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* PardonMyKlingon: The word "khai" gets quite some mileage from the characters, alongside more human swears like "damn" or "shit".

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* PardonMyKlingon: The word "khai" gets quite some mileage from the characters, alongside more human conventional swears like "damn" or "shit".
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* CutShort: The series was placed on hiatus in 2005 and and was stopped after Gallacci's wife died.



* PardonMyKlingon: The word "khai" gets quite some mileage from the characters, alongside more human swears like "damn" or "shit".



* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker - Due possibly to the TranslationConvention used in the series, all the characters speaks using a very weird syntax, making the dialogues sounds a bit more alien.

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* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker - Due possibly to the TranslationConvention used in the series, all the characters speaks speak using a very weird syntax, making the dialogues sounds dialogue sound a bit more alien.



* TranslationConvention - ''None'' of the characters speaks English (or any human language) and sometimes during the series there's some characters (Erma included) who speaks in a invented language by the author.

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* TranslationConvention - ''None'' of the characters speaks speak English (or any human language) and sometimes during the series there's some characters (Erma included) who speaks speak in a invented language by the author.
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* NobleFugitive - Prince Alfon

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* NobleFugitive - Prince AlfonAlfon Kodoka, who comes back to start a revolution.
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* AIIsACrapShoot: The computers, collectively called the Net, are initially artificially intelligent to a degree and work strictly subordinate to the organics. Eventually, the overall personality, installed long ago by the furry civilizations' [[spoiler:human creators]], starts asserting itself subtly, setting up a political movement with Erma invited on board. Eventually, after Tavas and his cronies stage their coup, the Net eventually goes public with ''both'' the EDF and ILR. In doing so, it declares that it will be taking a more active role in political and military affairs, albeit as simply an equal participant with the established authorities in the interest of their survival and their own laws. Furthermore, the only way it can be removed would be for the furries to completely gut their computer control and communications systems, so they are basically struck with it.

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* AIIsACrapShoot: The computers, collectively called the Net, are initially artificially intelligent to a degree and work strictly subordinate to the organics. Eventually, the overall personality, installed long ago by the furry civilizations' [[spoiler:human creators]], starts asserting itself subtly, setting up a political movement with Erma invited on board. Eventually, after Tavas and his cronies stage their coup, the Net eventually goes public with ''both'' the EDF and ILR. In doing so, it declares that it will be taking a more active role in political and military affairs, albeit as simply an equal participant with the established authorities in the interest of their survival and their own laws. Furthermore, the only way it can be removed would be for the furries to completely gut their computer control and communications systems, so they are basically struck stuck with it.

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* XMeetsY - LegendOfGalacticHeroes and {{Appleseed}} meets Disney/TheLionKing and WatershipDown.
** [[WordOfGod Steve Gallacci]] cites political dramas like ''AVeryBritishCoup'' as a major influence in his series.

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* XMeetsY - LegendOfGalacticHeroes and {{Appleseed}} meets Disney/TheLionKing and WatershipDown.
** [[WordOfGod Steve Gallacci]] cites political dramas like ''AVeryBritishCoup'' as a major influence in his series.
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* TheGodsMustBeLazy - According with the ''Refractions'' anthology, [[spoiler:one of the possible main points for creating the species in first place (besides the fact mankind found out they were [[AbsentAliens the only sentient beings in the universe]]) was because humanity was becoming ''too lazy'' and there were too many ''restless people'' (aka Scientists) and humankind needed to keep them busy with some kind of "Grand Experiment" (Not to mention for self-preserving purposes)]][[hottip:*: Althrough this is mainly a speculation from the author.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot - Steven A. Gallacci loved to ''abuse'' of this often, with some very gorier exceptions.

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* TheGodsMustBeLazy - According with the ''Refractions'' anthology, [[spoiler:one of the possible main points for creating the species in first place (besides the fact mankind found out they were [[AbsentAliens the only sentient beings in the universe]]) was because humanity was becoming ''too lazy'' and there were too many ''restless people'' (aka Scientists) and humankind needed to keep them busy with some kind of "Grand Experiment" (Not to mention for self-preserving purposes)]][[hottip:*: Althrough purposes)]][[note]]Although this is mainly a speculation from the author.]]
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* GoryDiscretionShot - Steven A. Gallacci loved to ''abuse'' of this often, with some very gorier exceptions.
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* MixAndMatchCritters - Averted. According to [[WordOfGod Steven A. Gallacci]], people can only breed (and having viable offspring) with other people of the same species (felines with felines, rodents with rodents, etc.) This doesn't prevent Toki to having sex [[LovableSexManiac with every good-looking guy in the universe, regardless their species.]]

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* MixAndMatchCritters - Averted. According to [[WordOfGod Steven A. Gallacci]], people can only breed (and having viable offspring) with other people of the same species (felines with felines, rodents with rodents, etc.) This doesn't prevent Toki to having sex [[LovableSexManiac with every good-looking guy in the universe, regardless of their species.]]
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* NoCartoonFish: According with WordOfGod, the only animals that cannot be featured in the Albedo by any means are fishes, whales, killer whales and dolphins (since they need water to survive), cold-blooded beings (like lizards, for obvious reasons) and above all, ''primates'' (since they can become more intelligent than the rest of the beings and [[PlanetOfTheApes becoming a serious danger for everyone else, being related with the human beings]]).

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* NoCartoonFish: According with WordOfGod, the only animals that cannot be featured in the Albedo by any means are fishes, whales, killer whales and dolphins (since they need water to survive), cold-blooded beings (like lizards, for obvious reasons) and above all, ''primates'' (since they can become more intelligent than the rest of the beings and [[PlanetOfTheApes [[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes becoming a serious danger for everyone else, being related with to the human beings]]).
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* NoCartoonFish: According with WordOfGod, the only animals that cannot be featured in the Albedo by any means are fishes, whales, killer whales and dolphins (since they need water to survive), cold-blooded beings (like lizards, for obvious reasons) and above all, ''primates'' (since they can become more intelligent than the rest of the beings and [[PlanetOfTheApes becoming a serious danger for everyone else, being related with the human beings]]).
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* MixAndMatchCritters - Averted HARD. According to [[WordOfGod Steven A. Gallacci]], people can only breed (and having viable offspring) with other people of the same species (felines with felines, rodents with rodents, etc.) This doesn't prevent Toki to having sex [[LovableSexManiac with every good-looking guy in the universe, regardless their species.]]

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* MixAndMatchCritters - Averted HARD.Averted. According to [[WordOfGod Steven A. Gallacci]], people can only breed (and having viable offspring) with other people of the same species (felines with felines, rodents with rodents, etc.) This doesn't prevent Toki to having sex [[LovableSexManiac with every good-looking guy in the universe, regardless their species.]]
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Kanoc [[spoiler:[[SarcasmMode courtesy of the ILR]]]]

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Kanoc [[spoiler:[[SarcasmMode courtesy [[spoiler: ''courtesy'' of the ILR]]]]ILR]]
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You can find some info about this series [[http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Erma_Felna:_EDF here]] and [[http://idesignyoureyes.com/tag/erma-felna-edf/ here.]] It's not very easy to find about Albedo in the web, due of the relative obscurity of this series, so your best bet it's trying to buy back issues in online auctions.

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You can find some info about this series [[http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Erma_Felna:_EDF here]] and [[http://idesignyoureyes.com/tag/erma-felna-edf/ here.]] It's not very easy to find about Albedo in the web, due of the relative obscurity of this series, so your best bet it's trying to buy back issues in online auctions.
auctions. As it is, Steve Gallacci has announced that he is going to restart the series as a webcomic sometime in the near future.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily - The Felnas were ''already'' screwed up even before Erma was born (in fact, [[spoiler: she was born in a middle of a terrorist attack.]]) and later [[spoiler: when Kanoc is captured and tortured by the ILR,]] but after Tavas Ikalik decided to make Erma suffer BIG TIME, the things are starting to [[ItGotWorse getting much uglier for them.]]

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* BigScrewedUpFamily - The Felnas were ''already'' screwed up even before Erma was born (in fact, [[spoiler: she was born in a middle of a terrorist attack.]]) and later [[spoiler: when Kanoc is captured and tortured by the ILR,]] but after Tavas Ikalik decided to make Erma suffer BIG TIME, the things are starting to [[ItGotWorse getting [[FromBadToWorse get much uglier for them.]]

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* AuthorExistenceFailure - Or more precisely, ''Author's Wife Existence Failure'' since the author cancelled the comic for good after his wife died of cancer. However, since joining Webcomic/FurAffinity recently, he's been so flattered by the effusive praise he's gotten that he's giving the idea of reviving the series some thought.



* KeepCirculatingTheTapes - Unlike its sequel, Birthright, the original was never re-issued, as of 2011.



* XMeetsY - LegendOfGalacticHeroes and {{Appleseed}} meets TheLionKing and WatershipDown.

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* XMeetsY - LegendOfGalacticHeroes and {{Appleseed}} meets TheLionKing Disney/TheLionKing and WatershipDown.



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* AuthorExistenceFailure - Or more precisely, ''Author's Wife Existence Failure'' since the author cancelled the comic for good after his wife died of cancer. However, since joining FurAffinity recently, he's been so flattered by the effusive praise he's gotten that he's giving the idea of reviving the series some thought.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure - Or more precisely, ''Author's Wife Existence Failure'' since the author cancelled the comic for good after his wife died of cancer. However, since joining FurAffinity Webcomic/FurAffinity recently, he's been so flattered by the effusive praise he's gotten that he's giving the idea of reviving the series some thought.
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Not to be confused with the main villain from the VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} series

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* DistantFinale -[[spoiler: Despise the original story [[CutShort ended in a massive cliffhanger]] due of the death of Gallacci's wife, there's a side-story who takes place many decades after the events from the original series when Erma is already an old woman and a legendary war heroine (or a [[CompleteMonster genocidal war criminal for the ILR, possibly.]]) and she tells the story of her life to a reporter and her cloned family.]]

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* DistantFinale -[[spoiler: Despise the original story [[CutShort ended in a massive cliffhanger]] due of the death of Gallacci's wife, there's a side-story who takes place many decades after the events from the original series when Erma is already an old woman and a legendary war heroine (or a [[CompleteMonster genocidal war criminal for the ILR, possibly.]]) ) and she tells the story of her life to a reporter and her cloned family.]]
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There is also a distant sequel series that ran in the [[TheEighties 1980s]] Fantagraphics furry anthology comic book series, "Critters", called ''Birthright.'' This takes place a few generations after the events in Erma's stories where the civilization has partially collapsed and a young Fox and his friends fight to restore a sustainable and just order. It is [[AndTheFandomRejoiced currently being reissued]] on [[http://www.radiocomix.com/birthright/ Radio Comix's website]] in a [[{{Webcomics}} webcomic]] form.

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There is also a distant sequel series that ran in the [[TheEighties 1980s]] Fantagraphics furry anthology comic book series, "Critters", called ''Birthright.'' This takes place a few generations after the events in Erma's stories where the civilization has partially collapsed and a young Fox and his friends fight to restore a sustainable and just order. It is [[AndTheFandomRejoiced currently being reissued]] reissued on [[http://www.radiocomix.com/birthright/ Radio Comix's website]] in a [[{{Webcomics}} webcomic]] form.
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There is also'' '''a distant sequel series''' ''that ran in the [[TheEighties 1980s]] Fantagraphics furry anthology comic book series, "Critters", called ''Birthright.'' This takes place a few generations after the events in Erma's stories where the civilization has partially collapsed and a young Fox and his friends fight to restore a sustainable and just order. It is [[AndTheFandomRejoiced currently being reissued]] on [[http://www.radiocomix.com/birthright/ Radio Comix's website]] in a [[{{Webcomics}} webcomic]] form.

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There is also'' '''a also a distant sequel series''' ''that series that ran in the [[TheEighties 1980s]] Fantagraphics furry anthology comic book series, "Critters", called ''Birthright.'' This takes place a few generations after the events in Erma's stories where the civilization has partially collapsed and a young Fox and his friends fight to restore a sustainable and just order. It is [[AndTheFandomRejoiced currently being reissued]] on [[http://www.radiocomix.com/birthright/ Radio Comix's website]] in a [[{{Webcomics}} webcomic]] form.

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----> '''EDF Officer:''' The pan-spectrum ''Albedo'' on it is almost zip.



----> '''EDF Officer:''' The pan-spectrum ''Albedo'' on it is almost zip.
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* {{Transhuman}}: [[spoiler: Some of the humans in the derelict ship had been cyborgized, mainly through [[Nanotech nanotechnological]] means.]]

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* TitleDrop - Used [[spoiler:when Erma and some EDF members found the wrecked human ship and they aren't able to see it from outside:]]

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* GoryDiscretionShot - Steven A. Gallacci loved to ''abuse'' of this often, with some very [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel gorier]] exceptions.

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* MixAndMatchCritters - Averted HARD. According with [[WordOfGod Steven A. Gallacci]] people can only breed (and having viable offspring) with other people of the same species (felines with felines, rodents with rodents, etc.) This doesn't prevent Toki to having sex [[LovableSexManiac with every good-looking guy in the universe, regardless their species.]]

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''Albedo: Erma Felna EDF'' (or also ''Erma Felna, EDF'', for short) is an American FurryComic created by Steven A. Gallacci, who ran it in from 1983 to 2005 in his ''Albedo'' furry comic anthology.

The main story is the following: In a very distant future, a sector of known space is populated by sapient and humanoid versions of many Earth animals (who have no clue as to their origins.) The titular heroine, Erma Felna, is an officer from the EDF (Extraplanetary Defense Force, a extraplanetary version of TheFederation), and she begins her military career during a military invasion of the ILR (Independent Lepine Republic, another [[TheFederation federation]] populated by rabbits who are bend to [[OmnicidalManiac conquer the known space, but not without killing anyone who is not a rabbit.]]) to a planet named Derzon.

Unfortunately, the ILR is fighting this in a bloody, but very canny, way as sociopolitical warfare; they are not trying to defeat the Federation in battle as much as they are trying to undermine its political viability. This means the rabbits are attempting to force their enemy to fight in a way that means the maximum amount of collateral damage and civilian death toll on their own side is caused. With this, the ILR hopes to eventually cause enough resentment to weaken the civic structure and make them easy to conquer.

This is a special element in this series, as the characters, especially Erma, have extensive conversations discussing the socio-political ramifications of their latest battle and struggle to find a means to fight back in the political sphere. In fact, the very idea of a serious science fiction political drama essentially gave a major boost to FurryFandom as this series showed that FunnyAnimal stories can be so much more than for laughs.

But, as the story is developed, the whole plot is starting to getting more and more complex, as many events and plot twists befalls Erma and her whole society (and probably, the ''whole universe...'')

There is also'' '''a distant sequel series''' ''that ran in the [[TheEighties 1980s]] Fantagraphics furry anthology comic book series, "Critters", called ''Birthright.'' This takes place a few generations after the events in Erma's stories where the civilization has partially collapsed and a young Fox and his friends fight to restore a sustainable and just order. It is [[AndTheFandomRejoiced currently being reissued]] on [[http://www.radiocomix.com/birthright/ Radio Comix's website]] in a [[{{Webcomics}} webcomic]] form.

You can find some info about this series [[http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Erma_Felna:_EDF here]] and [[http://idesignyoureyes.com/tag/erma-felna-edf/ here.]] It's not very easy to find about Albedo in the web, due of the relative obscurity of this series, so your best bet it's trying to buy back issues in online auctions.

Not to be confused with the main villain from the VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} series

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* AbsentAliens - Besides the furry characters, there's very few no-sapient alien life in any of the planets so far.
** [[spoiler: Althrough later in the series, they found a wrecked spaceship with an female human corpse inside it.]]
* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene - This series was famous for this with their aftermath discussions about the sociopolitical ramifications of the action scenes.
* AIIsACrapShoot: The computers, collectively called the Net, are initially artificially intelligent to a degree and work strictly subordinate to the organics. Eventually, the overall personality, installed long ago by the furry civilizations' [[spoiler:human creators]], starts asserting itself subtly, setting up a political movement with Erma invited on board. Eventually, after Tavas and his cronies stage their coup, the Net eventually goes public with ''both'' the EDF and ILR. In doing so, it declares that it will be taking a more active role in political and military affairs, albeit as simply an equal participant with the established authorities in the interest of their survival and their own laws. Furthermore, the only way it can be removed would be for the furries to completely gut their computer control and communications systems, so they are basically struck with it.
* AllThereInTheManual - There's lots of supplementary material and facts unexplained in the comic books covered in side-stories published in different anthologies and series besides Albedo and also many of the backgrounds stories of the EDF, ILR and Enchawah Corp. are explained in the Albedo TabletopGames published in the 80s and the 2000s reprint.
** The ''Refractions'' anthology is a very interesting case: It's the only ([[FlipFlopOfGod mostly]]) official source with three side-stories dealing with the Creators [[spoiler:(aka humans) and how they created the species in first place]].
* AlternativeCalendar - SD (Standard Date). In the [[AllThereInTheManual "Refractions" anthology]] it's revealed [[spoiler:that the whole history take place [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in early or in the middle of the 21th century]].]]
* AnimalJingoism - One of the main themes of the series.
* AnyoneCanDie
* AttackDrone - The ACV ''(Autonomous Combat Vehicle)'' is a sci-fi version used in this series.
* AuthorExistenceFailure - Or more precisely, ''Author's Wife Existence Failure'' since the author cancelled the comic for good after his wife died of cancer. However, since joining FurAffinity recently, he's been so flattered by the effusive praise he's gotten that he's giving the idea of reviving the series some thought.
* {{Badass}} - All of the members of the EDF and the ILR.
* BigScrewedUpFamily - The Felnas were ''already'' screwed up even before Erma was born (in fact, [[spoiler: she was born in a middle of a terrorist attack.]]) and later [[spoiler: when Kanoc is captured and tortured by the ILR,]] but after Tavas Ikalik decided to make Erma suffer BIG TIME, the things are starting to [[ItGotWorse getting much uglier for them.]]
* CoolStarship - Averted. Most of the spaceships are cylindric-shaped and plain-looking due to the need to create artificial gravity for the ship.
* CloningBlues - [[spoiler: Teka Ardehad is a clone of Erma, when the Ardehad family wasn't able to have an biological heir.]]
** [[spoiler: Erma herself had many cloned sons and daughters, after losing contact with her biological family.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Kanoc [[spoiler:[[SarcasmMode courtesy of the ILR]]]]
* CultureChopSuey - Some planets and characters have characteristics from some Earth cultures, despise the whole sci-fi background of the series: The culture of the Planet Dornthant (Erma's homeworld) is based in Japan and the Japanese culture. Toki's homeworld, Danet, is based in many European countries, possibly the Netherlands, judging with her [[LovableSexManiac personality.]]
** Also, but in a ''very negative'' light, the ILR is based in the worst aspects of the USA and [[PuttingOnTheReich the Nazi Germany.]]
* DeathFromAbove - [[spoiler: The ILR tried to wipe out Erma's homeworld bombing the planet with [=ACVs=], but Erma managed, somewhat with the help of The Net, to prevent a total apocalypse against her planet.]]
* DerelictGraveyard - [[spoiler: The wrecked Human spaceship.]]
* DistantFinale -[[spoiler: Despise the original story [[CutShort ended in a massive cliffhanger]] due of the death of Gallacci's wife, there's a side-story who takes place many decades after the events from the original series when Erma is already an old woman and a legendary war heroine (or a [[CompleteMonster genocidal war criminal for the ILR, possibly.]]) and she tells the story of her life to a reporter and her cloned family.]]
* FanService: Gallacci couldn't resist having semi-nude scenes of Erma and Toki in the shower, swimmng or suddenly having to get out of bed in the buff to show off their beauty.
* FantasticRacism - Both sides of the conflict indulge on this, but the ILR takes this to '''genocidal''' levels.
* AFatherToHisMen - Captain Arrat ''does not'' take it lightly when someone hurts his crew.
* TheFederation - The Confederation ([=ConFed=]), the EDF ([=ConFed=]'s military branch), and the Enchawah Corp. (A Zaibatsu-style conglomerate of planets).
* FourFingeredHands - And they also use a base-8 numerical system to match this, [[spoiler: until they find the derelict human spaceship, who uses a base-10 system on the ship's computers for obvious reasons.]]
* {{Fully Dressed Cartoon Animal}}s - The entire cast.
* GenkiGirl - Toki.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke - Especially in the ''Refractions'' anthology.
* TheGodsMustBeLazy - According with the ''Refractions'' anthology, [[spoiler:one of the possible main points for creating the species in first place (besides the fact mankind found out they were [[AbsentAliens the only sentient beings in the universe]]) was because humanity was becoming ''too lazy'' and there were too many ''restless people'' (aka Scientists) and humankind needed to keep them busy with some kind of "Grand Experiment" (Not to mention for self-preserving purposes)]][[hottip:*: Althrough this is mainly a speculation from the author.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot - Steven A. Gallacci loved to ''abuse'' of this often, with some very [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel gorier]] exceptions.
* GrayAndGreyMorality
* {{Honorifics}} - A very rare, non-Asian example: Many of the characters uses the "Honorable {insert last name}" honorific for adressing to very important people. It's the equivalent of using the "-sama" honorific in the same way in Japanese.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes - Unlike its sequel, Birthright, the original was never re-issued, as of 2011.
* KillerRabbit / HairRaisingHare - The ILR army is a ''whole'' army of them!
** The EDF also counts too.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter - Justified, since kinetic weapons are more effective for destroy entire cities and targets than nukes.
* LadyOfWar - Erma, Toki, and many other females counts as those.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia - [[spoiler: The side-story ''In the Beginning'', published in the Refractions anthology, the Human Creators wipes out any memories from their existence (but not vital information, like using advanced technology, etc.) from the Species (critters) with the help of drugs. Needless to day, many human scientists were ''were not amused'' by that.]]
* LastNameBasis - Justified, due to the military protocol the characters are subjected, but also used in civilian contexts.
* LawOfAlienNames - Used here in full force, [[AerithAndBob with some exceptions.]] (Including the titular heroine)
* LoveHurts - Almost ''none'' of the couples appearing in the Albedo universe (and their families) have a good marital or romantic life due of the war. Erma and Alfon were an exception of this trope, [[spoiler: until Alfon dies during the ILR attack over Dornthant thanks to Tavas's schemes over The Net.]]
* LovableSexManiac - Toki, all the way.
* MasterComputer - The Net
* MasterRace - The Lepines (rabbits) from the ILR are ''bloody serious'' about being the rulers of all species.
* MixAndMatchCritters - Averted HARD. According with [[WordOfGod Steven A. Gallacci]] people can only breed (and having viable offspring) with other people of the same species (felines with felines, rodents with rodents, etc.) This doesn't prevent Toki to having sex [[LovableSexManiac with every good-looking guy in the universe, regardless their species.]]
* ANaziByAnyOtherName - The ILR is ''[[PuttingOnTheReich The Third Reich]]'' [[XMeetsY meets]] {{Eagleland}} Type II [-IN SPACE!-] [-AND WITH RABBITS!-]
* {{Ojou}} - Erma is a ''military'' example. Her mother is a more classical example.
** [[spoiler: Teka Ardehad, Erma's cloned daughter, is also an Ojou too.]]
* [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Physical Gods]]: It's implied after the appearance of the derelict human spaceship that the species were genetic contructs created by the human race (The Creators) possibly for investigating how those species can create a society from scratch without any kind of human intervention using The Net as a way for investigate them and keep them in check.]]
* {{Precursors}} - The Creators, named in-universe by all the characters in the Albedo universe. [[spoiler:They also are known as ''the Human race.'']]
* TheRepublic - the ILR.
* SelfDeprecation - The ILR is basically an over-capitalistic, xenophobic and genocidal version of the United States and its army. This is even more HarsherInHindsight if you know that Steven A. Gallacci, the author, was a member of the '''U.S. Air Force.'''
* ShellshockedVeteran - Many characters, especially [[spoiler:Kanoc and his daughter Erma in her final years of her life.]]
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker - Due possibly to the TranslationConvention used in the series, all the characters speaks using a very weird syntax, making the dialogues sounds a bit more alien.
* TitleDrop - Used [[spoiler:when Erma and some EDF members found the wrecked human ship and they aren't able to see it from outside:]]
----> '''EDF Officer:''' The pan-spectrum ''Albedo'' on it is almost zip.
* TranslationConvention - ''None'' of the characters speaks English (or any human language) and sometimes during the series there's some characters (Erma included) who speaks in a invented language by the author.
* UsedFuture
* XMeetsY - LegendOfGalacticHeroes and {{Appleseed}} meets TheLionKing and WatershipDown.
** [[WordOfGod Steve Gallacci]] cites political dramas like ''AVeryBritishCoup'' as a major influence in his series.

!!''Birthright'' features
* AfterTheEnd - Interstellar society has collapsed and individual planets are divided into nations fighting over what's left.
* TheKingdom - Shartoa, invaded by Tosiu "peacekeepers".
* LaResistance
* NobleFugitive - Prince Alfon
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