Friday, February 22, 2013

Jack Campbell's lost fleet series


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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