Line #2 Literature/Cradleland


1	''[[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2451184/1/bCradleland_b Cradleland]]'' is a story, published on [[http://www.fictionpress.com FictionPress.Com]], about a passenger airliner bound from New York to Los Angeles that encounters some strange colored lights and suddenly loses contact with air traffic control. Landing on a stone road at the crack of dawn, the passengers and crew soon learn that they have somehow landed on another planet in another solar system far from Earth. The only clue to getting home is uncovering the mysteries of the world.
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3	!!The story has examples of the following tropes:
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5	* AlienAmongUs: It is implied that aliens had secretly visited Earth during the MiddleAges, [[spoiler: to buy slaves from existing slave markets]].
6	* AliensAreBastards: The ''ba'thulaz''[[spoiler: used humans as cattle and labor]], and still viewed them as such [[spoiler: centuries after the end]].
7	* AncientAstronauts: The Teventrans' ancestors were [[spoiler: an unwilling]] example.
8	* [[spoiler: AfterTheEnd]]: the planet where Delta Airlines Flight 2 landed had been the [[spoiler: target of a massive nuclear attack centuries]] prior to the events of the story.
9	* BrainFood: [[spoiler: The ''ba'thulaz'']] eat brains, and [[spoiler: they prefer the brains of sentient creatures- like humans]].
10	* CasualInterstellarTravel: The means Delta Flight 2 traversed interstellar space is an example of this.
11	* HandWave: When Pedro asks Dean [[spoiler: how the interstellar portal works]], Dean replies, "Magic".
12	* HumansAreBastards: The ancestors of the Teventrans were humans [[spoiler: purchased from existing slave markets in various places on medieval-era Earth]].
13	** The Teventran government orders the military [[spoiler: to stop Delta Flight 2 from returning home]], both on the fear that the natives of Earth [[spoiler: might send armies to enslave them]], as they learned that humans from Earth [[spoiler: had enslaved their ancestors centuries before]], and also because [[spoiler: the passengers had technical knowledge which would help the republic]].
14	* IChooseToStay: Dean Rhodes chooses to stay behind, because [[spoiler: he had lived in Teventra for thirty years, and has a wife and children]].
15	** Three of the passengers- a ''[[TheMafiya Mafiya]]'' hitman, an MS-13 gangster, and a fugitive- slip away from the camp where they were sequestered to start a new life with Teventra;'s criminal underworld.
16	* ImprobablePilotingSkills: Pedro landed a 767 on a narrow concrete road, not much wider than the jet itself.
17	* InvisiblePresident: The Teventran characters refer to the republic's chancellor, but the chancellor himself does not appear in the story.
18	* [[spoiler: SlaveRace]]: The Teventrans' ancestors were this.
19	* [[spoiler: PortalNetwork]]
20	* RagnarokProofing: The [[spoiler:hyperspatial portal generator]]. Justified as it was in a hardened underground facility, [[spoiler: which protected it from a nuclear attack]], was made of AppliedPhlebotinum , had no moving parts, and had not been used in centuries.
21	** Averted with the facility itself, which, while it was still standing, showed signs of decay.
22	* SequelHook: Three of the passengers [[IChooseToStay chose to stay]] to make their place in Teventra's criminal underworld.
23	** And two children from Teventra [[spoiler: had stowed away on the airplane when it returned to Earth]].
24	* TechnologyUplift: Dean Rhodes, [[spoiler: an American who had been living in Teventra for thirty years]], had patented a few inventions, including a Stirling-cycle engine, based on his engineering knowledge. He did not build any radios, though.
25	* TransplantedHumans: all of the humans on the planet.
26	* TrappedInAnotherWorld
27	* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: While much is revealed about Teventran society, it is clear that Teventra is only a small slice of the world, as other nations are alluded to. Also, [[spoiler: the ''bathu'laz'' who had occupied the portal facility]] had come from a land across the ocean.

Context Literature / Cradleland