Recaps

Hu Yu prepared the Reapers to enter insect territory and rescue Academician Liu, while Wen Zhonghua’s fleet fought Li Shun and the swarms before encountering the Mechanical Civilization. The surviving Reapers escaped into the Matter River and reunited with Academician Liu Bo, Chen Peng, and their companions.

• The insect king’s dimensional strikes devastated the allied fleets, but the Far Watcher Civilization’s planetary space cannons broke apart the swarm, which the survivors finally exterminated ten years later.
• After searching for the Mechanical Civilization and reclaiming their lost territory, Hu Yu’s scientists found and questioned a dormant mechanical body, while Hu Yu arranged for the Star Ring Alliance’s civilizations to rebuild.
• When Hu Yu received Academician Liu’s signal, he redirected preparations toward a rescue and equipped the Reapers with Zhou Xiaohua’s dimensional bombs.
• Wen Zhonghua led the Reapers into insect territory to find Li Shun, whose four-dimensional ships destroyed millions of Reapers before the humans trapped and killed the Worm King.
• Li Shun retreated, but three giant insects attacked the Reapers, and Wen Zhonghua’s commanders used fourth-dimensional ships to kill them and then followed Li Shun’s trail.
• The Reapers discovered the Mechanical Civilization fighting the insects, and its lord sent a hundred billion warships after Wen Zhonghua’s fleet.
• Wen Zhonghua used decoys and conventional engines to evade pursuit, then led the Reapers through the insect swarms into the Matter River.
• After two years in the Matter River, a meteorite opened to admit Academician Liu Bo, Chen Peng, and the others.

Wen Zhonghua’s fleet escaped the Matter River and returned to the Alliance, while Hu Yu prepared humanity and its allies to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization. The assault exposed the Wind Star Civilization’s involvement and ended with the Reapers trapped inside compressed space near the enemy base.

• Wen Zhonghua’s fleet escaped the Mirror Sub-Universe with Academician Liu Bo’s help, returned to the greater universe, and reunited Liu and his companions with their families on the Tree Race’s planet.
• Academician Liu gave Hu Yu and Academician Zeng his coded research, revealing how two-dimensional space could conceal warships and enable attacks from within.
• Hu Yu agreed to attack the Fish Horse Star Civilization after Erguan explained its connection to the Insect Race, and humanity began secretly building its forces and developing fourth-dimensional technology.
• The disappearance of seven civilizations and their dependent populations alarmed the Alliance, while its member civilizations expanded their fleets and completed a small antimatter star.
• Wen Zhonghua’s team recovered Fish Horse Star warship wreckage and communications equipment, and Hu Yu gathered a vast fleet before launching the attack with the Xuan Star Civilization.
• The Alliance fleet fought the Fish Horse Star fleet, located its hidden base, and discovered that the Wind Star Civilization had hundreds of billions of warships stationed there.
• The Wind Star fleet destroyed most of the Stingers, and Hu Yu’s forces identified technology linked to the missing civilizations before Reapers used two-dimensional antimatter bombs against a Fish Horse warship.
• Hu Yu revealed that many Reapers were disguised Exterminators, but the Wind Star fleet surrounded them and the Fish Horse and Wind Star civilizations compressed the space around them, leaving Wen Zhonghua unable to escape.

Hu Yu led the Star Ring Alliance through victory over the Fish Horse and Wind Star civilizations, the restoration of the Solar System, and a long campaign to strengthen its fleets and developing civilizations. The arc ended with five hundred billion Conquerors waiting in the fourth dimension to confront the elusive Mechanical Civilization.

• Hu Yu and Bi Cha targeted Fish Horse Star’s command planets, and Xuan Star warriors and Exterminators broke through the defenses to capture the Fish Horse leader.
• The Gemini Civilization attacked the Alliance, but Hu Yu’s hidden fleet destroyed its forces and forced it to surrender ships and technology.
• The Fish Horse Star Civilization abandoned its planets, and a giant bug attacked its and Wind Star’s fleets before the survivors fled and Hu Yu’s concealed force defeated them.
• Hu Yu returned humanity to the Solar System and oversaw the rebuilding of the Sun and Earth while the Alliance expanded its fleets and research.
• Hu Yu and Yun San organized efforts to develop lower-level civilizations and strengthen the defense line against the insect swarms.
• Li Shun began the Doomsday Plan at Number Three Base, creating bug-people before departing the galaxy with his fleet.
• Hu Yu established Alliance investigations and punished members who abused or attacked other civilizations, then tracked the Mechanical Civilization beyond the galaxy.
• Academician Li Youwei and other scientists developed the Conqueror and secret injection-molding shipbuilding, enabling humanity to produce one hundred million ships a year.
• Hu Yu sent five hundred billion Conquerors into the fourth dimension to wait for the Mechanical Civilization, but its fleet did not appear for a hundred years.

Hu Yu led the alliance against the insect swarm and used Neutron Star Cannons to shatter its main forces, while Li Shun secretly seized control of the Insect King. Humanity entered the Galactic Alliance’s core and learned of the threat from Andromeda, before Zhou Xiaohua solved the problem of locating the three-dimensional universe from the fourth dimension.

• Hu Yu abandoned pursuit of the missing Mechanical Civilization fleet and assembled the alliance’s fleets for an offensive against the bugs.
• Hu Yu deployed Academician Xiao’s biological warriors against the high-tier swarm, but the flat Insect King destroyed a billion Conquerors and survived a second assault.
• Li Shun’s machines replaced the wounded Insect King’s consciousness with a human brain and secretly brought it under his control.
• Hu Yu sent two hundred billion Conquerors to annihilate Li Shun’s fleet after it attacked civilizations in Far Watcher Civilization territory.
• Hu Yu used the Great Cang Civilization’s warp-flight method to launch paired neutron stars that destroyed most of the high-tier swarm, while Li Shun’s Insect King escaped.
• Li Shun distributed advanced technology to civilization leaders to secure their neutrality, while Hu Yu rebuilt the defensive line near the Matter River.
• Hu Yu joined the Galactic Alliance’s core and learned that the Insect Emperor could not be fully destroyed and that an earlier Andromeda fleet had devastated the Milky Way.
• Zhou Xiaohua discovered the three-dimensional universe’s spatial frequency and solved how to locate its coordinates from the fourth dimension two thousand years after the great battle.