Humanity was close to conquering the Galaxy at the peak of its power. All the other species were either absorbed into the fold, becoming citizens of the Hegemony of Men or were pushed towards the edges of yet-to-be-explored parts of the Milky Way. But everything has its end... and the end for Humanity came way too suddenly. Nobody knows, not even today, what caused the collapse more than 5,000 years ago, but one thing is certain: No humans have ever been sighted again since then. The Galaxy was changed once more, giving birth to new empires, climbing up on the ruins, left behind their hated foes, the ones who previously conquered them.
Today, those who call themselves the descendants of Humanity, those who carry their genes, a result of their previous interbreeding of species, are ostracised, hunted, and persecuted by the rest of the Galaxy. Sylen belongs to such a branch of "humans," carrying genes from his ancestors and from another species. A mix. A hybrid. A mutant. She traveled with her grandfather, salvaging, searching for old tech from a bygone era, and trying to get by. They were just sailing back home after a successful find when another life-changing event happened right before them; The rediscovering of a living, breathing human out in the emptiness of space!
Maybe the answers to what happened back then are just around the corner, or maybe it should have been left unanswered all along.
Nice story with an interesting setting and a unique protagonist, with likeable side characters and a healthy ratio of excitement, funny parts and drama.
I'm not a man of a lot of words so when I review something I'm usually brief, but really like this one.
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There were a few things that ruined my suspension of disbelief right from the get go, first, that the humans were capable of interbreeding with most sentient life from other planets dispite them evolving in completely different planetary environments and ecosystems. That the author started to describe Syeen's and omega's appearance in a horny way from the 3rd perspective instead of from a characters perspective or just describing their actual physical attributes attributes. The last thing that really threw me off was that as soon as the human character is introduced, he is all-powerful, amnesiac with no real defining qualities other than being s*xy, nice and completely naive just like the female lead. He is a Mary Sue. He is able to really quickly get Miyon - who is trying to kill him - to like him just by saying he is sorry that Miyon lost 'her' like that. This makes no sense, if some corpse just flew in the spaceship, came back to life and I had decided to kill it, it telling me how its sorry how my dead (presumably) wife died, I would be more freaked out by the corpse man, not less.
TLDR: the characters make no sense, the writing does not really mesh well with IRL physical laws (which might be fine for you) and it is clearly a power fantasy.
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