Thank god I'm not the only one who noticed that.
I wasn't a fan of the book. I found it pretty boring with more than its fair share of typos and plotting/pacing problems. I understand why Erik and Julian have their grievances with each other, but I don't feel it when I read the book. It's just been told that it is a concern rather than seen. If I want that, I can watch Star Wars movies again.
I feel the same. There was so much secondhand story that could have been better told as narrative. We're left with no real sense of tension or drama, and instead it reads more like a sourcebook in large parts. There are also the usual number of and editing mistakes which should have been caught and corrected. There is one chapter that mistakenly occurs in 3152 sandwiched in the middle of 3151, then at the end we're on New Avalon with Julian on 30 June, 3152, then he's in the Robinson system on 21 September, then he lands on Robinson on 20 June 3152. Wtf? Also, how did the invasion fleet make landfall on New Avalon in 9 hours? The journey is supposed to take 7.5 days. Pirate point would be the obvious answer, but the chapter heading clearly places the action at the nadir jump point. Maybe I'm missing something. And who the eff is Weiss? This stuff is all throughout the book, and most of it seems to be leftovers from an early draft, but it's easy to spot on a first read through and should be corrected at some point in the editing cycle.
In all, this was a fairly long book that had a lot to accomplish. I'm speculating that the author was under the gun to tell a huge, important story in a single novel where it could have been split into two volumes, which would have allowed him to go into more detail. I like the author and enjoyed his other novels, but this one, to me, felt like it was rushed out the door in order to get it on the release schedule.