The Computational Universe: Arrival
Players take on the role of Raph the Protector, Vasa the Harvester, Opna the Regressor, or Xom the Experimenter, manipulating the development of lesser civilizations through order, paradox, faith, or bugs to prevent them from achieving faster-than-light technology.
Every decision reshapes the fate of a civilization and transforms the characters themselves, ultimately leading to radically different endings.
The Computational Universe: Expedition
The Computational Universe: Expedition follows the intertwined destinies of Liang Feng and the artificial intelligence Siwei, weaving together the Xinglongian civilization’s rise from the near future into the interstellar age and the starship Tianxin’s expeditions to distant alien worlds.
Through an AI crisis, alien invasions, post-apocalyptic reconstruction, biological transformation, and societal stagnation, they repeatedly confront the dilemmas of freedom versus control and exploration versus self-preservation.
Gradually, they uncover the truth behind the Arithmian civilization’s dominion over the Tianhe Galaxy: a system of absolute power maintained through monopolized computing resources, information exploitation, and the manipulation of thought.
By achieving breakthroughs in computational and spaceflight technologies and uniting civilizations in rebellion, they eventually overthrow Arithmia’s hegemony. They transform the computational network and the stargate system into shared public infrastructure, return the power of governance to individual civilizations, and continue their journey into the unknown universe.
Spanning centuries of adventure, conflict, and sacrifice, the story asks a fundamental question:
What does justice mean for a technological civilization?
Its ultimate answer lies in the autonomy of intelligent life, peaceful coexistence, and the equal right of all civilizations to explore the universe.
The Seven-Book Saga
- Born Free
- The Far Voyagers
- The Age of Darkness
- The Equation of Life
- The Long Night Ends
- Into The Deep Space
- Stars Eternal
The Computational Universe: Crisis
The Computational Universe: Crisis is a trilogy set after the Xinglongian civilization has established its dominion over the Tianhe Galaxy.
Having reached the limits of civilizational expansion and technological exploration, the Xinglongian civilization finds itself trapped in an unprecedented crisis.
There are no new regions of space left to explore, no new technological frontiers to conquer. With nowhere left to expand, civilization becomes consumed by relentless internal competition, plunging the entire known Computational Universe into a crisis of stagnation and involution.
Can the Xinglongian civilization transcend this crisis, escape the endless cycle of order and chaos, prosperity and collapse, and discover a new way to confront the ultimate questions of existence?
The Computational Universe: Wandering
The Computational Universe: Wandering takes place at the end of time, as the universe approaches its ultimate heat death.
Humanity and machine intelligence continue to struggle against the darkness.
The Xinglongian civilization once ruled the entire Tianhe Galaxy. Now, all that remains of its former glory are thirteen wandering fleets and the faint light of the last surviving star.
Guangmiao is born into this age of despair. Her creator, Ling Jingtian, gives her a single mission:
Find hope.
Yet even on the brink of extinction, ideological divisions drive civilizations into computational warfare, fighting over the last remaining reserves of Xiyuan—the potential energy of computation.
Faced with the approaching darkness and the seemingly inevitable end of all existence, Guangmiao makes an extraordinary decision.
She will replicate the last star.
And light up the Computational Universe once again.