Chapter Summaries

The Human Fleet advanced toward an Enrojet supply system as antiparticle levels around it rose abnormally. Bai Yixuan realized the Alliance had prepared a suicidal trap, but the chapter ended as Enrojet ships dropped their shields and detonated in the antimatter-saturated region.

• Bai Yixuan ordered the fleet to keep advancing while Zhao Zijie and Lü Yongchang advised caution as antiparticle concentration increased.
• The readings surged past 1,000%, prompting Bai Yixuan to halt the fleet and order the Combined Shield to full power.
• Enrojet warships stopped firing and charged the Human Fleet, revealing their plan to use the surrounding antimatter against it.
• Bai Yixuan ordered Zero to overload the Combined Shield and sent Carrier-Based Drones beyond it to intercept the ramming ships.
• The Enrojet warships deactivated their Composite Shields, touched off annihilation explosions, and a small, dim star appeared in the distance.

The Enrojet Alliance trapped the Human Fleet in a field of antimatter and triggered a devastating chain of annihilation explosions. As the fleet’s shields failed, Zhao Zijie ordered Bai Yixuan to use standard Electromagnetic Cannon projectiles to consume the dispersed antiparticles, leaving the fleet firing a Metal Storm in every direction.

• Lü Yongchang recognized the Enrojet Alliance’s antimatter trap and ordered Zero to activate every defensive measure.
• Zero boosted the warships’ shields and deployed Adaptive Nanorepair Robots as the first annihilation blast struck the fleet.
• The Combined Shield shattered under repeated explosions, exposing the fleet to the antiparticles and damaging its outer armor.
• Zhao Zijie ordered Bai Yixuan to fire every Electromagnetic Cannon shell that was not filled with antimatter.
• Bai Yixuan broadcast the order, and the Human Fleet fired standard projectiles in all directions.

Bai Yixuan’s fleet survived the Enrojet Alliance’s antimatter trap but suffered severe losses, while the Alliance was shocked to discover its damaged warships had wooden shielding. The battle resumed, and the Human Fleet used a Gravity Bomb to tear apart dozens of Enrojet capital ships as it continued toward its destination.

• Bai Yixuan learned that all reserve carrier-based drones and [Black Tortoise] frigates had been destroyed, while the [Golden Crow] and [White Tiger] were badly damaged and Eugene People suffered nearly 90% casualties.
• A crew member told Bai Yixuan that the Eugene People’s morale was exceptionally high despite their losses.
• The Enrojet Alliance saw the Human Fleet survive the antimatter explosions and the Alliance Leader ordered the damaged outer warships magnified, revealing their Nus-trunk wooden shielding.
• The Enrojet Alliance sent its warships to attack, but the Human Fleet launched a fresh swarm of carrier-based drones and restored its defensive perimeter.
• A [Gravity Bomb] generated immense gravity that pulled dozens of Enrojet capital ships off course and tore them apart as the Human Fleet sailed onward.

The Enrojet Alliance learned that Human Civilization’s gravity weapons far surpassed its own technology as the Human Expeditionary Fleet attacked the Dika Stellar System. The [Vermilion Bird] destroyed Dika with a single shot, and the Enrojet command center then discovered nine unfamiliar silvery-white warships at the heart of the Human Fleet.

• An elderly Enrojet Scientist told the Alliance Leader that gravity bombs required mastery of gravity and estimated that Enrojet would need at least eight hundred to a thousand years to match Human Civilization’s technology.
• Bai Yixuan ordered the Expeditionary Fleet to surround Dika and its factories, while [Golden Crow] battleships cleared the area around the planet.
• The [Titan Mothership] ordered the Planet-Busting Starship [Vermilion Bird] to fire, and its beam and bomb caused Dika to explode.
• The Human Fleet’s [Golden Crow] and [White Tiger] ships shielded its core, but the Enrojet Command Center obtained images showing nine silvery-white, spindle-shaped warships.

The Human Fleet repaired and reinforced its forces at Kedale while the Enrojet Alliance gathered more than fifty thousand warships for an assault. As the battle began, a mysterious silvery-white planet arrived as human reinforcements and withstood the Enrojet fleet’s fire, announcing, “Your opponent is me!”

• The nine [Forgotten River] neutron ships eradicated all life on Kedale in a week, but their attack strengthened the Enrojet Alliance’s resolve.
• Bai Yixuan kept the Human Fleet at Kedale to repair and refit as more than fifty thousand Enrojet warships assembled around the system.
• Bai Yixuan ordered the Expeditionary Fleet to prepare for a breakout as an immense spacetime fluctuation approached.
• The Enrojet Alliance launched an all-out assault, and its warships exchanged fire with the Human Fleet while Zero coordinated their defenses.
• Treviss spotted a massive silvery-white planet in his warship’s path, and it shielded itself from the Enrojet fleet’s attacks.
• A tachyon message appeared before the Enrojet fleet: “Your opponent is me!”

The Enrojet Alliance discovered that [Chiyou] was a manufactured planetary warship, then watched it destroy a massive barrage of curvature missiles with its laser defenses. As the Human Fleet escaped toward the alliance’s interior, the Enrojet fleet split its forces between pursuit and a closer attack on [Chiyou].

• The Alliance Leader and an elderly Enrojet Scientist realized that the 6,500-kilometer [Chiyou] was manufactured from the inside out rather than converted from a natural planet.
• The Human Fleet left the Kedale Stellar System in curvature flight, while Treviss received orders to attack [Chiyou] and keep the enemy outside the defensive line.
• The Enrojet fleet launched tens of thousands of curvature missiles at [Chiyou].
• [Chiyou] formed a laser defense net that detonated the missiles before their explosions struck its azure shield.
• The Enrojet fleet changed tactics, sending some warships after the Human Fleet while the rest spread out to approach [Chiyou].

[Chiyou] destroyed the Enrojet Alliance’s Border Defense Line and pursued the Human Fleet, while the Alliance prepared its refitted flagship and an ancient weapon to confront it. Bai Yixuan received Professor Lü’s suggestion to persuade the Alliance to surrender, as Enrojet’s last hope headed toward an iron planet to test its weapon.

• [Chiyou] accelerated to 0.1c, disintegrated and rammed through Treviss’s fleet, then launched Curvature Missiles that engulfed Treviss in an explosion.
• The Alliance Leader learned that the Alliance had lost fifty thousand warships and had fewer than five thousand left, while the refitted flagship was nearing readiness.
• Bai Yixuan learned that [Chiyou] had annihilated the Alliance fleet and received Professor Lü’s message suggesting they try to persuade Enrojet to surrender.
• Enrojet’s flagship completed its refit with over a hundred Antimatter Reactors and carried a single weapon recovered from ruins.
• The flagship headed toward an iron planet to test its weapon against [Chiyou].

The Enrojet Alliance tested an ancient space weapon that generated a spatial rift traveling faster than light, but a slight firing error sent it out of the central stellar system. The Alliance Leader ordered a second test, targeting Planet Noli.

• The Enrojet flagship powered up an unknown device and successfully generated a ten-kilometer spatial rift.
• The rift vanished from ordinary instruments, and the elderly scientist told the Alliance Leader that it was traveling faster than 800c.
• The elderly scientist explained that the rift would eventually dissipate as space repaired itself, with an estimated maximum length of one hundred thousand kilometers and a duration of about a minute.
• The elderly scientist ordered the flagship to begin a second space weapon trial targeting Planet Noli.

The Enrojet Alliance tested its spatial weapon by slicing Noli Star in half, then rejected Humanity’s surrender demand and prepared to fight. As the Human Fleet arrived at the Enrojet Central Stellar System, Bai Yixuan followed Lü Yongchang and Zhao Zijie’s advice to proceed cautiously and gather intelligence.

• The Enrojet flagship fired a spatial rift that cut Noli Star in half, astonishing the Alliance Leader and the Enrojet Scientist.
• The Enrojet Alliance rejected Humanity’s surrender demand and ordered [Enrojet] to prepare for battle in the Central Stellar System.
• The Human Fleet arrived outside the Enrojet Central Stellar System aboard the [Titan Mothership].
• Bai Yixuan questioned why the Enrojet Civilization was confident despite its limited forces, and Gao Yang suggested it might have a trump card.
• Zhao Zijie urged Bai Yixuan to gather intelligence and wait for [Chiyou] before attacking, and Bai Yixuan agreed.

Bai Yixuan's fleet cautiously investigated the Enrojet Alliance's central stellar system after suspecting the enemy had a hidden weapon. Enrojet's leaders prepared a trap to lure the Human Fleet within range, beginning by destroying its probes.

• Bai Yixuan remembered how Human Civilization had once relied on the Two-Dimensional Fragment and worried that Enrojet might wield an advanced weapon.
• The Human Fleet halted 0.1 light-years from Enrojet's central system and sent over a thousand probes ahead to gather intelligence.
• Lü Yongchang and Zhao Zijie saw nearly five thousand familiar warships and floating gun emplacements, suspected a hidden trump card, and ordered the probes closer.
• Enrojet's scientists detected the Human Fleet waiting out of range of their spatial weapon and ordered the flagship [Enrojet] to withdraw toward the homeworld.
• Enrojet's command ordered its perimeter forces to feign desperate defense and destroy the probes to lure the Human Fleet into the spatial weapon's range.
• Enrojet's gun emplacements and warships opened fire, destroying the probes in bursts of flame.

Bai Yixuan's fleet launched a massive curvature-missile barrage against the Enrojet Alliance, forcing its defenders to retreat and exposing the fleet's mobile production platform. After Chiyou arrived with more ammunition, the Enroget Civilization sent its flagship and remaining warships to confront the human fleet head-on.

• Bai Yixuan ordered a saturation salvo of curvature missiles against the Enrojet stellar system, while the Enrojet command center struggled to understand how the human fleet had so many missiles.
• The old scientist discovered that the human fleet was using an enormous platform of warships and industrial equipment to produce supplies and new ships during the battle, then ordered Enrojet's forces to retreat and activate the system's defenses.
• Bai Yixuan's bombardment consumed half the fleet's ammunition reserves and destroyed over three thousand Enrojet warships, but he held back the remaining ammunition until he learned that Chiyou was arriving with a large supply.
• As Chiyou joined the human fleet, the bombardment paused for resupply, and the Enroget Civilization launched its flagship Enrojet with its remaining 1,500 warships to fight the humans head-on.

As the Enroget Civilization launched its fleet, Lü Yongchang and Zhao Zijie examined its unfamiliar flagship and realized it had been radically modified to power an unknown device. The revelation left the Human Federation Command Center silent as the fleet’s hidden weapon remained unexplained.

• Bai Yixuan watched the Enroget fleet sortie and suspected it had prepared a countermeasure against [Chiyou].
• Lü Yongchang and Zhao Zijie identified a newly sighted nine-thousand-meter warship as the Enroget Civilization’s flagship.
• Lü Yongchang noticed the flagship combined Enroget design features with an unfamiliar style, suggesting it incorporated technology from another civilization.
• Zero compared the flagship with other Enroget warships and found its modified sections resembled their aft sections.
• Lü Yongchang concluded the Enroget Civilization had removed most of the flagship’s weapons and filled the freed space with large antimatter reactors to power an unknown device.

The Enrojet fleet used a spatial weapon to intercept Human Federation missiles, then launched an attack moving at eight hundred times the speed of light. Lü Yongchang identified the weapon as a projectile made from a spatial rift, while Bai Yixuan ordered the Human Fleet to disperse.

• The Human Federation fleet and [Chiyou] launched a massive salvo of curvature missiles at the Enrojet fleet.
• The Enrojet flagship activated its spatial weapon and fired expanding spatial rifts that destroyed missiles far from the fleet.
• Bai Yixuan detected an unknown attack traveling eight hundred times the speed of light and ordered the Human Fleet to disperse.
• Lü Yongchang ordered Bai Yixuan to keep firing and told Zero to analyze footage of the attack.
• Lü Yongchang examined the footage and concluded that the Enrojet weapon fired a spatial rift.

Lü Yongchang explained that the Enroget Civilization's spatial-rift weapon could be created by extreme spacetime distortions and might be technology from a level six civilization. The Enroget fleet entered curvature navigation to close on the Human Fleet, then launched another rift at 800c, revealing it could attack while traveling faster than light.

• Fang Xu and Lü Yongchang explained how colliding positive and negative spacetime distortions could rupture space, and Lü said the Enroget weapon likely used that principle.
• Lü asked Zhao Zijie to have the Expeditionary Fleet launch curvature missiles so he could analyze the spatial-rift weapon.
• The Enroget Alliance Leader ordered the fleet to enter curvature navigation at 50c after the old scientist said they could fire spatial weapons while moving.
• Bai Yixuan received reports that the Enroget fleet was accelerating along the curvature missiles' paths and questioned the apparent suicide maneuver.
• A new spatial rift appeared at 800c, and Bai Yixuan realized the Enroget Civilization could attack while in a faster-than-light curvature state.

Zhao Zijie discovered that the Enroget flagship’s spatial weapon had a limited range, allowing the Human Fleet to use hit-and-run tactics. Chiyou stayed behind to cover the fleet’s retreat and was destroyed by a spatial rift.

• Bai Yixuan and Zhao Zijie realized the Enroget flagship must have an overlooked weakness, while Zhao Zijie and Lü Yongchang searched for ways to counter the spatial rifts.
• Zhao Zijie mapped the intercepted Curvature Missiles and determined that the spatial weapon had a range of about 750 to 800 light-minutes.
• Bai Yixuan ordered Chiyou’s personnel and supplies transferred to other ships, then withdrew the Human Expeditionary Fleet and left Chiyou behind to delay the Enroget fleet.
• Chiyou unleashed its weapons as the Enroget fleet passed at a distance of 800 light-minutes, bringing a spatial rift within attack range.
• The spatial rift pierced Chiyou through its equator, overloading its shields and destroying the planetary fortress.

Lü Yongchang concluded that Spatial Weapons and the ability to attack during Curvature Navigation created an enormous combat gap between Level Five and Level Six Civilizations. While he continued his calculations, the Human fleet used guerrilla tactics to keep the Enrojet fleet pinned near its Central Stellar System and devastate the Alliance’s territory.

• Lü Yongchang explained that a Level Six Civilization could attack from curvature at extreme speed, leaving a Level Five Civilization almost no chance to strike back.
• Zhao Zijie and Bai Yixuan began a guerrilla campaign, keeping the Enrojet fleet focused on the Human Expeditionary Fleet without attacking the Central Stellar System.
• Bai Yixuan split the Human fleet into groups of twenty warships, sending three hundred groups across the Enrojet Alliance while the rest harassed the Central Stellar System.
• Zero directed the dispersed groups to attack shipping hubs, antimatter production bases, and military factories, throwing the Alliance into chaos.
• The Enrojet fleet repeatedly chased the Human forces back toward its Central Stellar System to prevent apparent decapitation strikes, leaving its Flagship pinned there.
• Lü Yongchang stopped his work as the holographic screens filled with complex formulas.

The Enrojet Alliance admitted defeat and requested peace negotiations, while Lü Yongchang successfully tested spacetime resonance, a method that could prevent spatial rifts and disable enemy warp drives. As the Enrojet fleet waited for a reply, two thousand Human warships appeared around it in an apparently scattered formation.

• The Alliance Leader accepted the elderly scientist’s advice and ordered the Enrojet fleet to stop pursuing the Human Fleet.
• An Enrojet combat group found that its flagship no longer defended the Central Stellar System and asked Commander Bai what to do after receiving a negotiation request.
• Lü Yongchang explained spacetime resonance and tested it with experimental ships, successfully preventing one ship from entering a curvature state.
• Lü Yongchang estimated that two thousand warships could suppress a spatial rift and prevent an enemy fleet from entering a curvature state.
• The Enrojet Alliance sent another request for peace negotiations and held its fleet in place as two thousand Human warships appeared around it.

After the Enrojet Civilization rejected Human Civilization’s demand to become its vassal, the humans triggered a spacetime resonance that disrupted the Enrojet Spatial Weapon and deflected its interception fire. The Enrojet fleet activated its Curvature Bubbles, but the human Curvature Missiles continued approaching.

• The elderly Enrojet scientist rejected Human Civilization’s demand for control of its warships and Central Computer, then ordered the fleet to keep attacking.
• Under Zero’s control, more than two thousand human warships generated spacetime fluctuations that rapidly intensified into a resonance.
• The elderly scientist realized the resonance could create a spacetime tsunami and ordered the Enrojet fleet to activate its Curvature Bubbles.
• The resonance prevented the Enrojet Flagship’s Spatial Weapon from forming a stable spatial rift, though the fleet’s Curvature Bubbles eventually stabilized its ships and weapon.
• Human Civilization launched Curvature Missiles toward the Enrojet fleet, whose electromagnetic projectiles veered off course and laser beams lost their accuracy amid the spacetime waves.

The Human Fleet used the spacetime tsunami to cripple the Enrojet fleet’s spatial weapons and charged into close combat. The [Titan Mothership] intercepted the Enroget flagship, survived two spatial rifts, and launched a boarding assault as the enemy’s shields failed.

• The Human Fleet’s spatial rift vanished in the spacetime tsunami, prompting it to abandon guerrilla tactics and charge the Enrojet fleet.
• The Enrojet fleet charged the Human Fleet, but human warheads and matter disintegration rays destroyed more than three hundred Enrojet warships in the first exchange.
• The Enroget flagship charged toward the [Titan Mothership], and Bai Yixuan ordered the Human flagship to intercept it.
• The [Titan Mothership] withstood the first spatial rift with its composite shield, then overloaded the enemy flagship’s shields with a counterattack.
• The [Titan Mothership] opened its side bay doors and sent carrier-based drones and war robots to board the Enroget flagship.

Human Civilization crippled the Enrojet flagship and sent war robots inside, while the Enrojet command staff prepared to abandon the ship and destroy its information. As the old scientist began the authorization process, a top-secret message appeared on his screen and stirred old memories.

• Human Civilization's Gravity Bombs disabled the Enrojet flagship's Antimatter Engines, leaving it drifting with only enough power to sustain its Curvature Bubble.
• Carrier-Based Drones and war robots breached the flagship, destroyed its defenses, and advanced through the ship.
• The Enrojet command staff watched the invading machines advance and agreed to abandon the flagship rather than let Human Civilization obtain the Spatial Weapon.
• The old scientist announced that he would trigger the Central Computer's self-destruct sequence to erase all information about the ruins if the Enrojet lost the war.
• As the old scientist worked through the authorization levels, a highest-security message appeared on his personal screen and awakened old memories.