I'll start by saying that I'm a big fan of this work.
While the characters are indeed a strong point, being well written and sympathetic, the main draw for me was – like the title of this review lets you guess – worldbuilding.
Holy pepperoni the worldbuilding ! The amount of work that went there is staggering, and results in a coherent and very complete universe. The seer amount of text and exposition might not suit everyone, but that's what I liked.
Nevertheless, it is different from the show, so people going for original flavor might want to pass on that one. People that like sci-fy (especially Space Opera) should not.
PS : As a answer to the previous comment (and some notes on the tropes page), I would not say that it "ranks rather high on the hardness scale". I mean, even if one does not take the litteral magic in account, it still is no higher than a soft 3, Honor Harrington style (though it is hard to juge, as every handwave can be justified by said litteral magic)
Because there is never enough worldbuilding
I'll start by saying that I'm a big fan of this work.
While the characters are indeed a strong point, being well written and sympathetic, the main draw for me was – like the title of this review lets you guess – worldbuilding.
Holy pepperoni the worldbuilding ! The amount of work that went there is staggering, and results in a coherent and very complete universe. The seer amount of text and exposition might not suit everyone, but that's what I liked.
Nevertheless, it is different from the show, so people going for original flavor might want to pass on that one. People that like sci-fy (especially Space Opera) should not.
PS : As a answer to the previous comment (and some notes on the tropes page), I would not say that it "ranks rather high on the hardness scale". I mean, even if one does not take the litteral magic in account, it still is no higher than a soft 3, Honor Harrington style (though it is hard to juge, as every handwave can be justified by said litteral magic)