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* ChicAndAwe: Quillan is lost for words the first time he sees Trigger wearing the daring Beldon gown (less a single piece of clothing, more a collection of exquisite ribbons) that he bought her.
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* TimeDissonance: The Old Galactics live much longer than humans, and their lives unfold at a much slower pace -- this is what the title "A Tale of Two Clocks" refers to.
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* ImpededCommunication: The Parahuans in "The Demon Breed" have the ability to jam human communicators. They've been gradually building up the interference for months, to make people think it's a natural phenomenon.
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* BluffingTheAdvanceScout: In ''The Demon Breed''Breed'': The aliens suspect that humanity may be secretly protected by a caste of superhuman Guardians, and plan to invade the world of Nandy-Cline to put this theory to the test. The protagonist has to pose as a Guardian and convince them that she really is that dangerous. ([[BadassBookworm She is]]).
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* ManEatingPlant: The Harpooneer plant in "The Demon Breed" has a taste for the flesh of anyone who stands too close to it.
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* SpareAMessenger: At the end of ''The Demon Breed'', Deputy Gilennic orders the Federation fleet not to destroy the two Parahuan ships most likely to contain high-ranking officers, so that they can give a first-hand account of their defeat when they return home.
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* IntelligentForest: In "Balanced Ecology" the diamondwood forest on Wrake is a closely integrated ecology with, as it turns out, its own plans for how to cope with the human colonists on its world.
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* PlantAliens: The Hana in "The Pork Chop Tree" / "Compulsion" look like harmless trees, but their psychic powers make them very dangerous.
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* ComedicSpanking: In ''Legacy'', Trigger gets the information she needs out of [[spoiler:Lyad (who's a head of state)]] by administering a humiliating spanking, recording it, and threatening to release the recording.
* HeelFaceTurn: At the end of ''Legacy'', [[spoiler:Lyad Ermetyne]] reforms and joins the Psychology Service.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Near the end of ''Legacy'', Trigger's group kidnaps the opposition leader [[spoiler:Lyad Ermentyne]]--who Ermetyne]]--who also happens to be a head of state. They're on a spaceship on a vital mission and too far out to return, but members of the Hub government request to speak with [[spoiler:Lyad]] to make sure everything's all right...
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* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Lyad in ''Legacy'' is the head of the Ermetyne clan, so she's ''the'' Ermetyne.
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* WeWillMeetAgain: Even though [[spoiler:Lyad Ermetyne]] has honestly reformed by the end of ''Legacy'' and doesn't have "too much in the way of hard feelings", [[spoiler:she]] still wants a chance to get even with Trigger.
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* TemporaryBulkChange: In "Trouble Tide", a symbiotic lifeform gives mammals the ability to survive in the deep sea. When they return to the surface, the extra structures it grows are converted to body fat. That works fine for the seal-like native lifeforms, but it leaves the story's human protagonists so dangerously obese that they need days of surgery and months of dieting to recover.
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--> "You've definitely been wrong about me," Telzey told him. "You didn't know enough. I've been a psi, a practising psi, for almost a year. I can go through a human life in an hour and know more about it than the man or woman who's living it. I've gone through quite a few lives, not only human ones. I do other things that I don't talk about. I don't know what it all exactly makes me now, but I'm not a child. Of course, I ''am'' sixteen years old and haven't been that very long. But it might even be that sometimes people like you and [[PrivateDetective Wellan Dasinger]] look a little like children to me. Do you understand?"
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** "A Nice Day For Screaming" has this in spades: the space itself is inherently hazardous, and then it turns out there are ''things'' living in it... [[spoiler: although [[spoiler:although they aren't malicious.]]malicious]].
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--> '''Comissioner Tate''': "I'm afraid she can't come to the communicator right now. She's doing the dishes."
--> '''Comissioner Tate''': "I'm afraid she can't come to the communicator right now. She's doing the dishes."
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* RefugeInAudacity: Near the end of ''Legacy'', Trigger's group kidnaps the opposition leader [[spoiler: Lyad [[spoiler:Lyad Ermentyne]]--who also happens to be a head of state. They're on a spaceship on a vital mission and too far out to return, but members of the Hub government request to speak with [[spoiler: Lyad]] [[spoiler:Lyad]] to make sure everything's all right...
--> '''ComissionerTate''': "I'm Tate:''' I'm afraid she can't come to the communicator right now. She's doing the dishes."
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* AwakeningASleepingGiant: the aftermath of ''The Demon Breed'' has the alien leaders concluding that a) the Parahuans had almost done exactly this, and b) that the human authorities ''know this too''.
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* AwakeningASleepingGiant: AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: the aftermath of ''The Demon Breed'' has the alien leaders concluding that a) the Parahuans had almost done exactly this, and b) that the human authorities ''know this too''.
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* AwakeningASleepingGiant: the aftermath of ''The Demon Breed'' has the alien leaders concluding that a) the Parahuans had almost done exactly this, and b) that the human authorities ''know this too''.
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* ChivalrousPervert: Heslet Quillan takes instant advantage of the situation when the [[NakedPeopleAreFunny naked]] ActionGirl falls into his arms--but never hesitates when a lady needs his help.
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* ChivalrousPervert: Heslet Quillan takes instant advantage of the situation when the a [[NakedPeopleAreFunny naked]] ActionGirl Trigger falls into his arms--but never hesitates when a lady needs his help.
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* NatureHero: Nile Etland is able to evade and survive the Parahuans through superior knowledge and understanding of the floatwood forests, including using the natural inhabitants of the forest to destroy the giant tarm.
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--> '''Comissioner Tate''': "I'm afraid she can't come to the communicator right now. She's doing the dishes."
--> '''Comissioner Tate''': "I'm afraid she can't come to the communicator right now. She's doing the dishes."
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* WorldOfBadass: This is a ''deliberate policy'' of the federation goverment, which permits private wars to keep the people prepared for outside menaces.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: The otter characters speak a pidgin version of human language, without such things as verb tenses.
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* FantasticSlurs: The Parahuans have 'Hulon' for humans (at least, the ones they don't believe to be super-powered Tuvelas). One of them explains it was originally the name of a race that they wiped out.
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* GiantMook: The Parahuans' tarm in "The Demon Breed" -- a 'most efficiently destructive giant beast'. The viewpoint humans aren't sure if it was engineered from a Parahuan sea creature, or from the Parahuans themselves.
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* MisterBig: Parahuan leaders in "The Demon Breed" are smaller than their underlings; the physical changes they undergo are part of their advancement towards what they consider to be the ultimate form of life.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: One of the rare plants in Ticos Cay's laboratory is known as a Harpooneer. It's harmless for as long as it's kept in suspended animation -- and not a second longer. Ticos keeps it next to the platform where his interrogators stand.
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* SeriouslyScruffy: In ''The Demon Breed'', the Parahuan leaders wear elaborate outfits -- except for Koll, the principal antagonist, who's so focused on conquest (possibly to the detriment of his sanity) that he takes no trouble over his appearance.
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* EnergyBeings: The goyal in "The Searcher" appears as a luminous purple energy field.
* TheSwarm: In "The Searcher", the goyal is a swarm of tiny [[EnergyBeings energy creatures]] that act [[HiveMind as a single mind]].
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* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The Elaigar were created by the Grisands, a cult of [[MadScientist mad scientists]], as a race of psionic SuperSoldiers they could use to dominate their planet. It didn't end well for the Grisands.
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** The Elaigar were created by the Grisands, a cult of [[MadScientist mad scientists]], as a race of psionic SuperSoldiers they could use to dominate their planet. It didn't end well for theGrisands.Grisands.
** In "The Searcher", the goyal was created by a race known as the Builders. It promptly consumed them all.
** The Elaigar were created by the Grisands, a cult of [[MadScientist mad scientists]], as a race of psionic SuperSoldiers they could use to dominate their planet. It didn't end well for the
** In "The Searcher", the goyal was created by a race known as the Builders. It promptly consumed them all.
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* KlingonPromotion: Practised by the Parahuans in ''The Demon Breed''.
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* DecapitationPresentation: The expected conclusion of Elaigar ritual combat in "The Lion Game".
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--> "You've definitely been wrong about me," Telzey told him. "You didn't know enough. I've been a psi, a practising psi, for almost a year. I can go through a human life in an hour and know more about it than the man or woman who's living it. I've gone through quite a few lives, not only human ones. I do other things that I don't talk about. I don't know what it all exactly makes me now, but I'm not a child. Of course, I ''am'' sixteen years old and haven't been that very long. But it might even be that sometimes people like you and [[PrivateDetective Wellan Dasinger]] look a little like children to me. Do you understand?"
--> "You've definitely been wrong about me," Telzey told him. "You didn't know enough. I've been a psi, a practising psi, for almost a year. I can go through a human life in an hour and know more about it than the man or woman who's living it. I've gone through quite a few lives, not only human ones. I do other things that I don't talk about. I don't know what it all exactly makes me now, but I'm not a child. Of course, I ''am'' sixteen years old and haven't been that very long. But it might even be that sometimes people like you and [[PrivateDetective Wellan Dasinger]] look a little like children to me. Do you understand?"
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* DesignatedGirlFight: In "The Lion Game", the Alatta infiltrators have one female member and (initially) three male. When they challenge the Sattaram leaders to personal combat, it so happens that the battles align by gender; so Kolki Ming and Telzey get to face the female leader, Stiltik. [[UnderestimatingBadassery The Sattarams are certain that Stiltik will curbstomp them both]].
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* HumanAliens: Maulbow in "The Winds of Time" looks human, but his body chemistry is sufficiently different that human anaesthetic has no effect on him.
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* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: "A Nice Day For Screaming" has this in spades: the space itself is inherently hazardous, and then it turns out there are ''things'' living in it... [[spoiler: although they aren't malicious.]]
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** "A Nice Day For Screaming" has this in spades: the space itself is inherently hazardous, and then it turns out there are ''things'' living in it... [[spoiler: although they aren't malicious.]]]]
** "The Winds of Time" has the Great Current, which is a hyperspace-analogue for time travel. There are things living in it, too, and they don't welcome visitors.
** "A Nice Day For Screaming" has this in spades: the space itself is inherently hazardous, and then it turns out there are ''things'' living in it... [[spoiler: although they aren't malicious.
** "The Winds of Time" has the Great Current, which is a hyperspace-analogue for time travel. There are things living in it, too, and they don't welcome visitors.
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* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The Elaigar were created by the Grisands, a cult of [[MadScientist mad scientists]], as a race of psionic SuperSoldiers they could use to dominate their planet. It didn't end well for the Grisands.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Endemic among the Elaigar in "The Lion Game"; they're constantly jockeying for position among themselves, and not paying enough attention to outside threats.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: The oldest Sattaram Telzey meets in "The Lion Game" is the elderly, senile Korm; he's later revealed to be no more than twenty-four years old. The same applies to the other Sattarams: their joint leaders Stiltik and Boragost are seventeen and twenty, respectively.
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* CoolGate: In "The Lion Game"Game", the civilisation on Tinokti is based on a planet-spanning portal network. Concerns such as hotels consist of 'portal circuits', a set of linked buildings dotted all over the planet. The antagonists make full use of the technology; they also use a device called the 'Vingarran Gate' to teleport to and from their spaceships, which are out of range for Federation portals.
* CooperationGambit: In "The Lion Game", Telzey assists the Alatta leader Kolki Ming (who originally kidnapped her, and who has no intention of letting her escape) with her goal of taking control of the portal circuit and Vingarran Gate.
* CooperationGambit: In "The Lion Game", Telzey assists the Alatta leader Kolki Ming (who originally kidnapped her, and who has no intention of letting her escape) with her goal of taking control of the portal circuit and Vingarran Gate.
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Telzey does this in "Undercurrents"
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* OurGiantsAreBigger: One Federation member race is the Sparans, who grow to about eight feet tall. In "The Lion Game", the Elaigar are of similar size -- the Otessans and Alattas retain human proportions and (suitably disguised) can pass for Sparans, while the Sattaram leaders are much more massively built.
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* TeleFrag: In "Sleep No More"More": Telzey is being chased by a teleporting monster that homes in on her thoughts. She finds that by imagining a location, she can trick it into appearing there. So she projects the mental image of a cave in a nearby cliff. Except there isn't a cave in the cliff, and the monster materialises in solid rock.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Averted. Telzey's father is a highly wealthy and influential man, and her mother is on the Federation High Council... and neither one would have been able to do a damn thing to help fight the forces she's been up against, both official and otherwise,
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