Mitchell Loughlin’s Reviews > Armada > Status Update

The alien is not overly sympathetic, and tells him that most nations joined without a single casualty. In return for joining the collision humanity is given endless clean energy medicine and food. He now has a younger brother and Lex move to Beaverton. They mostly live happily ever after however still feels a mistrust towards aliens.

X raids raven rock, the military installation where Vance is located. With the help of ray and lex he makes it into the drone control room and blows the whole thing up, sacrificing himself.
With this respite z manages to take down the ice breaker and Game Over. A d20 emerged from the ice of Europa and tells him it was all a test designed by a coalition of aliens. Z is pissed their “test” killed millions

Ray had a hidden secrete connection which is why the initial ship came to Beaverton. They want to delay/destroy the second ice breaker in the hopes that the aliens are testing them

His parents…..went out with a bang. The council of scientists believed him. They informed z that the initial mission was actually a nuke and not a probe to learn more. Every time they escalated it because we did first. Admiral Vance was eves dropping in the conversation but so was lex and some of the others. They lock down their drvices from eves dropping thanks to lex and head to star base ace.

Z drives to his friends house to get their opining on his dads theory which they kindof buy. Thanks to lex he has his dad’s contacts and calls the ceo of the game company lifting his contacts. Then he calls the defences counsel of scientists head by Stephen hawking and Neil degrasse tyson who are shocked by the theory and evidence but put him on hold.

His friends are super jealous that he was drafted

It launches, the moon crew are on there own, two of them are taken out of the fight but not killed, Chen kamikaze bombs the disruptor and X follows suit. The shield stayed down for longer then it should fitter proving the point of X and they managed to take it down. Z flies X back home destroying the school gym to park the drone (thankfully nobody was hiding in there) and drives home. Mom and dad (+ dog) reunite

The moon base seemed totally pointless. It was not really a tactical defense post other than deferring the yearly attacks from the earth to the moon but that doesn’t even make sense (they even mentioned it in the book)

Anyways back on earth the war is not going well at all. The big emp style ship is about to attack but it waits for the moon crew to arrive (again called out as weird by z)

The defense of the moon base was a disaster. They were Immediately beaten. Shin and Milo sacrificed themselves to allow the others time to escape on an underground pod. The was attacked right away by a praying mantis looking robot. Lex who had defied orders to wait around for them saved the day in the Knick if time but not before grant was killed. They left the moon and went back to earth.

Z calls his mom and reveals his dad is alive, they cry it out. Z calls lex and she hacks into his rig. She’s a little bit unbelievable as a character but people dons cry weird in stressful situations
Z gives his dad his patch jacket. The two have been on weird terms so far. Z isn’t ready to accept his dad willfully abandoned him conflicted with thinking it might have been right. his dad is mad anxious

He promised to do something that will seem weird and what Ted someone to get a glimpse into why he would
Do it.
Returning to the main base he realized everyone skunked off together “to go out with a bang” but they reunite to watch the American president reveal give a state of the union. The EDA carefully orchestrated the news afterwards to show people fighting and not rioting