Battlestar
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3.8 • 61개의 평가
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- US$3.99
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Wasp-like aliens kill all the senior officers of the starship fleet led by the Battlestar Lepanto. That puts Ensign Jacob Renselaer on the spot. Can he find out why the aliens killed his ship’s officers? Can he take command of the Battlestar? Does he want to be the leader of ten heavily armed starships that never expected to encounter aliens? Deep in the Kepler 22 star system, mutual misunderstanding between two peoples who cannot speak to each other leads to multiple space battles. Somehow Jacob becomes the leader he never wanted to be. His close friend Daisy the pilot helps him, as do other friends on the Battlestar. On the alien side, Hunter One is determined to kill the invaders who threaten his new colony world. His people the Swarm have never been defeated. Now, he faces Soft Skins who do not flee at the loss of their leaders. In a distant star system, people human and alien die, scheme, and fight for survival. None of them have ever faced combat before. But now, both sides learn what it is like to have someone seek your death and the death of your friends!
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A pretty good tale ….. however.
While the pensive unsure main character makes for an interesting example of character development, the premise that all of the officers of military battle group would go down to the service sort of ridiculous. For example the president and vice president ever travel on the same no matter what. And if you’ve noticed, they almost never show up at the same place at the same time. There’s a very simple reason for this. You don’t want the two top people in your chain of command to suddenly be incapacitated by one disaster or attack. Our Navy operates under somewhat principles. Second, this ambiguous chain of command, where only the people from the command deck can actually command …. however, if enough people “vote” on it, then someone else can take command. Military aren’t democracy and there’s very good reasons for this. The ridiculous availability of drugs and alcohol, the military vessel. The main character goes to his medicine cabinet and finds meth, pot, antidepressants, various sleep aids all just sitting there available for him to take without any supervision whatsoever from a medical professional. What could possibly go wrong with such a policy? Finally fraternization between officers in the same chain of command. I won’t even go into all the issues that this causes, but having a ship full of people banging each other breaking up from and starting relationships all the time is a recipe for disaster. Finally, the idea that you could have a field promotion from to captain absurd. That’s pretty much the entire officer grade short of admiral. Heck why didn’t they just promote him to admiral since he’s running a battle group? I mean, why bother with just captain.