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* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Capital ships use a combination of energy and physical weapons, but small arms are almost exclusively projectile-based; except for the neural disruptor, that is, which is an instant kill weapon and can stun a target with a near-miss. As Alley's enemies find out the hard way, all Cadre drop-commandos have their brains surrounded with a sort of Faraday cage to negate disruptor effects. There's a reason for this - lasers don't work very well in atmosphere, and can be disrupted by aerosol grenades in vacuum, but bullets work everywhere.
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* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Capital ships use a combination of energy and physical weapons, but small arms are almost exclusively projectile-based; except for the neural disruptor, that is, which is an instant kill weapon and can stun a target with a near-miss.[[NearMisses near-miss]]. As Alley's enemies find out the hard way, all Cadre drop-commandos have their brains surrounded with a sort of Faraday cage to negate disruptor effects. There's a reason for this - lasers don't work very well in atmosphere, and can be disrupted by aerosol grenades in vacuum, but bullets work everywhere.
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** Secondly, [[TheJavert Captain Lipchen]], under orders from the leadership of the Terran Federation to arrest Murphy on trumped-up charges for supposed warlordism, decides to do so during a public ceremony being broadcast to the entire New Dublin system rewarding Murphy for saving all of them. And then shoots the system President when he resists. This basically serves as the spark that ignites decades of resentment in the Fringe, and will serve as the inciting incident for the fall of the Terran Federation.
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** Secondly, [[TheJavert [[InspectorJavert Captain Lipchen]], under orders from the leadership of the Terran Federation to arrest Murphy on trumped-up charges for supposed warlordism, decides to do so during a public ceremony being broadcast to the entire New Dublin system rewarding Murphy for saving all of them. And then shoots the system President when he resists. This basically serves as the spark that ignites decades of resentment in the Fringe, and will serve as the inciting incident for the fall of the Terran Federation.
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** Similarly, the leadership of the Terran Federation in "Governor" is more concerned with maintaining their own wealth and prestige than actually winning the war they've been embroiled in for more than half a century.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Happens a few times in any David Weber book, but "Governor" takes the cake.
** First, as mentioned above, Second Admiral Xing chooses to retreat directly back to her secret naval yard than choose to go back on a false vector first, then change course when no one is looking. This allows for Rear Admiral Murphy to determine where her secret base is by simply following her vector back along to a probable star and doing some math based on travel times. It's even more ironic when her subordinate, Third Admiral Phan, is able to do exactly that, and get back to said base faster than her, thanks to having less damaged forces that don't slow him down, so he has time to prepare for Murphy's counterattack.
** Secondly, [[TheJavert Captain Lipchen]], under orders from the leadership of the Terran Federation to arrest Murphy on trumped-up charges for supposed warlordism, decides to do so during a public ceremony being broadcast to the entire New Dublin system rewarding Murphy for saving all of them. And then shoots the system President when he resists. This basically serves as the spark that ignites decades of resentment in the Fringe, and will serve as the inciting incident for the fall of the Terran Federation.
** First, as mentioned above, Second Admiral Xing chooses to retreat directly back to her secret naval yard than choose to go back on a false vector first, then change course when no one is looking. This allows for Rear Admiral Murphy to determine where her secret base is by simply following her vector back along to a probable star and doing some math based on travel times. It's even more ironic when her subordinate, Third Admiral Phan, is able to do exactly that, and get back to said base faster than her, thanks to having less damaged forces that don't slow him down, so he has time to prepare for Murphy's counterattack.
** Secondly, [[TheJavert Captain Lipchen]], under orders from the leadership of the Terran Federation to arrest Murphy on trumped-up charges for supposed warlordism, decides to do so during a public ceremony being broadcast to the entire New Dublin system rewarding Murphy for saving all of them. And then shoots the system President when he resists. This basically serves as the spark that ignites decades of resentment in the Fringe, and will serve as the inciting incident for the fall of the Terran Federation.
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** Rear Admiral Terrence Murphy starts to become this in "Governor" due to bucking the perception that he's just another Heart World crony out to rule over a Fringe sector just to get his ticket punched for later political ambitions. His actions start to inspire the Fringe-born soldiers and sailors under his command that he genuinely does care about their exploitation at the hands of the rest of the Terra Federation.
* ForegoneConclusion: Being a prequel, "Govenor" is subject to this. Anyone who read the previous book beforehand will know that [[spoiler: the days of both the Terran Federation and the Terran League are numbered, that both will fall under control of a new nation born from the star system of New Dublin, and that this new power, the Terran Empire, will be ruled by Emperor Terrence Murphy as he declares war on the Rish for interfering in the previous war.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: Being a prequel, "Govenor" is subject to this. Anyone who read the previous book beforehand will know that [[spoiler: the days of both the Terran Federation and the Terran League are numbered, that both will fall under control of a new nation born from the star system of New Dublin, and that this new power, the Terran Empire, will be ruled by Emperor Terrence Murphy as he declares war on the Rish for interfering in the previous war.]]
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** Rear Admiral Terrence Murphy starts to become this in "Governor" due to bucking the perception that he's just merely another Heart World crony out to rule over a Fringe sector just to get his ticket punched for later political ambitions. His actions start to inspire the Fringe-born soldiers and sailors under his command that he genuinely does care about their exploitation at the hands of the rest of the Terra Terran Federation.
* ForegoneConclusion: Being a prequel,"Govenor" "Governor" is subject to this. Anyone who read the previous book beforehand will know that [[spoiler: the days of both the Terran Federation and the Terran League are numbered, that both will fall under control of a new nation born from the star system of New Dublin, and that this new power, the Terran Empire, will be ruled by Emperor Terrence Murphy as he declares war on the Rish for interfering in the previous war.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: Being a prequel,
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* ForegoneConclusion: Being a prequel, "Govenor" is subject to this. Anyone who read the previous book beforehand will know that [[spoiler: the days of both the Terran Federation and the Terran League are numbered, that both will fall under control of a new nation born from the star system of New Dublin, and that this new power, the Terran Empire, will be ruled by Emperor Terrence Murphy as he declares war on the Rish for interfering in the previous war.]]
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** Though not officially nobility, the Five Hundred families of the Terran Federation play this much more straight in "Governor". They would rather profit off of the war economy and Rish imports than conclude the war or investigate Rish interference in the war.
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** Rear Admiral Terrence Murphy starts to become this in "Governor" due to bucking the perception that he's just another Heart World crony out to rule over a Fringe sector just to get his ticket punched for later political ambitions. His actions start to inspire the Fringe-born soldiers and sailors under his command that he genuinely does care about their exploitation at the hands of the rest of the Terra Federation.
