First Contact

Eight Thousand Years after the Glassing of Earth, Terran Descent Humanity has largely become a... Read more Eight Thousand Years after the Glassing of Earth, Terran Descent Humanity has largely become a post-scarcity society based on consent and enjoying life. With the discovery of another ancient race beyond the «Great Gulf», events and history collide to draw the Terran Confederacy into war against an hundred million year old empire that has always won and believes it always will. With allies and enemies of multiple species, the Orion Galactic Arm Spur will be wracked by warfare the likes of which have not been seen. Cracked, harried, wounded, and damaged, Terran Descent Humanity willfully throws itself against the universe itself.«The universe hates you and will take away everything you love, laughing while it does so.» — Terran belief.***Author Note: Told largely from the viewpoint of other species, the story is currently ongoing. It involves graphic depictions of violence, war, adult language and situations, drug use, and other mature topics.The story will be updated on weekdays, so keep an eye on this page for more chapters.The story is 400+ chapters, and repeating characters do not start appearing until the Vuxten chapters. If you’re in a hurry for repeating characters then this story will not be enjoyable to you. The interwoven plot is not based on a single person but the entire war, with its effects upon multiple people. Collapse Antihero Protagonist, Futuristic Setting, Wars, Military, Technological Gap, Space, Non-human Protagonist, Mythology, Multiple POV, Weak to Strong, Multiple Protagonists At chap 20, obedient government drones (aliens) and hedonistic government drones forcefully made to appear cool (humans) against ancient precursor tech. So much for plot, I stopped reading after that (making my opinion of the novel rather obvious) story is overtly complicated and confusing to read Quote: crazywizardArchaic dragon mage, isekai journey of the magic archer, online in another world, let me game in peace, epic of ice dragonthanks Quote: crazywizardWizard: I Can Extract Everything is very good tho it is still in mtl and not yet complete. Quite straightforward.i already am reading it....... Archaic dragon mage, isekai journey of the magic archer, online in another world, let me game in peace, epic of ice dragon Rank: C- Quote: Deal makerWriters on royalroad often use the guise of writing "quality works", to write overly complicated novels. Most times though people just want to read something straightforward. This novel ain't it at all. No need to waste your time on itPls give me some straightforward stuff 🥲 Wizard: I Can Extract Everything is very good tho it is still in mtl and not yet complete. Quite straightforward. this is really good? Writers on royalroad often use the guise of writing "quality works", to write overly complicated novels. Most times though people just want to read something straightforward. This novel ain't it at all. No need to waste your time on it This story is amazing! It conveys so much emotion and I can really feel like I'm there in the trenches with the troops. It has great humor and wit, fantastic characters, and the potential of this story is seemingly endless.Having said that, there are a couple drawbacks. In regards to grammar, this author is simply amazing for the vast majority of the time. I can't remember a single their, there, they're or two, to, too mistake. However, most chapters have at least one word that is simply the wrong one. Several chapters have multiple. Considering the authors grasp of the English language, it's incredibly jarring and immediately breaks the immersion.The style of how this story is written is definetly something I can see as being a negative to some people. It often jumps around and there will be multiple POV switches within a chapter without any line break to let you know. You'll go from fighting dangerous flora on foot to suddenly being inside a tank in the next sentence.Additionally, the author frequently writes as if we are already supposed to know his thoughts. This is extremely frustrating as there is no possible way we can read his mind and know what he intended, but didn't write. Most times, the various alien species are barely described beyond having fur, muzzles, brief descriptions of claws, and having tails/wings. The broodmothers, for example, have only been described as having very fluffy tails that podlings can hide in, they have fur, are very meek, and they sing. That's it. How tall are they? How many arms/legs do they have? Body shape? Weight? Color scheme? Number of eyes/ears? In addition to that, the author wrote multiple chapters about a horror space station, had literally 2 sentences about a face in a star, and then claimed that we should have known it was a Dweller Spawn. This is despite the fact that up to that point, we have had zero descriptions of what a Dweller Spawn is, does, or looks like. Dweller Spawn had only been mentioned in passing in a bare handful of senteces in the previous ~150 chapters and then it was in the tone of: "We don't want to have the dweller spawn attack again." OK, but how does that equate to a face in a sun? Plus, the word Dweller Spawn never once came up in those specific chapters, so how someone could connect those dots is beyond me.In spite of my gripes about the story, this is an amazing one. Despite them, this story is fantasticly done and is well worth your time. I hope you enjoy it as much as I am. can anyone who's read it give a review of what the book's actually like. Synopsis is too complicated anyone can explain the novels plot?