The Star Raft™

Civilization expands until the horizon becomes a liability. A devout admiral builds a floating utopia to unify the earth, only to watch the empire burn its own eyes to preserve the dark.

This maritime epic destabilizes the Eurocentric discovery myth by framing the Ming Dynasty’s retreat as the defining tragedy of the modern era. It maps the spiritual cost of isolationism, tracing how a superpower voluntarily dismantles its own capacity for wonder to satisfy the bureaucratic ledger. The narrative indicts the politics of contraction, scaling a historical autopsy into a high-gloss survival thriller.