Planetfall

Manaforged Robotics, Book 1

By: Playwars aka Alex S. Weber

Narrated by: Mare Trevathan

Stranded on a world of sorcery and monsters, one AI will unleash the fury of the universe to protect her humans.

Sapphiria was performing her duties as a fleet admiral of the Terran Federation, leading a goodwill tour of the fringe worlds, when she was caught in a hyperspace anomaly.

Now, she’s crash-landed on a planet ruled by magic and monsters, cut off from reinforcements, with only her escape pod and her genius to rely on. But she’s not just any survivor—she’s an Artificial Intelligence forged from the minds of humans and fragments of the Federation's greatest AIs.

Luckily, her pod is a miniature factory, equipped with the means and knowledge to build an entire colony from scratch.

When she discovers a scattered human population besieged by the undead remnants of a fallen necromancer empire, Sapphiria makes a simple calculation.

Protect the squishies. Eliminate the threat.

And if the monsters stand in her way… it’ll be their funeral.

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Interesting premise

There are worse ways to go than to stranded on a planet with an AI to provide some comedic relief. I haven’t ran into too much sci-fi lately so that was refreshing though this is probably more space fantasy. There is a cool magic system with some fun and funny characters. There is some romance mixed in too. The narrator did a great job.

Very nice!

I really like the story premise, the world building, and the characters. There are a couple of spots of pronunciation that I would have done differently, but nothing worth worrying about. I will be hungering for more.

I love the world building

World building and the logic of the fantasy elements blended so well into the scifi logic of the main character. can't wait to see where this goes!

Pretty good

The performance, as usual from this narrator was great, the story was pretty cool too.

Having made that clear I don’t know if I would say this series is as good as this authors other one, still a very enjoyable read and I will definitely be continuing on I just don’t know if I would’ve preferred another Fallen World installment over this one.

That being said, great work everyone, a very strong recommendation for new/perspective readers