The day Kaos's orbital cannons flattened Jincheng, Zhou Tiesheng was twenty-four.
No connections, no inheritance, no backing. The simulation core in his mind was his only trump card: he could take things apart just by looking at them, understand wreckage just by touching it. From a single screw to an interstellar battleship, the things he built became humanity's line of defense.
It started with repairing a scrapped electromagnetic rifle, then went on to make the entire Kaos fleet fall silent on the comms for seven seconds. From a makeshift workshop in the ruins of Jincheng to a foundry larger than a city in Jupiter's orbit.
Sixty-five years. One man. It began with a screwdriver, and a civilization survived.
They called him the Starforger. He said he was just a repairman.
Tags: Military Sci-Fi / Weapons Manufacturing / Interstellar War / Industrial Grit / Fast-Paced Power Fantasy / Ensemble Character Growth
