After transmigrating to a branch timeline of Blue Star, where a solar storm ushered in the Fifth Technological Revolution, Zhou Yi starts out working in starport operations.
This world is dangerous.
The resources and environment of the homeworld are depleted. Radiation tears through the atmosphere and ecosystem, while the privileged enjoy an infinite advantage in their very level of existence.
Advances in mechanical technology have launched the beginning of interstellar colonization. Armored starships are an adventurer’s dream and an ordinary person’s helpless reality.
Advances in biotechnology have made astonishing bodily modifications possible. They are the birthright of the privileged, and also their cage.
In this era, inventions and ideas in your head are only useful for archaeology. The hard-won advantages in your memories, once exposed, will get you killed.
If he wants to survive, he can only develop quietly, then erupt after years of accumulation.
By the time Zhou Yi decides to see the world... he has already left his mortal body behind.