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* SecretPolice: The ''Crisis of Empire'' series has the Kona Tatsu, whose authority includes rearranging a marriage -- as in, "You're now divorced so we can have your wife make a political marriage to someone else" -- to support their agenda. The series portrays them somewhat morally grey rather than wholly evil. As a whole, they are not as horribly bad as they ''pretend'' to be; they're certainly ruthless and sometimes sociopathic, but they are one of the few forces keeping civilization intact, and they know it, and some of their people try to behave decently when they can keep it from being obvious to their victims.
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* SecretPolice: The ''Crisis of Empire'' series has the Kona Tatsu, whose authority includes rearranging a marriage -- as in, "You're now divorced so we can have your wife make a political marriage to someone else" -- to support their agenda. The series portrays them as somewhat morally grey rather than wholly evil. As a whole, they are not as horribly bad as they ''pretend'' to be; they're certainly ruthless and sometimes sociopathic, but they are one of the few forces keeping civilization intact, and they know it, and some of their people try to behave decently when they can keep it from being obvious to their victims.
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As Not A Sub Version says, there is no such thing as "partial subversion". That page says a "partial subversions" are often actually downplayed tropes, but this seems to me like a comparatively more sympathetic depiction.
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* SecretPolice: The ''Crisis of Empire'' series has the Kona Tatsu, whose authority includes rearranging a marriage -- as in, "You're now divorced so we can have your wife make a political marriage to someone else" -- to support their agenda. Also a ''partial'' subversion/aversion, in that the KT are not, as a whole, as horribly bad as they ''pretend'' to be. They're certainly ruthless and sometimes sociopathic, but they are one of the few forces keeping civilization intact, and they know it, and some of their people try to behave decently when they can keep it from being obvious to their victims.
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* SecretPolice: The ''Crisis of Empire'' series has the Kona Tatsu, whose authority includes rearranging a marriage -- as in, "You're now divorced so we can have your wife make a political marriage to someone else" -- to support their agenda. Also a ''partial'' subversion/aversion, in that the KT are not, as The series portrays them somewhat morally grey rather than wholly evil. As a whole, they are not as horribly bad as they ''pretend'' to be. They're be; they're certainly ruthless and sometimes sociopathic, but they are one of the few forces keeping civilization intact, and they know it, and some of their people try to behave decently when they can keep it from being obvious to their victims.
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* SupportingProtagonist: In ''The Reaches", Stephen Gregg is TheLancer and TheBigGuy (literally) to Piet Ricimer. In the next book, Jeremy Moore is TheSmartGuy to both Gregg and Ricimer, though he's surprisingly good in a melee. In the ''next'' book, Sal Blythe takes over his spot as this trope.
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*** In the while the Republic of Cinnabar is a lot more gender-egalitarian than European countries typically were around the Napoleonic Wars, it's also pretty xenophobic and classist and prefers to deal with autocracies over democracies (mirroring the state of British democracy at the time, when only landowners could vote).
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*** In While the while the [[Literature/{{RCN}} Republic of Cinnabar Cinnabar]] is a lot more gender-egalitarian than European countries typically were around the Napoleonic Wars, it's also pretty xenophobic and classist and prefers to deal with autocracies over democracies (mirroring the state of British democracy at the time, when only landowners could vote).
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** Drake roots a lot of his settings in real history, and doesn't mince words about including {{Politically Incorrect Hero}}es in them for the sake of GrayAndGreyMorality. For example, while the Republic of Cinnabar is a lot more gender-egalitarian than European countries typically were around the Napoleonic Wars, it's also pretty xenophobic and classist and prefers to deal with autocracies over democracies (mirroring the state of British democracy at the time, when only landowners could vote). ''Literature/HammersSlammers'' similarly includes a reemergence of ethnonationalism between human colonists, with the Dutch-descended Slammers getting embroiled in a nasty war between Dutch and French colonists in one of the early stories.
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** Drake roots a lot of his settings in real history, and doesn't mince words about including {{Politically Incorrect Hero}}es in them for the sake of GrayAndGreyMorality. For example, Some examples:
*** The ''Literature/HammersSlammers'' setting includes a reemergence of ethnonationalism between human colonists, with the Dutch-descended Slammers getting embroiled in a nasty ethnic war between Dutch and French colonists in one of the early stories.
*** In the while the Republic of Cinnabar is a lot more gender-egalitarian than European countries typically were around the Napoleonic Wars, it's also pretty xenophobic and classist and prefers to deal with autocracies over democracies (mirroring the state of British democracy at the time, when only landowners could vote).''Literature/HammersSlammers'' similarly includes a reemergence of ethnonationalism between human colonists, with the Dutch-descended Slammers getting embroiled in a nasty war between Dutch and French colonists in one of the early stories.
*** The ''Literature/HammersSlammers'' setting includes a reemergence of ethnonationalism between human colonists, with the Dutch-descended Slammers getting embroiled in a nasty ethnic war between Dutch and French colonists in one of the early stories.
*** In the while the Republic of Cinnabar is a lot more gender-egalitarian than European countries typically were around the Napoleonic Wars, it's also pretty xenophobic and classist and prefers to deal with autocracies over democracies (mirroring the state of British democracy at the time, when only landowners could vote).
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* FantasyConflictCounterpart: Drake's author's notes on his novels often openly discuss the historical inspiration for armed conflicts in his books, especially when they're more obscure, such as an explanation in ''When the Tide Rises'' that the main conflict is partly based on 19th century events in South America, but the major naval battle is inspired by the 1811 Battle of Lissa--not to be confused with the 1866 Battle of Lissa, which Drake somewhat humorously argues was [[RealityIsUnrealistic so incompetently fought by the Italians as to be unusable as a basis for fiction]].
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[[http://www.david-drake.com/ David Allen Drake]] (September 24, 1945 - December 10, 2023) is the author of several sci-fi series, including ''Literature/{{RCN}}'' and ''Literature/HammersSlammers'', and has a major fantasy series, ''Literature/TheLordOfTheIsles''. Born in UsefulNotes/{{Iowa}}, Drake majored in history and Latin at the University of Iowa. He then went to Duke University Law School, but his studies were interrupted for two years when he was drafted into the US Army for the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar. He served in Vietnam and Cambodia as an interrogator attached to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.
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[[http://www.david-drake.com/ David Allen Drake]] (September 24, 1945 - December 10, 2023) is was the author of several sci-fi series, including ''Literature/{{RCN}}'' and ''Literature/HammersSlammers'', and has a major fantasy series, ''Literature/TheLordOfTheIsles''. Born in UsefulNotes/{{Iowa}}, Drake majored in history and Latin at the University of Iowa. He then went to Duke University Law School, but his studies were interrupted for two years when he was drafted into the US Army for the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar. He served in Vietnam and Cambodia as an interrogator attached to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.
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Drake lived in Silk Hope, North Carolina. On November 17, 2021, he announced on his website that due to unspecified health issues, he would be retiring from writing. He died December 10, 2023.
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Drake lived in Silk Hope, North Carolina. On November 17, 2021, he announced on his website that due to unspecified health issues, he would be retiring from writing. He died on December 10, 2023.2023 at the age of 78.
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Drake lived in Silk Hope, North Carolina. On November 17, 2023, he announced on his website that due to unspecified health issues, he would be retiring from writing. He died that December.
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Drake lived in Silk Hope, North Carolina. On November 17, 2023, 2021, he announced on his website that due to unspecified health issues, he would be retiring from writing. He died that December.December 10, 2023.
