Star Sea City.
• Layla Henrietta proposed a Qualification War between the Star Sea Alliance and the Mechanicus, and Wisdom Envoy agreed to fight at the sealed B3397 passage.

The Mechanicus defeated Shatra’s expeditionary force through the Legion’s Black Box Plan, making the Mechanicus the first non-Giant civilization to defeat a Giant. As the Legion prepared for the Qualification War, Cheng Yu and Dile’s group arrived in Star Sea City and encountered Shen Qing.

• Cheng Yu learned the Qualification War rules and instructed the Legion to win without drawing too much attention, while the Alliance announced the contest and Shatra’s Magic Colossus Corps approached the B3397 Universe.
• The Legion fought the colossi, disabled their flagship, and received Owen as the Mechanicus’s envoy, while Shatra sought to learn the secrets of Enabler 0-1.
• The Wisdoms decided to confront Shatra, but Duke Dalton nearly destroyed Infiltrator 0-8 as the Legion prepared for war and Dile revealed that his True Illusion ability could make imagined things real.
• Yog invited Dile’s squad to represent Kashi Star in the Qualification War, while Cheng Yu chose to become a performer and promised to present Yog with a spectacular Script.
• Euphemia led Shatra’s expedition through the B3397 passage, where the Legion’s Black Box Plan disabled communications and command, overwhelmed the fleet, and captured the expedition in a sealed black sphere.
• Shatra found Euphemia’s forces missing and chose not to send more troops, while the conflict ended with the Mechanicus recognized as the first non-Giant civilization to defeat a Giant.
• Jane established the Mechanicus base Thousand Mechanisms Star at Star Sea Alliance headquarters, while Berg returned to Shatra and the Legion identified him as Infiltrator 0-6.
• Dile’s group reached Star Sea City to join the Star Hunters, where Cheng Yu recognized Shen Qing, and Dile disguised himself to expose a harassing hunter.

The Azure Dragon Study Group’s first missions drew them into the Mechanicus’s war with Gonzales and the widening conflict over Balchik. As Shatla and Balchik fought, the group reached the frontline and was asked to carry a dangerous Meme Bomb into the enemy army.

• Dile formed the Azure Dragon Study Group and chose a risky Gonzales evacuation mission, relying on Teacher Jimmy’s Sands of Time as a chance to start over.
• Cheng Yu learned the Legion planned to seize Gonzales’s resources, and the Legion disabled Gonzales’s defenses and took most of its resource planets.
• The group uncovered a plot inside Mining City, but the local commander betrayed Gonzales and Legion forces overwhelmed the city before withdrawing with their prize.
• Jane defended the Mechanicus at the Star Sea conference, where the Giants agreed to attack Balchik and Shatla negotiated compensation for Gonzales’s losses.
• Shen Qing agreed to cooperate with Henry’s plan to kill Balchik’s Commander-in-Chief, while warning that the Destruction Tide posed a greater danger.
• The Azure Dragon Study Group implanted a virus in a Pan Chabuko signal station during the war, then learned Balchik had surrendered in the A5547 Star Sector and hurried to protect Kashi Star.
• Shatla’s forces passed Kashi Star unnoticed as Balchik’s armies resisted elsewhere, and Joyce’s Glorious Knights clashed with Fabian’s Dire Wolf Cavalry.
• At Balchik’s frontline headquarters, Julie asked the group to deliver a Meme Bomb into Shatla’s army, and Dile demanded to know how they could stay safe.