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* HasTwoMommies: Ia, Thorne, and Fyfer are children of a married lesbian couple who conceived them in agreed-upon sex with men.
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* [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The End Of The Galaxy And All Sentient Life In It]]: Will happen 300 years after the series' timeline. Ia's life goal is to get everything set up now and in the coming centuries so that by the time [[OmnicidalManiac Doom]] rolls around everything will be in place to prevent it.
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* [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The End Of The Galaxy And All Sentient Life In It]]: Will end of the galaxy will happen 300 years after the series' timeline. Ia's life goal is to get everything set up now and in the coming centuries so that by the time [[OmnicidalManiac Doom]] rolls around everything will be in place to prevent it.
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** As the old saying goes [[Film/{{Dune}} Fear Is The Mind Killer]].
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** As the old saying goes [[Film/{{Dune}} [[Film/Dune1984 Fear Is The Mind Killer]].
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* PainfulRhyme: InUniverse example in ''A Soldier's Duty'', where Ia improvises a narrative poem about how she got the moniker "Bloody Mary". At one point she really forces a rhyme, [[LampshadeHanging then when her audience apparently laughs, interrupts herself to complain, "Hey, that is ''not'' easy to rhyme!"]]
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* PainfulRhyme: InUniverse example in In ''A Soldier's Duty'', where Ia improvises a narrative poem about how she got the moniker "Bloody Mary". At one point she really forces a rhyme, [[LampshadeHanging then when her audience apparently laughs, interrupts herself to complain, "Hey, that is ''not'' easy to rhyme!"]]
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* MultipleChoiceFuture: Ia, the protagonist, is an impressively powerful precognitive who grew up tormented by visions of the entire galaxy being wiped out by a HordeOfAlienLocusts 300 years in the future. She ultimately sets out to wind her way down the ''only'' possible combination of events where the Alien Locusts lose, which involves becoming a war hero instead of a musician like she wanted, while leaving messages for thousands upon thousands of people across the galaxy to nudge ''them'' onto the correct paths, too.
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How To Create A Works Page explicitly says "No bolding is used for work titles."
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'''''Theirs Not to Reason Why''''', [[LiteraryAllusionTitle named for a line]] from Creator/AlfredLordTennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade", is a MilitaryScienceFiction series by Creator/JeanJohnson, consisting of ''A Soldier's Duty, An Officer's Duty,'' ''Hellfire,'' ''Hardship,'' and ''Damnation,'' which came out November 25, 2014.
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* PsychicPowers: Known powers in this {{Verse}} include Precognition, Postcognition, Telepathy, Telekinesis, [[ElementalPowers Electrokinesis]], Teleportation, Flight, Biokinesis, Empathy, Xenopathy, and Xenoglossy.
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* PsychicPowers: Known powers in this {{Verse}} include Precognition, Postcognition, Telepathy, Telekinesis, [[ElementalPowers Electrokinesis]], Pyrokinesis, Holokinesis, Teleportation, Flight, Biokinesis, Empathy, Xenopathy, and Xenoglossy.
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Xenoglossy is the paranormal phenomenon in which a person is able to speak or write a language he or she could not have acquired by natural means.
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* PsychicPowers: Known powers in this {{Verse}} include Precognition, Postcognition, Telepathy, Telekinesis, [[ElementalPowers Electrokinesis]], Teleportation, Flight, Biokinesis, Empathy, Xenopathy, and the ability to simply understand foreign languages without prior knowledge of them.
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* PsychicPowers: Known powers in this {{Verse}} include Precognition, Postcognition, Telepathy, Telekinesis, [[ElementalPowers Electrokinesis]], Teleportation, Flight, Biokinesis, Empathy, Xenopathy, and the ability to simply understand foreign languages without prior knowledge of them.Xenoglossy.
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A tenant is a person who lives in a residence. A tenet is a principle, dogma, or doctrine.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[AvertedTrope Not if they're Salik.]] Generations of actively breeding for increased sociopathy and killer instincts have led to the point where all attempts to teach even the youngest tadpoles the basic tenants of empathy have failed miserably.
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[AvertedTrope Not if they're Salik.]] Generations of actively breeding for increased sociopathy and killer instincts have led to the point where all attempts to teach even the youngest tadpoles the basic tenants tenets of empathy have failed miserably.
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* HasTwoMommies: Ia, Thorne, and Fyfer.
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* HasTwoMommies: Ia, Thorne, and Fyfer.Fyfer are children of a married lesbian couple who conceived them in agreed-upon sex with men.
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* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Because of the meddling of the Feyori. They deliberately bred psychic abilities into the matter-based races [[spoiler:in order to guard against their ancient enemy, the Greys, for whom psychic inergy is poisonous]].
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* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Because of the meddling of the Feyori. They deliberately bred psychic abilities into the matter-based races [[spoiler:in order to guard against their ancient enemy, the Greys, for whom psychic inergy energy is poisonous]].
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** Chaplain Benjamin gets one in near the start of Hellfire, when Ia challenges Bennie to prove she can handle battle. Bennie's response:
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** Chaplain Benjamin gets one in near the start of Hellfire, ''Hellfire'', when Ia challenges Bennie to prove she can handle battle. Bennie's response:
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* PainfulRhyme: InUniverse example in ''A Soldier's Duty'', where Ia improvises a narrative poem about how she got the moniker "Bloody Mary". At one point she really forces a rhyme, [[LampshadeHanging then interrupts herself to complain, "Hey, that is ''not'' easy to rhyme!"]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Quite literally for Ia, who had her name legally changed (and has to correct people that "Ia" is indeed her legal name [[OnceAnEpisode once a book]]). Her parents call her by her birth name once when she goes home for a visit in ''An Officer's Duty''.
* PainfulRhyme: InUniverse example in ''A Soldier's Duty'', where Ia improvises a narrative poem about how she got the moniker "Bloody Mary". At one point she really forces a rhyme, [[LampshadeHanging then when her audience apparently laughs, interrupts herself to complain, "Hey, that is ''not'' easy to rhyme!"]]
* PainfulRhyme: InUniverse example in ''A Soldier's Duty'', where Ia improvises a narrative poem about how she got the moniker "Bloody Mary". At one point she really forces a rhyme, [[LampshadeHanging then when her audience apparently laughs, interrupts herself to complain, "Hey, that is ''not'' easy to rhyme!"]]
* ShootTheDog: Ia on occasion, such as when she murders a woman in ''A Soldier's Duty'' by [[PsychicStrangle telekinetically cutting off blood to her brain]], on grounds that the children the woman might have would derail Ia's efforts to save the galaxy.
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** The third book introduces a [[Literature/StarshipTroopers Lieutenant Rico]]. The use of corporal punishment in the future military is also a reference.
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** The third book introduces a [[Literature/StarshipTroopers Lieutenant Rico]]. The use of corporal punishment in the future military is also a reference. Also, where the Terran Federation has its "thirty-one ways to crash-land" (capital offenses), the Space Force has the "Fifty Fatalities" (offenses guaranteeing dishonorable discharge at minimum, which recruits are required to memorize).
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Captain Ia gives an epic one in ''Hellfire'', as she explains to a disobedient subordinate how, [[spoiler:by continuing to fire after she ordered him to stop,]] he doomed the entire galaxy. How only through one of his comrades [[HeroicSacrifice giving up everything he ever could have been to take over a dead man's life]] was the total annihilation of every sapient who would ever live in the Milky Way averted. And how, because of his actions,despite all she could do to fix the situation, 720,593 people who otherwise could have been saved will die horribly.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Captain Ia gives an epic one in ''Hellfire'', as she explains to a disobedient subordinate how, [[spoiler:by continuing to fire after she ordered him to stop,]] he doomed the entire galaxy. How only through one of his comrades [[HeroicSacrifice giving up everything he ever could have been to take over a dead man's life]] was the total annihilation of every sapient who would ever live in the Milky Way averted. And how, because of his actions,despite actions, despite all she could do to fix the situation, 720,593 people who otherwise could have been saved will die horribly.
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* UnusualEuphemism: A variety of "V'Dan" curse words substituting for many four letter words, but also more unusually replaces 'ass' with 'asteroid' in all circumstances.
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* UnusualEuphemism: A variety of "V'Dan" curse words substituting for many four letter words, but also more unusually replaces 'ass' with 'asteroid' in all circumstances.circumstances.
* UpThroughTheRanks: TheVerse uses a variant of the "every officer starts as a grunt" style: while you ''can'' go straight to the MilitaryAcademy after basic training, [[DeskJockey you'll never command in combat]]. Ia graduates basic as a lance corporal (her drill instructor recommended full corporal but Ia and her first CO agreed that her would-be underlings would resent her) but earns a [[FieldPromotion field commission]] at the end of ''A Soldier's Duty''.
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* UpThroughTheRanks: TheVerse uses a variant of the "every officer starts as a grunt" style: while you ''can'' go straight to the MilitaryAcademy after basic training, [[DeskJockey you'll never command in combat]]. Ia graduates basic as a lance corporal (her drill instructor recommended full corporal but Ia and her first CO agreed that her would-be underlings would resent her) but earns a [[FieldPromotion field commission]] at the end of ''A Soldier's Duty''.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Ia's [[AppliedPhlebotinum chrysium]] bladed sword, which she uses to cut steel and harder materials.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Ia can see ''all'' of Time. Naturally this is somewhat confusing to a (half-)human mind, but fortunately she's powerful enough to force it into a form she can understand. The most common setting being the Timeplains, a grassy prairie filled with streams where each stream represents the life of a single sentient being. She's also been known to turn it into a star-filled sky for poetic reasons, a woven tapestry in order to better track specific lives, and a line graph when defending her actions and the consequences thereof to a psychic ethics committee.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Ia can see ''all'' of Time. Naturally this is somewhat confusing to a (half-)human mind, but fortunately she's powerful enough to force it into a form she can understand. The most common setting being the Timeplains, a grassy prairie filled with streams where each stream represents the life of a single sentient being. She's also been known to turn it into a star-filled sky for poetic reasons, a woven tapestry in order to better track specific lives, and a line graph when defending her actions and the consequences thereof to a psychic ethics committee.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Ia's [[AppliedPhlebotinum chrysium]] bladed sword, which she uses to cut steel and harder materials.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Ia can see ''all'' of Time. Naturally this is somewhat confusing to a (half-)human mind, but fortunately she's powerful enough to force it into a form she can understand. The most common setting being the Timeplains, a grassy prairie filled with streams where each stream represents the life of a single sentient being. She's also been known to turn it into a star-filled sky for poetic reasons, a woven tapestry in order to better track specific lives, and a line graph when defending her actions and the consequences thereof to a psychic ethics committee.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Ia can see ''all'' of Time. Naturally this is somewhat confusing to a (half-)human mind, but fortunately she's powerful enough to force it into a form she can understand. The most common setting being the Timeplains, a grassy prairie filled with streams where each stream represents the life of a single sentient being. She's also been known to turn it into a star-filled sky for poetic reasons, a woven tapestry in order to better track specific lives, and a line graph when defending her actions and the consequences thereof to a psychic ethics committee.
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* HasTwoMommies: Ia, Thorne and Fyfer.
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* HasTwoMommies: Ia, Thorne Thorne, and Fyfer.
* HeroesActVillainsHinder: Ia's plans and visions are the primary driver of the plot.
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* HeroesActVillainsHinder: Ia's plans and visions are the primary driver of the plot.
* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Because of the meddling of the Feyori. They deliberately bred psychic abilities into the matter-based races [[spoiler:in order to guard against their ancient enemy, the Greys, for whom psychic inergy is poisonous]].
* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Because of the meddling of the Feyori. They deliberately bred psychic abilities into the matter-based races [[spoiler:in order to guard against their ancient enemy, the Greys, for whom psychic inergy is poisonous]].
* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Because of the meddling of the Feyori. They deliberately bred psychic abilities into the matter-based races [[spoiler:in order to guard against their ancient enemy, the Greys, for whom psychic inergy is poisonous]].
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* ISurrenderSuckers: Attempted by the Salik when it becomes clear that their species is dying. Some people do fall for it, but unfortunately Ia knows exactly who they are and stops them before the Saliks’ plan has a chance to work.
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* ISurrenderSuckers: Attempted by the Salik when it becomes clear that their species is dying. Some people do fall for it, but unfortunately Ia knows exactly who they are and stops them before the Saliks’ plan has a chance to work.
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* SubspaceAnsible: A rare scifi world in which this does [[AvertedTrope not]] exist. Long-distance communication is expensive and suffers time delays. Communication in hyperspace is impossible (which is a big part of why OTL/FTL hybrid travel is so useful).
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* SubspaceAnsible: A rare scifi world in which this does [[AvertedTrope not]] exist. these do not function perfectly. Long-distance communication is possible, but it's expensive and suffers time delays. Communication in hyperspace is impossible (which is a big part of why OTL/FTL hybrid travel is so useful).completely impossible.
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* TheFundamentalist: The Church of the One True God on Ia's home planet of Sanctuary is a fairly textbook example. Complete with hardline FantasticRacism against aliens and humans with psychic abilities, and implied HeteronormativeCrusader tendencies (one of Ia's mothers tells her they have been dubbed "man-hating devaints" by the Church).
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* TheFundamentalist: The Church of the One True God on Ia's home planet of Sanctuary is a fairly textbook example. Complete with hardline FantasticRacism against aliens and humans with psychic abilities, and implied HeteronormativeCrusader tendencies (one of Ia's mothers tells her they have been dubbed "man-hating devaints" deviants" by the Church).
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* UnusualEuphemism: A variety of "V'Dan" curse words substituting for many four letter words, but also more unusually replaces 'ass' with 'asteroid' in all circumstances.
* WhatAnIdiot: You are part of a psychic ethics committee invited to test the most powerful psi to have ever lived. You are instructed to not ever do one thing during testing. Do you a) ask why you cannot do the thing, b) keep quiet and not do the thing, or c) repeatedly do the thing in a misguided attempt to exert your authority? If you picked c, be very grateful Ia is powerful enough to keep you from going insane as a result of your own stupidity.
* WhatAnIdiot: You are part of a psychic ethics committee invited to test the most powerful psi to have ever lived. You are instructed to not ever do one thing during testing. Do you a) ask why you cannot do the thing, b) keep quiet and not do the thing, or c) repeatedly do the thing in a misguided attempt to exert your authority? If you picked c, be very grateful Ia is powerful enough to keep you from going insane as a result of your own stupidity.
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* UnusualEuphemism: A variety of "V'Dan" curse words substituting for many four letter words, but also more unusually replaces 'ass' with 'asteroid' in all circumstances.
* WhatAnIdiot: You are part of a psychic ethics committee invited to test the most powerful psi to have ever lived. You are instructed to not ever do one thing during testing. Do you a) ask why you cannot do the thing, b) keep quiet and not do the thing, or c) repeatedly do the thing in a misguided attempt to exert your authority? If you picked c, be very grateful Ia is powerful enough to keep you from going insane as a result of your own stupidity.circumstances.
* WhatAnIdiot: You are part of a psychic ethics committee invited to test the most powerful psi to have ever lived. You are instructed to not ever do one thing during testing. Do you a) ask why you cannot do the thing, b) keep quiet and not do the thing, or c) repeatedly do the thing in a misguided attempt to exert your authority? If you picked c, be very grateful Ia is powerful enough to keep you from going insane as a result of your own stupidity.
