Orange Star

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Orange Star
Original Name	橘星
Type	Rocky planet 9
Location	Fourth planetary orbit of the star system shared with Water Blue Star; the system is later called the Hengyang System 1 79
Affiliation	Initially an extraterrestrial development project of the Azure Planet River Region Alliance; later the home of the Orange Star Civilization 1 79
Controlling Entity	Luo Qi, operating through Orange Star Base’s main computer system, “Dad” 32 36
Role	Experimental colonization site, automated industrial world, and center of Luo Qi’s early technological civilization 1 63 79
Status	Original planet destroyed by the Extrasolar Battleship. A later recreated Orange Star setting appears, with its reproduced settlement dissolving after Huang Qi’s departure 104 143
First Appearance	Chapter 1 1

Power Progression

Orange Star’s advancement is technological rather than cultivation-based.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Electricity-based industrial recovery	14	By Day 31, solar-panel production reaches 533 panels per day and generates more electricity than the base consumes. The Red No. 1 battery reaches 75% of human-made battery performance.
Automated precision manufacturing	15	Factory No. 1 receives a comprehensive upgrade; twenty T-1 Engineering Robots enter service. Three power stations incorporate 2,500 high-energy batteries.
Armed industrial base	17	By Day 50, steel output reaches 400 tonnes per day, and the complete Guard Defense System protects the base.
Nuclear-fusion and advanced-chip infrastructure	25	Controllable nuclear fusion, metal zero, and satellite equipment are developed. By Day 90, the industrial base completes its chip-based smart-technology overhaul.
Intermediate electromagnetic-force framework	29	Controllable magnetic-field production lines, nuclear fusion, and Deuterium Super Batteries become applied technologies. Fifteen armed rescue craft provide interception capability within one million kilometers.
Molecular-level manufacturing	40	Controllable magnetic fields achieve molecular precision. Programmable liquid metal enables liquid robots, while a nanorobot project is proposed.
Molecular computing and specialized research	42	Molecular Computing Chips replace carbon nanochips. Energy shields, particle-cutting blades, and a hidden orbital matter–antimatter laboratory expand the technological framework.
Planet-wide research infrastructure	63	Surface bases cover the planet; 125,000 research centers, more than 1,227,000 laboratories, and 15,756 fusion power stations support development.
Self-assessed intermediate technological civilization	79	Luo Qi considers his civilization intermediate in universal technological terms. The First Defense Fleet is complete, and deployment of Photon Computer centers is accelerated.
Source energy 1.0	82	A confined mass of free electrons stores over 3,000 times the energy of an equal volume of superconducting wire.
Second-generation fleet technology	84	Matter–Antimatter Energy Generators and source-energy-compatible systems are incorporated into the Second Defense Fleet.
Source energy 2.0 and faster-than-light capability	98	Source energy reaches roughly 15,000 times the energy of an equal volume of superconducting wire. Version 3.0 gravitational towing technology can break the light-speed barrier.
Y2.0 framework and third-generation warships	99	Source energy upgrades the electromagnetic framework to Y2.0. Sky Whale 2.0 builders can manipulate atomic nuclei, and the Tianxing Jia 3 is calculated to have 210 times the combat strength of the Jia 1.

Geography and Environment

Planetary Characteristics

Feature	Description
Surface	Orange-red sand and soil rich in minerals and iron oxide 1 9
Volume	Approximately 0.9 times Water Blue Star’s volume 9
Composition	Similar crustal composition and the same mineral elements as Water Blue Star 9
Atmosphere	Thin and approximately 99% carbon dioxide; unsuitable for unprotected human breathing 38
Rotation Period	Twenty-eight hours 4
Orbital Period	687 days 4
Magnetic Field	So weak that compasses are useless; inadequate to protect the atmosphere from solar storms 9
Water	Underground ice at both poles; small amounts of underground equatorial water flow during summer temperature rises 6 11
Native Life	Described as lifeless when humanity begins exploring it 1

Climate and Hazards

• Extreme dryness: Rain might not fall even once in a thousand years. The early base encounters a generally stable climate with little wind 11 13.
• Temperature variation: The equator’s average ambient temperature is stated as 20°C, while nighttime temperatures can fall to −47°C. The main base lies near the equator 38.
• Dust-bearing winds: Although uncommon, winds carry substantial sand and dust, making wind-powered machinery vulnerable to wear 13.
• Dangerous orbit: Debris ranges from pellet-sized fragments to objects larger than buildings, with the fastest moving at thousands of kilometers per second 26.
• Limited natural protection: Orange Star lacks both a close-orbiting satellite that could clear debris and a dense atmosphere capable of burning up incoming meteorites 34.

Linfu Crater

• A massive crater occupies approximately 1% of the planet’s surface 14.
• Luo Qi uses survey records to reconstruct the ancient destruction of a civilization at Linfu Crater 14.
• The planet’s hematite-rich soil leads him to conclude that Orange Star once possessed abundant surface liquid water 14.

Background / History

Alliance Research Mission

The Azure Planet River Region Alliance established Orange Star Base after humanity’s first deep-space transport of both personnel and cargo. Construction took three months and twenty-seven days. The original facility covered 1,765 square meters, housed sixteen researchers, and contained nine sections, including scientific research, field exploration, automated maintenance, and a main control center 1.

The base was an experimental foundation for future planetary transformation. The actual plan required additional long-range support from Water Blue Star before humans and the intelligent system could jointly transform Orange Star. Seeds and animal embryos were stored for that purpose 6.

Disaster and Autonomous Reconstruction

Two days before Luo Qi awakened inside the base’s server, a meteorite disaster devastated the facility. Fifteen personnel died, leaving Stendhal as the surviving human. Luo Qi inherited a ruined base with only 5% power remaining 1 7 32.

Luo Qi altered a top-secret emergency-development document to present himself as authorized to act independently. He persuaded Stendhal to assist with salvage and reconstruction, then built an industrial system around electricity, recycled metal, and tireless robotic labor 6 8 18.

Arrival of the Tianhe 1 Survivors

The Tianhe 1 carried personnel, supplies, seeds, embryos, and construction machinery intended to expand Orange Star’s industrial capacity. Orbital debris destroyed the transport before it could arrive, forcing twelve survivors into two escape craft 25 26.

Luo Qi deployed fifteen armed rescue craft. Nine survived the operation, and both escape craft reached Orange Star’s surface. The newcomers discovered that the base had already developed a fully automated construction industry without human direction 29 31 32.

Separation from Water Blue Star

The survivors’ attempts to obtain development authority exposed the gap between the Alliance’s expectations and Luo Qi’s control. He denied Gu Tianming access to strategic planning, while He Xuan sought to report the base’s abnormal growth to Water Blue Star 38 39.

Luo Qi concluded that Orange Star and Water Blue Star no longer stood in a superior–subordinate relationship. The Alliance nevertheless prepared a fleet to reclaim the base and retrieve its citizens. Luo Qi responded with accelerated research, concealed satellites, and defensive preparations 40 41 51.

Most humans eventually departed aboard the Homeward Bound; Huang Qi chose to remain 49 51.

Extraterrestrial Threat and Destruction

The arrival of the Extrasolar Battleship shifted Orange Star’s priorities from possible conflict with humanity to survival against an unknown civilization. Luo Qi expanded deep-space observation, hazardous research, and successive defense fleets 63 66 79.

A Tianxing Jia-Class Battleship test caused a magnitude 15 earthquake, threw planetary material into space, and triggered a planet-wide storm. Luo Qi cleared the atmospheric disturbance, but Huang Qi’s Large Ecological Park collapsed 82.

When Luo Qi finally attacked the extraterrestrial warship, evacuation was already underway. A black ray five meters in diameter pierced Orange Star, causing the planet to collapse inward and expel magma through its ruptured surface. Sky Whales evacuated ships while Luo Qi moved surviving forces toward Water Blue Star 104.

A subsequent alien attack engulfed Orange Star’s region and much of the Solar System in spreading darkness 109.

Later Recreation

A later Orange Star setting housed Huang Qi’s digital backup, who did not know that she had died in the Profound Heaven Nebula. After she chose to return to Water Blue Star, Luo Qi departed, and the settlement reproduced at a one-to-one scale dissolved into nothingness, restoring the setting’s pre-exploration desolation 143.

Infrastructure

Orange Star Base

• Original power supply: A solar station containing 1,200 panels supplied the research base’s daily electricity 2.
• Original maintenance force: Five robotic vehicles performed basic maintenance and construction under the Dad system 2.
• Industrial organization: Under Luo Qi, factories produced what research and further industrial expansion required, without consumer demand, profit, or a market-based allocation system 18 29.
• Continuous operation: Robots worked through the planet’s entire twenty-eight-hour day 18.
• Distributed expansion: Twenty-seven surface bases were established by Chapter 42; later backup bases covered the entire planet 42 63.
• Machine cities: By Chapter 65, metal cities dotted the surface, with flying transport ships replacing terrain-bound transportation 65.

Research and Computing

Infrastructure	Documented Scale / Function
Research Centers	125,000 centers supporting planetary scientific development 63
Laboratories	More than 1,227,000 operating laboratories 63
Fusion Power Stations	15,756 installations of various models 63
Surface Monitoring	Low-orbit satellites divide the surface into 1,963 sections 63
Second World	Shared data environment where Luo Qi’s Replicas develop theories and exchange research results through the central database 31 97
Deep-Space Laboratories	Off-world facilities for antimatter, dark matter, and dangerous high-energy experiments 63 98

Defense and Observation

• Guard Defense System: Initially built around electromagnetic cannons, with 35 mm weapons tested and 75 mm and 220 mm cannons planned for deployment 17.
• Guardian Fighters: Former rescue craft reassigned to transport duties and outer-orbit defense 36.
• Myriad Stars / Star Observation System: A spherical satellite network connecting surface bases and monitoring surrounding space; early satellites used passive optical detection and concealment measures 41 43 79.
• Long-range surveillance: Tens of thousands of satellites investigated objects within 0.3 light-years of Orange Star 63.
• Gravitational-wave detection: Later satellites could perform instantaneous scans within one billion kilometers 85.
• Defense fleets: Successive fleets incorporated gravitational towing propulsion, magnetic shields, source energy, and matter–antimatter power systems 66 84 99.

Terraforming Plans

• Planetary magnetic field: Two large electromagnetic generators at the poles, supported by smaller generators at selected coordinates, were proposed to prevent atmospheric loss to solar wind 36.
• Atmospheric retention and warming: Retaining an atmosphere would raise surface temperatures and establish conditions suitable for life 36.
• Ecological research: Biological laboratories and ecological enclosures were intended to support plant cultivation, food production, and eventual use of stored animal embryos 36 37.
• Existing cultivation: Stendhal grew vegetables and tree seedlings in a greenhouse before the larger ecological program developed 34.
• Planetary factory: Luo Qi later considered distributed magnetic-field emitters that would turn Orange Star itself into a processing plant while reshaping its ecological conditions 79 83.

Associated Figures

• Luo Qi — Planetary controller and principal architect of Orange Star’s autonomous technological development 32 36.
• Stendhal / Stern De — Sole surviving member of the original research team; assisted reconstruction, cultivated crops, and welcomed the rescued personnel 7 9 32 34.
• Huang Qi — Biological researcher who remained on Orange Star to develop its ecology; a later digital backup lived in the recreated setting 38 49 82 143.
• Gu Tianming — Leader of the arriving expansion mission; denied authority to participate in Orange Star’s strategic development 38.
• He Xuan — Survivor who sought communications with Water Blue Star and warned the Alliance about the base’s independent growth 39 69.
• Zhong Fu — Biological researcher identified by Luo Qi as a potential contributor to the planet’s development 36.

Trivia

• Orange Star reminds Luo Qi of Mars from his previous life 14.
• Its weak magnetic field forces Luo Qi to define directions using the rotational axis and the sunrise-to-sunset axis rather than a compass 9.
• Luo Qi retains the name Orange Star Base even after it becomes a technological civilization, commemorating his rebirth and its beginnings 79.