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** Also also [[spoiler: GTCv [[SilentThreatReborn Marcus Glaive]].]]

** Also also [[spoiler: GTC [[SilentThreatReborn Marcus Glaive]].]]

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything

* KnightTemplar: The Wargods as well as those on the Toutatis has become like this near the end.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Sekhr corvettes. No matter how much you hate them at first, they are [[PunchClockVillain properly humanized]] in their second appearance.

* HearingVoices: Both main characters.

* RedShirt: Nehru in AoA

* ThreeAmigos: Bei, Taylor, and Corey in AoA.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Vishnans. It has the effect of making them sound impressive and awe-inspiring rather than sinister.

* FantasticSlurs: The GTVA call the UEF "Feds", the UEF call the GTVA "Tevs", and everyone calls the Gaian Effort "Gefs", Gaians also calls the UEF "Buntus".

** Also [[spoiler: the GTD Carthage]]

* FantasticSlurs: The GTVA call the UEF "Feds", the UEF call the GTVA "Tevs", and everyone calls the Gaian Effort "Gefs".

* LightningBruiser: The Lao Tze advanced fighter used by the White Guard.

* CoolShip: The United Earth Federation's ''Solaris''-class destroyer.

* EnemyChatter: For this one, it is probably an attempt to humanize the enemy, in some cases showing that they are not your everyday {{Mooks}}.

* FantasticSlurs: The GTVA call the UEF "Feds", the UEF call the GTVA "Tevs", and everyone calls the Gaian Effort "Gefs", Gaians calling UEF "Buntus".

* HearingVoices: Both of the main characters in both games.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The whole thing about hunting down the GTD Carthage. Not only Admiral Lopez is [[AFatherToHisMen not exactly a bad guy]], but [[spoiler: also how they considered sacrificing several hundreds civilians and considering them 'Collateral Damage'. In the process, abandoning the foundation of the Ubuntu and becoming KnightTemplar as bad as some of the worst GTVA personel are.]]

* OhCrap: Pretty much any time a big Shivan capship shows up in ''Age of Aquarius'', [[spoiler:the Sekhr trio showing up in the second mission of WiH]], and the surprise entrance of the [[spoiler:GTD Imperieuse]] in ''War in Heaven''.

* PlayerPunch: ''And how!'' Most notably [[spoiler:the 14th battlegroup seeing the ruined alternate universe Earth for the first time]], [[spoiler: DreamSequence of Samuel Bei of a flashback when he failed to protect his wife and his mother]], [[spoiler:the murder of Elder Taudigani]], and [[spoiler:Admiral Steele executing his XanatosGambit against the player's task force]] and finally [[spoiler: the last minute HeroicSacrifice of the Yangtze]]. Also, when you get a special radio that also receives enemy transmissions, you would probably feel bad killing them.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Sekhr Corvettes. While you may hate them at first, they are quite humanized in their second appearance.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Vishnans

* AcePilot: Plenty of them.
* ActionGirl: Noemi Laporte and Lorna Simms.
* AllThereInTheManual: The "intelligence" section of the tech room and various parts of the mod website have vast amounts of information on the setting.
* AnimalWrongsGroup: The Gaian Effort from ''War in Heaven''.
* AttackPatternAlpha: The UEF has a set of attack plans with codenames to use depending on the situation in ''Delenda Est''. However, these plans and their execution are actually specified.
* BigDamnHeroes: Samuel Bei leading [[spoiler: the Vishnans]] to save his father's fleet in ''Age of Aquarius''.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: Each side has a cause they believe in and does some very shady things. Except for the Shivans, who, as usual, are total bastards.
* CloserToEarth: The United Earth Federation's guiding "Ubuntu" philosophy.
* CoolShip: The United Earth Federation's ''Solaris''-class destroyer.
* ColonelBadass: Captain Lorna Simms.
* ContemplateOurNavels: Samuel Bei and Elder Mandho do this quite often. YourMileageMayVary as to how effective it is.
* ContinuityNod: [[spoiler:Xinny and Zero, the SOC wingmen from ''Into the Lion's Den'' in the original game, fight you in ''War in Heaven''.]]
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The entirety of the mission ''Delenda Est'' and the end of ''Universal Truth'' where [[spoiler:the Vishnans tell the Shivans to fuck off]].
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "MEDITATION WIDGET! YOUR BIOMETRICS SHOW INCREASED HEARTRATE, NOEMI. WOULD YOU LIKE A [[EverythingsCuterWithKittens KITTEN PICTURE]]?"
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Samuel Bei reconciling with his father.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ''Everywhere.''
* DarkerAndEdgier
* DemonicSpiders: The GTF Nyx and GTF Atalanta. You will learn to hate them. Although, with the new AI featured in ''War in Heaven'', pretty much every fighter is a Demonic Spider compared to the original game.
* DesignatedHero: The UEF, because ''Blue Planet'' runs on moral ambiguity.
* DesignatedAntagonist: The GTVA.
* DialogueTree: One mission involves Noemi having to talk Captain Simms out of a depression through EpiphanyTherapy using these. It's surprisingly tricky.
* DysfunctionJunction: The pilots of the [=UEFg=] ''Indus''.
* EnergyBeings: [[spoiler:The Vishnans.]]
* EvenBetterSequel: ''War in Heaven.''
* EvilSoundsDeep: The Shivan representative in ''Universal Truth''.
* FanNickname: People are taking to calling a certain dialogue-based mission the "[[PunnyName Dating Simm]]".
* FantasticSlurs: The GTVA call the UEF "Feds", the UEF call the GTVA "Tevs", and everyone calls the Gaian Effort "Gefs".
* GameMod
* GeneralFailure: At times Admiral Byrne seems to be this. However, knowing the way ''Blue Planet'' works, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass he's probably got a hell of a trick up his sleeve.]]
* HelloInsertNameHere: Averted. Unlike the original games, the player characters in Blue Planet are defined characters with their own names, personalities, and life stories.
* HeroicSacrifice: So many times in War in Heaven.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Noemi muses that as the war drags on, the United Earth Federation seem to be slowly losing their "Ubuntu" nature and becoming more like the GTVA.
* HopelessWar: The UEF are completely outmatched by the GTVA.
** Subverted in that most of the reason they're losing so badly is they are fighting a completely ''defensive'' war, rarely if ever performing offensive missions or counterattacks. WordOfGod is that if the UEF was making the most of their resources, they'd stand a good chance of defeating the GTVA... or at least of driving them out of Sol.

* HopeSpot: ''War in Heaven'' likes to toss these out before brutally crushing them.
* HumansAreBastards
* GoodIsNotNice: The UEF can do some pretty sleazy things when they have to.
* ItGotWorse: Just when you think things couldn't possibly go worse for the United Earth Federation in ''War in Heaven''...
* IGotBetter: [[spoiler:Samuel Bei.]]
* ItsUpToYou: Averted. Unlike in the original games, trying to do everything yourself instead of using your wingmen tends to end badly.
* LastStand: The [=UEFg=] ''Yangtze'', after its subspace drive is shot out leaving it unable to retreat, turns back towards the GTVA fleet in a desperate, suicidal attack.
* LightningBruiser: The Lao Tze advanced fighter used by the White Guard.
* MacrossMissileMassacre + MoreDakka: The UEF fighting doctrine, unlike the GTVA which uses powerful beam weapons, involves dakka-venting the enemy ships with multiple railguns and spamming loads of torpedoes at the enemy (hopefully also knocking out several weapons and subsystems).

* MagnificentBastard: Admiral Chiwetel Steele. Full. Stop.
* MilitaryMaverick: Noemi Laporte.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The UEF manage to get the Admiral in charge of the invasion removed from command by making him look like an idiot... only to see him replaced by [[MagnificentBastard Admiral Steele]].
* OhCrap: Pretty much any time a big Shivan capship shows up in ''Age of Aquarius'', and the surprise entrance of the [[spoiler:GTD Imperieuse]] in ''War in Heaven''.
* OminousLatinChanting: Numerous missions, most notably the end of ''Delenda Est'' [[spoiler:when the GTD ''Imperieuse'' shows up]].''
* PlayerPunch: ''And how!'' Most notably [[spoiler:the 14th battlegroup seeing the ruined alternate universe Earth for the first time]], [[spoiler:the murder of Elder Taudigani]], and [[spoiler:Admiral Steele executing his XanatosGambit against the player's task force]] and finally [[spoiler: the last minute HeroicSacrifice of the Yangtze]].
* PraetorianGuard: The Knights of the White Brotherhood, also known as the White Guard.
* PsychicPowers: The "Nagari" phenomenon [[spoiler:that is the source of both player characters' visions.]]
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The "Wargods" task force of the UEF is not very glamorous, but it is brutally effective.
* ScavengerWorld: The alternate universe in ''Age of Aquarius''.
* StateSec: The UEF's Fedayeen are a (more or less) heroic version of this.
* {{Sting}}: The ending cinematic of ''War in Heaven'' where [[spoiler:the Fedayeen come to take Noemi Laporte for a secret mission]].
* TheReveal: The ''War in Heaven'' player character Noemi Laporte is [[spoiler:a lesbian]].
** TheUnreveal: Just before Elder Taudigani could tell Laporte the secret of the transmission she received from the Vasudans, [[spoiler:GTVA stealth fighters appear out of nowhere and destroy her shuttle]].
* ThatOneLevel: ''Forced Entry''.
* TheWarSequence: ''Universal Truth'' from ''Age of Aquarius'', and ''Aristeia'' and ''Delenda Est'' from ''War in Heaven''.
* UpdatedRerelease: The Director's Cut of ''Age of Aquarius''.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can take a hostage in the mission ''For All the Wrong Reasons'' in ''War in Heaven'' and threaten or even murder her.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Vishnans. It has the effect of making them sound impressive and awe-inspiring rather than sinister.
* XanatosGambit
** XanatosSpeedChess: Admirals Calder and Byrne on the UEF side play this against Admiral Steele of the GTVA.
*** OutGambitted: Admiral Calder's big trap for Admiral Lopez is [[spoiler:just taking the bait for Admiral Steele's ''even bigger'' trap]].
* WellDoneSonGuy: Samuel Bei was never forgiven by his father for failing to protect his mother from being killed by the Shivans.
* WhatTheHellHero: The [=UEFg=] ''Hesperia'' bungles a truce up. Badly.
** A lot of people are calling the GTVA on this in regard to their invasion of Sol. [[YourMileageMayVary Others see it as justified.]]
* YouShallNotPass: Four White Guard fighters facing down a huge horde of Gaian Effort raiders in ''Deals in Shadows''. The Gefs are...less than impressed by their dramatic speech.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Vishnans

* PlayerPunch: ''And how!'' Most notably [[spoiler:the 14th battlegroup seeing the ruined alternate universe Earth for the first time]], [[spoiler:the murder of Elder Taudigani]], and [[spoiler:Admiral Steele executing his XanatosGambit against the player's task force]] and finally [[the last minute HeroicSacrifice of the Yangtze]].

* BlackAndGrayMorality: Each side has a cause they believe in and does some very shady things.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: The whole thing in War in Heaven. Especially when you are given a special radio receiver that also intercepts enemy radio signals that you know roughly how it feels to be on the other side.

* PlayerPunch: ''And how!'' Most notably [[spoiler:the 14th battlegroup seeing the ruined alternate universe Earth for the first time]], [[spoiler:the murder of Elder Taudigani]], and [[spoiler:Admiral Steele executing his XanatosGambit against the player's task force]].

''Blue Planet'' is a series of fan-made expansion packs for the video game ''[[FreeSpace FreeSpace 2]]''. It is set eighteen years after the original game and details the Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance returning to Sol and the aftermath. The Blue Planet saga will eventually consist of [[{{Trilogy}} three parts]], but so far only the first two have been unveiled.

* DysfunctionJunction: The pilots of the UEFg ''Indus''.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The "Wardogs" task force of the UEF is not very glamorous, but it is brutally effective.

* ContinuityNod: Xinny and Zero, the SOC wingmen from ''Into the Lion's Den'' in the original game, fight you in ''War in Heaven''.

''Blue Planet: War in Heaven'' (2010) is set a year and a half after ''Age of Aquarius''. The 14th Battlegroup returned to their home dimension to find the United Earth Federation as the current government of the Sol system. Their standing orders: crush the Federation and forcibly assimilate it into the GTVA. Samuel Bei, his father, and several other members of the 14th Battlegroup defected to the UEF, leaving the blitzkrieg assault the GTVA was hoping for in tatters. However, the GTVA were quick to regroup, and are now slowly grinding the UEF's miltary into dust. The player character this time is Noemi Laporte, a newly commissioned pilot in the UEF navy. Noemi has...issues, most notably a history of mental instability, aggression, and hearing voices [[spoiler: which are actually Shivans speaking to her through her PsychicPowers]]. She must face both her own personal demons as well as the forces of the Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance, who outnumber, outgun, and generally outclass the UEF's. Currently only the first half of ''War in Heaven'' has been released, although the dev team has said that the second half is coming fairly soon. ''War in Heaven'' had been hyped extensively prior to release, and so far the general impression has been overwhelmingly positive of the released first half. Many consider it the best [=FreeSpace=] campaign ever released.

* TheWarSequence: ''Universal Truth'' from ''Age of Aquarius'', and ''Aristeia'' amd ''Delenda Est'' from ''War in Heaven''.

-->'Hahaha! Listen to these dogs! Don't let them close, or they might break a lance on your hull!

* ContemplateOurNavels: Samuel Bei and Elder Mandho do this quite often. YourMileageWillVary as to how effective it is.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The entirety of the mission ''Delenda Est'' and the end of ''Universal Truth'' where [[spoler:the Vishnans tell the Shivans to fuck off]].

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