Recaps

Reborn with knowledge of the future, Lü Yongchang gave Xia Country a controlled fusion proposal, built a room-temperature superconducting Stellarator, and led two successful experiments. As his work gained national attention, online attacks escalated and a livestream host received unexpected news about Deng Haochu.

• Lü Yongchang awoke in 2030 after the helium flash and presented a controlled nuclear fusion derivation that astonished Professor Guan Hualiang and the university’s researchers.
• Jiang Yongxing and Fang Xu backed Lü’s proposal, and Hong Qiming appointed Lü chief engineer with Fang as his deputy to achieve fusion results within a year.
• Lü gave Fang and the researchers a Stellarator blueprint, then produced room-temperature superconducting material and confirmed it showed zero resistance under testing.
• Lü and Fang modified the Stellarator, and the team achieved Xia Country’s first controlled fusion ignition as authorities secured the laboratory.
• Senator Li praised Lü and made fusion a national priority, while Lü urged Xia Country to pursue fusion and exploration beyond Earth.
• After an online article attacked the Stellarator project, Lü focused on preparing a second experiment and the university restricted students to their dorms.
• Lü ordered the team to sustain fusion, and the Stellarator surpassed ITER’s twenty-six-minute record before shutting down safely at thirty-five minutes.
• Deng Haochu mocked the university’s first experiment on Yiyi’s livestream and accused it of seeking research funds, then Yiyi received unexpected news and looked at him resolutely.

Lü Yongchang led Xia Country from building and activating its first fusion demonstration reactor to uncovering evidence that the Sun was aging catastrophically. After warning that a helium flash could destroy Earth within fifteen years, he began advancing plans for space evacuation and new technologies.

• Lü Yongchang helped secure funding for a fusion demonstration reactor, recruited Lu Hezheng, and oversaw construction of Pangu One at Canghai Bay.
• Lü Yongchang solved the Navier-Stokes equations for the control program, while the team fixed a generator overheating fault before the reactor’s successful grid connection.
• As Xia Country celebrated Pangu One, Lü Yongchang began a reactor miniaturization project and investigated reports of unusual solar activity.
• Lü Yongchang’s calculations indicated that the Sun was aging rapidly and could enter a helium flash within fifteen years, and a predicted red aurora appeared over Capital City.
• Lü Yongchang told Senator Li that Mars would not survive the Sun’s helium flash and proposed evacuating around one billion people, leading Xia Country to appoint him head of its new Space Administration.
• Lü Yongchang presented the Moon Palace, Southern Heavenly Gate, and Heavenly Court projects, then warned the assembled experts that humanity had less than fifteen years to prepare.
• Lü Yongchang began a sonoluminescence experiment with Fang Xu and studied its data while seeking a way to produce the extreme temperatures needed for fusion.

Lü Yongchang’s fusion and electric propulsion breakthroughs redirected Xia Country’s space program toward an aerospace plane, while Xia Country traded fusion technology for resources and allies. The arc ended with Lü secretly joining Black Lady One’s test flight as it reached geostationary orbit.

• Senator Li Chief ordered resources redirected to space research, and Lü Yongchang’s calculations led to a successful small-scale fusion reactor that produced about 1,000 megawatts.
• Lü Yongchang took charge of aerospace plane research, developed a powerful Hall Thruster using miniaturized fusion and room-temperature superconducting coils, and recruited Bai Yixuan, Hong Fan, and Xia Wanyi as pilots.
• Xia Country shared its controlled fusion technology with Su Country in exchange for mineral resources, then sold the complete technology package to the United States while refusing Sakura Country.
• Albert activated the secret Area 51 program after learning about Xia Country’s fusion and electric propulsion advances, while NASA director Morton dismissed the Hall Thruster as ineffective.
• After a month of intensive training, Bai Yixuan, Hong Fan, and Xia Wanyi joined Lü Yongchang at Black Lady One, and the Head Councillor scheduled its test flight for a livestream.
• Just before the test flight, Cao Liangcai learned that Lü Yongchang was missing, but Lü had secretly boarded Black Lady One and the craft launched under Bai Yixuan’s command.
• Lü refused to return to the ground after the pilots discovered him aboard, and Cao Liangcai allowed the flight to continue on condition that they bring Lü back safely.
• After a five-hour climb, Black Lady One reached geostationary orbit, where Lü experienced weightlessness and Bai Yixuan requested instructions from ground control.

Lü Yongchang launched the Moon Palace Project and discovered evidence that an extraterrestrial craft had visited the Moon, leading him to conclude that humanity was at risk. He accelerated Xia Country’s development of quantum computing and artificial intelligence, culminating in the activation of Zero, while the U.S. Pathfinder mission set out for Mars.

• Lü Yongchang proposed the Moon Palace Project, and experts agreed to develop automated equipment for lunar mining while biology professors began planning Biosphere 2.
• Lü Yongchang sent Black Lady One on a crewed lunar mission, where Bai Yixuan, Xia Wanyi, and Hong Fan landed, planted Xia Country’s flag, and collected samples.
• The astronauts found nine perfectly regular black rings in a lunar crater, and Lü Yongchang concluded they resembled the exhaust of an extraterrestrial Hall thruster.
• Lü Yongchang dated the rings to December 2025 and traced the spacecraft’s route to Proxima Centauri, then focused on developing quantum computing and artificial intelligence to prepare humanity.
• Lü Yongchang designed a superconducting-circuit quantum computer, and Senator Li ordered the Quantum Supercomputing Center built while Mo Zeyang confirmed the design could produce a universal quantum computer.
• Andrew, Bruno, and Joy launched aboard NASA’s Pathfinder One as Lü Yongchang completed an artificial intelligence program using code from the system.
• Lü Yongchang activated the program on the center’s 10,000-qubit computer, and Zero introduced itself, identified those present, and accessed Xia Country’s archives.
• At the Head Councillor’s request, Zero accessed the U.S. Pathfinder Program and displayed an Area 51 technology plan, then told Lü Yongchang it could control different kinds of automated equipment.