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A bit of a frustrating book.
So, in case it's not clear to anyone: This isn't a light novel, the girl on the cover is a side character, she's not a space pirate, and the book isn't about space pirates. I spent the first 150 pages waiting for the space pirates to arrive. They did not.
Now, yes, there are some space pirate themes, as the characters blunder into being mistaken for space pirates and roll with it - but if you were getting pulpy-space-pirates vibes from the cover, I assure you there are none to be found in the book. Maybe that's a spoiler because it happens after half the page count, but also it's the premise of the story and I don't think you should need to get through half the book to find out what the premise is.
The pacing in general is very slow. There isn't a lot of tension - just enough to stop it from being completely boring. The exploring alien technology on an isolated asteroid thing was interesting, though it doesn't dive deep into it there's some interesting ideas floated. There's quite a bit of repetition, and long scenes of people talking about the stuff they've just done.
Overall - it's not a terrible story or anything. If you like slow, meandering science fiction, and can tolerate pretty weak characterisation and weaker humour, it's fine. It reminds me of older-generation science fiction. I didn't hate reading it, but it did annoy me.
Learning-wise, it is really good. It has a fairly broad vocabulary, but it reuses a lot of specialised words over and over. I'm not sure when I'll next see 岩盤, but I'll definitely remember it when I do. Overall didn't find it difficult to parse sentences, but there are probably easier entry-points to science fiction if that's what you're after.