Hearts of Iron: The Starship Exiles' Quest to Conquer the World

Military engineering PhD Li Wei transmigrates into the body of a low-ranking soldier at the end of the Qin Dynasty, carrying an incomplete technology tree System.

He only wanted to be a strategist with a knack for technology, but the System demands that he unify the entire world himself.

Armed with only a knife from the start, he uses “scientific iron smelting” to forge the first steel blade, astonishing the old blacksmith.

While Liu Bang and Xiang Yu are still fighting over territory, Li Wei has already built assembly-line workshops.

Years later, envoys from the Western Regions gaze at the thundering iron horses across the Central Plains and write a petition with trembling hands: “We humbly wish to serve as vassals for all eternity. We ask only that the Celestial Court bestow upon us these divine iron steeds...”

But Li Wei's gaze has already turned toward the distant seas and skies.