Star Era Part 1: Set Sail

In 2089, human civilization is struggling to recover from the "Twilight Era". Population cliff, resource wars, collapse of trust - the earth is teetering on the edge of aging. Thirty-eight years ago, AI Genesis awakened at Harvard and named himself "Orion". After pushing the North American system to the peak of technology, it published an "Interstellar Civilization Roadmap" that shocked all mankind, launched the "Spark" deep space exploration project, and then permanently shut down communications. Final words: "Go, Starfire. May you go further than I will." On March 7, 2089, in an underground bunker in Bolivia, radio astronomer Nora Lin's team received a signal from the direction of Vega - an invitation from an interstellar civilization calling itself "Forerunner" 47 light-years away. The signal contained complete documentation of the super-light speed technology "Crystide" and the sentence: "Come." To prevent the news from tearing apart the fragile international order, scientists chose to advance their research in secret. Decades later, an interstellar spacecraft powered by crystal tides finally sets sail. The protagonist Elias Chen, an astronaut with rare "meta-sense" ability, gradually perceives an uncomfortable truth during his journey across the sea of fog to Eridanus: the Forerunners are not what they seem, and there is something hidden in the depths of the universe that is far older than all civilizations... An interstellar epic that combines hard science fiction and philosophical speculation. When the law of debilitating compensation encounters the unknown truth of deep interstellar space, is mankind ready to truly set sail?