BONG—BONG—BONG—WHOOOOOOO!
When the brass clock-tower bolted to the top of the Central 100-System Boiler Hub struck midnight, a hundred golden steam-whistles rang out across a hundred solar systems at the exact same heartbeat.
From Solar System No. 1 in the Frost-Rim Sector all the way to Solar System No. 100 at the heart of the former Golden-Crow Ancestral Nest, over one thousand inhabited planets and moons lit up like a sea of warm red lanterns in the starry dark!
Inside the Central Boiler Hub of System No. 100, Patriarch Jin Taiyang—wearing his custom-tailored XXL yellow civil-service vest over his glossy, honey-glazed golden feathers—rested his chin comfortably on a giant asbestos pillow right beside a fifty-ton bowl of Sweet-Spring Iced Mung-Bean Soup.
Every time the thirty-thousand-year-old Golden Crow took a slow, peaceful breath in his sleep, a warm, steady river of golden Rank 8 Peak Solar Essence flowed smoothly through the hundred-light-year brass manifold pipes, working in perfect harmony with Ao Ming’s dragon breath to keep all one hundred solar systems at a cozy, spring-like 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
Across the entire Hundred-Sun Sector, the Grand Unification & Utility Banquet was in full swing!
In Systems 1 to 10 (The Frost-Rim Sector), where eight billion miners had once shivered to death inside dark ice caves under a crazy, flaring red sun, ten warm green worlds were now covered in golden fields of Meat-Belly Giant Potatoes and Spirit Corn. In the town square of Planet 1-C, Foreman Han Tie raised a frosted mug…
