Tempest of the Stellar War

TLDR; Overall the novel fools you into reading meaningless back to back battles for 90% of the novel. So many filler battles My new review after finishing reading this novel. Here's the setting of the story as how I can infer it cause the author doesn't talk in exhaustive detail. Basically the ancient Chinese cultivators from Earth with their techniques and tech conquer the Milky Way Galaxy millennia before the story takes place with every human despite millennia of separation all(about 99%) share Chinese names as if China conquered Earth cleansing all other ethnicities for one ethnicity. Most named characters have a personality and the progression of the MC is satisfying. But after finishing reading this I can say about 90% of the novel is just the MC participating in Tournaments and anything outside of that like "Wars", training, or spending time with friends amount to a dozen or two chapters each time the MC takes a break from the tournaments which each can take up to almost 100 chapters which can get old fast, so I started skipping chapters for any other team or teamate that wasn't the MC as it didn't matter honestly. Until the last few rounds of the last tournament the MC is always looked at as the underdog just, so he can without fail cause an upset when he thrashes his opponent inevitably as the MC in this novel is never supposed to lose and even the author sets up a sure-fire lose for the MC the MC gets a lame-a*s plot armor to save him. Towards the last 100 chapters the author finally had enough and set the pace of the novel at light speed where after being quasi-heaven rank struggling and cheating death when being ganked by a group attack of 4 slightly weaker ops and getting railgunned from orbit he gets plot armored where after single-handedly holding off an invasion with his op last resort godly mech he hibernates to enter heaven rank where even being a new Heaven rank was able to effortlessly slaughter 3 opposing Heaven rank mech pilots with the reason being he understood a realm no other Heaven rank could making him "unfathomable" and feared by every other nation all within.

Sooo i tead a good bit of the translations. I just have to stop. The author introduces the main character as some guy who is barred from his dream(to be a pilot of a mecha) due to the Entire World decoding your genes ned to be perfect for you to not kill yourself piloting these death machines. Then it spends some time making fun of the main character due to him being *****, and its explanations for that are reasonable. He was raised by the most brilliant Autistic scientist in the Galaxy and the scientist planned out his education to try to force hom on the path of completing the scientists dreams. So he isn’t street smart, but is like 6years ahead of his class, and mayby a year or two past hos professors in scientific knowledge. Having established the above, the author introduces the virtual world amd school life(college) for the main character. All of the Virtual World gets a one star. It exists for the sole purpose of the main character to blow himself. New characters in the virtual world may choose from several mecha to use. The animal mecha all specialize in something, and have ARMOR. The human mecha has no specialties, and no ARMOR but can choose one weapon upon entering each fight(a knife or rifle) The main character naturaly chooses the human mech, and the world derides him for choosing something that doesnt have ARMOR. Note i am capitalizing this word because The Main Character One Shots EVERYTHING!! ARMOR is the authors ****ty excuse for why no one else is allowed to one shot stuff, but the main character ineshots armored stuff all the time. There is no ******* because all weapons apparently one shot mecha and the entire world is so stupid they choose the mecha that are alowed down by useless ARMOR instead of learning how to dodge. The school life is a terribly writtenharem. Like a professor saying “mayby i should rape you to tie you down to my research project” bad. So theres the story. I am dropping this because i don’t see any character growth happening really(the main character always makes perfect decisions so he has no where to grow) and the combat sucks as it is nothing but and he amazingly perfectly dodges the unblockabe super skill then stabs them with a knife. Victory to the authors BS. Enjoy your read, don’t start regretting the time you spend on this later.

Some bad translations here and there. Every character has some personality that makes them stand out. There's occasionally some smooth brained face slapping incidents. Pretty satisfying rate of progression in MCs power. So, basically humanity with aid of "cultivation techniques" and tech has colonized most of the Milky Way Galaxy forming a number of Alliances, Federations, and Empires with the Solar System Federation made up of Earth, the Moon, Mars being the metaphorical center of Humanity's power. But due to some Galaxy Wide phenomenon caused by the balance of the galaxy being broken cultivation techniques went inert causing cultivators to lose their powers and go insane dying. Powers that weren't apart of the cultivator class stole the cultivation techniques hoarding them for their families and organizations. Moving on there's is some funny happenstances where every power that colonized parts of the galaxy building their own Empires over the course of thousands of years during the "Interstellar Voyage Era" are ALL ancient cultivator families hence 9/10 of the names for Humans throughout the entire Galaxy have Chinese names and if not then its some abbreviated version of a Chinese name or a nickname. Are we supposed to infer that the Chinese are the only ethnicity of the human race? Though looking back I remember an incident around chapter 500 on Titatitan Star where MCs " the 36D"(that's her nickname no cap) female squad lead was being harassed by a "dark-skinned" guy. What I'm getting at is that the MC could be meeting a human who originates from a power many light years away from Earth with genetic diversity that's been separated from Earth for many millennia's and still have a Chinese name. What, did the Chinese conquer all of Earth cleansing all so that only the Chinese remained lol? In the story whenever Earth is talked about it's always "mysterious" this or "ancient techniques of Earth" that like only the Chinese culture exists and is acknowledged on Earth.

The MC has so much plot armor, that it is already anoying. All the fights are the same. The MC wins the day, is being portrayed as someone with godly skill and all of that only 150 chapters in, while he has supposedly only the most basic powers.

Want everyone to know, some spoilers are mentioned. This is not a typical fight (or romance) of a three kingdoms setting. Nor does it seem to be a Romeo and Juliet thing. While some characters are developed early on, many are not flushed out until around the 800 mark. The world overview also tends to be over-simplified with vast overreaching vagueness. Some context is lost in translation and editing, along with those "Auto Correct" errors going by unnoticed. As for the thoughts, I feel that this story is only beginning to ramp up. As for specifics, I'll talk about more. First off are characters. As was mentioned, development is just slightly better than trash at the beginning. Some were given personality and others were just introduced with a vague background (Playboy, Wealthy, Common Person... etc). Point is, who was the real "villain" at the start? Clearly it felt like it was only building up the characters for the SIG story arc. Clearly, Kashawen is the overall villain thus far. Felt like she was thrown their and forgotten after the first Tita Star arc. Personal Thoughts are listed on Elite, Good (5* and 4*). Elite: Aina, Wang Zheng, Ye Zisu, Yan Xiaosu, Lin Huiyin Good: Zhang Shan, Runan, Meng Tian, Yue Jing, Snow Li, Ai Xiaoslu Second (and Third) are both World Building and Story Development. There is really no way to separate them. Honestly, the loss at IG was actually a thought I had when I got to the selection for Solar System Federation. Seriously. That's not to say that it isn't good, but rather it seems fantastic when compared to other stories. The only downside I see is that there's no distinction between whose story is being told... There should be something to denote that (Author and Editor failure?). Otherwise, it feels like the underdog hero defeating opponents to win the princess' and in marriage... Wait there's one thing that I feel strongly about and that is this story is OBVIOUSLY centered on Wang Zheng's ascension to and reformation of the Rand Empire. If you go in depth, you understand that the nuance of all his breakthroughs are that the Rubik's Cube (and by extension, Bonehead and Charcoal) seem to be an amalgamation of all existing and future technologies and techniques. Within the last 50 chapters, this belief solidified even more so. Even better is the inferences that can be made from the title itself. The story is coming together as a whole which is why Development is higher than the World Building. Ideally, the only issue here is the complete trash excuse of WZ being sent to Tita (and consequently almost dying) just because Aina kissed him after "beating" Atlantis. Somehow though I managed to keep reading past that and wound up 50+ chapters a day. Overall, the translation can be read and could use some better editing. Updates do seem to be regular for now too. I would seriously recommend this to anyone s a must read and tell them to hang on between the IG and Elite Academy X arc. It just lacks a villain until SIG arc. Honest thoughts without much thinking though.