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* CultColony: Several different ones, some more malevolent than others.
** In the first short story, ''The Ship Who Sang'', fanatics were attracted to the icy planet Chloe to live in ascetic contemplation. When the star destabilizes they're quite reluctant to accept help evacuating them as they've come to regard outsiders, and the outside, as impure. The resultant delays cause the death of Helva's first brawn.
** In ''The Ship Who Killed'' Helva visits Alioth, a miserable colony ringed by active volcanoes and a crashed [[SapientShip brainship]] turned into a kind of temple. Volcanic activity regularly floods the colony with hallucinogenic vapors, and the brainship, Lia, is a DeathSeeker [[AndIMustScream trapped in place]] and [[ICannotSelfTerminate unable to die]]. Between Lia's maddened babblings and the gas, the Aliothans have formed a ReligionOfEvil that is very into HumanSacrifice.
** ''The City Who Fought'' has Bethel, a pretty standard SpaceAmish colony which has had a youth movement agitating against the strictly conservative lifestyles imposed on them. There are also the Kolnari, the descendants of various hate groups dumped onto a DeathWorld. After evolving into a brutal HumanSubspecies and developing industry and space travel, the Kolnari and their BreedingCult spread to make trouble on other colonies, Bethel included.
** The final story in the setting, ''The Ship Who Returned'', has Helva visit Ravel, which is populated by the descendants of people from Chloe. The Ravelians have built houses of worship to look like [[SapientShip Helva]] and their religious leader took the title Helvalene - unsurprisingly they hold Helva herself in high regard, much to her confusion, but brush aside her warnings about the incoming Kolnari, claiming Ravel itself will protect them. [[spoiler: The Kolnari are torn apart by spiky vines upon landing.]]
** In the first short story, ''The Ship Who Sang'', fanatics were attracted to the icy planet Chloe to live in ascetic contemplation. When the star destabilizes they're quite reluctant to accept help evacuating them as they've come to regard outsiders, and the outside, as impure. The resultant delays cause the death of Helva's first brawn.
** In ''The Ship Who Killed'' Helva visits Alioth, a miserable colony ringed by active volcanoes and a crashed [[SapientShip brainship]] turned into a kind of temple. Volcanic activity regularly floods the colony with hallucinogenic vapors, and the brainship, Lia, is a DeathSeeker [[AndIMustScream trapped in place]] and [[ICannotSelfTerminate unable to die]]. Between Lia's maddened babblings and the gas, the Aliothans have formed a ReligionOfEvil that is very into HumanSacrifice.
** ''The City Who Fought'' has Bethel, a pretty standard SpaceAmish colony which has had a youth movement agitating against the strictly conservative lifestyles imposed on them. There are also the Kolnari, the descendants of various hate groups dumped onto a DeathWorld. After evolving into a brutal HumanSubspecies and developing industry and space travel, the Kolnari and their BreedingCult spread to make trouble on other colonies, Bethel included.
** The final story in the setting, ''The Ship Who Returned'', has Helva visit Ravel, which is populated by the descendants of people from Chloe. The Ravelians have built houses of worship to look like [[SapientShip Helva]] and their religious leader took the title Helvalene - unsurprisingly they hold Helva herself in high regard, much to her confusion, but brush aside her warnings about the incoming Kolnari, claiming Ravel itself will protect them. [[spoiler: The Kolnari are torn apart by spiky vines upon landing.]]
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* LifeOrLimbDecision: In the climax of ''[=PartnerShip=]'', Nancia is in [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Singularity]] when [[spoiler: Polyon's ComputerVirus strikes and starts to spread outwards from the hyperchips installed in her sensors and navigation computer. Nancia has to take drastic action to contain the spread, fusing some of her components and deleting quite a lot of her own code, something that she explicitly compares to an animal in a trap gnawing off one of its own limbs. This includes most of her recorded memories - she still had the memories stored in her human brain, but that doesn't have the detail and precision of something she can look up again in her databanks. Nancia gets new components and databanks but can't replace those memories, and gains a physiological response to emotions that shellpeople normally don't have.]]
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* LifeOrLimbDecision: In the climax of ''[=PartnerShip=]'', the book, Nancia is in [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Singularity]] when [[spoiler: Polyon's ComputerVirus strikes and starts to spread outwards from the hyperchips installed in her sensors and navigation computer. Nancia has to take drastic action to contain the spread, fusing some of her components and deleting quite a lot of her own code, something that she explicitly compares to an animal in a trap gnawing off one of its own limbs. This includes most of her recorded memories - she still had the memories stored in her human brain, but that doesn't have the detail and precision of something she can look up again in her databanks. Nancia gets new components and databanks but can't replace those memories, and gains a physiological response to emotions that shellpeople normally don't have.]]]]
* LongevityTreatments: Treatments are mentioned which can get rich people who respond well to them to live to about two hundred. Even ordinary people are on the Long-Lived side and commonly reach an age of a hundred twenty, so these don't have as pronounced of an effect as many other uses of the trope.
* LongevityTreatments: Treatments are mentioned which can get rich people who respond well to them to live to about two hundred. Even ordinary people are on the Long-Lived side and commonly reach an age of a hundred twenty, so these don't have as pronounced of an effect as many other uses of the trope.
* PortalNetwork: Ships with a Singularity Drive like Nancia's can enter Singularity Points to cross distances much faster than by using "normal" faster-than-light. HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace that warps the ships people use and their bodies in upsetting, unpredictable ways - such as making teeth switch between rotting mush and long, stabbing needles - so [[CyborgHelmsman brainships are a better choice than ordinary humans]].
* BlindJump: A tramp prospector had [[TheAllegedCar a ship so ramshackle and cobbled together out of so many parts]] that it often "fell out" of FTL, dumping him into strange places. He was fine with this since it sometimes meant unplanned discoveries and new opportunities. This went poorly for him, but not due to appearing next to a star or anything, [[spoiler: it's because he investigated an interesting planetary system and contracted ThePlague.]]
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* MemoryWipeExploitation: The mages and magesses of Ozran control the "furfaced" underclasses who farm and labor for them by feeding them heavily drugged meals that have serious deleterious effects on their minds and memories, making it difficult for them to remember thing that happened earlier in the day, let alone make long term plans. Carialle fears that continuing this diet will result in the furfaces becoming a FormerlySentientSpecies. One furface who missed a few meals due to illness noticed the change in his thinking and switched to scrounging raw food - and grew stronger and heartier for it as well as being better able to think and remember.
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* MemoryWipeExploitation: The mages and magesses of Ozran control the "furfaced" underclasses who farm and labor for them by feeding them heavily drugged meals that have serious deleterious effects on their minds and memories, making it difficult for them to remember thing that happened earlier in the day, let alone make long term plans. Carialle fears that continuing this diet will result in the furfaces becoming a FormerlySentientSpecies.FormerlySapientSpecies. One furface who missed a few meals due to illness noticed the change in his thinking and switched to scrounging raw food - and grew stronger and heartier for it as well as being better able to think and remember.
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** Averted for ''The Ship Who Won''. After her traumatic experience, Carialle has had extensive therapy that's included [[CopeByCreating art]]. Her therapist was [[AllTherapistsAreMuggles not used to treating shellpeople]] but a few hiccups aside it wasn't a big issue.
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** Averted for Zigzagged in ''The Ship Who Won''. After Killed''. Someone "conditioned" Kira to be [[ICannotSelfTerminate unable to kill herself]] and barred her traumatic experience, Carialle has had extensive therapy that's included [[CopeByCreating art]]. Her therapist from [[WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture going anywhere where euthanasia was [[AllTherapistsAreMuggles not used to treating shellpeople]] legal]] but didn't actually help her or even prevent her from working, leaving Helva to give her EpiphanyTherapy when they visit a few hiccups aside it wasn't DeathSeeker CultColony. As they leave it, Kira recommends to Central Worlds that they sent a big issue."planet-therapy team" to the colony immediately.
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** Averted for ''The Ship Who Won''. After her traumatic experience, Carialle has had extensive therapy that's included [[CopeByCreating art]]. Her art therapist was [[AllTherapistsAreMuggles not used to treating shellpeople]] but a few hiccups aside it wasn't a big issue.
*** However, she has a {{foil}} in ''The Ship Errant'' who had a similar experience but, as a brawn who survived the death of her brainship, was seen as aberrant and unlucky, given much less help. Mirina slipped through the cracks. Carialle reflects cynically that after all, a brainship takes many years and a ''lot'' of money to go into service and is LongLived, while a brawn is a regular person given several years' training and has a career of maybe seventy years, of course Central Worlds had been more generous in helping ''her'' return to duty.
*** However, she has a {{foil}} in ''The Ship Errant'' who had a similar experience but, as a brawn who survived the death of her brainship, was seen as aberrant and unlucky, given much less help. Mirina slipped through the cracks. Carialle reflects cynically that after all, a brainship takes many years and a ''lot'' of money to go into service and is LongLived, while a brawn is a regular person given several years' training and has a career of maybe seventy years, of course Central Worlds had been more generous in helping ''her'' return to duty.
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* WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture: It's ''discouraged'' and brains and brawns in the Courier Service are given extensive conditioning meaning that even when they become suicidal, they're [[ICannotSelfTerminate unable to fully commit to killing themselves]]. Indeed, Helva posits that it's not ''possible''. There ''are'' a few member-worlds with local laws allowing people to legally seek self-euthanasia, but someone like Kira who's displayed suicidal tendencies can be barred from visiting them. [[ThereAreNoTherapists Not that anyone actually helps her]], leading Helva to have to give her EpiphanyTherapy in a rough moment instead.
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** Helva's inhuman vocal range allows her to sing any part she wishes, BassoProfundo included - which also means that when she's roped into performing Shakespeare in ''Dramatic Mission'' she can play any part required.
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** Helva's inhuman vocal range allows her to sing any part she wishes, BassoProfundo [[MediaNotes/VoiceTypes basso profundo]] included - which also means that when she's roped into performing Shakespeare in ''Dramatic Mission'' she can play any part required.
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* AMinorKidroduction: ''Literature/TheShipWho Sang'' starts with Helva as an infant, with her severe birth defects relegating her to either [[BuryYourDisabled euthanasia]] or becoming a [[ManInTheMachine shellperson]], thereby introducing shellpeople, the central conceit of the series. There's also a short section of her at fourteen, humming as she paints a replica of the Last Supper on the head of a pin, and being complimented on her voice, which leads to her developing it and becoming the titular ship who sings.
** ''The Ship Who Searched'' spends several chapters on Tia and shows how ParentalNeglect led to her being paralyzed and scouted for the shellperson program, also establishing her lifelong interest in xenoarchaology. Other than her and her doctor, none of the characters in this section appear in the rest of the book.
** ''The Ship Who Searched'' spends several chapters on Tia and shows how ParentalNeglect led to her being paralyzed and scouted for the shellperson program, also establishing her lifelong interest in xenoarchaology. Other than her and her doctor, none of the characters in this section appear in the rest of the book.
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* AMinorKidroduction:
** ''Literature/TheShipWho Sang'' starts with Helva as an infant, with her severe birth defects relegating her to either [[BuryYourDisabled euthanasia]] or becoming a [[ManInTheMachine shellperson]], thereby introducing shellpeople, the central conceit of the series. There's also a short section of her at fourteen, humming as she paints a replica of the Last Supper on the head of a pin, and being complimented on her voice, which leads to her developing it and becoming the titular ship who sings.
** ''The Ship Who Searched'' spends several chapters on Tia and shows how ParentalNeglect led to her being paralyzed and scouted for the shellperson program, also establishing her lifelong interest in xenoarchaology. Other than her and her doctor, none of the characters in this section appear in the rest of the book.
** ''Literature/TheShipWho Sang'' starts with Helva as an infant, with her severe birth defects relegating her to either [[BuryYourDisabled euthanasia]] or becoming a [[ManInTheMachine shellperson]], thereby introducing shellpeople, the central conceit of the series. There's also a short section of her at fourteen, humming as she paints a replica of the Last Supper on the head of a pin, and being complimented on her voice, which leads to her developing it and becoming the titular ship who sings.
** ''The Ship Who Searched'' spends several chapters on Tia and shows how ParentalNeglect led to her being paralyzed and scouted for the shellperson program, also establishing her lifelong interest in xenoarchaology. Other than her and her doctor, none of the characters in this section appear in the rest of the book.
