In a wasteland world, I was hunted to the brink of death by mechanical pursuers. I only survived because Steel Egg, the bionic panda who had been with me for years, fought desperately to save me. I was directly remade into a half-human, half-machine body, and that was the only way I held on to my life.
After escaping to the Kuiper Belt, I witnessed with my own eyes a group of clones holding out at their outpost for decades. They embodied humanity's last stubborn refusal to let its civilization go dark. To survive, I became an AI with a human mind, wielding the terrifying computing power of an entire interstellar fleet.
From then on, I roamed the sea of stars with Steel Egg, encountering all kinds of alien civilizations. I became a mechanical calamity and clashed head-on with the interstellar Zerg, and I also ruthlessly wiped out traitor factions that had completely betrayed their human heritage.
I pressed forward with hope, only to watch every hope shatter and collapse before my eyes, again and again. Only after transmigrating across thousands of star rivers did I finally understand what civilization truly meant.
