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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Trying to surrender to the Sh'daar Empire's NoTranshumanismAllowed demands is ''bad bad bad bad'', and to prove it the Conciliationists in the Confederation Parliament, i.e. the peace faction that wants to surrender and stop the war, are willing to do such things as drop [[{{Nanomachines}} nanite disassembler warheads]] on civilian targets and otherwise flagrantly break the Confederation's own [[FictionalGenevaConventions laws of war]] in the hopes of killing [[{{Eagleland}} our red-blooded American heroes who refuse to surrender under any circumstances]] (and a few other nations who are seemingly only allowed to be both competent and good guys when allied to the Americans). No significant counterargument for why surrendering is the wrong course of action is ever offered.
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* NightmareFuel: The Grdoch's method of eating. They have about 900 toothy, tubular mouths positioned all over their bodies, which they use to feed on still-living animals. Humans die quickly, if gruesomely, when attacked this way, but their food animals can survive being fed on every few days for months.
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* MisaimedFandom: A repeated plot element is the "White Covenant", a document of basic human rights that included strong prohibitions of certain religious practices and activities. In short, all adherents of all religions had the right to believe what they wished so long as that belief did not harm others. Proselytizing, missionary work, and conversion by force or by threat all were proscribed as violations of basic human rights and dignity. There are a ''[[http://www.academia.edu/11885749/The_White_Covenant lot]]'' of people who think this would be a damned good idea, despite the author's reveal that it's a major part of the {{Dystopia}} of the setting, as it required a OneWorldOrder and mass mind control to put into effect.
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Example dosen't realy explain who the strawman is or what the point is.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Trying to surrender to the Sh'daar Empire's NoTranshumanismAllowed demands is ''bad bad bad bad'', and to prove it the Conciliationists in the Confederation Parliament are willing to do such things as drop [[{{Nanomachines}} nanite disassembler warheads]] on civilian targets and otherwise flagrantly break the Confederation's own [[FictionalGenevaConventions laws of war]] in the hopes of killing [[{{Eagleland}} our red-blooded American heroes who refuse to surrender under any circumstances]] (and a few other nations who are seemingly only allowed to be both competent and good guys when allied to the Americans). Note that the only actual reason ever given for why the Confederation won't agree to Sh'daar demands in order to end a war that has killed millions of humans is because, back when the ultimatum was first given, a bunch of {{Mega Corp}}s didn't want to lose their trade contracts with the Agletsch, a Sh'daar ProudMerchantRace.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Trying to surrender to the Sh'daar Empire's NoTranshumanismAllowed demands is ''bad bad bad bad'', and to prove it the Conciliationists in the Confederation Parliament are willing to do such things as drop [[{{Nanomachines}} nanite disassembler warheads]] on civilian targets and otherwise flagrantly break the Confederation's own [[FictionalGenevaConventions laws of war]] in the hopes of killing [[{{Eagleland}} our red-blooded American heroes who refuse to surrender under any circumstances]] (and a few other nations who are seemingly only allowed to be both competent and good guys when allied to the Americans). Note that the only actual reason ever given for why the Confederation won't agree to Sh'daar demands in order to end a war that has killed millions of humans is because, back when the ultimatum was first given, a bunch of {{Mega Corp}}s didn't want to lose their trade contracts with the Agletsch, a Sh'daar ProudMerchantRace.
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* ParanoiaFuel: AIs in this series are so advanced that personal secretary versions are capable of mimicking their owners to the point that people have a hard time telling the difference between the AI and the real person. Trevor Gray's AI contacts a ship captain who'd been giving Gray trouble, disciplines him, then gives him words of encouragement, all without Gray or the captain knowing the AI did it on its own initiative.
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* StrawmanPolitical: In the classic "Virtuous Americans vs Evil Everyone Else" sense.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The books continually hammer the point that ArmchairMilitary types should just shut up and let the men on the front lines do their job.
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* StrawmanPolitical: In the classic "Virtuous Americans vs Evil Everyone Else" sense.
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''Earth Strike'' mentions that the [[RuinsOfModernCivilization flooding of New York]] in the 21st century was helped along by a Hurricane Cynthia. This became a lot less {{science fiction}}y after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy Hurricane Sandy]].
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''Earth Strike'' mentions that the [[RuinsOfModernCivilization [[RuinsOfTheModernAge flooding of New York]] in the 21st century was helped along by a Hurricane Cynthia. This became a lot less {{science fiction}}y after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy Hurricane Sandy]].
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''Earth Strike'' mentions that the [[RuinsOfModernCivilization flooding of New York]] in the 21st century was helped along by a Hurricane Cynthia. This became a lot less {{science fiction}}y after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy Hurricane Sandy]].
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