I am currently reading Jack Campbell's
lost fleet series
http://www.johnghemry.com/c/255/the-lost-fleet-series.
The Main character is John “Blackjack” Geary, the Alliance hero
thought lost in a battle at the start of the the Alliance and the
Syndic war. Geary manages to defend the jump point allowing his
forces to retreat from the surprise attack by the Syndics but in
doing so he looses his ship and is forced to go into stasis in an
escape pod where he drifts for the next hundred years. Rescued by and
Alliance fleet on its way to fall into a trap in the Syndic home
system. Geary ends up in command of the ragged remains of the fleet
and quickly finds out that the past 100 years have altered the
military culture in some startling ways. Higher and higher attrition
rates have killed of the experienced officers and the junior
officers they had trained meaning the tactics degenerated to little
more than the “brave but stupid“ all out charge. Propagandists
all but deify Geary as a the hero of the alliance. Being the “Great
Blackjack Geary” has many advantages and disadvantages it is a
terrible burden to carry but with his superior grasp of tactics and
skills in timing orders to cope with the time delay cause by
relativistic distances and and engagement speeds in the 0.1C range.
All in all phenomenal space navy
series. The physics are well thought out the action is paced out
properly with more introspective scenes. Reading this has made me
decide that its finally time to give in and go purchase some thermal
paste so I can fix my laptop. I really want to play EVE online
pew-pew-pew-KABOOM!
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