You Started This Mechanical Calamity

After working overtime, Lin Yuan dies suddenly and wakes to find himself a mechanical core buried four kilometers beneath the frozen soil of an alien planet. No System, no golden finger, no starter pack. All he has is an automated factory that’s 73 percent damaged, three thousand mining drones, and an adjutant AI that can only say its database is less than fully readable. And every carbon-based civilization in the galaxy has just one attitude toward machines: destroy them on sight and leave no wreckage. He doesn’t want to become a calamity. He doesn’t want to conquer the galaxy. He doesn’t even want to fight. He just wants to repair this broken factory, find a way home, and eat a hot meal. But the carbon-based civilizations throw the first stone. Then he repairs the factory. Then he builds a frigate. Then he builds a battleship. Then the entire sector hears his fleet designation, and their fleets collapse without a fight. They call him a demon. A calamity. Something that should have stayed dead three hundred million years ago. Amid the ruins of three hundred million years, the soul of a low-level office worker is turning the entire galaxy into his factory. He doesn’t want to. But he can’t stop. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.