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* DavidVersusGoliath: The only resources that Damien has to take down a corrupt government that is perfectly willing to blow up its own cities is the resistance made up of a bunch of ex-politicians, some gear smuggled in as part of a bigger conspiracy, and the access codes that he has from being a Hand.
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[[caption-width-right:328:He can stop a war.]]
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* TheDragon: Governor Vaughn has multiples of these with Mage Commodore Cor being his primary one and Brockton being his ground based one. [[spoiler: Brockton dies very early.]]
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* BigBad: Governor Vaughn is a corrupt tyrannical dictator who starts the book off by destroying an entire city.
* BullyingADragon: Governor Vaughn [[spoiler: kills a Hand and destroys her destroy despite the fact this will undoubtedly bring down the wrath of Mars. Damien shows why this is a bad idea.]]
* BullyingADragon: Governor Vaughn [[spoiler: kills a Hand and destroys her destroy despite the fact this will undoubtedly bring down the wrath of Mars. Damien shows why this is a bad idea.]]
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Every action Vaughn takes makes his situation progressively more severe.
* FalseFlagOperation: Governor Vaughn engages in a huge number of these like blaming the rebellion for the destruction of a rebelling city. It's so common that it actually undermines his attempts as they know he's a persistent liar.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Vaughn has weapons provided to him by Legatus. They later become the BigBad.
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* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler: Damien is elevated from an Envoy to a Hand after the death of his boss. Played with as he was already promoted but just didn't realize it.]]
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* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler: Damien is elevated from an Envoy to a Hand after the death of his boss. Played with as he was already promoted but just didn't realize it.]]
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'''Warning! {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s abound for ''Literature/StarshipsMageOmnibus''.'''
->''"No one on this planet really knows what it means for a Hand to go to war."''
-->-- '''Damien Montgomery'''
Following four years of training on Mars under the personal tutelage of the Mage-King himself, Damien Montgomery is ready to begin his training to become a Hand of the King. He is made an Envoy, allowed to carry the Voice of the Mage-King for a single mission, and sent to the planet Ardennes with the Hand Alaura Stealey to find the cause of the rebellion and put an end to it--one way or another.
They find a corrupt government staging violent terrorist attacks to make themselves look good by comparison. Not only that, but the Martian Navy in the system has turned traitor, a fact that Stealey only discovers when it is too late.
But when one Hand falls, another rises...
!!This book provides examples of:
* CurbStompBattle: Damien facing off against the Mage Enforcer, illustrating how much more powerful he's become since he left his home planet of Sherwood.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Governor Vaughn is perfectly willing to destroy one of his own cities to further his political goals. That there are some lines even he won't cross is rather terrifying.
* FantasticRacism: Mage-Commodore Cor believes that mundanes are inherently inferior to mages, which is part of the reason she goes along with the Governor's plans to kill so many of them. [[spoiler:In the end, she is killed by a mundane member of her own bridge crew after she kills one of her own mages in an attempt to save herself]].
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: Lori Armstrong's rebellion on Ardennes started as an opposition party that realized elections were being rigged by Mage-Governor Vaughn. The group attacks military targets and aims to back up the citizenry when it rebels against the corrupt government. [[spoiler: Vaughn chooses to destroy the liberated city himself rather than allow it to fall to the rebels.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:Cor's bridge crew stages a mutiny at the last second, executing her for sacrificing her own men to save herself. Their ship is destroyed before they have a chance to tell the loyalists they turned; they clearly didn't expect to survive either way, but they refused to die without taking out Cor]].
->''"No one on this planet really knows what it means for a Hand to go to war."''
-->-- '''Damien Montgomery'''
Following four years of training on Mars under the personal tutelage of the Mage-King himself, Damien Montgomery is ready to begin his training to become a Hand of the King. He is made an Envoy, allowed to carry the Voice of the Mage-King for a single mission, and sent to the planet Ardennes with the Hand Alaura Stealey to find the cause of the rebellion and put an end to it--one way or another.
They find a corrupt government staging violent terrorist attacks to make themselves look good by comparison. Not only that, but the Martian Navy in the system has turned traitor, a fact that Stealey only discovers when it is too late.
But when one Hand falls, another rises...
!!This book provides examples of:
* CurbStompBattle: Damien facing off against the Mage Enforcer, illustrating how much more powerful he's become since he left his home planet of Sherwood.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Governor Vaughn is perfectly willing to destroy one of his own cities to further his political goals. That there are some lines even he won't cross is rather terrifying.
* FantasticRacism: Mage-Commodore Cor believes that mundanes are inherently inferior to mages, which is part of the reason she goes along with the Governor's plans to kill so many of them. [[spoiler:In the end, she is killed by a mundane member of her own bridge crew after she kills one of her own mages in an attempt to save herself]].
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: Lori Armstrong's rebellion on Ardennes started as an opposition party that realized elections were being rigged by Mage-Governor Vaughn. The group attacks military targets and aims to back up the citizenry when it rebels against the corrupt government. [[spoiler: Vaughn chooses to destroy the liberated city himself rather than allow it to fall to the rebels.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:Cor's bridge crew stages a mutiny at the last second, executing her for sacrificing her own men to save herself. Their ship is destroyed before they have a chance to tell the loyalists they turned; they clearly didn't expect to survive either way, but they refused to die without taking out Cor]].
