Astral Prime Complete Collection: Missions 1-12

By: J.S. Morin, M.A. Larkin

Narrated by: Mikael Naramore

A station at the edge of the galaxy is about to become the center of the universe.

Cedric The Brown is a wizard with a dark past. In an effort to make amends, he hides in plain sight among the residents of a space station he once nearly destroyed. Cut adrift by a bankrupt megacorp, the mobile mining station sets off to uncharted space in a desperate attempt to scrape by.

What the stumbled onto would change the course of the galaxy.

A planet.

A lost alien race.

A secret that will lead to all-out war.

How will a station filled with scoundrels and crewed by former miners handle being the fulcrum of history?

Astral Prime is a collection of all 12 Black Ocean: Astral Prime missions chronicling the adventures of a mining station on the edge of known space, along with five short stories. This series follows in the traditions of Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5 with high-stakes space station intrigue and epic discoveries.

©2018 J.S. Morin (P)2024 J.S. Morin

Interesting collection and continuation

This is a continuation from the original story that shifts to an entirely new direction for characters. The occasional mention of characters from the first series may pop up but it doesn’t influence the story beyond the basic connection to historical characters. Well some personality traits may be similar each character is actually unique enough to stand on their own.

The flow is great.

I liked the way that events and timelines transpired. It made for a good book.

Loving It

The title says it all! ( th air is a fifth teen w ord min I mum )

Another great

The black ocean is expansive and js Morin just keeps expanding the contents within it!!!

Timeline seems massively out of order

SPOILERS BELOW

Most of the characters behave like idiots and miss the absolute most basic questions to get to the bottom of their problems, even when presented with a seemingly all-knowing computer.

Esper shows up once at the very start and once in the final few missions both for a couple minutes of a 60 hour series. The "Half Devils" are slaughtered or converted to a cult seemingly at random to give the new threats a sense of gravity before we come up with a new species that's magically able to just thrash them with ease. I love the attempt to flesh out the characters but this was a slog to listen to (the narrator was great, the writing just felt deranged at times.)

I wish they spent a bit of time to get the relationships better because those felt half baked before being cast off. The Ruckers get only passing mentions and none of it involves Don's death? This was an enormous issue and it's never even mentioned as far as I recall.