History Literature / TheSilenceTrilogy

The trilogy's setting takes place a few centuries into TheFuture where humanity has started colonies on different planets throughout the galaxy. For the most part, many enjoy a time of quasi-peace. However, it's a different story for the isolated colony of Niraya, whose citizens are desperately seeking help from anyone willing. The series stars Commander Aleister Lanoe, a battle-hardened and decorated AcePilot, who after decades of constant wars is just trying to get by. He is joined by Tannis Valk (a RedBaron AcePilot that Lanoe once fought against), Caroline Ehta (a former-AcePilot-turned-SpaceMarine), Auster Maggs (a LoveableRogue Navy Lieutenant), and several others. This RagtagBunchofMisfits will have to fight and work together if they want to defeat these invaders.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Lands on a 3, but dances between soft SF and hard SF.

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The trilogy's setting takes place a few centuries into TheFuture where humanity has started colonies on different planets throughout the galaxy. For the most part, many enjoy a time of quasi-peace. However, it's a different story for the isolated colony of Niraya, whose citizens are desperately seeking help from anyone willing. It stars Commander Aleister Lanoe, a battle-hardened and decorated AcePilot, who after decades of constant wars is just trying to get by. He is joined by Tannis Valk (a RedBaron AcePilot that Lanoe once fought against), Caroline Ehta (a former-AcePilot-turned-SpaceMarine), Auster Maggs (a LoveableRogue Navy Lieutenant), and several others. This RagtagBunchofMisfits will have to fight and work together if they want to defeat these invaders.

* ForeShadowing:
** The tagline for the book "Fear the Darkness..." foreshadows a couple of things in the book as well as it's theme.

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Niraya is saved and the killer drones are defeated, but Zhang and many of Niraya’s colonists are dead (or severely injured), Valk realizes he’s an A.I. and just wants to die, and there’s still fleets of killer drones out there and their creators.]]

* [[spoiler: PocketDimension: The Choir are found in one]].

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Almost to the point that it’s practically a DownerEnding. Humanity is saved from the impending doom of the Blue-Blue-White’s KillerRobot army, Ginger becomes the new ambassador for the Chorus and hopefully will help smooth contact between humanity and the Chorus, and the other unquantifiable species that the Blue-Blue-White’s drones accidentally murdered are brought back to life. HOWEVER, Bury, and many of the crews that visited the Blue-Blue-White homeworld are dead, Ehta can never return to active duty in the Navy, Candless refuses to return to teaching and decides to head straight for the front lines, virtually no one wants to have anything to do with Lanoe anymore, and Lanoe, enraged that Valk still allowed Zhang to die in the new timeline, kills the only friend he has left. The last couple of sentences just paint a picture of how broken Lanoe is]].

* [[spoiler: RealityBreakingParadox: Paniet and Valk speculate that Lanoe might create one if he goes through with his plan to kill the Blue-Blue-White in the past]].

* ImprovisedWeapon: Derrow manages to turn leftover terraforming machinery into artillery batteries.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Zhang]]

* MegaCorp: There seem to be several in the series. Centrocor, ThiesseGruppe, and Wilscon are just a few that are named.
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:On a cosmic scale. Read above.]]

** [[spoiler: The drones were built by aliens as a terra-forming fleet and have been accidentally yet systematically eradicating any sentient species they've come across for half a billion years]].

* AllForNothing: Lanoe goes out of his way to make sure he can get the information about the Blue-Blue-White into the right hands, away from poly spies or Navy bureaucrats, so he can get the proper support and take the fight straight to the aliens. Unfortunately, Auster Maggs kidnaps him and Valk (at the request of Fleet Admiral Varma) and the Navy leadership gets their hands on it anyway, allowing the worst-case scenario come to pass: it gets caught up in bureaucracy and nothing happens.

* FateWorseThanDeath: One of the pilots Shulkin sends into the three wormhole tunnels gets caught in a reverse TimeDilationField where seconds for him will turn into hours for him, and exponentially get worse. Shulkin decides to leave him in there rather than rescue him.
* ForeShadowing: The tagline for the book "Fear the Darkness..." foreshadows a couple of things in the book as well as it's theme.

* OnceMoreWithClarity – In ''Forsaken Skies'', Valk describes the Century War as a terrible war where half of humanity died. [[spoiler: We’re told at the end of the book that A.I. were illegal and labeled too dangerous to be allowed to exist. The two seem unrelated. Here, it’s revealed that the reason A.I. are illegal and that half of humanity was wiped out in the Century War is because an A.I. was responsible for it.]]

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: When the series first starts, Aleister Lanoe was a legend among legends with people either looking up to him or fearing him. Ehta was one of his fiercest supporters and Candless had always respected his leadership skills and flying capability. By the end, they have both become disillusioned with him and want to have absolutely nothing to do with him]].

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Almost to the point that it’s practically a DownerEnding. Humanity is saved from the impending doom of the Blue-Blue-White’s Killer Robots, Ginger becomes the new ambassador for the Chorus and hopefully help smooth contact between humanity and the Chorus, and the species that the Blue-Blue-White’s machines accidentally murdered are brought back to life. HOWEVER, Bury, and many of the crews that visited the Blue-Blue-White homeworld are dead, Ehta can never return to active duty in the Navy, Candless refuses to return to teaching and decides to head straight for the front lines, absolutely no one wants to have anything to do with Lanoe anymore, and Lanoe, enraged that Valk still allowed Zhang to die in the new timeline, kills his only friend left. The last couple of paragraphs just paint a picture of how broken Lanoe is.]]

* ChekhovsGun: One that spans the whole series. Maggs' ceremonial dirk makes a return after not being seen since Chapter 4 in ''Forsaken Skies''.

* ForeShadowing: The book's tagline "Fear the Vengeance" [[spoiler: is pretty self-explanatory from everything you can read on this page]].
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Valk who had spent most of the series begging Lanoe to let him die is asked by Ehta (of whom he’s had a lot of ShipTease with) if he’ll join him on some future adventures, just the two of them, looking like he’ll get a happy ending after all. And then in walks Lanoe who reveals that Valk still allowed Zhang to die in the new timeline and spends the last chapter of the book hunting him down and eventually killing the suicidal A.I.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: There's two:

* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:Valk figures out that the unstable wormhole that the Choir summoned sent Lanoe and crew not just through space, but back in time ''half a billion years'']].

* TheCameo: Elder McRae returns for one chapter to strike a deal with newcomer Ashlay Bullam.

The trilogy's setting takes place a few centuries into TheFuture where humanity has started colonies on different planets throughout the galaxy. For the most part, many enjoy a time of quasi-peace. However, it's a different story for the isolated colony of Niraya, whose citizens are desperately seeking help from anyone willing. It stars Commander Aleister Lanoe, a battle-hardened and decorated AcePilot, who after decades of constant wars is just trying to get by. He is joined by Tannis Valk (a RedBaron AcePilot that Lanoe once fought against), Caroline Ehta (a former-wingmate-turned-SpaceMarine), Auster Maggs (a LoveableRogue Navy Lieutenant), and several others. This RagtagBunchofMisfits will have to fight and work together if they want to defeat these invaders.

* AcePilot: Lanoe, Valk, Ehta, Maggs, Zhang, and Candless all received a Blue Star award which is an in-universe medal tell-tell sign of a pilot with five confirmed kills. [[spoiler:Bury gets his in ''Forbidden Suns'']].

* WarIsHell

* ChekhovsGun: Maggs' Centrocor ID. [[spoiler: After seeing it on the drone in ''Forgotten Worlds'', Lanoe uses it to gain access to Centrocor's carrier for him and his BoardingParty]].