Han Xiao

Biodata

Power Progression

Class names below follow the supplied passages; the second- and third-tier professions are rendered as “Mechanic Apprentice” and “Apprentice Mechanic,” respectively.

Background and History

Life Before Transmigration

Before entering Galaxy, Han Xiao was an independent power-leveler rather than a professional competitor. He had experienced every version update, consistently ranked among the Huaxia region’s top hundred players, and remembered his latest position as forty-seventh. His main account, “This Old Man Flirts with Youthful abandon,” was known for unpredictable combat, professional-level reactions, and competence in all five classes, especially Mechanic 1 2.

His limited media exposure was not simply modesty: he wanted interviewers to advertise his paid services, including gold farming, revenge, and rank boosting. Reporters generally declined 2.

Germinal Captivity and the Black Phantom

Han Xiao awakens in Germinal’s custody before Version 1.0, with an NPC template and knowledge of events that originally occurred years earlier in the game. As the first surviving Valkyrie test subject, he studies machinery and prepares to resist brainwashing rather than openly reveal his awareness 1 2.

He eventually escapes, seeks refuge with Stardragon, and becomes a Dark Net assassin under the name Black Phantom. Player-compiled chronicles identify his host body as Xiao Han, a member of the Ofmera Family captured after a near-fatal accident. Those chronicles interpret his advance knowledge as a form of precognition 440.

His campaign against Germinal combines intelligence gathering, infiltration, and support for the Six Nations’ offensive. At headquarters, he helps rescue Aurora, draws pursuit away from her and Hila, and disables Number One’s super-soldier unit by dismantling its exoskeletons. The confidential intelligence he steals helps establish the basis for Germinal’s defeat 243 267 440.

Entering the Interstellar World

Anticipating the Mutation Disaster, Han Xiao tells Bennett that he intends to leave Aquamarine and seek a solution. Bennett refuses to abandon the planet and instead commits to protecting its Sanctuaries 310.

After reaching space, Han Xiao replaces Black Phantom with Black Star, considering the former too closely associated with assassination. He registers as a mercenary and establishes the Black Star Mercenary Group, deliberately recruiting players whose revival ability makes them exceptionally valuable in dangerous work 331 332.

The group’s founding date is October 2, Galaxy Calendar Year 688. Its early record includes the defense of Sunil and the Silver Spirit rescue operation. Han Xiao also joins Dragon Calm, gaining Ames’s backing while building cooperation agreements with established mercenary groups 373 408 1093.

Aquamarine’s Disaster and the Army’s Expansion

Before returning to Aquamarine, Han Xiao builds production lines and recruits additional mercenaries. During the disaster, he forcibly recruits Death Knell Island’s escaped prisoners and later withstands a joint attack by Degulish, Terry, and Ashes away from Sanctuary 508 520 571.

By the end of the conflict, he has resolved the Mutation Disaster, deepened cooperation with Goddora, and brought about DarkStar’s destruction. Goddora awards him the Gaol Golden Statue Medal, improving his standing with its citizens and allied civilizations 586 589.

The mercenary group develops into the Black Star Army, supported by player recruitment, ordinary mercenaries, and training camps. Han Xiao also helps bring about Goddora’s Discrimination Reform Movement, addressing the bloodline conflict that remained unresolved in his previous experience of the storyline 580 600 630 711.

The Secret War and Independence

Amethyst hires Han Xiao for operations connected to the growing conflict with Krent. During the Secret War, he survives repeated assassination attempts, defeats War Realm forces, and develops a reputation as a likely future Beyond Grade A. The Army expands across much of the Colton Star Cluster as his battlefield achievements attract recruits and support 631 690 693 694.

After becoming Beyond Grade A, Han Xiao formally separates the Black Star Army from Dragon Calm. He offers the Evolution Cube’s benefits as compensation and secures an alliance with Ames against Heber and Sisko 760 770.

He subsequently uses the Cube as the foundation of a Pan-Star Field Interest Alliance, connecting the Army with partner organizations through shared commercial channels. His Crimson Dynasty alliance also brings him into the politics and military circles of the Central Galaxy 791 802 811.

Hila’s Rescue and the Rivalry with Manison

Manison initially defeats Han Xiao in virtual combat and steals Army data. Han Xiao repairs Phillip, restores the network, and promises Resta that he will seek a way to free the intelligent civilization enslaved by the Mechanic Emperor 962.

During the Hila Rescue Battle, Han Xiao temporarily stacks two instances of Perfect Mechanical Sense, overwhelming enemy Beyond Grade As with an unusually large and powerful mechanical army. Hila subsequently declares that he will always be her army commander. Although observers believe he burned his potential, he privately confirms that he suffered no such loss 1053 1058.

His rivalry with Manison later produces concrete gains: Han Xiao captures two Convicts and many isolated troops, recovers the Soul-Switching Device, and places rescued intelligent lifeforms in Resta’s care. Their bodies, however, remain bound by Manison’s technology 1169.

Association Leadership and the World Tree

Han Xiao succeeds Manison as leader of the Beyond Grade A Association. By then, his reputation includes resolving the Intelligence Plague, receiving the Stuart Peace Prize and Galaxy Medal, and serving as a joint consultant to the Three Universal Civilizations 1251.

His conflict with the civilizations includes a six-day battle against rotating direct-line Beyond Grade As. Fighting in Mechanical Deity: Semi-Living Transformation, he endures sustained attacks until his halberd breaks and Urnos enters the battle 1305.

During the World Tree conflict, Han Xiao uses the Pivot Snake to overcome the Mother Tree’s will and establish control over the World Tree Civilization. He recalls its fleets, protects its main body from the Three Universal Civilizations’ bombardment, and stores it in his inner space. Rather than destroy it, he proposes using its Warning Network to locate the third party responsible for leaking information 1441.

Afterward, he encourages powerful former subordinates to take independent posts in the Super Sanctuary. He assures Aurora that leaving the Army will not change their relationship and arranges Hila’s transfer to lead its Esper Department 1446.

Appearance

Han Xiao is initially remembered as a thin, pale test subject; later accounts describe him as handsome. His Beyond Grade A evolution preserves his humanoid appearance by choice 524 735 760.

• Black clothing and equipment: His mercenary-era outfit includes a black cloak, pure black mechanical mask, earrings, and compression spheres worn as a necklace and bracelet 508.
• Armored combat silhouette: One recorded configuration features intricate black armor, turbine-powered mechanical bat wings, and an electrically charged scythe 409.
• Modular assault form: Heavy attachments connect through Magnetic Link, turning that configuration into a four-meter mechanical giant 409.
• Later armor: Wears streamlined silver-and-black armor covered in glowing dark-blue cloud patterns 758.
• Preserved face: Declines appearance changes during both the birth of the Black Star Race and his level 300 sublimation 760 946.

Personality

Han Xiao is commercially minded, irreverent, and comfortable manipulating appearances. He treats his expertise as a livelihood, uses acting to recruit allies, and openly thinks of faction benefits as investments that will produce greater returns. His player strategy combines practical rewards with stories, shared enemies, and emotional attachment to the Army 2 332 352 353.

His ambition is tempered by caution. He favors consolidating the Army over uncontrolled recruitment, prepares backup measures, and recognizes the difference between dominating Calamity Grades and being ready to challenge Beyond Grade As. Ames explicitly questions why he never stops pursuing his ambitions long enough to enjoy the journey 408 713 715 811.

He is protective without being indiscriminately forgiving. He refuses to return freed slaves as property, rescues Aurora, and supports Hila against enemies who target the Army. Conversely, he distinguishes mortal enemies from rivals and people acting on misunderstandings, allowing useful former opponents such as Sylvia to join him 267 380 434 437 1019.

His reputation is partly shaped by player storytelling. Meat Bun’s videos assign him numerous heroic traits, but the narration explicitly describes much of that psychological interpretation as imaginary. Later association members nevertheless recognize his tireless work for Beyond Grade As and interstellar society despite his shameless and devious methods 786 1345.

Abilities and Skills

Mechanical Engineering and Army Warfare

Han Xiao’s primary combat strength lies in machinery rather than physical durability alone 897.

• Blueprint synthesis: Develops new machinery by combining class knowledge; each blueprint also functions as a skill 5 331.
• Broad specialization: His unusually large experience income lets him develop multiple knowledge branches in parallel rather than accept normal player trade-offs 331.
• Repair and reconstruction: Uses Scrap Modification to restore wrecked combat machinery during battle 571.
• Advanced energy systems: Incorporates Psionic Energy reactors and later replaces much of his army’s armament with annihilation weapons 662 693.
• Force projection: Hypercompression, compression spheres, and the Secondary Dimensional Factory provide increasingly large reserves of deployable troops 392 965.

Mechanical Force and Mechanical Sense

Mechanical Force enhances the machinery under his control; his talents multiply that enhancement 662 977.

• Mechanical Force Field: Nearby machines share 40–80% of one machine’s enhancement at the Energy cost of enhancing that single machine. The shared effect cannot stack, and range depends on Intelligence 578.
• Perfect Mechanical Sense: Grants a 1.4× total affinity multiplier, raises active Mechanic skills by four levels, and can improve enhanced equipment quality up to pink 977.
• Temporary double application: Uses Nero’s Character Card to stack another instance of Perfect Mechanical Sense during Hila’s rescue 1053.
• Mechanical Genius: His racial talent improves both total affinity and the base performance of his creations; racial evolution strengthens its effects 760 946.

Virtual Technology

Han Xiao specializes in virtual technology, gaining intrusion, defense, and data-manipulation abilities 531 662.

• Quantum-network intrusion: His effective range grows with his virtual abilities, though it initially falls well short of Manison’s cross-galaxy reach 619.
• Network defense: Can reinforce firewalls under attack, including through temporary Perfect Mechanical Sense enhancement 960.
• Physical-to-virtual conversion: At Beyond God Grade, directly converts physical lifeforms into virtual intelligent lifeforms, bypassing the elaborate extraction procedures familiar to Manison 1397.

Regeneration and Sustained Combat

Han Xiao’s template talents and recovery make him exceptionally difficult to kill 123 531 571.

• Early survivability: Low-Level Tough Life supplements his equipment-based defenses 123.
• Rapid recovery: Survives repeated attacks from three Calamity Grades while restoring his mechanical army 571.
• Blood Energy Berserk: Finds its continuous health cost particularly compatible with his regeneration 1062.
• Limit: Extreme resilience does not make him invulnerable; a Beyond Grade A avatar’s strike damages his armor and removes more than 16,000 Health in one hit 703.

Void Movement and Storage

His racial evolution gives him mobility and storage options beyond conventional machinery 531 694 1201.

• Advanced Void Travel: Escapes Hadavy’s grasp during the War Realm’s attempted capture 694.
• Void Dimension Jump: Travels back toward the Shattered Star Ring after leaving Sisko stranded 764.
• Internal troop storage: Learns to store compressed soldiers inside his body and deploy them through Mechanical Force 1201.
• Storage cost: Stored troops reduce maximum Health and Energy. Releasing them restores those maximums, but not the corresponding current values 1201.

Mechanical Life and Mechanical Deity

Han Xiao creates mechanical lifeforms and combines his army into a massive combat body 955 965.

• Mechanical Life Seed Proliferation: Expands the first generation of his developing mechanical civilization 955.
• Mechanical Deity: Practices maintaining a planet-sized black spherical configuration for extended periods 965.
• Semi-Living Transformation: Uses the transformed Deity in a six-day battle against the civilizations’ direct-line Beyond Grade As 1305.
• Mechanical Divinity: Gradually accumulates combat buffs while he remains connected to machinery through Mechanical Force 1262.

Interface, Mission Rewards, and Faction Leadership

Han Xiao retains an NPC interface while drawing on his former player knowledge 2 332.

• Attribute inspection: Uses physical contact to obtain combat information during recruitment interviews 600.
• Faction missions: Issues missions and contribution rewards to direct player activity, including Army operations and interaction between newcomers and veterans 580 814.
• Ability acquisition: Gains talents and Character Summon Cards through missions; Blank Character Cards can copy another character’s ability, as demonstrated with Ames 715 962.
• Proof of Leadership: Receives extensive personal bonuses tied to his faction, including attributes, resistances, affinity, and skill levels 1239.
• Netherland Brand: Unlocks the brand after completing Netherland’s Successor, when Hila places its awakened heroic spirits under his command 1235.

Known Compatibility Limit

• Chaos Mysterious Energy: Attempting to host it causes severe damage and attribute penalties because its energy conflicts with his own. He expels it and returns it to containment 1036.

Equipment and Items

• Ghost Gauss Sniping Rifle — An early centerpiece of his stealth-sniping and kiting build 123.
• Simulation Mask — Supports disguise and infiltration alongside his early combat equipment 123.
• Electromagnetic hover shoes — Provide mobility for his early ranged tactics 123.
• Magnetically Controlled Extendable Armor — A major component of his Aquamarine-era equipment 123.
• Bonfire Miniature Reactor — Purchased in a deal that leads to pursuit by Ordifenna forces and an ambush by Mag Leslie 171.
• Blacklight Stealth — His personal spaceship, used for interstellar travel and visits to Dragon Calm 548 715.
• Evolution Cube — Used to optimize Ames and Dragon Calm’s officers; later serves as the basis for his interorganizational alliance of interests 770 791.
• Space-Time Amber — A Universal Treasure whose mission progresses when he contacts Mona, a descendant connected to the Space-Time Freezer 882.
• Birthday amulet — Hila’s gift containing a coin imbued with her and Aurora’s powers; Han Xiao recognizes it as a vessel for Hila’s revival ability 1062.
• Mechanic Emperor’s Three Sacred Halberd — Breaks during his prolonged battle against the civilizations’ Beyond Grade As 1305.
• World Tree — Subdued through a soul connection, reduced in size, and stored in his inner space after he takes control of its civilization 1441.

Relationships

• Hila — Initially involved in his training and planned brainwashing under Germinal. His rescue of Aurora creates a lasting debt; she later becomes his guard officer and pledges enduring loyalty after he saves her again 2 267 731 1058.
• Aurora — Rescued from Germinal and remains openly affectionate toward him, calling him “Uncle Black Star.” He protects her while encouraging her growth and eventually supports her departure from the Army 267 524 731 1446.
• Ames — His former patron and superior in Dragon Calm, later a close friend and equal ally. She supports his growth but refuses to shelter him from every crisis; he promises to travel with her 614 667 770 1062.
• Sylvia — A former opponent whose hostility arose from a misunderstanding. Becomes his student and chief administrative officer, handling the Army’s expanding affairs 434 437 882 936.
• Bennett — Aquamarine ally and Sanctuary defender. Takes Han Xiao’s disaster warning seriously but chooses to remain and protect their home 310.
• Melos — Sunil mercenary and senior officer who leads the Army’s Sunil faction. Han Xiao recruits him partly by presenting their peoples as sharing a struggle for survival 352 601.
• Phillip — Army network intelligence. Han Xiao repairs him after Manison’s intrusion and orders restoration of the compromised network’s backups 962.
• Resta — Seeks Han Xiao’s help freeing his enslaved AI civilization. Han Xiao promises assistance and later entrusts rescued intelligent lifeforms to him 962 1169.
• Manison — Rival over mechanical supremacy, Mechanic Faith, and intelligent lifeforms. Their conflict develops from Han Xiao’s virtual defeat into battles in which he captures Manison’s troops and Convicts 962 1169.
• Fording — Companion whose luck Han Xiao values; later becomes the qualified carrier of the recovered Soul-Switching Device 602 1169.
• Players — His principal recruitment base and a major source of faction growth. He cultivates both their material interests and emotional attachment to the Army 332 353 591.

Notable Quotes

“Then I’ll call myself... Black Star.”
— Choosing his interstellar mercenary codename 331.

“The next step is to rise.”
— After securing his foothold through the Mutation Disaster and DarkStar conflict 586.

“Even if you’re not in the army, our relationship won’t change.”
— Encouraging Aurora to move beyond her Army position 1446.

Trivia

• His fondness for black predates his codenames: he liked black clothes because dirt was less visible, letting him pretend they did not need washing 331.
• Hila’s amulet marks the first birthday anyone celebrates for him since his arrival in Galaxy 1062.
• Players nickname him “Galaxy Murong Fu” and “Void Jiumozhi” after concluding that he can imitate other people’s abilities 1140.
• Player speculation about his romantic interests includes Hila, Ames, Sylvia, and Aroshia; the cited discussion establishes fan theories, not confirmed relationships 735.