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* BlobMonster: The Swarm is something like a very sophisticated, sapient slime mold. It can communicate with itself and allies with "meta-space" transmissions, and pours itself into starships to pilot them.
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* BlobMonster: The Swarm is something like a very sophisticated, sapient slime mold. It can communicate with itself its individual globules and allies with "meta-space" transmissions, and pours itself into starships to pilot them.
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* TheTopicOfCancer: Captain Grainger spends 99% of book 1 with a mass of cancers throughout his abdomen and brain. [[spoiler: He gets better]].
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* TheTopicOfCancer: Captain Grainger spends 99% of book 1 with a mass of cancers throughout his abdomen and brain. [[spoiler: He gets better]].better after a three-day operation performed at relativistic speed, which looks like 10 seconds to the outside observer]].
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* BlobMonster: The Swarm is something like a very sophisticated, sapient slime mold. It can communicate with itself and allies with "meta-space" transmissions, and pours itself into starships to pilot them.
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* KillTally: The record for most Valarissi fighters destroyed by a single pilot in one engagement is 100 by Tyler "Ballsy" Volz. [[spoiler: His son Ethan "Batshit" Zivic beats this record in ''Liberty'', but Ballsy points out this doesn't really count because he's fighting the actual Swarm, which are separate from the Valarissi.]]
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* KillTally: The record for most Valarissi Dolarissi fighters destroyed by a single pilot in one engagement is 100 by Tyler "Ballsy" Volz. [[spoiler: His son Ethan "Batshit" Zivic beats this record in ''Liberty'', but Ballsy points out this doesn't really count because he's fighting the actual Swarm, which are separate from the Valarissi.Dolarissi.]]
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* NickNamingTheEnemy: The Swarm is theur official name, but the fighter jocks call them "cum-rats." For the record, their allies call them the "Valarassi."
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* MoreThanMindControl: The Swarm/Valarassi can symbiotically merge with most species it encounters. Those so "allied" with them retain their personalities and free will, but find the union quite enjoyable.
* NickNamingTheEnemy: The Swarm istheur their official name, but the fighter jocks call them "cum-rats." For the record, their allies call them the "Valarassi."
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* KineticWeapobsAreJustBetter: The Swarm has DeflectorShields that stop lasers dead in their tracks, but can't stop mass-driver bullets. The impact tends to discombobulate the emitters anyways, leading to a strategy of punching a hole with railgun slugs then {{Beam Spam}}ming it until the ship blows up.
* QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: Quantum physics-based [[FasterThanLightTravel jump drives]] come standard on most IDF ships, warm up within a minute or two, and go about 1/10th of a lightyear a pop. The ''Constitution'' is so elderly she requires an ''hour.'' The Swarm has a black-hole gun that uses quantum relocation to fire, generating a singularity at the center of a bunch of ships, then teleporting it under or inside a target. The matter is yanked in so suddenly that it rebounds off the singularity's core, smashing it into nothing and escaping near lightspeed. Quantum mechanics is also used to make "smart steel," a matrix of iron atoms that harden to impenetrability when struck. Unless you have the frequency, in which case it might as well not be there.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Captain Grainger spends 99% of book 1 with a mass of cancers throughout his abdomen and brain. [[spoiler: He gets better]].
* QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: Quantum physics-based [[FasterThanLightTravel jump drives]] come standard on most IDF ships, warm up within a minute or two, and go about 1/10th of a lightyear a pop. The ''Constitution'' is so elderly she requires an ''hour.'' The Swarm has a black-hole gun that uses quantum relocation to fire, generating a singularity at the center of a bunch of ships, then teleporting it under or inside a target. The matter is yanked in so suddenly that it rebounds off the singularity's core, smashing it into nothing and escaping near lightspeed. Quantum mechanics is also used to make "smart steel," a matrix of iron atoms that harden to impenetrability when struck. Unless you have the frequency, in which case it might as well not be there.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Captain Grainger spends 99% of book 1 with a mass of cancers throughout his abdomen and brain. [[spoiler: He gets better]].
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* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: The Swarm has DeflectorShields that stop lasers dead in their tracks, but can't stop mass-driver bullets. The impact tends to discombobulate the emitters anyways, leading to a strategy of punching a hole with railgun slugs then {{Beam Spam}}ming it until the ship blows up.
* QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: Quantum physics-based [[FasterThanLightTravel jump drives]] come standard on most IDF ships, warm up within a minute or two, and go about 1/10th of a lightyear a pop. The ''Constitution'' is so elderly she requires an ''hour.'' The Swarm has a black-hole gun that uses quantum relocation to fire, generating a singularity at the center of a bunch of ships, then teleporting it under or inside a target. The matter is yanked in so suddenly that it rebounds off the singularity's core, smashing it into nothing and escaping near lightspeed. Quantum mechanics is also used to make "smart steel," a matrix of iron atoms that harden to impenetrability when struck. Unless you have the frequency, in which case it might as well not be there.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Captain Grainger spends 99% of book 1 with a mass of cancers throughout his abdomen and brain. [[spoiler: He gets better]].
* ZergRush: How the Swarm got its name. They show up in carriers and spam fighters in squadrons of hundreds. Unlike most wave tactics, each individual fighter is [[ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts no pushover, either.]]
* QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: Quantum physics-based [[FasterThanLightTravel jump drives]] come standard on most IDF ships, warm up within a minute or two, and go about 1/10th of a lightyear a pop. The ''Constitution'' is so elderly she requires an ''hour.'' The Swarm has a black-hole gun that uses quantum relocation to fire, generating a singularity at the center of a bunch of ships, then teleporting it under or inside a target. The matter is yanked in so suddenly that it rebounds off the singularity's core, smashing it into nothing and escaping near lightspeed. Quantum mechanics is also used to make "smart steel," a matrix of iron atoms that harden to impenetrability when struck. Unless you have the frequency, in which case it might as well not be there.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Captain Grainger spends 99% of book 1 with a mass of cancers throughout his abdomen and brain. [[spoiler: He gets better]].
* ZergRush: How the Swarm got its name. They show up in carriers and spam fighters in squadrons of hundreds. Unlike most wave tactics, each individual fighter is [[ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts no pushover, either.]]
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* QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: Quantum physics-based [[FasterThanLightTravel jump drives]] come standard on most IDF ships, warm up within a minute or two, and go about 1/10th of a lightyear a pop. The ''Constitution'' is so elderly she requires an ''hour.'' The Swarm has a black-hole gun that uses quantum relocation to fire, generating a singularity at the center of a bunch of ships, then teleporting it under or inside a target. The matter is yanked in so suddenly that it rebounds off the singularity's core, smashing it into nothing and escaping near lightspeed. Quantum mechanics is also used to make "smart steel," a matrix of iron atoms that harden to impenetrability when struck. Unless you have the frequency, in which case it might as well not be there.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Captain Grainger spends 99% of book 1 with a mass of cancers throughout his abdomen and brain. [[spoiler: He gets better]].
* QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything: Quantum physics-based [[FasterThanLightTravel jump drives]] come standard on most IDF ships, warm up within a minute or two, and go about 1/10th of a lightyear a pop. The ''Constitution'' is so elderly she requires an ''hour.'' The Swarm has a black-hole gun that uses quantum relocation to fire, generating a singularity at the center of a bunch of ships, then teleporting it under or inside a target. The matter is yanked in so suddenly that it rebounds off the singularity's core, smashing it into nothing and escaping near lightspeed. Quantum mechanics is also used to make "smart steel," a matrix of iron atoms that harden to impenetrability when struck. Unless you have the frequency, in which case it might as well not be there.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Captain Grainger spends 99% of book 1 with a mass of cancers throughout his abdomen and brain. [[spoiler: He gets better]].
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* KillTally: The record for most Valarissi fighters destroyed by a single pilot in one engagement is 100 by Tyler "Ballsy" Volz. [[spoiler: His son Ethan "Batshit" Zivic beats this record in ''Liberty'', but Ballsy points out this doesn't really count because he's fighting the actual Swarm, which are separate from the Valarissi.]]
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* KillTally: The record for most Valarissi fighters destroyed by a single pilot in one engagement is 100 by Tyler "Ballsy" Volz. [[spoiler: His son Ethan "Batshit" Zivic beats this record in ''Liberty'', but Ballsy points out this doesn't really count because he's fighting the actual Swarm, which are separate from the Valarissi.]]]]
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* KillTally: The record for most Valarissi fighters destroyed by a single pilot is 100 by Tyler "Ballsy" Volz. [[spoiler: His son Ethan "Batshit" Zivic beats this record in ''Liberty'', but Ballsy points out this doesn't really count because he's fighting the actual Swarm, which are separate from the Valarissi.]]
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* KillTally: The record for most Valarissi fighters destroyed by a single pilot in one engagement is 100 by Tyler "Ballsy" Volz. [[spoiler: His son Ethan "Batshit" Zivic beats this record in ''Liberty'', but Ballsy points out this doesn't really count because he's fighting the actual Swarm, which are separate from the Valarissi.]]
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* GreatOffscreenWar: The series begins fifty years after the end of the First Swarm War.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that some of the spinoff novels are set during it.
* KillTally: The record for most Valarissi fighters destroyed by a single pilot is 100 by Tyler "Ballsy" Volz. [[spoiler: His son Ethan "Batshit" Zivic beats this record in ''Liberty'', but Ballsy points out this doesn't really count because he's fighting the actual Swarm, which are separate from the Valarissi.]]
* GreatOffscreenWar: The series begins fifty years after the end of the First Swarm War.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that some of the spinoff novels are set during it.
* KillTally: The record for most Valarissi fighters destroyed by a single pilot is 100 by Tyler "Ballsy" Volz. [[spoiler: His son Ethan "Batshit" Zivic beats this record in ''Liberty'', but Ballsy points out this doesn't really count because he's fighting the actual Swarm, which are separate from the Valarissi.]]
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* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Post-''Victory'', Timothy Grainger is still very much alive, becoming a major character again in time for ''Liberty''.]]]]
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: [[JustifiedTrope Justified.]] The races connected to the Swarm's telepathic Ligature have learned English due to the Swarm assimilating some of the humans before the start of the Second Swarm War.
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* AbnormalAmmo: In the first trilogy, the usual IDF defense against the Swarm's primary weapon (an [[spoiler: artificial singularity bomb]]) is to throw a large osmium brick at them.
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* AbnormalAmmo: In the first trilogy, the usual IDF defense against the Swarm's primary weapon (an [[spoiler: artificial singularity bomb]]) is to throw a large osmium brick at them.them.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Post-''Victory'', Timothy Grainger is still very much alive, becoming a major character again in time for ''Liberty''.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Post-''Victory'', Timothy Grainger is still very much alive, becoming a major character again in time for ''Liberty''.]]
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A seventh was scheduled to be released in Fall 2018, but [[ScheduleSlip is still in the works.]]
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* Book 6: _Liberty_
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_The Legacy Fleet Series_ is a science fiction novel series written by Creator/NickWebb.
There are six books in the main story:
* Book 1: _Constitution_
* Book 2: _Warrior_
* Book 3: _Victory_
* Book 4: _Independence_
* Book 5: _Defiance_
* Book 6: _Liberty_
In addition, there are a set of expanded universe novels, formerly published under the now-defunct Kindle Worlds program.
!! _The Legacy Fleet series_ contains examples of:
* AbnormalAmmo: In the first trilogy, the usual defense against the Swarm's primary weapon (a [[spoiler: artificial singularity bomb]]) is to throw a large osmium brick at them.
There are six books in the main story:
* Book 1: _Constitution_
* Book 2: _Warrior_
* Book 3: _Victory_
* Book 4: _Independence_
* Book 5: _Defiance_
* Book 6: _Liberty_
In addition, there are a set of expanded universe novels, formerly published under the now-defunct Kindle Worlds program.
!! _The Legacy Fleet series_ contains examples of:
* AbnormalAmmo: In the first trilogy, the usual defense against the Swarm's primary weapon (a [[spoiler: artificial singularity bomb]]) is to throw a large osmium brick at them.
