Stardust Echoes: the Silicon Age

In 2847 AD, the Galactic Federation established by humans has spanned 12 star systems. Controllable nuclear fusion and quantum communications have become basic technologies, but progress has stagnated in the field of dark matter energy conversion. At this time, abnormal dark matter fluctuations appeared in the Oort Nebula. Federation ace pilot Ling Che drove the "Stardust-V" mecha to detect it, and unexpectedly encountered the "Crystal Nucleus Tribe", a silicon-based civilization from the M87 galaxy. With the mission of "purifying the redundant information of organic civilization", the crystal core family devours stellar energy through time and space anchor points. Its attack method is not physical attack, but data intrusion. After Ling Che came into contact with the crystal nucleus family for the first time, he discovered that its space-time anchor actually matched the signal of the "Pioneer" detector that disappeared 200 years ago. In order to uncover the truth and prevent the Crystal Core Clan from engulfing the solar system, Ling Che formed a "tracing team" with Su Qingyan, a descendant of the Guwu family, and Chen Entropy, a quantum physicist. The team conducted in-depth research and gradually uncovered the origin of the Crystal Nucleus Race - they were actually a new civilization that evolved from the fusion of consciousness and silicon-based elements of the crew of the "Pioneer" during the collapse of time and space. The Earth's genetic data carried by the "Pioneer" has become the key to the "Purification Plan" of the Crystal Core Clan. As divisions within the federation intensify and the crystalline race faces an evolutionary crisis, Team Lingche proposes a "symbiosis of consciousness" plan in an attempt to open up a new path between organic and silicon-based civilizations. In the end, they not only have to fight against the "Purification Plan" of the Crystal Core Clan, but also deal with the sudden threat of the Star Devourer Clan, and strive for "twin coexistence" between humans and silicon-based civilization amid many crises.