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Title: Secret of the Phoenix
Title: Secret of the Phoenix
Series:
Omega Force #6
Author:
Joshua Dalzelle
Rating:
3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre:
SF
Pages:
295
Format:
Digital Edition
| Synopsis: |
Jason Burke and the crew of the Serenity, dang it, the Phoenix, are hired by an archeologist to transport her to her former dig site and provide protection. She seems very familiar with the team and ship, provides very little concrete information about herself and at every stop Jason and Crew stumble onto other beings trying to kill them.
Turns out the archeologist's father
Indiana [ha, just kidding] was the former captain of the Phoenix and
he knew it's secret: that it was carrying 1 of the keys for a
gigantic star destroying weapon. Now Omega Force has all 3 keys. They
decide to go to the Death St.....errr, Super Weapon and destroy it.
The problem with that plan is two-fold.
One, the ConFed want the key and the weapon and are chasing after
Omega Force with a whole bloody fleet. The second problem is that the
Super Weapon is actually a sentient AI and it doesn't WANT to be
destroyed.
But the A-Team, no, no, no, OMEGA FORCE
is nothing if not resourceful and it'll take more than Skynet...errr,
the Sentient AI and a war fleet to prevent them from carrying out
their mission.
As you can tell, I got this mixed up
with a LOT of other stories.
| My Thoughts: |
For all of my snide asides above, I still enjoyed this quite a bit. Probably the most of the series so far in fact.
I did have a big issue though, so lets
get that out of the way. If you have a key that is split into 3 parts
and only those 3 parts can give access to a Super Weapon, WHY THE
PHRACK DO YOU BRING ALL THREE KEYS TOGETHER? I would think that
destroying the key/s you have would do the job of keeping the Super
Weapon out of everyone's hands? Why risk someone recovering the most
valuable resource in the quadrant/sector/galaxy/universe/whatever or
stealing it from you? It just made zero sense to me.
Now, it did make for a great story. So
I give Dalzelle that. This was thoroughly fun with plenty of space
fighting as well as individuals on the ground. I prefer a good ground
pounder battle myself to space ships zipping around going “pew,
pew, pew”, so the Galvetic Marine battles were nice.
This was definitely the ending of one
chapter for Omega Force. With Book 9, Revolution, having
come out recently, I know that there will be at least a second
chapter to this series. While not original or mind blowing, it is
good escapist fun in space.
On an
unrelated note, I know that Crusher and the other Galvetic warriors
don't look like this, but this is what I always picture them as:
★★★☆ ½
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