Star Era Part 2: Struggle

In 2136, humans arrived in the Krasi-Per star field in the name of "scientific investigation" and drew the boundary line of the "Ptolemaic Agreement" across a living civilization. Crystal tides—the cosmic substance that drives faster-than-light travel and activates telomerase—become the scarcest strategic resource. Quotas, futures, equity, humans use sophisticated systems to repeat the story of the pope's carving up of the world five hundred years ago. Suya, a Kraxi native, initially chose to remain silent until the federal drilling platform landed on the holy land of her ancestors, until the "Blue Book" financialized the crystal tide, until she discovered that the "root heart" - the cognitive heart of the Kraxi civilization - was accurately classified into the mining area. She stepped out of silence and became the first voice of the Guardian movement. At the same time, deeper undercurrents are surging: The Crimson Protocol secretly researches accelerating the collapse of the crystal tide to obtain Transcendental technology; Nora Lin discovered that the Transcendental signal has 92% grammatical homology with the ancient Kraxi language; Saira Thorian proved that the mining of Krasi is disturbing the earth's food production through quantum entanglement. Every report is correct, every one is ignored. When the Crystal Tide Network resonated synchronously with an error of 0.003 Seconds in November 2138, and the Transcendentals "spoke" directly, the three parties each returned to their own frameworks. It wasn't until the Seventeenth Messenger of the Covenant entered the negotiation room in a body of liquid metal and said "My heart is crying for help" - Elias Chen finally understood: He could not change the people at the negotiating table, but he could choose which side of the table he stood on. The price of civilization is never written in the contract.