After all its twists and turns, this book finally reached its end.
From July 6, 2024, when I first typed the name Xi Yan, to today, April 14, 2025, more than half a year passed, and I spent all those months writing.
If you made it this far, you must be either top-quality Stellaris players or the most promising prospective Stellaris players. Whatever the case, you saw this somewhat flawed work through to the end, and you learned a little about Stellaris along the way.
I stumbled my way through writing this book. Updates stopped, it got banned, and I made serious mistakes... But whatever happened, I did keep going, and I wrote it through to its conclusion.
I want to thank every reader for your support. Thank you.
Every bit of support you gave became part of the Sea of Stars Empire's great undertaking.
In the early hours of yesterday morning, I finally wrote the last word.
When I typed "The end," I felt a weight lift from my heart, though there was even more regret. That was why I decided to say a few things to you at the end. That is what you are reading now.
Strictly speaking, this was the first book I ever finished.
I started trying to write novels in third grade. Throughout my three years of middle school and three years of high school, I wrote something on paper whenever I had time. That gave me enough practice with prose to tell the stories I wanted to tell.
Once I reached university, I finally began publishing my work online. Naturally, without any systematic training, my results were not particularly good. Most of those works became writing exercises, until this one came along.
This was the first book I stuck with all the way