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* WretchedHive: It says something about Novus and his home universe that Night City being this is honestly a ''step up'' compared to the manufactorums and hive cities of the Imperium.
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* WretchedHive: It says something about Novus and his home universe that Night City being this is honestly a ''step up'' compared to the manufactorums and hive cities of the Imperium.Imperium.
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* AndThenWhat: Novus had only one objective after arriving in Night City: kill the Simuloptera. After doing so, he's left with a sense of purposelessness, pondering why he was brought back in time to a world he knows to be Holy Terra in the past. After some deliberation, he decides to simply follow the will of the Omnissiah. By preaching it's word to the denizens of Night City, one lost, un-ascended organic shell at a time.
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* AndThenWhat: Novus had only one objective after arriving in Night City: kill the Simuloptera. After doing so, he's left with a sense of purposelessness, pondering why he was brought back in time to a world he knows to be Holy Terra in the past. After some deliberation, he decides to simply follow the will of the Omnissiah. By Omnissiah by preaching it's word to the denizens of Night City, one lost, un-ascended organic shell at a time.
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After a mission to destroy a Heretek lab end in warp tricker, Explorator Tech-Priest Novus Octavion finds himself thrust into the past of Mankind.
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After a mission to destroy a Heretek lab end in warp tricker, trickery, Explorator Tech-Priest Novus Octavion finds himself thrust into the past of Mankind.
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Sasha was revived as an engram testing out the Soulkiller program by Arasaka after dying from exposing Biotehnica. Due to it not having enough of her consciousness, it was discarded, only to be picked up and reconfigured by Alt Cunningham and a Necron Cryptek.]]
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Sasha was revived as an engram testing out the Soulkiller program by Arasaka after dying from exposing Biotehnica.Biotechnica. Due to it not having enough of her consciousness, it was discarded, only to be picked up and reconfigured by Alt Cunningham and a Necron Cryptek.]]
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: One of the biggest appeals of the fic is seeing just how ''strange'' a place like Night City is to someone like Novus, a techpriest from the 41st Millennium, where corporate greed takes precedence over basically every facet of life.
** The most obvious one for someone like Novus is the proliferation and disuse of cybernetics that is prevalent in Night City. As a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus, a cult that venerates machines over all organic life, Novus is oftentimes absolutely ''seething'' with barely restrained contempt for the mistreatment of all the Machine Spirits he witnesses on a daily basis. He learns to quickly temper his anger, but it rears up from time to time given what kind of place [[WretchedHive Night City]] is.
** A particularly [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] one comes in the form of Martin Coleman. He used to work as a car manufacturer, but the company he worked for forced him and its employees to either get cybernetic enhancements to help with their work or quit. He agreed, taking on the massive amounts of debt the company forced on him in order to pay for the augments they made him take, only for said company to go under in a year. He tried to find other work, but failed. Given how Novus comes from a universe where every individual under the Imperium is indoctrinated under the belief that they can work, even in the smallest of ways, to better the Imperium at the expense of their life, it comes across as utterly incomprehensible to him and a genuine horror story.
* DescriptionCut: As Rebecca is speaking about how cool and nice Novus is after he saved her life and the life of a boy with a bomb planted in his head, the story cuts back and forth to her praise and Novus making one of the Scavs he'd taken captive into a servitor. A reminder that, despite his helping of Maine and his crew, Novus is still a techpriest from the 41st Millennium.
** The most obvious one for someone like Novus is the proliferation and disuse of cybernetics that is prevalent in Night City. As a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus, a cult that venerates machines over all organic life, Novus is oftentimes absolutely ''seething'' with barely restrained contempt for the mistreatment of all the Machine Spirits he witnesses on a daily basis. He learns to quickly temper his anger, but it rears up from time to time given what kind of place [[WretchedHive Night City]] is.
** A particularly [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] one comes in the form of Martin Coleman. He used to work as a car manufacturer, but the company he worked for forced him and its employees to either get cybernetic enhancements to help with their work or quit. He agreed, taking on the massive amounts of debt the company forced on him in order to pay for the augments they made him take, only for said company to go under in a year. He tried to find other work, but failed. Given how Novus comes from a universe where every individual under the Imperium is indoctrinated under the belief that they can work, even in the smallest of ways, to better the Imperium at the expense of their life, it comes across as utterly incomprehensible to him and a genuine horror story.
* DescriptionCut: As Rebecca is speaking about how cool and nice Novus is after he saved her life and the life of a boy with a bomb planted in his head, the story cuts back and forth to her praise and Novus making one of the Scavs he'd taken captive into a servitor. A reminder that, despite his helping of Maine and his crew, Novus is still a techpriest from the 41st Millennium.
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* DescriptionCut: As Rebecca is speaking about how cool and nice Novus is after he saved her life and the life of a boy with a bomb planted in his head, the story cuts back and forth to her praise and Novus making one of the Scavs he'd taken captive into a servitor. A reminder that, despite his helping of Maine and his crew, Novus is still a techpriest from the 41st Millennium.
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* ValuesDissonance: In-universe. One of the biggest appeals of the fic is seeing just how ''strange'' a place like Night City is to someone like Novus, a techpriest from the 41st Millennium, where corporate greed takes precedence over basically every facet of life.
** The most obvious one for someone like Novus is the proliferation and disuse of cybernetics that is prevalent in Night City. As a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus, a cult that venerates machines over all organic life, Novus is oftentimes absolutely ''seething'' with barely restrained contempt for the mistreatment of all the Machine Spirits he witnesses on a daily basis. He learns to quickly temper his anger, but it rears up from time to time given what kind of place [[WretchedHive Night City]] is.
** A particularly [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] one comes in the form of Martin Coleman. He used to work as a car manufacturer, but the company he worked for forced him and its employees to either get cybernetic enhancements to help with their work or quit. He agreed, taking on the massive amounts of debt the company forced on him in order to pay for the augments they made him take, only for said company to go under in a year. He tried to find other work, but failed. Given how Novus comes from a universe where every individual under the Imperium is indoctrinated under the belief that they can work, even in the smallest of ways, to better the Imperium at the expense of their life, it comes across as utterly incomprehensible to him and a genuine horror story.
** The most obvious one for someone like Novus is the proliferation and disuse of cybernetics that is prevalent in Night City. As a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus, a cult that venerates machines over all organic life, Novus is oftentimes absolutely ''seething'' with barely restrained contempt for the mistreatment of all the Machine Spirits he witnesses on a daily basis. He learns to quickly temper his anger, but it rears up from time to time given what kind of place [[WretchedHive Night City]] is.
** A particularly [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] one comes in the form of Martin Coleman. He used to work as a car manufacturer, but the company he worked for forced him and its employees to either get cybernetic enhancements to help with their work or quit. He agreed, taking on the massive amounts of debt the company forced on him in order to pay for the augments they made him take, only for said company to go under in a year. He tried to find other work, but failed. Given how Novus comes from a universe where every individual under the Imperium is indoctrinated under the belief that they can work, even in the smallest of ways, to better the Imperium at the expense of their life, it comes across as utterly incomprehensible to him and a genuine horror story.
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* ValuesDissonance: One of the biggest appeals of the fic is seeing just how ''strange'' a place like Night City is to someone like Novus, a techpriest from the 41st Millennium, where corporate greed takes precedence over basically every facet of life.
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* ValuesDissonance: In-universe. One of the biggest appeals of the fic is seeing just how ''strange'' a place like Night City is to someone like Novus, a techpriest from the 41st Millennium, where corporate greed takes precedence over basically every facet of life.
