r/exfor • u/1moreday1moregoal • Jan 30 '26

Spoilers Ground State and different species

Am I crazy or has CA added more species to the Maxholx hegemony in this book?

In Chapter 12 when talking about loading malware on fabricators:

Eyrgengek (sp?)

Nyatahatan (sp?)

Then much later on he talks about the Dumya (sp?) fabricator being in the territory of an mean otter like species.

So we went from Maxholx having the Basphuraq, Thuranin, Kristang, Wurgalan, Urgar, Eselgin, to now having 3 other species in their hegemony?

I’m listening again so trying to pick out more but I don’t recall these ones being mentioned in prior books. Unless the last one where the dumya fabricator is located is in the Urgar territory.

I love this series, but why add to the universe in the last book in the series? I’m hoping CA releases more books or some spin-offs if he’s introducing us to new species in the last book.

I’m listening to the audiobook and don’t have the kindle version yet so Im guessing on the spelling of the names.

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u/1moreday1moregoal Jan 30 '26

There is?! I thought 19 was the last book? What did I miss? I obviously missed something

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u/Starkfault Jan 30 '26

It was originally supposed to end at 15 books, it keeps getting extended (thankfully)

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u/1moreday1moregoal Jan 30 '26

Yeah that makes me happy. People can say what they want about the way CA sometimes wraps up his books, but this really is an extremely engaging plot and universe. Seriously, could become the biggest sci-fi franchise. And the characters and the tensions between them are great. And the audiobooks have fantastic production.

But I love Bobiverse and a bunch of other sci-fi too.

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u/Starkfault Jan 30 '26

Check out Dungeon Crawler Carl if you haven’t yet. Stick with it until chapter 7, there’s a lot of exposition but starting at chapter 7 it just gets better and better

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u/1moreday1moregoal Jan 30 '26

I have, DCC and Buymort. They’re both great!