Dead Star Dockyards

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A young pilot testing an experimental spacecraft unwittingly finds himself in the position of one of Humanity's two designated survivors, a plot to preserve the existence of their race in the annals of time. Earth is doomed, the Sun is fated to die, but the last page has yet to be written in the chronicles of human exploits.

With only a strange woman, a dog, and a sapient computer, he is thrust into a new reality. In order to survive, they must learn to make use of their limited and shrinking advantages. To thrive they must gain power, be it political, military, or economic, and they need it fast.

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Author: cakeonfrosting

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: cakeonfrosting

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Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
Followers: 160
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Community Reviews(5)

GoldeNeedleRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Short review from a ScribbleHub Dead Star Dockyards afficionado
This story is not for everyone. Not that its content is particularly divisive, but its storytelling is.
This is the mad project of a nerd. An engineering nerd, a politics nerd, a worldbuilding nerd.
What I mean is that this novel is filled with rich details about basically every topic it covers.
The consequence of that is, this story takes a lot of time to develop its plot and characters. Which makes it not agreeable to everyone. Some will love it, some will hate it.
If you like science-fantasy/space opera with the promise of a grand kingdom building adventure, this story is for you.
Mostly ApatheticRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Long time Scrible reader, couldn't be happier to see this make it's way here.
As my review title suggests, Donovan and co. are taking their first steps into an alien galaxy governed by rules they are only beginning to comprehend. With only themselves, a diligent AI and the collective knowledge of Humanity they seek to carve out a place for themselves in this at once wondorous and hostile new universe.
As they are just setting out much groundwork is still in the process of being laid. If you are looking for nonstop action this isn't the story for you. Not to say there isn't any, and what little there has been is stellar, but that isn't the focus here. If you like in depth world building you are in for quite the treat. You'll find factions large and small, ship design, political maneuvering, training in and unraveling of the local magic system and much more.
So strap in, get comfy, we're in for a long and interesting ride ^^b
JaspreRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
Imagine for a moment someone whose only knowledge of sports was playing games on their console. Now imagine that they decided those hours of gaming made them the greatest coach ever and wrote a book about leading their team to victory with their revolutionary team management skills.
That's this book. For military sci-fi. Much enthusiasm and thought was put into this story. By somebody whose knowledge of the military in general and navy specifically is drawn from a few animes and pop culture movies.
Grammar and writing level overall is decent enough. It has the classic to/too errors but nothing excessive. It's got all the classic setups for great space opera. There are just the two big problems. 1) It's spectacularly cringe to read if you have any military experience. Literally everything is opposite of how it should be. Everything. So much so I question if the entire story is actually some form of advanced trolling deliberately getting it wrong. 2) So much tell for so little show. Worse, what is telling you... See point 1.
The author has... opinions. If you happen to appreciate those opinions and don't have any military background I can see the story being quite enjoyable. Having political opinions, even unpopular ones, is not why I mark this down though. Starship Troopers and Forever War are two of the greatest sci-fi books ever written, and they deliberately present opposite political opinions. Both those authors were ex-military and it showed. This author is not, and it shows. Strong opinions on matters where no knowledge is demonstrated goes down poorly.
Reaper of GamesRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
the best and brightest of humanity put a ship and a crew together.
only not really.
ones an AI that's been shackled so hard that it needs help to do its job.
the main character is decent if you ignore all the inconsistencies with his personality.
the dog is questionable in almost every way.
ignore the laws of physics and call it future space teck... fine
add magic without the decency of calling it magic or even a line about midacorains... and you have lost me.
stopped reading at chapter 27
AzoulasRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
This is a very, very slow burn so far, the vast majority seems to be spent on character interaction with no feeling of real plot/power advancement, no real kingdom building so far and outside of what a ship looks like I would have loved more explanation as to how the actual world looks, towns, buildings, cities, characteristics of different races etc...
For anyone who reads cultivation novels imagine reading 300 chapters and the MC still isn't a QI cultivator and still hasn't left his sect, that's how this feels to me.
My biggest and main gripe with this novel so far is all the stuff that gets added as reasons as to why the MC can't use any serious/powerful technology in some areas that really matter or why the AI can't be used to even 1/100th of what it's potential should be, it feels like many other novels I've read where it was decided something is too OP or has the potential to be too OP and as such it's decided that it's easier to simply nerf it to the ground instead of finding a way to use it to it's fullest potential while still keeping the novel good, which has me worried it will remain this way.
I'm going to keep reading for now and hope it's a very temporary thing but I sadly get the feeling it is not.
With that out of the way, if those things aren't a deal breaker for you then you will probably really enjoy this story, it spends a lot of time on building the "background" and character interaction, it's also very well written overall as far as interactions and grammar go.