In the dark and lonely void of space, a nine-headed mechanical dragon circled around a Middlekin Star Ruin and scattered small silver objects. They were Yin Chen's bodies that had recently taken on a new form unlocked during the evolution: starcloud bugs.0

It was an insect form that looked like space debris, able to vary in size, gathering together to form asteroids or splitting up and shrinking to the size of invisible stardust. No ship would notice the tiny fragments as they flew past.2

Starcloud bugs had two advantages, the first being the expansion of surveillance range. After they were scattered, they floated in the void and absorbed small amounts of nova source that radiated in the surroundings to adjust their...0