Vacuum Folds: The Quantum Balance Era

In 2280, humanity entered the Curvature Era. The Earth Federation depended on an antimatter refinery in Jupiter’s orbit to maintain its energy supply. Beneath the ice of Europa, humanity discovered a quantum-gravity device left behind by a non-carbon-based civilization. Interstellar travel relied on an improved Alcubierre drive. Tang Yin, a 28-year-old quantum navigation specialist, joins Jupiter, a quantum consciousness, and Wang Yu, commander of the Lunar Sea Base, in facing a conspiracy within the Interstellar Alliance. The Lunar Sea Base collapses due to a quantum tunneling effect, and Tang Yin and Jupiter pilot the Han-Tang to Europa, where they uncover the truth behind the quantum-gravity network. In Europa’s superfluid ocean, they find a graphene quantum-dot storage device left by the non-carbon-based civilization and decode the network, which is sustained by negative energy. The Interstellar Alliance attempts to reshape the solar system through a vacuum phase transition. Jupiter fuses with the three-state supercritical fluid at the core-mantle boundary, creating an artificial neutron star to delay the phase-transition threshold. At last, Tang Yin pilots a spacecraft loaded with a Bose-Einstein condensate warhead and detonates it at the L2 Lagrange point, restoring the balance of quantum vacuum fluctuations in the solar system.