People Found Out About The Base I Built On the Moon

Like @Safa007 said, the starting point of the story is an intriguing scenario that hooks you in from the get-go, but it somewhat starts to suffer once the (mild spoiler alert) "clone system" is introduced at a certain point. FYI I've read a couple of other novels that incorporate elements of this sort-of "astral avatar" power, i.e. where the MC projects his or her consciousness to remotely "possess" some other body located in another interstellar planet or dimensional plane etc, so I know it is possible to write a solid story which develops the plot well even if this sortof superpower inherently means we as the reader often have to take several chapters' worth of breaks from sub-plot A to follow along a separate POV occurring elsewhere before tying the consequences or aftereffects to the main world/universe storyline. Unfortunately, such a fine balancing act isn't quite achieved here, at least not thus far. The plot initially follows a tech-tree development plan that that could satisfy any decent sci-fi fan, especially since the different dynamics at play when it comes to world-building means the storyline eventually becomes something of an epic space-opera genre. The plot progression develops smoothly at first, then ever faster as desperate straits and high-stakes situations demand rapid growth or adjustments according to the enemies/battles situations and the global/interplanetary politics. So much so that it builds up to an epic crescendo once the "galactic empire" comes into play, at which point... the author abruptly shifts gears on us Oh, I was on-board for the ride at first. After all, the clone power was provided by the system, and the MC explained his reasoning behind why he made this 3rd choice to neither "pay taxes" nor overtly secede from this newfound empire but. Rather, he was going to build a backup base that Mr. Chu would helm, a secondary roaming fleet that would strike at the empire from it's blind spots.... blind spots, which his clones would presumably prepare from within these worlds beforehand as supply stations or underground rebellion recruitment spots or whatever else besides etc etc The problem is... that isn't really what we end up getting. They're just separate stories with no real discernible impact on the main universe perspective whatsoever (so far anyway). TL;DR version, if you want to read a sci-fi story that starts out as a tech-tree development plan which eventually evolves into a full blown space operatic battles involving alien civilizations, but then suddenly shift gears to the POV to a guns'n'romance drama, then take a hard left turn to a post-apocalyptic world filled with mutants and zombies, then just as inexplicably jump ship to another world that seems to be ruled by an AI for all of one entire chapter before the next hundred plus chapters (in that same world, weirdly enough) becomes a martial arts genre cultivation story (this is the latest point of this novel as of this review) all without any interconnecting tissue in-between (other than a cursory "oh then Zhao Yu got hit with a dose of memories from planet X or Y or Z, oh by the way nothing much happened with all of us over here still under the thumb of the alien giants that abruptly popped out of an apparently long-forgotten and old-as-time-itself ancient civilization hanging out within the black hole at the center of the Milky Way who are now subjugating and exploiting us all, ANYWHOOZLES like I said 'not much' happenin or progressing or anything with all of THAT, but anyway this is a cool case of memories from clones number 1 2 and 3 guess I'll start up number 4 all within the span of these few handful of sentences of this one singular paragraph of a chapter between random genre shifts mmmkaythanksbyeeeee") So yeah, that's the state of the story now. I can't in good conscience call this a "grassroots movement" or "secret rebellion plan" by any stretch of the imagination, at least not at present, as it's essentially a bunch of random separate stories that don't accomplish anything of any noticeable significance or consequence. It's just.... sci-fi, then post-apocalypse, oh okay now it's all about cultivation techniques, and who knows perhaps in another hundred chaps the story will do another hard pivot to yet another clone Zhao Yu who finds himself in a fantasy world filled with magic and mysticism or something, meanwhile the proverbial sword of Damocles supposedly still hangs over the "main" Zhao Yu (not to mention, the entire inhabitants of the Sol system as well) but all of that high-stakes sense of crisis that was once built up is suddenly nowhere to be found as we instead take these random as detours across a meaningless multiverse of meandering miscellaneous minutiae. Sorry for the rant lol, but it's only cuz I strongly felt this story had potential before it became an assorted collection of several disparate, unrelated stories (not even "combined into one" - just, several random stories, back to back - that's the best way I can describe it right now). Aside from that one big main gripe, I have noticed several other minor issues. Like translation quality. Character design (aside from the first few aliens having distinctly unique appearances combined with interesting societal worldviews that shape their behaviour, now they're all just human shaped bodies and they all seem to think and act as just a bunch of aggressive humans too tbh), and even the fact that certain characters or story elements are mentioned by name between significant scenes suggesting this is a setup sown now to be harvested later... and then that character is just dropped and forgotten never to be seen again, or that system mechanic doesn't seem to apply anymore in this latest genre shifted clone story, etc etc. But these are all minor points of contention tbh, I can overlook them since I can easily imagine the author just accidentally overlooked some of this stuff or just got a bit lazy about designing an original aesthetic for each separate alien civilization each time etc etc lol it's not ideal but it's understandable to I get it...