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* SuaveSabre: Morgan t'Thavrau uses a Romulan honor blade patterned after a cavalry saber in respectively a sparring match against her NumberTwo (who favors a fencing rapier), and a DuelToTheDeath against a Watraii nobleman (who uses an arming sword). Morgan is a HeroicBastard of Romulan nobility.
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* MaidenNameDebate: By Romulan tradition the husband takes his wife's surname rather than the other way around, hence Merken tr'Ortikant becomes Merken tr'Vreenak after marrying.
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* TookTheWifesName: By Romulan tradition the husband takes his wife's surname rather than the other way around, hence Merken tr'Ortikant becomes Merken tr'Vreenak after marrying.
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* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Morgan surmises that her mother kept her paternity a secret to avoid a potential three-way blood feud between the House-clans of Thavrau, Ortikant,[[note]]Merken tr'Vreenak's birth clan[[/note]] and Vreenak[[note]]Merken tr'Vreenak's wife's clan[[/note]]. She comments to her (colonial commoner) executive officer that Liorae t'Vreenak would have been within her rights to kill the child (Morgan).
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* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Morgan surmises that her mother kept her paternity a secret to avoid a potential three-way blood feud between the House-clans of Thavrau, Ortikant,[[note]]Merken tr'Vreenak's birth clan[[/note]] and Vreenak[[note]]Merken tr'Vreenak's wife's clan[[/note]]. She comments to her (colonial commoner) executive officer that Liorae t'Vreenak would have been considered within her rights to kill the child (Morgan).
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* RoyalInbreeding: {{Defied}}. The Romulan noble class used modern genetics to avoid this, keeping the genomes of clan members on file to avoid any mishaps.
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* RoyalInbreeding: {{Defied}}. The Romulan noble class class, being a minority of a gene pool that was already quite small after the Sundering and the Journey, used modern genetics to avoid this, keeping the genomes of clan members on file to avoid any mishaps.mishaps from arranging marriages between people too genetically similar.
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* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Morgan and Sarsachen are from different social strata (she's a noblewoman from the Romulan homeworlds, he's a commoner from the fringe), so he doesn't understand why Merken tr'Vreenak having sired a child out of wedlock is such a big deal until she spells it out to him what a serious breach of the nobility's honor codes it is.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Morgan was conceived as a result of an adulterous affair between Merken tr'Vreenak, then a prefectural governor, and Iliana t'Thavrau, his chief of staff.
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Factually false. The 62nd Rule is in the Deep Space Nine episode "Rules of Acquisition", the 15th Rule comes from the novel Demons of Air and Darkness.
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** In reality, there is no rule that states "the riskier, the more profit" in the Rule of Acquisition. There is one that states "Risk doesn't always equal reward", however. Also, "You can't make a deal if you're dead" is the 125th rule, no the 15th.
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** In reality, there is no rule that states "the riskier, the more profit" in the Rule of Acquisition. There is one that states "Risk doesn't always equal reward", however. Also, "You can't make a deal if you're dead" is the 125th rule, no the 15th.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The Federation ambassador is willing to let Jethro Wisniewski be tried under Romulan law as long as the death penalty is taken off the table. In return (at Republic Senator t'Hei's prompting) she offers to help Velal get sanctions relief past the Federation Council.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The Ferengi ambassador apparently tried to buy Velal off. Velal isn't impressed.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The Ferengi ambassador apparently tried to buy Velal off. Velal isn't impressed.
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* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Morgan surmises that her mother kept her paternity a secret to avoid a potential three-way blood feud between the House-clans of Thavrau, Ortikant,[[note]]Merken tr'Vreenak's birth clan[[/note]] and Vreenak[[note]]Merken tr'Vreenak's wife's clan[[/note]]. She comments to her (colonial commoner) executive officer that Liorae t'Vreenak would have been within her rights to kill the child (Morgan).
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[[http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/comment/12954055/#Comment_12954055 "Heis'he Ri'nanovai"]] ([[ForeignLanguageTitle "A Mother's Love" in Rihan]]) is a ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' {{fanfic}} by Tropers/StarSword, set in the ''Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO'' universe.
A chance discovery by looters in the ruins of ch'Rihan leads to a personal revelation for Commander-General Morgaiah t'Thavrau of the Romulan Republic Fleet.
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!!Tropes:
* AltarDiplomacy: It's mentioned that marriages among the Rihan political class were frequently made for political reasons, to cement alliances or end blood feuds.
* KissingCousins: Tr'Vreenak was distantly blood-related to his wife (fourth cousins).
* {{Homage}}: Tropers/StarSword mentioned having had the second scene of the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' [[Recap/FireflyE01Serenity pilot episode]] in mind when writing the looter scene.
* QuoteToQuoteCombat: Between Velal tr'Hrienteh, the Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire, and Dronk, the Ferengi ambassador.
-->'''Dronk:''' "The riskier the road, the greater the profit." 62nd Rule of Acquisition.\\
'''Velal:''' "Dead men close no deals." 15th Rule of Acquisition.
* RoyalInbreeding: {{Defied}}. The Romulan noble class used modern genetics to avoid this, keeping the genomes of clan members on file to avoid any mishaps.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Velal comments that the looters were fortunate ''not'' to have been after being caught by an Imperial warbird.
* YourCheatingHeart: Morgan was conceived as a result of an adulterous affair between Merken tr'Vreenak, then a prefectural governor, and Iliana t'Thavrau, his chief of staff.
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A chance discovery by looters in the ruins of ch'Rihan leads to a personal revelation for Commander-General Morgaiah t'Thavrau of the Romulan Republic Fleet.
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!!Tropes:
* AltarDiplomacy: It's mentioned that marriages among the Rihan political class were frequently made for political reasons, to cement alliances or end blood feuds.
* KissingCousins: Tr'Vreenak was distantly blood-related to his wife (fourth cousins).
* {{Homage}}: Tropers/StarSword mentioned having had the second scene of the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' [[Recap/FireflyE01Serenity pilot episode]] in mind when writing the looter scene.
* QuoteToQuoteCombat: Between Velal tr'Hrienteh, the Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire, and Dronk, the Ferengi ambassador.
-->'''Dronk:''' "The riskier the road, the greater the profit." 62nd Rule of Acquisition.\\
'''Velal:''' "Dead men close no deals." 15th Rule of Acquisition.
* RoyalInbreeding: {{Defied}}. The Romulan noble class used modern genetics to avoid this, keeping the genomes of clan members on file to avoid any mishaps.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Velal comments that the looters were fortunate ''not'' to have been after being caught by an Imperial warbird.
* YourCheatingHeart: Morgan was conceived as a result of an adulterous affair between Merken tr'Vreenak, then a prefectural governor, and Iliana t'Thavrau, his chief of staff.
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