Legacy of a Thousand Suns is a WebGame created by Fifth Planet Games hosted by FaceBook (also available on Kongregate). It has lots of ShoutOut[=s=] to ScienceFiction and StarWars in particular.

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!!This game provides examples of:
* AbsoluteCleavage: [[DiscussedTrope The story makes a point of mentioning]] Fabricatrix Vespasia's uniform.
* AcePilot: Talia, the player character and Captain 'Ace' Flashheart.
* AltItis: Thoroughly discouraged, as it takes the fun out of the game. Devs and players will point out possible cases of alt accounts on the forums.
* BigBad: Councillor Dule and the Centurian Collective.
** [[spoiler: The Kalaxian cult. Notable members include Noir, who is the first person to defeat the Captain in combat.]]
* BlackComedy: First, choose a random item in the game. Then, scroll over it. Now, read the flavor text. There's a one in ten chance it won't be a case of this.
* BloodKnight: Holy crap, '''Ragnar''''. It's one of the reasons why he joins up.
* BossBattle: At the end of each stage. Also, raids, which are boss battles involving multiple players and a time limit.
* BribingYourWayToVictory: Par for the course, but downplayed, you accumulate Golden Suns, the game's premium content currency over the course of gameplay, rather than just by shelling out real money (way more slowly than Credits, of course), and if the RandomNumberGenerator is favourable, you can get certain outfits from sufficiently leveled up Facilities, and some really good items as part of the [[PlayEveryDay Gift-per-Day]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer: One party member is an expert markswoman, who calls herself "Vulpina," who insists on wearing a cat costume. Her flavor text:
--> "When someone wearing a furry costume asked to join your ranks, your first impulse was to give her a good hard slap and send her on her way. Then she pulled out her laser pistol and shot the wings off a nearby fly. So you allowed her to join, on the condition she remove the mask portion of her costume. You refuse to hold a conversation with the face of a cartoonish feline."
* CoolShip: You can buy and obtain some and man them with your officers and crew.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Starts with [[spoiler:Illaria's death]] and [[FromBadtoWorse gets worse from there]]. [[spoiler:Your character is psychologically damaged, and attempts to commit suicide. Eventually, you become a burning engine of vengeance, to the point where you don't think twice about committing planetary genocide]].
** [[spoiler: And then your main character leaves the party.]]
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Dying doesn't really affect gameplay. All you need to do is spend some credits on health, and you'll be able to participate in PVP fights and boss battles again.
* DifficultySpike: Noted especially from going from Zone 7 to Zone 8, where bosses suddenly do significantly more damage.
** Going to Hard difficulty in most post-8 Zones; while patches have limited requirements for Normal missions to relatively easy-to-get items, the requirements remain unchanged from when they were first released in the tougher difficulties. Among other things, one particular section in Zone 9 requires the Dragon Cycle, an item whose parts require attacking specific raid bosses with specific items equipped - one requiring you to complete a certain section in Nightmare difficulty, just for a single officer.
* EvilPlan: [[spoiler:Councillor Dule of the Centurian Collective. He gets the crew to attempt a rescue attempt on the held-captive Sian Emperor, deep in enemy-occupied territory. He allows the player to succeed in this rescue mission, providing sufficient resistance to avoid suspicion. Once the Sian Emperor has been rescued, his body, under the control of the collective, kills Illaria.]]
* ExperiencePoints: Obtained by doing missions, participating in raids, and fighting other players.
* ExplodingBarrels: [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] during Zone 6, when you take advantage of red barrels. Princess Illaria even questions why anyone would leave such a dangerous object out in the open.
* {{Expy}}: Princess Illaria is basically Princess Leia with a new hairstyle.
* FivemanBand: It does shift around a lot and oddly you have 6 characters flipping around in roles, except Ragnar
** TheHero: Captain-player character- and Princess Illaria
** TheLancer: The Captain to Illaria and Talia to the Captain, Lu Bu as well
** TheSmartGuy: Telemachus fills this role till Lu Bu joins though they tend to swap in and out.
** TheBigGuy: Ragnar, Ragnar, Ragnar, Telemachus can sometimes fill this role due to his mech but this spot is pretty much Ragnar
** TheChick: Illaria and Talia
** SixthRanger: Lu Bu is the last to join your main crew in the story, [[spoiler: Rautha once he changes sides ]]
* GottaCatchEmAll: The collections, for starters. To be able to obtain components for rarer items, and to complete Zone 9 items, you'll need a variety of different items. Time to start collecting!
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rautha]]. After you fight him numerous times, including once when [[spoiler:he comes at you nothing more than a head in a jar attached to a robotic body, you take his head with you to prevent further encounters with him. His allies couldn't care less, much to Rautha's upset. Over the next little while, Illaria has been kind to him, despite all of his previous attempts to kill her and the rest of your crew]]. Then, when [[spoiler:Illaria is killed by the Centurian Collective's plan]], [[spoiler:Rautha]] swears revenge on the collective, and joins your crew as an Officer.
* HornyVikings: The Niflungs are essentially this in space. No horned helmets, but they do have space chain mail.
* HumongousMecha: The Terminus Juggernaut, the Crush Colossa, a few others.
* ImpossibleThief: Lupin. He once stole a necklace Illaria was wearing and replaced it with a fake without her noticing.
* LostForever: Many limited-time items can only be purchased in a small timeframe, although some do reappear after a while (but not all of them).
* LuckBasedMission: The raids. When a raid boss is defeated, you can usually obtain up to 9 random items. Some of these items are required for obtaining components for rarer items, and completing Zone 9 missions.
* TheMafia: The Contella Consortium is essentially this... [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]
* HereThereWereDragons: The humans come from Tor'gyll, a place where magic very much exists, of, and the player character descended from the great Dragon rider of West Kruna, yes, he rode a dragon, and it talked and [[spoiler: it spoke to the first emperor of the Sian empire.]] However, for unexplained reasons [[TheMagicGoesAway the magic has since disappeared]]. It is implied the Psychics are the only practitioners of magic left.
* MoneyForNothing: Once you upgrade the facilities to their maximum level, the only other use for credits is to purchase health refills. But more experienced players have enough health and/or defence such that they will never need to buy health refills, since they level up (and thus gain a free health refill) before this happens.
* {{Mooks}}: Most notably, the Centurian Collective soldiers. Several Contella Enforcers have been referred to as mooks as well.
* MoralEventHorizon: Your character and comrades might not be the nicest bunch in the galaxy, and you do commit a lot of unnecessary murder to the point it's easier to count who you didn't kill. The Centurains led by the council are indeed evil and need to be stopped. However, [[spoiler: The Captain's wanton slaughter of Civilian escape pods out of venomous hate for the Centurians, just spits on the ideals of Illaria, and is called out as such.]]
* OhCrap: The flavor text for the tactic 'Killing Field' reads "The best part is the look on their faces when they realize they're doomed..."
** In the storyline, The Captain has one [[spoiler:when Noir blocks the chi infused punch.]]
* PerpetualBeta
* PlayEveryDay
* PlanetOfHats: Occulus, Drekchester, and Cytheria, to name a few.
* PurelyAestheticGender: The player character. Small differences between male and female include how armor appears while equipped and how characters are referred to or addressed during the story.
* RandomlyDrops: Items from missions, boss battles, and raids.
* RecurringBoss: Rautha.
* {{Retcon}}: Lampshaded in the background story for the Professor Squid raid boss. In short, she gets retconned back to life.
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: The player character, after Illaria dies. If you showed no mercy to the Centurians before, now, it's even worse. At one point, you destroy two planets that produce resources for your enemy.]]
* SandWorm: Wahsh Al-Sahraa is one
* ShoutOut: Many. There's a thread devoted just to players listing all of them on the official forums.
* SociopathicHero: Ragnar, the player... the game in general seems to have a wanton disregard for human life.
** Really, most of the player character's party cause so much damage and carnage [[DesignatedHero that any sane being begins to wonder if the heroes are any better than the Centurian Collective that they're trying to defeat]]. Ay caramba!
* {{Stripperiffic}}: The Zone 6 bosses choice of, uh, clothing. Or lack thereof. [[PleasurePlanet Given the context, though, this doesn't come as a surprise...]]
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Rautha's back, bitches!"
* TurnsRed: All raid bosses start out with their default artwork. Once they take enough damage, the artwork changes, depicting the battle as it rages on. Starting from Zone 7, this also applies to mission bosses.
* WhyWontYouDie: Rautha's been blown up by a grenade and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled on a spike]], and still comes back for more.
* WorthyOpponent: Storm Commander Veck challenges you to a honorably one on one since he sees you as this. Which is odd, since the Centurians aren't supposed to have concepts like honorable combat.
** Nemo takes you killing him and jacking his ship pretty well too. His only request is you leave his helmet on.
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