How to Build a Starship: a base-building harem adventure

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Written from the point of view of Mark, a young man inches away from graduating as a Roboticsengineerin the Echelon system's most prestigious university. Given his humble background, it's nothing but sheer talent and hard work that has brought him this far. And it's about to pay off with a future only the children of royals and nobles can typically dream of.

That is, until his transport ship crashes, and he's left with nothing but an outdatedspacesuit, a small box of tools and his wits tosurvive. Oxygen is ticking down, let alone food, water, heat and shelter. He's never been too fond of conflict, but in this lawless, eternal darkness, it's either fight or die.

Struggle down to the last drop of blood.Raid broken starshipsfor groundbreaking technology. Improvise machines from scavenged parts, construct amech suitcapable of bringing down a warship, and strike deals with AIs capable of a hundred times the cunning of any mortal man.

Mingle with talented and mysterious women with beauty only royal-classgenemoddingcould produce. Chipimplantsmade for imperial soldiers, interface with weapons never meant for the eyes of man. Build abase, build astarship, build aharemand take control of the darkness between the stars.

In the end, it's an infinite universe full of secrets, and Mark is just some innocent guy with a lion's heart.

A love letter to the game Rimworld and the light novel Reborn as a Space Mercenary.For no particular reason, there's many instances of cute, silly creatures like space robot cats and marketable plushies.

New chapters released every Sunday morning... when circumstances allow.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2025
Author: DrGatoluche

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Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 397
Views: 64,040

Chapters(33 total)

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Federated SunsRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
The story is a bit rough to me, the first chapter is pretty short and the chapters after that are all on the short and quick side of things. Not much is fleshed out, and the author doesn't really explain much of what's going on or any background info. A lot of things are said without explaining them like we're meant to already know this information. Such as a reference to this 'Falcon Empire' but doesn't explain what that is and why is seems to be a big deal.
Sometimes things change like the type of ship he was in, in one chapter it was called a cargo ship, in the next a passenger ship for instance. I was four chapters in and not once is the main character we are following is ever named or described. If you hadn't read the summary you wouldn't know who they were.
The story could use a bit more polish and fleshing out, maybe it gets better later on but the first few chapters are a bit on the rougher side of things. We don't really get to know much about the character as he's mostly a blank slate, we don't learn why he was on the ship, what he did, any background info at all.
Granted it is focused on survival but a little tidbit here and there would be nice to help get a picture of this character. He doesn't really have much of a personality coming through the writing at times because of this.
Again the story might get better later on but I lost interests by this point as nothing really got my attention and all the vagueness was starting to get to me. I don't need everything spelled out but even a little info would have been nice now and then. Maybe after X number of chapters it does get better but I can't force myself to read through it to get to it. If others can and they enjoy the story later on then I hope they do.
In the end this story just isn't for me but others might enjoy it.