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''The Zodiac Series'' is a ScienceFantasy YA series by Romina Russell. It's comprised of four books.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Downplayed since the issues aren't ''that'' bad and can be fixed, but the Zodiac System as a whole is this. The Houses are technologically advanced and ''very'' committed to making sure their people have all their needs met...but the keyword there is ''their'' people. Every House has isolationist tendencies and tend to mistrust each other, which bites them in the ass on numerous occasions.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Downplayed since the issues aren't ''that'' bad and can be fixed, but the The Zodiac System as a whole is this. The Houses are technologically advanced and ''very'' committed to making sure their people have all their needs met...but the keyword there is ''their'' people. Every House has isolationist tendencies and tend to mistrust each other, which bites them in the ass on numerous occasions.
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* DoomedHometown: Try [[UpToEleven Doomed]] ''[[UpToEleven Planet]]''--House Cancer gets utterly ''wrecked'' within the first few chapters of ''Zodiac''.
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* DoomedHometown: Try [[UpToEleven Doomed]] ''[[UpToEleven Planet]]''--House Doomed ''Planet''--House Cancer gets utterly ''wrecked'' within the first few chapters of ''Zodiac''.
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* ApocalypseHow: House Cancer goes through a Class 2 that destroys their way of life, [[spoiler:House Ophiuchus was completely ''crushed'' by Dark Matter in a Class 6, and the entire ''galaxy'' is poised to suffer a Class X-2 if [[BigBad Aquarius's]] plan goes through.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: House Cancer goes through a Class 2 that destroys their way of life, [[spoiler:House Ophiuchus was completely ''crushed'' by Dark Matter in a Class 6, X, and the entire ''galaxy'' is poised to suffer a Class X-2 if [[BigBad Aquarius's]] plan goes through.]]
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Reeling from the destruction of her home, Rho quickly learns that this wasn't a mere tragedy--it was an attack, orchestrated by the mysterious Thirteenth Guardian, long thought to be a legend. Now, traveling with skeptical Lodestar Mathias Thais and charming Libyan Hysan Dax, Rho must convince the Houses to unite against this threat...[[CassandraTruth assuming she can convince anyone of Ophiuchus's existence at all]].
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Reeling from the destruction of her home, Rho quickly learns that this wasn't a mere tragedy--it was an attack, orchestrated by the mysterious Thirteenth Guardian, long thought to be a legend. Now, traveling with skeptical Lodestar Mathias Thais and charming Libyan Libran Hysan Dax, Rho must convince the Houses to unite against this threat...[[CassandraTruth assuming she can convince anyone of Ophiuchus's existence at all]].
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* BigBad: The master, TheManBehindTheMan of all the antagonists and
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* BigBad: The master, TheManBehindTheMan of all the antagonists andantagonists. Their exact identity is unknown, and both ''Wandering Star'' and ''Black Moon'' are about puzzling them out. [[spoiler:Eventually revealed to be [[VisionaryVillain Aquarius]].]]
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* ILied: [[spoiler:As ''Thirteen Rising'' reveals, there was absolutely no way Ophiuchus ''couldn't'' have known the master's identity, given that said master openly talked about his idea of [[ItMakesSenseInContext flying into the sun]] ''long'' before the events of the series; that Ophiuchus didn't know was a lie to protect him.]] Rho [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out on it]].
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In [[TheFuture the far-flung future]], a lot has changed. For one thing, humanity no longer lives on Earth, or indeed, in the Solar System. Instead, they live in the Zodiac System, a stellar system based around the WesternZodiac. For another thing, predicting the future is not only perfectly possible, it's now ''necessary'' for society to function. Peacekeepers known as Zodai are taught to read the stars so as to protect their people.
One of those star-readers is [[TheHero Rhoma Grace]], an Acolyte at House Cancer's Zodai Academy with an unusual way of reading the stars. Her peers use astrological math to calculate their readings, while Rho does it purely by intuition. Most people dismiss her readings, seeing them as just silly stories.
[[ApocalypseHow And then House Cancer has its own moons slam into it and is utterly destroyed]].
Reeling from the destruction of her home, Rho quickly learns that this wasn't a mere tragedy--it was an attack, orchestrated by the mysterious Thirteenth Guardian, long thought to be a legend. Now, traveling with skeptical Lodestar Mathias Thais and charming Libyan Hysan Dax, Rho must convince the Houses to unite against this threat...[[CassandraTruth assuming she can convince anyone of Ophiuchus's existence at all]].
''The Zodiac Series'' is a ScienceFantasy YA series by Romina Russell. It's comprised of four books.
* ''Zodiac''
* ''Wandering Star''
* ''Black Moon''
* ''Thirteen Rising''
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!!Tropes associated with this series include:
* ApocalypseHow: House Cancer goes through a Class 2 that destroys their way of life, [[spoiler:House Ophiuchus was completely ''crushed'' by Dark Matter in a Class 6, and the entire ''galaxy'' is poised to suffer a Class X-2 if [[BigBad Aquarius's]] plan goes through.]]
* BigBad: The master, TheManBehindTheMan of all the antagonists and
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Downplayed since the issues aren't ''that'' bad and can be fixed, but the Zodiac System as a whole is this. The Houses are technologically advanced and ''very'' committed to making sure their people have all their needs met...but the keyword there is ''their'' people. Every House has isolationist tendencies and tend to mistrust each other, which bites them in the ass on numerous occasions.
* DoomedHometown: Try [[UpToEleven Doomed]] ''[[UpToEleven Planet]]''--House Cancer gets utterly ''wrecked'' within the first few chapters of ''Zodiac''.
* FirstEpisodeTwist: Throughout all of ''Zodiac'', both the reader and the characters are led to believe that [[TheHeavy Ophiuchus]] is the BigBad. A perfectly reasonable assumption...and also completely wrong, as Ophiuchus himself reveals the existence of [[TheManBehindTheMan the master]] at the book's climax. The rest of the series is about trying to figure out their identity and agenda.
* LoveTriangle: Between Rho, Mathias, and Hysan. [[spoiler:[[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that it quickly becomes clear that Hysan is the LoveInterest, it's just that the matter ends up complicated by a lot of things. Like Mathias's apparent death.]]
* MeaningfulName: Rhoma is constantly referred to with the nickname "Rho". One of the stars in the real-life Ophiuchus constellation is "''Rho'' Ophiuchi".
One of those star-readers is [[TheHero Rhoma Grace]], an Acolyte at House Cancer's Zodai Academy with an unusual way of reading the stars. Her peers use astrological math to calculate their readings, while Rho does it purely by intuition. Most people dismiss her readings, seeing them as just silly stories.
[[ApocalypseHow And then House Cancer has its own moons slam into it and is utterly destroyed]].
Reeling from the destruction of her home, Rho quickly learns that this wasn't a mere tragedy--it was an attack, orchestrated by the mysterious Thirteenth Guardian, long thought to be a legend. Now, traveling with skeptical Lodestar Mathias Thais and charming Libyan Hysan Dax, Rho must convince the Houses to unite against this threat...[[CassandraTruth assuming she can convince anyone of Ophiuchus's existence at all]].
''The Zodiac Series'' is a ScienceFantasy YA series by Romina Russell. It's comprised of four books.
* ''Zodiac''
* ''Wandering Star''
* ''Black Moon''
* ''Thirteen Rising''
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!!Tropes associated with this series include:
* ApocalypseHow: House Cancer goes through a Class 2 that destroys their way of life, [[spoiler:House Ophiuchus was completely ''crushed'' by Dark Matter in a Class 6, and the entire ''galaxy'' is poised to suffer a Class X-2 if [[BigBad Aquarius's]] plan goes through.]]
* BigBad: The master, TheManBehindTheMan of all the antagonists and
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Downplayed since the issues aren't ''that'' bad and can be fixed, but the Zodiac System as a whole is this. The Houses are technologically advanced and ''very'' committed to making sure their people have all their needs met...but the keyword there is ''their'' people. Every House has isolationist tendencies and tend to mistrust each other, which bites them in the ass on numerous occasions.
* DoomedHometown: Try [[UpToEleven Doomed]] ''[[UpToEleven Planet]]''--House Cancer gets utterly ''wrecked'' within the first few chapters of ''Zodiac''.
* FirstEpisodeTwist: Throughout all of ''Zodiac'', both the reader and the characters are led to believe that [[TheHeavy Ophiuchus]] is the BigBad. A perfectly reasonable assumption...and also completely wrong, as Ophiuchus himself reveals the existence of [[TheManBehindTheMan the master]] at the book's climax. The rest of the series is about trying to figure out their identity and agenda.
* LoveTriangle: Between Rho, Mathias, and Hysan. [[spoiler:[[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in that it quickly becomes clear that Hysan is the LoveInterest, it's just that the matter ends up complicated by a lot of things. Like Mathias's apparent death.]]
* MeaningfulName: Rhoma is constantly referred to with the nickname "Rho". One of the stars in the real-life Ophiuchus constellation is "''Rho'' Ophiuchi".
