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Sepherim
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Posted - 2008.07.21 14:38:00 -
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I find it a nice book, period.
And it has one massive problem: Deus Ex Machina. All over the place. Everytime that something is going to go the usual way (take Malkalen for example) one of the three Deus of Machina (yes, they are characters with name and all that) just appear and do something to change it and head it back to war. So it feels more like SuperHeroes of EVE.
Not to mention that all factions are absolutely useless outside their SuperHeroes. Of all the CEOs and power in the Caldari corporations, no one else notices the symbol of the Dragonaurs (which, by the way, count hundreds of thousands of members... when they were simply a terrorist group at the starting of the book). Only Otro, because he's one of the important guys (not Deus, but close to it). Don't other corps have intelligence services watching that footage over and over to the milimiter? And, come on, the CEO of the most powerful corporation in the Caldari state, doesn't make a routine scan on who drives her to guarantee her security? Because how they force her to resign is hilarious. And the Minmatarr Republic is crippled with agents of the Amarr, so much that they can attempt to violate the President (what the ****?! Is this a government with any seriousness) and the Republic government knows nothing about it, until the Elders come in and solve it all, because they know all the names and the crimes of all of them. What the ****?! Why didn't they say so before and give the Republic a chance?
So the book is nice, when the chapters have nothing to do with the Broker, Lady Sarum (what the ****, psychic powers in EVE?!), or the Elders... well, and Otro Gariushi. The rest of the characters are cliched, not too bright, and all that, but at least they are not SuperHeroes of EvE.
It is a nice read for those of us who like PF... specially if you can ignore parts of it. And I appreciate the huge effort made into interweaving the events in the novel with those of the news but the SuperHeroes just take everything locical and reasonable away. You know they are the only ones capable of doing things right, so you can bother skipping all the rest.
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Posted - 2008.07.21 17:58:00 -
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No, it is not all negative, by far. I find it pretty interesting when it comes to a chapter with none of the SuperHeroes around (like the story of the cargo and the clone). Though it does go a bit far even there. I mean, ignoring Jamyl Sarum speakign to people's minds, true that podpilots know ships better than anyone else... but you don't know that it has a leak that will destroy the whole ship on the exterior of the hull "just by impression". It was things like that that took away all the credibility in the story.
Not to mention timespans. We all agree that things took place too quickly in-game in order to don't keep players from playing, and still the news were spread around for more than 10 hours. Yet, according to the novel, the whole invasion of the Gallente, and Amarr took place in little more than an hour... that is simply physically impossible. And has no reason for it. If you are going to keep it hurried up, use the timeline in the game which was very quick, don't speed it even more.
Don't know, the story was well written, but it has so many big bad points that make the whole of it look worse than it is in truth. At least to me, but I've never liked SuperHeroes. ;)
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Posted - 2008.07.22 15:18:00 -
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No, Stitcher, the novel sais they do reverse ingeneer it before installing it and using it. So fear Amarr, people, we will soon have hundreds of those cannons!
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Posted - 2008.07.22 17:19:00 -
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Yes, but we will have the ammo sometime in the next... let me see, normal thing would require say 100 years of investigation, plus funding, plus secrecy... so in about thirty minutes now! And we will fire it from afar with special telepatic objects thatreact to Jamyl's thoughts, so she will actually conquer the whole universe in about... two days. Yay! 
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Posted - 2008.07.23 03:20:00 -
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As I read it, drones did dismount it, learn what each piece does, and place it back.
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