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tldr: Typical idense harem protag in a slow slice of life novel but in a sci-fi world that is surprisingly well crafted and thought out.As a player and long time fan of Star Citizen, a sci-fi mmorpg, this novel is really exciting because it details basically what you would hope is possible to eventually do in the full game. It's clear the author is a sci-fi space nut because you'll find detailed descriptions of really cool space tech and how the space age society functions. In fact author may have been directly inspired by SC or elite dangerous or similar games.For example, ships can be scanned to check what commodities are in the ship, so pirates can view what cargo you're carrying. Space police can also scan your ship for illegal commodities (just like in SC), which is why MC has an anti-scan compartment to hide illegal stuff, which is meant to be a feature in ships in the future for SC.I particularly liked how large scale PvP is handled in that when you kill someone, it automatically tags the loot from that ship to you, giving you the right to that loot so no other mercs on the same team would steal that loot. Salvaging cargo and ship components from blown up ships are automatically done by drones. Bounty hunting, salvaging cargo and components are MC's main source of income.Pirate ships are said to be mostly stolen civilian ships outfitted with other ship's components to make them into fighters. There's kind of a surprising depth and details like this added for world building and I love it.Hiro is in probably a medium fighter with not too much cargo space, so he does not do cargo hauls for money but rather mainly makes money through bounty hunting pirates and taking their cargo to sell. He claims that with his cargo capacity, he'd probably only break even with the cost of gas for his trips. His ship is a former military vessel capable of housing 8 crew members so I assume his harem will be 8 girls by the end of the series and it's interior is more like that of a luxury craft with showers and etc. For star citizen players, think perhaps a Cutlass black with the interior of a Constellation Phoenix.The only issue I have with this novel is that despite it's cool world and mechanics, it's ultimately a slow paced harem slice of life novel. The fighting parts are exciting and parts that actually advance the plot are good but there are slow portions where it's just him doing the do with his harem, going on dates, doctor appointment, and shopping.The girls aren't particularly exciting and you can kind of tell which characters are going to end up in the harem as you read. MC is your typical dense protagonist though and cannot tell.In other words really cool concepts and mechanics and setting, but suffers from the generic isekai formula. It definitely has its moments though so I do think it's worth checking out especially for space fans.