Starship Engineer

Self-Published

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Description

This is a tale about a male MC that grew up on an agricultural world but was forced into life in a middling space navy. He has some character flaws. His is a savant, has OCD but also has low emotional intelligence. The story is developing and he is slowly doing some self reflection to examine his emotional short comings.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Alwaysrollsaone

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 1,303
Views: 1,332,202

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Community Reviews(10)

BrianRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story is from the MC's point of view. It definitely creates a nice change from other sci-fi which is very enjoyable.
The setting and character development is great. This start is leading into giving the story a strong footing. I'm really looking forward to more.
Give it a try and enjoy.
gbecker100Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Normally I enjoy fiction with good conversations. This is an alternative where there is almost no conversation. The author does a great job of keeping the story interesting and moving forward. Without a lot of inner monologue.
The MC does come across a bit emotionless, but I think it's the nature of the storytelling. The author could expand on this by having the AI helping to interpret other people's emotions. Or by having the MC artificially create conditions to demonstrate their real feelings.
Vze3vdnpRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
There are two villains who appear in this story that exemplify how I feel about it. The first villain did everything that type of character is supposed to do; just gives you a measuring stick you use to judge the main character and giving them something to push against. The second villain appears many chapters later and man, I cussed that villain out for a good minute! It takes a good writer to make you swear at a person that doesn't even exist.
The story starts out feeling more like the summary of a great story but later on the narrative opens up a bit more and it goes from a nice way to pass the time to WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?!? WHAT YOU GONNA DO NOW?!
This story is definitely worth binging. Honestly, you'll wish that you read it a little slower once you get caught up with it.
MadMaxOniRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Generally this is a good read. The only problem I saw was some typos. I thought the use of a slightly "damaged" main character was interesting. Him not catching some of the crew problems allows things to build without him interviening early. Watching the pirate show allowed him to make witty comebacks. All in all I would like very much to continue to follow the adventures of our Starship Engineer.
Bruce cRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Written as stream of consciousness, the story isn't quite as captivating as it could be with a bit more dialog. The story itself takes place in a universe large enough to provide endless opportunities and conflicts. It isn't that unique, but it is developed enough to be believable.
Our MC is definitely one of the more introverted characters on RR. Like many characters, he is a mildly gifted workaholic and succeeds via a lot of hard work, decent planning, and a little luck. However, his focus on tech and neglect of everything else leaves him a bit hollow. Supporting characters are adequately nuanced to be believable, though rarely stick around either due to circumstances or annoyance with the MC.
Most of his challenges are either simplistic betrayals spotted easily or events so big, he simply avoids (often via plot armor). None of these events help him grow.
The main turning point is a bit cliché, when a chance encounter completely changes his fortunes. The end result provides resources, but are big enough to create enemies.
Perhaps his world is a bit more promiscuous (or maybe wish fulfillment of the author), but he does have a number of rather empty "relationships", yet never seems to develop anything deeper.
EmpireofTrustRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Let your braincells have a kip to the side, we are going full ahead popcorn story.
WHOOOO! WHOOO!
Stopping no stations, action ahead, the most sheltered farm boy ever gets his hard working butt into space.
He even gets his choice of storm trooper or deathstar technician school.
Ends up on a glorified coal barge.
I enjoyed this story, it spent a little too much time grinding in the fact he is a nerd with zero social dexterity but wow it really kicks in later.
Give it a read its good space opera stuff.
Cyrus5145Royal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Awesome story! A well developed main character. The mc is balanced, he has a high IQ but a low Emotional Intelligence. Most successful Engineers have this flaw ( Elon Musk, etc.) The world building is still a work in progress, but is coming along nicely. I can not wait till the next chapter! Hope to see a picture of the ship soon.( A picture not blueprints 😉)
MoralltachRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
First and formost I'm actually enjoying this story and reading it with a smile on my face. I particuarally wanted this power fantasy to pick me up.
This has a very solid story that is being told, about a character that is often a side characer in other fictions. There is so much that the style harms in terms of story and character expression. These are inextricably linked so the those scores suffer from the poor style choices.
Sytle score: 2.5
The style doesn't build tension like typical. It is more of an account of what happened more than a story being told with modern story telling actions. This may be a style choice as the the story is told through the MC's point of view, typically, and he is emtionally stunted and is non-canon autistic. the parts that bother me is that the style continues into the parts that are clearly labled as other person's view, so it feels as if this is a style that the author writes in rather than a stylistic choice.
Then there is the lack of tension points that could be used to highlight more about the characters but isn't being used as such. Interactions are breifly stated without leaving much for interpretation of what is going on. There are many character conflicts that could really bring the story out to shine, but they are glossed over and left to rot.
The style also failed to effectivly make use of the tension that was being handed ot it on a silver platter to work with from the characters and the story.
Grammar Score: 5
There are several grammar errors thorugh out the document that need to be addressed, and a proofreader would definitly help.
Story Score: 4
This story is a pretty standard space adventure. There are plenty of chances for it to shine a really develope as a story, but ultimatiely it is failed by the style choices. The story is not very shocking, but at the same time it is delightful.
Character Score: 3
While there are several character problems, all the characters are ultimately failed by the style to really shine. T
MoinMoinRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
As the title already states, all the chapters (so far as chp 10) are summarized ones like you would have after a timeskip. Now i have not much problem with that, but it realy takes away any chance at proper character development, development between characters, character interactions and properly showing the world the author has built.
It also makes things realy forgettable, the only thing i realy know/remember about the MC is that he is a smart/genius in engineering from a farmer background.
Barely anything is explained as of now, be it about the empire he is member of or the empires that exist and i doubt we will get more in depth world building than that things exist + some context relevant information.
A solution to most of these problems would be rewriting this in a diary format, it already has some of its aspects. It would also allow us to get insight into the MC himself, because as is? It just feels one dimensional.
KalidansRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
To be honest, I don't like this story.
The author has a very interesting approach to writing personal stories, his story about the "Soldier's Life" will definitely be needed by many fans of the genres: Fantasy and literature.
But there is too much nonsense specifically in this book, well, just too much. Unfortunately, most of the characters are just idiots. The author is very strong in describing the characters he shows us, with each chapter we see more and more information that shows us the whole essence of the characters and immediately after that - the author just shows them inexperienced in some issues in which they should have already received lessons from how we see from the narrative. The stupidest character, unsurprisingly, is our main character and the main character of the story – Deven. He is too merciful, which is incredibly stupid in his situation, he constantly allows his enemies to escape so that they return to him in the story and try to stop Delvin, lol.
The other character most protected by the plot is the first citizen of the Elves, the author always shows him as if he is the main antagonist of the story, although logically he could not be at all, in any way, at all! The two stupidest storylines of his elf are when this elf failed the destruction of Anderson Station, then was punished and exiled because of his stupidity, and instead of this elf stopping chasing our main character, he continues to do it anyway, lol, this elf can't know exactly what kind of technology MC stole on an alien planetoid, but this elf still continues his vector of behavior. The second silly storyline of this elf is when the elf took control of the human Admiral of the Brotherhood and his super fleet with hundreds of the best people of humanity in his organization. Instead of chasing the main character, the elf firmly believes that the MC is hiding in invisible asteroids, although nothing indicates this. And listen carefully — the elf has been keeping a dozen of human