History Literature / TitanEmpire

* BannedEpisode: Some older short stories can't be found on the series website, most likely because they are too {{Lemon}} for the current state of the work.

* EmbarassingMiddleName: Alex's middle name at birth was Elizabeth. PlayedForLaughs, obviously.

* ExposedExtraterrestials: Mostly on the earlier work.

* MixAndMatch: Take equal doses of space opera, novelisation and (at the beginning) size-fetish porn, and this happens.

* IfYouDoAnythingToHurtHer: Hurting one of Pryvani's friends is the easiest way to have the wrath of the richest person on the galaxy fall upon you.

* IntriguedByHumanity: After FirstContract has been made, most Titans were surprised to see that humanity on Earth was way ahead of their supposed technological level.

* ItHasBeenAHonor: [[spoiler: Niall and Aerti to eachother, moments before their HeroicSacrifice.]]

* JustHereForGodzilla: In quite a literal sense, since most people at the beginning were reading it for the size-fetish porn included within.

* MonsterousMandibles: The [[InsectoidAliens Insectoids]].

* MixAndMatch: Take equal doses of space opera, novelisation and (at the beginning) size-fetish porn, and this happens.

* HouseholdNames: The ''mere mention'' of Pryvani's name is enough to put the fear of God to most people.

* EmbarassingMiddleName: Alex's middle name is Elizabeth, and Rixie's is Phaelarix. PlayedForLaughs, obviously.

* InCaseOfXBreakGlass: The Acolytes were made by Avalon in order to have a failsafe if the Empire turned against them.
** To be exact, Darren said in one of his briefings that its weapons were focused on hitting armor and not shields, thus hinting that they were designed to ward off the Insectoids (whose ships don't have shields), rather than the Empire. Plus, the two leaders of the squadron (Ted and Ryan) were married to Titans and would under no circumstance attack the Empire.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Many Titans are...particularly well endowed.

!''The Titan Empire'' contains examples of:

* AbsoluteXenophobe: Many, many Titans.
** Also, a significant portion of ''Jotnars'': despite being Titans, they have many cultural differences and despise Archavia's multicultural world.

* AerithAndBob: Rixie and...Alex.
* AffectionateNickname: Darren Xanthopoulous has one for every weird name.
* AGodIAmNot: Pryvani Tarsuss [[spoiler: on the Avalonians at the end of ''Titan'']].

* AnimalWrongsGroup: Titans for the Ethical Treatment of Humans is officially for human emancipation...but they have a tendency not to ask the humans what that means.

* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Emperor Tiernan does this to Syon Fand [[spoiler: when he paralyzes her exactly as she paralyzed humans she wanted to eat/give to the Insectoids, and then threatens her to feed her to them as well.]]

* ClassAndLevelSystem: Humans are Class Two sentient beings, essentially pets.

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Sorcha.

* {{Doorstopper}}: According to OHH, the series word count by the end of ''Titan: Hybrid'' was bigger than 750.000. Since there have been three more novels and several short stories from then until now, the total word count nowadays is most likely at a seven-digit count.

* EnemyCivilWar: When the Insectoids manage to understand the concept of "''not-taking''", they fracture into five clans and slaughter each other.
* EnergyWeapon: The Acolytes.

* FriendlyEnemy: Loona Armac and Rodney Zeramblin: despite being liberal and conservative respectively, they are willing to hash out their differences and find common ground, especially on the issue of human emancipation.

* GodGuise: Until Pryvani admits to the deception, the Tarsuss family uses a "goddess" to keep order on Avalon. The charade is helped by the fact that Titans are titanic.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Pryvani Tarsuss is willing to cover up killings and use her vast fortune to destroy her enemies -- and she's stated that she's done far worse.

* HellIsWar: The Battle of Tau Ceti is ''extremely'' brutal.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Vanser and Charlotte are the only notable examples.

** In the later novels, this is invoked heavily by the opposition: they admit that humans are every bit as smart as Titans, but they fear that their comparably short lifespan and higher population will eventually allow them to surpass them technologically.

* HumansAreSpecial: Those who favor human emancipation think their curiosity could propel the Empire to a new golden era.

** To be exact, Darren said in one of his briefings that its weapons were focused on hitting armor and not shields, thus hinting that they were designed to ward off the Insectoids (whose ships don't have shields), rather than the Empire.

* JustHereForGodzilla: In quite a literal sense, since most people at the beginning were reading it for the size-fetish porn included.

* LeaveNoSurvivors: It is known that the Insectoids apply this trope on their attacks, to the point where the human settlement at Sperikos ''literally burned itself to the ground'' rather than becoming food.

* ShockingDefeatLegacy: The shock of losing during the Battle of Tau Ceti is so disruptive that it literally splits the hive into five daughter hives, which touches off an immediate civil war among the Insectoids.

* UnwantedFalseFaith: Pryvani tells the citizens of Avalon that she is not a god, but some Avalonians believe she's testing them, and worship anyhow.
* WhamLine: "The truth, citizens of Avalon, is that my name is Pryvani Tarsuss, and I am not a goddess."
* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The energy core that Niall Freeman secretly developed with Avalon.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Absolutely.
** With the exception of ''Hybrid'' and ''Birthright'', every other novel has introduced some main characters that have gone on to play a part in other stories.
** It even went to a point where there is a [[https://titanempire.fandom.com/wiki/Titan_Empire_Wiki wiki]], in order to help both the aythors and the readers with such an ensemble.

* LilliputianWarriors: All human military.

* MyEyesAreUpHere: Several times.

* NobleFugitive: Vasha Zakrov.

* OurGiantsAreBigger: And how.

* TimeBomb: The premise of ''Titan: Pandemic''.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pryvani and other upper-class Aementi routinely change their hair color. Pryvani being Pryvani, she tends to take this UpToEleven, and it is canon that only her husband knows her true hair color.

* WebSerialNovel: A great example.

* HumanMomNonhumanDad: There are several hybrids with human moms and Titan dads; fortunately for the moms, hybrid size is based on their mother, not their father.

* MulticoloredHair: Many get quite adventurous with it.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Around a 2.5.

* ClimateChange: Earth suffered through a series of "Water Wars" over natural resources, until a near-apocalypse experience scared them straight.

* AGodIAmNot: Pryvani Tarsuss [[spoilers: on the Avalonians at the end of ''Titan'']].

* IncredibleShrinkingMan: All humans seem 6 inches tall to Titans.

** On the earlier novels it was probably Trell, who was Rixie's sister and a human-eating psychopath. [[spoiler: Until she met her end at the hands of Zhan Tarsuss (née Solis)]]

* GlobalWarming: Earth suffered through a series of "Water Wars" over natural resources, until a near-apocalypse experience scared them straight.

* HiveCastSystem: How the Insectoids are organized.

Initially intended to be a story that [[PornWithoutPlot appealed to the baser instincts]] of people who are into that sort of thing (aka [[GiantWoman very tall women]]), the series now is a sprawling epic that covers SpaceOpera, the politics of [[TheFederation The Empire]], and the long battle of humans -- both those from Earth and those native to the Empire -- to gain a [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman measure of equality]]. [[spoiler: And what happens after said equality is made the law, but not everyone agrees with it.]]

* APetIntoTheWild: How the whole thing begins.

* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Emperor Tiernan does this to Syon Fand [[spoiler: when he paralyzes her exactly as she paralyzed humans she wanted to eat/give to the Insectoids, and then threatens her to feed her to them as well.

* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: Avalonians believe that Pryvani is a goddess.

* {{Blackmail}}: Syon threatens Pryvani that if she doesn't give her the majority of the Tarsuss Corp., the pictures where her romantic involvement with a human is shown will be released.

** This is even more true with the Insectoids, whose immense secrecy and apparent incapability of understanding some of the most basic concepts of Titan/Human culture, create a huge barrier between them and the rest of the species.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Yamanu Neutha died while comforting 29 humans that were euthanized together with him by Dr. Praxa, despite being given the chance to have someone else take his place due to his popularity in the Empire.

* EnemyCivilWar: When the Insectoids understand the concept of "''not-taking''", they fracture into five clans and slaughter each other.

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: How Earth feels after [[spoiler: the battle of Tau Ceti]], considering that while the Empire saved them, for centuries its people were seen as pets on it.

* AbdicateTheThrone: King Tiernan [[spoiler: threatens to do so if the humans are not recognized as citizens]].

* AccidentalDiscovery: How the humans find Titan Station.

* AdoptedIntoRoyalty: Pierce after he enters a relationship with Princess Rhionne and Daz.

* AGodIAmNot: Pryvani Tarsuss on the Avalonians at the end of ''Titan''.

* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Alex and Rixie promised to each other that they would be the first couple to marry after human equality was made law.

* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Tiernan does this to Syon Fand when he paralyzes her exactly as she paralyzed humans she wanted to eat.
* AtomicFBomb: The Titan equivalent is ''frak''.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Trell on ''Titan: Pandemic''.

* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Zhan killing Trell by bombing her insides.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Pryvani Tarsuss has a better informant network than ''the emperor''.

* BloodSplatteredInnocents: When Myrell enters the colonys' cafeteria.

* BrokenPedestal: How Zhan sees Pryvani after the latter confesses that she is u deity.

* CanadianEqualsHockeyFan: Alex calls Pierce a “hockey loving maple syrup sucker”.

* CasualKink: That's how the series started.

* ClassAndLevelSystem: Humans are Class Two Sentient Beings, essentially pets.

* DominantSpeciesGenes: All hybrids that have a Titan mother are larger in size.
* {{Doorstopper}}: According to OHH, the series word count by the end of ''Titan: Hybrid'' was bigger than 750.000. Since there have been three more novels and several short stories until now, the word count nowadays is most likely at a seven-digit count.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Yamanu Neutha died while comforting 29 humans that were euthanized by Dr. Praxa.

* EmbarassingMiddleName: Alex's middle name is Elizabeth, and Rixie's is Phaelarix.

* FeedItABomb: Quite literally how Zhan killed Trell.

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: How Earth feels after [[spoiler: the battle of Tau Ceti]], considering that for centuries its people were seen as pets.

** In her defence, the average intelligence of a common Empire human was...quite low, and there was at the time widespread disbelief about Earth's achievements.

* GenocideDilemma: Floor Leader Loona Armac heavily struggles with this, as she realized that she needs to exterminate more than ''half a trillion'' Insectoids in order to eliminate the threat they pose.

** However, at the end of ''Titan: Hybrid'' it was revealed that [[spoiler: the Insectoids had made their own Titan-human hybrid before the Empire did.]].
* HappinessInSlavery: This is the attitude of many humans on the Empire, since they were born to be pets and have little understanding of the outside world - or need of independence.
* HarmlessFreezing: Laruyna has to freeze Izzy after the later contacts a lethal disease with no cure found. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, when the cure is found, 7 Titan years (half a Human century) have passed...]]

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Vanser and Charlotte are the only notable example.

** In the later novels, this is invoked heavily by the opposition: they admit that humans are every bit as smart as Titans, but they fear that their comparably short lifespan and higher population will eventually surpass them technologically.

* HybridPower: Sorcha Freeman is quite tall and ''insanely'' strong (in a non superhero way), due to her Titan and human genes respectively.
* IfYouDoAnythingToHurtHer: Hurting one of Pryvani's friends is the easiest way to have the wrath of the richest person on the galaxy upon you.

** To be exact, Darren said in one of his briefings that an Acolytes' weapons were focused on hitting armor and not shields, thus hinting that they were designed to ward off the Insectoids (whose ships don't have shields), rather than the Empire.

* {{Interquel}}: Outside of the titular novel that started the series, all the other novels and shorter stories are not in chronological order.

* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: Forna Qorni said this almost verbatim (referring on her stance against humans) on her introductory speech as a member of the (largely decorative) Senate.

* IveNeverSeenAnythingLikeThisBefore: The usual reaction to Niall Freeman, who was the first human whose intelligence was on par with a Titan.

* KnowsAGuyWhoKnowsAGuy: Pryvani's informant network is so huge, that she regularly invokes this trope.
* LaResistance: There is an organized resistance on Federation grounds, after the latter disagreed to apply the Zeramblin Act and seceded from the Empire.

* LeavingYouToFindMyself: Izzy leaves for Avalon when she is awaken from her cryostasis. Ultimately, she decides to return to Lauryna.

* LikeAGodToMe: Zhan often calls Pryvani as "Goddess Mine", obviously playing with the fact that he was raised actually believing that.

* {{Microts}}: The Imperial second, minute, and hour are all very close to the familiar Earth variety. Of course, that's because the our seconds are based on Titan time units.

* {{Munchkin}}: Humans are the smallest sentient species on the universe.

* {{Nanomachines}}: Humans came very close to wiping th Iemselves out with these during the Short War, but they are used by almost all species as TranslatorMicrobes.

* TheReveal: Happens at the last chapters of ''The Debate'', when Pryvani Tarsuss shed her [[TheDitz air headed]] public persona and announced she was married to a human all along, together with orchestrating the whole issue.

* ToServeMan: Some Titans (and all Insectoids) see humans as a great delicacy

* SliceOfLife: The ''Tales of Avalon'' short story contains scenes from the everyday life of Avalonians [[spoiler: after the events of ''Titan: Pandemic'']].

* LongLastLook: Eyrn Bass have one to her husband Aerti before leaving the Gyfjon[[spoiler: , maybe understanding what would happen]].

* AGodIAmNot: Pryvani Tarsuss on the Avalonians after ''Titan: Pandemic''.

* BrokenPedestal: How Zhan sees Pryvani after the latter confesses that she is no deity.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Around a 2.5

** Ditto for Lyroo Prenn and Forna Qorni, who both understand that they were "at the wrong side of history" on that issue.

** In the later novels, this is invoked heavily by the opposition: they admit that humans are every bit as smart as Titans, but they fear that their comparably short lifespan and higher population will eventually surpass the Titans.