In the year 2457 of the Old Earth calendar and the 4th year of the human calendar, the legendary colonial spaceship "Far Voyager" is far away, and it will arrive at the target planet in 140 years, the ideal blue planet.

But for humanity still in the solar system, the story is far from over.

In the aftermath of that short-lived but far-reaching human consortia, a generation shaped by suffering has died, voices of longing for peace and reason have vanished, and a new wave of division has begun to surge again. As the girl from a hundred years ago sighed:

"What is the meaning of what we are doing now? What is the meaning of our existence in this universe? What is the point of such endless wars? This spiral brings us only infinite suffering and final destruction. ”

In the Kuiper Belt asteroid belt of the solar system, countless space pirates, mining companies, and careerists gather in this chaotic world, which is a disorderly world without constraints, and a paradise for breaking the law and committing crimes.

In the 176th year of the birth of the Human Commonwealth, and in the 178th year of the Human Calendar, a new separatist force was born, and this self-proclaimed asteroid protector took advantage of the great advantage brought by the asteroid belt to fight with the fleets of the Human Commonwealth.

After a lapse of 200 years, humanity is once again facing each other with its own compatriots.

Warriors with peace and ideals may have been scholars, artists, explorers of outer space, but now their swords are being swung at their fellow citizens whom they once swore to protect.

"What has never changed? Hah, this fucking war. ”

In the unprecedented battle that broke out at the KB-769 asteroid, in the face of the hundreds of millions of warships scattered in space, the fleet commander held his white military hat and laughed at himself.

The human commonwealth collapsed, but not because of war, but because of the usurpation of power by armies.

Those who gather for profit will be dispersed for profit, and those who gather for righteousness will be dispersed for righteousness.

Ironically, the human commonwealth born for the idea of peace eventually collapsed because of the usurpation of power by armies, who no longer want to cling to peace within a stale framework, and they need to unify the whole of humanity, no matter what the cost.

An era known as the "Great Collapse" began.

On the wreckage of the human commonwealth, all kinds of separatist forces have been formed, the former human commonwealth army, the overlord, has occupied the earth, and many space habitats and planetary settlements have become the territory of these separatist forces, and so on, for more than two hundred years.

Until a ghost of an old time returns......

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In the year 428 of the human calendar, an unknown signal appeared in the outer reaches of the solar system.

"What the hell is this? Looks like a signal from some old antique? Unmanned machines of the old days?"

Feeling the signal received by the processor in his brain, the miner who was directing the unmanned mining machine on an asteroid was a little confused, and a strange signal came from a distance of 7.6 light minutes from him.

Unlike the now popular subspace communication, this signal uses very old quantum communication

But soon he was no longer confused.

A strange spaceship appeared in front of him, different from the spaceship materials commonly used in the solar system, this spaceship ...... It doesn't look like a spaceship, as much of it isn't material at all.

After entering the space age, metals were officially eliminated, and human beings began to use various topological materials, which embody various strange properties at the quantum level and became the new favorite of human beings. Compared to metals that only have extremely high strength and performance in three-dimensional space, these substances with eleven-dimensional structures at the quantum level are even more bizarre and can withstand the strange demands of the space age.

But no kind of topological matter can compare to the strange ship in front of you......

Much of it is not matter, but the forces and waves excited by the stance generator. It's not so much a spaceship as it is a stance generator moving through space, its near-transparent frame that allows even the miner to see the inner workings, the strange devices of all sizes inside, and the bright-eyed, confident little girl who seems to be levitating.

The ship was like a big toy with a little bit of internal structure and then the rest of the space was rendered with lighting.

But the powerful distortion of the space-time structure it induces, one only needs to look at the rays of light that move strangely next to the ship to make it clear that the ship is not as fragile as it seems.

"Greetings to you, the reconnaissance aircraft of the First Fleet of the Hope Star of the First Far Sector of the Human Commonwealth, citizen, please assist me in contacting the nearest administrative body of the Human Commonwealth, and I will bring sincere greetings from the Hope Star of the First Far Star Sector of the Human Commonwealth. ”

The little girl raised her hand, saluted with a military salute of the human commonwealth of an old era, and said in a seemingly serious voice in a childish voice.

Miner:......???

And after a moment of communication.

"The Consortium of People Disbanded ?!! (#°Д°)"

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On that day, a sensational news spread throughout the solar system, more than 400 years ago, the legendary colony ship "Far Traveler", which colonized the planet Ross 128b, 11 light-years away, has now returned to their fleet.

According to the fleet, it took the Far Travelers 145 years to reach the planet Ross 128b, and named it "Hope" according to the preparations they had prepared in advance.

It's a very inhabited planet, but it's also dangerous, with a lot of strange flora and fauna that make the first colonists very uncomfortable. After 100,000 fertilized eggs developed into embryos, it took the colonists more than two hundred years to finally gain a foothold on that planet.

At the same time, they also got a lot of inspiration from those strange animals and plants. Compared with the humans in the solar system, the colonists are far behind in many technologies such as communication and combat, but the speed of their spaceships completely destroys the humans in the solar system.

Once the speed of 7% of the speed of light was already the mechanism of human spaceship speed, it was thought that only the "Far Traveler" who could accelerate indefinitely in the void could do it, and today, the vast majority of human ships in the solar system are only about 2% of the speed of light. But now, Hope's human warships can easily reach 20% of the speed of light, and in extreme cases, they can reach 30% of the speed of light.

Because of this, after gaining a foothold, Hope Star immediately dispatched a large fleet to trade with the human commonwealth.

After learning the news of the collapse of the human commonwealth, the Hope Star Fleet, which stayed on the outskirts of the solar system, finally decided not to enter the solar system and only engage in conservative trade to avoid conflicts with various separatist forces.

A habitable planet that has not yet been fully developed!

The humans trapped in the solar system seem to see new hope, and under the dark tide, the humans who have been fighting each other for more than 200 years finally remember the call from space again.

But on the other side......

In a certain secret room, the commander of the Hope Star Fleet, who is famous in the solar system at the moment, is sitting on his knees, looking at the old man in front of him with a silent face.

Although the old man was old, more than a hundred years old, no one dared to despise his authority. As the head of the former human commonwealth army, there is no longer anyone more powerful than him in this world.

Two seemingly unrelated people, but at this moment, they secretly meet in this secret room, which is definitely beyond everyone's imagination.

The old man looked at the young commander in front of him, and the young commander looked at the old man in front of him, and the two sides looked at each other.

Suddenly, the old man muttered in a low voice, his mouth reciting the old human language common to the era of the Human Commonwealth.

"The gods rejoice, the gods rejoice......"

"Thou art the one who knows the destiny of heaven, thou art the one who glimpses the secrets......"

The young commander took it, and it was the same language, although some pronunciations and intonations were different, but the charm was exactly the same.

"Thou shalt remember ......"

Looking at the young commander in front of him, the old man paused, and then the old man and the young commander recited the same passage together.

"The unspeakable, the unheard, the invisible, the invisible......"

"On the planet of hope, how many people still know the secret. ”

"Very few, only thirty people, including me. ”

The young commander lowered his head and said in a deep voice.

The old man was silent, then muttered.

"Time...... So many things have changed. The Ancestor designed and built the Far Traveler, and he knew that he could not wait for you, so he asked his children and grandchildren to wait for you. My great-grandfather waited all his life and didn't wait, my great-grandfather waited all his life and didn't wait, my grandfather waited all his life and didn't wait until he died, and my father, who grabbed my hand and looked at me so hard before he died, that he didn't say it, but I knew what he wanted to say. ”

"I thought I might not be able to wait, but I didn't expect to wait for you at the age of my bones. ”

The young commander was silent, he didn't know what to say.

Looking at the young commander's silence, the old man shook his head.

"Now that you have taken root in a distant land, there are some things that have been decided a long time ago, and perhaps it is time to do them......

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In the 435th year of the human calendar, 7 years after the departure of the Hope Star Fleet, the first star-destroying weapon created by humans in the solar system was born, and its goal was ...... Earth.

On the spaceship, the old man's eyes widened, staring at the planet in front of him, the homeland of mankind, which had been destroyed by his own order.

There, inhabited by more than 100 billion human beings, it is the core and most important place of the overlord. But the old man understood that from the beginning, even if the planet was destined to be destroyed, it must be destroyed, and the whole meaning of the birth of the overlord was not to occupy the planet, but to better destroy it in the distant future.

But if you want to destroy this planet, it means that the entire solar system will be affected, even Mars, which is uncertain whether it will be habitable in the future, so humans must go to the outer galaxy......

In the past 400 years since the birth of the human commonwealth, and for the past 900 years since the 2,000th year of the Common Era, the ultimate goal that has been passed down in the minds of generations of monastic masters has always been this way, for this goal......

"Even at all costs......"

That year, when his father died, he held his hand tightly, and his old eyes looked at him tightly, and there was only fierceness in his gaze.

Father didn't say anything, but he knew everything.

There is no way to do a mass evacuation, the more people who know, the greater the risk of being infected and eroded, and no one knows when the planet will wake up, so it can only be "whatever it takes".

In the face of antimatter munitions weighing 80 million tons, even the earth could not resist this huge energy release of more than 1e^32J, the earth's crust with a thickness of more than 17 kilometers was rudely torn apart, and the blazing core inside was exposed, and the strong gravitational wave vibration could still be clearly felt even in space hundreds of millions of miles away.

The ship was shaking, and some of the faces were changing.

There are so many scattered planetary fragments that no one knows if a piece of debris will fly over the next moment. On other planets, this shock has also formed earthquakes of varying scales.

At this moment, even the inhabitants of Mars can easily see the thrown material from the sky.

The core of the red-hot liquid metal that had been stripped of its exterior was like a water ball in a violent shock, torn apart by the explosion, twisted strangely, and finally dissociated into several parts, quietly suspended in the air, waiting for an unknown number of years to cool down.

No one can hear the sound of the earth, but everyone will be terrified by this terrifying force that has never been seen before.

But the old man could not feel this fear, all he could feel was exhaustion and relief, and the hand that had been clenched was now loosened.

It's been too long, and the fate of dozens of generations has finally come to an end in his hands.

"Master, we have received news that the rest of the Overlord is ready to arrest you. ”

Behind him, a man in a gray robe.

"I know. ”

"Are you going to ......?"

"There's no need. ”

The gray-robed man behind him was about to say something, but the old man only replied lightly.

It's no longer necessary.

"The mission of the Retreat has ended, and we no longer exist. ”

He said calmly.

Outside the spaceship, a group of spaceships were firmly surrounding him, and a high-powered gravity trap had been deployed to prevent him from escaping.

He knew what was about to greet him, and destroying the earth with his own hands meant that the foundation of the overlord's existence was almost uprooted, and those people were naturally furious, but isn't the meaning of the overlord's existence.

"My death is deserved, but my death will free humanity from the fear, the nightmare that has existed since the beginning of our lives. Without the Earth, humanity will have no home, we will be a group of wandering orphans, but we will make the stars our home and trek between them. ”

Staring at the earth shattered into several pieces, the old man's cloudy vision showed a bright light.

"We are no longer the children of the earth, we will be the children of the stars......"

......

On the chessboard of the crystal sky, the vague human figure struggled. Eventually, it transformed into a knife in its hand, and then severed its own roots that were stuck to the chessboard.

On the chessboard, the black and white chess pieces disappeared, leaving only the lone black king and the white king. It is no longer glued to this chessboard, and for many years, the pieces on this chessboard are finally no longer pawns, it is free.

Floating in the crystal sky, the vague human figure circled a few times, and then plunged into the stars of the universe......

"This ...... It's ......"

Looking at the newborn baby, the father's face was full of horror.

The ignorant baby closed its eyes tightly, but a multitude of lightning wrapped around its body, leaving the newborn baby suspended in the air out of thin air.

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In that year, a wonderful power began to emerge among humans, and some babies were born with strange abilities, which eventually became known as "psionic powers".