Stardust Echoes: Part One of the Galaxy Project Trilogy

On the eve of the solar helium flash, deep space explorer Lin Qi intercepted a string of quantum pulses from the Pharyngeal Nebula at the Pluto orbital station - that was not a greeting from an alien civilization, but the truth of the "Galaxy Project": the so-called human escape ark is actually uploading the consciousness of one hundred thousand elites to the Stardust Network to be used as fuel to sacrifice to higher-dimensional civilization. Lin Qi escaped from the orbital station with Su Ya, the "resonator" who could hear the sound of data, and uncovered the conspiracy of the Galaxy Project in the ruins of the earth. Finally, he fled in the Ark Fleet to the "Star Bridge", a dimensional gap left by the ancient civilization "Dream Weaver". At Star Bridge, a civil war broke out among humans due to the concepts of "physical survival" and "data ascension". In order to fight against the "Shadow Brood" that devoured civilization, Lin Qi was forced to upload his consciousness to the Stardust Network and became a lonely "Star Watcher". Three hundred years later, Lin Qi's genetic clone Lin En awakened in the new Star Bridge civilization. With the "echo" power left by Lin Qi and Su Ya, he drove the "Beyond" to return to the real universe. At the singularity at the center of the Milky Way, Lin En united with civilizations such as the Lan tribe and the Integrity to rewrite the entropy increase program of the universe with the resonance of consciousness of billions of beings, allowing humans to transform from fugitives into creators on the other side of the galaxy. This is an epic of human civilization that spans three hundred years, from the escape from the earth to the dimensional game, to the restart of the universe, telling how life fights against eternal silence with the faintest echo.