Razors Edge: Sci Fi Progression

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Description

A broken past. A chance at the stars. A future worth fighting for.Piotr Argassa has spent his life fixing other people’s wreckage, hovercars, gadgets, and occasionally his own shattered dreams. Then a chance encounter with a military hangar’s mysterious technology offers a glimpse of something greater, and Piotr will risk everything for it.

Loading a chip and an unfinished AI into his own system, Piotr finds himself nose to nose with Major Ashley Kuba, an officer who sees potential where others see trouble. With Razor’s Military Academy on the horizon, Piotr is thrown headfirst into a world of relentless challenges: Zero-G training, experimental technology, and a team that doubts he belongs.

With an AI to perfect, and a ship to save, his own future hangs by a thread. Piotr must prove he’s more than just a mechanic. He’s a builder of dreams, and this time, it’s his own.

What to expect

Progressive HUD stats - Leading to the System configuration in Through Steel and StarsFuturistic Military & Space AcademyTechnological Evolution & High-Stakes InnovationExperimental AI & Cybernetic EnhancementsFound Family and BelongingCorporate EspionageThere will also be a slight RomanceThere are a couple of interlude chapters, but very few, they are to highlight other areas of this story.I am unsure of my post schedule as yet, but I will eventually drop to Mon/Fri.If you're looking for Facebook groups check out -https://www.facebook.com/groups/LitRPG.booksThe only authorised site this is posted to is Royal Road, anywhere else this is seen is illegal. Do find me to let me know, Kanundra for most Social Media sites.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2025
Author: kanundra

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Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 1,377
Views: 274,724

Chapters(112 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

Billy Bob ShakespeareRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Boy sees spaceship. Boy wants spaceship. Boy gets distracted from spaceship to fix a top-secret government AI with the power to… help him cheat on tests.
It’s kind of a goofy premise, but it works in this world and is a lot of fun.
The story quickly becomes a YA school drama, where we meet and get to know the characters, but I suspect it doesn’t stop there, as it seems willing to take risks and change things up from time to time.
I’m not a huge YA fan, but I like this. It’s captured my attention, and I find that while intriguing, it’s a story I can relax to.
Stylistically it’s not quite a page-turner, but the dialog is well done, and the details and the characters are presented in a precise and controlled fashion, so that it never becomes homework to read. It’s one of those stories where the words disappear and you can just experience the plot (well done!).
The punctuation isn’t perfect, but at no time does it get in the way. And you’ll only notice issues if you are used to proofreading.
The grammar is excellent and the author uses it like a true craftsperson to help reinforce the story. It does go a bit overboard with participle phrases from time to time. But that’s just me nitpicking.
This is a story you’ll read because you want to be friends with the characters. It’ll keep you company. But it does introduce maybe a few more characters than it should right when we hit the academy, so it took a few chapters for me to sort them all out in my mind.
Give it a try if you want to read detailed, yet accessible, sci-fi with a friendly cast of characters. Skip it if you are looking for a stat-heavy LitRPG.
OnceWrittenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Sparks fly, a laser drill blazes, and you're immediately pulled into Piotr's world. You swear with him as his tool slips , and through vivid, sharp action frames, you appreciate his struggles, his brilliance, and then the harsh realities of his existence as a mechanic. The story, the mood, and the environment move with the beat of a classic action sci-fi—reminiscent, to me, not only of the hard and fast start of works like Snow Crash, but also the 'high tech, low life' feel of Cyberpunk.
And then, we are treated to an Academy story! Our protagonist's desperate, impulsive break-in at the prestigious Razor's Academy doesn't just get him caught; it lands him a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He is thrust from his dead-end life into the high-pressure world of elite military training, and this section delivers on all the satisfying beats of a classic academy story: the brilliant but undisciplined underdog facing skepticism from his peers, the formation of a new team with distinct personalities like the capable mentor Rob and the sharp-witted Kerry, and the immediate challenges that test his unconventional genius. Watching Piotr apply his street-smart, 'systems thinking' approach to solve complex military simulations is incredibly rewarding and shows that his true potential is only just beginning to unfold.
Rowdha Al SolRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I meant to leave this review before, recently came back to it and realised I hadn't in fact left one, so now I am leaving it.
This is one of the best sci-fi stories I've read on RR to date. And I am no easy pleaser. The author has an incredible (not good, not great) incredible understanding of human emotion and I'd wager thats what puts them above so many other writers on this site. To add to this the point where this is just exceptionally consistent engaging material where I even teared up at points we can safely say that it is good. Simple as that.
If youre ever wondering how a story actually engages readers' brains its this sort of characterisation.
Sol A NyxRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Not many works on Royal Road can really stack up to this level of sci-fi. The writing feels super polished—like, genuinely professional—and it deserves way more attention. The character work is already so good, and if this counts as LitRPG? Then yeah, it just levelled up the whole genre.
BIG fan of Doli.
ToldiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Found the story through a shout-out from another story - the blurb caught my interest and, oh man, I am really happy I gave this story a shot. If you got an itch to read a story similar to Ender's Game (and read through that series backwards and forwards), this just might be the gem that scratches that itch for you (at least it did for me). The story came out strong, and while it is still trying to find its footing in certain elements, it is clear that the author has put their heart and soul into this story.
Style: The style is perfectly conducive to telling the type of story the author wants: no crazy POVs, no weird time skips or disjointed dialogues, just a coherent style that allows the story and the characters to grow and develop.
Grammar: I noticed a handful of minor typos here and there, but the author has been great about fixing them up on the go. The prose also flows smoothly.
Story: Probably the strongest part of this whole package. The premise promises a lot, and, so far, the story has been delivering on that promise. We are still in the beginning, but I like what I saw so far.
Character: The second strongest part of the story. While we haven't had that many chapters yet to get to really know our characters (or how much they will be growing/changing as the story progresses) but so far they are far more than cardboard cutouts of the usual stereotypes you might meet in similar stories. Some of the character motivations are a bit obscure, but the more you read, the more things clear up.
If the blurb of the story caught your interest, or you miss Ender's Game, treat yourself and give this story a shot.
Graal 999Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
This story is an Artistically well written & thought out romp through a futuristic military setting, that still feels like a buddy comedy, at times.
The MC: Piotr Argassa, is someone that I Mostly & personally identify with myself. The found family, that he, well, finds ends up becoming a really cohesive unit, that both makes up for the talents that he is lacking, as well as enhancing his own.
The relatively large cast of characters that are all eventually introduced just end up spicing up & fleshing out the MC & those nearest to him.
The 1 major romance ended up being Perfectly enmeshed into the story & I'll bet it will become a great corner-stone going forwards, into the next book.
This is probably, minus a few grammar & spelling mishaps that are easily corrected, 1 of the Most well written & thought out stories that I've read here on RR.
Style, Story, & Characters are simply spot-on.
Keep it coming Kanundra. It's Very Good & I look forward to more. ;)
I don't usually have an issue with word count, however, in order to post this Advanced review, I found out that they must be at least 200 words long... Is it surprising that I was able to succinctly review this phenomenal work in less than 200 words?
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MystfieldRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Stumbled upon this gem in an ad, while reading another story on here.
So i started reading the story...
The sci-fi elements, political intrigue, story pacing and quirky underdog M.C make for an engaging story
The grammar is pretty good and hasn't muddled the various words and sentences in this authors story
heliRDRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
This is different, the angle being taken by the story his wonderful, overall the story kept me engaged wanting to find out about the various characters, the style is really different from others but follows the general plan of weak to strong, from a no name engineer who has a compulsion to fix things to his own detriment, ( like going to fenced off military area and stay there to fix stuff, wanting to fix an a.i that was left ). The story is lovely some emotion interaction expansion into the larger world, I think the characters were spoken of, and showed their excellence, the issue I really have with thus story is the way that seems disconnected a page/chapter will talk about an event and the next page/chapter makes it seems I have jumped a page or chapter or went back some page or chapter, then you notice the continuity, it was something else an example is the last two chapters of book 1 when m.c woke up from the surgery and the a.i told him about the death of ashley, that chapter shows grieve and people try to get passed it with the 5 or 7 steps of grief. The next chapter something else happened the a.i came to tell him that there was an information from Ashley and after viewing it the a.i was like "nooo they killed her we must get revenge now I will turn the ship around and go their location." This was talked about in the previous chapter that they will go for revenge but not now while the last chapter in the book makes it seems like nothing was talked. Those are the things that made the book tiresome.
Kev IrwinRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
The premise was good and simple, it started well and moved along nicely but it is veering away from what made it enjoyable by trying to get a Tom Clancyesque type of espionage thing going on and the story is suffering because of it, it has turned into something I just don't care about so I am jumping ship here
Valinor89Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
I have tried to like this novel but neither the setting nor the MC and other characters are consistent in my opinion.
MC goes from insecure underdog to arrogantly bulldozing through at the drop of a hat. And the implied out of nowhere romance fell flat to me and highly out of character.
And let's forget about the 'uncharacteristic' way the military part is portrayed and the seemingly ways that Kubo is both overly powerful as a military officer and at the same time powerless. If she is a researcher whose project has been shut down and transferred, why is she so involved in so many facets of the academy, somehow keeps control over Doli and keeps developing her, etc. Having a daddy admiral should let her pull some strings like putting the MC in the academy, keeping the results of the multi billion dollar program to herself, not so much.
The tech descriptions feel not fleshed out to me, not in the fictional sense that requires certain suspense of disbelief but on basic things like how the tech is used in world and by the characters. Give me FTL, AI, the works and it is ok with me. Just don't tell me the memory core of the academy that will wipe itself if it loses power, which could be plausibly explained by some OPSEC reason, has no protection against an academy wide power loss. It also has no backups whatsoever.
The random "stats readouts" that are peppered on each chapter seem forced and don't really matter. It is also unclear where they come from. If Doli is quantifying them, some are clearly outside of her plausible knowledge. The body stats in table form are fine, the more esoteric ones as text are sometimes highly implausible for Doli to know and quantify.
Granted, this might get better further down the line, but I am not enjoying reading it so I have decided to drop it.