Spoiler [BL] Nirvana Rebirth

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  1. Zryuu

    Zryuu Well-Known Member

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    Title: 星盘重启
    Alternative Title: Astrolabe Reboot

    *Official title is Nirvana Rebirth, but after reading the novel this doesn't seem to fit? Astrolabe Reboot seemed to suit it better
    Raw: http://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=2231144

    Synopsis:

    Humans have lost their position as the 'intelligent beings' as time passed.

    What took their place instead was the steel city that emerged in the middle of the eastern continent and the man-made god, "Father".

    The mechanical regime ruled the world on the Astrolabe petri dish left behind by the creator in ancient times.

    One day, Akha, a young human slave, picked up a man with black hair on the beach by the Desolate sea.

    The world of Astrolabe is about to reboot. What path would the future of humans, cloned humans, and mechanical life take?
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    I saw pretty pictures and fell into this pit...
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    Even though the novel is short (19 chaps, 150k words), each chapter is really long and packs so much content that reading 5 chaps felt like reading 20-30 chapters to me. Also, the world-building is incredibly detailed and interesting that you'd be amazed at how much the author managed to pack into a short novel.

    Setting: Three species

    1. Mechanical life: they have no EQ and do everything in a very robotic/mechanical manner
    2. Cloned humans: half-mech half-human, more similar to humans than mechs because they have emotions. All cloned humans look the same. However, if they get damaged, they can be repaired by switching damaged mechanical parts for new ones
    3. Humans

    Mechs at the top of the social ladder, followed by cloned humans, then humans. Humans don’t rly have much rights. Can be killed at the drop of a hat if they disobey mechs

    Case in point: Akha works as a maintenance technician. A mech comes by and asks for a mechanical part, but when Akha says that it's out of stock, the mech merely repeats its orders and warns him that according to some article of the Human Control law, mechs can kill humans on the spot if the human disobeys their orders

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    Novel opens with the setting; Astrolabe is the name of the world that MC is in. A long time ago, the creator(s) made Astrolabe but left for some unknown reason, leaving behind the petri dish Astrolabe (petri dish bc it was allowed to sort of grow by itself) to grow organically. In Astrolabe, Steel City occupies the largest land space and is manned by a 'Central Computer', called 'Father'. In Steel City, mechs are supreme, followed by their servants, cloned humans, then normal humans like the MC, Akha.

    Humans live underground, in a place termed the Ant's Nest. Similarly, humans are sorta likened to ants, in which they are required to work in shifts, then rest, and that's all they're supposed to do. Humans also get ratings in this world by mechs and cloned humans. All humans start off with a rating of 5; when they get a D, 1 point is deducted, and when they get an A, they receive a point. If their point drops to 0, the system will mark them as 'useless' and they will be sent off to some plant to be decomposed into nutrients for cloned humans and other purposes (i.e. killed).

    At Akha's first day of work, he almost dies twice; once because a mech was being unreasonable, and the second time because he stole a mech part and was almost caught for it.

    After that, we see that MC has this secret passage he always uses to get out of the base and to a beach, where he has been accumulating materials for 6 years and had even built a mini robot. He had stolen the mech part to add it to his robot, in hopes that one day, he can steer the robot to help him leave this hell hole.

    This is also where MC picked up ML. ML was in a sleeping pod that had been drifting for ~3k years, and the pod had the words ‘Zeon Republic’(?) and a lion insignia engraved on it Due to being kept in the pod for so long, ML doesn’t have any memories, and is rather hostile to MC.

    MC catches wind of an uprising planned by the cloned humans against the mechs by chance that was supposed to happen in 2 days. After which he returns to base, but ML follows along. ML gets caught, there’s an assembly to find the person that ML said he’s looking for, then a run and chase situation happens. MC and ML get caught and are imprisoned. But the uprising was pushed forward, and MC and ML managed to escape amidst the chaos.

    Stuff happen, they get on some warship, and eventually warship crashes somewhere far away.
     
  2. Elestrea

    Elestrea Well-Known Member

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    I'm currently reading this, and the premise is so so SO interesting! ML is basically a new-born baby because he has forgotten everything, and he learnt things by watching MC. Later on, ML became more human, and MC noticed this too.

    Oh btw, for anyone looking at the page, yes it is written as No CP in the novel page. Don't worry about it, it's a LIE. They gayness aura is overwhelming I love them both :blobsmilehappyeyes:

    ML was actually an entity made by the Creator who would wake up every 5000 years, he was tasked to check over this ancient lab. That's why he sometimes questioned his humanity, but MC reassured him his feelings were real and it made him 'human' enough. Btw, before all the reveal, MC was at first doubt ML was a human. But he looked like a human, his blood was red, he got tired, also he needed to eat. The final thing that made him believe ML was human was... the fact that ML secreted HAHAHAHAHA MC knew this because one day he peek at ML who was taking a bath and after a while he just stood there motionless, crouching at the snow, and he saw ML peeing LOL MC was about to take a closer look after ML was done but then ML came and dragged him away:blobowoevil_horns:
     
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    The pictures are so pretty!!! The premise is also nice *camps hehe
     
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    When I saw @Zryuu recommended this I reversed my life to look into it. And that art...drool
     
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    Finished this! I love how ML was becoming more and more human throughout the entire course of novel. My love for him shot up high above threshold during the finale.

    If you still think this is No CP... God the sexual tension is so high but no homo I can't-
    - MC and ML took a bath together and hugged each other inside
    - ML gave MC food using his hand and MC licked ML's finger
    - ML saying he would only protect MC and MC only
    - MC and ML kissed HAHA

    This is HE. Ended very beautifully. But the finale was full of knives OMGGGGG:blobsob: ML's action and lines were all so heart-wrenching my kokoro hurt...

    Some parts of the ending:
    MC sacrificed himself to act as this medium for the core of the world, and in the end, he was supposedly dead, ML was kicked out of the core's place, and was found out by the people, but nope MC was still alive for some reasons and the original consciousness of the core asked MC to shut him down and before it exploded it pushed MC to this safe pod that was activated by ML a year ago. Fast forward a year later, ML finally decided to live as a human, did everything that MC had told him before, helping people around, traveled all around the place, but still couldn't find MC's trace. HE ADMITTED THE WORLD WAS NOT THE SAME WITHOUT MC AT ALL. It ended with ML finally found a drifting safe pod near the beach, and when he opened it, MC woke up and smiled at him.
     
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  8. DJ_Nana

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    hahaha MC is so mischievious and haha did he saw the *beep* and ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)