Chen Kai, a programmer who died suddenly from overwork, is sent by a strange bolt of lightning to a battlefield of the future. Here, the human empire treats its lowest-ranking soldiers as “worker bees,” the insectoid hordes devour stars, and he is nothing more than cannon fodder recruit G-734.
On the brink of death, the [Interstellar Commander System] forcibly binds itself to him. From that moment on, survival becomes a brutal game of resources: trade the corpses of the insectoids for soldiers, and build a base from the ruins of the empire.
By the time he rises from the mountain of corpses, an army of steel stands behind him. Yet in the depths of space, a shadow known as the “Purifiers” whispers in secret. A crashed “Ark” carries a forbidden genetic key, while the coordinates of an ancient “Cradle” point to a purge that will sweep across the galaxy.
Will he become a pawn, or the one who moves the pieces? His empire begins on a forgotten planet. His war is fought for survival, and to bury every god who would treat him as less than an animal.
Keywords: Interstellar warfare + System-based progression + Post-apocalyptic wasteland + Ensemble cast awakening + Dark forest. Style: A stark, tightly paced, vividly rendered work of hard science fiction.
It's really baffling that AI writes books