Mitchell Loughlin’s Reviews > Armada > Status Update

Z meets his dad with mixed results. He seems like a good guy, and he wants to be happy, but he also resent the fact that he chose to abandon his family to pursue this mission. His room is filled with photos of him and his mom.

His team consists of the six through 10 ranked players a pair of kids younger than him a hefty older gentleman, a Philadelphia native(asshole), and a Mom

Complaint on the cover design of this book. He is wearing a VR goggle and also has a TV in front of him which he definitely can’t see because of the goggles.

He’s called to the admirals office and learns that his father is redjive. The number one ranked Violet and a total asshole. He also learns that the admiral is the fourth ranked player meaning he has met one four and five.
He sent to the moon base. Which is on the dark side of the moon reading. This is ironically timed with the Artemis missions in real life. He makes out with Alexis and then meets his team.

He and the others all enlist and start battling with the alien ships above again something feels a bit uncanny in how accurate the video game was things seem a little bit too easy. He really said to how storm troopers never are very good soldiers. He takes out 20 or so planes and eventually one ship remains which kamikaze bombs itself towards a launch tube. He is sold to stop following it which he ignores.

They are told that the European fleet is only eight hours away and that they expect to have a sneak attack before the main fleet arrives like clockwork and explosion goes off above their head and they’re all ushered to their flight stations. Something just doesn’t feel right dizzy it feels too scripted. Then in order to fight back, he has to enlist in the army, which pisses him off. It feels like a manipulation.

Shortly, following this, they could be seen from a satellite building, a massive fleet of starships. Scout ships were found on earth and scientist re-engineered them to keep up somewhat with the technological juggernaut.

Z noted that he felt like this was kind of a half assed answer. He wasn’t buying the full story.

On a return ship a probe burrowed into the ice where before vanishing from sight. The scientists received a message back with a synthesized voice stating “you have desecrated our most sacred temple, and now we are coming to kill you”

The recruits are shown a video that contains information about first contact back in the 70s.
In a Hubble like mission a satellite was sent to Jupiter where a large swastika was seen on the surface. This terrified scientists as we were not that far removed from the world was and the psychological effect if space nazis would have been insane.

When he sits down for orientation he sits with the hot chick because of course he does. Despite her being atleast 5 years older she has no qualms with flirting with a high schooler. A bit icky. She is a super nerd

More ready player one parallels
The main characters name is Z.
Lexi is just a reskinned Artemis. They interact with the main characters the same exact way
Cynicism about humanity

Everything in armada is real except the names. This secret government organization has been funneling money into the game industry as anti alien propaganda for years (ironically our own government does this with call of duty and war movies)
He enters the base and is given a futuristic smart phone that doubles as a gun and drone control
He is being recruited along with many of the other highly ranked game characters