Telling his soliders to read sun tuzu book for intergalctic warfare is like asking asking a person to learn spear stabbing for a modern day bunker fight , utterly useless. Also point to be noted , the first instance he got some sense of power , his first thought was to betray the human empire and build his own, like buddy i know its the gradual process but to have this as a first thought when you are using empires gene , empires ship just shows your character. Gem which can be sold at 100 mil , he sold at 20mil ufff. Also many cliche in novel, for an intergalctic background its totally uncalled for. Unfortunate