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* LadyVessel:
** The first faster-than-light capable vehicle built by humanity is named "Pandora", after the first woman of Greek mythology. Though ''Pandora'' first appears in Chapter 6, Pilot Rylee Jackson [[DiscussedTrope discusses the importance]] of the name with her Gaoian friend Niral in Chapter 12:
--->"Does the name mean anything special?"...\\
Rylee smiled. "Pandora was the first woman, according to Greek mythology."\\
"The...how can there be a first woman? And what's a Greek? One of your clans?"\\
"Yeah, sort of. Mythology means kind of, fanciful stories, an entertaining way of getting points across using fiction. It doesn't always have to be scientifically accurate. Besides, they didn't really understand evolution by natural selection back in ancient Greece. It's a very old story.\\
"Oh. So, your first warp craft is named to honour the first female and not the first male?" The idea seemed to have Niral's approval, and not for the first time Rylee was struck by the notion that Gaoian females were maybe a bit sexist.\\
"Well, she was more than just the first woman." Rylee said, beginning to pack up her cot and stow it away in the ship's small cargo compartment. "She was a curious soul who opened a box in which Zeus, the father of the gods, had sealed away all the evils and negativity of mankind. When they all flew away to plague humanity, the only thing that was left behind was hope, which she kept."
** Although Pandora is a prototype Lockheed TS-101, pilot Rylee Jackson and her ship are eventually incorporated into the first wing of superluminal military vehicles. All the ships are named after women from Greek mythology: Pandora, Ariadne, Niobe, Medea, Electra, and Danae -- collectively the "Odyssey Wing".
** In chapter 12, according to the alien Niral, "The first Gaoian warp craft was named ''Tiritya,'' after the first Mother-Supreme, who united the females of all clans into one clan.
** The first faster-than-light capable vehicle built by humanity is named "Pandora", after the first woman of Greek mythology. Though ''Pandora'' first appears in Chapter 6, Pilot Rylee Jackson [[DiscussedTrope discusses the importance]] of the name with her Gaoian friend Niral in Chapter 12:
--->"Does the name mean anything special?"...\\
Rylee smiled. "Pandora was the first woman, according to Greek mythology."\\
"The...how can there be a first woman? And what's a Greek? One of your clans?"\\
"Yeah, sort of. Mythology means kind of, fanciful stories, an entertaining way of getting points across using fiction. It doesn't always have to be scientifically accurate. Besides, they didn't really understand evolution by natural selection back in ancient Greece. It's a very old story.\\
"Oh. So, your first warp craft is named to honour the first female and not the first male?" The idea seemed to have Niral's approval, and not for the first time Rylee was struck by the notion that Gaoian females were maybe a bit sexist.\\
"Well, she was more than just the first woman." Rylee said, beginning to pack up her cot and stow it away in the ship's small cargo compartment. "She was a curious soul who opened a box in which Zeus, the father of the gods, had sealed away all the evils and negativity of mankind. When they all flew away to plague humanity, the only thing that was left behind was hope, which she kept."
** Although Pandora is a prototype Lockheed TS-101, pilot Rylee Jackson and her ship are eventually incorporated into the first wing of superluminal military vehicles. All the ships are named after women from Greek mythology: Pandora, Ariadne, Niobe, Medea, Electra, and Danae -- collectively the "Odyssey Wing".
** In chapter 12, according to the alien Niral, "The first Gaoian warp craft was named ''Tiritya,'' after the first Mother-Supreme, who united the females of all clans into one clan.
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* SuperSerum: The Cruezzir class of medicine is more or less a miracle drug, but its intended purpose is basically just a HealingPotion. That's crazy enough, but something is discovered once humans start being exposed to it -- humans' gut bacteria absorb some of the drug, then begin to synthesize more of it and release it indefinitely. Thus, the regenerative medicine that heals injuries better than new starts making the human's ''entire body'' better than new, ''constantly'', and ''never runs out''. This has the effect of letting an affected human put on muscle basically as fast as they can eat food to support it, and [[HealingFactor heal wounds so fast you can almost see it]]. As useful as that could be, that kind of unregulated dosage isn't optimal or consistent, and it [[PsychoSerum plays havoc with the hormones and brain to cause dangerous instability]]. Refusing to let the human race have free access to Cruezzir for those reasons, the Corti create a derivative designed to be impossible to replicate or reverse-engineer and sell it to the human military. Crue-D (or "crude") is the secret ingredient that enables the HEAT to become so impossibly big and strong, though it only opens the door, the soldiers still have to do the work the get through it -- less ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and more a superpowered post-workout recovery supplement.
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* DisintegratorRay: The Quantum Jammers [[spoiler:wielded by the Hunters' Von Neumann probes]] are lasers that disrupt the bonds between molecules to reduce their target to its base elements, working on the same principle as Nervejam grenades.
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* MiseryBuildsCharacter: This is the Builder Alpha-of-Alphas' logic as to why [[spoiler:destroying the Earth]] acts as a gift to humanity: [[spoiler:by taking away the world they tamed, it's preventing them from growing complacent like the Hunters did.]]
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* WaveMotionGun: After the Hunters watch the Entity use forcefields to focus solar radiation into a powerful laser, they get to work designing space stations able to do the same thing on a much larger scale. The end result is referred to as the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Vengeance Engine.]] [[spoiler:A brief charge is enough to annihilate Daar's flagship, and at full charge, it consumes the entirety of AlphaCentauri to fire a beam strong enough to pierce the Sol Defense Field and reduce the Earth to a ball of molten slag.]]
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** Later on, another Zero is introduced: [[spoiler:the last true Igraen, who survived for millions of years due to extensive use of stasis pods and acts as the Hierarchy's system admin.]]
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* {{Doorstopper}}: The main plot "Deathworlders" is over 58 chapters long, with chapter lengths increasing over time. The current main storyline is now well over 1,000,000 words in length.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: The main plot "Deathworlders" is over 58 97 chapters long, with long and was written over the course of multiple years at what eventually became, after a period of irregularity, one chapter lengths increasing over time.per month. The current main storyline is now well over 1,000,000 words in length.
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* FantasticLegalWeirdness:
** Humans were considered non-sentient indigenous fauna by the Dominion before the Kevin Jenkins incident. Furthermore, the Dominion's bureaucracy considered it impossible for sentient life to evolve on a {{Deathworld}} like Earth, thus even individual abductees couldn't be considered sentient. However, one Xiù Chang got around this rule because she was adopted by the Gaoian clan of Females, and thus legally a Gaoian. After the incident on the Outlook to Forever station got enough public attention, the "no deathworld sentients" rule was scrapped and the requirements for sentience were lowered from having invented FasterThanLightTravel to calculus, giving humans the same legal rights and protections everyone else enjoyed.
** A Corti swore on a printout of the universal physical constants in court because non-deathworlder aliens are all atheists. Also a case of HollywoodLaw for the sake of RuleOfFunny, as Cimbrean is a British colony, and since 1695, you're allowed to affirm that you're telling the truth instead of swearing by God (and it's not like swearing that has kept everyone from perjury anyway).
** Humans were considered non-sentient indigenous fauna by the Dominion before the Kevin Jenkins incident. Furthermore, the Dominion's bureaucracy considered it impossible for sentient life to evolve on a {{Deathworld}} like Earth, thus even individual abductees couldn't be considered sentient. However, one Xiù Chang got around this rule because she was adopted by the Gaoian clan of Females, and thus legally a Gaoian. After the incident on the Outlook to Forever station got enough public attention, the "no deathworld sentients" rule was scrapped and the requirements for sentience were lowered from having invented FasterThanLightTravel to calculus, giving humans the same legal rights and protections everyone else enjoyed.
** A Corti swore on a printout of the universal physical constants in court because non-deathworlder aliens are all atheists. Also a case of HollywoodLaw for the sake of RuleOfFunny, as Cimbrean is a British colony, and since 1695, you're allowed to affirm that you're telling the truth instead of swearing by God (and it's not like swearing that has kept everyone from perjury anyway).
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: Averted. No one has figured out how to make an AI yet, and the only way that works is by doing a brain upload. This succeeds... to a point. Without the biological impulses telling it to keep living, the uploaded mind will eventually shut down. The Igreans and the copy of Ava get around this in their own ways- the Igreans by sponging off the survival instincts of the races in whose implants they live in, and Ava's copy by being born of the raw, pure, undiluted survival instinct of a Deathworlder.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: Averted. No one has figured out how to make an AI yet, and the only way that works is by doing a brain upload. This succeeds... to a point. Without the biological impulses telling it to keep living, the uploaded mind will eventually shut down. The Igreans and the copy of Ava get around this in their own ways- ways -- the Igreans by sponging off the survival instincts of the races in whose implants they live in, and Ava's copy by being born of the raw, pure, undiluted survival instinct of a Deathworlder.]]
