In the first book there are few in consistencies that are overlook-able, but this book adds to them and then partially collapsing a star is just an idioc concept! The characters continually make bad choices and do the opposite of what anybody would actually do!
This book is just hard to like, the story could be good and enjoyable, but it’s just not.
One example is when then go to the planet for the power core, then park the archetype on its surface and literally leave it there and never retrieve it, but it’s somehow magically back on the forge at the exact moment they need it.