The Galactic Commonwealth: The Starry Han Imperial Palace

At eighteen, Chu Yang found a black stone that burned to the touch in a mine.

It was an ancient intelligent core, containing the strongest power in the stars.

The overseer offered him one way to stay alive:

Keep your head down, collect your credit points, and be a good, obedient dog.

Chu Yang tore the paper in half.

“I won’t be anyone’s dog.”

Behind him stood twenty refugees, all wounded, their eyes filled with a readiness to die.

And so the Starfire Camp raised its banner.

They would not kneel to the city lord or bow to the conglomerates.

They would issue their own currency and maintain their own order.

Anyone who abused their privileges would die.

The Lin Clan, Blackwind Group, and the City Lord’s Manor joined forces, intent on crushing them to dust.

Brothers fell in battle, comrades lost arms, and Chu Yang’s lungs were pierced.

But they survived.

Twenty people grew into an iron army two million strong.

From the slums, they fought their way through the sea of stars.

Only when they finally ventured into the cosmos

Did they understand:

The core had not given them power,

It had revealed the ultimate truth of all civilization.

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