Inherit the Stars - Vol. 4 Ch. 36 - Heirs to the Stars

[MangaDex]

 

[zuccky]

It’s a wrap, everyone!
After 7 years since the first chapter was scanlated, the entire series is finally complete.

I’ll still be checking the comments from time to time in case there are any corrections to make.
Feel free to reach out via email if you have any inquiries.

If you really enjoyed the story, do check out the original novels — all five books available for free here:
👉 https://www.rulit.me/author/hogan-james-p
You can read them directly on the site or download them in FB2 format. I recommend using the FB2 Chrome Reader extension to view them — it’s safe, no viruses.

The novel has wild lines like:

"VISAR has instructed me to advise you, with respect, Excellency, to go to hell."
Broghuilio was too numbed with shock to react violently.

You’ll also find cool additional details, like how the hyperspace tunnel became uncontrolled because the Shapieron was jamming the signal — and that JEVEX was the mastermind behind all the Jevlenese actions. The true manipulator.

Another major change: Broghuilio didn’t crash into Minerva after the failed hyperspace travel.
Instead, he went there and became his own ancestor —

And that, of course, explained where the superbreed of Lambians, who had emerged seemingly overnight with a technology far in advance of anything else anywhere on the planet, had come from. And it explained why a planet that had, by and large, mended its warlike ways and commenced working constructively and cooperatively toward an eventual migration to Earth became divided into the two rival factions that in the end had destroyed each other. The Cerians were native, having evolved from the terrestrial primates transported to Minerva twenty-five million years earlier by the Ganymeans, while the Lambians were from Jevlen and fifty thousand years in the future. The Lambians never emerged at all; they arrived.

Thanks again for sticking with the series.
See you in my next scanlation project! 👋

 

[Chizan]

I know this is fiction so anything goes but I still want to nitpick a few things;
-The moon wouldn't have stayed in place but continued at its current trajectory if the planet's gravity field disappeared. So they must have moved it pretty much immediately?
-If they had never tried to stop the Jevlian conspiracy, the Jevlenese ship would never have caused Minerva's end and Earth would not have gotten it's moon, and the Jevlian conspiracy would never have happened in the first place. So, would history have imploded on itself?
- I'm pretty sure chimpanzees are proof plenty humans never needed outside help toward violent tendencies outside their own roots...

 

[Bootybug]

Men and goats hand in hand

Thank you for the scanlations.

 

[BowlOfMisoSoup]

Gah... so it finally ends!

Thank you so much for bringing this series to a proper conclusion! The whole Charlie and Koriel storyline was my favorite.

I did feel a sense of loneliness reading this at a time many years ago when there was only a few translated chapters but glad by the end a group such as yours picked it up, finished it and there were a group of us reading and enjoying it together. Never forget the Goat daddies!

 

[VooXoo]

It was a long trip...not long as theirs, but still...it took a while.
thanks to every translator that took part in this great story, can't thank you enough.
I feel is only right to put this song in this post, the title is not the same by sheer coincidence, DXM was clearly inspired from this manga/book.

 

[sedition]

Thanks for all the hard work.

 

[Ynneja]

Thank you for bringing this manga to the English speaking world!

Given all the new data we have discovered / learned about the moon formation and human evolution, the original basis of this story from the 70s sure is dated. However, the premise of generating false history from the use of faked imagery is exactly as you said concerning how AI is used to create fake "history photos" today.

Thank you again for this wonderful journey!

 

[Doomroar]

Goat god daddy came down to earth, and said

"My bad, it is all our fault, we fucked up, but you still managed to persevere and win, i am proud of you all kids"

 

[zanonyn]

Thank you so much for finishing off this epic piece of old school space opera. As the notes say, even almost a half century later it still endures. Solid finale to a grand journey, and pleasantly multi-dimensional all around. It was clearly written under the shadow of the Cold War, but here in 2025 I think it feels extra poignant again as the post-CW period breaks down and our own horizons shift. I hope we can do half as well IRL.

-The moon wouldn't have stayed in place but continued at its current trajectory if the planet's gravity field disappeared. So they must have moved it pretty much immediately?

Since the Cerians hadn't aged much yes, can't have been more then a decade or two after they were brought to Earth.

If they had never tried to stop the Jevlian conspiracy, the Jevlenese ship would never have caused Minerva's end and Earth would not have gotten it's moon, and the Jevlian conspiracy would never have happened in the first place. So, would history have imploded on itself?

Time loops are plenty talked about in other works. One "simple" explanation is that if the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics was true, then no time travel would ever rewrite "the past", rather at the moment of it happening the universe splits into a world line where it happened and didn't happen. So "time travel" wouldn't be going back in time so much as moving between alternate universes, and no one could ever go back to their exact original one either. That avoids any sort of paradox.

Obviously we don't actually have any idea for real because it's all fiction, it's still not known if time travel or FTL could ever be done IRL. Given our stalling out on figuring out a theory of quantum gravity/unified theory of everything, it might be that it's beyond the limits of the human mind and it'll be up to some future post-humans or descendants, if they make it that far. Fortunately this story keeps it relatively minimal.

 

[LilHoodie]

It was worth waiting for 7 years, thanks for finishing this

 

[HCO]

Thanks for the TL, you love to see a classic translated.

 

[Nephilm]

Thank you for bringing this manga to the English speaking world!

Given all the new data we have discovered / learned about the moon formation and human evolution, the original basis of this story from the 70s sure is dated. However, the premise of generating false history from the use of faked imagery is exactly as you said concerning how AI is used to create fake "history photos" today.

Thank you again for this wonderful journey!

Just don't allow what should be a healthy dose of skepticism guided by critical thinking become full-on crackpottery, as it happened to the original author.

 

[AbuHajaar]

Time loops are plenty talked about in other works. One "simple" explanation is that if the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics was true, then no time travel would ever rewrite "the past", rather at the moment of it happening the universe splits into a world line where it happened and didn't happen. So "time travel" wouldn't be going back in time so much as moving between alternate universes, and no one could ever go back to their exact original one either. That avoids any sort of paradox.

Obviously we don't actually have any idea for real because it's all fiction, it's still not known if time travel or FTL could ever be done IRL. Given our stalling out on figuring out a theory of quantum gravity/unified theory of everything, it might be that it's beyond the limits of the human mind and it'll be up to some future post-humans or descendants, if they make it that far. Fortunately this story keeps it relatively minimal

Alternatively the Novikov self-consistency principle holds true, which allows for time travel while preserving causality. Though it does kinda mean that timelines are static to an extent, i.e. no free will

Big issue with FTL in hard sci-fi and current known physics is that any form of FTL = time travel, and it's very unlikely this will ever get disproven. Most hard sci-fi tend to brush over this and ignore it due to how problematic that becomes.

 

[Kendrakirai]

Alternatively the Novikov self-consistency principle holds true, which allows for time travel while preserving causality. Though it does kinda mean that timelines are static to an extent, i.e. no free will

Big issue with FTL in hard sci-fi and current known physics is that any form of FTL = time travel, and it's very unlikely this will ever get disproven. Most hard sci-fi tend to brush over this and ignore it due to how problematic that becomes.

Free will still exists even in a deterministic universe. You're free to make any choice you want, nothing is stopping you. It's just that the choice you decide to make is the one you always made.

It was still YOU who made the decision, thought those thoughts, no external force programmed or forced you to. There was no ethereal scriptwriter putting words in your mouth, no puppeteer pulling your strings. It's simply that you did what you did, and now it's set.

 

[thirtykei]

Goated

 

[Fugutron]

Thanks for the finish, thank god they only stuck to the good parts of the saga, not the later weird stuff.

In a way felt the bad guys won in the book. they still survived into the past to cause much suffering and bloodshed with the cerian lambian civil war. I guess the mangaka wanted with certainity that Broghulio got his end .

 

[Veruschka]

Thank you so much for translating us this space jew adventure 🙏🙏🙏

 

[Predatornoa]

Thanks for the translation. I was waiting for this project to be finished for like 5 or 6 years. Never tought I would actually read it complete. But was worth the wait.

 

[Lobo]

thank you very much for the translation!!