The Perseverance slowly landed on the Capital Space Station, and Lu Yin and the rest beamed down to the Zenyu Star. The planet was flourishing wherever one looked, the entire city linked with bridges and flying vehicles streaking across the skies. Their white trails were everywhere, an indication of the technology at play here.

Lu Yin stretched as he felt the gravity of this new planet that was about the same as Earth. The air was much fresher, and the surging star energy all around far surpassed anything he’d ever felt back home. The Zenyu Star was tens of thousands of times larger than Earth, and he couldn’t estimate its population or even the number of different races that lived here.

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