How Did Playing a Game Turn Me Into an Interstellar Mercenary?

[A slow build-up at first + no mindless power fantasy + not invincible, a small-time character’s growth early on. Read with caution if that’s not your thing.] A pushover in real life, a powerhouse in the game! You ask where I got these knockout punches? I picked them up, of course! I was playing a building game, and all it took was finding a smart watch for me to suddenly become a remote-controlled alien mercenary? Whatever. I’ll treat it like a dungeon run. Let’s do this! As I kept fighting, I earned a pile of blueprints for advanced alien technology: Solar furnaces, with more energy than you could ever use! Humanoid mechs, making mechanical ascension a reality! Huh? The game actually accepts these blueprints. If I can build all these impossible pieces of equipment, I guess I’ll have to be the boss! Wait, if these things are real and can be built in the real world, then doesn’t that mean... Lu Fan: “Holy crap!!!”