Thanks, I’m glad you’re enjoying it! I don’t have specific plans for screwing over your friends, but there will be times where you can choose to focus on career advancement, and as a result leave your friends, and even your command, out in the cold in the process.
And who knows, if enough people really want to be an ambitious jerk, I’m not opposed to adding something like that. The beauty of a WIP is that it’s a work in progress and easily changed.
Oh goody, I just managed to get the admiral’s kid to become a 1st officer instead of the captain without even trying.
Found a bug though! The dad still called the MC captain at one point of his tirade.
Is the 8 year old Mc going to be like the challenge mode. With more achievements or other rewards for going through the challenge
Good catch, I’ll look into it!
Kind of, yeah. There are some bonuses to playing a younger MC that I’ve mentioned, but it is generally more difficult, and I do plan to have specific achievements that you can acquire with that start.
Not going to lie the first match when you can use torpedo strategy is and the boarding move, we’re incredibly written. Like sci fi or more so hard sci fi, something which is possible and a realistic way of fighting.
This is awesome bro i wish u all the best
Just a thought, so it’s in the future and the previous invasion was largely ground battle or like 90-95 percent , so there must be a lot of innovation in ground warfare during the war so how about super soldier. Do we have something like space Marines or spartan, like are they only for very important mission, safety of people in command like admirals.
Seems to me the strategy developed is “They suck at Space Combat, let’s just kill them all there long before they get to land planetside”, since otherwise there doesn’t seem to be much of a reason to develop a program to increase the number of fleet officers with teen geniuses considering Earth won on the space front.
Thanks, I’m so glad you’re enjoying it!
No super soldiers, at least not in the traditional Sci-Fi sense. There are of course still special forces and the like from many nations, but no biological super serum or anything like that. Master-Javier basically hit the nail on the head when it comes to the strategic thinking of Earth: Build a fleet large enough to defeat the Raptors in space before they can land, and thereby prevent the devastation that occurred during the first war.
That is not to say time and resources haven’t been put into ground defense. You don’t get taken to the edge of extinction and just go “Oh well, I’m sure our ships will handle it.” A lot of energy has been put into the defense of Earth should the alien menace again find it’s way onto the surface again, it’s just that’s not the focus of this particular story, and something the MC wouldn’t really be all that privy to.
I understand but first invasion was like 5-7 years long, correct me if I am wrong. It’s make sense if you suddenly get invaded most of your resources will be towards making weapons but there have to be a large part going into making better weapons and armour and perhaps super soldier equal to take out leadership of the enemy, since even if they we’re bad at space war they we’re too many at the time and humanity have too few and weaker spaceship back then. So at that time main focus have to be ground warfare. And if you have super soldier it makes more sense to have them in spaceship for security and assult since space is limited and you want your best.
If you have “super soldiers developed to take out enemy leadership on the ground” then you won’t put them on a random spaceship where their odds of encountering said leadership is minimal while getting blown up along with the ship without being able to contribute to the fight at all is considerable.
You get space marines for space assault. They’re the specialized tool for this very job, it’s a bit silly/greedy to want something even more special… especially when the MC is a fresh graduate from school and not a fleet admiral or anyone this important.
I don’t think they would be putting 15-year-olds in charge of spaceships in hopes that they would do better if they did have the technology to create supersoldiers. Not every sci-fi story needs gengineered marines.
prodigy achievement is simply impossible
The extra year your MC ages has been reported a bit upthread, so there’s a chance it’ll be fixed with the next update.
Good catch, thanks. Should be fixed in the next update when I hopefully get the aging stuff sorted.
This section near the beginning mentions a “house” twice in the same list, not sure if intentional:
“Nothing changed my mind,” he explains, “I just didn’t expect to have the opportunity in the first place. Plan was to be a lawyer or something, make a living, buy a house, get a wife, house, kids, the whole nine yards. But when I saw I had an interview…”
Further down in another paragraph, the last sentence isn’t a question, so should end with a period:
“A Commander of a world class dreadnought, and the Captain of a state-of-the-art Cruiser at the age of what? 17? Maybe 18? Name anywhere else is this whole damn solar system where you can make a name for yourself so quickly?”
Really liking the vibe so far though!
Hmm, the last sentence in that bit is
Name anywhere else is this whole damn solar system where you can make a name for yourself so quickly?
That may be a rhetorical question, but the question mark seems fine to me. For it to end with a period it should be more of a statement (There's nowhere else [...])
There is a typo there, however. It should be IN this whole not is.
The intent behind the sentence is informational, but grammatically it’s phrased as a command, so shouldn’t have a question mark. If it were a question the sentence would be more like “Where else in this whole damn solar system can you make a name for yourself so quickly?”
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree. To me, it reads like a sentence with implied [Can you] name anywhere else... which makes it a question (a rhetorical one, since both people involved know there’s no such other place) just shortened like people often do in speech but fine overall.
I believe the house showing up twice is intentional. The first house was for being single, the second house being the family house is after getting married and planning for having kids.
