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* AbsurdlyHugePopulation: Once word of Petaybee's special status gets out, the planet is swarmed with new visitors (a rush [[EvilIsPetty covertly encouraged by InterGal]]): some lured to Petaybee by it's novelty (and completely unprepared for actual life on the planet), some looking to this new type of life as some sort of new holy figure, others still seeing new types of flora and fauna to collect (or in the case of the latter, just hunt). The locals are overwhelmed trying to protect the native life from the interlopers (and vice-versa).
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* RealityEnsues: Once word of Petaybee's special status gets out, the planet is swarmed with new visitors: some lured to Petaybee by it's novelty (and completely unprepared for actual life on the planet), some looking to this new type of life as some sort of new holy figure, others still seeing new types of flora and fauna to collect (or in the case of the latter, just hunt). The locals are overwhelmed trying to protect the native life from the interlopers (and vice-versa).
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* RealityEnsues: Once word of Petaybee's special status gets out, the planet is swarmed with new visitors: visitors (a rush [[EvilIsPetty covertly encouraged by InterGal]]): some lured to Petaybee by it's novelty (and completely unprepared for actual life on the planet), some looking to this new type of life as some sort of new holy figure, others still seeing new types of flora and fauna to collect (or in the case of the latter, just hunt). The locals are overwhelmed trying to protect the native life from the interlopers (and vice-versa).
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* GeniusLoci: The sentient planet of Petaybee communicates via echoes and lightshows in caves, and changing the climate/topography of the land when it's so inclined to benefit its inhabitants or drive off bad guys.
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* GeniusLoci: The sentient planet of Petaybee was 'awakened' through the {{terraform}}ing methods used to make the planet habitable by humans and communicates via echoes and lightshows in caves, and with its inhabitants through hallucinations that are given through a network of special caves. It's also capable of changing the climate/topography of the land when it's so inclined to benefit its inhabitants or drive off bad guys.guys. The first several books hinge around the Company who terraformed the planet trying to recoup its investment and the inhabitants' efforts to convince them of the planet's sentience.
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* GeniusLoci: The sentient planet of Petaybee communicates via echoes and lightshows in caves, and changing the climate/topography of the land when it's so inclined to benefit its inhabitants or drive off bad guys.
* TheLostLenore: In ''Powers That Be'', the death of Yana's first husband is suggested to be the reason she joined the [=InterGal=]'s military in the first place (which led to the injuries that led her to be shipped to Petaybee, the company's version of a desk job in a podunk town). Her growing feelings for Sean Shongili bring back memories of Husband #1.
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* DepartureMeansDeath: Any native of Petaybee over a certain age cannot leave the planet's surface (due to [[TouchedByVorlons adaptations]] that allow them to live comfortably in the planet's sub-arctic climate). Organ shutdown and death will occur within a matter of days.
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* ActionMom: Yana
* BadassNormal: Yana
* BigBad: Intergal
* CatsAreMean: played with
* ChildrenAreInnocent: 'Cita, oddly
* CultureClash: the cult that raised 'Cita and the rest of Petaybee
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: the Shongilis
* GuineaPigFamily: the Shongilis
* KindheartedCatLover: Clodagh
* LighterAndFluffier: ''The Twins of Petaybee''
* LongLostSibling: Bunny and [[spoiler: her younger sister, 'Cita.]]
* MamaBear: Yana
* MegaCorp: Intergal
* MenaceDecay: Dr. Luzon and Intergal
* PowersThatBe: Intergal again
* PrecociousCrush: a particularly disturbing example
* RaisedByWolves: 'Cita
* RuleOfDrama: a staple of [=McCaffrey=]'s work
* SecondLove: Sean to Yana.
* SelkiesAndWereseals: The series employs the selkie myth in a futuristic setting. The Shongili family uses genetic engineering to create a selkie (Sean). Sean's kids are natural-born selkies as well.
** There's a hint from Sean that his grandmother was a selkie. He says she "taught him how to swim", with a significant wink at Yana.
* SpinOffspring: Murel and Ronan's series
* TakeOverTheWorld: rare justified example
* TouchedByVorlons: Petaybee changes those who live on it
** BlessedWithSuck: And past a certain age (early adulthood), those changes mean painful death for anyone who's off-planet for as little as a couple of days.
* BadassNormal: Yana
* BigBad: Intergal
* CatsAreMean: played with
* ChildrenAreInnocent: 'Cita, oddly
* CultureClash: the cult that raised 'Cita and the rest of Petaybee
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: the Shongilis
* GuineaPigFamily: the Shongilis
* KindheartedCatLover: Clodagh
* LighterAndFluffier: ''The Twins of Petaybee''
* LongLostSibling: Bunny and [[spoiler: her younger sister, 'Cita.]]
* MamaBear: Yana
* MegaCorp: Intergal
* MenaceDecay: Dr. Luzon and Intergal
* PowersThatBe: Intergal again
* PrecociousCrush: a particularly disturbing example
* RaisedByWolves: 'Cita
* RuleOfDrama: a staple of [=McCaffrey=]'s work
* SecondLove: Sean to Yana.
* SelkiesAndWereseals: The series employs the selkie myth in a futuristic setting. The Shongili family uses genetic engineering to create a selkie (Sean). Sean's kids are natural-born selkies as well.
** There's a hint from Sean that his grandmother was a selkie. He says she "taught him how to swim", with a significant wink at Yana.
* SpinOffspring: Murel and Ronan's series
* TakeOverTheWorld: rare justified example
* TouchedByVorlons: Petaybee changes those who live on it
** BlessedWithSuck: And past a certain age (early adulthood), those changes mean painful death for anyone who's off-planet for as little as a couple of days.
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* ActionMom - Yana
* BadassNormal - Yana
* BigBad - Intergal
* CatsAreMean - played with
* ChildrenAreInnocent - 'Cita, oddly
* CultureClash - the cult that raised 'Cita and the rest of Petaybee
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke - the Shongilis
* GuineaPigFamily - the Shongilis
* KindheartedCatLover - Clodagh
* LighterAndFluffier - ''The Twins of Petaybee''
* LongLostSibling - Bunny and [[spoiler: her younger sister, 'Cita.]]
* MamaBear - Yana
* MegaCorp - Intergal
* MenaceDecay - Dr. Luzon and Intergal
* PowersThatBe - Intergal again
* PrecociousCrush - a particularly disturbing example
* RaisedByWolves - 'Cita
* RuleOfDrama - a staple of [=McCaffrey=]'s work
* SecondLove - Sean to Yana.
* SelkiesAndWereseals - The series employs the selkie myth in a futuristic setting. The Shongili family uses genetic engineering to create a selkie (Sean). Sean's kids are natural-born selkies as well.
* SpinOffspring - Murel and Ronan's series
* TakeOverTheWorld - rare justified example
* TouchedByVorlons - Petaybee changes those who live on it
** BlessedWithSuck - And past a certain age (early adulthood), those changes mean painful death for anyone who's off-planet for as little as a couple of days.
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn - Murel and Ronan
* VillainWithGoodPublicity - the Intergal corporation
* BadassNormal - Yana
* BigBad - Intergal
* CatsAreMean - played with
* ChildrenAreInnocent - 'Cita, oddly
* CultureClash - the cult that raised 'Cita and the rest of Petaybee
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke - the Shongilis
* GuineaPigFamily - the Shongilis
* KindheartedCatLover - Clodagh
* LighterAndFluffier - ''The Twins of Petaybee''
* LongLostSibling - Bunny and [[spoiler: her younger sister, 'Cita.]]
* MamaBear - Yana
* MegaCorp - Intergal
* MenaceDecay - Dr. Luzon and Intergal
* PowersThatBe - Intergal again
* PrecociousCrush - a particularly disturbing example
* RaisedByWolves - 'Cita
* RuleOfDrama - a staple of [=McCaffrey=]'s work
* SecondLove - Sean to Yana.
* SelkiesAndWereseals - The series employs the selkie myth in a futuristic setting. The Shongili family uses genetic engineering to create a selkie (Sean). Sean's kids are natural-born selkies as well.
* SpinOffspring - Murel and Ronan's series
* TakeOverTheWorld - rare justified example
* TouchedByVorlons - Petaybee changes those who live on it
** BlessedWithSuck - And past a certain age (early adulthood), those changes mean painful death for anyone who's off-planet for as little as a couple of days.
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn - Murel and Ronan
* VillainWithGoodPublicity - the Intergal corporation
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*GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke - FailOSuckyName: The cult that raised 'Cita gave all of its girls humiliating names, until they "came of age." (Read: became old enough to join the leader's harem). 'Cita's name was "Nightsoil".
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*KindheartedCatLover - KindheartedCatLover: Clodagh
*LighterAndFluffier - LighterAndFluffier: ''The Twins of Petaybee''
*LongLostSibling - LongLostSibling: Bunny and [[spoiler: her younger sister, 'Cita.]]
*MamaBear - MamaBear: Yana
*MegaCorp - MegaCorp: Intergal
*MenaceDecay - MenaceDecay: Dr. Luzon and Intergal
*PowersThatBe - PowersThatBe: Intergal again
*PrecociousCrush - PrecociousCrush: a particularly disturbing example
*RaisedByWolves - RaisedByWolves: 'Cita
*RuleOfDrama - RuleOfDrama: a staple of [=McCaffrey=]'s work
*SecondLove - SecondLove: Sean to Yana.
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*SpinOffspring - SpinOffspring: Murel and Ronan's series
*TakeOverTheWorld - TakeOverTheWorld: rare justified example
*TouchedByVorlons - TouchedByVorlons: Petaybee changes those who live on it
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The six books of Anne [=McCaffrey=] and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's Petaybee series are divided into two trilogies: ''Petaybee'' and ''The Twins of Petaybee''. The protagonist of the first is Yanaba "Yana" Maddock, a soldier sent to the planet of Petaybee when injuries from a terrorist attack make it impossible for her to continue in the army. In the second trilogy, the central characters are Yana's children, Ronan Born for Water and Murel Monster Slayer Maddock-Shongili.
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The six books of Anne [=McCaffrey=] and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's Petaybee ''Petaybee'' series are divided into two trilogies: ''Petaybee'' and ''The Twins of Petaybee''. The protagonist of the first is Yanaba "Yana" Maddock, a soldier sent to the planet of Petaybee when injuries from a terrorist attack make it impossible for her to continue in the army. In the second trilogy, the central characters are Yana's children, Ronan Born for Water and Murel Monster Slayer Maddock-Shongili.
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The six books of Anne [=McCaffrey=] and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's Petaybee series are divided into two trilogies: ''Petaybee'' and ''The Twins of Petaybee''. The protagonist of the first is Yanaba "Yana" Maddock, a soldier sent to the planet of Petaybee when injuries from a terrorist attack make it impossible for her to continue in the army. In the second trilogy, the central characters are Yana's children, Ronan Born for Water and Murel Monster Slayer Maddock-Shongili.
In all six books, the plot is basically the same: the planet must be protected from Intergal, an interplanetary company that wishes to relocate the inhabitants so it can mine for valuable minerals.
The series is not nearly as well known as the [=McCaffrey=] DragonridersOfPern books, but is often considered to be of greater quality, as a whole.
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* ''Powers That Be'' (1993)
* ''Power Lines'' (1994)
* ''Power Play'' (1995)
* ''Changelings'' (2005)
* ''Maelstrom'' (2006)
* ''Deluge'' (2008)
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!!This series contains examples of:
* ActionMom - Yana
* BadassNormal - Yana
* BigBad - Intergal
* CatsAreMean - played with
* ChildrenAreInnocent - 'Cita, oddly
* CultureClash - the cult that raised 'Cita and the rest of Petaybee
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke - the Shongilis
* GuineaPigFamily - the Shongilis
* KindheartedCatLover - Clodagh
* LighterAndFluffier - ''The Twins of Petaybee''
* LongLostSibling - Bunny and [[spoiler: her younger sister, 'Cita.]]
* MamaBear - Yana
* MegaCorp - Intergal
* MenaceDecay - Dr. Luzon and Intergal
* PowersThatBe - Intergal again
* PrecociousCrush - a particularly disturbing example
* RaisedByWolves - 'Cita
* RuleOfDrama - a staple of [=McCaffrey=]'s work
* SecondLove - Sean to Yana.
* SelkiesAndWereseals - The series employs the selkie myth in a futuristic setting. The Shongili family uses genetic engineering to create a selkie (Sean). Sean's kids are natural-born selkies as well.
* SpinOffspring - Murel and Ronan's series
* TakeOverTheWorld - rare justified example
* TouchedByVorlons - Petaybee changes those who live on it
** BlessedWithSuck - And after a certain amount of time, those changes mean painful death for anyone who's off-planet for as little as a couple of days.
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn - Murel and Ronan
* VillainWithGoodPublicity - the Intergal corporation
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In all six books, the plot is basically the same: the planet must be protected from Intergal, an interplanetary company that wishes to relocate the inhabitants so it can mine for valuable minerals.
The series is not nearly as well known as the [=McCaffrey=] DragonridersOfPern books, but is often considered to be of greater quality, as a whole.
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* ''Powers That Be'' (1993)
* ''Power Lines'' (1994)
* ''Power Play'' (1995)
* ''Changelings'' (2005)
* ''Maelstrom'' (2006)
* ''Deluge'' (2008)
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!!This series contains examples of:
* ActionMom - Yana
* BadassNormal - Yana
* BigBad - Intergal
* CatsAreMean - played with
* ChildrenAreInnocent - 'Cita, oddly
* CultureClash - the cult that raised 'Cita and the rest of Petaybee
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke - the Shongilis
* GuineaPigFamily - the Shongilis
* KindheartedCatLover - Clodagh
* LighterAndFluffier - ''The Twins of Petaybee''
* LongLostSibling - Bunny and [[spoiler: her younger sister, 'Cita.]]
* MamaBear - Yana
* MegaCorp - Intergal
* MenaceDecay - Dr. Luzon and Intergal
* PowersThatBe - Intergal again
* PrecociousCrush - a particularly disturbing example
* RaisedByWolves - 'Cita
* RuleOfDrama - a staple of [=McCaffrey=]'s work
* SecondLove - Sean to Yana.
* SelkiesAndWereseals - The series employs the selkie myth in a futuristic setting. The Shongili family uses genetic engineering to create a selkie (Sean). Sean's kids are natural-born selkies as well.
* SpinOffspring - Murel and Ronan's series
* TakeOverTheWorld - rare justified example
* TouchedByVorlons - Petaybee changes those who live on it
** BlessedWithSuck - And after a certain amount of time, those changes mean painful death for anyone who's off-planet for as little as a couple of days.
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn - Murel and Ronan
* VillainWithGoodPublicity - the Intergal corporation
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