Review: The Makers, Book 3: August 2269 ( A New Space Opera)
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2013
The overall storyline seems too have potential. The delivery needs improvement. Less personal and more rapid pace action would be my suggestion.The author has failed to remember human nature though. Humans wouldn't just take a technology and keep it the same. We would without a doubt try to improve on it by making the weapons more destructive. For instance, instead of using iron coated rocks in the rail guns we would probably coat tungsten carbide rods or Depleted Uranium rods, of the same caliber, for the rail guns.  Maybe even add nukes on the rounds so once they penetrate the enemy vessel it can destroy it with a single shot.  The missiles could be given the ability to attack from different brines as well.Also, the massive asteroid ships could be coated in a hardened steel miles thick as armor. Considering all the material that is being produced from hollowing out the asteroids to begin with. this shouldnt be that Big of an issue. By doing this the Earth ships would practically become indestructible.  We would also probably design and build smaller AI controlled vessels that could attack and survive long enough to cause havoc among the enemy fleet.  If these vessels would be damaged they could be rigged to self destruct using a thermonuclear weapon. These would be quicker, cheaper to contruct and could be used to soften a target ahead of a major assault. Basically these would be a force equalizer.Not to mention after 60 years man would have surely colonized other systems. And by doing so opened up a wealth of new natural resources that could go toward the war effort.I'm continue reading the series hoping that the delivery will get better. As well as more action.