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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: ''Sword of the Stars'' presented the Liir as a [[HeroicDolphin benevolent if enigmatic race]], but the author presents an alternative view where they come across as very amoral and creepy. In a scene where a Batarian loyalist laments the fall of the Hegemony and their slave system, a Liir in attendance uses its psychic powers to MindRape the Batarian with the implanted memories of an Asari slave girl. In an instant, he feels all of the girl's mental anguish and suffering as if they were his memories, and he's reduced to a sobbing wreck by the end. As Garrus explains to an Asari agent, this isn't an act of malevolence or cruelty, the Liir do it with ''every intention of helping'' the Batarians (and in fact, this was the compromise solution - the Liir originally used to just [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul remove the bad memories]]).
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Notable for its massive Codex designed to allow readers to easily understand the setting without having to play the ''Sword the Stars'' games, and for having three separate plot lines that each deal with a different threat against the Council and its (theoretical) allies.
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Notable for its massive Codex designed to allow readers to easily understand the setting without having to play the ''Sword of the Stars'' games, and for having three separate plot lines that each deal with a different threat against the Council and its (theoretical) allies.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Liir, as the Batarians found out the hard way. The Council are also heading this way in the later chapters.
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* CulturalPosturing: The reason the Morrigi and Asari don't usually get along. Both tend to try and out posture the other, and because of the Morrigi's incomplete records no one is sure whose civilization is really the oldest. [[spoiler:Liara eventually stumbles onto information that confirms it to be the Morrigi, by over ''ten thousand years''.]]
* CurbstompBattle: The aforementioned Batarian Extermination. By the time the Liir actually attacked, much of the Hegemony was dying of the retrovirus the Liir covertly released. The Worst Case option for the 'Sleeping Giant' codex entry is also one of these.
* CurbstompBattle: The aforementioned Batarian Extermination. By the time the Liir actually attacked, much of the Hegemony was dying of the retrovirus the Liir covertly released. The Worst Case option for the 'Sleeping Giant' codex entry is also one of these.
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* CulturalPosturing: The reason the Morrigi and Asari don't usually get along. Both tend to try and out posture the other, and because of the Morrigi's incomplete records no one is sure whose civilization is really the oldest. [[spoiler:Liara Liara eventually stumbles onto information that confirms it to be the [[spoiler:the Morrigi, by over ''ten thousand years''.]]
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* CurbstompBattle: Theaforementioned Batarian Extermination. By the time the Liir actually attacked, attack, much of the Hegemony was is dying of the retrovirus the Liir covertly released. The released.%%The Worst Case option for the 'Sleeping Giant' "Sleeping Giant" codex entry is also one of these.
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* FantasticRacism: Naturally, considering the two universes involved. Humanity tends to be the largest offender, but everyone participates to some degree.
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* FusionFic: Franchise/MassEffect and VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars. Only the Protheans' frantic attempts to slow down the Reapers by blowing up relays beneath them, thus destroying most of the relays in the Orion Arm, kept the Sword of the Stars races from encountering the Council earlier than they did. [[spoiler:The Suul'ka were also instrumental in the Reaper's eventual defeat, and in getting rid of the Protheans afterward.]]
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* FusionFic: Franchise/MassEffect ''Franchise/MassEffect'' and VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars. Only the ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars''. The Protheans' frantic attempts to slow down the Reapers by blowing up relays beneath them, thus destroying which destroyed most of the relays in the Orion Arm, are what kept the Sword ''Sword of the Stars Stars'' races from encountering the Council earlier than they did. [[spoiler:The Suul'ka were also instrumental in the Reaper's Reapers' eventual defeat, and in getting rid of the Protheans afterward.]]
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* {{Glamour}}: The universal-attractiveness of the Asari is explained as being a lesser version of the psychic glamour Morrigi males use.
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* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: Prince Stone Mind's favorite trick. He's good enough at it that he was able to get the Liir OffOnATechnicality for ATTEMPTED GENOCIDE.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: The Sword of the Stars races, as usual. Slightly averted in that Element Zero has allowed them to double the size of most of their ships, but this still makes them about half the length of their Council counterparts.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: The Sword of the Stars races, as usual. Slightly averted in that Element Zero has allowed them to double the size of most of their ships, but this still makes them about half the length of their Council counterparts.
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* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: Prince Stone Mind's favorite trick. He's good enough at it that he was able to get the Liir OffOnATechnicality for ATTEMPTED GENOCIDE.
''attempted genocide''.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: TheSword ''Sword of the Stars races, as usual. Slightly averted Stars'' races. Downplayed in that Element Zero has allowed them to double the size of most of their ships, but this still makes them about half the length of their Council counterparts.
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* SpaceColdWar: Between the Orion Arm and the Citadel.
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* WhamEpisode: Several, easily located because they lack the usual notation saying if a chapter is story or codex. [[spoiler:The first one is when the Ghost Ship nukes Thessia. The second is when the Peacekeeper arrives.]] A minor one occurs earlier and marks the beginning of the actual plot, when Liara stumbles across evidence proving that the [[spoiler:Reapers exist, and were killed off by Javik picking the Destroy option at the end of his cycle.]]
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* WhamEpisode: Several, easily located because they lack the usual notation saying if a chapter is story or codex. [[spoiler:The first one is when the Ghost Ship nukes Thessia. The second is when the Peacekeeper arrives.]] A minor one occurs earlier and marks the beginning of the actual plot, when Liara stumbles across evidence proving that the [[spoiler:Reapers exist, and were killed off by Javik picking the Destroy option at the end of his cycle.]]cycle]].
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After a botched first encounter between the Turians and [=SolForce=] at Shanxi, both sides summon their allies for a climactic showdown... that never happens. Cooler heads prevail, with the original four VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars races (known in-universe as the 'Orion Races') eventually joining the Council, some more reluctantly than others. But the hostility between the two factions never quite goes away, and when [=SolForce=]'s new flagship mysteriously vanishes, it sparks a chain reaction that may lead to all out war.
Notable for its massive Codex designed to allow readers to easily understand the setting without having to play the Sword the Stars games, and for having three separate plot lines that each deal with a different threat against the Council and its (theoretical) allies.
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After a botched first encounter between the Turians and [=SolForce=] at Shanxi, both sides summon their allies for a climactic showdown... that never happens. Cooler heads prevail, with the original four VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' races (known in-universe as the 'Orion Races') Orion Races) eventually joining the Council, some more reluctantly than others. But However, the hostility between the two factions never quite goes away, and when [=SolForce=]'s new flagship mysteriously vanishes, it sparks a chain reaction that may lead to all out war.
Notable for its massive Codex designed to allow readers to easily understand the setting without having to play theSword ''Sword the Stars Stars'' games, and for having three separate plot lines that each deal with a different threat against the Council and its (theoretical) allies.
Notable for its massive Codex designed to allow readers to easily understand the setting without having to play the
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* MirroringFactions: The tactics used by the Liir in the Batarian Extermination is not so different from the Citadel Council's use of the Genophage in the Krogan Rebellion. It is this reason that Stone Mind of the Hiver Imperium defended the Liir on trial and allowing the Council to (reluctantly and controversially) find the Liir innocent in the Extermination.
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* NotSoDifferent / YouAreWhatYouHate: The tactics used by the Liir in the Batarian Extermination is not so different from the Citadel Council's use of the Genophage in the Krogan Rebellion. It is this reason that Stone Mind of the Hiver Imperium defended the Liir on trial and allowing the Council to (reluctantly and controversially) find the Liir innocent in the Extermination.
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* AuthorAppeal: WordOfGod states that the author finds the different alien races to be the most interesting parts of the Mass Effect and Sword of the Stars settings. As such, the story goes into an sizable amount of detail describing the effects of their various physiologies and cultures on the setting.
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* AuthorAppeal: WordOfGod states that the author finds the different alien races to be the most interesting parts of the Mass Effect ''Mass Effect'' and Sword ''Sword of the Stars Stars'' settings. As such, the story goes into an sizable amount of detail describing the effects of their various physiologies and cultures on the setting.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10200265/1/Shepherd-of-the-Stars Shepherd of the Stars]]'' is a ''Franchise/MassEffect'' / ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' FusionFic. It focuses on political drama, specifically the catastrophic results of a universe as chaotic as VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars trying to integrate with the slightly more welcoming Franchise/MassEffect setting.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10200265/1/Shepherd-of-the-Stars Shepherd of the Stars]]'' is a ''Franchise/MassEffect'' / ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' FusionFic. It focuses on political drama, specifically the catastrophic results of a universe as chaotic as VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' trying to integrate with the slightly more welcoming Franchise/MassEffect ''Franchise/MassEffect'' setting.
