It would be one thing if they were side stories that get proper focus on to their conclusion before going on to the next arc of the main story or being written as a separate series without slowing down the main story's releases, but by interweaving them with the main story, it ends up stalling everything and dilutes the experience. The issue is, their side story adventures are practically novels of their own that take up valuable space in the main story. JCountry does a great job introducing a wide variety of interesting characters that have a great impact on the story, and it's wonderful to see that they're not forgotten and sidelined, but instead they continue to live their lives after departing from the main story. The much more significant issue, is one which personally has become quite an issue in one of the author's other series I've read: What Do You Mean All Dungeons Are Girls!!!? It's far better to see that a ship is awesome for ourselves, rather than spouting numbers and names like a child talking about a lego monstrosity they're showing off. Even more so when several paragraphs are spent just spouting numbers and names to show "oh, this ship is awesome because of this!". Learning about what a Hellfire Cannon is fine, as it's referenced here and there and is interesting, but knowing that a particular ship has 5000 of them is pretty meaningless. The first is a minor one: the excessive degree of detail spent on talking about the technology and technical specifications. That said, there were two issues which I just had to bring up. The use of the setting is pretty enjoyable, though so far there has been very few significant references, aside from the Soleans being important to the backstory of both. Wonderful worldbuilding, enjoyable characters, and lots of interesting ideas. Even as she finds that the war she has been thrust into may prove more interesting than a first glance would suggest. Join her as she seeks to uncover what happened to her creators, and the ancient scourge that had threatened to consume all. Their very presence awakens that ship, and the ship soon finds itself confronted with the mysteries of the past and a mysterious power in the present. An ancient battleship that lies dormant on the edge of their borders. Mysterious and ancient worlds that still remain untouched even after being abandoned millions of years before.Ī group of aliens desperately seeking technology to help them in their own war has found one such relic of this ancient war. Among ruined worlds, and ancient battlefields. To this day relics of that great war can still be found. The ultimate fate of the precursors and their enemy has been lost to time, but neither has been seen since the Great War of Legend. For Millennia the ancient powers fought in a vast war for survival against an endless menace.
Entire worlds lay devastated, and vast fleets were raised to wage war across galaxies.
A war of such fantastic scope, and extent that age-old enemies joined together in historic alliances. It was an age of war unlike any fought before and since. In a time, now remembered only as myths and legends a great scourge threatened to consume the universe.