History Literature / TheSilenceTrilogy

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Almost to the point that it’s practically a Downer Ending. 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.]]

* [[spoiler: RealityBreakingParadox]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: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:'''Valk:''' I think we met the reason there are no aliens.]]

* ForeignCussWord: "Thrice-damned" seems to be a more charged way of saying "damned". Also, "Hellfire".

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

* TheReveal: There's a few:

* ForeignCussWord: "Thrice-damned" seems to be a more charged way of saying "damned".

* TimeAbyss: Lanoe's age of 300 years is constantly thrown around (it's in the summary of ''Forsaken Skies'', after all) and he's lived most of that life fighting. It can be easy for the reader to forget that the equivalent would be a human being whose fought in every war since the mid-1700s and there's no way to comprehend what living that long could honestly do to a person, let alone fighting wars in all that time.

* [[spoiler:SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Choir and Blue-Blue-White]].

* [[spoiler: Attack Drones: What the drone fleet can become if provoked or if it finds "vermin"]].

* [[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: Cliffhanger: The mysterious KillerRobot drones were created by an alien species called the Blue-Blue-White and there are more drones out there.]]
* [[spoiler: CosmicHorrorReveal: About halfway through the book, a few people claim humanity’s stretched out beyond the stars for centuries and has yet to come into contact with any aliens. Then, it’s revealed that the killer alien drones are actually terraforming drones and they attacked Niraya because they didn’t recognize humanity as a sentient species thanks to bad coding. Combine that with the fact that drones have been around for half a billion years and you get D. Nolan Clark's answer to the Fermi Paradox]].

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: Zhang]]
* [[spoiler: KillerRobot: What the invading force turns out to be]].

* [[spoiler: CliffHanger: The book ends with Lanoe and the Hopilite crew having passed through the unstable wormhole created by the Chorus, but they have no idea where they are or that Centrocor, under the command of Blood Knight Captain Shulkin and armed with three times as much firepower and ships, is right behind them.]]

** Paniet at one point ponders to himself the crew's [[spoiler: gradual descent in amorality and apathy as the mission goes on]].

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Almost to the point that it’s practically a Downer Ending. 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 accidently 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.]]
* * [[spoiler: CessationOfExistence: Paniet speculates that Lanoe could cause this on a cosmic scale if he goes through with his plan to kill the Blue-Blue-White in the past]].

* [[spoiler:HopeSpot: 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 Ship Tease 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.]]

* [[spoiler:RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After all the conniving schemes and inconsiderate lives that Maggs and Bullam have led, they are left behind when Lanoe and crew escape back to the future with enemy ships ready to fire. Maggs says it best:]]

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

* 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''.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Blue-Blue-White. Although, one could argue they are ObliviouslyEvil.]]

* FantasyKitchenSink: We have space travel, DesignerBabies, body-swapping, cybertronics, space ships and stations, [[spoiler:artificial intelligence, aliens, and TimeTravel. It's got just about all the science fiction elements.]]
* [[spoiler: FirstContact: Happens twice and it does not go well either time.]]

* [[spoiler:SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Choir and Blue-Blue-White.]]

* Boarding Party: Lanoe, Ehta, and the marines board Centrocor's carrier in order to take over the ship and its destroyer compliment.

* [[spoiler: Killer Robot: What the invading force turns out to be]].
** [[spoiler: Although, not really

''The Silence'' is a SpaceOpera trilogy by American author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wellington_(author) David Wellington]], going under the pen name D. Nolan Clark. The first book in the series, ''Forsaken Skies'', was published September 6th, 2016. The second book, ''Forgotten Worlds'', was published on April 18th, 2017. The third and final book, ''Forbidden Suns'', was published on October 17th, 2017.

* BigDamnHeroes
* [[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:Cliffhanger: The mysterious KillerRobot drones were created by an alien species called the Blue-Blue-White and there are more drones out there.]]
* [[spoiler:CosmicHorrorReveal: About halfway through the book, a few people claim humanity’s stretched out beyond the stars for centuries and has yet to come into contact with any aliens. Then, it’s revealed that the killer alien drones are actually terraforming drones and they attacked Niraya because they didn’t recognize humanity as a sentient species thanks to bad coding. Combine that with the fact that drones have been around for half a billion years and you get D. Nolan Clark's answer to the Fermi Paradox]].

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Zhang]]

* TheReveal: There are actually quite a few:
** [[spoiler:The drones were built by aliens.]]
** [[spoiler:Tannis Valk is an A.I. and the real Tannis Valk died 17 years prior to the story.]]
** [[spoiler:The drones have been systematically eradicating any sentient species they've come across for half a billion years]]

* * [[spoiler: CessationOfExistence]]

* [[spoiler:CosmicHorrorReveal: About halfway through the book, a few people claim humanity’s stretched out beyond the stars for centuries and has yet to come into contact with any aliens. Then, it’s revealed that the killer alien drones are actually terraforming drones and they attacked Niraya because they didn’t recognize humanity as a sentient species thanks to bad coding. Combine that with the fact that drones have been around for half a billion years and you get D. Nolan Clark's answer to the Fermi Paradox]]

* Broken Pedestal: [[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:FantasyKitchenSink: We have space travel, genetic editing, body-swapping, cybertronics, space ships and stations, artificial intelligence, aliens, time travel. It's got just about all the science fiction elements.]]

* [[spoiler:CosmicHorrorReveal: About halfway through the book, a few people claim humanity’s stretched out beyond the stars for centuries and has yet to come into contact with any aliens. Then, it’s revealed that the killer alien drones are actually terraforming drones and they attacked Niraya because they didn’t recognize humanity as a sentient species thanks to bad coding. Combine that with the fact that drones have been around for half a billion years...]]

* ButtMonkey

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

* Foreshadowing: The book's tagline "Fear the Vengeance" [[spoiler: is pretty self-explanatory from everything you can read on this page]].

[[folder:Tropes for the series]]

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.

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.

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, and several others. This RagtagBunchofMisfits will have to fight and work together if they want to defeat these invaders.