The Era of the Nation's Greatest Weapons

Parallel future, 2037 The United States, Japan, and the European Union form a global alliance of technological hegemons. They maintain a tight monopoly on: Advanced specialty materials, aircraft propulsion, precision military manufacturing, lithography machines, high-end chip architecture, commercial spaceflight, global energy standards, and orbital space resources. They impose seven layers of crippling sanctions on China: Patent blockades, equipment embargoes, supply chain cutoffs, financial short-selling, smears in public opinion, spy infiltration, and encirclement in space. For a hundred years, our country's industry has remained trapped in a pattern of catching up, being held back, exploited, and forced to take blow after blow. Until Su Jiyuan awakens the System, and the age in which Huaxia breaks through its deadlock begins!