Star Force: Origin Series Box Set (9-12)

By: Aer-ki Jyr

Narrated by: Stephen Day

Start as a RECRUIT...become a SUPER-SOLDIER...end up a GALACTIC WARLORD.

Don your armor, load up on ammo, and get ready for your combat training. You don't become a badass by signing on the dotted line, you gotta earn it the hard way...same goes for your team. You have to learn to fight, how to work together, and how to lose...for the ancient origins of humanity on Earth are dark, devastating, and destined to return. Earth is going to lose, and lose badly when our time is up, but out of the ashes of defeat, we may be able to scrounge up a future if you and the other future warlords can learn how to overcome the losses and turn them to our advantage.

And the one advantage we have is the repository of ancient knowledge left behind when our former masters abandoned Earth during a civil war. They assume everyone died, but a few human slaves remained and now we live only because of that mistake.

But they didn't just make one. Their second was leaving the most heavily defended and valuable building on the planet intact because destroying it along with the others when they bugged out would be too time-consuming. Instead, they buried it and now we have limited access to the advanced technology and database inside. From it we know the truth about our ancestry, as well as the superhuman powers they laced into our genome...and because of those powers, any human not under their direct control carries with them an automatic death sentence.

So when we're found out, we're all going to die...unless you and your team can grow into the war leaders we need, figure out how to use the ancient technology as well as those who created it, and find a way to do the impossible and overcome a galactic empire millions of years old. An empire known as the V'kit'no'sat, which Earth hilariously misinterpreted as a group of extinct animals called the Dinosaurs.

©2016 Aer-ki Jyr (P)2018 Aer-ki Jyr

Other than the Archons sounding like whiny 13-year olds…

This series is really hitting it’s stride. The author has definitely decided to put detail in the action and interactions, rather than trying to wrap up a story in one or two books. I do wonder if future sets (will have been) voiced by multiple narrators, to save using a single person who has difficulty creating believable voices. Voicing was the only thing keeping me from giving this 5 stars all the way across.

Great start to the series!

Any additional comments?

It's a solid series that's more focused on the tech and combat than the emotional character connections. Fine by me. I get enough drama during my work-day. This is a great way to escape daily stress, turn off the brain, and listen to a story of things blowing up.

getting better

By the end of "book" 12, it now reading, or sounding, more like a story, and it sounds less like a cross between a writing assignment & a manual.

voice of munchkins.

love the books and story. 3rd time through while I wait for next book to be released on the 20th. But this 3 books are narrated by the leader of munchkin s.. it's difficult to listen to. making the arcons and Davis sound like they have been sucking on helium.

Star Force in General.

Like 95% of the series is Star Force trying to figure out how to be a military on a planet with countless military organizations. But instead decide to give that task to a bunch of college students who are actually really bad at being a military even with super powers.

Overall excellent series just not if you know what a military is.

Science is non-existent Fiction is unbelievable

I actually kinda of liked this story initially. It had an interesting start, and it is quite long, so I thought I could just sink my teeth into it. It seems to be well reviewed here, so I was hopeful. But it was not to be. This will be my last of a story that had a very interesting start. This book is a Vlad Putin fever dream that is in love with its own new religion of Gym Training. Every bloody chapter has its version of the religion in the book. Did they pray (train) enough today. The Holy Spirit benefits (unlocking your gene superpowers) by praying (training) more. It is really a strange approach. But it has gotten so constant. If you pray (train) more, you can stop aging, you can heal the sick.

And he never really explains fundamental parts of his new Gym religion. The only requirement for you to try out for Star Force (or maybe its leadership (priest) class it is not clear which) is to run a 5-minute mile. Ok, but why? Why that one thing, a 5-minute mile. I mean the smartest men on the planet was Hawkings, and he was in a wheelchair. Thus, that guy can't visit the alien technology and help advance human knowledge because he cannot run a 5-minute mile? There are a lot of very smart people, who are not running 5-minute miles. And they cannot help humanity? And the fastest people on the planet are East Africans and Chinese. Thus, you would think that they would be seriously represented in Star Force. They don't appear to be. But if they were, this story wants you to believe that these people would have no issue with attacking their own home nations where their fathers, and grandfathers still reside. Join the megacorporation Star Force, economically nuke your family back into the Stoneage.

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This love affair with his own new Gym religion was annoying but I just ignored it, but then he decided to create fiction that is so far-fetched I just spent the entire book saying, "well that is extremely unlikely." It is like the author has no real military experience, and no understanding of the nature of people, families and nations. In order for the 130 nations on the planet to be dominated by one immortal benevolent dictator and his pack young children the UK declares war on the US, with the help of the Japanese, who nuke the US in a Perl Harbor attack? The Australians spend 58% of their GDP on ... spaceships. This is the same country that cannot spend 2% of its economy on defense, nor staff the war ships it has. Yet in less than 100 years, it is spending 58% of its GDP on the space navy and colonies?

This is why I think of this book as a Vlad Putin fever dream. War World 3 is the UK, Japan and get this South Africa attack the US, Germany and West Africa? The Chinese do not declare total war, when the megacorporation "Star Force" decides they cannot sail the seas anymore? After then pack of young super fit children are done. The US, UK, China, Germany (you would assume the entire EU), Japan, and a whole host of other nations can no longer help humanity get ready for "what comes next." And to add more far-fetched fever dream nonsense, after a nuclear war where America and the UK both loose entire states, 20% of the military and colonist join ... the megacorporation Starforce under the control of its immortal benevolent dictator and his pack of ultimate authority children.

And BTW, there is no such thing as stealth in near space with our current understanding of physics.