History Fanfic / FriendsOfASolarEmpire

* AndroidsArePeopleToo: In the Trade Order, AI's are considered legal citizens, and are usually treated with as much respect as those of flesh and blood.

* ColonelBadass: Colonel Rekav.

* FusionFic.
* GattacaBabies: Twilight Sparkle is a particularly [[TearJerker tragic]] version of this trope.

* GeneticEngineering: Deconstructed with Twilight Sparkle. It is implied that she is genuinely dangerous with her mental block restricting most of her potential disabled, and a great deal of her personality is based around this fact of her life.

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!!Friends of a Solar Empire contains examples of:

* CassandraTruth: [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling Pinkie Pie]] keeps telling high command that their orbital fighter bays could ''really'' do with some flak-cannons. Predictably they take no notice.

A crossover between ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and ''SinsOfASolarEmpire'', written by Dalek Ix.

* MythologyGag: Possibly accidental, but there is an achievement in "SinsOfASolarEmpire" called Space Ponies, which you get via a random event, namely discovering one of your planets has, well, space ponies.

** Averted when [[GodEmperor Celestia]] tells the TEC that her currently insane sister will be returning to wreak vengeance soon. [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy They send a battlefleet.]] And Admiral Kol.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The Trade Order. Their response to Discord was to [[AndIMustScream stick him into an autonomous ship and kick on the FTL, sending into intergalactic space, the emptiest place in existance.]]
** Their response to [[PhysicalGod Nightmare Moon]] was to send a battlefleet.
** The Horizon Corporation, who were very, ''very'' thorough in creating a magical supersoldier that wouldn't disobey. Poor Twilight.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The Trade Order's Investigation Directorate. Their response to the actions of the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Horizon Corporation]] was to hire a [[MoreDakka Marza-class dreadnought]] to blow up the asteroid their facility had been built on, and then ban the rest of the Traders from doing business with them. Not even to buy ''food''.
** [[AssholeVictim ...Disproportionate?]]
** To clarify? "Rest of the Traders" is the entire known galaxy.

* ShoutOut: Several, mostly to ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'', such as Rainbow Dash's callsign (Starbuck), the Everfree Forest Cloudbase, which superficially resembles a squared off Cylon Basestar, and the use of the word "[[UnusualEuphemism frak]]".

* CruelMercy: By WordOfGod what happened to the people running the lab that Twilight came from.
** It's less CruelMercy and more an indirectly-caused FateWorseThanDeath. Not they they didn't deserve it, in any case.

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** It's less CruelMercy and more an indirectly-caused FateWorseThanDeath. [[CompleteMonster Not they they didn't deserve it, in any case.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: The Trade Order's Investigation Directorate. Their response to the actions of the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Horizon]] [[CompleteMonster Corporation]] was to hire a [[MoreDakka Marza-class dreadnought]] to blow up the asteroid their facility had been built on, and then ban the rest of the Traders from doing business with them. Not even to buy ''food''.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: How the Traders dealt with the [[CompleteMonster Horizon Corporation]]. Along with their lab (and the asteroid it was on) being blown to smithereens, the entire organization was essentially ''erased'': all of Horizon's money and resources were seized, and ''everyone'' who worked for them was either killed or arrested. Moreover, the Traders were ''completely'' banned from doing business with Horizon's employees, via the Universal Trade Sanction--the bastards can't even buy '''food.''' And that's not all: the UTC was handed down by the Traders as a whole, so the various members also laid down their own punishments ''in addition'' to all of the above. Literally ''nothing'' is left of Horizon by the time the story starts.

* TranshumanTreachery: A predecessor to the Trade Order tried to do this, [[FinalSolution in a very complete way]]. They're the reason why [[NoTranshumanismAllowed Transhumanism isn't allowed]]. (See the CompleteMonster entry for details.)

* WorldBuilding: Arguably one of the most popular aspects of the fic.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Averted. ''Hard''. The author goes out of his way to make it clear that space is ''fucking'' '''''huge'''''. He even describes Twilight and Spike seeing the TDN ''Novus'' as a tiny point in the distance as a minor miracle.

* ShoutOut: Rainbow Dash's callsign is "[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Starbuck]]".

** And Cloudbase looks a lot like a [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Cylon Basestar]].

** Also what happened to some members of the [[CompleteMonster Horizon Corporation]], also by WordOfGod. While the Universal Trade Sanction (which makes them unable to even buy ''food'') was handed down by the Investigation Directorate, the various factions of the TEC also handed down their own punishments...including ''Cognizant Cryocontainment''.

* FictionalDocument: The "Extra Document" files.

* GattacaBabies: Twilight Sparkle.

* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Averted in regards to Twilight Sparkle, because ''someone else'' already did it for her.
* [[OfficerAndAGentleman Officer and a Gentlepony]]: Rarity.

* DamberouslyGenreSavvy: The Trade Order. Their response to Discord was to [[AndIMustScream stick him into an autonomous ship and kick on the FTL, sending into intergalactic space, the emptiest place in existance.]]

* NoodleIncident: Apparently, Fluttershy joined Rarity's crew in some rather over-the-top antics on their last shore leave.

** Averted when [[GodEmperor Celestia]] tells the TEC that her currently insane sister will be returning to wreak vengeance soon. They send a battlefleet.

* TranshumanTreachery: A predecessor to the Trade Order tried to do this, [[FinalSolution in a very complete way]]. (See the CompleteMonster entry for details.)