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* RealityEnsues
** The protagonist gets to drive a HumongousMecha, which, contrary to its typical unrealistic depictions in other media, complies to the laws of physics. It takes a lot of time to speed up or to slow down, when walking fast you need a huge arc to turn around, and the acceleration of the appendages is limited by design, otherwise a sudden movement would lead to significant structural damage. It's a heavy construction equipment after all, not an acrobatics platform. Driving it feels almost like driving an ocean liner.
** Vehicles used in dangerous environments feature an emergency cryonic device, to preserve the people until help arrives and can dig them out. Instead of being a slap-on-the-wrist HumanPopsicle, it is definitely [[{{Squick}} not nice]]. To preserve the brain mostly intact, it has to be frozen with liquid nitrogen from all sides as quickly as possible, so tubes crash violently through the face and the jaws, to inject liquid nitrogen, shattering most of the skull in the process (while the victim is still alive and awake). All blood and other bodily fluids are quickly and violently purged from the body, to prevent crystallization. Even many decades later, when the technology for revival exists, it is not an easy task. Most of the victims do not survive at all, and the one they can save (in a very controlled, low-gravity environment), still requires extensive surgery, long recovery time, and suffers from severe memory loss.
** The explorers arrive to a star system showing signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Having only guesses and assumptions about the society and culture of the inhabitants, all attempts at communication end in misunderstandings.
* RiddleForTheAges: So was it Parvis or Pirx they woke up? There's a subtle hint that it probably was Parvis: his first name is Angus, suggesting a BraveScot, and later on P quotes Scotland's national motto ''Nemo me impune lacessit''. Then again, this is an appropriate (ish) BadassBoast, and you don't have to be Scottish to know it, so... On yet other side, the P was found in the exact same circumstances Parvis got vitrified (inside a mecha, next to another wrecked, empty mecha) and there was a wallet in his personal effects, just like we're explicitly shown Parvis carried. But! While the reader would know these things, the crew would have no way to learn them.
** The protagonist gets to drive a HumongousMecha, which, contrary to its typical unrealistic depictions in other media, complies to the laws of physics. It takes a lot of time to speed up or to slow down, when walking fast you need a huge arc to turn around, and the acceleration of the appendages is limited by design, otherwise a sudden movement would lead to significant structural damage. It's a heavy construction equipment after all, not an acrobatics platform. Driving it feels almost like driving an ocean liner.
** Vehicles used in dangerous environments feature an emergency cryonic device, to preserve the people until help arrives and can dig them out. Instead of being a slap-on-the-wrist HumanPopsicle, it is definitely [[{{Squick}} not nice]]. To preserve the brain mostly intact, it has to be frozen with liquid nitrogen from all sides as quickly as possible, so tubes crash violently through the face and the jaws, to inject liquid nitrogen, shattering most of the skull in the process (while the victim is still alive and awake). All blood and other bodily fluids are quickly and violently purged from the body, to prevent crystallization. Even many decades later, when the technology for revival exists, it is not an easy task. Most of the victims do not survive at all, and the one they can save (in a very controlled, low-gravity environment), still requires extensive surgery, long recovery time, and suffers from severe memory loss.
** The explorers arrive to a star system showing signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Having only guesses and assumptions about the society and culture of the inhabitants, all attempts at communication end in misunderstandings.
* RiddleForTheAges: So was it Parvis or Pirx they woke up? There's a subtle hint that it probably was Parvis: his first name is Angus, suggesting a BraveScot, and later on P quotes Scotland's national motto ''Nemo me impune lacessit''. Then again, this is an appropriate (ish) BadassBoast, and you don't have to be Scottish to know it, so... On yet other side, the P was found in the exact same circumstances Parvis got vitrified (inside a mecha, next to another wrecked, empty mecha) and there was a wallet in his personal effects, just like we're explicitly shown Parvis carried. But! While the reader would know these things, the crew would have no way to learn them.
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** The protagonist gets to drive a HumongousMecha, which, contrary to its typical unrealistic depictions in other media, complies to the laws of physics. It takes a lot of time to speed up or to slow down, when walking fast you need a huge arc to turn around, and the acceleration of the appendages is limited by design, otherwise a sudden movement would lead to significant structural damage. It's a heavy construction equipment after all, not an acrobatics platform. Driving it feels almost like driving an ocean liner.
** Vehicles used in dangerous environments feature an emergency cryonic device, to preserve the people until help arrives and can dig them out. Instead of being a slap-on-the-wrist HumanPopsicle, it is definitely [[{{Squick}} not nice]]. To preserve the brain mostly intact, it has to be frozen with liquid nitrogen from all sides as quickly as possible, so tubes crash violently through the face and the jaws, to inject liquid nitrogen, shattering most of the skull in the process (while the victim is still alive and awake). All blood and other bodily fluids are quickly and violently purged from the body, to prevent crystallization. Even many decades later, when the technology for revival exists, it is not an easy task. Most of the victims do not survive at all, and the one they can save (in a very controlled, low-gravity environment), still requires extensive surgery, long recovery time, and suffers from severe memory loss.
** The explorers arrive to a star system showing signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Having only guesses and assumptions about the society and culture of the inhabitants, all attempts at communication end in misunderstandings.
* RiddleForTheAges: So was it Parvis or Pirx they woke up? There's a subtle hint that it probably was Parvis: his first name is Angus, suggesting a BraveScot, and later on P quotes Scotland's national motto ''Nemo me impune lacessit''. Then again, this is an appropriate (ish) BadassBoast, and you don't have to be Scottish to know it, so... On yet other side, the P was found in the exact same circumstances Parvis got vitrified (inside a mecha, next to another wrecked, empty mecha) and there was a wallet in his personal effects, just like we're explicitly shown Parvis carried. But! While the reader would know these things, the crew would have no way to learn them.
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** The protagonist gets to drive a HumongousMecha, which, contrary to its typical unrealistic depictions in other media, complies to the laws of physics. It takes a lot of time to speed up or to slow down, when walking fast you need a huge arc to turn around, and the acceleration of the appendages is limited by design, otherwise a sudden movement would lead to significant structural damage. It's a heavy construction equipment after all, not an acrobatics platform. Driving it feels almost like driving an ocean liner.
** Vehicles used in dangerous environments feature an emergency cryonic device, to preserve the people until help arrives and can dig them out. Instead of being a slap-on-the-wrist HumanPopsicle, it is definitely [[{{Squick}} not nice]]. To preserve the brain mostly intact, it has to be frozen with liquid nitrogen from all sides as quickly as possible, so tubes crash violently through the face and the jaws, to inject liquid nitrogen, shattering most of the skull in the process (while the victim is still alive and awake). All blood and other bodily fluids are quickly and violently purged from the body, to prevent crystallization. Even many decades later, when the technology for revival exists, it is not an easy task. Most of the victims do not survive at all, and the one they can save (in a very controlled, low-gravity environment), still requires extensive surgery, long recovery time, and suffers from severe memory loss.
** The explorers arrive to a star system showing signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Having only guesses and assumptions about the society and culture of the inhabitants, all attempts at communication end in misunderstandings.
* RiddleForTheAges: So was it Parvis or Pirx they woke up? There's a subtle hint that it probably was Parvis: his first name is Angus, suggesting a BraveScot, and later on P quotes Scotland's national motto ''Nemo me impune lacessit''. Then again, this is an appropriate (ish) BadassBoast, and you don't have to be Scottish to know it, so... On yet other side, the P was found in the exact same circumstances Parvis got vitrified (inside a mecha, next to another wrecked, empty mecha) and there was a wallet in his personal effects, just like we're explicitly shown Parvis carried. But! While the reader would know these things, the crew would have no way to learn them.
** The protagonist gets to drive a HumongousMecha, which, contrary to its typical unrealistic depictions in other media, complies to the laws of physics. It takes a lot of time to speed up or to slow down, when walking fast you need a huge arc to turn around, and the acceleration of the appendages is limited by design, otherwise a sudden movement would lead to significant structural damage. It's a heavy construction equipment after all, not an acrobatics platform. Driving it feels almost like driving an ocean liner.
** Vehicles used in dangerous environments feature an emergency cryonic device, to preserve the people until help arrives and can dig them out. Instead of being a slap-on-the-wrist HumanPopsicle, it is definitely [[{{Squick}} not nice]]. To preserve the brain mostly intact, it has to be frozen with liquid nitrogen from all sides as quickly as possible, so tubes crash violently through the face and the jaws, to inject liquid nitrogen, shattering most of the skull in the process (while the victim is still alive and awake). All blood and other bodily fluids are quickly and violently purged from the body, to prevent crystallization. Even many decades later, when the technology for revival exists, it is not an easy task. Most of the victims do not survive at all, and the one they can save (in a very controlled, low-gravity environment), still requires extensive surgery, long recovery time, and suffers from severe memory loss.
** The explorers arrive to a star system showing signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Having only guesses and assumptions about the society and culture of the inhabitants, all attempts at communication end in misunderstandings.
* RiddleForTheAges: So was it Parvis or Pirx they woke up? There's a subtle hint that it probably was Parvis: his first name is Angus, suggesting a BraveScot, and later on P quotes Scotland's national motto ''Nemo me impune lacessit''. Then again, this is an appropriate (ish) BadassBoast, and you don't have to be Scottish to know it, so... On yet other side, the P was found in the exact same circumstances Parvis got vitrified (inside a mecha, next to another wrecked, empty mecha) and there was a wallet in his personal effects, just like we're explicitly shown Parvis carried. But! While the reader would know these things, the crew would have no way to learn them.
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* AmnesiacHero: P/Mark Tempe. This is TraumaInducedAmnesia after having been [[HumanPopsicle frozen and restored]], and while he [[IdentityAmnesia doesn't remember who exactly he was before]], he retains his technical expertise, piloting skills and [[TheStoic calm personality]].
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* AmnesiacHero: P/Mark Tempe. This is Tempe suffers from TraumaInducedAmnesia after having been [[HumanPopsicle frozen and restored]], and while he [[IdentityAmnesia doesn't remember who exactly he was before]], he retains his technical expertise, piloting skills and [[TheStoic calm personality]].
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* RiddleForTheAges: So was it Parvis or Pirx they woke up? There's a subtle hint that it probably was Parvis: his first name is Angus, suggesting a BraveScot, and later on P quotes Scotland's national motto ''Nemo me impune lacessit''. Then again, this is an appropriate (ish) BadassBoast, and you don't have to be Scottish to know it, so... On yet other side, the P was found in the exact same circumstances Parvis got vitrified (inside a mecha, next to another wrecked, empty mecha) and there was a wallet in his personal effects, just like we're explicitly shor shown Parvis carried. But! While the reader would know these things, the crew would have no way to learn them.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pirx's friend in the begginning comments on how similar Parvis is to Pirx. The words "he has the same eyes" are used. Also the ShowWithinAShow holodeck fictions the crew members peruse all seem to be about weird worlds and complete failures (the very first one has an UndeadNarrator explained away as some sort of a lens system allowing a distant observer to see all that happened).
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pirx's friend in the begginning comments on how similar Parvis is to Pirx. The words "he has the same eyes" are used. Also the ShowWithinAShow holodeck fictions the crew members peruse all seem to be about weird worlds and complete failures (the very first one has an UndeadNarrator UndeadAuthor explained away as some sort of a lens system allowing a distant observer to see all that happened).happened, so the narrator of the FramingStory can tell it to his guests).
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pirx's friend in the begginning comments on how similar Parvis is to Pirx. The words "he has the same eyes" are used.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pirx's friend in the begginning comments on how similar Parvis is to Pirx. The words "he has the same eyes" are used. Also the ShowWithinAShow holodeck fictions the crew members peruse all seem to be about weird worlds and complete failures (the very first one has an UndeadNarrator explained away as some sort of a lens system allowing a distant observer to see all that happened).
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* GenreShift: A sci-fi story interspersed with fiction the characters happen to be reading (or perusing on their {{Holodeck}}). And all this fiction is best described as subtly strange and vaguely horrifying.
* GreyGoo: Quintans use it to destroy things. Probably.
* GreyGoo: Quintans use it to destroy things. Probably.
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* GenreShift: A sci-fi story interspersed with fiction the characters happen to be reading (or perusing on their {{Holodeck}}). And all this fiction is best described as subtly strange and vaguely horrifying.
horrifying. And [[{{Foreshadowing}} oddly, if not at a first glance, appropriate]].
* GreyGoo: Quintans use it to destroythings.things they dislike. Probably.
* GreyGoo: Quintans use it to destroy
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It can be said of the whole crew, but the P in particular. See above.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It can be said of the whole crew, but the P in particular. See above.
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* MotionCaptureMecha: The Diglators, with the pilot in an ultra high-tech harness inside
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It can be said of the wholecrew, crew (heck, the entire ''human race''), but the P in particular. See above.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It can be said of the whole
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* RiddleForTheAges: So was it Parvis or Pirx they woke up? There's a subtle hint that it probably was Parvis: his first name is Angus, suggesting a BraveScot, and later on P quotes Scotland's national motto ''Nemo me impune lacessit''. Then again, this is an appropriate (ish) BadassBoast, and you don't have to be Scottish to know it, so... On yet other side, the P was found in the exact same circumstances Parvis got vitrified (inside a mecha, next to another wrecked, empty mecha) and there was a wallet in his personal effects, just like we're explicitly shor Parvis carried. But! While the reader would know these things, the crew would have no way to learn them.
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* AmnesiacHero: Mark. This is TraumaInducedAmnesia after having been [[HumanPopsicle frozen and restored]], and while he [[IdentityAmnesia doesn't remember who exactly he was before]], he retains his technical expertise, piloting skills and [[TheStoic calm personality]].
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* AmnesiacHero: Mark.P/Mark Tempe. This is TraumaInducedAmnesia after having been [[HumanPopsicle frozen and restored]], and while he [[IdentityAmnesia doesn't remember who exactly he was before]], he retains his technical expertise, piloting skills and [[TheStoic calm personality]].
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* EpicFail: Starting with the beginning, where Parvis performs a highly skilled, impressive landing on a difficult landing pad - and is promptly informed that he was given wrong directions and ought to have landed in the other base (there are two bases on Titan, because of bureaucracy and petty rivalries). Throughout the book, incredibly cool technology does squat to prevent increasingly serious failures of judgement.
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* AmnesiacHero: Mark. This is TraumaInducedAmnesia after having been [[HumanPopsickle frozen and restored]], and while he [[IdentityAmnesia doesn't remember who exactly he was before]], he retains his technical expertise, piloting skills and [[TheStoic calm personality]].
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* AmnesiacHero: Mark. This is TraumaInducedAmnesia after having been [[HumanPopsickle [[HumanPopsicle frozen and restored]], and while he [[IdentityAmnesia doesn't remember who exactly he was before]], he retains his technical expertise, piloting skills and [[TheStoic calm personality]].
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* GenreShift: A sci-fi story interspersed with fiction the characters happen to be reading. And all this fiction is best described as subtly strange and vaguely horrifying.
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* SadisticChoice: Only there's no villain to enforce it - the doctors have to decide which of the two preserved brains they will reanimate, in complete absence of any objective criteria for picking one and not the other.
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: The crew resorts to ''blowing up the Quintan moon'' in a desperate attempt to communicate. [[spoiler: Later they blow up the planet itself, because the P didn't report on time and they think he's been captured - he actually got to engrossed in what he was doing and forgot.]]
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: The crew resorts to ''blowing up the Quintan moon'' in a desperate attempt to communicate. [[spoiler: Later they blow up the planet itself, because the P didn't report on time and they think he's been captured - he actually got to so engrossed in what he was doing and that he forgot.]]
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Many years later, a huge starship is sent to a distant system to carry out a historical mission: to contact an alien civilisation which was discovered there. During the launch preparations, the fatal geyser region of Titan is cleared, and bodies of those lost are uncovered. Only one person, however, can be brought back to life; his identity can be narrowed down to "either Pirx or Parvis". Regardless of his identity, the resurrected man joins the crew and plays a crucial role in the mission.
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Many years later, a huge starship is sent to a distant system to carry out a historical mission: to contact an alien civilisation which was discovered there. During the launch preparations, the fatal geyser region of Titan is cleared, and bodies of those lost are uncovered. Only one person, however, can be brought back to life; his identity can only be narrowed down to "either Pirx or Parvis". Parvis" (also, a lot of material found is used for spare parts, so physically speaking, the guy might be both and neither. [[{{Squick}} Sweet dreams]].). Regardless of his identity, who he is, the resurrected man joins the crew and plays a crucial role in the mission.
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* HumongousMecha: The walkers, which actually are [[MundaneUtility construction vehicles]].
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* HumongousMecha: The walkers, Diglators, which actually are [[MundaneUtility construction vehicles]].
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Many years later, a huge starship is sent to a distant system to carry out a historical mission: to contact an alien civilisation which was discovered there. During the launch preparations, the fatal geyser region of Titan is cleared, and bodies of those lost are uncovered. Only one person, however, can be brought back to life; his identity can be narrowed down to no more than "either Pirx or Parvis". Regardless of who he is, his identity, the resurrected man joins the crew and plays a crucial role in the mission.
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''Fiasco'' is one of the later novels by Creator/StanislawLem, and yet another concerning the issues of FirstContact. It is also the last time when we meet [[Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot Pirx the Pilot]].
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''Fiasco'' is one of the later novels by Creator/StanislawLem, and yet another concerning the issues of FirstContact. It is also the last time when we meet (ish) [[Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot Pirx the Pilot]].
Pilot]] - because it's built up on an earlier, unfinished story that had him as the protagonist.
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* CabinFever: The tension on board of Hermes grows steadily higher, worsened by each consecutive failure.
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* CabinFever: The tension on board of Hermes ''Hermes'' grows steadily higher, worsened by each consecutive failure.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pirx's friend in the begginning comments on how similar Parvis is to Pirx. The words "he has the same eyes" are used.
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* WeCanRebuildHim: The P is a CompositeCharacter in a most literal way -- there's two bodies in good shape, enough material for one man, but at the cost of dismantling the other body. He never actually remembers who he was and gradually starts to refer to himself (and be reffered to) as Mark Tempe.
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* WeCanRebuildHim: The P is a CompositeCharacter in a most literal way -- there's two bodies in fairly good shape, enough material for one man, but at the cost of dismantling the other body. He never actually remembers who he was and gradually starts to refer to himself (and be reffered to) as Mark Tempe.
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* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Characters note the tendency of planetographers and plannists to call things after it.
* ContinuityNod: Parvis' mission to rescue his mentor, the titular character of ''Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot''.
* CoolStarship: Two of these: the smaller ship ''Hermes'' for the actual exploring and contacting, and a mothership ''Eurydice'' that waits in a black hole's gravity well for its return. They use {{ramscoop}} propulsion and were launched from Titan by a battery of lasers.
* ContinuityNod: Parvis' mission to rescue his mentor, the titular character of ''Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot''.
* CoolStarship: Two of these: the smaller ship ''Hermes'' for the actual exploring and contacting, and a mothership ''Eurydice'' that waits in a black hole's gravity well for its return. They use {{ramscoop}} propulsion and were launched from Titan by a battery of lasers.
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Pirx's friend laments that he promised not to go rescue anyone and promptly broke the promise. His co-worker wearily explains it had been obvious from the very start what Pirx would do, and they both try to dissuade Parvis from following - which he, of course, does.
* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Characters note the tendency of planetographers and plannists tocall name things after it.
* ContinuityNod:Parvis' mission Parvis sets off to rescue his mentor, the titular character of ''Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot''.
* CoolStarship: Two of these: the smaller ship ''Hermes'' for the actual exploring and contacting, and a mothership ''Eurydice'' that waits in a black hole's gravity well for its return. They use {{ramscoop}} propulsion and were launched from Titan by a [[SolarSail battery oflasers.lasers]].
* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Characters note the tendency of planetographers and plannists to
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* CoolStarship: Two of these: the smaller ship ''Hermes'' for the actual exploring and contacting, and a mothership ''Eurydice'' that waits in a black hole's gravity well for its return. They use {{ramscoop}} propulsion and were launched from Titan by a [[SolarSail battery of
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* GenreShift: A sci-fi story interspersed with fiction the characters happen to be reading. And all this fiction is best described as NewWeird.subtly strange and vaguely horrifying.
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* ContinuityNod: Parvis' mission to rescue the title character of ''Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot''.
* CoolStarship: actually two, the smaller ship meant to do the diplomatic work, and a mothership that waits in a black hole's gravity well for its return. They use {{ramscoop}} propulsion and were launched from Titan by a battery of lasers.
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* CabinFever: The tension on board of Hermes grows steadily higher, worsened by each consecutive failure.
* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Characters note the tendency of planetographers and plannists to call things after it.
* ContinuityNod: Parvis' mission to rescue his mentor, thetitle titular character of ''Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot''.
* CoolStarship:actually two, Two of these: the smaller ship meant to do ''Hermes'' for the diplomatic work, actual exploring and contacting, and a mothership ''Eurydice'' that waits in a black hole's gravity well for its return. They use {{ramscoop}} propulsion and were launched from Titan by a battery of lasers.
* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Characters note the tendency of planetographers and plannists to call things after it.
* ContinuityNod: Parvis' mission to rescue his mentor, the
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* DoABarrelRoll: to deal with the Quintan anti-spaceship weapon, the ship does a barrel roll ''through a sun's corona''.
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* DoABarrelRoll: to deal with the Quintan anti-spaceship weapon, the ship does a barrel roll ''through a sun's corona''.
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DistantPrologue: Parvis's rescue mission occurs about two and a half century before the FirstContact mission.
* DoABarrelRoll:to To deal with the Quintan anti-spaceship weapon, the ship does a barrel roll ''through a sun's corona''.
*EarthShatteringKaboomEarthShatteringKaboom: The crew resorts to ''blowing up the Quintan moon'' in a desperate attempt to communicate. [[spoiler: Later they blow up the planet itself, because the P didn't report on time and they think he's been captured - he actually got to engrossed in what he was doing and forgot.]]
* DoABarrelRoll:
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* HumanPopsicle: The vitrification.
* HumansAreBastards: Even if unintentionally.
* HumanPopsicle: The vitrification.
* HumansAreBastards: Even if unintentionally.
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* GenreShift: The A sci-fi story suddenly switches to some extracts of an adventure novel interspersed with fiction the main character characters happen to be reading. And all this fiction is reading in the story.
best described as NewWeird.
* HumanPopsicle:The vitrification.
Vitrification is an emergency procedure, extremely painful, damaging and unreliable - but better than nothing.
* HumansAreBastards:Even if unintentionally.More like, Humans Turn Oddly Violent When Frustrated. They also accuse the aliens of bastardry.
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* KillSat: The humans [[GunboatDiplomacy try a big stick]] when speaking softly failed. Just, so to say, overdo it in scale.
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* MinovskyPhysics: The properties of black holes. Human ability to grasp them turns out to be major plot device.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It can be said of the whole crew, but the P in particular.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It can be said of the whole crew, but the P in particular.
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* MinovskyPhysics: The properties of black holes. Human humans' ability to grasp them turns make gravity their puppy is behind much of their tech, but Quintans apparently don't have it and it can't fall into their hands. Because it may turn out to be major plot device.
that AliensAreBastards.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It can be said of the whole crew, but the P in particular. See above.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It can be said of the whole crew, but the P in particular. See above.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: The novel can be described as an in-depth exploration of the concept of EpicFail -— so many completely avoidable and generally meaningless failures happen there.
* StarfishAliens: The Quintans. Discussed once the humans force them to open contact by emitting images of humanoids on clouds. The real shapes of the aliens are revealed only at the last moment. Mentally, they are staunchly isolationist, but the reason for that is hardly inhuman: the humans conclude they're [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything divided into two blocs locked in a cold war]], and the governments of both cover up their arrival in fear of it being exploited by the other bloc.
* WeCanRebuildHim: The P is a CompositeCharacter in a most literal way -- there's two bodies in good shape, enough material for one man, but at the cost of dismantling the other body. He's got quite an identity problem afterwards.
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Humans come in peace to establish contact with Quintans. The aliens are passive-aggressive about the idea. [[GunboatDiplomacy The humans insist]].
* StarfishAliens: The Quintans. Discussed once the humans force them to open contact by emitting images of humanoids on clouds. The real shapes of the aliens are revealed only at the last moment. Mentally, they are staunchly isolationist, but the reason for that is hardly inhuman: the humans conclude they're [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything divided into two blocs locked in a cold war]], and the governments of both cover up their arrival in fear of it being exploited by the other bloc.
* WeCanRebuildHim: The P is a CompositeCharacter in a most literal way -- there's two bodies in good shape, enough material for one man, but at the cost of dismantling the other body. He's got quite an identity problem afterwards.
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Humans come in peace to establish contact with Quintans. The aliens are passive-aggressive about the idea. [[GunboatDiplomacy The humans insist]].
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: The novel can be described as an in-depth exploration of the concept of EpicFail -— so many completely avoidable and generally meaningless failures happen there.
there. [[spoiler: Oh, and TheHeroDies.]]
* StarfishAliens: The Quintans. Discussed once the humans force themto open into contact by emitting images of humanoids on clouds. The real shapes of the aliens are revealed (maybe?) only at the last moment. Mentally, they are staunchly isolationist, but the reason for that is hardly inhuman: the humans conclude they're [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything divided into two blocs locked in a cold war]], and the governments of both cover up their arrival in fear of it being exploited by the other bloc.
bloc. Of course, that's an educated guess backed up by game theory and some arbitrary assumptions.
* WeCanRebuildHim: The P is a CompositeCharacter in a most literal way -- there's two bodies in good shape, enough material for one man, but at the cost of dismantling the other body.He's got quite an identity problem afterwards.
He never actually remembers who he was and gradually starts to refer to himself (and be reffered to) as Mark Tempe.
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Humans come in peace to establish contact with Quintans. The aliens are passive-aggressive about the idea. [[GunboatDiplomacy The humans insist]]. [[spoiler: In the end, they blow the whole planet up.]]
* StarfishAliens: The Quintans. Discussed once the humans force them
* WeCanRebuildHim: The P is a CompositeCharacter in a most literal way -- there's two bodies in good shape, enough material for one man, but at the cost of dismantling the other body.
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Humans come in peace to establish contact with Quintans. The aliens are passive-aggressive about the idea. [[GunboatDiplomacy The humans insist]]. [[spoiler: In the end, they blow the whole planet up.]]
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* RealityEnsues
** The protagonist gets to drive a HumongousMecha, which, contrary to its typical unrealistic depictions in other media, complies to the laws of physics. It takes a lot of time to speed up or to slow down, when walking fast you need a huge arc to turn around, and the acceleration of the appendages is limited by design, otherwise a sudden movement would lead to significant structural damage. It's a heavy construction equipment after all, not an acrobatics platform. Driving it feels almost like driving an ocean liner.
** Vehicles used in dangerous environments feature an emergency cryonic device, to preserve the people until help arrives and can dig them out. Instead of being a slap-on-the-wrist HumanPopsicle, it is definitely [[{{Squick}} not nice]]. To preserve the brain mostly intact, it has to be frozen with liquid nitrogen from all sides as quickly as possible, so tubes crash violently through the face and the jaws, to inject liquid nitrogen, shattering most of the skull in the process (while the victim is still alive and awake). All blood and other bodily fluids are quickly and violently purged from the body, to prevent crystallization. Even many decades later, when the technology for revival exists, it is not an easy task. Most of the victims do not survive at all, and the one they can save (in a very controlled, low-gravity environment), still requires extensive surgery, long recovery time, and suffers from severe memory loss.
** The explorers arrive to a star system showing signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Having only guesses and assumptions about the society and culture of the inhabitants, all attempts at communication end in misunderstandings.
** The protagonist gets to drive a HumongousMecha, which, contrary to its typical unrealistic depictions in other media, complies to the laws of physics. It takes a lot of time to speed up or to slow down, when walking fast you need a huge arc to turn around, and the acceleration of the appendages is limited by design, otherwise a sudden movement would lead to significant structural damage. It's a heavy construction equipment after all, not an acrobatics platform. Driving it feels almost like driving an ocean liner.
** Vehicles used in dangerous environments feature an emergency cryonic device, to preserve the people until help arrives and can dig them out. Instead of being a slap-on-the-wrist HumanPopsicle, it is definitely [[{{Squick}} not nice]]. To preserve the brain mostly intact, it has to be frozen with liquid nitrogen from all sides as quickly as possible, so tubes crash violently through the face and the jaws, to inject liquid nitrogen, shattering most of the skull in the process (while the victim is still alive and awake). All blood and other bodily fluids are quickly and violently purged from the body, to prevent crystallization. Even many decades later, when the technology for revival exists, it is not an easy task. Most of the victims do not survive at all, and the one they can save (in a very controlled, low-gravity environment), still requires extensive surgery, long recovery time, and suffers from severe memory loss.
** The explorers arrive to a star system showing signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Having only guesses and assumptions about the society and culture of the inhabitants, all attempts at communication end in misunderstandings.
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* StarfishAliens: The Quintans. Discussed once the humans force them to open contact by emitting images of humanoids on clouds. The real shapes of the aliens are revealed only at the last moment.
** Mentally, they are staunchly isolationist, but the reason for that is hardly inhuman: the humans conclude they're [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything divided into two blocs locked in a cold war]], and the governments of both cover up their arrival in fear of it being exploited by the other bloc.
** Mentally, they are staunchly isolationist, but the reason for that is hardly inhuman: the humans conclude they're [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything divided into two blocs locked in a cold war]], and the governments of both cover up their arrival in fear of it being exploited by the other bloc.
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* StarfishAliens: The Quintans. Discussed once the humans force them to open contact by emitting images of humanoids on clouds. The real shapes of the aliens are revealed only at the last moment.
**moment. Mentally, they are staunchly isolationist, but the reason for that is hardly inhuman: the humans conclude they're [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything divided into two blocs locked in a cold war]], and the governments of both cover up their arrival in fear of it being exploited by the other bloc.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: The novel can be described as an in-depth exploration of the concept of "epic fail" -— so many completely avoidable and generally meaningless failures happen there.
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* HumongousMecha: The walkers, which actually are construction vehicles.
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The story initially follows Parvis, a young pilot on the Saturn's moon Titan, who despite warnings against that, ventures in his walker into the dangerous region of methane geysers to look for missing people, among them famous veteran pilot Pirx. He fails, and is forced to use the emergency procedure of vitrification.
Many years later, a huge starship is sent to a distant system to carry out a historical mission: to contact an alien civilisation discovered there. During the launch preparation, the fatal geyser region of Titan is cleared, and bodies of those lost are uncovered. Only one person, however, can be brought back to life; his identity can be narrowed to no more than "either Pirx or Parvis". Regardless of who he is, the resurrected man joins the crew and plays a crucial role in the mission.
Many years later, a huge starship is sent to a distant system to carry out a historical mission: to contact an alien civilisation discovered there. During the launch preparation, the fatal geyser region of Titan is cleared, and bodies of those lost are uncovered. Only one person, however, can be brought back to life; his identity can be narrowed to no more than "either Pirx or Parvis". Regardless of who he is, the resurrected man joins the crew and plays a crucial role in the mission.
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The story initially follows Parvis, a young pilot on the Saturn's moon Titan, who despite Titan. In spite of multiple warnings against doing that, he ventures in his walker into the dangerous region of methane geysers to look for people who went missing people, there, among them famous veteran pilot Pirx. He fails, and is forced to use the emergency procedure of vitrification.
Many years later, a huge starship is sent to a distant system to carry out a historical mission: to contact an alien civilisation which was discovered there. During the launchpreparation, preparations, the fatal geyser region of Titan is cleared, and bodies of those lost are uncovered. Only one person, however, can be brought back to life; his identity can be narrowed to no more than "either Pirx or Parvis". Regardless of who he is, the resurrected man joins the crew and plays a crucial role in the mission.
Many years later, a huge starship is sent to a distant system to carry out a historical mission: to contact an alien civilisation which was discovered there. During the launch
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* NobleProfession: The Jesuit priest is the voice of conscience in the crew. This also marks the change that happened over the years in Lem's writing, that he set a priest in such a role.
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* NobleProfession: The Jesuit priest is the voice of conscience in the crew. This also The fact that Lem set a priest in such a role marks the change that happened over the years in Lem's writing, that he set a priest in such a role.his writing; some of his earlier works had noticeable jabs at religion.
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* ContinuityNod: Parvis' mission to rescue the titular character of ''Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot''.
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* ContinuityNod: Parvis' mission to rescue the titular title character of ''Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot''.
* DeusEstMachina: The [[FunWithAcronyms Digital Engrammic Universal System]] (called the General Operational Device in the original) from ''Fiasco''. [[LampshadeHanging One character notes that the acronym was probably intentional]].
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* FirstContact: with the Quintan civilisation. [[EpicFail Two words]] are enough to describe the result.
* FunWithAcronyms: the Digital Engrammic Universal System (called the General Operational Device in the original), the ship's quantum computer.
* HumanPopsicle: the vitrification.
* HumansAreBastards: even if unintentionally.
* HumongousMecha: the walkers, which actually are construction vehicles.
* KillSat: the humans [[GunboatDiplomacy try a big stick]] when speaking softly failed. Just, so to say, overdo it in scale.
* FunWithAcronyms: the Digital Engrammic Universal System (called the General Operational Device in the original), the ship's quantum computer.
* HumanPopsicle: the vitrification.
* HumansAreBastards: even if unintentionally.
* HumongousMecha: the walkers, which actually are construction vehicles.
* KillSat: the humans [[GunboatDiplomacy try a big stick]] when speaking softly failed. Just, so to say, overdo it in scale.
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* FirstContact: with With the Quintan civilisation. [[EpicFail Two words]] are enough to describe the result.
* FunWithAcronyms:the The Digital Engrammic Universal System (called the General Operational Device in the original), the ship's quantum computer.
* GenreShift: The sci-fi story suddenly switches to some extracts of an adventure novel the main character is reading in the story.
* HumanPopsicle:the The vitrification.
* HumansAreBastards:even Even if unintentionally.
* HumongousMecha:the The walkers, which actually are construction vehicles.
* KillSat:the The humans [[GunboatDiplomacy try a big stick]] when speaking softly failed. Just, so to say, overdo it in scale.
* FunWithAcronyms:
* GenreShift: The sci-fi story suddenly switches to some extracts of an adventure novel the main character is reading in the story.
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* HumansAreBastards:
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* MinovskyPhysics: the properties of black holes. Human ability to grasp them turns out to be major plot device.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: it can be said of the whole crew, but the P in particular.
* NobleProfession: the Jesuit priest is the voice of conscience in the crew. This also marks the change that happened over the years in Lem's writing, that he set a priest in such a role.
* OnlySaneMan: dual role -- the P (who seems to have the practical common sense of Pirx) and the Jesuit priest. Though the former's good ideas turn out to have unintended consequences...
* ShootTheShaggyDog: the novel can be described as an in-depth exploration of the concept of "epic fail" -— so many completely avoidable and generally meaningless failures happen there.
* StarfishAliens: the Quintans. Discussed once the humans force them to open contact by emitting images of humanoids on clouds. The real shapes of the aliens are revealed only at the last moment.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: it can be said of the whole crew, but the P in particular.
* NobleProfession: the Jesuit priest is the voice of conscience in the crew. This also marks the change that happened over the years in Lem's writing, that he set a priest in such a role.
* OnlySaneMan: dual role -- the P (who seems to have the practical common sense of Pirx) and the Jesuit priest. Though the former's good ideas turn out to have unintended consequences...
* ShootTheShaggyDog: the novel can be described as an in-depth exploration of the concept of "epic fail" -— so many completely avoidable and generally meaningless failures happen there.
* StarfishAliens: the Quintans. Discussed once the humans force them to open contact by emitting images of humanoids on clouds. The real shapes of the aliens are revealed only at the last moment.
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* MinovskyPhysics: the The properties of black holes. Human ability to grasp them turns out to be major plot device.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:it It can be said of the whole crew, but the P in particular.
* NobleProfession:the The Jesuit priest is the voice of conscience in the crew. This also marks the change that happened over the years in Lem's writing, that he set a priest in such a role.
* OnlySaneMan:dual Dual role -- the P (who seems to have the practical common sense of Pirx) and the Jesuit priest. Though the former's good ideas turn out to have unintended consequences...
* ShootTheShaggyDog:the The novel can be described as an in-depth exploration of the concept of "epic fail" -— so many completely avoidable and generally meaningless failures happen there.
* StarfishAliens:the The Quintans. Discussed once the humans force them to open contact by emitting images of humanoids on clouds. The real shapes of the aliens are revealed only at the last moment.
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* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: humans come in peace to establish contact with Quintans. The aliens are passive-aggressive about the idea. [[GunboatDiplomacy The humans insist]].
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: humans come in peace to establish contact with Quintans. The aliens are passive-aggressive about the idea. [[GunboatDiplomacy The humans insist]].
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* WeCanRebuildHim: the The P is a CompositeCharacter in a most literal way -- there's two bodies in good shape, enough material for one man, but at the cost of dismantling the other body. He's got quite an identity problem afterwards.
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill:humans Humans come in peace to establish contact with Quintans. The aliens are passive-aggressive about the idea. [[GunboatDiplomacy The humans insist]].insist]].
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''Fiasco'' is one of the later novels by [[StanislawLem Stanislaw Lem]], Creator/StanislawLem, and yet another concerning the issues of FirstContact. It is also the last time when we meet [[Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot Pirx the Pilot]].
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* StarfishAliens: the Quintans. Discussed once the humans force them to open contact by emitting images of humanoids on clouds. The real shapes of the aliens are revealed only at the last moment.
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Many years later, a huge starship is sent to a distant system to carry out a historical mission: to contact an alien civilisation discovered there. During the launch preparation, the fatal geyser region of Titan is cleared, and bodies of those lost are uncovered. Only one person, however, can be brought back to life; his identity can be narrowed to no more than "either Pirx or Parvis".
Parvis". Regardless of who he is, the resurrected man joins the crew and plays a crucial role in the mission.
* CoolStarship: actually two, the smaller ship meant to do the diplomatic work, and a mothership that waits in a black hole's gravity well for its return. They use {{ramscoop}} propulsion and were launched from Titan by a battery of lasers.
* DoABarrelRoll: to deal with the Quintan anti-spaceship weapon, the ship does a barrel roll ''through a sun's corona''.
* [[spoiler:EarthShatteringKaboom]]
* DoABarrelRoll: to deal with the Quintan anti-spaceship weapon, the ship does a barrel roll ''through a sun's corona''.
* [[spoiler:EarthShatteringKaboom]]
* KillSat: the humans [[GunboatDiplomacy try a big stick]] when speaking softly failed. Just, so to say, overdo it in scale.
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* StarfishAliens: the Quintans. Discussed once the humans force them to open contact by emitting images of humanoids on clouds. The real shapes of the aliens are revealed only at the last moment.
** Mentally, they are staunchly isolationist, but the reason for that is hardly inhuman: the humans conclude they're [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything divided into two blocs locked in a cold war]], and the governments of both cover up their arrival in fear of it being exploited by the other bloc.
** Mentally, they are staunchly isolationist, but the reason for that is hardly inhuman: the humans conclude they're [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything divided into two blocs locked in a cold war]], and the governments of both cover up their arrival in fear of it being exploited by the other bloc.
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* OnlySaneMan: dual role -- the P (who seems to have the practical common sense of Pirx) and the Jesuit priest.
* NobleProfession: the Jesuit priest is the voice of conscience in the crew. This also marks the change that happened over the years in Lem's writing.
* OnlySaneMan: dual role -- the P (who seems to have the practical common sense of Pirx) and the Jesuit priest.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero
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* NobleProfession: the Jesuit priest is the voice of conscience in the crew. This also marks the change that happened over the years in Lem'swriting.
writing, that he set a priest in such a role.
* OnlySaneMan: dual role -- the P (who seems to have the practical common sense of Pirx) and the Jesuit priest. Though the former's good ideas turn out to have unintended consequences...
* NobleProfession: the Jesuit priest is the voice of conscience in the crew. This also marks the change that happened over the years in Lem's
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* ContinuityNod: Parvis' mission to rescue the titular character of ''TalesOfPirxThePilot''.
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''Fiasco'' is one of the later novels by [[StanislawLem Stanislaw Lem]], and yet another concerning the issues of FirstContact. It is also the last time when we meet [[TalesOfPirxThePilot [[Literature/TalesOfPirxThePilot Pirx the Pilot]].
