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* ShoppingMontage: Katherine, Yvonne, and Omi undergo an ''epic'' shopping spree at the largest mall in Avalon City. Victor remarks he'll have to sell off multiple regiments to pay the bill.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: A pretty ewww gross one at that, when one of the combatants of the Combine Civil War execute prisoners of war from the other side in a particularly ugly incident.
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* PlotArmor: Brutally subverted in many points of the story, and torn to shreds.
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* ShootTheMessenger: Sun Tzu Liao caustically thinks to himself about how his family made doing so into an art form, and how he's still writing out pardons to previous messengers killed or subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* ShootTheMessenger: Sun Tzu Liao caustically thinks to himself about how his family made doing so into an art form, and how he's still writing out pardons to previous messengers killed or subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath. He then [[HypocriticalHumor shoots one of the messengers giving him a briefing himself]], albeit one of his mother's less than competent sycophants. He then compliments the person that had the courage to tell him unfavorable news and promotes her to his [[TheConsigliere personal advisor.]]
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* SanitySlippage: After Katherine [[spoiler:launches a retaliatory assassination raid on his relatives with LOKI and Rabid Fox operatives in revenge for his asassination of Hanse and Melissa and sends him a video recording of it as a warning]], Sun-Tzu Liao snaps and begins to show signs of his family's more negative eccentric traits, one of the symptoms being hallucinations.
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* SanitySlippage: After Katherine [[spoiler:launches a retaliatory assassination raid on his relatives with LOKI and Rabid Fox operatives in revenge for his asassination of Hanse and Melissa and sends him a video recording of it as a warning]], Sun-Tzu Liao snaps and begins to show signs of his family's more negative eccentric traits, one of the symptoms being hallucinations. Even earlier in the story, there were signs that he was close. He bitterly remarked that his mother's laughter was in his head.
* ShootTheMessenger: Sun Tzu Liao caustically thinks to himself about how his family made doing so into an art form, and how he's still writing out pardons to previous messengers killed or subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath.
* ShootTheMessenger: Sun Tzu Liao caustically thinks to himself about how his family made doing so into an art form, and how he's still writing out pardons to previous messengers killed or subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* [[LetsYouAndHimFight Let’s You and Him]] [[NukeEm Nuke Each Other]]: The Blakist regiments on Sian [[spoiler: killed a Capellan platoon, then fired a tactical nuke from their location at an AFFC headquarters in order to try to trigger a nuclear battle and cover the regiments’ escape. Katherine and Victor discuss the situation and refuse to take the bait, knowing that nuking the Forbidden City would only stiffen rebellions on captured worlds and boost the eventual death toll astronomically.]]
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* ChildSoldiers: A particularly poignant scene involves the Capellans training school girls to meet the coming Davion invasion of Sian, and some do not want to be a part of it, with lethal results.
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* ChildSoldiers: A particularly poignant scene involves the Capellans training school girls to meet the coming Davion invasion of Sian, and some do not want to be a part of it, with lethal results. There is also the Jade Falcon sibko led in an doomed defense of Maakar Island on Sudeten.
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* FantasyConflictCounterpart: Some have mentioned the story adopts elements of Bagaration, the offensive that destroyed Army Group Center in World War II, and the Pacific War on the Capellan front.
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* TheStarscream: Marthe Pryde attempts [[spoiler: to forestall the absorption of her Clan by shooting dead Ulric Kerensky, and her own Khan, and ordering the Jade Falcon Navy on the mother of all death rides. All she manages to do is touch off 'The Harrowing', a civil war so bad, the author won't write about it directly.]]
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* ChildSoldiers: A particularly poignant scene involves the Capellans training school girls to meet the coming Davion invasion of Sian, and some do not want to be a part of it, with lethal results.
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* AnyoneCanDie: The author has pointed out that 16 major characters have died thus far in the story (and more probably have died off screen with the [[spoiler:Grand Council Melee]].
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* AnyoneCanDie: The author has pointed out that 16 major characters have died thus far in the story (and more probably have died off screen with the [[spoiler:Grand Council Melee]].
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* SanitySlippage: After Katherine [[spoiler:launches a retaliatory assassination raid on his relatives with LOKI and Rabid Fox operatives in revenge for his asassination of Hanse and Melissa and sends him a video recording of it as a warning]], Sun-Tzu Liao snaps and begins to show signs of his family's more negative eccentric traits, one of the symptoms being hallucinations.
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* AlwaysWithYou: A good example of this is Katherine Steiner-Davion's thoughts before the launching of ACTIVE PANTHER.
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* CareerEndingInjury: Victor Steiner-Davion survives [[spoiler: a bomb attack by the Word of Blake that kills his parents, but at an unfortunate cost.]]
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* CareerEndingInjury: Victor Steiner-Davion survives [[spoiler: a bomb attack by the Word of Blake that kills his parents, parents.]] but at an unfortunate cost.]]
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* IWarnedYou: Talon Zahn's fatal "I told you so" moment with Sun-Tsu Liao.
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* EvilVersusEvil: When the Jade Phoenix Cluster makes its appearance on Sarna, and what they do to the Nightrider Regiment of the "Big MAC". Could also make a case for EvenEvilHasStandards with regards to the Falcon view of the Capellans.
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* EvilVersusEvil: When the Jade Phoenix Cluster makes its appearance on Sarna, and what they do to the Nightrider Regiment of the "Big MAC". Could also make a case for EvenEvilHasStandards with regards to the Falcon view of the Capellans. Also could be CurbStompBattle due to the ease in which the Jade Phoenixes disposed of the Nightriders.
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