Space Travel? No! Drifting Through Space

[Interstellar War + System + The Rise of a Civilization + Hard Sci-Fi]

While everyone else is still using nuclear power, he’s already unlocked antimatter cannons.

When the Kara System boasts that it will turn Blue Star into a colony, he retaliates by using a wormhole cannon to blast through the defenses around their homeworld.

At the negotiating table, alien envoys tremble as they stare at the “prehistoric stone carving” in his hands. Only Liu Lang knows it’s an image the System whipped up overnight.

“Commander, we’ve discovered a rare metal deposit at the Mars base!”

“Mine it. Use the matter reassembler the System gave us. The alloy we smelt can withstand the force of a warp drive.”

“The alien alliance wants to visit Earth?”

“Sorry, Blue Star is off-limits. If they want to talk, send them to Mars. Oh, and set up the ‘prehistoric civilization ruins’ generated by the System. Don’t let the truth slip.”

From a third-level civilization driven to the brink of extinction to a fourth-level rising power that makes the galaxy tremble, Liu Lang strides over the wreckage of alien fleets, holding the “hand” of his technology System:

“System, what’s our next target?”

[Ding! The Kara System is secretly preparing a major move. Recommendation: blow up their dark matter deposits first.]

When the Star Alliance is founded and twelve civilizations hail him as the “Light of Blue Star,” Liu Lang touches the System chip growing warm in his pocket and chuckles:

“Don’t call me the light. I’m just an ordinary person forced to tough it out, that’s all. And, well, I helped Blue Star secure a foothold among the stars.”

(This book features a hard-core tech tree, scheming between civilizations, the construction of the Solar System’s defense network, and the daily antics of a hidden System. No suffering for the protagonist, fast pacing, and plenty of satisfying moments as a civilization rises!)