History Literature / SporeWikiFictionUniverse

* MegaCity: {{CityPLanet City Planets}} aside, the Draconid capital of Minos'Drakon is home to over 450 million people, not counting the commuter belt.

* TheWallAroundTheWorld: The Cyrannia Cluster is surrounded by a precursor barrier that prevents any kind of travel in or out. The only routes of access are the odd naturally-occurring wormhole. There is also the Demon Wall, a NegativeSpaceWedgie around the gigaquadrant that emerged during the Annihilation and separated it from the rest of the universe.

* BritishEnglish: Normally preferred in stories, mostly because the majority of the wiki (or at least its fiction part)'s founders and coordinators are European.

* AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit: Vast majority of civilizations are type II with some on the verge of type III. However only galactic-scale unions such as the Galactic Empire of Cyrannus, Polar Crystal Alliance, The Civilisation and the Andromedan Galactic Commonwealth can be considered true type [=IIIs=].

* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Averted '''hard'''. The most prominent human faction with territory and influence in almost every galaxy? ''France.''

Stories are usually revolved around major wars and conflicts occuring in the universe (which happen [[CrapsackWorld all the time]]). Sometimes, there are "sidestories" tied to the events of said wars. The "war stories" are usually united in story arcs, which will usually all have the same protagonists (or antagonists, in case of ''The Great Uprising'' and the ''War of Ages''). The largest ones so far are:

* MegaCity: Numerous examples in all flavours, as many of the larger empires support very large urbanised populatios. Minos'Drakon - one of the most prominent examples - has a population comparable to that of the United States in its metropolitan area alone. And unlike other examples (like Paris or Araveene City) it doesn't span an entire continent.

** Thanks to a big part of its of its aristocracy being CEOs or major shareholders, the Draconid Imperium is filled with these.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The Krassio have became a race of [[TheOmnipotent Omnipotents]] after the Xhodocto have trascended its status. One race has ascended to a higher plane existence taking the place of another one who has ascended to an even [[UpToEleven HIGHER]] plane of existence.

* BadassPacifist: Most politician characters fit into this. Such as Alexanddre Valery or Apollo, who have changed history with speeches or radical political policies without personally killing anyone.

** The end of the Great Cyrannus War is one of the most famous examples of the bad guy winning. Having set up either side so whoever won, Tyrómairon would take over.

** Continuing on with the Star Wars theme, Tyrómairon himself gave a similar speech to that of Emperor Palaptine at the end of their respective wars. [[RevengeOfTheSith Announcing the foundation of a galactic empire of unrivalled extent]].

** Larnus Vontarion devised a battle tactic that involved warp-hopping close to your oponent's ship and unleashing a full broadside. Not too dissimilar to a maneuvre devised by Jean-Luc Picard of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' during his career.

* SlaveBrand: After learning [[spoiler: that Medusa was responsible for the fact]] Alessa had spent several weeks as a slave servant in some minor empire, Uriel has slavemaster who owned her branded with a mark that identifies him as both a slave and guilty of acting against the crown.

** WordOfGod states that due to opposing essences, Kalcedia would be unable to sleep with Hachiman when he's older due to her being a case of BadPowersGoodPeople and him being a GodOfGood. The resulting interaction would be like matter and antimatter.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Fairly cynical since most of the First Gigaquadrant's greatest powers [[MightMakesRight boast massive armies]] [[BadassArmy of ruthless, well-equipped soldiers]] and each warship is [[ApocalypseHow armed with enough firepower to annihilate]] [[PunyEarthlings any Earth nation]] [[OneManArmy on their own]]. The cynical part? GunboatDiplomacy is very popular in the setting. Several of these powers are not averse to [[WeWillUseManualLabourInTheFuture taking entire planetary poulations as slaves]] sometimes with CoolAndUnusualPunishment to boot. You either submit to their demands or stay the hell away from them. Where are the nice-guy idealists? With factions like this, often the only way to beat these ruthless powers [[FaceHeelTurn is to be ruthless yourself]]. So (with a few exceptions) most goody-goody empires tend to stay largely ignored by the superpowers. The most notable exceptions include the New Cyrannian Republic and Rambo Nation, both of which conduct tend to conduct themselves with the utmost decorum while retaining their place as universal hyperpowers.

* SpaceColdWar: While briefly allied against the Cyrannian Imperial State during the New Cyrandia Wars, the Galactic Empire of Cyrannus and the New Cyrannian Republic became locked in a decade-spanning cold war, with both sides working to undermine the other for control of the Cyrannus Galaxy and the mantle of galactic governance. The Cyrannian Cold War expands beyond Cyrannus, with civilisations such as the Draconid Imperium opening up their own front against the Empire in Andromeda. In the fraught astropolitical climate however, both the Republic and the Empire's interactions with other powers are often carried out with an eye to the opposing side.
* SpaceElves: Many examples exist, most fit in either Type I or II and combine with EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs. Due to creative tendancies, a number tend to border on the freakishly-tall side. Prominent examples include:

** If the Iron Fist wasn't fancy enough with its walls of nanongineered solid gold, the interior decorators of the RASC Worldfather's Grace (read: The personal starship of Uriel Ultanos) are comparable to combining Versailles '''and''' Buckingham Palace.
* StartXToStopX: Kol Daren believes that all the suffering and trauma in the universe is caused by mortals bing selfish jerks. How does he plan to solve all this? Simple: [[OmnicidalManiac Slaughtering every single living thing in the universe]] in the most sadistic and [[LudicrousGibs gruesome way possible.]]
** The Tahar Empire hs reached the conclusion that [[ReligionIsWrong any and all forms of religion spur nothing but ignorance, stupidity, intolerance and will always hold society back]]. Their plan to rectify all this is to aggressively abolish the concept of religion with the belief that their outlook on the universe is the only right one. They [[BoomerangBigot completely dismiss]] anyone who might suggest an alternative view.

* StrawmanPolitical: Before reworks made after the original creator left, the races of the Kraw Galaxy could each be considered strawmen for a different sociopolitical view.

** While most KG individuals are atheist, Tahar combine HollywoodAtheist with InsufferableGenius. They see any mention of the metaphysical as an affront to the laws of the universe and if they don't have an explaination for an observation, said observation is a mistake. This reaches egregous levels when the people they're trying ot disprove are [[HigherTechSpecies centuries ahead of them]].
** The Komorian Theocratic Empire is a clear mockery of Western Christian doctrine, complete with an obliviousness to the contradition of an all-loving deity who punishes all non-believers by casting them into hell.
** The Hakonians are transsapients with the opinion that machines are superor to organic life to the point where they consider nature (as in plants and animals) being obsolete in favour of a machine age. Their love of robotics is topped off by their preference for unit designations over more typical names.

** The Dagorian Mercenarium is profit motive taken to the extreme, where being broke is considered a perfectly good reason for being ''murdered'' and where the most powerful man in the mercenarium is the richest.
** Before being retconned into an "expand or die" society, the Tyrek were an imperialist and expansionist power whos population get complacent if their empire is not expanding though conquest fast enough for their liking. To the point where the Tyrek Emperor would declare war just for the prospect of new territory to appease his people for a bit.

* StupidGood: The Second Borealis War was a big offender. There have been numerous times where the group have fallen for obvious diversions and traps. This is reflected in-universe in "Changing History" when the extragalactics start pointing out the Polar Crystal Alliance's incompentence.
** And how did the alliance react? [[spoiler: [[ComicallyMissingThePoint They started arguing amongst themselves and blaming the Zoles for everything]].]]

* UnnecessarilyLargeVessel: As mentioned in MileLongShip, most empires field several-kilometre-long warships it's become an arms race as to who can build the biggest. The Forces of the Xhodocto take it one step further with their cruisers measuring at '''[[ExaggeratedTrope least]]''' eighty kilometres.

* TheWarSequence: Many timees have we seen a group of heroes facing down an army.

* {{Antimatter}}: Used sometimes as weapons, as in original {{Spore}}.

* {{Badass}}: Just about all main empires on Spore Wiki.
** BadassAdorable: Aoirtae.
** BadassArmy: The Fordanta.
*** Special mention goes to the Draconid Imperium's [[PraetorianGuard Blood Dragon Guard]] - Despite lacking cybernetics or genetic engineering, they are so dangerous that one empire advised using nothing less than their own their own resident [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers]] should conflict ever arise.
** BadassGrandpa: Many SporeWiki species can live for a long time. As such, many characters like Larnus Vontarion and Hel'Bre'K Ce'So'Va may qualify.
** BadassNormal: Anyone named who doesn't have supernatural powers.
** BadassPacifist: Most politician characters fit into this. Such as Alexanddre Valery or Apollo, who have changed history with speeches or radical political policies without personally killing anyone.
** BadassInCharge: Often a for heads of state. Emperor Wormulus II is perhaps the best example, being, well, the GodEmperor.
** BadassPrincess: Ramashe before becoming an empress.
** BadassPreacher: Tadjamad.

* ScaryDogmaticAliens: A fair few. What reinforces the GreyAndBlackMorality of the fiction universe is how you have imperialist (DCP, Draconid Imperium) social darwinist (Brood Of War, Fordan Empire), and ChurchMilitant (Divinarium) empires [[DarkisNotEvil as the good guys!]]
** The most common type of Dogmatism so far is Fundamentalism: Cogsangui, Ernai, Minga, Devourer's Chosen, Mahanayans, and, of course, Radeons. Second most common type is Conquistadorism: DCP, Junction, Zazane, and most of the Grox empires aren't the only examples. Communism is present as well with, partially, Zazane and Radeons. Nazism so far is the rarest hat on SporeWiki, the only major example being Basileus.
** The Aeoneonatrix from the perspective of anyone that they conquer, such as in the Clifsk Affair.
** The Gargator.

** Radeons: Lithe, long-lived psychic mystics who live in shiny [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas crystal spires]], highly spiritual and compared to their neibours, prefer diplomacy or espionage to frontline warfare.

* SanitySlippage: Most descended characters go through this. One of the most noteable is Volkarus Khaxvis who slowly decayed from a cunning and eloquant insurgent into a power-crazed madman with delusions of godhood over the course of three years.
* SlaveBrand: After learning [[spoiler: that Medusa was responsible for the fact]] Alessa had spent several weeks as a slave servant in some minor empire, Uriel has slavemaster who owned her branded with a mark that identifies him as both a slave and guilty of acting against the crown.
* SlaveCollar: Slaves to the Gros wear helmets that are surgically fused against their craniums while slaves in the Draconizane Dominion wear thopse of the ShockCollar variety. Less barbaric are the registration ships the Draconid Imperium implants within its "sub-citizens"
* TheSpymaster: Mentracus; the super-secret leader of the Draconid Imperium's Royal Intelligence Agency. So secretive that no-one knows who (or what) the hell he is.
* StrawmanPolitical: Before reworks made after the original creator left, the races of the Kraw Galaxy could each be considered strawmen for a different sociopolitical view.
** The Kraw believe that a democracy is the ideal form of government and that anything else is an impediment to personal freedom. And they would hold picket protests for just about everything.
** While most KG individuals are atheist, Tahar combine HollywoodAtheist with InsufferableGenius. They see any mention of the metaphysical as an affront to the laws of the universe and if they don't have an explaination for an observation, said observation is a mistake. This reaches egregous levels when the people they're trying ot disprove are [[HigherTechSpecies centuries ahead of them]].
** The Komorian Theocratic Empire is a clear mockery of Western Christian doctrine, complete with an obliviousness to the contradition of an all-loving deity who punishes all non-believers by casting them into hell.
** The Hakonians are transsapients with the opinion that machines are superor to organic life to the point where they consider nature (as in plants and animals) being obsolete in favour of a machine age. Their love of robotics is topped off by their preference for unit designations over more typical names.
** The Iteok Khereg are horrifying brutes with a sadistic love for killing and are all-too-happy to brag about being able to take on gods. While passing themselves off as warriors, it is pretty clear they have no concept of honour considering they happily eat alien babies.
** The Dagorian Mercenarium is profit motive taken to the extreme, where being broke is considered a perfectly good reason for being ''murdered'' and where the most powerful man in the mercenarium is the richest.
** Before being retconned into an "expand or die" society, the Tyrek were an imperialist and expansionist power whos population get complacent if their empire is not expanding though conquest fast enough for their liking. To the point where the Tyrek Emperor would declare war just for the prospect of new territory to appease his people for a bit.
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* TheAestheticsOfTechnology

* AlternativeCalendar: Overlaps with UniversalUniverseTime. The Milky Way and Borealis galaxies still use the earthdate while the Cyrannian galaxy has used a calendar twice as long as the Earth one since its inception, meanwhile Andromeda has been converting to using the dating system used by the Draconid Imperium, probably the most peculiar of the knwon calendars. While it still adheres to a twelve-month system, each month is thirty days long and uses month names with little verbal comparison to our own. Oh yeah and one year is 1.15x the length of an Earth year.

* {{Antimatter}}: Used sometimes as weapons, as in original {{Spore}}.

* AlternativeCalendar: Overlaps with UniversalUniverseTime. The Milky Way and Borealis galaxies still use the earthdate while the Cyrannian galaxy has used a calendar twice as long as the Earth one since its inception, meanwhile Andromeda has been converting to using the dating system used by the Draconid Imperium, probably the most peculiar of the knwon calendars. While it still adheres to a twelve-month system, each month is thirty days long and uses month names with little verbal comparison to our own. Oh yeah and one year is 1.15x the length of an Earth year.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The demons of Inferno, the Grox, the Neraida Gigamatrix, the Mali'Nar, the Corruptus, the Xeranbha, and those are just a few of them.
* AncientTradition: zig-zagged: The Draconid Imperium has several underground outposts on Earth which so far appear to be research stations dating back to around 1400 B.C. However there might be ''some'' evidence of AncientConspiracy going on as stories such as ''Studies in the Deep'' and ''Secret of the Alps'' hint of the occupants doing more than observational research.
* AndIMustScream: The fate of the leader of the Wranploer, General Volim, who was trapped in [[EldritchLocation Chaos]] and [[BlessedWithSuck cursed with complete immortality]], meaning he was alone, under eternal torture from [[MadGod Santorakh]] and incapable of killing himself.

* '''''Realities Altered''''', a group of stories that depict "what-if" scenarios, featuring alternate timelines based on the past, present and future of the community's fiction. The two largest stories are Dysnomia and the Mirror Universe.

* AllMenArePerverts - The primary reason the Radeons (being the holier-than-thou religious types) can barely stand being around humans. Also the main reason (along with humannity's general habit of waging wars and being dicks) for building a BFG on a moon in Alpha Centauri, pointed conveniently towards Sol.
* AlternateContinuity - The "Realities Altered" and "Legacy" sequences of stories purely exist to fill this role.

* ShiningCity: Minos'Drakon, Orbispira and several cities on the Rambo Capital (suich as Tirithsillania) are the most prolific named examples. Orbispira however is more of a "[[CityPlanet Shining Planet]]" given it is urbanised from pole-to-pole and from crust-to-core. Hyperborea could also count on similar lines to Orbispira, given that it is an artificial construct built around [[spoiler: the Kormacvar homeworld.]]

** '''Apolithanatár''', the powerful Oikoumene Lord of Light, is said to mean "Eternal Starlight" in an ancient Oikoumene tongue.

** '''Eolania ''Iovera'' Menoraim'''. "Vera" is Latin for "true" and Russian for "faith", while "Menoraim" is a type of candle used in Judaism rituals; all these meaning apply as she is the HighPriest of the ProudScholarRace.

* NebulousCriminalConspiracy: The '''House of the Unseen Hand'' is a loosely organised collective of the First Gigaquadrant's rich and powerful elite. Who by the beginning of the 27th century had a vice-like hold on the Draconid Imperium.

* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Zig-zagged. Most aliens can breathe, eat, drink and kiss in atmospheres presumably different from their homeworld. Although they ''might'' all be wearing rebreathers so sophisticated they're practically invisible to the naked eye. Most aliens can eat alien food and drink too with no adverse effects (justified by the Civilisation who make it a point to promote foodstuffs gen-enged to be edible to a wide variety of species). However interspecies hybrids have been shown ot be impossible without the use of science or divine intervention.
** Somewhat justified with ascended/descended beings in that they don't follow the common laws of nature anyway.
** Kicath however are a straight-up aversion; water acts like bleach to their silicon-based biologies.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Most of the universe is populated by reptiles or synapsids, a good half of ''them'' are dragonlike. The four most prominent examples are the [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Drac]][[ProudScholarRaceGuy ogonarious]], [[ThreateningShark Sp]][[ProudWarriorRaceGuy inker]] and [[CulturalPosturing Dra]][[HigherTechSpecies co]][[FantasyCounterpartCulture ni]][[ProudWarriorRaceGuy s]] and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Za]][[AlienBlood za]][[HealingFactor ne]].
** Draconis are big, intelligent and quite often centuries old. While they ''do'' look like your typical western dragon, they can't breathe fire but are the second-strongest of the four.

** Spinkers are the warrios of the Indoctrinate collective, can be quite tempermental and are in line much more with sharks than dragons. Due to their serpentine tails, batlike wings, horns and clawed feet, they're more like half-shark-half-dragon.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: At up to ''twelve metres'' tall Dominatus are perhaps the largest sapient beings in the gigaquadrant, justified in that their bodies are a good part cybernetics and internal reinforcement. Serving them are the Overseers, who are cloned from kidnapped templates of other gigaquadrant species and dosed with a SuperSerum that can make them up to literally [[MakeMyMonsterGrow ''twice'']] as tall as normal. Bear in mind that most spacefaring species measure roughly two-and-a-half to four mentres tall, and [[AlwaysABiggerFish there are plenty who are even taller]].

* PlantAliens: Cephalopodians, Alvino and Zí-Jittorám are the most noteable.

* PortalNetwork: The Divinarium uses portals for prettymuch any kind of travel while the Draconid Imperium has littered its territory with wormholes.

* {{Precursors}}: Most galaxies have a bunch of them. Noteable ones include the Tertamian Alliance, Xyanxes, Screebles, the Oikoumene and the Kormacvar.

** Aaand then thre's Tyraz Breek. Born into a family in exile and treated like unwanted property because he was short (for Zazane short = weak), he took the throne of the Zazne Empire after his brother expired but only shortly before the Andromeda War did he decide on reformation, creating the more egalitarian Brood of War. Fifteen years on the Brood are one of the big three AGC members and the Zazane are becoming far more tolerant of non-Zazane.
** Falrik Zaarkhun, while being a scheming sore and manipulative bastard of a Heeyorian, ''did'' create the largest and most propserous corporate consortium in Borealis, powerful enough to not only take on the Polar Crystal Alliance but set himself and Volim up as the foremost galactic power while also arguably creating a militaristic golden age with newer and more advanced weapons eclipsing older ones every ''month''. His goal? No more governmants, no more tyranny and no more nationalistic prejudice. Shame that all that corrupt capitalism [[HeWhoFightsMonsters fostered the very dystopian attitudes]] he wanted to wash away.

* PsychopathicManchild: The Kralgon Emperor, especially by the mid-2790s. While before he was the most prone of UNOL to swearing, in becoming one of the leaders of the Ultimate Sovereignty of Ottzello he's gone completely off-the-rails and acting like he can do whatever the hell he likes without repercussions. [[spoiler: Until the Omega Commander declares YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness with the Emperor screaming that as the Commnder's creator it has no right to do this.]]

** Elysion is a Bishop Ring built by the Andromedan Galactic Commonwealth. Unlike the above two examples, the inhabitants are fully aware of how their systems work.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Subverted. There are as many malevolent reptilian species are there are neutral or benevolent ones.

** Hachiman can't seem to get very far without tripping over his own feet and hitting something (mainly the ground with his face).

* ActionGirl: Many. Empress Ramashe (she is called the "warrior princess", after all), Gala Mevri, Keldar, Caranye etc. Also, some factions (such as the Radeons, the New Republic and the Galactic Empire) have many females in their military.

* SpaceColdWar: Between the Draconid Imperium and Galactic Empire of Cyrannus. The latter is also in one against the New Cyrannian Republic. In the former pairing, both sides are well aware that should the conflict escalate there might not be much of a Gigaquadrant left when they're done.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Valserion offers a fairly reasonable deal to a Wranploer arms manufacturer...until after the deal is agreed where the Draconis lets slip that backing out would put the manufacturer's offspring in mortal danger.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The ''Tiamat''. armed with a primary weapon that could quite literally unmake a small spot of reality. But was so unreliable and expensive to build that by the end of ''Attero Dominatus'', the consensus was that an armada built for an equivilent cost would have been a thousand times more useful.

** BadassInCharge: Often a given for heads of state. Emperor Wormulus II is perhaps the best example, being, well, the GodEmperor. Tyraz Breek, Apollo and Empress Ramashe can also qualify.

* BiggerIsBetter: Subverted. Although larger spaceships such as those of the Drakodominatus Tyranny are capable of carrying more armor and weapons than others, they are easily out maneuvered by smaller ships, which can turn the tides of battles.

* BlackComedy: The fact Venoriel's husband committed suicide because of her is used to drive home just how much of an unbearable woman she is to be around.

* CallARabbitASmeerp: Largely justified since the majority of aliens use word sfor such analogues they they came up with. Words such as "butter", "fruit" and "coffee" still get used for the sake of the reader understanding. Some fictions go so far as to use alternative names for scientific principles due to their relative discoverers not being humans. If they don't use the more systematic form ("Ablation cascade" instead of "Kessler Syndrome"), they'll be named after respective alien discoverers.

* TheChessmaster: Tyrómairon fits this trope to a T. Other examples include Falrik Zaarkhun, Master Br'klakkon, Alexandre Valery, Vesperon Maltris and Emperor Zargoth.
** The Bisistar Domain is an entire ''[[UpToEleven nation]]'' of Chessmasters. Some of their commanders have single-handedly subjugated entire civilizations using nothing but strategical thinking and elaborate planning. [[ParanoiaFuel It is also hinted that several of those subjugated civilizations are not even aware that they're being manipulated]].
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Averted ''hard''. The most prominent human faction with territory and influence in almost every galaxy? ''France.''

* CrystalDragonJesus: The Draconid Imperium's following of Drakon's Path subverts because it looks like a mix of Christianity and Confucianism. Other religions play it more straight.

* {{Cyberspace}}: The Andromedan Virtual Network, the Theian Technocracy's Afterworld Engine, the finale of the first act of ''Tantummodo Mortem'' took place inside a simulation of the interior of the Xhodocto intelligence Xharn.

* DarkerAndEdgier: When most of the users are in their mid-to-late teens the original game is '''very''' tame compared to what happens in this Crapsack universe.

* EarthIsTheCentreOfTheUniverse: Due to Earth's importance in the universe, this is actually considered by some, however, humans are usually not very major.

* GargleBlaster: Kicathian "death drinks". While most Kicath drinks are pretty strong, the easiest way to describe these particular drinks is [[UpToEleven "flavoured ethanol"]].
** Draconid wine, while not ''as'' lethal as a Kicathian death drink, can still hit you like a brick unless you have a very powerful liver or a lot of mass. While no specific alcohol content has been given, some users have imagined it is on-par with Absynth or Green Fairy.

** The Rades were such savants with genetics that their technology and even architecture appears to consist of both inorganic components and ''organic tissue''.
** Complete with an "arms race" feel, one Andromedan biotech firm provides Rades-derived technology that allows you to morph yourself any way you wish, which includes gaining increased muscle mass and growing extra arms.

** The AGC's detractors' opinions came to fruition with the Pan-Andromedan Ecumene: An attempt at making Andromeda itself a benevolent {{OneWorldOrder One Galaxy Order}}.

* {{Homage}}: No denying it, there are a lot.

* LargeAndInCharge: Leaders of "might makes right" style species are often gigantic compared to other members of their species that can be split into three categories:

*** This idea may be possible since Angazhar has at times resembled a giant [[RedEyesTakeWarning demonic]] [[FacelessEye eyeball]] that takes up [[AlienSky most of Inferno's sky]].

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: PlayedForLaughs when Baptarion Light makes a textbook reference during the ''Second Borealis Galactic War'' in a fight against Skhánaróton-01. Only to be pulled back into reality moments later.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Fairly cynical since most of the First Gigaquadrant's greatest powers [[MightMakesRight boast massive armies]] [[BadassArmy of ruthless, well-equipped soldiers]] and each warship is [[ApocalypseHow armed with enough firepower to annihilate]] [[PunyEarthlings any Earth nation]] [[OneManArmy on their own]]. The cynical part? GunboatDiplomacy is very popular in the setting. Several of these powers are not averse to [[WeWillUseManualLabourInTheFuture taking entire planetary poulations as slaves]] sometimes with CoolAndUnusualPunishment to boot. You either submit to their demands or stay the hell away from them. Where are the nice-guy idealists? With factions like this, often the ony way to beat these ruthless powers [[FaceHeelTurn is to be ruthless yourself]]. So (with a few exceptions) most goody-goody empires tend to stay largely ignored by the superpowers. The most notable exceptions include the New Cyrannian Republic and Rambo Nation, both of which conduct tend to conduct themselves with the utmost decorum while retaining their place as universal hyperpowers.

** According to current in-universe theory, the Phoenician alphabet (aka the precursor to '''all''' modern European languages) was partially-constructed from Dracid.

* TheChessmaster: Tyrómairon fits this trope to a T. Other examples include Falrik Zaarkhun, Master Br'klakkon and Emperor Zargoth.

* Played with by the Sons of Hedon before their change in loyalty: whose armour, weapons and fortifications were infamously gaudy and smothered in gold. Their visual opulance had nothing to do with apparent wealth, they simply enjoyed living in such opulance due to the warped tastes of their dynast, the "anything I want I get" treatment of Drakodominatus Overseers and were one of the favoured Overseer legions of the Tyrant.

* CulturalPosturing: Any speciesist empire tends to think this of themselves. Most noteably the Basileus, Bisistar and Draconis. Tahars will think this to anyone who is not an atheist.

* EvilChancellor: Vesperon Maltris was revealed to be this at the end of the ''New Dawn'' era. Prime Minister Alexandre Valéry of France is of the "evil prime minister" variety although for now it seems he's contant with being head of government. Both of these try to play up the look of a respectful gentleman to the public and the leaders they serve.

** Agent Nu has just gotten more and more insane thanks to Santorakh. He's now the only present-day Kicath seen so far with a visible sex drive (then again Kalcedia does stink of sex pheromones).

** Volkarus Khaxvis. Originally a mid-ranking officer of the Khaxvis Resurgence, an opportune Descension by Tyraz and numerous subsequent grabs for power (including [[spoiler: Killing Uriel at the Battle for Alcanti]] and nearly killing Tyraz twice) has made him one of the most dangerous entities in Andromeda and until his alliance with Br'Klakkon arguably became one of the most powerful non-godrace-aligned descended beings in the gigaquadrant.
** Maleus: Before he converted to the Congregation he was an admiral with a track record for sleepy assaignments. After the Inquisition of Drakon offed him, his soul spent who-knows-how-long drifting in Inferno before escaping only [[CameBackWrong to be empowered by a Doomstone as a reward]] and get an invitation to join the Xhodocto Dominion's Eternal Circulus. [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority Effectively giving him command over every Dominion mortal or descended below the Eternal Circulus]].

* HegemonicEmpire: The Draconid Imperium is perhaps the most notable example of the single-user empires. Foreign empires that join become provinces and get to keep their laws and culture. Detractors of the Polar Crystal Alliance and the Andromedan Galactic Commonwealth (such as the Brotherhood) consider the latter organisations to be this, led not by a single state, but the leaders of their supremely-powerful councils.
* HeroicSacrifice: Warlord Kilnok in the Descension.

* HumansAreSpecial: Averted. Humans play a very small role on the wiki.

* HyperspaceLanes: Andromeda and Cyrannus both have official "hyperlane" networks criss-crossing them. With Adromeda having a hyperlane ring through its key inner systems. France, the DCP and the TIAF have hyperlane networks thoughout their territories.

** '''Apollo''' was the last president of the United Republic of Cyrannus prior to the formation of the Galactic Empire, and has been noted as a legendary politician, diplomat and force for order and peace. After several years on the run from the Empire, he returned to the Gigaquadrantic stage as the founding father of the New Cyrannian Republic and later, the massive intergalactic alliance known as the Mou'Cyran Accords, proving that one does not need to be the most physically powerful to change the cosmos.
*** That is until '''Tyrómairon''' came along and merged the URC and its chief rival the Confederacy of Allied Systems like two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle into an even '''bigger''' hyperpower. Also being an ultraterrestrial the Empire is slowly (and secretly) being spoonfed the technology of the Oikoumene.
** '''Uriel Ultanos'''. His actions during two (could end up as three with the coming Gigaquadrantic Conflicts) devastating wars have given several aliens the impression he is Andromeda's best chance of becoming a unified galaxy. Given his BadassNormal credentials include a reputation as a godslayer and being a charismatic speaker they might have a point.
** '''Clericarch Iovera'''. With the collapse of the Second Masaari Crusade she led a group survivors (who had fled Tadjamad's rule out of protest) back to Andromeda and unified what was left after Tadjamad's death to create [[ChurchMilitant the Divinarium]]. And the Andromedan Galactic Commonwealth? Yeah that was her proposal. Also she has godlike power over reality.
** Aaand then thre's '''Tyraz Breek'''. Born into a family in exile and treated like unwanted property because he was short (for Zazane short = weak), he took the throne of the Zazne Empire after his brother expired but only shortly before the Andromeda War did he decide on reformation, creating the more egalitarian Brood of War. Fifteen years on the Brood are one of the big three AGC members and the Zazane are becoming far more tolerant of non-Zazane.
** '''Falrik Zaarkhun''', while being a scheming sore and manipulative bastard of a Heeyorian, ''did'' create the largest and most propserous corporate consortium in Borealis, powerful enough to not only take on the Polar Crystal Alliance but set himself and Volim up as the foremost galactic power while also arguably creating a militaristic golden age with newer and more advanced weapons eclipsing older ones every ''month''. His goal? No more governmants, no more tyranny and no more nationalistic prejudice. Shame that all that corrupt capitalism [[HeWhoFightsMonsters fostered the very dystopian attitudes]] he wanted to wash away.
** '''The Valader'''. While other examples are political leaders, The Valader was a warrior who had spent many years honing his psionic abilities. In the finale of '''the Psionic Lord Ascends''' here he [[spoiler: he becomes Singul'Aren, the single most powerful user of Psionic energy in all of reality and]] essentially a leader for all those imbued with Psionic Energy to follow. His is a more classic tale in that he ''did'' eventually fight an UltimateEvil in the end.

* PunyEarthlings: Compared to 21st century Earth, most alien species are considerably bigger and stronger than we are.

* PsychopathicManchild: The Kralgon Emperor, especially by the mid-2790s. While before he was the most prone of UNOL to swearing, in becoming one of the leaders of the Ultimate Sovereignty of Ottzello he's gone completely off-the-rails and acting like he can do whatever the hell he likes without reprecussions. [[spoiler: Until the Omega Commander declares YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness with the Emperor screaming that as the Commnder's creator it has no right to do this.]]

* ShoutOut: By Kamik'Shi where do we even begin?

** After Volkarus was crippled in a fight against Tyraz, his first act upon realising how much he had been deformed was to [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan scream out Tyraz's name]] Kirk-style.

* TechnologyLevels: The "Tier Scale" used to rate a civilization's size and technological advancement. It was retconned to emphasise that the level of technology a civilization can possess is largely dependant on the amount of energy it has at its disposal.

* TranslatorMicrobes: For the most part it is automatically assumed everyone posesses a univeral translator. The only real mention of translators is the AGC telepathic translator, said to be a directiona ltranslater that translates your speech based on who you want to speak to.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Races enslaved by the Gros are always brainwashed with the use of helmets.
** BrainwashedAndCrazy: "Set aggression level to...max.", "Succumb and ascend".

* UnnecessarilyLargeVessel: As mentioned in MileLongShip, most empires field several-kilometre-long warships it's become an arms race as to who can build the biggest. The Forces of the Xhodocto take it one step further with their cruisers measuring at '''[[ExxageratedTrope least]]''' eighty kilometres.

* TheFederation: The Confederacy of Allied Systems was the rare ([[AntiVillain anti-]]) villainous example of this trope.

* TranslatorMicrobes: For the most part it is automaticalyl assumed everyone posesses a univeral translator. The only real mention of translators is the AGC telepathic translator, said to be a directiona ltranslater that translates your speech based on who you want to speak to.

* UnnecessarilyLargeVessel: As mentioned in MileLongShip, most empires field several-kilometre-long warships it's become an arms race as to who can build the biggest. The Forces of the Xhodocto take it one step further with their cruisers measuring at '''least''' eighty kilometres.

** BadassNormal: Anyone named who doesn't have supernatural powers. Characters such as Apollo deserve special mention, being quite physically weak but having the power to shape empires with mere words.

** BadassInCharge: Emperor Wormulus II is perhaps the best example, being, well, the GodEmperor. Tyraz Breek, Apollo and Empress Ramashe can also qualify.

** Most alien species are considerably taller than humans, often with a hell of a lot more muscle to boot.

** In one of the ''Furia Ex Deus'' short stories, Uriel uses an AndIMustScream inducing device to effectively immortalise a would-be assassin for this very reason because the man did not fear execution.

* {{Unobtanium}}: While there are several kinds of unobtanium (key ones being antimatter, monopoles and neutron-degenerate matter), their rarity does depend on the empire in question. For a Federation-Of-Planets level nation such as several Katar Sector nationsa, antimatter is as prized as petrolium is today and can be tricky to make, meanwhile a power like the Galactic Empire of Cyrannus would be manufacturing trillions of tons every '''minute'''. Unobtanium here is tiered by ease of acquisition: Starting with antimatter, then monopoles, the neutron-degernate matter.

* AbnormalAmmo: A lot of. Things shooting chemicals, strange particles, biological creatures, nanorobots, [[BlackMagic Demonic Energy]] et cetera.
* AboveGoodAndEvil: While percieved as evil, [[GodOfEvil Kamik'Shi]] is said to be a "neutral" god, as he is incomprehensible to mortals. Same for the Xhodocto and, to lesser extent, other "[[TheOmnipotent omnipotent]]" species such as the [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Isio'Nar and Mali'Nar]]. This also greatly applies to the Ultraterrestrials and on an even larger scale, the One God.

* ActionGirl: Many. Empress Ramashe (she is called the "warrior princess", after all), Gala Mevri, Keldar, etc. Also, some species (like Radeons) have many females in their military.

** Capricornains and Draconis play it straight. They share similar cultural tastes and the Imperium has a thriving trade in "cultural articles". There are times however when what one species considers beautiful another consideres ghastly.

* AllAccordingToPlan: Antediluvian ''loves'' this trope. Also King Mirras III of the Borealis Grox.
* TheAlliance: Seven Starr/Onuris Alliance is the best example, although there are more examples, like the Cyrandia Alliance, the Ibis Galaxy Alliance, or the villanous example, the Xiivon Council.

* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: There are several hyperpowers in the gigaquadrant that you do '''not''' want to disturb. This is the common result of empires who challenge the DCP, the Galactic Empire of Cyrannus or the Draconid Imperium. Medusa Heimdall learned the hard way that ''not even having one of the simgle most poweful navies in recent years can save you.''

** BadassNormal: Anyone named who doesn't have supernatural powers.

** The end of the Great Cyrannus War is one of the most famous examples of the bad guy winning. Having set up either side so whoever won, Antediluvian would take over.

** [[TheManBehindTheMan Antediluvian]] for Galaxies at War.

* CaptainOblivious: '''''MOST ASGORD.'''''

* TheChessmaster: Antediluvian fits this trope to a T. Other examples include Falrik Zaarkhun, Master Br'klakkon and Emperor Zargoth.

* CivilWar: The DCP Civil War.

* CrapsackWorld: While the Gigaquadrant as a whole is hardly crapsack, some individual galaxies such as Ottzello, pre-Second War Borealis and ''Dysnomia'' Andromeda certainly qialify.

** Some fictions (such as the Ravenrii) have not even been given the dignity of an explaination as to their dissapearence.

* EarthIsTheCentreOfTheUniverse: Due to Earth's importance in the universe, this is actually considered, however, humans are usually not very major.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Plenty have been seen, with purposes including biolabs, warehouses, sanctuaries, military bases and outposts. Three very notable underground complexes include the Senate house on Orbispira's moon Corunnia, Antediluvian's super-secret Oikoumene lair in the very core of Orbispira and The Imperial Palace on Alcanti

* EvilVersusEvil: The Loron and the Loron'Kikra again.

**** EvilGenius: Emperor Zargoth/Antediluvian
**** DarkChick: Dark Lord Antediluvian

**** BigBad: Emperor Antediluvian

* FrickinLaserBeams: Quite common, even portraited as the very first weapon in Spore.

** GodOfEvil: The Xhodocto Horsemen, Shu'ulathoi, Xi'Arazkha, Divin-Ra, Antediluvian.

* GodEmperor: Emperor Wormulus II. Other examples include Tyraz Breek, Clericarch Iovera, and Emperor Antediluvian.

** The Cyrannus and Quadrant Galaxies bear a good visual resemblence to the universes of Franchise/StarWars and Franchise/StarTrek respectively. A few noteworthy incidents include

** "Full" demons and godlike entities such as Shu'Wokerama, Shu'Ulathoi, Antediluvian and the Xhodocto Horsemen are all positively '''enormous'''. One theory being that mortal minds ''percieving'' them as gigantic to comprehend the immense power they have over reality.

* TheMasquerade: Antediluvian has taken great steps to ensure that his identity as an Oikoumene is unknown in the eyes of the public. Ever since their creation the [[ChurchPolice Grand Inquisition]] (and its previous incarnations) have been working diligantly to make sure that gods, demons and supernatural artifacts are not public knowledge.

** '''Antediluvian'''. He's about as [[TimeAbyss ancient]] and [[MysteriousPast enigmatic]] as his name implies.

* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Zig-zagged. Most aliens can breathe, eat, drink and kiss in atmospheres presumably different from their homeworld. Although they ''might'' all be wearing rebreathers so sophisticated they're practically invisible to the naked eye. Most aliens can eat alien food and drink too with no adverse effects (justified by the Civilisation who make it a point to promote foodstuffs gen-enged to be adible to a wide variety of species). However interspecies hybrids have been shown ot be impossible without the use of science or divine intervention.

** '''Apollo''' was the last president of the Capricon Sector Alliance. Because it was his decision to convert it into the United Republic of Cyrannus who until the rise of the Galactic Empire rose up up as one of the most powerful Cyrannian civilisations of modern times.
*** That is until '''Antediluvian''' came along and merged the URC and its chief rival the Confederacy of Allied Systems like two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle into an even '''bigger''' hyperpower. Also being an ultraterrestrial the Empire is slowly (and secretly) being spoonfed the technology of the Oikoumene.

* TheRepublic: The United Republic of Cyrannus basically personified this, before being turned into TheEmpire.

** Antediluvian was retconned from a rebelling, jealous evil-doer to a scheming, complex mastermind. In fact, most of Cyrannian's fiction had at least one major retcon in its history.

** General Zillum, after a crushing defeat by Republic forces during the Great Cyrannus War, [[spoiler: had his body rebuilt by Antediluvian in [[RevengeOfTheSith a secret lair]]]] becoming his most prized asset.
** Continuing on with the Star Wars theme, Antediluvian himself gave a similar speech to that of Emperor Palaptine at the end of their respective wars. [[RevengeOfTheSith Announcing the foundation of a galactic empire of unrivalled extent]].

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Fairly cynical since most of the First Gigaquadrant's greatest powers [[MightMakesRight boast massive armies]] [[BadassArmy of ruthless, well-equipped soldiers]] and each warship is [[ApocalypseHow armed with enough firepower to annihilate]] [[PunyEarthlings any Earth nation]] [[OneManArmy on their own]]. The cynical part? GunboatDiplomacy is very popular in the setting. Several of these powers are not averse to [[WeWillUseManualLabourInTheFuture taking entire planetary poulations as slaves]] sometimes with CoolAndUnusualPunishment to boot. You either submit to their demands or stay the hell away from them. Where are the nice-guy idealists? With factions like this, often the ony way to beat these ruthless powers [[FaceHeelTurn is to be ruthless yourself]]. So (with a few exceptions) most goody-goody empires tend to stay largely ignored by the superpowers.
** At least one user has pointed this out that the most successful enpires in the First Gigaquadrant take every oppertunity and not holding back. The rest fade into obscurity.

* StarshipLuxurious: The Iron Fist could be described as a two kilometre long Nero's Palace with enough firepower to glass a planet on its own. Warships of the Draconid Imperium and Galactic Empire of Cyrannus are stated to be luxiuriously decorated as a status symbol of their respective empires. While it is suggested the Empire takes a modernist approach, the Imperium prefers to outfit its interiors to look like the inside of a five-star art nouveau hotel.

** Originally Antediluvian was sealed away on an unknown planet countless millenia ago and the prison could be considered one of these.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity - While he does rule Cyrannus with an iron fist, it's hard to deny that the galaxy is far more prosperous and peaceful under Antediluvian's rule. Then again, [[ParanoiaFuel maybe that's what]] [[JustAsPlanned he intended?]]
* XanatosGambit: Antediluvian's involvement in the Great Cyrannus War. Whichever side won, he would have control of Cyrannus.