They Stole My Credit, So I Built an Advanced Civilization

Chen Yan, a leading scientist on Gujie Star, spends three years perfecting a groundbreaking material technology, only to have the results forcibly seized and buried by the financial magnates. On this decaying planet, scientific research has become a tool for profit. Technological monopolies block the path to civilization's advancement, and Chen Yan has his credentials revoked and is blacklisted across the industry. Just as he reaches the end of his rope, the Civilization Advancement System quietly binds to him, granting him the chance to travel between planets. Chen Yan gathers six other experts from different fields who have also been crushed by capital, and together they travel to the pristine, resource-rich twin planet, Blue Star. Its people possess immense genetic potential, yet are trapped in a feudal dynasty plagued by famine and disease. The System provides no physical goods. It unlocks blueprints only after the locals master and implement the technology. Starting with clearing land in a valley, the team improves farming, spreads sanitation, and advances ironworking and industry, driving civilization forward step by step: from the first stirrings of handicrafts to the Industrial Revolution, universal genetic repair, and finally the unification of global resources to venture into space. They do everything they can to keep Blue Star from repeating Gujie Star's tragedy, championing technology for all and standing against the old nobility, powerful clans, and conservative forces. When humanity ventures beyond its home planet and glimpses the cosmic truth of the dark forest, the secret behind the twin planets' ancient, higher-dimensional experiment gradually comes to light. With science as their spark, Chen Yan and his companions lead a newly born civilization beyond the limits of its planet and steadily onward toward the higher-dimensional universe.