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prationality's review
2.0
I'll give an actual review after this serial wraps up (in September), but I feel a bit..squick about the fact she's his prisoner and almost from the first moment his thought has been "I want to have sex with her". Like literally all of Makk's thoughts are either:
a) I want to screw her
b) I wonder if I can make her like me?
c) fantasizing about screwing her
As a slight spoiler its not until the THIRD PART he even gets around to explaining to her why his people felt a need to attack this super secret but every pirate in the 'verse attacks it every chance they can base.
Which let comment on the fact that this base is supposed to be civilian and protected by the military because the secrets may be useful to the military. As I understand it this base is used as the "you've made the wrong High End Officer upset" command post. All the screw ups who haven't quite been bad enough to get thrown out of the military wind up here. On this super important, supposedly secret base. That is constantly attacked by pirates and mercenaries. The turn over rate must be INSANE but more importantly THIS BASE ISN'T SECRET.
If the military felt a compelling reason to protect it they should just move it to a base more easily defensible. Not leave it stranded at the ass end of the 'verse where getting help is unlikely and the closest planet is barely inhabitable if you wear a suit of specialness. Someone remarks later that no one thought anyone would come out this far. Except they have (repeatedly on what amounts to a possible rumor) and if the base has the reputation to send the fuck-ups to it already, that sounds like its had enough time for the military to figure out a better way to protect it.
Unless the military didn't really WANT to protect it and this is all a clever subterfuge to guard the planet JUST IN CASE some of Makk's super soldier buddies survived from 150 years (which they have no possible way of knowing). Possible, since this will be six parts (I guess roughly 24 chapters?) long, but seems overly complicated since Makk's people take out everyone except a few soldiers, Tamryn (a new officer with zilch experience doing anything but circumventing her father's reasonable demands) and all the civilian scientists you can shake a stick at.
a) I want to screw her
b) I wonder if I can make her like me?
c) fantasizing about screwing her
As a slight spoiler its not until the THIRD PART he even gets around to explaining to her why his people felt a need to attack this super secret but every pirate in the 'verse attacks it every chance they can base.
Which let comment on the fact that this base is supposed to be civilian and protected by the military because the secrets may be useful to the military. As I understand it this base is used as the "you've made the wrong High End Officer upset" command post. All the screw ups who haven't quite been bad enough to get thrown out of the military wind up here. On this super important, supposedly secret base. That is constantly attacked by pirates and mercenaries. The turn over rate must be INSANE but more importantly THIS BASE ISN'T SECRET.
If the military felt a compelling reason to protect it they should just move it to a base more easily defensible. Not leave it stranded at the ass end of the 'verse where getting help is unlikely and the closest planet is barely inhabitable if you wear a suit of specialness. Someone remarks later that no one thought anyone would come out this far. Except they have (repeatedly on what amounts to a possible rumor) and if the base has the reputation to send the fuck-ups to it already, that sounds like its had enough time for the military to figure out a better way to protect it.
Unless the military didn't really WANT to protect it and this is all a clever subterfuge to guard the planet JUST IN CASE some of Makk's super soldier buddies survived from 150 years (which they have no possible way of knowing). Possible, since this will be six parts (I guess roughly 24 chapters?) long, but seems overly complicated since Makk's people take out everyone except a few soldiers, Tamryn (a new officer with zilch experience doing anything but circumventing her father's reasonable demands) and all the civilian scientists you can shake a stick at.
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