History Literature / SpaceCadetRvbomally

''[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/space-cadet.344576/ Space Cadet]]'' is a science fiction timeline, written by Rvbomally (the author of ''Literature/AdAstraPerAspera'' and ''Literature/VivereMilitareEst'') and originating on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom. The TL can be summed up as a "sarcastic love letter to ScienceFiction "- Essentially an attempt to play with, deconstruct and generally screw around with as many sci-fi tropes as is humanly possible.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The dinosaurs were resurrected through cloning and several species are still around in the present. The most notable are the Kerdin, who are heavily modified, sapient dromeosaurs.

* TheGreys: The Shortmen are Space Cadet's version of the Grey's. They are a human subspecies, genetically engineered to serve as engineers on spacecraft. Personality wise, they're essentially a whole species of {{Nerd}}s.

* DarthVaderClone: The Empire has an entire organisation of Darth Vader clones- the Order of the Architects, who belong to a human subspecies with power over the four forces of the universe. The Order's architects have been deliberately modified to make them crippled and dependent on the Empire.

* TheGreys: The Shortmen are Space Cadet's version of the Grey's. They are a human subspecies, genetically engineered to serve as engineers on spacecraft. Personality wise, they're essentially a whole species of [[HollywoodNerd Hollywood Nerds]].

* TheReptilians: The Kerdin, who were genetically engineered from cloned Velociraptors in order to provide interesting prey for the wealthy on hunting worlds. The collapse of the Second Empire allowed them to escape and found their own empire.

--> '''RvBOMally''': I am often told that the Federation in Space Cadet gets it much worse than the Empire. This is true, but it is not entirely personal bias. It is because the Federation is fundamentally wrong about mankind, and the Empire is right.\\\

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: The [[Literature/WarOfTheWorlds Sarmaks]] are a species of sentient cephalopods who serve Avelov.

* LightspeedLeapfrog: By the time the {{GenerationShip}}s sent out at the end of the 21st century arrived at their destinations, galactic civilization had already risen and fallen several times. At least, that's what their descendants the United Colonial Authority believes; there's no way to know if they actually originated on the real pre-Ash Winter earth or are actually the product of the Second Empire's interdimensional experiments.

* LoanShark: It is never a good idea not to pay back a loan from the Consortium. They can do a lot worse than tale your house- as many Imperial lords have found out to their cost, they have no problems with repossessing entire planets, disassembling them into raw materials and selling the population into slavery.

** The Imperial-Nomoki War was one to the Pacific Theatre of WW2, complete with the atomic annihilation of the enemy at the end.

* SinisterSentientStar: The star vampires are enormous, monstrous creatures of serpentine plasma. They feed off normal stars, eventually resulting in the star's death.

* EightiesHair: The Coalition has this to an almost ridiculous degree.

Bling of war: The kerdin soldiers of Sokowuz wear armour decorated with gold and jewelry.

* {{Troll}} : The Remnant are essentially an entire civilization made up of psychotic internet trolls.
* UngovernableGalaxy: The difficulty involved in directly controlling hundreds of thousands (or, in the case of the Empire and Federation,millions) of systems means that a lot of the galactic powers are very decentralized. Even powers such as Avelov and the Federation, who have an ideological commitment to imposing their system upon others are forced to allow their periphery systems to do their own thing.