In a distant future, the empires of mankind span the galaxy, and glorious Earth has devolved into a peripheral backwater.In Shanjing city in the Asian region, Wang Zheng's dreams of becoming a mech pilot are crushed when his college entrance exam genetic score turns out a pathetic twenty eight, barely above an animal.To make things worse, people get the impression he attempted suicide after being rejected by the campus beauty.Then the closest thing to a family he has, the old man in the book store across the road, goes missing, leaving him only a mysterious birthday present.
Amidst a disaster, an orphan contracts a sickness.
Having a rough life growing up, Wang Tong had numerous dreams of living a better life. However, his alcoholic foster father sells him off as a space settler of the distant planet Norton for some pocket change. Soon after his arrival, the Zergs overran the planet and obliterated its defenses in a matter of minutes. What awaited Tong on Norton was more than just an unbearable environment its gravity alone was five-times stronger than earth there were also swarms of bugs, constant hunger, thirst, and desolation.While he lives a year of total carnage and survival, humanity's Confederation eventually overcomes the Zergs on Norton and the powerful survivor Wang Tong is given a recommendation to a once famous, but now dying military academy where he begins his life anew.