I hate being reduced to Me too posts, but MD pretty much covered everything I was going to say. Might go back and do a line by line later, gonna want to re-read the first 4 chapters again first though, just to be sure I've not misremembered anything.

Only one question that does stick out a bit... Alexis and Starscream. Is their mixed backhistory something I should be digging into the web to educate myself on or is it 'new' to CR and I just need to wait for it to be relevant and therefore revealed?