Alien Seventh Circle

[Slutty Badger]

Thank you. I have Inferno's Fall... need to source the other 2.

No, you don't.

[Prez]

Thank you. I have Inferno's Fall... need to source the other 2.

No, you don't.

  

That good huh?

[Xiggz456]

Thank you. I have Inferno's Fall... need to source the other 2.

No, you don't.

  

That good huh?

If you aren't British then Colony War isn't half bad as the author wrote some very stereotypical characters as well as very on the nose parallels to modern English issues(but surprisingly the American characters were written well which is odd considering the writer is a Brit) but the alien action and descriptions in that story were really good. As for Enemy of my Enemy it was probably my favorite of the 3 as it was an intense action packed ride. Also the whole trilogy is better if you've played/read the RPG campaigns but specifically the "Colonial Marines Operation Manual" as that reveals who the pathogen border bombers are. Also Both "Into Charybdis" and the rpg scenario "Destroyer of Worlds" serve as the starting point of the Frontier War. Not to mention probably needing to read the first 4 Zula stories (Defiance, Prototype, Resistance and Rescue) as there are characters from all those stories within the trilogy. I personally love the interconnectedness of this trilogy but I could understand some folks frustration of needing all this extra in-universe knowledge to fully understand everything.

[Slutty Badger]

If you aren't British then Colony War isn't half bad

Sadly, I'm British and Colony War sucks noodles.

As for Enemy of my Enemy it was probably my favorite of the 3 as it was an intense action packed ride.

Glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that.

Also the whole trilogy is better if you've played/read the RPG campaigns but specifically the "Colonial Marines Operation Manual" as that reveals who the pathogen border bombers are.

To be fair, so does Enemy of my Enemy.

[Nukiemorph]

So in what year is this set?

No idea when I'll get around to it, but I need to know where to put it on my shelf.

[[cancerblack]]

Sadly, I'm British

Truer words were never spoken.

[Local Trouble]

I'm an antipodean colonial of primarily Scottish extraction. So I'm not from the UK and have nothing at all to do with England.

[[cancerblack]]

Thank f**k.

[Local Trouble]

But do you acknowledge the greatness of Colony War?

[Xiggz456]

So in what year is this set?

No idea when I'll get around to it, but I need to know where to put it on my shelf.

2187 one year after Inferno's Fall. I go back and forth between wanting my book shelf in release order or chronological order (never alphabetical though lol).

[Zazeren]

Who are the pathogen bombers?

[Slutty Badger]

Who are the pathogen bombers?

Spoiler

USCM General Delyla Vaughn and Deep Void.

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[marsito]

Finished it today. Wouldn't say it's that's bad, I kinda like Mae and Lenny. And if we must keep having Zula content, it's smart to make her a supporting non-POV character. But these books are just wheel-spinning and teasing the next empty adventure ad infinitum, like others have said here. And yeah, I don't like making the synths consciousness-hopping Cylons, I liked them better when they were more like replicants. Not too crazy about the idea of the Jackals, it's too comic-booky and escapist. It could work if handled a little differently, maybe.

The Xenomorphs are sort of just there and not really especially scary or doing anything interesting (kinda like in Romulus IMO).

I didn't read Inferno's Fall so I was lacking a bit of context, but it doesn't seem like anything consequential actually happens in either book.

[Retropocalypse]

Spoiler

USCM General Delyla Vaughn and Deep Void.

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Was this confirmed in Seventh Circle? (I can't actually remember).

I remember in Inferno's Fall, it was alluded that the Border Bombers were...

Spoiler

synthetics.

Epilogue:

"The signal that created such confusion with the alien technology we saw beneath Shānmén was human in origin. In fact, it is very familiar to my kind. Whoever is working to set all of us against one another may be making use of the Nearfield synthetic interface. It is my theory that this alien ship is being piloted by synthetic humans, acting on someone else's behalf. That unknown person or persons aim to make it appear as if the builders of this juggernaut are attacking all spacefaring nations."

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[Slutty Badger]

Was this confirmed in Seventh Circle? (I can't actually remember).

I remember in Inferno's Fall, it was alluded that the Border Bombers were...

Spoiler

synthetics.

Epilogue:

"The signal that created such confusion with the alien technology we saw beneath Shānmén was human in origin. In fact, it is very familiar to my kind. Whoever is working to set all of us against one another may be making use of the Nearfield synthetic interface. It is my theory that this alien ship is being piloted by synthetic humans, acting on someone else's behalf. That unknown person or persons aim to make it appear as if the builders of this juggernaut are attacking all spacefaring nations."

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Spoiler

It's stated in the Colonial Marines Operations Manual and Alien: Enemy of my Enemy that at least some of the attacks were carried out by Vaughn and Deep Void.

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