Interstellar colonization + tech entrepreneurship + repair and modification + bargain hunting + expanding influence + a breezy power fantasy
Galactic Year 3077!
Earth has become Long-Term Colonial Asset No. 7987, owned by an extraterrestrial conglomerate.
Lu Heng is merely a Level Three repairman in the Seventh Industrial Zone, not even qualified to take independent jobs.
An explosion causes his right hand to fuse with an unknown astral material.
Where others see scrap machinery, he can see how to get it running again.
Three credits to repair a cryogenic cabinet quoted at 190,000.
Eight hundred credits to make a mechanical leg, limited to three hundred steps, take a three-hundred-and-first step.
Underground repair shops, astral materials, armed constructs, planetary corporations...
Others control the banks and the military. Lu Heng controls repair, energy, and production lines.
From an underground factory with forty workers to an industrial system of Earth's own.
Years later, the Helion Group demands that he repay Earth's entire colonial debt.
After reading the bill, Lu Heng asks just one question:
"Would it be cheaper to buy the entire galaxy?"
