Back on my bullshit

I honestly cannot tell if this is supposed to be a dystopia full of assholes ala wh40k or if the author somehow thinks any of this is relatable and engaging

 

I sincerely hope this sudden-onset pop culture """psychosis"" turns out to be Eldritch Influence(TM) and not what the author actually thinks mental illness looks like

 

slow blink
okay author can you stop describing your female characters so creepily and get on with the sci-fi mystery

 

me, immediately: her name is Connie and Grimlock needs to come pick up his daughter, put her back

 

me, brought to a church for History Reasons: catholics really do be livin like this huh

 

"an unidentified sensory organ between the mouth and nose"
1) In What Space, you've established a human-shaped head and Muscles Go There
2) did you mean: vomeronasal organ?

 

"I can't wrap my head around the fact that it [an inclusion inside a jellylike organism] apparently didn't exist prior to that energy storm on the surface"
honey you looked at the blue orb for all of thirty seconds in suboptimal light conditions, Sometimes You Miss Shit

 

....oh goddammit the ~sensitive~ crew member is named donner
please, author, please don't be going for the most heavy-handed foreshadowing

 

S I G H

 

>puts a psionic on the crew specifically bc they're talented at both finding new resources and avoiding danger
>find a previously unknown possibly-biological sample
>psionic tells six separate people, including the captain, that she's been getting impressions of impending doom since the sample was brought onboard
>oh, she's just sensitive, she's never seen alien life before, it's fine

WHY! IS! EVERYONE! SO! STUPID!

 

WELL AIN'T THAT A HELL OF AN OVERSIGHT
I KNOW YOU ESTABLISHED A LACK OF OTHER SAPIENT CONTACT BUT DOES YOUR SUPER-CAPITALIST FUTURE NOT HAVE GODDAMN PIRATES??? WHY HAS NO ONE PREPARED FOR THE EVENTUALITY OF A HOSTILE BOARDING????

WHY IS EVERYONE SO STUPID????

 

for the love of fuck, even Socialist Utopia Starfleet has security teams on its ships, and has since even before first-ever hostile contact was made with another species
(Vulcan does not count, Vulcan was busy being neutral at everything)
your megacorp ship has! weapons! why do you have external weapons but no meaningful internal security systems?????

 

(it's so the captain can be Manly and fistfight his (singular???) lieutenant and make the unilateral decision to fight to kill without making more than the most token effort to deescalate, That's Why)

 

well the good news is, unless he comes back from the dead somehow he won't be doing anything besides the one joke

 

there ARE pirates and there IS hijacking, WHY DOES YOUR SHIP HAVE NO INTERNAL SECURITY MEASURES BEYOND AIRLOCKS

 

ah. there is onboard security.
three whole combat drones under sole control of the ship's AI.
faaaaantastic.

 

lays down
I signed on for a sci-fi mystery, not a predictable slasher flick in text format with a shiny galaxy-print backdrop
how the fuck is this going to get strung out for another 200 pages, and how dare this author live anywhere near me

 

somehow I am not surprised that he usually writes screenplays and comics, this explains his absolute shit prose and grody handling of female characters

 

also literally all of the science being batshit