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* NobleDemon: Vajra Singh has a MightMakesRight mentality, but also makes a point of [[IgGaveMyWord keeping his word]] and follows a strict code of honour.
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* ScienceFantasy: ''Most'' of the stuff in the game is science fiction and has at least some technological trappings to it (mutated monsters, robot soldiers, PsychicPowers as a mutation), but it tends to be portrayed in a somewhat mythical way nonetheless (such as [[spoiler:the beam phantom, a life-devouring ghost created by a teleport accident]]), and [[spoiler:there's also an honest-to-God ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]'' at one point with no such explanation]].
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: GAIA's creator died as he was working to fix her, and apparently there were no notes for anyone else to take pick up his work where he left it. [[spoiler:{{Downplayed}} in that "Little Gaia" prototypes do exist, but they're for personal use only and cannot substitute the original]].
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* RestartTheWorld: [[spoiler:The Heart of Volent will erase the Universe to create a new one. Baron Siriasis knows this and is perfectly willing to do it.]]
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* TitleDrop: You can have a conversation with Gaunt, who will say that "to seize true power, a man must have a heart of ice".
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* GreatOffscreenWar: The Paradox War from the early 22nd century, where part of the Heart of Volent's energy was used. The "paradox radiation" thus liberated is the source of many mutants and strange phenomena, and -- it is implied -- the power of [[PsychicPowers Paradoxing]].
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* {{Mutants}}: Wild areas host many mutant animals, some modified to the point their original species is no longer recognizable. There is also a "Mutant" character archetype with PsychicPowers. These mutations are implied to be caused by "paradox radiation" from the Heart of Volent.
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* SuperSoldier: The Gargan Sisters are bred for increased strenght and durability. Oddly enough, they were created for mining and then repurposed.
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* {{Badass}}: Most of the characters at Du-En are unambiguously Badass; the only one who definitively does ''not'' qualify is Janus Gaunt, an intellectual {{Necromancer}} who relies on his minions for manpower.
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* CrazyPrepared: Chaim doesn't just have a crossbow. He's got a Barysal gun, smoke grenades, knives, poison needles and other tools. He's got something for everyone including the Gargan Sisters.
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* EyeScream: Golgoth does this to Vajra Singh in order to get past the latter's armour.
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* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Golgoth does this to Vajra Singh in order to get past the latter's armour.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: There's no unambiguously happy endings to this story. Even in the best-case scenario, the quest for the Heart of Volent destroys everyone who quests for it except yourself, and if you destroy the Heart of Volent, you have to sacrifice yourself to do it. Otherwise, you can destroy the universe to re-create it, turn yourself into the Heart's eternal guardian, or leave Du-En alone with the mantramuktra cannon and a new mission.]]
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* DownerEnding: None of the endings have a happy ending. The closest thing to this, is you using the Heart of Volant to become a god that can create a new universe out of the ashes of the old dead one. Other endings include encasing yourself and the Heart of Volant forever with a stasis bomb, blowing up the Heart of Volant with your comrade Chaim Golgoth (the explosion destroys everything in the vicinity, yourself included), walking away from the Heart of Volant thus realizing that yes you preserved the universe but the Earth is still dying (humanity would be reduced to the people on the Al-Lat, they can't try to terraform the Earth or Gaia will hammer the Al-Lat with nuclear missiles).
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: The Gargan sisters act this way, being devastatingly capable close-combat fighters, {{Blood Knight}}s and extremely rude to anyone who isn't one of them.
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* OneManArmy: You just might get the opportunity to find out about a number of the victories that Chaim Golgoth has under his belt. He's singlehandedly wiped out at least 80 terrorists of the Seventh Seal Cult that had hijacked a warship, A crime lord's 15 top rank assassins who were sent to ambush him and in one fell swoop, Gargan Sisters I - XII.
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* WeWillUseLasersInTheFuture: The main weapon of the people on Earth is the Barysal gun (Vajra Singha has his Mantramuktra cannon). Even Chaim Golgoth has one, though he acknowledges its drawbacks (which is why he carries a crossbow as a main weapon). Despite only having 6 shots that can't be recharged and reputed to have issues with malfunctions, it packs a punch that even anti-laser armour can't fully stop. You need one (and having Golgoth alive) if you want the ending that destroys the Heart of Volant. If you want to pick a fight with Golgoth, you'll need one. He then learns the drawback of his crossbow as you torch his screaming ass.
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* ApocalypseHow: The backstory was a three-hundred-year-long Class 1 that's slowly sliding to a Class 3a. [[spoiler:The Heart of Volent causes a Class X-4 if used.]]
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: There are no unambiguous heroes in this game. This goes ''double'' in Du-En, where you'll find yourself wondering whether any of your rivals for the Heart are good guys. [[spoiler:No. The ''best'' you can get is a MyCountryRightOrWrong NinetiesAntiHero SociopathicSoldier.]]
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* ScienceFantasy: ''Most'' of the stuff in the game is science fiction and has at least some technological trappings to it (mutated monsters, robot soldiers, PsychicPowers as a mutation), but it tends to be portrayed in a somewhat mythical way nonetheless (such as [[spoiler:the beam phantom]]), and [[spoiler:there's also an honest-to-God ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]'' at one point with no such explanation]].
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* FlyingCar: You can find one. It's a ''massive'' shortcut to Du-En for those with piloting skills, allowing you to bypass the ice wastes entirely.
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* DwindlingParty: Everyone of importance makes it to Du-En. Once there, the adventurers begin dying, either killed by each other or by the many hazards of the city. Only a handful will survive to reach the Heart of Volent.
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* IneffectualLoner: Thandra Bey is too much of a loner to be willing to work with anyone else in her quest for the Heart of Volent, even temporarily. [[spoiler: She gets killed off right before arriving at the Heart of Volent's chamber.]]
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A {{Gamebook}} by Dave Morris, the creator of ''Literature/TheFabledLands'', '''''Heart of Ice''''' is set in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic 2300]] where the world has been ruined by climate change caused by the [[AIIsACrapshoot insane supercomputer network]] GAIA. The player is a slightly extraordinary survivor in this world who receives a mysterious message from Gaia, revealing the existence of the Heart of Volent, [[MineralMacGuffin a meteorite]] that can grant the user [[AGodAmI ultimate power over their surroundings]]. A part of the now out of print ''Literature/VirtualReality'' gamebook series, it has since been re-released. Also available for free at [[http://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2010/02/free-e-gamebook.html Dave's blog]].
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A {{Gamebook}} by Dave Morris, the creator of ''Literature/TheFabledLands'', '''''Heart of Ice''''' is set in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic 2300]] where the world has been ruined by climate change caused by the [[AIIsACrapshoot insane supercomputer network]] GAIA. The player is a slightly extraordinary survivor in this world who receives a mysterious message from Gaia, revealing the existence of the Heart of Volent, [[MineralMacGuffin a meteorite]] that can grant the user [[AGodAmI ultimate power over their surroundings]]. A part of the now out of print ''Literature/VirtualReality'' gamebook series, it has since been re-released. Also It was available for free at [[http://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2010/02/free-e-gamebook.html Dave's blog]].blog, but has since been removed pending an updated digital re-release.
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* {{Ubermensch}}: Vajra Singh. While he's one of the few individuals in Du-En to show much of a moral compass, his has absolutely nothing to do with society's; he values strength, [[IGaveMyWord keeping one's word]] and his own idea of honorable behavior, but shows little concern for human life.
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!!''Heart of Ice'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* {{AFGNCAAP}}: You choose your background and skills, but otherwise this is applied as usual in a gamebook.
* AfterTheEnd: The world looks like this by now, though in keeping with its themes, the world's been slowly dying but hasn't had a single big event that blew it apart.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Well, it's not AI itself that's the problem, but dumping a bunch of mutating computer viruses into Gaia did not end well, and Gaia is not only insane, but tends to take over any computer that links to her. [[spoiler: The Little Gaia prototypes are uninfected.]]
* AmazonBrigade: The Gargan sisters. By the time of the book, they're all dead except for XIII and XIV.
* ApocalypseHow: The backstory was a three-hundred-year-long Class 1 that's slowly sliding to a Class 3a. [[spoiler:The Heart of Volent causes a Class X-4 if used.]]
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: The Gargan sisters act this way, being devastatingly capable close-combat fighters, {{Blood Knight}}s and extremely rude to anyone who isn't one of them.
* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:The Heart of Volent.]]
* ArtificialHuman / DesignerBabies: The Gargan [[CloningBlues clone sisters]], all of whom were created in artificial wombs.
* {{Badass}}: Most of the characters at Du-En are unambiguously Badass; the only one who definitively does ''not'' qualify is Janus Gaunt, an intellectual {{Necromancer}} who relies on his minions for manpower.
* BadassNormal: Chaim Golgoth to the max. The PC can also be this if he doesn't take [[PsychicPowers ESP or Paradoxing]] and doesn't get himself genetically enhanced or cyborged.
* {{BFG}}: The mantramuktra cannon, a man-portable WaveMotionGun.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: There are no unambiguous heroes in this game. This goes ''double'' in Du-En, where you'll find yourself wondering whether any of your rivals for the Heart are good guys. [[spoiler:No. The ''best'' you can get is a MyCountryRightOrWrong NinetiesAntiHero SociopathicSoldier.]]
* BlastOut: The final scene usually results in this.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Close Combat Skill allows you to kill a [[MixAndMatchCritters sabre-toothed bearwolf]] ''with your bare hands''.
* ChekhovsGunman: You can encounter almost anyone who you meet in Du-En earlier in the game, in varying contexts. One of them can even be your travelling companion for most of it.
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Kyle Boche is ''really'' good. He pulls off a MemoryGambit to take out his most dangerous rival, and he picks his allies with perfect accuracy to ensure that the second-strongest opponent falls. However, it's possible that he underestimated the PC.]]
* CombatPragmatist: Chaim Golgoth.
* CrapsackWorld: Yep. Even the nice parts, like the cities, are only nice for the rich, while the poor live in lawless slums. Outside the cities, the only thing you can be certain of is that it's a wasteland of some sort, whether that means an ice waste or a deadly jungle. And it's [[FromBadToWorse getting worse]]; humanity's not expected to last another century.
* {{Cyborg}}: The technology exists. [[spoiler:You can become one on Al-Lat. However, the parts are prosthetic replacements, not really upgrades as such, though they're useful under certain circumstances.]]
* DeathWorld: Earth.
* DeusEstMachina: Gaia. When she's lucid, she's benevolent, but due to her insanity she often uses her godlike powers to cause random destruction.
* DisabilitySuperpower: The Baron is legless, and he's also the most powerful psionic on the planet.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: Inverted; the United States is the ''only'' government (that's mentioned in the book) to remain above the city-state level.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: In Venis, a PC can use retroviruses to get genetically enhanced.
* [[spoiler:EndOfTheWorldSpecial]]
* EnemyMine: At Du-En, everyone's going for the Heart and everyone knows that ThereCanBeOnlyOne. Vajra Singh forces everyone to cooperate to a limited extent until they reach the Heart, at which point it's implicit that [[BlastOut all bets are off]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Kyle Boche]]
* FrickinLaserBeams: Barysal guns, a kind of plasma pistol, are the weapon du jour of this world. There's also a laser pistol and a LostTechnology WaveMotionGun to be found.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: You can get superpowers from genetic-enhancement retrovirii.
* GlobalCurrency: Scads.
* AGodAmI: Anyone who gets the Heart of Volent.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Gilgamesh makes one to save your life from the Beam Phantom. Later, you and Chaim can make one to destroy the Heart.]]
* [[HiddenElfVillage Hidden Space Colony]]: Al-Lat.
* HitPoints: Life Points.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The majority of those going to Du-En will do ''anything'' for the power of the Heart, and they don't care about the consequences of its use.
* JustBeforeTheEnd: Humanity really isn't expected to last another century, so the rich are spending their lives in revelry while the poor huddle in the slums, and everyone's waiting for the lights to go out. [[spoiler:If someone gets the Heart, it really will be the end.]] Some of the lines that the player can give, however, indicate a hope for the future and the salvation of mankind.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: [[spoiler:If you ally with Vajra Singh and keep your alliance to the end, he'll refrain from using the mantramuktra cannon against you because you have no comparable weapon. If you don't have a gun, he'll take you on hand to hand.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Kyle Boche]]
* MeleeATrois: If you have no prearranged alliance going into the final scene, then this will obviously happen.
* MemoryGambit: [[spoiler:Kyle Boche has himself hypnotized into setting a trap for Baron Siriasis, so that the telepathic Baron doesn't realize he's planning to betray him.]]
* MultipleEndings
* PatchworkMap: Justified. Yes, there are jungles ''in the middle of ice wastes.'' That either means that Gaia is making it happen that way, or something else is going on.
* ProfessionalKiller: Chaim Golgoth, though he's a US agent, not a freelancer.
* PsychicPowers: ESP and Paradoxing.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The people who make it to Du-En are a colorful bunch, and they're only working together because the most heavily-armed guy says so.
* RockBeatsLaser: Chaim Golgoth specializes in using a crossbow against laser-armed foes.
* ScavengerWorld: People on Earth aren't developing new technology all that much anymore, though they've done an impressive job at keeping what's left going. Al-Lat is faring a bit better.
* ScienceFantasy: ''Most'' of the stuff in the game is science fiction and has at least some technological trappings to it (mutated monsters, robot soldiers, PsychicPowers as a mutation), but it tends to be portrayed in a somewhat mythical way nonetheless (such as [[spoiler:the beam phantom]]), and [[spoiler:there's also an honest-to-God ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]'' at one point with no such explanation]].
* ScienceHero: The Scientist archetype, though he's more an AdventurerArchaeologist than an inventor.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The Saharan Ice Wastes. Fortunately, there's no sliding around, just the usual hazards of an icy wasteland.
* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: Only one person can get the Heart, though in some endings nobody does.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: [[spoiler:If you attempt to contact Gaia on Al-Lat without Cybernetics skill, they toss you out. You're wearing a suit, but you only have enough air for one hour.]]
* {{Ubermensch}}: Vajra Singh.
* WaveMotionGun: The mantramuktra is a man-portable version wielded by Vajra Singh.
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!!''Heart of Ice'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* {{AFGNCAAP}}: You choose your background and skills, but otherwise this is applied as usual in a gamebook.
* AfterTheEnd: The world looks like this by now, though in keeping with its themes, the world's been slowly dying but hasn't had a single big event that blew it apart.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Well, it's not AI itself that's the problem, but dumping a bunch of mutating computer viruses into Gaia did not end well, and Gaia is not only insane, but tends to take over any computer that links to her. [[spoiler: The Little Gaia prototypes are uninfected.]]
* AmazonBrigade: The Gargan sisters. By the time of the book, they're all dead except for XIII and XIV.
* ApocalypseHow: The backstory was a three-hundred-year-long Class 1 that's slowly sliding to a Class 3a. [[spoiler:The Heart of Volent causes a Class X-4 if used.]]
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: The Gargan sisters act this way, being devastatingly capable close-combat fighters, {{Blood Knight}}s and extremely rude to anyone who isn't one of them.
* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:The Heart of Volent.]]
* ArtificialHuman / DesignerBabies: The Gargan [[CloningBlues clone sisters]], all of whom were created in artificial wombs.
* {{Badass}}: Most of the characters at Du-En are unambiguously Badass; the only one who definitively does ''not'' qualify is Janus Gaunt, an intellectual {{Necromancer}} who relies on his minions for manpower.
* BadassNormal: Chaim Golgoth to the max. The PC can also be this if he doesn't take [[PsychicPowers ESP or Paradoxing]] and doesn't get himself genetically enhanced or cyborged.
* {{BFG}}: The mantramuktra cannon, a man-portable WaveMotionGun.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: There are no unambiguous heroes in this game. This goes ''double'' in Du-En, where you'll find yourself wondering whether any of your rivals for the Heart are good guys. [[spoiler:No. The ''best'' you can get is a MyCountryRightOrWrong NinetiesAntiHero SociopathicSoldier.]]
* BlastOut: The final scene usually results in this.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Close Combat Skill allows you to kill a [[MixAndMatchCritters sabre-toothed bearwolf]] ''with your bare hands''.
* ChekhovsGunman: You can encounter almost anyone who you meet in Du-En earlier in the game, in varying contexts. One of them can even be your travelling companion for most of it.
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Kyle Boche is ''really'' good. He pulls off a MemoryGambit to take out his most dangerous rival, and he picks his allies with perfect accuracy to ensure that the second-strongest opponent falls. However, it's possible that he underestimated the PC.]]
* CombatPragmatist: Chaim Golgoth.
* CrapsackWorld: Yep. Even the nice parts, like the cities, are only nice for the rich, while the poor live in lawless slums. Outside the cities, the only thing you can be certain of is that it's a wasteland of some sort, whether that means an ice waste or a deadly jungle. And it's [[FromBadToWorse getting worse]]; humanity's not expected to last another century.
* {{Cyborg}}: The technology exists. [[spoiler:You can become one on Al-Lat. However, the parts are prosthetic replacements, not really upgrades as such, though they're useful under certain circumstances.]]
* DeathWorld: Earth.
* DeusEstMachina: Gaia. When she's lucid, she's benevolent, but due to her insanity she often uses her godlike powers to cause random destruction.
* DisabilitySuperpower: The Baron is legless, and he's also the most powerful psionic on the planet.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: Inverted; the United States is the ''only'' government (that's mentioned in the book) to remain above the city-state level.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: In Venis, a PC can use retroviruses to get genetically enhanced.
* [[spoiler:EndOfTheWorldSpecial]]
* EnemyMine: At Du-En, everyone's going for the Heart and everyone knows that ThereCanBeOnlyOne. Vajra Singh forces everyone to cooperate to a limited extent until they reach the Heart, at which point it's implicit that [[BlastOut all bets are off]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Kyle Boche]]
* FrickinLaserBeams: Barysal guns, a kind of plasma pistol, are the weapon du jour of this world. There's also a laser pistol and a LostTechnology WaveMotionGun to be found.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: You can get superpowers from genetic-enhancement retrovirii.
* GlobalCurrency: Scads.
* AGodAmI: Anyone who gets the Heart of Volent.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Gilgamesh makes one to save your life from the Beam Phantom. Later, you and Chaim can make one to destroy the Heart.]]
* [[HiddenElfVillage Hidden Space Colony]]: Al-Lat.
* HitPoints: Life Points.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The majority of those going to Du-En will do ''anything'' for the power of the Heart, and they don't care about the consequences of its use.
* JustBeforeTheEnd: Humanity really isn't expected to last another century, so the rich are spending their lives in revelry while the poor huddle in the slums, and everyone's waiting for the lights to go out. [[spoiler:If someone gets the Heart, it really will be the end.]] Some of the lines that the player can give, however, indicate a hope for the future and the salvation of mankind.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: [[spoiler:If you ally with Vajra Singh and keep your alliance to the end, he'll refrain from using the mantramuktra cannon against you because you have no comparable weapon. If you don't have a gun, he'll take you on hand to hand.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Kyle Boche]]
* MeleeATrois: If you have no prearranged alliance going into the final scene, then this will obviously happen.
* MemoryGambit: [[spoiler:Kyle Boche has himself hypnotized into setting a trap for Baron Siriasis, so that the telepathic Baron doesn't realize he's planning to betray him.]]
* MultipleEndings
* PatchworkMap: Justified. Yes, there are jungles ''in the middle of ice wastes.'' That either means that Gaia is making it happen that way, or something else is going on.
* ProfessionalKiller: Chaim Golgoth, though he's a US agent, not a freelancer.
* PsychicPowers: ESP and Paradoxing.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The people who make it to Du-En are a colorful bunch, and they're only working together because the most heavily-armed guy says so.
* RockBeatsLaser: Chaim Golgoth specializes in using a crossbow against laser-armed foes.
* ScavengerWorld: People on Earth aren't developing new technology all that much anymore, though they've done an impressive job at keeping what's left going. Al-Lat is faring a bit better.
* ScienceFantasy: ''Most'' of the stuff in the game is science fiction and has at least some technological trappings to it (mutated monsters, robot soldiers, PsychicPowers as a mutation), but it tends to be portrayed in a somewhat mythical way nonetheless (such as [[spoiler:the beam phantom]]), and [[spoiler:there's also an honest-to-God ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]'' at one point with no such explanation]].
* ScienceHero: The Scientist archetype, though he's more an AdventurerArchaeologist than an inventor.
* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The Saharan Ice Wastes. Fortunately, there's no sliding around, just the usual hazards of an icy wasteland.
* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: Only one person can get the Heart, though in some endings nobody does.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: [[spoiler:If you attempt to contact Gaia on Al-Lat without Cybernetics skill, they toss you out. You're wearing a suit, but you only have enough air for one hour.]]
* {{Ubermensch}}: Vajra Singh.
* WaveMotionGun: The mantramuktra is a man-portable version wielded by Vajra Singh.
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