How Did Your Private Space Company End Up Colonizing Space?

In a parallel world, Li Xun was a recent university graduate with a degree in aerospace engineering.

While his classmates all followed their assigned career paths, Li Xun chose to start a business, taking over his father's privately owned aerospace company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy.

The release of its first product, a recoverable medium-lift launch vehicle, left the industry bigwigs stunned!

"A 110-ton payload to low Earth orbit, and you call that a medium-lift rocket?"

Li Xun: "If others have it, we need it too. If others don't have it, we need it as well. Having something and using it are two different things."

One project after another followed.

Satellites providing Earth-Moon communications coverage, space debris collection ships, space stations, fusion spacecraft, lunar colonies, Mars colonies, asteroid mining...

The national space program: "You're a private aerospace company, and you've taken care of everything we were supposed to do. What are we supposed to do now... sob!"

Years later, red flags filled the reaches of space, and the world was shaken!

The Eagle Nation's plans failed, and it flew into a rage: "We strongly condemn the Dragon Nation for secretly occupying space!"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.