The Glory of Command and was - A soldier's first duty

The Third World War (Soviet bloc against the good guys in the West (including the Americans) of course) is just passing. Eric Weston, former chief of the Archangels, the elite flying corps of "Good" has a new job, he was the first captain of the first spaceship earth, which, to interstellar flights capable due to the new "transition Drive", a tachyonenstrahlbasiertem jump drive. Also on board are still a few odds linguists, engineers and of course, the elite of the soldiers who are no longer needed in peacetime and be dumped so in space. So Weston was also allotted his old squadron "Archangels", everything super cool guys, of course, playing poker in Schwerelosikeit.
The maiden flight leads the Odyssey One same time in a debris field of a space battle. There is only one survivor, who proves to be human. The super intelligent Linguist deciphers their erdverwandte Appeal within minutes and disappear into his laboratory and thus Milla (so say the aliens, though, actually yes no aliens, because but a man) tell the captain where he is purely advised since. She comes from the peaceful colonies, war and struggle are foreign to them, they are a nation of shopkeepers and politicians, but there are still so renegade colonies, the others, the bad, the evil that was held only for legends and send now Drasin (when the time does not sound like Drone) to wipe out their peaceful people. Since Captain Weston obviously can not simply stand by and watch as a nation is extinguished, he has finally uphold something like honor, and to establish a Starfarers tradition.

If a this summary sounds familiar, no, it is not to Battlestar Galactica meets Star Trek, although the parallels are unmistakable striking:
Galactica FTL drive - Odyssey Transition drive, both expected to jump to invite. For those on the Galactica not after each jump had to puke.
Kampfflieger Galactica - Archangels (also nicknamed, naturally and they also constantly playing cards)
Colonies with Roman mythology - Human colonies latinischem language family
Cylons - Drasin

Yes, there are in the Sci-Fi only a few types of drives, Warp, Transition drive and portals, that's OK. But the complete setup is such cribbed from Galactica, to female admirals, former fighter planes as captain that this book simply lacks the independence that I expect from a good book. The Galactica story is spiced with a pinch of Babylon 5 (rotational units of the vessel to generate gravity) and Star Trek (one of the nurses served in the war on a ship called Enterprise (S. 447) and finished the justification for American military interventions in crisis areas. Sci-Fi, or at least good sci-fi was always socially critical, which belongs to the genre. This book here is a Lanzerroman in space. The peace-loving Milla leads with sexy Stephanos, the new Chefe the Archangels, talks about the meaning of soldiering which is defined as a struggle for freedom. Peace is death or slavery, freedom is the highest good that a soldier has to protect. "A soldier's first duty is simply to stand between his nation and any who might wish it harm." (p 232)
"Enduring Freedom" just, therefore Weston can not watch as before his eyes genocide he committed intervenes and wants to write history, Yea well. And anyway Politicians are the same everywhere, even those these human aliens, "the former UN Council would havebeen proud." (S. 569), which is just typical American arrogance, so I can not off. Because they want only the world (here really to be taken literally) save, and then these politicians come here and hence find the procedure this trigger hippies somehow not as good. That's not the point. And yet is kind of clear who shoots at civilians is a Nazi, yes, S. 571 will actually be once again the usual clichés of WWII hervorgekramt to pass for a legitimacy that there comes an American captain and interferes in internal conflicts, of course, only in good faith, so that you can later exchange technology: recent extraterrestrial energy technology for the Americans and a little bit outdated laser technology for the aliens to defend itself.
In principle could still be a good story despite the previously enumerated Plotmängel, but the summary is actually already the complete story of 600 pages again. 80% of the book are detailed descriptions of technology, how it works physically, weapons calibers and combat maneuvers. So you should now and then before Leschs cosmos have seen and know what is the heliopause and a tokamak. Apart from a few unsuccessful oxymorons as "silent screaming turbines" (p 174) mixes the author cheerfully metric and American units such as pound (S. 101), feet (S. 106), C (p 358) and light years, he simply with figured that a Mars mission just failed due to this combination of units. Non SI units in SCI-FI is a no go.

The book appears in Amazon's own publishing 47north [...] and you have to say, the paper quality is much better than one is used to from other American publishers, German standard, rather than cheap US TB paper really. [Remastered Edition] means the book was published already in 2011, unedited, with many typos and grammatical errors in a small online pseudo publisher called "tenhawkpresents" as an eBook (as was the cover clearly better, but remembered extreme to the Babylon 5 designs) before the Author decided to move on Amazon.

Conclusion: A little history, much fighting action, a lot of technology bubbling and more American Hurrah patriotism, soldiers are sooooooo cool, we want you but just save. Who is on Lanzerromane in space is perfectly entertained. Why still 3 star and not 2? Evan Currie has astonishingly actually narrative talent. He actually writes enthralling and very figurative. It sinks into the described action and the fighting were not as tiring as in many other novels of this kind. If he still learns less fighting and for telling more actual history, his books could be really good.