On the night when the armory exploded, Li Yan sneered and activated the legendary interstellar carrier Sui Xing. The Federation hunted her for five years, but they didn't know that she had carved her soul into the core of the mothership. Major General Kyle Lane was ordered to pursue her, but in the neural code she left behind, he glimpsed the face of his erased sister. The AI Nora tampered with the data, the pirate Hero approached step by step, and the psychoanalyst Arya secretly copied her consciousness... When the engine of the mothership re-lit in the galaxy, the real war is not who wins or who loses, but - do humans still deserve to control the gods they create?