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** FACs, with four 24-inch pulse lasers and no armor, are this. Their cannon can cripple a battleship, but they can't take a hit.
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* {{Nanomachines}}: Nano bugs and scouts are heavily used(even by reporters), as are nanos meant to destroy other nanos. In an odd case of Let'sFightLikeGentlemen- prehaps to prevent a LensmanArmsRace- nanos are ''never'' used to kill humans. Also, Smart Metal and its derivative Uniplex, made up of massive numbers of metal nanos, are used to build entire ships.
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* {{Nanomachines}}: Nano bugs and scouts are heavily used(even by reporters), as are nanos meant to destroy other nanos. In an odd case of Let'sFightLikeGentlemen- prehaps LetsFightLikeGentlemen- perhaps to prevent a LensmanArmsRace- nanos are ''never'' used to kill humans. Also, Smart Metal and its derivative Uniplex, made up of massive numbers of metal nanos, are used to build entire ships.
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* [[ButNotTooBlack But Not Too Native American]]: In ''Furious'', Kris is stated to have Native American ancestry. You wouldn't know it from the cover art.
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* {{Shapeshifting}} Ships built with Smart Metal can alter their shape as needed, shrinking in combat to present a smaller target, shifting from space mode to ground mode (for FACs), or even splitting into two ships (for frigates). Tends to result in minor problems, as equipment lockers often end up in the wrong location.
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* FixedForwardFacingWeapon: Present on Fast Attack Craft (FAC), Patrol Fast (PF), and Frigates (FF), which mount their main (and for the FACs and PFs, ''only'') weaponry forward.
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* FixedForwardFacingWeapon: Present on Fast Attack Craft (FAC), Patrol Fast (PF), and Frigates (FF), which mount their main (and for the FACs [=FAC=]s and PFs, [=PF=]s, ''only'') weaponry forward.
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* DropPod: Light Attack Craft (LAC), essentially a set of rocket-powered benches with a heat shield and steering wheel, are used to drop small teams on enemy positions. The series begins with Kris piloting one on a hostage-rescue mission.
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* FixedForwardFacingWeapon: Present on Fast Attack Craft (FAC), Patrol Fast (PF), and Frigates (FF), which mount their main (and for the FACs and PFs, ''only'') weaponry forward.
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** FACs, with four 24-inch pulse lasers and no armor, are this. Their cannon can cripple a battleship, but they can't take a hit.
** The omnicidal alien's ships tend to be this. Ridiculous amounts of laser cannon, but no armor.
* GlassCannon:
** FACs, with four 24-inch pulse lasers and no armor, are this. Their cannon can cripple a battleship, but they can't take a hit.
** The omnicidal alien's ships tend to be this. Ridiculous amounts of laser cannon, but no armor.
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* EscapePod: Ships carry survival pods, which are also built into battle stations. They don't have any propulsion, they're just there to keep you alive till whoever survived the battle picks you up.
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* Mile-LongShip: MileLongShip: The still-unnamed alien raiders use million-ton battleships ten kilometers long. And the mothership is ''four thousand kilometers'' long. Human battleships tend to top out at 100,000 tons
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* StrongasTheyNeedtoBe: The dart weaponry used by all factions in the series uses varying charges of liquid propellant. Loading sleepy darts automatically reduces the charge, and you can manually vary the power, and a max-power rifle round results in BlownAcrosTheRoom at 500 yards.
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* StrongasTheyNeedtoBe: StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: The dart weaponry used by all factions in the series uses varying charges of liquid propellant. Loading sleepy darts automatically reduces the charge, and you can manually vary the power, and a max-power rifle round results in BlownAcrosTheRoom BlownAcrossTheRoom at 500 yards.
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** Again after ''Defiant'', where hundreds of civilian volunteers and her just-married best friend were killed fighting in the Battle of Wardhaven.
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* OverlyLongName: Roth'sum'We'sum'QuinCap'sum'We, an Iteeche alien who accompanies Kris for several books. Thankfully, he's happy answering to just Ron.
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* OverlyLongName: Roth'sum'We'sum'QuinCap'sum'We, Roth'sum'We'sum'[=QuinCap=]'sum'We, an Iteeche alien who accompanies Kris for several books. Thankfully, he's happy answering to just Ron.
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* MacrossMissileMassacre: Kris launches one during the Battle of Wardhaven. A couple space freighters are fitted with hundreds of modified ground-to-ground missiles borrowed fromt eh Army. They're not particularly effective-the warheads are pretty small-but the incoming battleships are forced to either shoot the missile down and overheat their lasers, or loose sensors, ice armor, and possible laser cannon to a blizzard of missile fire.
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* MacrossMissileMassacre: Kris launches one during the Battle of Wardhaven. A couple space freighters are fitted with hundreds of modified ground-to-ground missiles borrowed fromt eh from the Army. They're not particularly effective-the warheads are pretty small-but the incoming battleships are forced to either shoot the missile down and overheat their lasers, or loose sensors, ice armor, and possible laser cannon to a blizzard of missile fire.
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* LoudofWar: Tommy Lien, of of Kris's friends and crewmember on her PF boat, blasts the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Cambreadth March]] of[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCrnF844_ww&feature=kp Cambreadth]] over the radio as the flotilla sorties to meet the attacking battleships in ''Defiant''.
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* MacrossMissileMassacre: Kris launches one during the Battle of Wardhaven. A couple space freighters are fitted with hundreds of modified ground-to-ground missiles borrowed fromt eh Army. They're not particularly effective-the warheads are pretty small-but the incoming battleships are forced to either shoot the missile down and overheat their lasers, or loose sensors, ice armor, and possible laser cannon to a blizzard of missile fire.
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* StrongasTheyNeedtoBe: The dart weaponry used by all factions in the series uses varying charges of liquid propellant. Loading sleepy darts automatically reduces the charge, and you can manually vary the power, and a max-power rifle round will blown a man off his feet from 500 yards.
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* StrongasTheyNeedtoBe: The dart weaponry used by all factions in the series uses varying charges of liquid propellant. Loading sleepy darts automatically reduces the charge, and you can manually vary the power, and a max-power rifle round will blown a man off his feet from results in BlownAcrosTheRoom at 500 yards.
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* Mile-LongShip: The still-unnamed alien raiders use million-ton battleships ten kilometers long. And the mothership is ''four thousand kilometers'' long. Human battleships tend to top out at 100,000 tons
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture:
** Wardhaven, which has a king and Parliament, comes off as Space Britian, though being a member of the United Society/Sentients, it ends up as a United States/England mashup.
** Greenfeld appears to be Space Soviet Russia.
** The Mushashi Empire is pretty explicitly Space Japan, complete with kimonos, formals tea ceremonies, and high-tech warships.
** The Helvitican Confederacy appears to be Space Greece.
** Wardhaven, which has a king and Parliament, comes off as Space Britian, though being a member of the United Society/Sentients, it ends up as a United States/England mashup.
** Greenfeld appears to be Space Soviet Russia.
** The Mushashi Empire is pretty explicitly Space Japan, complete with kimonos, formals tea ceremonies, and high-tech warships.
** The Helvitican Confederacy appears to be Space Greece.
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* MilitaryMashupMachine: The USS ''Wasp'', in both incarnations, is this. The first model was classed a corvette, the second was designated a frigate, terms generally used for escort ships, both incarnations mount battleship-size laser cannon, carry a battalion of Marines, and mount missiles half its own weight. The overall result is something between a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibious_assault_ship [=LHD/LHA=]-style]] attack transport and a Soviet [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov-class_battlecruiser ''Kirov''-class]] heavy missile cruiser
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* MilitaryMashupMachine: The USS ''Wasp'', in both incarnations, is this. The first model was classed a corvette, the second was designated a frigate, terms generally used for escort ships, though both incarnations mount battleship-size battleship-sized laser cannon, carry a battalion of Marines, and mount missiles half its own weight. The overall result is something between a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibious_assault_ship [=LHD/LHA=]-style]] attack transport and a Soviet [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov-class_battlecruiser ''Kirov''-class]] heavy missile cruiser
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* MilitaryMashupMachine: The USS ''Wasp'', in both incarnations, is this. The first model was classed a corvette, the second was designated a frigate. While both frigate, terms generally refer to smaller ships escortused for escort ships, both incarnations mount battleship-size laser cannon, carry a battalion of Marines, and mount missiles half its own weight. The overall result is something between a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibious_assault_ship [=LHD/LHA=]-style]] attack transport and a Soviet [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov-class_battlecruiser ''Kirov''-class]] heavy missile cruiser
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** Kinetic weapons, generally dial-a-yield dart rifles, are favored for ground use.
** Laser cannon, due to their much longer effective range, are used on spaceships.
** Kinetic weapons, generally dial-a-yield dart rifles, are favored for ground use.
** Laser cannon, due to their much longer effective range, are used on spaceships.
* MilitaryMashupMachine: The USS ''Wasp'', in both incarnations, is this. The first model was classed a corvette, the second was designated a frigate. While both terms generally refer to smaller ships escort
* StrongasTheyNeedtoBe: The dart weaponry used by all factions in the series uses varying charges of liquid propellant. Loading sleepy darts automatically reduces the charge, and you can manually vary the power, and a max-power rifle round will blown a man off his feet from 500 yards.
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* SpaceMarine: A company eventually come under Kris's command.Jack is transferred to the Wardhaven Marines to allow him to protect Kris when deployed, and she ends up commanding several companies's worth.
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** Best demonstrated in ''Defiant'', where she not only produces body armor for a nine-person assault force, but parachutes in as a marksman before rappelling face-first down an air vent to cut a way i
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* TranquillizerDart: An available ammunition type for the standard-issue assault rifles, regular darts tipped with InstantSedation knockout drugs and fired with a reduced load. They not perfect however, using them at point-blank range will break bones, the reduced load makes them inaccurate at long range, and there's no (publicly available) studies on the effects of multiple shots.
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* CrazyPrepared: In ''Defiant'' Abby manages to produce clothing, including correct-size undergarments, for a woman she'd never heard of a week before. Then she dials it UpToEleven and produces enough bulletproof bodysuits and ceramic trauma plates to outfit an an entire Marine squad.
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* WeddingDeadline: In ''Defender'', [[spoiler:Kris and Jack]] have their wedding planned, scheduled and performed in a single afternoon, so that they can get married before orders can be cut that place them in the same chain of command, which would make their relationship against Navy regulations.
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* MorePopularSpinoff: This is sort of intentional; Mike Moscoe's first series of time travel books alas did not sell well. Thus he went into Military science fiction. His Society of Humanity Series sold about 10k per book. In order to sell more books, he had to write books under his mothers maiden name.
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* SpaceOpera: While the series is marketed as MilitaryScienceFiction, there are so many sprawling civilizations and empires, political conflicts and intrigues with a good dose of romantic tension, that the series would be better descriped as new SpaceOpera that combine fast-paced adventure plots with some degree of hard SF rigor.
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* ''Defender (2013)''
In addition, there are three associated ebook novellas:
* ''Kris Longknife's Bloodhound''
* ''Welcome Home/Go Away''
* ''Training Daze''
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* ''Kris Longknife's Bloodhound''
* ''Welcome Home/Go Away''
* ''Training Daze''
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* BodyguardCrush: There are some very strong hints that Jack is in love with Kris.
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* BodyguardCrush: There are some very strong hints that Jack is in love with Kris. [[spoiler: He marries her in ''Defender'']]
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* SpaceFighter: Sort of. Though they have a crew of at least 5, the fast patrol boats Kris pilots in Defiant fill the same role.
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* SpaceFighter: Sort of. Though they have a crew of at least 5, the Averted. The fast patrol boats Kris pilots in Defiant ''Defiant'' fill the same role.a similar role, but with a crew of 15 and non-reloadable lasers, they tend to be more Space Torpedo Bombers.
** Again after ''Defiant'', where hundreds of civilian volunteers were killed fighting in the Battle of Wardhaven.
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* Precursors: The Three. The ancient race which might have built the faster than light transportation network. Or might not have and it is all natural. Oh, and they left behind a bunch of planets they used to live on, at least 3 have been discovered and visited in the novels set in the universe.
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* Precursors: {{Precursors}}: The Three. The ancient race which might have built the faster than light transportation network. Or might not have and it is all natural. Oh, and they left behind a bunch of planets they used to live on, at least 3 have been discovered and visited in the novels set in the universe.
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* BadassFamily: Those damned Longknifes.
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* BadassFamily: Those damned [[MemeticMutation damned]] Longknifes.
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* MemeticBadass: The Longknife family are an in-universe example - at least, the ones that are considered "one of those Longknifes" - not totally a good thing, as many people would prefer to avoid associating with them.
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* MemeticBadass: The Longknife family are an in-universe example - at least, the ones that are considered "one of those damned Longknifes" - not totally a good thing, as many people would prefer to avoid associating with them.
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* GoingColdTurkey: Kris honestly believed she was a drug addict for years as a result of spending most of the two years following her brother's death either stoned (From medication provided by her mother), drunk (from various items stolen from the family liquor cabinet) or both. Her great-grandfather Trouble managed to get her the help she needed to stop, and she didn't touch drugs or alcohol of any kind for years afterwords for fear of restarting a potential addiction. Later evidence showed that she had yet to reach that stage.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Hank's sister]] at least somewhat. Her improvement comes after she's assigned to a military ship as a very junior officer to discipline her following her actions in a previous book. After doing so, she learns not only to take pride in actually being good at something on her own merits and not because of her wealth or family, but that she's learning how to be a proper officer, something that [[spoiler: Hank lacked]] and actually caused his death.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: General Terrance "Trouble" Torden.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Hank's sister]] at least somewhat. Her improvement comes after she's assigned to a military ship as a very junior officer to discipline her following her actions in a previous book. After doing so, she learns not only to take pride in actually being good at something on her own merits and not because of her wealth or family, but that she's learning how to be a proper officer, something that [[spoiler: Hank lacked]] and actually caused his death.
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* GoingColdTurkey: Kris honestly believed she was a drug addict for years as a result of spending most of the two years following her brother's death either stoned (From medication provided by her mother), drunk (from various items stolen from the family liquor cabinet) or both. Her great-grandfather Trouble managed to get her the help she needed to stop, and she didn't touch drugs or alcohol of any kind for years afterwords afterwards for fear of restarting a potential addiction. Later evidence showed that she had yet to reach that stage.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Hank'ssister]] sister, Vicky]] at least somewhat. Her improvement comes after she's assigned to a military ship as a very junior officer to discipline her following her actions in a previous book. After doing so, she learns not only to take pride in actually being good at something on her own merits and not because of her wealth or family, but that she's learning how to be a proper officer, something that [[spoiler: Hank lacked]] and actually caused his death.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: General Terrance "Trouble" Torden. Victoria "Vicky" Peterwald.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Hank's
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: General Terrance "Trouble" Torden. Victoria "Vicky" Peterwald.
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* RomeoAndJuliet: Hank, the son of a rival family, says that he and Kris might be like this in the second novel. Kris denies this, since she has no intention of dieing. Also, the next time they meet his categoric refusal to consider the possibility that anyone on his side might be in the wrong turns them into enemies. [[spoiler:Then he dies]].
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* RomeoAndJuliet: Hank, the son of a rival family, says that he and Kris might be like this in the second novel. Kris denies this, since she has no intention of dieing. dying. Also, the next time they meet meet, his categoric refusal to consider the possibility that anyone on his side might be in the wrong turns them into enemies. [[spoiler:Then he dies]].
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-->'''Jack:''' "I see they didn't hang you."
-->'''Kris:''' "Nope, they missed their chance. The Navy still has a Longknife."
-->'''Jack:''' "Why do I feel like saying 'God help us all'?"
-->'''Kris:''' "'Cause it just may be true."
-->-''Mutineer'', by Mike Shepherd
A MilitaryScienceFiction series about the titular Kris Longknife, a rich young naval officer who struggles to deal with the expectation and reputations (both good and bad) of a famous family of military leaders, politicians, and billionaires, written by Mike Shepherd (also known as Mike Moscoe).
There are currently ten books within the series, with additional books planned:
* ''Mutineer (2004)''
* ''Deserter (2004)''
* ''Defiant (2005)''
* ''Resolute (2006)''
* ''Audacious (2007)''
* ''Intrepid (2008)''
* ''Undaunted (2009)''
* ''Redoubtable (2010)''
* ''Daring (2011)''
* ''Furious (2012)''
Also, set in the same universe, Mike Moscoe earlier wrote a trilogy of books under his own name:
* ''The First Casualty (1999)''
* ''The Price of Peace (2000)''
* ''They Also Serve (2001)''
These books are currently out of print, though they will be republished in 2013.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Kris, obviously.
* ArtificialIntelligence: Nelly, Kris' personal computer.
** And her kids.
* BadassFamily: Those Longknifes.
* BadassPrincess: Kris.
* BattleCouple: Tom and Penny, who are both Navy officers and lovers.
* BerserkButton: Kris really hates kidnappers, ''especially'' those that kidnap children. This is an understandable byproduct of her little brother getting kidnapped and murdered when she was 10.
* BodyguardCrush: There are some very strong hints that Jack is in love with Kris.
* [[ButNotTooBlack But Not Too Native American]]: In ''Furious'', Kris is stated to have Native American ancestry. You wouldn't know it from the cover art.
* CelibateHero: It looks like everybody in the series is getting some romance except for poor Kris.
* CombatPragmatist: Author Mike Shepherd mentioned that while most marines had to be trained out of notions of fighting fair, Kris took to dirty fighting like a duck to water.
* GoingColdTurkey: Kris honestly believed she was a drug addict for years as a result of spending most of the two years following her brother's death either stoned (From medication provided by her mother), drunk (from various items stolen from the family liquor cabinet) or both. Her great-grandfather Trouble managed to get her the help she needed to stop, and she didn't touch drugs or alcohol of any kind for years afterwords for fear of restarting a potential addiction. Later evidence showed that she had yet to reach that stage.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Hank's sister]] at least somewhat. Her improvement comes after she's assigned to a military ship as a very junior officer to discipline her following her actions in a previous book. After doing so, she learns not only to take pride in actually being good at something on her own merits and not because of her wealth or family, but that she's learning how to be a proper officer, something that [[spoiler: Hank lacked]] and actually caused his death.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: General Terrance "Trouble" Torden.
* MemeticBadass: The Longknife family are an in-universe example - at least, the ones that are considered "one of those Longknifes" - not totally a good thing, as many people would prefer to avoid associating with them.
* MorePopularSpinoff: This is sort of intentional; Mike Moscoe's first series of time travel books alas did not sell well. Thus he went into Military science fiction. His Society of Humanity Series sold about 10k per book. In order to sell more books, he had to write books under his mothers maiden name.
* NinjaMaid: Abby, Kris's body servant, knows how to dress that body in ball gowns as well as protect it with guns and bombs.
* RebelliousPrincess: Kris becomes a princess at the end of the first novel and hates it.
* RomeoAndJuliet: Hank, the son of a rival family, says that he and Kris might be like this in the second novel. Kris denies this, since she has no intention of dieing. Also, the next time they meet his categoric refusal to consider the possibility that anyone on his side might be in the wrong turns them into enemies. [[spoiler:Then he dies]].
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Most Longknife family members, from King Ray to Princess Kristine.
* SpaceFighter: Sort of. Though they have a crew of at least 5, the fast patrol boats Kris pilots in Defiant fill the same role.
* SpaceMarine: A company eventually come under Kris's command.
* SpaceNavy: What Kris joins, much to the dismay of her parents.
* SpaceOpera: While the series is marketed as MilitaryScienceFiction, there are so many sprawling civilizations and empires, political conflicts and intrigues with a good dose of romantic tension, that the series would be better descriped as new SpaceOpera that combine fast-paced adventure plots with some degree of hard SF rigor.
* SpoiledBrat: Hank's sister, with shadings of RichBitch.
* SurvivorGuilt: Kris has this big time and knows it. The only reason she wasn't snagged by the same kidnappers that killed her brother Eddy was that she had stepped out for five minutes to buy ice cream. It took a considerable amount of therapy before she could admit to herself that even if she had been there, there was nothing a ten year old girl could have done that would have made any difference.
* SweetPollyOliver: Kris dresses as a man on several occasions in the second novel, when she has to do some undercover work.
* Precursors: The Three. The ancient race which might have built the faster than light transportation network. Or might not have and it is all natural. Oh, and they left behind a bunch of planets they used to live on, at least 3 have been discovered and visited in the novels set in the universe.
* UndercoverAsLovers: Not quite lovers. In order to free Tom, who is being held captive in a motel, Kris and Jack pose as a prostitute and her client to get into the place.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Kris and Jack.
** [[spoiler: As of Furious they are planing a marry.]]
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-->'''Kris:''' "Nope, they missed their chance. The Navy still has a Longknife."
-->'''Jack:''' "Why do I feel like saying 'God help us all'?"
-->'''Kris:''' "'Cause it just may be true."
-->-''Mutineer'', by Mike Shepherd
A MilitaryScienceFiction series about the titular Kris Longknife, a rich young naval officer who struggles to deal with the expectation and reputations (both good and bad) of a famous family of military leaders, politicians, and billionaires, written by Mike Shepherd (also known as Mike Moscoe).
There are currently ten books within the series, with additional books planned:
* ''Mutineer (2004)''
* ''Deserter (2004)''
* ''Defiant (2005)''
* ''Resolute (2006)''
* ''Audacious (2007)''
* ''Intrepid (2008)''
* ''Undaunted (2009)''
* ''Redoubtable (2010)''
* ''Daring (2011)''
* ''Furious (2012)''
Also, set in the same universe, Mike Moscoe earlier wrote a trilogy of books under his own name:
* ''The First Casualty (1999)''
* ''The Price of Peace (2000)''
* ''They Also Serve (2001)''
These books are currently out of print, though they will be republished in 2013.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Kris, obviously.
* ArtificialIntelligence: Nelly, Kris' personal computer.
** And her kids.
* BadassFamily: Those Longknifes.
* BadassPrincess: Kris.
* BattleCouple: Tom and Penny, who are both Navy officers and lovers.
* BerserkButton: Kris really hates kidnappers, ''especially'' those that kidnap children. This is an understandable byproduct of her little brother getting kidnapped and murdered when she was 10.
* BodyguardCrush: There are some very strong hints that Jack is in love with Kris.
* [[ButNotTooBlack But Not Too Native American]]: In ''Furious'', Kris is stated to have Native American ancestry. You wouldn't know it from the cover art.
* CelibateHero: It looks like everybody in the series is getting some romance except for poor Kris.
* CombatPragmatist: Author Mike Shepherd mentioned that while most marines had to be trained out of notions of fighting fair, Kris took to dirty fighting like a duck to water.
* GoingColdTurkey: Kris honestly believed she was a drug addict for years as a result of spending most of the two years following her brother's death either stoned (From medication provided by her mother), drunk (from various items stolen from the family liquor cabinet) or both. Her great-grandfather Trouble managed to get her the help she needed to stop, and she didn't touch drugs or alcohol of any kind for years afterwords for fear of restarting a potential addiction. Later evidence showed that she had yet to reach that stage.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Hank's sister]] at least somewhat. Her improvement comes after she's assigned to a military ship as a very junior officer to discipline her following her actions in a previous book. After doing so, she learns not only to take pride in actually being good at something on her own merits and not because of her wealth or family, but that she's learning how to be a proper officer, something that [[spoiler: Hank lacked]] and actually caused his death.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: General Terrance "Trouble" Torden.
* MemeticBadass: The Longknife family are an in-universe example - at least, the ones that are considered "one of those Longknifes" - not totally a good thing, as many people would prefer to avoid associating with them.
* MorePopularSpinoff: This is sort of intentional; Mike Moscoe's first series of time travel books alas did not sell well. Thus he went into Military science fiction. His Society of Humanity Series sold about 10k per book. In order to sell more books, he had to write books under his mothers maiden name.
* NinjaMaid: Abby, Kris's body servant, knows how to dress that body in ball gowns as well as protect it with guns and bombs.
* RebelliousPrincess: Kris becomes a princess at the end of the first novel and hates it.
* RomeoAndJuliet: Hank, the son of a rival family, says that he and Kris might be like this in the second novel. Kris denies this, since she has no intention of dieing. Also, the next time they meet his categoric refusal to consider the possibility that anyone on his side might be in the wrong turns them into enemies. [[spoiler:Then he dies]].
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Most Longknife family members, from King Ray to Princess Kristine.
* SpaceFighter: Sort of. Though they have a crew of at least 5, the fast patrol boats Kris pilots in Defiant fill the same role.
* SpaceMarine: A company eventually come under Kris's command.
* SpaceNavy: What Kris joins, much to the dismay of her parents.
* SpaceOpera: While the series is marketed as MilitaryScienceFiction, there are so many sprawling civilizations and empires, political conflicts and intrigues with a good dose of romantic tension, that the series would be better descriped as new SpaceOpera that combine fast-paced adventure plots with some degree of hard SF rigor.
* SpoiledBrat: Hank's sister, with shadings of RichBitch.
* SurvivorGuilt: Kris has this big time and knows it. The only reason she wasn't snagged by the same kidnappers that killed her brother Eddy was that she had stepped out for five minutes to buy ice cream. It took a considerable amount of therapy before she could admit to herself that even if she had been there, there was nothing a ten year old girl could have done that would have made any difference.
* SweetPollyOliver: Kris dresses as a man on several occasions in the second novel, when she has to do some undercover work.
* Precursors: The Three. The ancient race which might have built the faster than light transportation network. Or might not have and it is all natural. Oh, and they left behind a bunch of planets they used to live on, at least 3 have been discovered and visited in the novels set in the universe.
* UndercoverAsLovers: Not quite lovers. In order to free Tom, who is being held captive in a motel, Kris and Jack pose as a prostitute and her client to get into the place.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Kris and Jack.
** [[spoiler: As of Furious they are planing a marry.]]
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