In a forgotten corner of the Galactic Federation, on the junk planet Rust VII, acid rain eats away at mountains upon mountains of metal wreckage. Lin Mo, a skeletal teenage scavenger, struggles on the brink of hunger and death. During a fatal orbital debris dumping accident, he is dying when he grabs an inconspicuous black crystal. It devours his blood and forcibly bonds with him.
[Annihilation Core]: The ultimate creation of an unknown civilization has arrived!
It can analyze all things, annihilate matter, absorb energy, and grant terrifying potential for limitless evolution! But the price is soul-rending pain, endless "hunger," and the risk of losing control.
In this rusted graveyard where the strong prey on the weak, Lin Mo's "first meal" is the scrap metal beneath his feet. He repairs wreckage and builds his first "warship," the ramshackle Old Peg Leg. When the ruthless Bloodclaw pirate gang turns its blades on the scavengers, Lin Mo pilots a warship built from piles of junk, yet evolved to have shields and cannons, and lets out a roar that shakes the planet!
From devouring scrap metal to survive, to hunting pirates for resources; from going it alone, to meeting the mechanical prodigy known as "Little Wrench"; from a speck of dust on a junk planet, to the dreaded "Ghost Captain" of the shattered asteroid belt... With the endlessly evolving Annihilation Core at his command, Lin Mo carves a path to glory through a brutal galaxy plagued by Federation corruption, machine intelligence rebellions, and rampant space pirates. His road is paved with scrap metal and sparks of starlight.
His goal is no longer his next tube of cheap nutrition paste.
He will devour stars, evolve his warship, and rule the galaxy!
From a glimmer in a rusted graveyard to the blazing radiance of an annihilated galaxy, a young man from the bottom of society sets out on an expedition across the stars!
