While a good portion of fundamental history is introduced in the beginning, Tchaikovsky’s novel is action packed from start to finish. This doesn’t mean his novel has a slow start. Shards of Earth is a challenging and most rewarding read.
“What’s the point of making better people, if they’re still sad and afraid and lonely?” The perspectives from these scorned heroes offer an honest insight as an enhanced being. Since Partheni are women engineered from a specific gene line, their harsher critics have erased their heroic deeds and relabeled them as “man-haters” and “programmed like machines.” Their appearance and disposition deemed too uncanny to be truly human. Most Intermediaries lose their minds using their abilities. Neither Intermediaries or Partheni were killing machines or perfectly crafted superbeings. I greatly appreciated Tchaikovsky’s approach to these heroes. Together, these human weapons once saved humankind, but a growing contempt for all unnatural humans has left them alienated. Myrmidon Solace is a Partheni, an engineered warrior woman. Their mutation also grants them an unprecedented and unmatched gift for space piloting. Idris Telemmier is an Intermediary or more often called “Ints.” Intermediaries are experimented-on humans with the ability to communicate with Architects. This novel is told from several perspectives, most notably from two distinct but enhanced human weapons who had survived the war. They are tormented with the ever-plaguing question, when will the Architects return? The remaining survivors are still scattered refugees, divided by extreme ideologies their livelihoods susceptible to oppressive alien overlords and influential cults. Eighty years of war resulted in the destruction of Earth and billions of people dead. In what appeared to be humanity’s final moments something impossible happened, the Architects simply vanished.Īdrian Tchaikovsky’s Shards of Earth takes place decades after humanity’s last confrontation with the Architects. On the brink of being annihilated, humankind transformed a selective few into enhanced human weapons. Possessing the ability to shred whole planets apart, Architects travel across galaxies with the sole purpose of destroying inhabitable worlds. A single Architect spans the size of Earth’s moon and is seemingly indestructible. Shards of Earth features a formidable and galactic monstrosity, the Architects.
In Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky elevates the “apocalyptic wasteland” to the cosmic stage.
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This first installment of the Final Architecture series is vividly imaginative with extraordinary alien species and hostile worlds.
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These materials can be used to create items or upgrade existing items into stronger items in the game’s crafting area.īy leveling up one’s own account, opportunities will be unlocked to individual players to hone their character and activate stronger items.Shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Best Novel award of 2022, Shards of Earth is the paragon of epic space operas. Experience points are rewarded to both teams for taking down enemy drones, destroying defensive towers and wiping out enemy players.: These points can be used by each team member to unlock valuable items that can then be taken into each match and equipped during the battle (Loadout system).Īfter every completed mission, players will be rewarded with treasure chests which will contain different materials of various rarity. Both teams also have the opportunity to seize neutral drones in the map’s central zone. These drones are regularly shipped out by the headquarters to provide assistance. Each team is given A.I.-controlled drones to help them in their mission. The objective of the rival team is to destroy the enemy headquarters by conquering and defending three different paths (lanes). Every sentinel is a specialist in their field: attack, support or tank. At launch, there will be ten unique sentinels available for players to choose from: Flatline, Bulwark, Valkyrie, Vulcan, Rhino, Blitz, Striker, Gemini, Cobra, and Warhead. In Shards of War, two teams of five compete against each other in 20-minute matches, fighting to dominate the other team and destroy their headquarters.
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