History Literature / TheLostStars

** Morgan and Malin. To the point where Drakon asks Malin if they're involved. Malin reacts with a tremendous amount of disgust to the question, enough to convince Drakon they aren't.

* NeverFoundTheBody: [[Spoiler:Morgan]]

* NeverFoundTheBody: [[Morgan]]

''The Lost Stars'' is a hard SF series by JackCampbell, a spinoff of his ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' series. Taking place shortly after the end of the Alliance-Syndicate War, the Syndicate Worlds have begun collapsing following their defeat in the war. In the star system of Midway, two Syndicate [=CEOs=] revolt and free their system from the Syndicate Worlds, to face issues of controlling it themselves, and how to alter its oppressive practices, and defend it from the aliens only a star system away.

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: The whole concept of the series, which explores the Syndic side of the end of the war, from Midway's perspective. Iceni and Drakon frequently speculate about Geary's motives and seem to assume he's running the Alliance now.

** Morgan and Malin. To the point where Drakon asks Malin if they're involved.
*** Malin reacts with a tremendous amount of disgust to the question, enough to convince Drakon they aren't. [[spoiler: With the reveal that Morgan is his biological mother, his revulsion is easily understandable.]]

* ''Imperfect Sword'' (set to be released October 2014)

* DarkMessiah: [[spoiler:Morgan believes that she can raise her and Drakon's daughter to be a [[YoungConqueror cunning mastermind]] who can take over all of human space.]]

** He had a one night stand with crazy chick Morgan, one of his closest advisor is Malin and his female counterpart is named Gwen.
* MommyIssues: It's safe to say [[spoiler: Malin has this. As he sought out transfer under Drakon ''specifically'' to find Morgan, and stayed with Morgan to protect her. As well as Drakon from her.]]

* PoisonousFriend: Morgan is this to Drakon in spades. Overlaps into PsychoSupporter range when Drakon figures out [[spoiler: Her psych eval was fake, and that given the DarkMessiah entry above, she has ''serious'' issues.]]

* SurprisePregnancy: [[spoiler: Inverted. Morgan knew she was pregnant and purposefully had sex with Drakon because she thought they would have an especially talented child. Drakon is the one who is surprised to learn this.]]
** [[In a double Whammy, this is revealed by Malin almost immediately after Malin himself reveals he is the result of a previous surprise pregnancy involving Morgan, one which neither she nor the likely one-night stand father know about at all.]]

* ColonelBadass: Drakon is this, but gets KickedUpstairs to FourStarBadass. Malin can also be considered this.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Or, at least, darkish and morally conflicted Grey can't comprehend Good. A dramatically ironic running gag in the series is that both Iceni and Drakon believe Jack Geary to be a shrewd politician and a masterful power broker, interpreting all his charitable and genuinely kind hearted actions through this lens. The Lost Fleet series proper has already revealed this to be severely not the case, and he has no idea he appears as such to them. Notably, they are utterly confounded by his demotion from Fleet Admiral, wondering what could be the purpose behind a reduction in rank. They are floored and disbelieving when told he did it for love.

* KnightInSourArmor: Who's the Tarnished Knight? Drakon.

* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler: Malin tells Drakon that he knows that ''Morgan'' is his mother. His adopted mother covered up the fact she took him out of Morgan's womb before her mission to engima space and acted at a surrogate mother, expecting Morgan would die.]]
* MajorlyAwesome: Rogero and Gaiene are this, despite being Colonels. As they don't have quite the authority of Malin and Morgan (despite all of them having the same rank) and are actually in the fighting more often. Kommodore Mephisa might be this, or a ColonelBadass.

* PoisonousFriend: Morgan is this to Drakon in spades. Overlaps into PsychoSupporter range when Drakon figures out [[spoiler: Her psyche eval was fake, and that given the DarkMessiah entry above, she has ''serious'' issues.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: Everyone, since the Syndicate system fermented this ''on purpose'' as a way to [[UnfriendlyFire pit their underlings]] [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident against each other]], [[UriahGambit to keep them from rebelling]] against the Syndicate leaders.

* CanonImmigrant: Inverted. Bradamont first appears in the main series but is imported into the Spin-off series.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Marphissa

* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler: CEO Hardrad]]

''The Lost Stars'' is a hard SF series by JackCampbell, a spinoff of his ''TheLostFleet'' series. Taking place shortly after the end of the Alliance-Syndicate War, the Syndicate Worlds have begun collapsing following their defeat in the war. In the star system of Midway, two Syndicate [=CEOs=] revolt and free their system from the Syndicate Worlds, to face issues of controlling it themselves, and how to alter its oppressive practices, and defend it from the aliens only a star system away.

* ShoutOut: To HonorHarrington series. When Iceni decides to name her cruisers for mythical creatures the first three names she settles on are "Manticore," "Gryphon" and "Basilisk."

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Inverted. Malin tells Drakon that he knows that ''Morgan'' is his mother. His adopted mother covered up the fact she took him out of Morgan's womb before her mission to engima space and acted at a surrogate mother, expecting Morgan would die.]]

*** Malin registers a tremendous amount of disgust with the question, enough to convince Drakon they aren't. [[spoiler: With the reveal that Morgan is his biological mother, his revulsion is easily understandable.]]

* MommyIssues: It's safe to say [[spoiler: Malin has this. As he sought out transfer under Drakon ''specifically'' to find Morgan, and stayed with Morgan to protect her. As well as Drakon from her.]]

* RunningGag: As with the Lost Fleet series, a number of jokes are centered on present day idioms and turns of phrase that have had their context lost to time by the period the books take place in. For instance, Iceni's assitance Togo advises several new names to replace CEO, among them "the Man" and "the Big Cheese," both of which are only known to have been ancient indicators of status.

** The Sydics, regarding Geary and the enigmas. He found out more in a year than they did in a century.

* DarkMessiah: [[spoiler:Morgan believes that she can raise her and Drakon's daughter to be a [[YoungConqueror cunning mastermind]] who can take over all of human space..]]

* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Morgan is sexually attractive, and not afraid to use it to confuse or take advantage of men, Because AllMenArePerverts.

** The names 'Gwen Iceni,' 'Artur Drakon,' 'Morgan' and quite a few others allude to King Arthur.
* {{UST}}: Drakon and Iceni.

* WouldNotHurtAChild: Why Drakon protects the families of security agents