Recommendations Looking for stories in the vein of "Waking up as the pilot of the strongest star ship" i.e planet-hopping space opera action

ThrillingHuman

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maybe you'll like
dungeon planet: the healer always leaves alive
freeman PI
Zinn's run
 

TheMonotonePuppet

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Not been seeing much of that around sadly. Do I just have to write it myself? ?
Look at RavensDagger’s stuff on RR. I think he has a story like that.
And sci-if stuff along those lines… Ceres Chaos? I haven’t read the story, but I can’t help but recommend one of M.G. Driver’s stories.
 

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im an evil lord of an intergalactic empire is sort of like that.

he tries to be evil but he sucks at being evil.
 

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Very well... I will give you... A story idea.


Now then. The story. There is a woman who sees the above video. She clicks on it. A pop up asks if she wants to buy the spaceship. She thinks it's some sort of game, so she clicks yes. Nothing happens. That night, a shuttle comes down with robots to kidnap her. She is brought up to the starship.

except it is a Hunk of junk.

The civilization that created the starship collapsed for unknown reasons two thousand years ago. it goes from system to system, trying to sell itself. People agree. it gives the new owner citizenship in the empire, then 30 days to make the first payment. if you don't make the first payment on your financed spaceship. You get thrown into the brig to await being picked up by the police.

The police that will never come because the space civilization collapsed.

She has to figure out how to make a payment before she get thrown into the brig to starve to death.

She finds a ship in the docking bay. A much more primitive ship. Scavengers tried to boost the ship, but even in its shitty condition, it could still kick their ass and capture them. One is still left alive in the brig.

breaking the guy out of the brig, she offers to make him a crew member if he can help her make money. He transfers the antimatter from his ship to the Velociraptor and they limp their way to the nearest automated star port. It has survived because it's automatic defenses chase off anyone who isn't a citizen. The MC is. She arrives there and tries to envoke the '2,000 light year warrantee', but the automated space port doesn't have the materials to do the repairs.

so the Automated Space port starts posting bounties for the materials to repair the ship.
So not only can get get the parts she needs to fix the ship, but she'll get paid for it, so she won't get thrown in her own brig to starve to death.

And lo begins a LitRPG based off Escape Velocity Overdrive.

I leave the rest of the story up to the apt pupil.
Not been seeing much of that around sadly. Do I just have to write it myself? ?
I give you this script. You can write it yourself, or I can help you out from time to time.
Or you can wait about two years for me to find the time to work on it myself.
 

RepresentingWrath

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Very well... I will give you... A story idea.


Now then. The story. There is a woman who sees the above video. She clicks on it. A pop up asks if she wants to buy the spaceship. She thinks it's some sort of game, so she clicks yes. Nothing happens. That night, a shuttle comes down with robots to kidnap her. She is brought up to the starship.

except it is a Hunk of junk.

The civilization that created the starship collapsed for unknown reasons two thousand years ago. it goes from system to system, trying to sell itself. People agree. it gives the new owner citizenship in the empire, then 30 days to make the first payment. if you don't make the first payment on your financed spaceship. You get thrown into the brig to await being picked up by the police.

The police that will never come because the space civilization collapsed.

She has to figure out how to make a payment before she get thrown into the brig to starve to death.

She finds a ship in the docking bay. A much more primitive ship. Scavengers tried to boost the ship, but even in its shitty condition, it could still kick their ass and capture them. One is still left alive in the brig.

breaking the guy out of the brig, she offers to make him a crew member if he can help her make money. He transfers the antimatter from his ship to the Velociraptor and they limp their way to the nearest automated star port. It has survived because it's automatic defenses chase off anyone who isn't a citizen. The MC is. She arrives there and tries to envoke the '2,000 light year warrantee', but the automated space port doesn't have the materials to do the repairs.

so the Automated Space port starts posting bounties for the materials to repair the ship.
So not only can get get the parts she needs to fix the ship, but she'll get paid for it, so she won't get thrown in her own brig to starve to death.

And lo begins a LitRPG based off Escape Velocity Overdrive.

I leave the rest of the story up to the apt pupil.
Bruh.
 
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