Star Force: Origin Series Box Set (53-56)

Star Force Universe

De: Aer-ki Jyr

Narrado por: Stephen Day

Duración: 12 h y 4 m

Resumen del Editor

Start as a RECRUIT...become a SUPER-SOLDIER...end up a GALACTIC WARLORD.

Don your armor, load up on ammo, and get ready for your combat training. You don't become a badass by signing on the dotted line, you gotta earn it the hard way...same goes for your team. You have to learn to fight, how to work together, and how to lose...for the ancient origins of humanity on Earth are dark, devastating, and destined to return. Earth is going to lose, and lose badly when our time is up, but out of the ashes of defeat, we may be able to scrounge up a future if you and the other future warlords can learn how to overcome the losses and turn them to our advantage.

And the one advantage we have is the repository of ancient knowledge left behind when our former masters abandoned Earth during a civil war. They assume everyone died, but a few human slaves remained and now we live only because of that mistake.

But they didn't just make one. Their second was leaving the most heavily defended and valuable building on the planet intact because destroying it along with the others when they bugged out would be too time-consuming. Instead, they buried it and now we have limited access to the advanced technology and database inside. From it we know the truth about our ancestry, as well as the superhuman powers they laced into our genome...and because of those powers, any human not under their direct control carries with them an automatic death sentence.

So when we're found out, we're all going to die...unless you and your team can grow into the war leaders we need, figure out how to use the ancient technology as well as those who created it, and find a way to do the impossible and overcome a galactic empire millions of years old. An empire known as the V'kit'no'sat, which Earth hilariously misinterpreted as a group of extinct animals called the Dinosaurs.

©2016 Aer-ki Jyr (P)2018 Aer-ki Jyr

Ugh… stupid races that…

This one has stupid races making EXTREMELY stupid decisions. But at the same time, and no matter how much you don’t want to admit it, can see why the choices were made. It’s an interesting and frustrating experience.
But at the same time, I continue to love this series!
While the war with the Skarrons and Lizards continues and even escalating, there is trouble back inside the ADZ that is a major issue. Trouble that leads to A LOT of death…
Then there is a surprise visit of a long thought dead race…

The story is good but makes too many assumptions

The entire story is good and well fleshed out. However, one thing that continuously bothers me is how Star Force insists on patterning everything after themselves. Individuality isn’t superior to collectivism- it only has different strengths. By erasing a culture completely, you negate these strengths. Star Force uses their social and technological prowess as proof of the superiority of their methods, but in reality humanity is still flawed and corrupt. They haven’t sought to “fix” their own race with the same fervor and totality as they have with alien races (essentially keeping the originals imprisoned and letting them die out while only investing in the genetic samples they grow and raise). Technological prowess is nearly nonexistent as they are pretty much only reverse engineering the pyramid database, while races like the Bsidd were technologically superior in their own merit- which should reinforce that there is strength in other systems of doing things that they shouldn’t erase or ignore. These traits are mirrored in our own cultures, East Asian cultures for example are extremely collectivistic and it’s something that gives them particular strengths and benefits. Instead of looking to pattern every race after Star Force, they should incorporate the inherent strengths of those races’ existing structures or run into issues of individuals being “lost” in terms of direction like the “Free Bsidd” or the lethargy of the Lacvamat. The proof in concept is the Hycre and Protovic (and to some extent the Voku).