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* PlugAndPlayTechnology: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Space!Valentin when discussing the strange compatibility between Platform technology and [[BeePeople Bug]] bio-technology. He refuses to believe that RealLife works like that. [[spoiler:The Bugs are actually the builders of the Platform and specifically designed things that way]].
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* PlugAndPlayTechnology: PlugNPlayTechnology: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Space!Valentin when discussing the strange compatibility between Platform technology and [[BeePeople Bug]] bio-technology. He refuses to believe that RealLife works like that. [[spoiler:The Bugs are actually the builders of the Platform and specifically designed things that way]].
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* HollywoodNerd: Oleg is a system administrator and spends a lot of time on his computer. He also goes to the gym and is in excellent shape. He's a little shy, but not cripplingly so.
** His appearance is described as athletic, muscular, whose face is of the "ladies like" type.
** His appearance is described as athletic, muscular, whose face is of the "ladies like" type.
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* InsideAComputerSystem: The Seekers believe that they're all trapped in a [[TheMatrix Matrix]]-like simulation. The only way to break out is to force their captors' hand by [[spoiler:blowing up a star]].
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* InsideAComputerSystem: The Seekers believe that they're all trapped in a [[TheMatrix Matrix]]-like {{cyberspace}} simulation. The only way to break out is to force their captors' hand by [[spoiler:blowing up a star]].
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.* EnergyWeapon: One of the main weapons of a ship. While Valentin sees lines on the screen, he understands that they're too fast for the eye to see, and it's the ship's computer adding them for visual aid.
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* FrickinLaserBeams: One of the main weapons of a ship. While Valentin sees lines on the screen, he understands that they're too fast for the eye to see, and it's the ship's computer adding them for visual aid.
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* AllPeriodsArePMS: Lena mentions once accidentally naming a newly-discovered star PMS.
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* WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture: While this is not the future, credits are the standard currency for the humans in space.
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* WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture: While this is not the future, credits are the standard currency for the humans in space.space.
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''Competitors'' (''Конкуренты'', Konkurenty) is a ScienceFiction novel by the popular Russian sci-fi and fantasy author SergeyLukyanenko. The novel starts in modern-day Moscow involving a freelance journalist named Valentin Safonov and then diverges into two parallel storylines: one continues in Moscow, and the other picks up on a SpaceStation in an unknown star system. The chapters alternate the perspective of the protagonist, who has been duplicated far away from home by means of unknown alien technology. Both versions of the protagonist seek to discover what is going on and why people are being sent to live and die far from Earth with no way back.
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''Competitors'' (''Конкуренты'', Konkurenty) is a ScienceFiction novel by the popular Russian sci-fi and fantasy author SergeyLukyanenko.Creator/SergeyLukyanenko. The novel starts in modern-day Moscow involving a freelance journalist named Valentin Safonov and then diverges into two parallel storylines: one continues in Moscow, and the other picks up on a SpaceStation in an unknown star system. The chapters alternate the perspective of the protagonist, who has been duplicated far away from home by means of unknown alien technology. Both versions of the protagonist seek to discover what is going on and why people are being sent to live and die far from Earth with no way back.
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Misuse. It\'s Genre Savvy, not just \"savvy\".
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* LaserSight: Earth!Valentin and Earth!Lena are talking in his apartment when he notices a red dot on her head. Being GenreSavvy, he pulls her on the floor, just before a shot rings out from a sniper rifle on the roof of another building. However, it turns out that the sniper's goal was to scare them into dropping their investigation, not kill them, so the laser sight is justified.
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* LaserSight: Earth!Valentin and Earth!Lena are talking in his apartment when he notices a red dot on her head. Being GenreSavvy, hyperaware, he pulls her on the floor, just before a shot rings out from a sniper rifle on the roof of another building. However, it turns out that the sniper's goal was to scare them into dropping their investigation, not kill them, so the laser sight is justified.
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* SingleBiomePlanet: Nigredo is an ice world with a twist. All water on the planet is black but otherwise identical to regular water. The protagonist specifically mentions [[StarWars Hoth]] when first seeing the planet.
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* SingleBiomePlanet: Nigredo is an ice world with a twist. All water on the planet is black but otherwise identical to regular water. The protagonist specifically mentions [[StarWars [[Franchise/StarWars Hoth]] when first seeing the planet.
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Menstrual Menace is about supernatural horrors caused by a woman\'s period. All Periods Are PMS is about women being cranky that time of the month. See this
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* MenstrualMenace: Lena mentions once accidentally naming a newly-discovered star PMS.
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* NamingYourColonyWorld: Stars and planets are traditionally named by the first pilot to scout the system. Lena mentions accidentally once naming a star [[MenstrualMenace PMS]].
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* NamingYourColonyWorld: Stars and planets are traditionally named by the first pilot to scout the system. Lena mentions accidentally once naming a star [[MenstrualMenace [[AllPeriodsArePMS PMS]].
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** The Seekers use the same logic to try to prove that they're all stuck InsideAComputerSystem.
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* CasualInterstellarTravel: Any initial arrival to the station is given sufficient [[WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture credits]] for a beginner ship. However, it's not enough to equip the ship with a hyperdrive, even if one removes weapons and [[DeflectorShields shields]]. After spending some time in the system, though, [[AsteroidMiners mining]] or trading, one can earn enough credits to afford a better ship which can feature a hyperdrive. Then traveling to another system is as easy as picking a star on a two-dimensional map. A hyperjump is instantaneous and doesn't feature any special effects.
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* CasualInterstellarTravel: Any initial arrival to the station is given sufficient [[WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture credits]] for a beginner ship. However, it's not enough to equip the ship with a hyperdrive, even if one removes weapons and [[DeflectorShields shields]]. After spending some time in the system, though, [[AsteroidMiners mining]] or trading, one can earn enough credits to afford a better ship which can feature a hyperdrive. Then traveling to another system is as easy as picking a star on a two-dimensional map. A hyperjump is instantaneous and doesn't feature any special effects. A ship's jump range is limited only by the available fuel. However, there's nothing stopping a pilot from jumping and then looking for a resource-rich asteroid to mine for the fuel. This can take anywhere from several weeks to months, though.
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* MenstrualMenace: Lena mentions once accidentally naming a newly-discovered star PMS.
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* NamingYourColonyWorld: Stars and planets are traditionally named by the first pilot to scout the system. Lena mentions accidentally once naming a star PMS.
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* NamingYourColonyWorld: Stars and planets are traditionally named by the first pilot to scout the system. Lena mentions accidentally once naming a star PMS.[[MenstrualMenace PMS]].
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* InsideAComputerSystem: The Seekers believe that they're all trapped in a [[TheMatrix Matrix]]-like simulation. The only way to break out is to force their captors' hand by [[spoiler:blowing up a star]].
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* GeniusBruiser: Roman is a massively-built guy with the look of a professional boxer. He often travels with Master and acts the part of his bodyguard. When he's back on the base, however, he puts on a lab coat and reveals that he has college degrees in mathematical physics and artificial intelligence.
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* GeniusBruiser: Roman is a massively-built guy with the look of a professional boxer.boxer (see the cover above for the guy with the HandCannon). He often travels with Master and acts the part of his bodyguard. When he's back on the base, however, he puts on a lab coat and reveals that he has college degrees in mathematical physics and artificial intelligence.
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* OldSchoolDogfighting: Since all ships have a CrewOfOne, this is the normal way of ship-to-ship combat, even for larger ships.
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* ThisIsReality: Space!Valentin constantly lampshades various space-related tropes and how they should not work in RealLife. He's proven wrong every time because [[spoiler:the entire set-up is deliberately done by the Bugs in order to cull their young using humans]].
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** Due to the largely lawless nature of space, claim jumping is frequent, and a friend of Lena's mentions [[DeathIsCheap casually incinerating a miner]] who happened to be mining an asteroid she took a liking to (a year after he found it) and regrets that the valuable asteroid was also destroyed in the process.
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* CrewOfOne: All ships feature only one control console, which Valentin thinks is just ridiculous. This becomes even more evident when, during the Bug attack on the Platform, Valentin's wing is ordered to strike the enemy from the rear. Valentin thinks that, normally, such a thing should not be possible, as the large Bug ships would have manned rear-facing turrets. Due to the fact that the tactic works, he concludes that the Bugs also engage in this trope.
** Averted in the end, when LaResistance rigs their flagship to have multiple specialized consoles specifically to avoid the obvious pitfalls of this trope.
** Averted in the end, when LaResistance rigs their flagship to have multiple specialized consoles specifically to avoid the obvious pitfalls of this trope.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Space!Leonid, a young Jewish violinist, mentions that, as soon as his original on Earth finds out the truth, he's going to storm into the agency demanding answers or just shoot everyone there. Space!Valentin just shakes his head at this. When Earth!Valentin and Earth!Lena later break into the agency at night, they find two dead bodies, one of which belongs to a young Jewish man and the other to the agency's security guard, who turns out to be an alien. Earth!Leonid tried to do exactly that but got shot by the guard after shooting him in the head.
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* ActionGirl: Lena (AKA Driver) is definitely not a delicate flower. Back on Earth, she is a taxi driver. In space, she is a tough-as-nails fighter pilot.
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* ActionGirl: Lena (AKA Driver) is definitely not a delicate flower. Back on Earth, she is a taxi driver. driver (not a job for the faint of heart). In space, she is a tough-as-nails fighter pilot.pilot.
* AirVentPassageway: Averted. When Space!Valentin and Space!Lena are locked in a room on the Platform, Valentin suggests escaping using a vent. Lena laughs, saying he's been watching too many movies. The vents in the room are no more than a foot wide. Also, when Valentin suggests setting off the fire alarm, Lena calmly lets him know that the automatic procedure in this case is to isolate the room and vent the atmosphere.
* AirVentPassageway: Averted. When Space!Valentin and Space!Lena are locked in a room on the Platform, Valentin suggests escaping using a vent. Lena laughs, saying he's been watching too many movies. The vents in the room are no more than a foot wide. Also, when Valentin suggests setting off the fire alarm, Lena calmly lets him know that the automatic procedure in this case is to isolate the room and vent the atmosphere.
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* BioAugmentation: One of the results of studying the Bugs' bio-technology is an implant that attaches to the back of the neck and allows a person to survive high-G maneuvers with ArtificialGravity turned off. This allows a ship to accelerate and turn much faster than normal. The implant dies in a few hours, though.
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** Valentin quickly finds out that most of the piloting is actually done by the onboard computer, and the pilot's actions only serve as general guidelines as to the pilot's intent, which the computer interprets and acts upon.
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* ArtificialGravity: The Platform and all ships are equipped with artificial gravity generators, which also [[InertialDampening compensate for inertia]]. They are deliberately turned down slightly in order for the pilot to feel a tiny fraction of the G-forces to aid in piloting. The Platform's field actually extends a little beyond the external hull, which results in a ring of garbage "orbiting" the station.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Averted. While Valentin appears to be initially attracted to Inna, one of the Platform administrators, whose original works at the hiring agency, he quickly loses interest after meeting (and sleeping with) Lena. Played straight in that Inna is a natural blonde (although her Earth counterpart dyes her hair in order to avoid the blonde stereotype), while Lena is a brunette. Inna also turns out to have a slightly bitchy nature (Lena outright calls her a bitch during a show trial).
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* BettyAndVeronica: Averted. While Valentin appears to be initially attracted to Inna, one of the Platform administrators, whose original works at the hiring agency, he quickly loses interest after meeting (and sleeping with) Lena. Played straight in that Inna is a natural blonde (although her Earth counterpart dyes her hair in order to avoid the blonde stereotype), while Lena is a brunette. Inna also turns out to have a slightly bitchy nature (Lena outright calls her a bitch during a show trial). Lena and Inna even have a scuffle while Space!Valentin is unconscious (i.e. we only get Lena's brief version of the CatFight, which she recounts to him).
* BiggerIsBetter: As a rule, larger ships are better armed and defended. All new pilots start with a tiny ''Sylvana'' but can, eventually, get bigger and better ships, up to the awesome ''Prime'' class. All ships are capable of landing of planetary surfaces, though.
* BlackBox: Since the aliens who built the Platform didn't bother to leave instructions, people who are sent there have to figure things out on their own. Luckily, a number of arrivals are engineers, who spend their time tinkering with the Platform's systems, frequently with lethal results. However, while the engineers may figure out the purpose of a piece of machinery, they usually have no idea ''how'' it works.
* BiggerIsBetter: As a rule, larger ships are better armed and defended. All new pilots start with a tiny ''Sylvana'' but can, eventually, get bigger and better ships, up to the awesome ''Prime'' class. All ships are capable of landing of planetary surfaces, though.
* BlackBox: Since the aliens who built the Platform didn't bother to leave instructions, people who are sent there have to figure things out on their own. Luckily, a number of arrivals are engineers, who spend their time tinkering with the Platform's systems, frequently with lethal results. However, while the engineers may figure out the purpose of a piece of machinery, they usually have no idea ''how'' it works.
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* ISOStandardHumanSpaceship: Averted, as the ship designs were already in the Platform's memory banks and were not designed by humans. Each ship type is radically different. Some have a vague SpacePlane-like shape, while other may look like a series of criss-crossing horseshoes. It helps that, with ArtificialGravity and DeflectorShields, one doesn't really have to think about aerodynamics.
