The Starry Human Federation: Burn a Star to Prove the Dao from the Start

[Note: This book's setting is based on Stellaris, with some adjustments to make it more realistic.]

The embers of the burning stars have yet to cool, and the howling souls of billions of insectoids still shriek through the void.

Their homeworld has become a churning hell of blood-red lava.

This grand “coronation salute” proclaims to the universe that the Human Federation has welcomed its most ruthless supreme marshal: Lin Ju.

On the throne, Lin Ju, who had transmigrated here, grips the cold scepter symbolizing the marshal's authority, his knuckles turning white.

In his previous life, Lin Ju was an ordinary student who had spent all night battling it out in Stellaris.

Not long ago, the flickering screen of his cheap secondhand gaming pod filled with a crimson warning that clawed into his vision like bloody talons. Then came a searing pain in his chest, followed by darkness that swallowed everything...

“So I've transmigrated into this save file...” Lin Ju's thought reverberates silently above the roaring ranks of soldiers, tinged with an absurd chill.

Cold memories surge through his consciousness like a stream of data, sharp and clear. This isn't a game cutscene!

No Escape key. No save-scumming!

Fear? A fear like nothing he'd ever known grips his mind!

Turn back? That's a dead end! His only choice is to clutch the scepter stained with the blood of aliens and his own people, and carve a path to survival through this desperate situation with an even more ruthless and merciless onslaught!

[This story is entirely fictional science fiction, with some aspects of its setting inspired by the game Stellaris. The conflicts between civilizations, acts of war, and descriptions of species are included solely as part of the plot and do not reflect the author's real-world views. All events take place in a fictional interstellar society and are unrelated to real-world human rights, the value of life, or political...]