Stardust Game

At the end of the 23rd century, humans used wormhole jump technology to colonize stars on the edge of the galaxy. However, while exploring a "blank star field", they encountered the Essos people who were far beyond their own civilization. The other party regards itself as an "observer" and uses instruments that can fold space and technology that can reconstruct star orbits as "gifts" and invites humans to engage in "civilization exchange" - exchanging emotional data such as art and history in exchange for the core secrets of interstellar navigation. The captain of the exploration ship "Stardust" Lu Chengyu soon discovered that this seemingly equal cooperation was actually an unequal technological game: the Essos could read the logic of human thinking, use tampered formulas to set technical traps, and even use human panic and collaboration as experimental parameters. Humanity's quantum encrypted communication has long been cracked, and the orbital deviation of the colonial star has become a bargaining chip for the other party. When the alliance fell into division due to "predatory technology" and "complete evacuation", Lu Chengyu found a flaw in the absolute rationality of the Essos people - they were unable to understand human sacrifice and trust, let alone predict the "irrational" power. A secret war with the survival of civilization as a bet begins: human beings use their own "technical flaws" as bait, and use emotions and chaos as weapons, trying to find a way for civilization to survive without being assimilated or eliminated under the crushing technological gap. This is not only a contest of technology, but also a torture of the nature of civilization: When rationality and sensibility collide, when efficiency conflicts with humanity, what is the core code for the continuation of civilization?