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* EvilPlan: [[spoiler: The plot in ''Star Risk LTD'' is that the Murgatroyd faction is a bunch of local politicians working with Reg Goodnight as well as a huge number of mercenaries to kill as many miners as possible to drive them out of the system. This will result in Transkootenay Mining's contract being voided and the opposition being able to make a killing selling the contract to someone else. They more or less succeed.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: In ''Star Risk LTD'', the conspirators successfully get away with their crime and presumably make a massive fortune off of it. The only people that get punished are the low-ranking mercs and a handful of the lower ranking conspirators.]]
* BittersweetEnding: ''Star Risk Ltd'' ends with [[spoiler: the Star Risk team eliminating most of the mercenaries of Murgatryd as well as some of the people organization the plot. However, the villains successfully drive out Transkootenay Mining and the financiers presumably make a killing. Somewhat mitigated because the protagonists make off with all of the money that Reg Goodnight had been accumulating.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Reg Goodnight is dispatched by M'chel this way at the end of ''Star Risk LTD.'']]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** Cerberus is a bunch of slimy corporate raiders and war profiteers who are our heroes' chief competitors.
** [[spoiler: Reg Goodnight]] turns out to be one of the individuals behind the plot of ''Star Risk'' even though it means [[spoiler: betraying his own brother.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Reg Goodnight is dispatched by M'chel this way at the end of ''Star Risk LTD.'']]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** Cerberus is a bunch of slimy corporate raiders and war profiteers who are our heroes' chief competitors.
** [[spoiler: Reg Goodnight]] turns out to be one of the individuals behind the plot of ''Star Risk'' even though it means [[spoiler: betraying his own brother.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: Murgatroyd is launching constant attacks against the miners in the Foley system in order to force the miners out for their secret masters. [[spoiler: It turns out they're the local opposition party and want to make a lot more money with their own corporate mining contract.]]
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* InsaneTrollLogic: {{Exploited}}. Jasmine King left Cerberus Systems in the backstory after her boss tried to withhold her pay on grounds that she was too perfect (too good at her job and too beautiful) to be human, and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots therefore must secretly be an android]]. (For the record, she isn't, and no robot of that kind is ever encountered in the series.)
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Cerberus claims that Jasmine King is one of these and the property of Cerberus. This is complete nonsense even if the other team members sometimes wonder. [[spoiler: She's not.
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* SignatureStyle: Steve Perry's is highlighted by the little differences between ''The Gangster Conspiracy'' and the other four books. Perry tends to go for the WorldOfBadass, so previous TheChick Jasmine King gets multiple ActionGirl moments. He also brings in concepts like a type of computer called the ''betydelse'' space that previously appeared in the ''Literature/MatadorSeries''.
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* AllWomenHateEachOther: M'chel Riss and Jasmine King are both attractive blonde women, and when they first meet each other Riss's narration comments that she would find it ''very'' easy to hate Jasmine. As it turns out, they hit it off pretty quickly.
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* ''The Gangster Conspiracy'' (2007): Written by Steve and Dal Perry after Bunch's [[AuthorExistenceFailure death]], based on Bunch's notes. Star Risk is back in business. They've moved into new offices but can't find any clients. Then a pastor from the Artegal System hires them to protect laborers trying to unionize. Things get complicated from there.[[invoked]]
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: Riss and Freddy meet in the ActionPrologue when she executes a hostage rescue where he's one of the guards. Shortly after, he invites her to be his business partner.
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* NonIndicativeName: Freddy mentions in book one that the concept of a limited liability company is really a thing of the past, but he likes the way the name "Star Risk, Limited" sounds.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: {{Exploited}}. Jasmine King left Cerberus Systems in the backstory after her boss tried to withhold her pay on grounds that she was too perfect (too good at her job and too beautiful) to be human, and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots therefore must secretly be an android]]. (For the record, she isn't, and no robot of that kind is ever encountered in the series.)
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* RapeAsBackstory: {{Downplayed}}. M'chel Riss is said to have left the Marines after her CO decided her next posting should be to his bed (her words, roughly). She doesn't dwell on it and it's left vague if the incident involved an actual assault or just persistent harassment.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Riss and Redon Spada have a persistent attraction that never really goes anywhere.
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''Star Risk, Ltd.'' is a series of five science fiction novels by the late ChrisBunch following a {{private military contract|ors}}ing company of the same name.
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''Star Risk, Ltd.'' is a series of five science fiction novels by the late ChrisBunch Creator/ChrisBunch following a {{private military contract|ors}}ing company of the same name.
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* FiveManBand: Star Risk has a core of five, and hires subcontractors when they need more manpower.
** TheHero: Friedrich von Baldur
** TheLancer: M'chel Riss
** TheSmartGuy: Grok and Jasmine
** TheBigGuy: Grok and Goodnight
** TheChick: Jasmine King normally stays out of the line of fire, but she's no slouch in combat.
** TheSixthRanger: Spada
** TheHero: Friedrich von Baldur
** TheLancer: M'chel Riss
** TheSmartGuy: Grok and Jasmine
** TheBigGuy: Grok and Goodnight
** TheChick: Jasmine King normally stays out of the line of fire, but she's no slouch in combat.
** TheSixthRanger: Spada
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* SemperFi / SpaceMarines: Riss left the Alliance Marines after her CO decided her next posting should be to his bed. Goodnight was dishonorably discharged for theft.
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* SignatureStyle: Steve Perry's is highlighted by the little differences between ''The Gangster Conspiracy'' and the other four books. Perry tends to go for the WorldOfBadass, so previous TheChick Jasmine King gets multiple ActionGirl moments. He also brings in concepts like a type of computer called the ''betydelse'' space that previously appeared in the ''Literature/MatadorSeries''.
* SignatureStyle: Steve Perry's is highlighted by the little differences between ''The Gangster Conspiracy'' and the other four books. Perry tends to go for the WorldOfBadass, so previous TheChick Jasmine King gets multiple ActionGirl moments. He also brings in concepts like a type of computer called the ''betydelse'' space that previously appeared in the ''Literature/MatadorSeries''.
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* BadassAbnormal: Chas Goodnight (see SuperSoldier below).
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* AwesomeButImpractical: One book mentions that Star Risk tried to hang onto a destroyer they bought and crewed for [[NoodleIncident one of their off-screen jobs]], until a Star Risk accountant explained to Freddy that they couldn't afford to maintain it.
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* TwoGirlsToATeam: Two women, two men, and a male alien.
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* EverythingsWorseWithBears: That's basically what Grok's species looks like. At one point in book five, he [[InvokedTrope makes use of the similarity]].
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* GeniusBruiser: Grok is good with computers and cryptography and a thoroughly terrifying combatant.
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* ''The Double-Cross Program'' (2004)(2004): Star Risk is hired to train the army of a planetful of {{Miles Gloriosus}}es who want to turn a neighboring planet into a farm for the latest fad foodstuff.
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* ActionGirl: Riss, being a former Marine. King is a lesser case since she mainly stays in the office, but she's no slouch either.
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'''''Star Risk, Ltd.''''' is a series of five science fiction novels by ChrisBunch following a {{private military contract|ors}}ing company of the same name.
* ''Star Risk, Ltd.'' (2002): The company forms, and takes on its first contract to eliminate SpacePirates harassing the AsteroidMiners of the Foley System.
* ''The Scoundrel Worlds'' (2003): Star Risk finishes a contract keeping the peace at a skyball tournament, then is hired to prove the innocence of a man condemned for treason.
* ''The Double-Cross Program'' (2004)
* ''The Dog From Hell'' (2005): Having crossed the much larger PMC Cerberus Systems once too often, Star Risk comes under attack from all fronts that forces them out of business. But when Cerberus tries to make their retirement permanent, the group fights back.
* ''The Gangster Conspiracy'' (2007): Star Risk is back in business. They've moved into new offices but can't find any clients. Then a pastor from the Artegal System hires them to protect laborers trying to unionize. Things get complicated from there.
The [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Star Risk team]] is:
* Friedrich von Baldur, a former Alliance Navy officer who resigned to evade court-martial.
* M'chel Riss, a former Alliance Marine who left the service after her CO attempted to force himself on her (and failed miserably).
* Jasmine King, an ex-office manager and research specialist for Cerberus Systems who left said company after her boss decided [[InsaneTrollLogic she was too perfect to be human, so she was an android, so he didn't legally need to pay her]].
* Amanandrala "Grok" Grookonomonslf, the token nonhuman, an ex-Cerberus contract agent who gave the fledgling company a much-needed cash infusion.
* Chas Goodnight, an ex-Marine [[SuperSoldier "bester"]] turned jewel thief.
!!This series contains examples of the following tropes:
* TheAlliance: The dominant human interstellar government is called the Alliance, but the details are fairly vague.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Chris Bunch died from a chronic lung ailment July Fourth weekend in 2005, but he left notes that enabled StevePerry to write ''The Gangster Conspiracy''.
* BadassAbnormal: Chas Goodnight (see SuperSoldier below).
* BadassBookworm: Frequent subcontractor Redon Spada looks like a bespectacled teacher, but is absolutely lethal at the controls of a starship.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: That's basically what Grok's species looks like.
* FiveManBand: Star Risk has a core of five, and hires subcontractors when they need more manpower.
** TheHero: Friedrich von Baldur
** TheLancer: M'chel Riss
** TheSmartGuy: Grok and Jasmine
** TheBigGuy: Grok and Goodnight
** TheChick: Jasmine King normally stays out of the line of fire, but she's no slouch in combat.
** TheSixthRanger: Spada
* PrivateMilitaryContractors
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Oh, so much.
* SemperFi / SpaceMarines: Riss left the Alliance Marines after her CO decided her next posting should be to his bed. Goodnight was dishonorably discharged for theft.
* SociopathicHero: All of them have shades of this on occasion (kinda comes with being mercenaries), but Goodnight is the best example.
* SuperSoldier: "Besters" like Goodnight are cybernetically and biochemically enhanced so that with the flick of a switch, they can move several times faster than normal humans. ''The Gangster Conspiracy'' reveals that the augmentation has the unintended benefit of enabling besters to analyze situations much faster as well.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Riss is named after Chris Bunch's friend Michelle Rice, a US Marine.
* TheUnpronounceable: Grok's full name is Amanandrala Grookonomonslf.
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'''''Star Risk, Ltd.''''' is a series of five science fiction novels by ChrisBunch following a {{private military contract|ors}}ing company of the same name.
* ''Star Risk, Ltd.'' (2002): The company forms, and takes on its first contract to eliminate SpacePirates harassing the AsteroidMiners of the Foley System.
* ''The Scoundrel Worlds'' (2003): Star Risk finishes a contract keeping the peace at a skyball tournament, then is hired to prove the innocence of a man condemned for treason.
* ''The Double-Cross Program'' (2004)
* ''The Dog From Hell'' (2005): Having crossed the much larger PMC Cerberus Systems once too often, Star Risk comes under attack from all fronts that forces them out of business. But when Cerberus tries to make their retirement permanent, the group fights back.
* ''The Gangster Conspiracy'' (2007): Star Risk is back in business. They've moved into new offices but can't find any clients. Then a pastor from the Artegal System hires them to protect laborers trying to unionize. Things get complicated from there.
The [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Star Risk team]] is:
* Friedrich von Baldur, a former Alliance Navy officer who resigned to evade court-martial.
* M'chel Riss, a former Alliance Marine who left the service after her CO attempted to force himself on her (and failed miserably).
* Jasmine King, an ex-office manager and research specialist for Cerberus Systems who left said company after her boss decided [[InsaneTrollLogic she was too perfect to be human, so she was an android, so he didn't legally need to pay her]].
* Amanandrala "Grok" Grookonomonslf, the token nonhuman, an ex-Cerberus contract agent who gave the fledgling company a much-needed cash infusion.
* Chas Goodnight, an ex-Marine [[SuperSoldier "bester"]] turned jewel thief.
!!This series contains examples of the following tropes:
* TheAlliance: The dominant human interstellar government is called the Alliance, but the details are fairly vague.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Chris Bunch died from a chronic lung ailment July Fourth weekend in 2005, but he left notes that enabled StevePerry to write ''The Gangster Conspiracy''.
* BadassAbnormal: Chas Goodnight (see SuperSoldier below).
* BadassBookworm: Frequent subcontractor Redon Spada looks like a bespectacled teacher, but is absolutely lethal at the controls of a starship.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: That's basically what Grok's species looks like.
* FiveManBand: Star Risk has a core of five, and hires subcontractors when they need more manpower.
** TheHero: Friedrich von Baldur
** TheLancer: M'chel Riss
** TheSmartGuy: Grok and Jasmine
** TheBigGuy: Grok and Goodnight
** TheChick: Jasmine King normally stays out of the line of fire, but she's no slouch in combat.
** TheSixthRanger: Spada
* PrivateMilitaryContractors
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Oh, so much.
* SemperFi / SpaceMarines: Riss left the Alliance Marines after her CO decided her next posting should be to his bed. Goodnight was dishonorably discharged for theft.
* SociopathicHero: All of them have shades of this on occasion (kinda comes with being mercenaries), but Goodnight is the best example.
* SuperSoldier: "Besters" like Goodnight are cybernetically and biochemically enhanced so that with the flick of a switch, they can move several times faster than normal humans. ''The Gangster Conspiracy'' reveals that the augmentation has the unintended benefit of enabling besters to analyze situations much faster as well.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Riss is named after Chris Bunch's friend Michelle Rice, a US Marine.
* TheUnpronounceable: Grok's full name is Amanandrala Grookonomonslf.
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