History Literature / Spaceforce2012

It has been released and recognized under the name ''Starcrime'', ''Outcaste'' and ''Deadline'' have been left out, replaced with ''Hope'', and using the NomDeGuerre Philippa Sidle.

It has been released and recognized under the name ''Starcrime'', ''Outcaste'' and ''Deadline'' have been left out, replaced with ''Hope'', and using the NomDeGurre Philippa Sidle.

* ''Outcaste'' (2012)
* ''Deadline'' (2013)
* ''Oblivion'' (2014)

It has been released and recognized under the name ''Starcrime'', and ''Outcaste'' has been left out, using the NomDeGurre Philippa Sidle.

* ''Citizen Andri''
* ''Liberty''

* ''Citizen Andri'' (forthcoming)

* NeverSuicide: [[spoiler: The death of Leela Choudhray, which certainly looks like suicide, but Jez immediately suspects is not. Later, Harri Howe tells her that Damien had her killed to silence her.]]

* FullyClothedNudity: How the very modest Taysans perceive the Eathers’ way of letting arms, legs and cleavage hang out. When Jay strips to the waist in ''Oblivion'', it’s the first time Ashlenn has seen a man’s arms - let alone anything else.

* AristocratsAreEvil: The BigBad of “Oblivion” turns out to be the [[LastOfHiKind last surviving member]] of the elite Mixitor nobility. She is abetted by [[spoiler: the Hon. St John Pemberton, a minor aristocrat from Earth.]]

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Salthar delivers one of these to Jay when he confronts him after Jay’s elopement.

* AlienLunch: The banquet given to the visiting Taysans in ''Deadline'' is this, seen through their eyes. ‘Soup’, a drink you eat? Frozen flavoured animal milk? Urgh.

* VillainExitStageLeft: [[spoiler: Minty Mazata gets away at the end of ''Oblivion'', having vamped Jay and fled the planet in her own ship before the alarm was raised.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Ashlenn’s father Corusval is passing secret research to, as he thinks, the Earthers because he fears the Darians are arming for war against the Empire and the Union. He wants the Earthers to share the Taysans’ technological advantages.]]

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Commander Judd, chief of the Interplanetary Special Investigation Squad and Jez and Andri’s boss, is certainly black and in charge. We’re given no specific information about his hair or lack of it, but baldness doesn’t seem unlikely. He’s certainly LargeAndInCharge.

Not to be confused with the [[https://www.spaceforce.mil/ actual Space Force, the sixth and newest branch of the US armed forces, commissioned in December 2019]]. Or the [[Series/SpaceForce2020 Netflix series starring]] Creator/SteveCarell parodying said branch.

* ''Deadline''(2013)

''Outcaste'' (2012)\\
''Deadline''(2013)\\
''Oblivion'' (2014)\\
''Citizen Andri'' (forthcoming)

''Citizen Andri'' (forthcoming)\\

!!THE BOOKS SO FAR ARE, IN ORDER

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* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: In the Taysan Empire it’s a criminal offence to marry someone of a different ‘degree’ (social class, effectively), and you can to all extents and purposes be executed for doing so.

** Averted by Jez, who is also daughter of another, less prestigous noble house.
* {{Asexual}}: [[spoiler: The player Cathur in “Oblivion”, whose asexuality is in Taysan culture a shameful secret that has caused him to be exiled, and blackmailed, and in the end [[DrivenToSuicide drives him to suicide.]]]]

An unspecified number of centuries in the future, Earth is at the centre of a Union of around 1200 inhabited worlds. But we are not of course alone in the Galaxy - on one side is the ancient Taysan Empire, SpaceElves with a rigidly stratified caste-based society and an absolute monarch, and on the other, the totalitarian People’s Republic of Daros. A hundred years before the series began, the governments of each signed a three-way peace agreement that has just about held up since. But with each signatory thereby pledged to gang up on the other if any one breaks the accord, there’s widespread fear that the Peace is fragile at best.

* ActionGirl: Pretty much every major female character but in particular Jez, Ashlenn and Mizal.

Not to be confused with the [[https://www.spaceforce.mil/ actual Space Force, the sixth and newest branch of the US armed forces, commissioned in December 2019]]. Or the [[Series/SpaceForce Netflix series starring]] Creator/SteveCarell parodying said branch.