Stellar Command (Star Wars/ Stellaris SI)

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Description

I never wanted this. I never wanted to be ripped from home and plunged into a new reality that was once fiction. The only mercy of my awakening is the power it gives me to rewrite the outcome of the war to come. I know the schemes and lies of Darth Sidious and watched the Confederacy of Independent Systems crumble. It is time a new player reshapes the galaxy. This story will be a blend of elements from both Legends and Canon, woven together into one continuous narrative.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2025
Author: 1650th

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
Followers: 559
Views: 57,243

Chapters(31 total)

What readers say about Stellar Command (Star Wars/ Stellaris SI)

“This is awesome so far . The only thing to complain about is that there is still no contact with anyone one yet! I understand that there is a lot of build up and recovery needed to get to a stage where it is safe to interact with such a volatile universe, b…”
EnjoyteddyRoyal Road4.0 / 5
“This is the second "Earthling inserted into Star Wars at the head of a droid army" fic I've seen on RR in the last couple months, and it's definitely the better of the two IMO. The story opens with our main guy, a blank slate literally just called Creator,…”
StaenbridgeRoyal Road4.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(2)

EnjoyteddyRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
This is awesome so far . The only thing to complain about is that there is still no contact with anyone one yet! I understand that there is a lot of build up and recovery needed to get to a stage where it is safe to interact with such a volatile universe, but I can’t wait for things to get rolling in a big way. To me this is totally worth reading and if you’re on the fence give it a chance! Thanks and keep up the great work, I look forward to reading more.
StaenbridgeRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
This is the second "Earthling inserted into Star Wars at the head of a droid army" fic I've seen on RR in the last couple months, and it's definitely the better of the two IMO. The story opens with our main guy, a blank slate literally just called Creator, awakens as a digital creature at the helm of a destroyed mega-ship with manufacturing abilities, and immediately sets to work making sure the bad guys from his Stellaris game won't come shank him again, before slowly discovering he's now in the Star Wars galaxy just before the opening of Phantom Menace.
The 4X IP is an unusual choice, but tightly integrated into the story's tone: there's a lot of page space spent detailing research, exploration, economic growth, etc. and that really means the "Star Wars" aspect actually fades to the background for the first dozen or so chapters while the protagonist finds their footing industrially.
I appreciate the way the author tries to inject personality and emotional range to the robotic characters in the story, letting them navigate between familiar, human-ish tics and more alien or robotic aspects. It really leverages that aspect of the setting, having characters who you can empathise with and enjoy cheering for, while also being distinctly inhuman.
OTOH, I think there are a number of issues which hold it back from a higher score for me. On the grammar front, I suspect that English isn't the author's first language, so I don't want to be too critical, but there are a couple structural issues. For example, there's nothing signposting the swap between narrative description and a character's actual thoughts, which means the prose will just randomly swap tenses and you have to figure out when you're getting direct thoughts vs descriptions. Also, I think the readability would be greatly improved with some more/different punctuation.
Here are a couple examples from chapter 1, with some minimalist grammar suggestions:
Before I absorbed the Blorg, I had vassalized two stellar natio