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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Averted with a vengeance by the 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: Averted with a vengeance by the Salik. [[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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* HasTwoMommies: Ia, Thorne and Fifer.
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* HasTwoMommies: Ia, Thorne and Fifer.Fyfer.
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* HumansAreInsects: According to the Greys and the Feyori. Well, humans and all other sapient races who are not Greys or Feyori. Amusingly the Greys also count the Feyori among the non-Grey insects while the Feyori have a healthy fear of the Greys. They kind of have a point. Grey technology is so far beyond anything any other local species has accomplished that it basically looks like magic.
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* HumansAreInsects: According to the Greys and the Feyori. Well, humans and all other sapient races who are not Greys or Feyori. Amusingly the Greys also count the Feyori among the non-Grey insects while the Feyori have a healthy fear of the Greys. They kind of have a point. Grey technology is so far beyond anything any other local species has accomplished that it [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien basically looks like magic.magic]].
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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 SpaceOpera series by Jean Johnson, consisting of ''A Soldier's Duty, An Officer's Duty,'' ''Hellfire,'' ''Hardship,'' and ''Damnation,'' which came out November 25, 2014.
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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 SpaceOpera MilitaryScienceFiction series by Jean Johnson, 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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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Ia's [[AppliedPhlebotinum crysium]] bladed sword, which she uses to cut steel and harder materials.
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* AlternateSelf: Because Ia can see all potential pasts and futures she can also see all alternate universes. She regularly spends time with alternate versions of herself who have skills she hasn’t the time to learn in her own universe. The President of the Terran nations and Meyun Harper also get the opportunity to see alternates of themselves through Ia’s abilities.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Chrysium. The hardest known substance in the galaxy, can only be reshaped by psychics, and when modified by a psychic can actually induce visions in non-psychic individuals.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Ia's [[AppliedPhlebotinumcrysium]] chrysium]] bladed sword, which she uses to cut steel and harder materials.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Chrysium. The hardest known substance in the galaxy, can only be reshaped by psychics, and when modified by a psychic can actually induce visions in non-psychic individuals.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Ia's [[AppliedPhlebotinum
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* CombatClairvoyance: Saves Ia's life on several occassions.
** DodgeTheBullet / ImplausibleFencingPowers: Ia parries not just bullets but lasers with her sword.
* EnergyBeings: The Feyori, who use their powers to meddle with matter-based intelligences as part of a game of their own.
** DodgeTheBullet / ImplausibleFencingPowers: Ia parries not just bullets but lasers with her sword.
* EnergyBeings: The Feyori, who use their powers to meddle with matter-based intelligences as part of a game of their own.
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* CombatClairvoyance: Saves Ia's life on several occassions.ChildrenAreInnocent: Averted with a vengeance by the 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.
** DodgeTheBullet / ImplausibleFencingPowers: Ia parries not just bullets but lasers with her sword.
* EnergyBeings: The Feyori, who use their powers to meddle with matter-based intelligences as part of a game of their own.CoolStarship: Both the Hellfire and its successor, the Damnation.
* FasterThanLightTravel: Together with Other-Than-Light-Travel, this is the primary means of transportation for the galaxy-faring species. Meyun Harper figures out how to merge the two to invent a new and undetectable form of space travel with some assistance from Ia.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Both Ia and her half-twin (their parents are a lesbian couple who conceived them in ThreeWaySex) share a Feyori father. The accompanying psychic abilities really only manifested in Ia, though.
* HasTwoMommies: Ia's parents are a married lesbian couple who conceived her and her half-twin brother in ThreeWaySex with a man they met while picnicking in a crysium field.
* HasTwoMommies: Ia's parents are a married lesbian couple who conceived her and her half-twin brother in ThreeWaySex with a man they met while picnicking in a crysium field.
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* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: A large part of [[spoiler:Meyun Harper]]'s appeal for Ia is her inability to predict their actions. This makes them the one person in the universe capable of surprising her.
* 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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* MentalFusion: In a crisis Ia is able to fuse with a distant descendant in order to gain extra combat abilities.
* OmniscientHero: Ia, who is able to see both the past and all possible futures with perfect clarity. Though as she herself says, while she can potentially see all of Time, she only knows the things that she actively bothers to look for and remember.
** NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Knowing all possible outcomes of a situation is not at all the same as knowing which of those outcomes will prevail. Most of the series' plot twists are the result of low-percentage possibilities Ia has dismissed as too unlikely coming true against all odds. Any scenario involving [[spoiler:Feyori]] or [[spoiler:Meyun Harper]] will also be difficult if not impossible for her to see.
* OmniscientHero: Ia, who is able to see both the past and all possible futures with perfect clarity. Though as she herself says, while she can potentially see all of Time, she only knows the things that she actively bothers to look for and remember.
** NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Knowing all possible outcomes of a situation is not at all the same as knowing which of those outcomes will prevail. Most of the series' plot twists are the result of low-percentage possibilities Ia has dismissed as too unlikely coming true against all odds. Any scenario involving [[spoiler:Feyori]] or [[spoiler:Meyun Harper]] will also be difficult if not impossible for her to see.
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* PsychicPowers: Ia has massive precognitive and postcognitive powers, along with lesser talents in telepathy, pyrokinesis, electrokinesis, telekinesis, and biokinesis.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.
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* PsychicPowers: Ia has massive precognitive Known powers in this {{Verse}} include Precognition, Postcognition, Telepathy, Telekinesis, [[ElementalPowers Electrokinesis]], Teleportation, Flight, Biokinesis, Empathy, Xenopathy, and postcognitive powers, along with lesser talents in telepathy, pyrokinesis, electrokinesis, telekinesis, and biokinesis.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likelythe ability to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.simply understand foreign languages without prior knowledge of them.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely
* 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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-->"You will be given a list of these names to contemplate in your spare time. You are free to ignore it if you wish, but understand that ''I'' cannot. "
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-->"You will be given a list of these names to contemplate in your spare time. You are free to ignore it if you wish, but understand that ''I'' cannot. ""
* TheReveal: In-Universe since we know from the beginning what Ia is, but the confirmation that she is in fact the foretold Prophet of a Thousand Years of the Sh’nai faith is a pretty huge deal for V'Dan society. Ironically this crucial information is presented in the form of a tiny slip of paper stating Ia’s birth name.
* ThisIsMyStory: The FramingDevice for the series is a number of interviews Ia gives to explain her actions to the galaxy at large. Each chapter starts with a small interview segment.
* TheReveal: In-Universe since we know from the beginning what Ia is, but the confirmation that she is in fact the foretold Prophet of a Thousand Years of the Sh’nai faith is a pretty huge deal for V'Dan society. Ironically this crucial information is presented in the form of a tiny slip of paper stating Ia’s birth name.
* ThisIsMyStory: The FramingDevice for the series is a number of interviews Ia gives to explain her actions to the galaxy at large. Each chapter starts with a small interview segment.
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: By choice. It is physically entirely possible for Ia to go home even after she says her final goodbyes to her family, but doing so would cost time that she needs to spend averting galaxy-wide destruction. Her own ethics won't permit that, so in practice the situation plays out like this trope.
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: By choice. It is physically entirely possible for Ia to go home even after she says her final goodbyes to her family, but doing so would cost time that she needs to spend averting galaxy-wide destruction. Her own WhatAnIdiot: You are part of a psychic ethics won't permit that, so in practice committee invited to test the situation plays out like this trope.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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This is a SpaceOpera series by Jean Johnson, consisting of ''A Soldier's Duty, An Officer's Duty,'' ''Hellfire,'' ''Hardship,'' and ''Damnation,'' which came out November 25, 2014.
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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 SpaceOpera series by Jean Johnson, consisting of ''A Soldier's Duty, An Officer's Duty,'' ''Hellfire,'' ''Hardship,'' and ''Damnation,'' which came out November 25,
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Both Ia and her half-twin share a Feyori father. The accompanying psychic abilities really only manifested in Ia, though.
* HeavyWorlder: Ia is from a 3.2g planet; her consequent strength and reflexes serve her well as a Marine.
* HeavyWorlder: Ia is from a 3.2g planet; her consequent strength and reflexes serve her well as a Marine.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Both Ia and her half-twin (their parents are a lesbian couple who conceived them in ThreeWaySex) share a Feyori father. The accompanying psychic abilities really only manifested in Ia, though.
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*HeavyWorlder: Ia is from HasTwoMommies: Ia's parents are a 3.2g planet; married lesbian couple who conceived her consequent and her half-twin brother in ThreeWaySex with a man they met while picnicking in a crysium field.
* {{Heavyworlder}}: At 3.2 gravities, Ia's homeworld Sanctuary is the highest-gravity planet ever settled by humans, a place where tripping over a rock can break your neck. Offworlders frequently have to wear antigravity devices full-time, and to maintain the added strength granted by growing up in that gravity, Ia is required by the military to wear a weighted suit when she's on duty, a suit that can only fit enough weights to simulate about 2.8 gravities. There's a mention that heavyworlders in this {{Verse}} tend to be short andreflexes serve stocky, but Ia is an exception and her well as a Marine.brothers are even bigger than she is.
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* {{Heavyworlder}}: At 3.2 gravities, Ia's homeworld Sanctuary is the highest-gravity planet ever settled by humans, a place where tripping over a rock can break your neck. Offworlders frequently have to wear antigravity devices full-time, and to maintain the added strength granted by growing up in that gravity, Ia is required by the military to wear a weighted suit when she's on duty, a suit that can only fit enough weights to simulate about 2.8 gravities. There's a mention that heavyworlders in this {{Verse}} tend to be short and
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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: 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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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder:
** Chaplain Benjamin gets one in near the start of Hellfire, when Ia challenges Bennie to prove she can handle battle. Bennie's response:
** Chaplain Benjamin gets one in near the start of Hellfire, when Ia challenges Bennie to prove she can handle battle. Bennie's response:
* 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!"]]
* RhymesOnADime: In one extremely funny scene in ''A Soldier's Duty'', Ia improvises a narrative poem telling her fellow soldiers how she got the moniker "Bloody Mary".
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** Repeated mentions of people being BigDamnHeroes.
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** Repeated To ''Series/{{Firefly}}, with repeated mentions of people being BigDamnHeroes.
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* ReadingsBlewUpTheScale: Equipment to test psychic potency tends to burn out when it's used on Ia. [[spoiler:When they test her precognition at the end of book two, it burns out the thing ''through a psi damper''.]]
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* EldritchAbomination: The Greys as far as most sapient species are concerned, though this is more due to their technological capabilities than any inherent quality of the species. They would've stomped the galaxy flat centuries ago if it weren't for the Feyoris' interference. Then on a whole other level we have the Zid"ya. They're the galaxy-wide cataclysm Ia spends the entire series trying to stop. In her own words they are "an alien race so advanced the ''Greys'' fled from them in terror."
* GoodIsNotNice: A harsh lesson Ia must teach her followers on her homeworld. In order to survive a centuries-long cold war with the religious zealots sharing their planet they will have to do quite a few unpalatable things. That includes essentially torturing murderers and rapists into forced servitude as assassins and spies.
* GoodIsNotNice: A harsh lesson Ia must teach her followers on her homeworld. In order to survive a centuries-long cold war with the religious zealots sharing their planet they will have to do quite a few unpalatable things. That includes essentially torturing murderers and rapists into forced servitude as assassins and spies.
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* HumansAreInsects: According to the Greys and the Feyori. Well, humans and all other sapient races who are not Greys or Feyori. Amusingly the Greys also count the Feyori among the non-Grey insects while the Feyori have a healthy fear of the Greys. They kind of have a point. Grey technology is so far beyond anything any other local species has accomplished that it basically looks like magic.
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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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* UndergroundCity: The Freeworld Colony of Sanctuary will be one. Ia spends the first three books financing and guiding its construction through her brothers and her best friend. It will be home to the population hiding from the Church of the One True God for 200 years, after which they will reclaim the surface.
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This is a SpaceOpera trilogy by Jean Johnson, consisting of ''A Soldier's Duty, An Officer's Duty,'' ''Hellfire,'' ''Hardship,'' and ''Damnation,'' which came out November 25, 2014.
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This is a SpaceOpera trilogy series by Jean Johnson, 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: Ia has massive precognitive and postcognitive powers, along with lesser talents in telepathy, pyrokinesis, electrokinesis, telekinesis, and biokinesis.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.
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* PsychicPowers: Ia has massive precognitive and postcognitive powers, along with lesser talents in telepathy, pyrokinesis, electrokinesis, telekinesis, and biokinesis.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.
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* ThirdPersonPerson: Recruits at boot camp are required to speak this way (this recruit is...), as a means of breaking down their sense of self.
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** A Gatsuigi poet paraphrases [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...#The_text Martin Niemöller]].
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** A Gatsuigi poet paraphrases [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...#The_text Martin Niemöller]]. Niemöller.]]
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** CompleteTheQuoteTitle:
--> "Theirs not to reason why,\\
Theirs but to do and die.
--> "Theirs not to reason why,\\
Theirs but to do and die.
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* CompleteMonster: The Salik as a species actively and unapologetically cultivate their ImAHumanitarian tendencies. They prefer to keep their prey alive and screaming for as long as possible and their ultimate goal is to eat or kill all other sentient species in their corner of the galaxy.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Over the course of the series Ia commits genocide and personally murders or knowingly allows hundreds of thousands of people she could have saved to die. All in the name of [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans saving all sentient life hundreds of years in the future]]. Somewhat subverted in that she is completely aware of the consequences of each of her decisions and therefore can arguably ''know'' that they are in fact justified.
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* RedBaron: Ia gets the moniker "Bloody Mary" after she ends up covered in LudicrousGibs during her first combat action. "Bloody Mary!" was the first thing out of her CO's mouth when she saw the mess. Then she gets covered in blood ''again'', this time wearing her [=BDUs=], when the prisoners they took stage a breakout, and that's that.
* RedBaron: Ia gets the moniker "Bloody Mary" after she ends up covered in LudicrousGibs during her first combat action. "Bloody Mary!" was the first thing out of her CO's mouth when she saw the mess. Then she gets covered in blood ''again'', this time wearing her [=BDUs=], when the prisoners they took stage a breakout, and that's that.
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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 Doom rolls around everything will be in place to prevent it.
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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 Doom [[OmnicidalManiac Doom]] rolls around everything will be in place to prevent it.
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Over the course of the series Ia commits genocide and personally murders or knowingly allows hundreds of thousands of people she could have saved to die. All in the name of saving all sentient life hundreds of years in the future. Somewhat subverted in that she is completely aware of the consequences of each of her decisions and therefore can arguably ''know'' that they are in fact justified.
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Over the course of the series YouCantGoHomeAgain: By choice. It is physically entirely possible for Ia commits genocide and personally murders or knowingly allows hundreds of thousands of people to go home even after she could have saved says her final goodbyes to die. All in the name of saving all sentient life hundreds of years in the future. Somewhat subverted in her family, but doing so would cost time that she is completely aware of needs to spend averting galaxy-wide destruction. Her own ethics won't permit that, so in practice the consequences of each of her decisions and therefore can arguably ''know'' that they are in fact justified.situation plays out like this trope.
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* 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.
* CompleteMonster: The Salik as a species actively and unapologetically cultivate their ImAHumanitarian tendencies. They prefer to keep their prey alive and screaming for as long as possible and their ultimate goal is to eat or kill all other sentient species in their corner of the galaxy.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Both Ia and her half-twin share a Feyori father. The accompanying psychic abilities really only manifested in Ia, though.
** AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Unfortunately this often means looking into minds she would really rather steer well clear of. Salik officers tend to spend quality time together while [[NightmareFuel eating their prisoners]], which is also when they're most likely to be thinking about valuable war intel.
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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.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Over the course of the series Ia commits genocide and personally murders or knowingly allows hundreds of thousands of people she could have saved to die. All in the name of saving all sentient life hundreds of years in the future. Somewhat subverted in that she is completely aware of the consequences of each of her decisions and therefore can arguably ''know'' that they are in fact justified.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Over the course of the series Ia commits genocide and personally murders or knowingly allows hundreds of thousands of people she could have saved to die. All in the name of saving all sentient life hundreds of years in the future. Somewhat subverted in that she is completely aware of the consequences of each of her decisions and therefore can arguably ''know'' that they are in fact justified.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Ia's entire life.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Ia's entire life.life starting at age 15.
** [[spoiler:Nearly her entire crew voluntarily joins her in this. Knowing full well that it wasn't necessary, they sacrifice themselves along with Ia out of loyalty.]]
** [[spoiler:Nearly her entire crew voluntarily joins her in this. Knowing full well that it wasn't necessary, they sacrifice themselves along with Ia out of loyalty.]]
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* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Because of the meddling of the Feyori. They deliberately breed 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 breed bred psychic abilities into the matter-based races [[spoiler:In [[spoiler:in order to guard against their ancient enemy, the Greys, for whom psychic inergy is poisonous]].
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* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Knowing all possible outcomes of a situation is not at all the same as knowing which of those outcomes will prevail. Most of the series' plot twists are the result of low-percentage possibilities Ia has dismissed as too unlikely coming true against all odds. Any scenario involving [[spoiler:Feyori]] or [[spoiler:Meyun Harper]] will also be difficult if not impossible for her to see.
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* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Knowing all possible outcomes of MentalFusion: In a situation crisis Ia is not at all the same as knowing which of those outcomes will prevail. Most of the series' plot twists are the result of low-percentage possibilities Ia has dismissed as too unlikely coming true against all odds. Any scenario involving [[spoiler:Feyori]] or [[spoiler:Meyun Harper]] will also be difficult if not impossible for her able to see. fuse with a distant descendant in order to gain extra combat abilities.
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** NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Knowing all possible outcomes of a situation is not at all the same as knowing which of those outcomes will prevail. Most of the series' plot twists are the result of low-percentage possibilities Ia has dismissed as too unlikely coming true against all odds. Any scenario involving [[spoiler:Feyori]] or [[spoiler:Meyun Harper]] will also be difficult if not impossible for her to see.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Easily done from the Timeplains. This is Ia's primary method of information gathering when she needs to know things she hasn't the time to learn any other way.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Easily done from the Timeplains. This is Ia's primary method of information gathering when she needs to know things she hasn't the time to learn any other way.
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* ThanatosGambit: Ia starts setting one up when she's barely 15. Her entire life from that point onward is dedicated solely to its success.
** Combined with DeathIsTheOnlyOption in that Ia's death is merely another (albeit essential) step of her plan.
* [[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 Doom rolls around everything will be in place to prevent it.
** Combined with DeathIsTheOnlyOption in that Ia's death is merely another (albeit essential) step of her plan.
* [[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 Doom rolls around everything will be in place to prevent it.
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* {{Catfolk}}: The Solaricans.
* DodgeTheBullet /ImplausibleFencingPowers: Ia parries not just bullets but lasers with her sword. Justified by her precognitive powers; she knows beforehand where the projectile is going to be, so she can put her sword in the way.
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* {{Catfolk}}: CatFolk: The Solaricans.
* CombatClairvoyance: Saves Ia's life on several occassions.
** DodgeTheBullet/ImplausibleFencingPowers: / ImplausibleFencingPowers: Ia parries not just bullets but lasers with her sword. Justified by her precognitive powers; she knows beforehand where the projectile is going to be, so she can put her sword in the way.
* CombatClairvoyance: Saves Ia's life on several occassions.
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* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Because of the meddling of the FeyoriFeyori. They deliberately breed psychic abilities into the matter-based races [[spoiler:In order to guard against their ancient enemy, the Greys, for whom psychic inergy is poisonous]].
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: A large part of [[spoiler:Meyun Harper]]'s appeal for Ia is her inability to predict their actions. This makes them the one person in the universe capable of surprising her.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: A large part of [[spoiler:Meyun Harper]]'s appeal for Ia is her inability to predict their actions. This makes them the one person in the universe capable of surprising her.
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* PsychicPowers: Ia has massive precognitive powers, along with lesser talents in telepathy, pyrokinesis, electrokinesis, telekinesis, and biokinesis.
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* PsychicPowers: Ia has massive precognitive and postcognitive powers, along with lesser talents in telepathy, pyrokinesis, electrokinesis, telekinesis, and biokinesis.
* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Knowing all possible outcomes of a situation is not at all the same as knowing which of those outcomes will prevail. Most of the series' plot twists are the result of low-percentage possibilities Ia has dismissed as too unlikely coming true against all odds. Any scenario involving [[spoiler:Feyori]] or [[spoiler:Meyun Harper]] will also be difficult if not impossible for her to see.
* OmniscientHero: Ia, who is able to see both the past and all possible futures with perfect clarity. Though as she herself says, while she can potentially see all of Time, she only knows the things that she actively bothers to look for and remember.
* OmniscientHero: Ia, who is able to see both the past and all possible futures with perfect clarity. Though as she herself says, while she can potentially see all of Time, she only knows the things that she actively bothers to look for and remember.
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* SssssnakeTalk: The reptilian Tlassians
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* SssssnakeTalk: The reptilian TlassiansTlassians.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Captain Ia gives an epic one in ''Hellfire'', as she explains to a disobedient subordinate how, 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, by [[spoiler:by continuing to fire after she ordered him to stop, 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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This is a SpaceOpera trilogy by Jean Johnson, consisting of ''A Soldier's Duty, An Officer's Duty,'' and ''Hellfire''.
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This is a SpaceOpera trilogy by Jean Johnson, consisting of ''A Soldier's Duty, An Officer's Duty,'' ''Hellfire,'' ''Hardship,'' and ''Hellfire''.''Damnation,'' which came out November 25, 2014.
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-> You really want me to shoot a gun? Please. I'm a preacher, not a fighter.
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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Chaplain Benjamin gets one in near the start of Hellfire, when Ia challenges Bennie to prove she can handle battle. Bennie's response:
-> You really want me to shoot a gun? Please. I'm a preacher, not a fighter.
** Doctor Jesselle Mishka uses this later on in the book, complaining that she's a doctor, not a soldier.
-> You really want me to shoot a gun? Please. I'm a preacher, not a fighter.
** Doctor Jesselle Mishka uses this later on in the book, complaining that she's a doctor, not a soldier.
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** The title is, of course, a reference to the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Creator/AlfredLordTennyson.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Captain Ia gives an epic one in ''Hellfire'', as she explains to a disobedient
* 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.subordinate how, 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.
-->"You will be given a list of these names to contemplate in your spare time. You are free to ignore it if you wish, but understand that ''I'' cannot. "
* 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.subordinate how, 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.
-->"You will be given a list of these names to contemplate in your spare time. You are free to ignore it if you wish, but understand that ''I'' cannot. "
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Captain Ia gives an epic one in ''Hellfire'', as she explains to a disobedient
* 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.disobedient subordinate how, 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.
-->"You will be given a list of these names to contemplate in your spare time. You are free to ignore it if you wish, but understand that ''I'' cannot.""
* 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.
* 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.
-->"You will be given a list of these names to contemplate in your spare time. You are free to ignore it if you wish, but understand that ''I'' cannot.
* 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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* PsychicPowers: Ia has massive precognitive powers, along with lesser talents in telepathy, pyrokinesis, electrokinesis, telekinesis, and biokinesis.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.
* RedBaron: Ia gets the moniker "Bloody Mary" after she ends up covered in LudicrousGibs during her first combat action. "Bloody Mary!" was the first thing out of her CO's mouth when she saw the mess. Then she gets covered in blood ''again'', this time wearing her [=BDUs=], when the prisoners they took stage a breakout, and that's that.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.
* RedBaron: Ia gets the moniker "Bloody Mary" after she ends up covered in LudicrousGibs during her first combat action. "Bloody Mary!" was the first thing out of her CO's mouth when she saw the mess. Then she gets covered in blood ''again'', this time wearing her [=BDUs=], when the prisoners they took stage a breakout, and that's that.
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* PsychicPowers: Ia has massive precognitive powers, along with lesser talents in telepathy, pyrokinesis, electrokinesis, telekinesis, and biokinesis.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.
* RedBaron: Ia gets the moniker "Bloody Mary" after she ends up covered in LudicrousGibs during her first combat action. "Bloody Mary!" was the first thing out of her CO's mouth when she saw the mess. Then she gets covered in blood ''again'', this time wearing her [=BDUs=], when the prisoners they took stage a breakout, and that's that.
* 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.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.
* RedBaron: Ia gets the moniker "Bloody Mary" after she ends up covered in LudicrousGibs during her first combat action. "Bloody Mary!" was the first thing out of her CO's mouth when she saw the mess. Then she gets covered in blood ''again'', this time wearing her [=BDUs=], when the prisoners they took stage a breakout, and that's that.
* 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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* StableTimeLoop: The Immortal was born two centuries in Ia's future, then cast back in time 15,000 years by the Feyori. She rescued a group of humans from tectonic upheavals on Earth and transported them to a distant planet, which eventually became the V'Dan Empire, and founded a religion there predicting Ia's coming as the Prophet of a Thousand Years. This also allows Ia to steal designs for future technology from the Immortal's records.
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* StableTimeLoop: The Immortal was born two centuries in Ia's future, then cast back in time 15,000 years by the Feyori. She rescued a group of humans from tectonic upheavals on Earth and transported them to a distant planet, which eventually became the V'Dan Empire, and founded a religion there predicting Ia's coming as the Prophet of a Thousand Years. This also allows Ia to steal designs for future technology from the Immortal's records.records.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Captain Ia gives an epic one in ''Hellfire'', as she explains to a disobedient
* 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.subordinate how, 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.
-->"You will be given a list of these names to contemplate in your spare time. You are free to ignore it if you wish, but understand that ''I'' cannot. "
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Captain Ia gives an epic one in ''Hellfire'', as she explains to a disobedient
* 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.subordinate how, 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.
-->"You will be given a list of these names to contemplate in your spare time. You are free to ignore it if you wish, but understand that ''I'' cannot. "
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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/{{Dune}} Fear Is The Mind Killer]].
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** A Gatsuigi poet paraphrases [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...#The_text Martin Niemöller]].
** As the old saying goes [[Film/Dune Fear Is The Mind Killer]].
** As the old saying goes [[Film/Dune Fear Is The Mind Killer]].
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* PsychicPowers: Ia is precognitive, and also has a variety of other powers.
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* PsychicPowers: Ia is precognitive, has massive precognitive powers, along with lesser talents in telepathy, pyrokinesis, electrokinesis, telekinesis, and also has a variety of other powers.biokinesis.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: To Tennyson's "Charge Of The Light Brigade".
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Ia's [[AppliedPhlebotnium crysium]] bladed sword, which she uses to cut steel and harder materials.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Ia's [[AppliedPhlebotnium [[AppliedPhlebotinum crysium]] bladed sword, which she uses to cut steel and harder materials.
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* HeroesActVillainsHinder: Ia's plans and visions are the primary driver of the plot.
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This is a SpaceOpera trilogy by Jean Johnson, consisting of ''A Soldier's Duty, An Officer's Duty,'' and ''Hellfire''.
Ia is a precognitive, who foresees a galaxy-wide cataclysm three centuries in the future. In all the possible futures, only one comes out differently, and Ia must give up every possibility for her own life to make sure that it happens.
She must abandon her dreams of a career as a singer and musician, and join the Space Force, first as a Marine, then into other branches. She disobeys orders and conceals vital information from her own superiors. She literally wades through the blood of friend and foe alike, fighting through a genocidal war that she could have prevented. She leaves her family and homeworld in the centuries-long grip of an oppressive theocracy, all in the service of iron necessity, because if she allows anything else to happen, everything in the galaxy will die, eradicated as though they'd never been. She will sacrifice all that she would or could have been to become the Prophet of a Thousand Years, ensuring that the galaxy and all the sentients in it will have a future of more than three centuries.
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!! This series provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Ia's Phlebotnium bladed sword, which she uses to cut steel and harder materials.
* {{Catfolk}}: The Solaricans.
* DodgeTheBullet /ImplausibleFencingPowers: Ia parries not just bullets but lasers with her sword. Justified by her precognitive powers; she knows beforehand where the projectile is going to be, so she can put her sword in the way.
* EnergyBeings: The Feyori, who use their powers to meddle with matter-based intelligences as part of a game of their own.
* HeavyWorlder: Ia is from a 3.2g planet; her consequent strength and reflexes serve her well as a Marine.
* HeroicSacrifice: Ia's entire life.
* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Because of the meddling of the Feyori
* ShoutOut: The series is full of these.
** There is a mention of a bar called [[Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots The Scottish Cactus]].
** Ia goes to boot camp with a recruit [[Literature/MythAdventures named Spyder who has multicolored hair and a criminal background ]]
** A warship named the ''[[Film/ReturnoftheJedi Ackbar]]''
** Franchise/StarTrek: Human habitable worlds are called M-Class (with a note that it was so embedded in popular culture at the beginning of space travel that scientists just went along with it), while an apparently unwinnable training scenario is called 'a KobayashiMaru'
** Repeated mentions of people being BigDamnHeroes.
** [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy Space is huge. I mean Really Really huge. You may think it's a long way down to the]]...Okay, all right, that shtick has been done before.
** The third book introduces a [[Literature/StarshipTroopers Lieutenant Rico]]. The use of corporal punishment in the future military is also a reference.
* PsychicPowers: Ia is precognitive, and also has a variety of other powers.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.
* RedBaron: Ia gets the moniker "Bloody Mary" after she ends up covered in LudicrousGibs during her first combat action. "Bloody Mary!" was the first thing out of her CO's mouth when she saw the mess. Then she gets covered in blood ''again'', this time wearing her [=BDUs=], when the prisoners they took stage a breakout, and that's that.
* SpaceMarines: The Terran United Planets Space Force Marines.
* SssssnakeTalk: The reptilian Tlassians
* StableTimeLoop: The Immortal was born two centuries in Ia's future, then cast back in time 15,000 years by the Feyori. She rescued a group of humans from tectonic upheavals on Earth and transported them to a distant planet, which eventually became the V'Dan Empire, and founded a religion there predicting Ia's coming as the Prophet of a Thousand Years. This also allows Ia to steal designs for future technology from the Immortal's records.
Ia is a precognitive, who foresees a galaxy-wide cataclysm three centuries in the future. In all the possible futures, only one comes out differently, and Ia must give up every possibility for her own life to make sure that it happens.
She must abandon her dreams of a career as a singer and musician, and join the Space Force, first as a Marine, then into other branches. She disobeys orders and conceals vital information from her own superiors. She literally wades through the blood of friend and foe alike, fighting through a genocidal war that she could have prevented. She leaves her family and homeworld in the centuries-long grip of an oppressive theocracy, all in the service of iron necessity, because if she allows anything else to happen, everything in the galaxy will die, eradicated as though they'd never been. She will sacrifice all that she would or could have been to become the Prophet of a Thousand Years, ensuring that the galaxy and all the sentients in it will have a future of more than three centuries.
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!! This series provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Ia's Phlebotnium bladed sword, which she uses to cut steel and harder materials.
* {{Catfolk}}: The Solaricans.
* DodgeTheBullet /ImplausibleFencingPowers: Ia parries not just bullets but lasers with her sword. Justified by her precognitive powers; she knows beforehand where the projectile is going to be, so she can put her sword in the way.
* EnergyBeings: The Feyori, who use their powers to meddle with matter-based intelligences as part of a game of their own.
* HeavyWorlder: Ia is from a 3.2g planet; her consequent strength and reflexes serve her well as a Marine.
* HeroicSacrifice: Ia's entire life.
* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Because of the meddling of the Feyori
* ShoutOut: The series is full of these.
** There is a mention of a bar called [[Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots The Scottish Cactus]].
** Ia goes to boot camp with a recruit [[Literature/MythAdventures named Spyder who has multicolored hair and a criminal background ]]
** A warship named the ''[[Film/ReturnoftheJedi Ackbar]]''
** Franchise/StarTrek: Human habitable worlds are called M-Class (with a note that it was so embedded in popular culture at the beginning of space travel that scientists just went along with it), while an apparently unwinnable training scenario is called 'a KobayashiMaru'
** Repeated mentions of people being BigDamnHeroes.
** [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy Space is huge. I mean Really Really huge. You may think it's a long way down to the]]...Okay, all right, that shtick has been done before.
** The third book introduces a [[Literature/StarshipTroopers Lieutenant Rico]]. The use of corporal punishment in the future military is also a reference.
* PsychicPowers: Ia is precognitive, and also has a variety of other powers.
* PowerIncontinence: When people touch Ia for too long, they are likely to be pulled into her visions, which is invariably a rather traumatic experience.
* RedBaron: Ia gets the moniker "Bloody Mary" after she ends up covered in LudicrousGibs during her first combat action. "Bloody Mary!" was the first thing out of her CO's mouth when she saw the mess. Then she gets covered in blood ''again'', this time wearing her [=BDUs=], when the prisoners they took stage a breakout, and that's that.
* SpaceMarines: The Terran United Planets Space Force Marines.
* SssssnakeTalk: The reptilian Tlassians
* StableTimeLoop: The Immortal was born two centuries in Ia's future, then cast back in time 15,000 years by the Feyori. She rescued a group of humans from tectonic upheavals on Earth and transported them to a distant planet, which eventually became the V'Dan Empire, and founded a religion there predicting Ia's coming as the Prophet of a Thousand Years. This also allows Ia to steal designs for future technology from the Immortal's records.
