by Storm62
This has been a great series, well written and intelligent. I hope you give us another serial soon.
You did great until you got to the swimming in space bit. You don't 'swim' in space and without a suit you die rather quickly yet gruesomely due to temp and vacuum. I can live with the use of rocket engines, even though your story apparently has them using artificial gravity on ships and asteroids, but you should consider taking a look at recent advances in technology and doing a bit of a rewrite sometime. News over past few days has been the development of a faster than light engine and a electro magnetic drive that does not require the use of liquid fuel once you get into space. I am sure I have missed other developments. Great story still though and I would love to read more about these wonderful characters.
2 paragraphs in and I began wincing. No swimming in space, sorry, nothing to push against. Liquid fuel rockets with endless fuel. And then the smug, "I let the (poor, stupid, ineffectual) male think he's a grown-up with a bit of agency". Gag me with a spoon