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* {{Teleportation}}: Mentioned in passing, the Aviorans have anti-teleportation fields over their holy sites, a measure stemming from the Reptassan occupation which necessitates taking a shuttle down and rowing a boat across the lake.
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* {{Teleportation}}: TeleportInterdiction: Mentioned in passing, the Aviorans have anti-teleportation fields over their holy sites, a measure stemming from the Reptassan occupation which necessitates taking a shuttle down and rowing a boat across the lake.
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''Nexus Nine'' is a 2019 science-fiction novel by Mary E. Lowd.
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''Nexus Nine'' is a 2019 science-fiction novel by Mary E. Lowd.
Lowd, set in the same universe as her ''Tri-Galactic Trek'' stories.
* AffectionateParody: Of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', albeit more subtly than most of Lowd's other ''Tri-Galactic Trek'' stories.
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* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: Averted, it's called the Tri-Galactic Union for a reason. They make contact with another galaxy over the course of the novel.
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* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: Averted, it's called the Tri-Galactic Union for a reason. They make contact with another a fourth galaxy over the course of the novel.
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* TheFogOfAges: Mazel doesn't know how old the Rheun chip is, she remembers being human before they uplifted other species and octopus before that, but can't remember if the octopus civilization made the chip [[spoiler: they did]] or if it was even older than them.
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* PronounTrouble: Omoleura uses the gender neutral pronouns "zhe" and "zhim".
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* PronounTrouble: Omoleura uses the gender neutral pronouns "zhe" and "zhim"."zir".
* {{Teleportation}}: Mentioned in passing, the Aviorans have anti-teleportation fields over their holy sites, a measure stemming from the Reptassan occupation which necessitates taking a shuttle down and rowing a boat across the lake.
* {{Teleportation}}: Mentioned in passing, the Aviorans have anti-teleportation fields over their holy sites, a measure stemming from the Reptassan occupation which necessitates taking a shuttle down and rowing a boat across the lake.
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Lieutenant Mazel Rheum is having a bit of an identity crisis. Until recently she was two completely different people; Mazel, an unremarkable feline lieutenant in the Tri-Galactic Navy, and Darius Rheun, a Great Dane with a millennia-old memory chip in his head. Now, Darius is dead and the Rheun chip has passed to Mazel, leaving her unsure of herself amongst the hundreds of lifetimes she now remembers. But, at this pivotal moment Mazel Rheun has an opportunity to finally learn where she came from, through the unexplored Nexus Nine.
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Lieutenant Mazel Rheum is having a bit of an identity crisis. Until recently she was two completely different people; Mazel, Mazel Tabbith, an unremarkable feline lieutenant in the Tri-Galactic Navy, and Darius Rheun, a Great Dane with a millennia-old memory chip in his head. Now, Darius is dead and the Rheun chip has passed to Mazel, leaving her unsure of herself amongst the hundreds of lifetimes she now remembers. But, at this pivotal moment Mazel Rheun has an opportunity to finally learn where she came from, through the unexplored Nexus Nine.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: The octopi uploaded themselves into the nexus pathways they built. They copy the Rheun chip when it passes through Nexus Nine.]]
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Subverted, as Mazel Rheum is passing through Nexus Nine she compares the colors to a Van Gogh painting and briefly entertains the notion that she was Vincent Van Gogh in a past life, before remembering that she was an octopus that century.
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: Omoleura's species removes the Rheum chip from Mazel, reducing her to an ordinary cat with only vague remnants of a millennia-old life until it's returned in the last chapter.]]
* TheFederation: The Tri-Galactic Union.
* IntelligentGerbil: Aside from the uplifted species from Earth there are aliens who resemble bears (Ursines), birds (Aviorans), lizards (Reptassans), and frogs (Phiboons).
* InterspeciesRomance: A couple side characters are a feline/canine couple. Mazel starts to get close to an Ursine security officer too.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Security Chief Omoleura is an insectoid alien who involuntarily undergoes metamorphosis to look like the species around zhim.
* MatterReplicator: The food-synthesizers on Nexus Base Nine often malfunction.
* MayflyDecemberFriendship: Mazel Rheum spends most of the book reconnecting with Darius's friend Shep Bataille. She's scared to try inserting herself into the lives of his husband and son though.
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* PortalNetwork: The Nexuses are wormhole-like knots in space-time that connect paired galaxies.
* {{Precursors}}: Humans, or "The First Ones" created many of the uplifted species of the Tri-Galactic Union, there's also the species that built the Nexus pathways, and Rheun remembers that octopi had an advanced society millions of years before humanity.
* {{Precursors}}: Humans, or "The First Ones" created many of the uplifted species of the Tri-Galactic Union, there's also the species that built the Nexus pathways, and Rheun remembers that octopi had an advanced society millions of years before humanity.
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* PortalNetwork: The Nexuses Nexus passageways are wormhole-like knots in space-time that connect paired galaxies.
* {{Precursors}}: Humans, or "The First Ones" created many of the uplifted species of the Tri-Galactic Union, there's also the species that built the Nexus pathways, and Rheun remembers that octopi had an advanced society millions of years beforehumanity.humanity.
* PrecursorWorship: Dogs in particular tend to worship humans as the "First Ones". Rheun is understandably reluctant to tell dogs that they were human in prior lives, and octopi before that. The Aviorans worship the builders of the Nexus near their homeworld, or "Sky Nest" as they call it, whom they refer to as "The Unhatched".
* PronounTrouble: Omoleura uses the gender neutral pronouns "zhe" and "zhim".
* TransferableMemory: The Rheun chip has accumulated memories from many hosts over thousands of years, from the prehistoric octopi to humans to dogs and cats and various aliens. [[spoiler: It has issues with Omoleura's physiology though.]]
* UpliftedAnimal: Humanity uplifted dogs and cats, the religion of the First Ones tends to suggest that the other animalistic aliens throughout the galaxies were seeded by them too.
* UrsineAliens: One alien species in the Union are basically bears. Rheum was one a few lifetimes back, and Mazel retains an interest in their culture and cuisine.
* {{Precursors}}: Humans, or "The First Ones" created many of the uplifted species of the Tri-Galactic Union, there's also the species that built the Nexus pathways, and Rheun remembers that octopi had an advanced society millions of years before
* PrecursorWorship: Dogs in particular tend to worship humans as the "First Ones". Rheun is understandably reluctant to tell dogs that they were human in prior lives, and octopi before that. The Aviorans worship the builders of the Nexus near their homeworld, or "Sky Nest" as they call it, whom they refer to as "The Unhatched".
* PronounTrouble: Omoleura uses the gender neutral pronouns "zhe" and "zhim".
* TransferableMemory: The Rheun chip has accumulated memories from many hosts over thousands of years, from the prehistoric octopi to humans to dogs and cats and various aliens. [[spoiler: It has issues with Omoleura's physiology though.]]
* UpliftedAnimal: Humanity uplifted dogs and cats, the religion of the First Ones tends to suggest that the other animalistic aliens throughout the galaxies were seeded by them too.
* UrsineAliens: One alien species in the Union are basically bears. Rheum was one a few lifetimes back, and Mazel retains an interest in their culture and cuisine.
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Lieutenant Mazel Rheum is having a bit of an identity crisis. Until recently she was two completely different people; Mazel, an unremarkable feline lieutenant in the Tri-Galactic Navy, and Darius Rheun, a Great Dane with a millennia-old memory chip in his head. Now, Darius is dead and the Rheun chip has passed to Mazel, leaving her unsure of herself amongst the hundreds of lifetimes she now remembers. But, at this pivotal moment Mazel Rheun has an opportunity to finally learn where she came from, through the unexplored Nexus Nine.
''Nexus Nine'' is a 2019 science-fiction novel by Mary E. Lowd.
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* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: Averted, it's called the Tri-Galactic Union for a reason. They make contact with another galaxy over the course of the novel.
* PortalNetwork: The Nexuses are wormhole-like knots in space-time that connect paired galaxies.
* {{Precursors}}: Humans, or "The First Ones" created many of the uplifted species of the Tri-Galactic Union, there's also the species that built the Nexus pathways, and Rheun remembers that octopi had an advanced society millions of years before humanity.
''Nexus Nine'' is a 2019 science-fiction novel by Mary E. Lowd.
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* TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: Averted, it's called the Tri-Galactic Union for a reason. They make contact with another galaxy over the course of the novel.
* PortalNetwork: The Nexuses are wormhole-like knots in space-time that connect paired galaxies.
* {{Precursors}}: Humans, or "The First Ones" created many of the uplifted species of the Tri-Galactic Union, there's also the species that built the Nexus pathways, and Rheun remembers that octopi had an advanced society millions of years before humanity.
