There are also curious holes in the setting. The battle scenes are also interrupted by lectures about how war is bad and freedom is good and how some humans have to sacrifice their lives to defend freedom. The last third of the book, however, focuses more on characters. His descriptions of characters are also sketchy and short most of the time, the reason is that the characters are shown just shortly before their heroic deaths or otherwise in the heat of battle. He writes short scenes that change quickly from bridge to bridge and from person to person. However, as the book progresses, the repetitions McNally could write good battle scenes if he did not feel the need to repeat almost every other sentence.
and if they manage to survive, they must face another, even larger fleet of alien ships. Humanity prepares to go into war against a massively stronger enemy The narrative shifts between the doomed but brave crew of the In chapter six, the reader is taken three hundred years into the future and back to the situation in the prologue. The humans and the Shan'Tu establish peaceful relations, and the Shan'Tuĭirects the colony ship to a habitable planet in the Pegasus system.
The owners of the bigger ship turn out to beĪ friendly, peace-loving race called Shan'Tu. However, when the colony ship emerges, it comes face-to-face with a far bigger ship which destroys their attackers. The attackers, an alien race that lives by space pirating, follow them and threaten to overwhelm the colony ship on the other side. While the Block's ship manages to escape, the Confederation's ship is forced toįlee into a wormhole. Just when things are looking good, unknown spaceships attack them. This means that the warring colonies can colonize different planets instead of immediately continuing their fight. When the Confederation's Alpha Centauri ship gets within scanning range of their target, it notices that there are two habitable planets in the system. The Alpha Centauri ships get just a brief video about how their sister-colony ships are faring and must continue with their own mission. When the two colony ships heading for Mars near their destination, they start to fight each other. The Block ships have been launched slightly earlier than the Confederation ships, and therefore they get a slight advantage. Both sides launch their colony ships while the Earth below them erupts into total destruction. After massive battles on sea and in the air, the Confederation is forced to speed up the launch of both of their colony ships. The launch day for the colony ships draws near, and suddenly the Block launches a massive attack on the Confederation. Hundred years it will take to reach their destination. The colonists on the latter ships are put into hibernation for the Both sides are building colony ships to Mars and AlphaĬentauri. While the Confederation defends with higher technology and tries to defendįreedom for all. The Block relentlessly attacks the Confederation's states with massive numbers of soldiers, Headed by the U.S., which has accepted Australia and the Western Europe into it. Humanity has also split into two warring factions: the Block, which is essentially composed of the former USSR and the countries around it, and the Confederation, Humanity has colonized the Moon and Mars and is planning a colony on Alpha Centauri. They explain briefly a few facts about the human habitation in the Pegasus system. The BrakNar chases it.Īgain the narrative shifts, to Professor Anton's class on the Galactic Star Force's base, and introduces a pair of intrepid cadets, Jack L. The starship has just discovered the BrakNar's secret base and races to warn the rest of humanity about the coming attack. Next, the narrative shifts to Galactic Star Force's destroyer The aliens discuss how they are going to wipe out the whole human race. The narrative moves to humanity's greatest enemy species, the BrakNar, who are never described physically but who are apparently a warrior race with a ruling royal family. Galactic Star Force Battle Fleet: To the Stars opens with a short explanation about humanity's current existence in the Pegasus star system, living together with the humanoid alien species Shan'Tu. Galactic Star Force Battle Fleet: To the StarsĪre you looking for big space battles between starships? This book has plenty of space battles, desperate races between spaceships, heroic sacrifices, much larger enemy fleets, and quick-moving action. McNally, Jr.'s *Galactic Star Force Battle Fleet: To the Stars*
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