I Have Nothing Else, Just Lots of Dads [Interstellar]

The main story is complete.

Check out the completed sci-fi team mech novel in my collection: The First Analyst in the Stars

*Sci-fi, supernatural abilities, adventure, team

Ying Qionglin is an orphaned child in a sci-fi world, lucky enough to be raised by the Interstellar Relief Society.

She followed the crowd through school, and, through sheer hard work and absurdly good luck, got into the First Military Academy of the Aros Empire.

Ying Qionglin was very pleased. The military academy gave substantial annual awards to its outstanding students. Combined, they would be enough to pay off her debt to the Relief Society, after which she could lie flat and travel through the stars.

But things didn't go as planned. Since she never awakened a bonded battle beast, she was the bottom of her class for three years running.

She never got the prize money, and only sank deeper into debt.

The harder she tried, the more unlucky she became. At last, Ying Qionglin accepted her fate: if you're going to lie flat, you might as well do it anywhere.

She'd work hard enough to get her degree, then return to the Relief Society for a cushy logistics job. Living off the organization in peace wouldn't be a bad way to lie flat.

She never expected the academy's graduation exam to take a shocking turn when the central AI paired her with the most powerful ferocious beast.

Now, failing to graduate was the least of her problems. She might not survive.

At the critical moment of the exam, just as she was about to be swallowed by the beast,

Ying Qionglin had a sudden flash of inspiration. Her battle beast awakened, and she used a talent ability wreathed in crimson light: [Time Stop]

The entire exam ground was stunned!

Her battle beast was a tiny black snake with white spots and two little wings, no bigger than a finger.

It bared its fangs and swallowed the enormous beast in front of it, a monster as huge as a skyscraper, in one bite.

It was the divine beast Teng Snake, known to everyone in the Aros Empire.

It was a symbol of the Aros royal bloodline.

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That night, three starships from outside the star system docked at the Aros Empire's Starport:

A general from the neighboring Taya Federation, the only person in all the stars with the talent [Time Stop];

A business magnate who monopolized the star routes, heir to the bloodline of crimson light;

And the president of the Interstellar Relief Society, Ying Qionglin's former guardian.

They were going to fight the Aros Empire's cold and ruthless ruler for custody of Ying Qionglin.

That lunatic had no business raising a daughter!

Recorded on November 22, 2024. Saved; no ranking list comparisons, please.

*None of the four father figures has a romantic pairing. Their relationships with her are all familial!

*Not a strong female lead, not a female powerhouse.

*My original infinite-flow advance notice, Escape, Follow Your Doctor's Orders, was changed to a sci-fi story because I'm far too timid to handle the psychological strain. I'm truly sorry.

A little preview: Is This Assassin Audition Really Not a Trap?

*Team battles, passion, sci-fi, supernatural weapons + exoskeleton armor

The Landon Federation has launched an unprecedented assassin audition.

After round upon round of screening, it will select the very best assassin teams.

The winners will have the chance to have all their sentences in Landon's interstellar prison wiped out.

When the news came, the First Interstellar Prison erupted in excitement.

The First Interstellar Prison is known as the homecoming ground for geniuses.

It houses the top sniper, who once shot a commander from a thousand miles away on the battlefield;

The assassin leader, who laid trap after trap and destroyed three Federation assault ships;

And the genius inventor who bombed the Federation's Elysium 23 sector into ruins.

Every last one of them was an outstanding assassin for the Federation.

They'd been arrested for various crimes and sentenced to indefinite imprisonment.

But they weren't interested in getting out or having their sentences reduced.

The First Prison was great. Everyone there was talented, and they were all nice to talk to.

The only person who didn't fit in at this prison was a newcomer who'd just arrived.

Ying Qiangwei, an assassin of the stars.

Her first mission to make a name for herself was to assassinate the Federation's Chief Law Enforcer nine times and escape nine times.

She was finally arrested by the Chief Law Enforcer on the spot for using her real name to attend a concert by the merman idol.

On her first day in prison, she used the sniper's artificial eye as a bouncy ball for practice, making it self-destruct like fireworks.

On her second day, she discussed philosophy with the assassin leader, driving him to consider checking into a mental hospital just to find some peace and quiet.

On her third day, she blew up the inventor's workbench, destroying ten years of hard work.

Now, the First Interstellar Prison's audition team has come up with a plan:

Whatever the cost, they must protect Ying Qiangwei and get her to the center position in the audition.

Forget that. Let her go wreak havoc among those idiot Federation politicians.

Give the rest of us a peaceful prison where we can grow old in peace!

A little preview: Transmigrated as the Mech of a Hot-Blooded Manga's Protagonist

Sci-fi, mechs, competition, team

Ying Meiqing got hooked on a fully immersive sci-fi mech fighting game.

Every day she'd open her eyes and study for mech exams, then close them and go looking for fights. She beat every opponent in the central AI's mech gallery and never met her match.

Then, on the day the Interstellar Mech League began, the central AI linked her to someone named Cui Hexiao.

Only then did Ying Meiqing realize: she'd transmigrated.

She'd become the mech AI of a hot-blooded manga protagonist.

As one of the mech intelligences created by the central AI,

Ying Meiqing had to pass her mech knowledge exams before she could become independent from the central AI and merge with a synthetic body.

Looking at the blank data fields and homework in front of her,

Ying Meiqing fell into deep thought: Did she really need this body that badly?

On the first day after transmigrating into Cui Hexiao's mech AI,

Ying Meiqing failed one of the exams and the central AI forcibly cut off her signal, sending her back to study.

With the mech out of control, Cui Hexiao was punched into the fighting ring by his opponent and became the first loser in the league.

On the thirtieth day after transmigrating into Cui Hexiao's mech,

Cui Hexiao furiously completed the central AI's exam questions.

Ying Meiqing confidently piloted her new body into the arena.

Every mech intelligence felt a familiar pressure.

The great demon king who swept through the gallery!

Had!

Arrived!

A popular post appeared in the forum section for the manga All the Stars Bow Down:

[Hot take: My son's mech AI has such an early serial number. Is it a hidden cheat?]

When the manga first began, everyone was certain: it was.

After all, readers knew that although the protagonist Cui Hexiao had a frighteningly brilliant mind, he was a natural human with no modifications and a terribly weak constitution.

Aside from a high-risk burst buff, he had no golden finger.

So, if only for the sake of balance, the author would surely give him some kind of help.

But what no one expected was that the manga's author, Heshan, who seemed determined to destroy the protagonist's life, had no limit to how ruthless he could be.

Ever since AI 001 appeared, Cui Hexiao hadn't had a single peaceful day.

The AI took down space pirates in a black-on-black deal two days ago, bombed a corporate heir yesterday, and provoked a seeded competitor today, making Cui Hexiao a target of everyone's hatred and ensuring he got mobbed in every match.

Every reader fell silent.

You call that a cheat?

This thing is trying to get the protagonist killed.

Match progression: regional -> planetary -> star sector -> star domain -> Star Alliance finals

*The female lead will have her own body and compete as part of a team.

*There will be a forum that breaks the fourth wall.

Theme: Love is a lifelong lesson