Created Sunday 29 March 2020
Humans figure out how to jump before they really understand the tech to do so. I know, very Expanse of me, and I honestly can't say if my idea is independent of theirs---if it's onvergent evolution or lateral gene transfer.
Anyway, that "what hath we wrought?" element from Frankenstein, The Expanse, and fossil fuels pervades this, too.
The weapon systems humans thus bring to the insterstellar war are definitely built for the last war as they struggle to adapt it and figure out what they're adapting it for.
Almost by necessity, too, the humans have the initiative. (Outside of Succubi.) One thing about faster than light travel, of course, is that you hop into the middle of the stream of radiation that a stationary civilization is pumping out: You land and can immeidately start reading the sensors for what's being done around you (or, well, what was done when that radiation was emited from the sources) when your own radiation is just starting to emitted.
(Offset by however advanced one's FTL communication channels are and how good deus ex drives chains are.)
So, maybe structure some of this into books? Too soon? Too little my forte.
But maybe book one is set in the time of when Fei was young, striking record wins in her attacks. And book 2 is when she's finally back from the Deus ex ride back to a jump point.
Sure, lots of what happens has to happen on nearly a Foundation time scale, skipping between generations & ages. But it be fun to write a story.