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'''Original air date: September 18, 1993'''
''The Fall of the Human Empire: Part 1''
After a raid spearheaded by the notorious Pirate Clan leader Jonas Simbacca results in a number of preventable deaths, the [=ExoFleet=] is tasked by the Homeworlds Congress with dealing with the problem.
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!!Tropes:
* ArtificialGravity: Played with; the ore freighter ''Danube'' is ''supposed'' to have artificial gravity, but it's not functioning when Able Squad boards the freighter.
* CasualInterplanetaryTravel: Everyone's zipping around the inner solar system like it's no more trouble than a long flight.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Able Squad struggling to combat the Pirate Clan ships.
* ColonizedSolarSystem: Earth and Venus are colonized by humans, while Mars is home to the Neosapiens, and the Pirates hail from former prison colonies beyond the asteroid belt.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: The folks on the ground hold [=ExoFleet=] responsible for what happened to the freighter and work crew shuttle.
* CoolStarship: The ''Resolute''.
** To a slightly lesser extent, the Pirate Clan ships.
* DeathTrap: The pirates [[BoobyTrap leave an explosive]] [[FleshAndBombs beneath the body of an unconscious survivor]]; Kaz accidentally triggers it when he tries to save the man.
* ExplosionsInSpace: The ore freighter goes up in a very impressive (and improbable) fireball.
* LandMineGoesClick: When the hidden bomb is activated, letting everyone present know what's about to go down.
* OutrunTheFireball: Able Squad succeeds; the work crew shuttle does not.
* RidiculouslyPotentExplosive: A bomb small enough to be hidden under a body [[ArtisticLicenseExplosives really shouldn't be that powerful]].
* RockBeatsLaser: The Pirates attack the [=ExoFleet=] with thruster-equipped asteroids, and succeed in destroying the ''Defiant''.
* SpaceNavy: The [=ExoFleet=]
* SpacePirates: The Pirate Clans led by Simbacca
* SpaceStation: Where the Homeworlds Congress does their business.
* [[SpaceTrucker Space Truckers]]: The ore freighter crew; they even have a holographic dancing dashboard lady!
* StealthInSpace: The Pirate fleet utilizes [[InvisibilityCloak dark matter cloaking devices]] to hide from - and ambush - the [=ExoFleet=].
* StrawmanNewsMedia: Seemingly Charles Makena's angle.
* [[{{Terraform}} Terraforming]]: Of Venus and Mars.
* TimeBomb: Able Squad only sixty seconds to escape the freighter before the bomb goes off
* {{Warhawk}}: The Homeworlds Congress is full of them, all itching to send the [=ExoFleet=] off to war and make them "earn their keep."
''The Fall of the Human Empire: Part 1''
After a raid spearheaded by the notorious Pirate Clan leader Jonas Simbacca results in a number of preventable deaths, the [=ExoFleet=] is tasked by the Homeworlds Congress with dealing with the problem.
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!!Tropes:
* ArtificialGravity: Played with; the ore freighter ''Danube'' is ''supposed'' to have artificial gravity, but it's not functioning when Able Squad boards the freighter.
* CasualInterplanetaryTravel: Everyone's zipping around the inner solar system like it's no more trouble than a long flight.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode ends with Able Squad struggling to combat the Pirate Clan ships.
* ColonizedSolarSystem: Earth and Venus are colonized by humans, while Mars is home to the Neosapiens, and the Pirates hail from former prison colonies beyond the asteroid belt.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: The folks on the ground hold [=ExoFleet=] responsible for what happened to the freighter and work crew shuttle.
* CoolStarship: The ''Resolute''.
** To a slightly lesser extent, the Pirate Clan ships.
* DeathTrap: The pirates [[BoobyTrap leave an explosive]] [[FleshAndBombs beneath the body of an unconscious survivor]]; Kaz accidentally triggers it when he tries to save the man.
* ExplosionsInSpace: The ore freighter goes up in a very impressive (and improbable) fireball.
* LandMineGoesClick: When the hidden bomb is activated, letting everyone present know what's about to go down.
* OutrunTheFireball: Able Squad succeeds; the work crew shuttle does not.
* RidiculouslyPotentExplosive: A bomb small enough to be hidden under a body [[ArtisticLicenseExplosives really shouldn't be that powerful]].
* RockBeatsLaser: The Pirates attack the [=ExoFleet=] with thruster-equipped asteroids, and succeed in destroying the ''Defiant''.
* SpaceNavy: The [=ExoFleet=]
* SpacePirates: The Pirate Clans led by Simbacca
* SpaceStation: Where the Homeworlds Congress does their business.
* [[SpaceTrucker Space Truckers]]: The ore freighter crew; they even have a holographic dancing dashboard lady!
* StealthInSpace: The Pirate fleet utilizes [[InvisibilityCloak dark matter cloaking devices]] to hide from - and ambush - the [=ExoFleet=].
* StrawmanNewsMedia: Seemingly Charles Makena's angle.
* [[{{Terraform}} Terraforming]]: Of Venus and Mars.
* TimeBomb: Able Squad only sixty seconds to escape the freighter before the bomb goes off
* {{Warhawk}}: The Homeworlds Congress is full of them, all itching to send the [=ExoFleet=] off to war and make them "earn their keep."
