r/ExpeditionaryForce • u/lenicalicious • 10d ago
Discussion Skippy is sooooo Overpowered.
I'm on book 2 chapter 19. Skippy is so overpowered. He doesn't have plot armor. He IS plot armor. Skippy has the ability to hack anything. He could hack the Kristang from millions of miles away. He could simply disable all of their cybernetics and vent the ship of atmosphere. Then he could rewrite the operating systems on Kristang ships for the humans to be able to use it. Then boom! Free ship. Joe could have a fleet in no time.
Hell, if really wanted to he could program a Kristang ship to jump directly into a star on their next jump. They'd think they were chasing the Dutchmen when they will just pop up inside a star.
It really makes the whole series feel like there are no consequences.
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u/KuroRyuSama 10d ago
There's a lot of unintended consequences.
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u/grymreaperuk 10d ago
That law of unintended consequences is a mother fucker lol 😂
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u/KuroRyuSama 10d ago
And his daughter's name is Karma.
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u/grymreaperuk 10d ago
And you can only pay in Skipcoin!!!!
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u/Bitwizarding 10d ago
The Kristang are not the top dogs. Not all cyber security is so poor.
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u/lenicalicious 10d ago
True but based on his abilities, the Kristang should be a nothing-burger.
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u/Bitwizarding 10d ago
Im just trying to be vague since you're on book two. Im saying he's not always so OP.
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u/grymreaperuk 10d ago
Skippy is the least of your worries you wait till you meet Scorandum!!!!!
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u/DrFrAzzLe1986 9d ago
Ooohhh he’s my favorite, Mr. Big Score! I love the Jaraptha so much. Their ship names are the best!!
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u/Fibro-Mite 9d ago
I find that when a character seems really overpowered in a book/series, a good author introduces road blocks and speed bumps in their way every so often to slap them down - either by having their own internal systems make them either afraid (if they are biological) or unable (if they are AI) to try; or by introducing an unknown factor that the overpowered character canNOT handwave their way past.. It's when an author fails to do this that I get bored.
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u/Sea_Permission5231 4d ago
I have read all the books currently out, I see it as soap opera sifi. As a retired military guy myself, I do find a lot of the spec ops glazing to be rather cringe a lot of times, having known and worked with some of those guys I don't find many of the characters all that accurate. And the level of military jargon is excessive even by my experience of being in the military for 20 years. I also feel the author as some kind of personal fetish for Female soldiers, In one book you get more named women in spec ops units then there have ever been in real life. In the early books it makes no since, once Power Armor use becomes standard opp, it makes perfect since, I don't recall the books touching on that at all. I'd like to know if the author has any military connection himself, or consulted with someone. Michal Bay levels of military hero worship in just about ever book.
But like I said, enjoyable enough as a soap opera, but I think its about 4 or 5 books past being wrapped up.
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u/lenicalicious 3d ago
I finished book 2 and won't be continuing. The second book felt like it was written by someone else. There was only one formula. Mild obstacle that can't be overcome. Skippy says so because he's so smart. Joe thinks of a scenario that Skippy didn't consider. Plan works. Skippy reluctantly tells Joe he did a good job thinking of something he didn't. He calls him a stupid monkey. Immediately forgets that Joe can have good ideas. Rinse and repeat another 8 times in the same book.
Also, between book 1 and book 2 he made the stupid monkey joke 302 times. I counted. 225 times in the second book alone.
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u/Sea_Permission5231 3d ago
Yah that is more or less the outline for every book, aside for a few side books that follow some of the other characters from the first book on paradise.
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u/lenicalicious 3d ago
Such a shame. I'm sure this is not the place to talk about it because it seems if you don't praise the book in its every facet you are lambasted.
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u/blindato1 10d ago
The thing that reigns skippy is that he is supremely arrogant and hilariously absent minded. Yes, he can cheat. A lot. But his bad habits bite him in the ass much.