Tianyuan: A Different China Among the Stars

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Welcome to ICARUS

An emotionally gripping, high-stakes sci-fi epic about survival, rebellion, and the fragile hope of beginning again, not just as individuals, but as a civilization.

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Behind the Scenes of Icarus

When readers encounter the Chinese Tianyuan settlement in Icarus, they’re not meeting the China of our world, but one that never existed. In the universe of Icarus, China is not a version of any existing nation, it is something entirely imagined. I envisioned a continuous empire, shaped by Confucian ideals, ritual, and hierarchy. A civilization where tradition is not a weight of the past, but the architecture of the future. This fictional China carries the aesthetic and spiritual DNA of dynastic thought into space, building something both futuristic and deeply rooted in cultural continuity.

Tianyuan Settlement, Mars

Tianyuan is the physical and cultural extension of that vision. While other Martian settlements (like Minos or Asteria) focus on industry, science, or tourism, Tianyuan was designed with a deeper purpose: to endure. Not just to survive Mars, but to inhabit it, to build a lasting presence rooted in order, continuity, and careful expansion.

At the start of the novel, Tianyuan is only partially populated, around 500 settlers in a facility built for 10,000. Its corridors are quiet. Its plazas wait. But everything is in place: the command citadel, the modular housing corridors, the solar gardens, the ceremonial spaces. And at its center is Director Li Xiang, a man of quiet authority and layered allegiances, navigating both the red dust of Mars and the ever-watchful gaze of the Empire back on Earth.

Director Li Xiang

In this world, China isn’t one of the powers, it is a power, sovereign and unyielding. A mirror to the European and American blocs, but not a copy. Rooted not in ideology, but in inheritance.

And Tianyuan?Tianyuan is their foothold on a new world.Built not just to survive, but to last.