Exlor
I'm really not a fan of this ghost business. Before, the traces of mystical/fantasy elements in the story were great, but this is really starting to strain my suspension of disbelief. I like this story because of its efforts to remain realistic (engineering tradeoffs, business development, political/business challenges). The addition of this ghost mother stuff feels very ham-fisted.
I feel like Ves took that betrayal too lightly. Why didn’t he consult the system about it? If that ghost is not actually his mother, but just an elemental mimicking her from his memories. What is stopping a different one or a future enemy from doing the same but getting Lucky to kill Ves. Ves needs to either find a fix Lucky’s loyalty programming to only recognize him or get more reliable defense system.
I first thought that the system took on the appearance of its mother, energy fluctuation of the planet plus emotion of Ves, gives the system an appearance to make contact with him without being seen as hostile. but if the mission did not end when she took the piece of bone then she has no connection with the system and there is no reason for her to consider it at a supreme level of fidelity to Ves
I don’t y understand why he just dismiss that ghost, it’s like “Oh well, what can I do, my cat betrays me too but he’s so cute. I’ll forgive him now, don’t you dare do it again.” Plus all of this ghost business is so stupid. She can go in the safe as she is only an energy, take the thing which is literally material, and go away like a ninja. Are going in xianxia territory now?
That was a bad turn. It came out of nowhere, and the sudden denial of his quest item feels like it was done soley for the drama of it, and maybe to troll the audience. I don't understand how that could happen, how this ghost thing just knows where he is, how to get to him, even though this ship has sensors, security, and they know energy beings are about... I'm really disappointed.
Imagine a moment where you're so stupidly immature that you go off by yourself to die because it it seems impossible to bear the idea that he'll be without his cheat system that he is barely fucking using. You know what might have been the perfect time to use one of the system's cheats? Right when the ghost appeared. He literally has a magic stealth field from it that according to the system is 100% infallible, and the system has never been wrong. Did he even try to use it against the ghost? Nope.