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* HypotheticalCasting: Dawson imagines Cardinal as being portrayed by Kalani Robb of ''Film/ForgettingSarahMarshall''.
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** Ironically, Armitage Hux [[spoiler: murders his own father]], much like his hated colleague will do in ''The Force Awakens''.
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** Ironically, much like his hated colleague Kylo Ren, Armitage Hux [[spoiler: kills his own father.]]
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** Ironically, Armitage Hux [[spoiler: murders his own father]], much like his hated colleague Kylo Ren, Armitage Hux [[spoiler: kills his own father.]]will do in ''The Force Awakens''.
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* RewatchBonus: The ship [[spoiler:Brendol uses to destroy the Scrye homeland and Arratu]] matches the description of the Dreadnought from [[StarWarsTheLastJedi The Last Jedi]].
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* RewatchBonus: The ship [[spoiler:Brendol uses to destroy the Scrye homeland and Arratu]] matches the description of the Dreadnought from [[StarWarsTheLastJedi The ''The Last Jedi]].Jedi''.
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* StatuesqueStunner: Phasma is nearly seven foot tall, and [[spoiler: Cardinal notes her surprising beauty when he finally sees her face.]]
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* AscendedMeme: When asked to describe sand, Brendol Hux says it’s [[Memes/AttackOfTheClones “Course and rough. Irritating. Gets everywhere.”]][[note]]A reference to [[{{Narm}} a particularly infamous line]] from Anakin in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.[[/note]]
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** Also, Phasma doesn't bother to take Siv with her, but she still points Siv out in a direction where Siv could receive medical care and shelter, negated by [[spoiler: implications that Phasma will head off to kill Siv after learning that her story is out.]]
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* CannibalTribe: The people of Arratu eat captured travelers and the dead due to their rapidly dwindling resources. They aren't particularly thrilled by it, but have no other choice.
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* RewatchBonus: The ship [[spoiler:Brendol uses to destroy the Scrye homeland and Arratu]] matches the description of the Dreadnought from [[StarWarsTheLastJedi The Last Jedi]].
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* CanonImmigrant: With the presence of Gand immigrants on Parnassos, it is re-established the species refer to themselves in [[ThirdPersonPerson third-person]].
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Parnassos is full of these but special mention goes to the beetles that [[spoiler:Phasma uses to kill Brendol]].
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Parnassos is full of these but special mention goes to the beetles that [[spoiler:Phasma uses to kill Brendol]]. For details, the beetle's venom initially causes swelling and fever, but over time, cause paralysis and the victim to liquefy to death.
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* RoadTripPlot: The bulk of Phasma's backstory ends up being about her and her band transporting Brendol Hux to his ship after he and several other First Order personnel crash land on Parnassos. Along the way the encounter the various human and inhuman horrors of the planet.
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* DarkActionGirl: Suffice to say Phasma more than makes up for her [[FauxActionGirl lackluster]] appearance in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. The book also plays up the ''dark'' part significantly.
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It was released on September 1, 2017, along with ''Literature/LeiaPrincessOfAlderaan'' as a part of the second synchronized release of ''Star Wars'' merchandise known as Force Friday.
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* TheCameo: While overtaking a mining facility, Phasma finds a helmet described as having a T-shape visor, suggesting it is a Mandalorian helmet. It is also said to be brightly-colored, though this might not mean anything.
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* HateSink: If you're expecting the book to reveal [[FreudianExcuse a tragic backstory for Phasma]]... Well, it's ''there'', but it doesn't justify her being a horrible human being. She's someone who will do anything to ensure her own survival and will stoop to any low to get what she wants.
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* ScavengerWorld: Parnassos is a former Com Star Mining Corporation colony that was nuked and abandoned. An automated orbital defense system keeps most ships from landing. As a result, the world bears a lot more resemblance to ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' than to more pleasant locations in Star Wars like Tatooine.
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* ScavengerWorld: Parnassos is a former Com Con Star Mining Corporation colony that was nuked and abandoned. An automated orbital defense system keeps most ships from landing. As a result, the world bears a lot more resemblance to ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' than to more pleasant locations in Star Wars like Tatooine.
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* ThemeNaming: Abandoned Con Star Mining stations on Parnassos are named after Greek muses: Terpsichore, Calliope, Cleo.
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* TheHermit: Churkk the [[InsectoidAliens Gand]] comes off as this, living alone near the radioactive portion of the wasteland. He would suggest it as a subversion, since he is covered in non-sentient golden beetles whom he says he communicates with, although they don't have much to say. Whether this is him [[GoMadFromTheIsolation Going Mad From The Isolation]] is up to interpretation.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Terpischore Station is manned entirely by droids who, in the absence of living beings, have devolved into what is essentially a cult.
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* AfterTheEnd: Parnassos is an odd example, particularly for the hi-tech ''Star Wars'' universe. Generations ago, it was a Con Star Mining Corporation colony. At some point, a [[NukeEm nuclear accident]] caused a considerable part of the planet to be blasted into a sandy and rocky wasteland, and automated orbital defense platforms meant that reclaiming the survivors was infeasible (or at least not worth the effort), which left the survivors to become tribal and scavenging. Phasma is born into this life.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Terpischore Station is manned entirely by droids who, in the absence of living beings, have devolved into what is essentially a cult. [[spoiler:Averted for Calliope Station, where Siv finds the droids helpful and obedient and even births and raises her child there.]]
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* LowCultureHighTech: While the Scyre and Claws live savage lives and have so for generations, they're aware of a greater galaxy and higher technology out there from stories passed down within their tribes. Siv's detraxors are an example of this. Also, Phasma and her party have little trouble adapting to blasters and vehicles that they come across in their journey.
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* TheFaceless: Phasma has never revealed her face to '''anyone''' in the First Order, preferring to operate under her helmet at all times.
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* TheFaceless: Phasma has never revealed her face to '''anyone''' in the First Order, preferring to operate under her helmet at all times. This behavior tracks back to her time in the Scyre where she would almost always wear her tribal mask, and later a scavenged helmet.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: How Phasma killed [[spoiler:Brendol Hux (by poisonous beetle) and Frey (apparently by rigging her weapon to blow up)]].
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* MoralityPet: Frey, a girl from Parnassos that Phasma [[spoiler:spared]] and took to the First Order in hopes of turning her into a ruthless Stormtrooper on her level. [[spoiler:But then Phasma somehow kills her anyway in order to keep up her MysteriousPast.]]
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* SavageWolves: The skinwolves, predatory animals native to Parnassos. Three Scyre warriors led by Phasma and three First Order stormtroopers do battle against a pack of them.
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* TheCalvalry: [[spoiler:When the Scyers are attacked by a pack of "skinwolves," Brendol Hux's Stormtroopers rescue them by killing the wolves with their blasters.]] It's a rare moment to see a Stormtrooper do ''anything'' heroic.
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* TheCalvalry: TheCavalry: [[spoiler:When the Scyers are attacked by a pack of "skinwolves," Brendol Hux's Stormtroopers rescue them by killing the wolves with their blasters.]] It's a rare moment to see a Stormtrooper do ''anything'' heroic.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler: When the Scyers are attacked by a pack of "skinwolves," Brendol Hux's Stormtroopers rescue them by killing the wolves with their blasters.]] It's a rare moment to see a Stormtrooper do ''anything'' heroic.
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** AllThereInTheManual mentioned that Phasma's chrome armor was forged from the ''Imperialis'', Palpatine's yacht from ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsLando Lando]]''. Brendol arrives on Parnassos using the ''Imperialis'', and Phasma later uses it to forge her armor.
** AllThereInTheManual mentioned that Phasma's chrome armor was forged from the ''Imperialis'', Palpatine's yacht from ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsLando Lando]]''. Brendol arrives on Parnassos using the ''Imperialis'', and Phasma later uses it to forge her armor.
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**CallBack: AllThereInTheManual mentioned that Phasma's chrome armor was forged from the ''Imperialis'', Palpatine's yacht from ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsLando Lando]]''. Brendol arrives on Parnassos using the ''Imperialis'', and Phasma later uses it to forge her armor.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Chronologically speaking, as the novel ends, [[spoiler:Cardinal is dying from having been stabbed with a poisoned dagger by Phasma, Vi is flying to Parnassos both to save Cardinal's life and to fulfill her promise of finally getting Siv off-world, and Phasma might be very well headed to Parnassos too, [[HeKnowsTooMuch to get rid of whoever revealed her past to Cardinal]].]]
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Phasma's killing of Brendol Hux and Frey is because she wants everyone who knows about her past ''dead''. By the end of the novel, she has also tried (and possibly managed) to kill Cardinal and intends to return to Parnassos to kill whoever informed him.]]
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:The book ends with Cardinal poisoned and Vi trying to get him to a proper medical facility. We do not know currently whither he lived or died]].
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