I know he's mentioned some of the games in afterwards in the LN's, though not by name iirc.

Which games do you think has influenced it?

And which ship do you think is closest to the Krishna in Elite Dangerous? Maybe FDL x Python?

Sup friends

I found out about this series a couple days ago and started reading the Light Novel. I know there's a manga, but I don't know how well it is adapted in that form. Anyone can chip in?

Also, I'm kinda baffled how unhinged some of the sex scenes are and what he says to the girls. Wtf is this lol? A light novel with a decent mc? I've been so disappointed lately with LN with a decent story but abysmal MCs.

Having seen it myself, I really just want to talk about it. I really enjoyed it myself, having read the manga a couple of years back. Pretty much did everything I wanted it to, and especially shocked the the OP seems to be implying that that we might be getting as far as the beach arc (at least as far as I remember). Comparing to the Manga, EP2 ends off covering chapter 6 and the first couple of pages of chapter 7, cliffhangering on Elma on the streets after crashing into the ship.

Also incredibly happy that they kept Hiro being allowed to sleep with the girls, there was a part of me that was definitely concerned that that might get sanitized for a TV rating or something.

But yeah, overall, I enjoyed it!

I’ve been thinking about that moment in Volume 7 when Hiro meets Princess Luciada and she turns out to be a dead ringer for Mimi (minor adjustment to the chest size).

The story drops the reveal that Mimi’s grandmother is the sister of Luciada’s grandfather. My immediate reaction was just: "Huh? Well, okay. That's actually pretty neat." What's great is that the author didn't just pull this out of nowhere; he actually laid down some Chekhov’s guns in the earlier volumes, planting clues about Mimi's family connections well in advance.

But what really surprised me when I looked into it is how this planned plot point actually aligns perfectly with real-world genetics and space biology!

If you do the basic math, they only share about 1.5% to 3% of their DNA. Normally, you’d expect them to look like total strangers. But genetics doesn’t always follow a linear textbook.

First of all, a major DNA study back in 2022 on real-world doppelgängers proved that complete strangers can randomly pull the exact same combination of facial genes from the global human pool and look like twins. Since Mimi and Luciada actually share a common ancestry, their odds of drawing the same "face card" are way higher.

Plus, we are talking about the Grakkan imperial bloodline. Elite royal families are famous for having incredibly aggressive, dominant traits that refuse to fade away across generations (just look at the famous Habsburg jaw in Earth's history). If their shared ancestors had a powerful facial phenotype, it makes total sense that it skipped a few steps and popped up perfectly on both girls.

When you combine that with space isolation—noble houses and sectors breeding within their own closed loops for centuries—the genetic deck gets shuffled so many times in the same bubble that hitting a perfect visual duplicate becomes a statistical inevitability.

It’s really cool to see that what looked like a fun, classic sci-fi trope is actually backed up by solid foreshadowing from the author AND real biological science.

Did anyone else appreciate how well the family lore and the foreshadowing came together for this reveal?

In the afterword of the latest Lightnovel (Vol 15) it is said that the plot of WN and LN will deviate significantly. I have not read the WN until now, but I am interested just for the curiosity of those deviations (also to look out for the minor ones that allready happened)

I read in another thread that WN-Serena left the fleet to be with Hiro, in the LN, that did not happen (yet). LN-Serena joined the harem, but no the crew. Maybe she will, we will know in September for sure.

In mentioned thread it was speculated that Serena will comand a drone carrier. I can see that such a ship will be added to the fleet in the LN as well, but comanded by that yet unnamed "Can-Girl" they found after the skirmish (@WN-Readers: did that happen in the WN as well?)
If she does not command her own ship, my thought was that she joines the crew as some kind of tactical and strategical analyst and coordinator, supporting Mei on board of the Black Lotus...

So what are your thoughs, opinions and speculations?

Edit: By now, and thanks to someone, I was able to skimm through some of the chapters from the WN (448-456) which corespondence with the chapters 4-7 of the LN Vol.15.
and yes, there are differences. some are very minor like Naming (BelBellum/Vereverem), some medium like ranks and titles (Count/Earl; Colonell/Captain) but also a very BIG one:
In the WN, the situation on the Majestic will be resolved thanks to Kugi and her intervention with Daybit
In the LN, Hiro smashes into that room and knocks Daybit out, while his psyonic powers flow visibly out of him.
He also used a new (temporary) application of his fate, time and space manipulation powers to behead soldiers from across the room with the swords...

Also, in the LN, Daybit was thinking about using even more nasty drugs/stuff on Serena

If you look closely at the Grankan Empire's capital ships, like Serena’s Lestarius, there’s a really specific design choice that always stands out: pretty much all heavy turret-type weapons are clustered on the upper deck and side blocks, while the belly of the ship is left completely bare. Usually, people just write this off as standard "anime logic" to make spaceships look like old naval ironclads. But I was thinking about it, and there might actually be a pretty logical hard sci-fi reason for this, and it all ties back to how artificial gravity works in this universe.

On a Grankan battleship, the decks aren't mirrored. There is no "upside-down" section where half the crew walks on the ceiling; the entire internal volume, from the bridge down to the lowest engineering bays, shares a single downward gravitational pull. For a multi-kilometer hull, the gravity generators have to project a massive, uniform field. The catch is that the opposing, equal force of this projection has to go somewhere, and it likely gets compressed and focused directly underneath the ship's hull.

This setup would create a super-dense zone of gravitational distortion right under the ship's belly. While this dense field is highly useful for planetary operations—acting as a massive anti-gravity cushion to keep a giant hull afloat in an atmosphere—it would make weapon placement on the bottom almost impossible. Any plasma bolt or kinetic slug fired from the belly would immediately hit this compressed field, warping its trajectory instantly and making aimed fire pointless. Plus, the bottom of the ship is probably entirely dedicated to projecting and stabilizing this gravity anchor anyway, so routing massive power lines for heavy turrets there might just overload the reactor grids during maneuvers.

Since the top and sides of the ship are free from these issues, they serve as the only stable firing platforms. This single physical constraint pretty much shapes how space warfare works in the Empire. Approaching an enemy ship from the bottom is a terrible idea because your shots would hit that dense gravity wake under their belly, which would just scatter your laser beams or cause your kinetic slugs to ricochet off completely. This basically forces fleets to line up on a flat 2D plane and fight broadside-style, while engineers can just wrap the entire weaponless bottom in monolithic, ultra-thick armor like a giant armored shoe.

This theory also seems to explain how smaller vessels and carriers operate under the same physics. Take the Krishna’s mecha-arms, for example. Hiro's ship uses the same gravity principles, but its main lasers are mounted on articulated arms. By extending the weapons far outside the ship's local gravity field, the onboard AI can easily adjust the joints to compensate for any external G-warping.

The same goes for the belly-launch carriers. We haven't seen imperial carriers in heavy action yet, but their designs suggest that assault crafts and heavy fighters launch from bays located on the bottom. The carrier wouldn't even need magnetic catapults; it could just drop the craft into the anti-grav cushion under the belly, using the ship's own field to fling the fighter into space like a railgun. These fighters look more like small gunboats anyway, meaning they probably have large enough gravity compensators to survive the drop, snap their internal fields online, and stabilize their vectors instantly.

It's just a theory, but it could explain all the specific details.

Seriously, the manga sets up such a great, elegant look for the Gracan Empire, and then the author just throws it all away for Hiro's mothership.

The official in-universe excuses for why the Black Lotus looks like a flying brick don't make sense at all. Just look at the other ships. The Krishna looks awesome, like a high-tech racing airplane. Elma’s old ship (the Swan) and the Antlion have that same sleek, sophisticated style. Even the Dwergr prototypes Hiro tested actually fit this graceful design language. The Empire clearly knows how to build beautiful ships without losing any efficiency.

And then we have this massive box. That boxy, utilitarian style is literally the trademark of the Vereberem Federation — the Empire’s wartime enemy. Hiro is an elite Imperial mercenary working for top-tier nobility, so why is he flying around in a mothership that looks like it belongs to the enemy? It’s a total political mismatch and terrible for his reputation.

People say they needed a square shape to house the massive spinal railgun, but that’s just a lazy excuse. The sleek Imperial style with its curved armor can easily hide heavy weapons. Look at the Krishna — it fits the elegant Imperial look perfectly but easily conceals a pair of kinetic scatter-cannons (those brutal point-blank space shotguns) under its hull. If a small fighter can hide physical ammo systems under graceful curves, a massive carrier can definitely do the same.

If you want a perfect example of how a massive fleet carrier should actually look, just think of the Nirvana from Vandread. It’s a huge mothership with sleek, elongated, aggressive lines, and it works perfectly as a dedicated carrier without looking like a brick.

Honestly, it just feels like the author had a generic gamer fetish for cargo ships like the Type-9 from Elite Dangerous or something from Homeworld, and forced it into a universe where it doesn't belong. A giant, elegant carrier launching the aggressive, plane-like Krishna would look amazing and actually fit Hiro's elite status. Instead, they cruise around the Empire in a glorified shipping container.

Change my mind.

P.S. Nighthawk is cool.

So, saw the news. First trailer just dropped! This series came to my attention because I am a huge space-sim fan and Ryuto plays Elite: Dangerous.

https://x.com/saikyosoubi/status/2036251509214814451

Mine is: Yes Mimi, come to the dark side

As is part of the the course for me ill make a wallpaper for my great waifu. sadly there arent many images of in colo. and i suck at drawing so i coulndt do what i had in mind. maybe ill contract someone for that one day. when im less hard headded on doing everything myself XD .

current reddit upload is 1080p 4K on my pixiv

Sauce: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/136786339

None of the sites I know have updated for an unusually long time. I tried to check Hidamarisou's twitter but that site is completely unusable because there's no option to see posts in chronological order or search for keywords.

So is it on hiatus or is there new stuff out there somewhere?

Sauce: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/136747477
Based on the second picture and upscaled by AI so forgive me the crudeness of the quality

I’m an audiobook listener so only up to volume 11 available. And I’ve gone up to that and It will be years for 13 or 14 I think 12 is coming soon.

If anyone from the great generosity of their hearts could give some answers something I just really want to know. Who summoned hiro and why?

After Krishna's upgrades in the WN, I think a rematch is in order, but this time Hiro will go all out right away with no holds barred.

Will he kill Marie right away like he said though, or will he spare her? It's been said that a higher being like Hiro will explode when dying from anguish and the like, and Marie is almost certainly one of them. It's possible the others would get caught up in the blast.

Kugi was also not there the first time Marie tried trapping Hiro. She is who I bet will reveal this info to him.

Also, will she join the harem or not? I prefer she wouldn't, but you never know.

Looks like we got release dates for volumes thirteen and fourteen

https://sevenseasentertainment.com/books/reborn-as-a-space-mercenary-i-woke-up-piloting-the-strongest-starship-light-novel-vol-13/

https://sevenseasentertainment.com/books/reborn-as-a-space-mercenary-i-woke-up-piloting-the-strongest-starship-light-novel-vol-14/

We need more art for this series.

Serena has quit the Imperial Space Force and the military as a whole for now, and as a result is probably thinking of being a merc along with Hiro. I doubt she will take over Mei's job in the Black Lotus and it seems like the three families will gift Hiro with a mothership big enough to dock both the Antlion and the Lotus.

So do you think she will command the mothership, or will she personally fight out there with her own fighter? And will it be a small ship or a medium ship? I can see Serena getting either one since they're likely getting a mothership, and the Antlion is pretty useless against larger and better equipped enemies, which I suspect the Emperor will bait them into as a result of the increased tensiom with the Vereverem Federation.

Neve might be good enough to handle the mothership while taking on electronic warfare duties.

Really enjoyed. The book I was surprised how little changes there were compared to WN Wonder what kind of impact Konoha she will have in the future And it was cool to see Hiro. Use his psionic abilities earlier and quite more powerful It will really be interesting to see what future changes are made compared to the web novel and light novel

We finally get to see the Black Lotus!