CLANG—HUMMMMMMM!
Out in the starry sky of Solar System #60, the last giant brass latch on Solar Thermostat Ring #60 snapped shut around the newly scrubbed sun.
At that exact instant, all sixty Thermostat Arrays—stretching from the ten frozen worlds of the Frost-Rim Sector in System #1, across the Void-Whale shipyards and the Ten-Sun Greenhouse Ring, all the way through the ten Dark-Rift Solar Highways to System #60—lit up in a single unbroken circuit of golden light!
Through the RTS Territory Link that bound every brick, pipe, highway, and wrapped star of Dry-Well Village directly to its Lord, two colossal cosmic tides surged back toward the central observation deck of Station #55, where Pei Xuan was standing.
From the west came a roaring golden ocean of Pure Yang-Star Essence, gathered from the warm, happy vitality of fifty thriving solar systems and a trillion well-fed citizens.
From the east came a deep, majestic river of Purified Yin-Gravity Essence, drawn from the tamed three-light-year Dark Rift and the ten newly awakened Twilight Systems.
WHOOOOOOSH—RUMBLE!
Before anyone on the observation deck could blink, a hundred-thousand-mile whirlpool of swirling gold and black starlight formed in the void directly above Station #55, pouring straight down into the crown of Pei Xuan’s head like a waterfall falling from the ninth heaven!
