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* TheChessmaster: Perkins is ''constantly'' scheming several steps ahead of everyone else, and everyone knows it.

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* TheChessmaster: Perkins is ''constantly'' scheming several steps ahead of everyone else, and everyone knows it. [[spoiler:When she reunites with Bishop she's shocked to find that someone was to some extent using her as a pawn themselves]]
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* ProperLady: Nagatha carries herself like a warm maternal person with impeccable diction and a pronounced fondness for the crew. Further, she constantly rebukes -''nags''- Skippy’s attempts to demean or prank humans (which is how she earned the name "Nagatha" in the first place).

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* ProperLady: Nagatha carries herself like a warm maternal person with impeccable diction and a pronounced fondness for the crew. Further, she constantly rebukes -''nags''- - ''nags'' - Skippy’s attempts to demean or prank humans (which is how she earned the name "Nagatha" in the first place).
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* ProperLady: Nagatha carries herself like a warm maternal person with impeccable diction and a pronounced fondness for the crew. Further, she constantly rebukes Skippy’s attempts to demean or prank humans (which is how she earned the name “Nagatha” in the first place).

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* ProperLady: Nagatha carries herself like a warm maternal person with impeccable diction and a pronounced fondness for the crew. Further, she constantly rebukes -''nags''- Skippy’s attempts to demean or prank humans (which is how she earned the name “Nagatha” "Nagatha" in the first place).
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* FireForgedFriends. After everything they go through together, Chotek and Bishop are on quite good terms with each other. They are a little too different to just hang out with each other, but when he can, Bishop will often ask for Chotek's input on a political situation, which Chotek will give; even if the input means bending the rules/law quite a bit (or even breaking it).


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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Bishop doesn't like having to constantly ask for Chotek's permission for what he sees as simple, obvious things that have to be done, and Chotek sees Bishop as a reckless, immature soldier who needs to be kept under control. After a whole bunch of this trope being force upon them by the usual issues in the galaxy, they graduate to FireForgedFriends.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Lampshaded. One of Smythe's favorite witticisms is declaring that the crazy and largely impossible activities the Merry Band of Pirates is what they would simply call Tuesday.

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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Lampshaded. One of Smythe's favorite witticisms is declaring that the crazy and largely impossible activities the Merry Band of Pirates are planning to do is what they would simply call Tuesday.
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* HollywoodHealing: [[spoiler:She suffers brain damage from exposure to vacuum after her dropship exploded in Book 8, damage so severe that all she can do when she wakes up is scream. She goes on to fully recover and resume her role as a member of [=STAR=] Team Alpha.]]

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* HollywoodHealing: [[spoiler:She suffers brain damage from exposure to vacuum after her dropship exploded in Book 8, damage so severe that all she can do when she wakes up is scream. She goes on to fully recover and resume her role as a member of [=STAR=] Team Alpha. Justified by Skippy using advanced medical nanotechnology to do a lot of repair work, and even then she spends most of the next book just doing the brain equivalent of physical therapy to work things back up to normal.]]
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* LastOfHisKind: He is implied to be the sole active Elder AI for most of the series. [[spoiler: He becomes this for real in the final book and at his own hands, by killing all the other Elder AIs with the computer worm.]]

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* LastOfHisKind: He is implied to be the sole active Elder AI for most of the series. [[spoiler: He becomes this for real in the final book and at his own hands, by killing all the other Elder AIs with the computer worm.]]worm (the Elders had already "factory reset" all of the other Elder AIs, completely wiping their memories and personalities, so they were effectively "dead" already, Skippy just prevented them from being reactivated; in human terms, he killed brain-dead bodies.)]]
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fluffernutters are akin to a holy experience for Joe, when a crew member makes his own version that he considers to be an offense to the fluff gods. Joe ejects the plate and towel into space. He also tends to crave cheeseburgers, albeit to a less religious extent. [[spoiler: He is later introduced to a fluff screamer which he considers a holy combination of his two most loved foods]]

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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fluffernutters Fluffernutters[[note]]A sandwich consisting of half-peanut butter and half-marshmallow fluff; mostly popular in the Northeast USA (read: New England)[[/note]] are akin to a holy experience for Joe, when a crew member makes his own version that he considers to be an offense to the fluff gods. Joe ejects the plate and towel into space. He also tends to crave cheeseburgers, albeit to a less religious extent. [[spoiler: He is later introduced to a fluff screamer which he considers a holy combination of his two most loved foods]]
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* OverrankedSoldier: Joe was promoted to a full-bird Colonel at the ripe young age of 20 or so. Justified as a publicity stunt to satisfy the Kristang. [[spoiler: For a while he is embarassed to hold the rank feeling he hasn't really earnt it. By the time of the renegade mission he decides he is worthy of the rank and later gets bumped up to Brigadier General ]]

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* OverrankedSoldier: Joe was promoted to a full-bird Colonel at the ripe young age of 20 or so. Justified as a publicity stunt to satisfy the Kristang. [[spoiler: For a while he is embarassed to hold the rank rank, feeling he hasn't really earnt earned it. By the time of the renegade mission he decides he is worthy of the rank and later gets bumped up to Brigadier General ]]

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* BreakTheHaughty: Every time Joe or another crewmember comes up with a solution to a challenge Skippy couldn't solve, he breaks down into fits about how much he hates his life.



* BreakTheHaughty: Every time Joe or another crewmember comes up with a solution to a challenge Skippy couldn't solve, Skippy breaks down into fits about how much he hates his life.



* {{Catchphrase}}: Skippy has two.

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* {{Catchphrase}}: Skippy has two.a few.
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* LovableRogue: Scorandum's job is literally to do all the sketchy things the Jeraptha government doesn't want traced back to it, but he remains a sympathetic ally of the Merry Band of Pirates and does his job with such panache that the audience can't help but root for him.

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* InsectoidAliens

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* InsectoidAliensBewareTheSillyOnes: The Jeraptha are the comic relief species in the series, but in the ''Deathtrap'' spinoff, they deploy a heavy assault team to assist the Mavericks. While we don't see what happened on screen, their actions utterly terrified Nert.
* InsectoidAliens: They resemble large evolved beetles.
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* [[AmusingAlien Amusing Aliens]]: While the Jeraptha are a formidable space-faring species, their main role in the story is to serve as comic relief - usually something related to their [[TheGamblingAddict gambling compulsions]] or their tendency to engage in less-than-ethical activities.

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* [[AmusingAlien Amusing Aliens]]: While the Jeraptha are a formidable space-faring species, their main role in the story is to serve as comic relief - usually something related to their [[TheGamblingAddict gambling compulsions]] or their tendency to engage in less-than-ethical activities. They are also (relatively speaking) one of the more friendly species toward humans.
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** "Hold my beer!" when he's about to do something awesome.

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