Systema Delenda Est

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Get it on Amazon Book One: Invading The System When the System came to Earth, technology failed, monsters appeared, and billions died as humans were inducted into the game-like physics the System enforced. Unfortunately for the System, not all humans were on Earth. Some scattered postbiological individuals decided to push it back, and embarked on a decade-long crusade to eliminate the System from Earth. Cato is just an ordinary postbiological citizen, disgusted enough by the System’s excesses to go through one of the portals on Earth and spread himself to the broader System just as Earth is completely freed. He has no magic, for the System can’t be destroyed from within, but he does have the technology and knowledge of a civilization that is reaching toward the second rank of the Kardashev scale. Cato may have to operate under the System’s limitations, but he certainly doesn’t have to play by its rules, and fully intends to remove the threat it offers. “…furthermore, I maintain that the System must be destroyed.” *** Book 2: Undermining the System Spreading into the wider System, Cato is confronted with the full scope of his crusade. Tens of thousands of worlds or more, beings capable of destroying planets, and even stricter limitations on technology if he doesn’t want to show is hand early. All he has are his two agents and a few dubious allies. If he were a being of flesh and blood, forced to go planet by planet in a slow march from one end of the System to the other, it would be the work of thousands or millions of years. But Cato is of Sol, a postbiological citizen with no such restrictions, and he can move in ways that no conventional human could. The System may be immense, and the people within it have powers impossible to a technological civilization, but Cato has exponential growth. *** Book 3: Crashing the System In the years since the Annexation War, Cato has quietly spread throughout the System, watching, waiting, and building his forces. When the Sydean Lineage returns, he finally has a line to the Core, and once he can deal with the System Core, he bring down the System for good. Of course, it isn’t so simple. The System-gods are aware of him now, powerful and ancient forces waiting to pounce on any mistake — and perfectly willing to murder millions of innocents for even a perceived injury against him. Cast as a monster to the denizens of the System, Cato has to bribe, intimidate, or convince anyone he can to be on his side instead, because the goal is still simple and clear. He has to crash the System. *** Join Our Discord!

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Status: Completed
Year: 2024
Author: InadvisablyCompelled

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Rating: 4.8/ 5.0
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Chapters(72 total)

What readers say about Systema Delenda Est

“really enjoying the story, I've always been a fan of both scifi and fantasy, in all of its various flavors, so this mashup is a joy to experience. I especially like that I have to look up some terms - like main gauche, or Kessler Syndrome (I was aware of it…”
theLegionWithinRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“It's a must read. Satisfying begining, middle and of conclusion. Good pace and unique world. If you're in the fence read it now. After reading so many web novels I've gotten picky and this novel has not helped my pickyness. I feel bad for the other writers.…”
Crispy RiceRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

theLegionWithinRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
really enjoying the story, I've always been a fan of both scifi and fantasy, in all of its various flavors, so this mashup is a joy to experience.
I especially like that I have to look up some terms - like main gauche, or Kessler Syndrome (I was aware of it but not aware it had a name). learning while being entertained is the highest form of the art of literature, in my opinion.
solid 5 stars
Crispy RiceRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's a must read. Satisfying begining, middle and of conclusion. Good pace and unique world. If you're in the fence read it now.
After reading so many web novels I've gotten picky and this novel has not helped my pickyness. I feel bad for the other writers. Cato is such an interesting character. From all the updated novels on my follow list this would always be the first one I'd read
DelgarionRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I was looking for a scifi novel which made me a bit sceptical when I saw that there is also a system with fantasy aspects but boy was I wrong.
This is by far the best science versus magic/fantasy novel I have read and probably the best scifi novel overall.
The novel stays true to its premise where it is one man against an almost omnipotent system and the Resolution is very satisfying.
The pacing is great and even though the scope is huge recurring characters tie everything together neatly.
It also does a good job at portraying actual physics acurrately which is often a big Problem with other novels. Where things like Gravity and space travel are often incorrectly presented.
Overall this is a must read for anyone that enjoys scifi.
Reading FoolRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Typically you'll hear a story about the system coming down being a good thing, this is the opposite. I enjoyed that point of view. A New Perspective on the genre.
In truth it was a lot of the backstory of the main character that fascinated me about the story. The idea of humanity expanding Beyond earth, and becoming transhuman.
SecretsGuardianRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Just read it, it’s awesome. Every part of it was satisfactory for me to read, great grammar and great plot. Realistic and detailed characters and personalities.
The crash of a stereotypical Litrpg system with advanced technology. Moral implications and dilemmas. Questions about death and mortality, and existentialism. A satisfying and deep reading, that provides both excitement and reflection, and maybe even leave us with some teachings about the meaning of life and living.
XystOblivionRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Overall Review:
Just from reading the synopsis alone, I knew this story was going to be good. The unique premise especially is what drew me in, 'reverse system apocalypse': A story where humans and post-biologicals have successfully repelled a system in its attempt to assimilate earth into its collective and taken the fight to the system itself. I've never heard of such a premise myself and it prompted me to immediately start reading. I also happened to check the author's other works and discovered that he also made Paranoid Mage; a highly rated and highly followed novel. I hadn't actually read this work myself and after reading through what is currently released of Systema Delenda Est so far, I am looking forward to binging Paranoid Mage as well.
Style:
The author likes to alternate between main character POV and ancillary POVs but usually only as it relates to the MC or other important plot devices. I am a big fan of this style choice as POVs in other stories often fall flat as they either don't relate or add to the story in any meaningful way or the POVs are just bogged down by incredibly uninteresting characters. In this case, non-mc POVs are often as fun to read or even more so than mc POVs owing to the fact that it is always interesting to see what impact the mc's actions have on the world. It helps the story feel more alive in my estimation. The author also goes to great lengths to explain and provide details regarding the various systems at play in SDE (Systema Delenda Est) both technological and magic System. He also does this in small bursts so it never really feels tiresome or like one is reading a textbook. The info and details are also very well-integrated into the story so it always feels like the technical jargon and science-y stuff have real meaning and are consequential to the story in a plethora of ways.
Story:
This is the aspect of the story that I am the most excited about so far. Often in lesser works of literature, adept readers will notice tha
KurtOfConspiracyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
This story is excellent. Instead of sprawling randomly in excessive directions, it is very focused on delivering on it's great premise. This is big idea science fiction.
This sort of a story isn't about deep character work, and this one doesn't spend too much time on that sort of thing, but what it does is competent. The characters have distinct motivations and behave consistently and intelligently.
The main thing the story has to offer are ideas. It presents plenty of them and explores their implications to satisfaction. The main theme of finding meaning in a post-material existence never stands in the way of the plot, but is reflected in every side of the conflict, giving some substance to what it mostly an entertaining ride.
DanielMBensenRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
If you like litRPGs, I can’t tell whether you’d like this book. I can be more confident, though, if, like me, you’re annoyed by artificial rewards, contrived adventures, and monsters that look like all the other monsters.
Maybe you’re bored with the text equivalent of watching someone else play a video game and you would love it if a litRPG was devoured by a real novel. If that’s the case, then welcome and read on.
(this review was first posted on
The Story
When the System came to Earth, we were well into our post-singularity utopia. We had digitally-emulated citizens, swappable GM super-bodies, and Von Neumann nanotech capable of turning anything into anything else.
Then a magical portal showed up and flooded our planet with “essence,” which broke any technology more potent than a wheelbarrow. It replaced cities with procedurally generated dungeons and opened a window in everyone’s mind telling them they could earn essence and level up if they killed their neighbors.
Fortunately, all of the fabricators, bio-forges, and computronium in the rest of the solar system still worked. The No Fun Allowed War eventually retook the Earth, but a single digital soldier embodied in a living tank decided that one planet freed was not enough. The System Must Be Destroyed.
All of the above takes place in the first sentence of the book, as “Cato,” our hero, dashes through the collapsing portal and enters the System.
The Characters
Inadvisably Compelled has a tendency to create overpowered main characters who aren’t operating under much real threat. In Invading the System, he controls that tendency by setting Cato against ranks of enemies that go from “copper” all the way up to “System god.”
More importantly, Cato has morals that constrain his actions. He wants to destroy the System, yes, but only with minimal civilian casualties. This when every adult person wields magical combat skills they acquired through killing enemies. Defending his warframe body without murdering his attacker
ChromiumOS-GuyRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
As I am writing this review the story is only at chapter 8, so I can't say much but for what it counts the start is very unique and the story is good, the MC's behavior is believable which is the most important part of any good story so that's that I hope you find this review helpful.
edit:
just came back to the story, the above is still true, though its kind of hard to immerse in, I'd like to say why but that's spoilers just know the story becomes non-linear but the author tries to force it to be linear, he kind of succeeds but it doesn't feel natural its not hard to follow more that its disorienting.
still good so 4 stars instead of 4.5.
RoccandilRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
This isn't litrpg so much as anti-litrpg, demonizing what I like about System stories. :/ (Skills, theorycrafting, builds, exploration, dungeons, creatures, etc.)
The sins of the System are at best 2D villain cardboard cutouts, that are just excuses to hate the System, and could just as easily not exist at all. (For instance, I've read System Apocalypse stories where it's actually a Mana Apocalypse, and the System can't stop it, but is rather just a tool provided to help people survive.)
As a result, I found myself more intrigued by the System-powered people and their builds, not the MC, and I've already lost interest in the story. :/
On technique, I did appreciate how we got right to the action, and filled in backstory on the way. Scene selection was good, but the scenes themselves seemed wordy.
Overall, the story reminds me of the old satirical video game Pyst, that let you rage destroy the Myst assets. :)