Tu Shisan was one of the individuals close to Shouyang of the Metal Race, and the Striver Faction had been formed under Tu Shisan's leadership. Most of its members were Metal Race individuals who had seen the night sky and begun to yearn for it.
Tu Shisan had once met Shouyang in private, but the response had not been encouraging. Shouyang did not think highly of the exploration plan proposed by the Striver Faction.
According to the intelligence collected by the electromagnetic satellites the Striver Faction had previously launched into space, the three stars beyond the planet's shield were not as serene and majestic as they appeared from its surface.
In reality, their powerful, chaotic gravitational fields dragged satellite after satellite into a vortex of destruction. Without exception, the satellites became little snacks for the stars to fight over.
The Striver Faction wanted to leave the protected surface of the planet and fearlessly pursue the stars, but the Stellar Beings of the Sunny Faction feared this would lead many of their people into inescapable stellar gravitational fields.
Had Origin One, who had first come into being on the planet, not modified it, this world surviving between the stars would sooner or later have exhausted its luck. The entire Metal Race would never have survived until Luo Qi's arrival.
Tu Shisan could not forget the stars, and neither could the Striver Faction. When the council of thirteen Stellar Beings convened, the Striver Faction attended the hearing together. As though awakened, they no longer wanted to drift through empty, aimless days. The starry sky of the polar night had been dazzling as a dream, haunting every member of the Striver Faction day and night.
After the Stellar Beings convened, ten votes opposed the plan. Shouyang's crucial veto overruled the other Stellar Beings'