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* ShiningGoodness: The Universal Administrators and [[spoiler: Atheim.]]
** The Terran-Radians, being sentient [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights In Shining Armor]] and all. Though instead of wearing the armor, they ''are'' the armor.
** The Terran-Radians, being sentient [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights In Shining Armor]] and all. Though instead of wearing the armor, they ''are'' the armor.
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** Averted in the case of the Terran-Radians, who have always been LawfulGood and were only obedient to the Nameless because of an [[MindControl absolute obedience program embedded into their very beings.]]
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** Averted in the case of the Terran-Radians, who have always been LawfulGood good and were only obedient to the Nameless because of an [[MindControl absolute obedience program embedded into their very beings.]]
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*** There is a reasonable explanation for the use of these mecha. The Variable Armors were designed to allow the Orealyianis to combat the Nameless on a more or less equal footing. Basic use of FridgeBrilliance reveals that "on equal footing" doesn't mean technologically, but the sheer fact that using Variable Armors is the only way to engage the Nameless (whose smallest members are as tall as ''modern skyscrapers)'' in close-quarter combat. Their plane-like primary mode allows for fast, long-distance cruising that would usually be provided by shuttles, and the transitional form exists as a middle ground, providing respectable amounts of both speed and maneuverability. This is [[UpToEleven pushed to the extreme]] with the Vara Orealyianis, which was designed to fight the larger members of the Nameless, who can be ''as large as the minor planet Pluto.''
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*** There is a reasonable explanation for the use of these mecha. The Variable Armors were designed to allow the Orealyianis to combat the Nameless on a more or less equal footing. Basic use of FridgeBrilliance reveals that "on equal footing" doesn't mean technologically, but the sheer fact that using Variable Armors is the only way to engage the Nameless (whose smallest members are as tall as ''modern skyscrapers)'' in close-quarter combat. Their plane-like primary mode allows for fast, long-distance cruising that would usually be provided by shuttles, and the transitional form exists as a middle ground, providing respectable amounts of both speed and maneuverability. This is [[UpToEleven pushed to the extreme]] extreme with the Vara Orealyianis, which was designed to fight the larger members of the Nameless, who can be ''as large as the minor planet Pluto.''
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The story usually focuses on the military and diplomatic aspects of the galaxy's primary community of space-faring civilizations. It is not uncommon for players to role-play their respective civilizations as both individual characters and entire peoples, or more commonly, space fleets. That being said, the universe has developed [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters quite a respectable pool of characters]] in its several years of existence.
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The story usually focuses on the military and diplomatic aspects of the galaxy's primary community of space-faring civilizations. It is not uncommon for players to role-play their respective civilizations as both individual characters and entire peoples, or more commonly, space fleets. That being said, the universe has developed [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters quite a respectable pool of characters]] characters in its several years of existence.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: A side-effect of having so many races.
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.* EnergyWeapon: Almost all races utilize them.
** The Terran-Ixians have this as their most basic form of long-range attack.
*** This is the ''entire reason'' for the Terran-Radians' existence.
*** The ''Extended Yuuniverse'' essentially ''breathes'' this trope.
** The Terran-Ixians have this as their most basic form of long-range attack.
*** This is the ''entire reason'' for the Terran-Radians' existence.
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** Averted with the Yerxe, whose homeworld basks in the sun at day and a large colorful nebula at night. [[FrickinLaserBeams They're fond of lasers,]] and are not above using murder as an art form.
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** Averted with the Yerxe, whose homeworld basks in the sun at day and a large colorful nebula at night. [[FrickinLaserBeams [[EnergyWeapon They're fond of lasers,]] and are not above using murder as an art form.
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* FrickinLaserBeams: Almost all races utilize them.
** The Terran-Ixians have this as their most basic form of long-range attack.
*** This is the ''entire reason'' for the Terran-Radians' existence.
*** The ''Extended Yuuniverse'' essentially ''breathes'' this trope.
** The Terran-Ixians have this as their most basic form of long-range attack.
*** This is the ''entire reason'' for the Terran-Radians' existence.
*** The ''Extended Yuuniverse'' essentially ''breathes'' this trope.
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** How many more [[DirtyCommunists Dirty Communists]], [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Bug Swarms]], [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]], and [[AGodIAm Extra Dimensional Demi Gods]] can Origin face and kick their assess?
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** How many more [[DirtyCommunists Dirty Communists]], [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Bug Swarms]], [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]], and [[AGodIAm [[PhysicalGod Extra Dimensional Demi Gods]] can Origin face and kick their assess?
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It originally developed as an offshoot of a {{Spore}} 2005 Fan Fic. As the fan-made creatures and stories became more and more complex, the Gaming Steve Universe drifted further and further away from its parent material, eventually becoming its own independent universe.
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It originally developed as an offshoot of a {{Spore}} ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' 2005 Fan Fic. As the fan-made creatures and stories became more and more complex, the Gaming Steve Universe drifted further and further away from its parent material, eventually becoming its own independent universe.
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The Gaming Steve Universe takes place in an expansive galaxy populated by a large variety of alien creatures, each with their own unique themes and stories, so much so that some have even created their very own [[ExpandedUniverse Expanded Universes.]] The main timeline is so expansive it's divided into several successive eras.
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The Gaming Steve Universe takes place in an expansive galaxy populated by a large variety of alien creatures, each with their own unique themes and stories, so much so that some have even created their very own [[ExpandedUniverse Expanded Universes.]] {{Expanded Universe}}s. The main timeline is so expansive it's divided into several successive eras.
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** The Jyunkichi, who are basically alien mosquitoes with a knack for [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjutsu.]]
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** The Jyunkichi, who are basically alien mosquitoes with a knack for [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja [[GratuitousNinja ninjutsu.]]
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** Played Straight in terms of the REDSTAR, who crossed into CompleteMonster territory towards the end of the Second Galactic War.
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* EnemyCivilWar: If you take the viewpoint of anyone outside the REDSTAR Union, or the Grand Union, or, eventually, the Liberal Union, then basically most of the history of the Union can be seen as this.
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* EnemyCivilWar: If you take the viewpoint of anyone outside the REDSTAR Union, or the Grand Union, or, eventually, the Liberal Union, then basically most of the history of the Union can be seen as this.
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The Roleplay/GamingSteveUniverse is a long-running [[ScienceFiction science fiction]] [[PlayByPostGames Play By Post Game]] hosted on the [[GamingSteveForums site of the same name.]]
The Gaming Steve Universe takes place in an expansive galaxy populated by a large variety of alien creatures, each with their own unique themes and stories, so much so that some have even created their very own [[ExpandedUniverse Expanded Universes.]] The main timeline is so expansive it's divided into several successive eras.
The story usually focuses on the military and diplomatic aspects of the galaxy's primary community of space-faring civilizations. It is not uncommon for players to role-play their respective civilizations as both individual characters and entire peoples, or more commonly, space fleets. That being said, the universe has developed [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters quite a respectable pool of characters]] in its several years of existence.
A currently less active aspect of the game is race creation. It's a rule of thumb that one cannot role-play in the Gaming Steve Universe without initially creating one's own species. This could lead to some very interesting results, as showcased by certain creators who are quite keen on fleshing out their works.
It originally developed as an offshoot of a {{Spore}} 2005 Fan Fic. As the fan-made creatures and stories became more and more complex, the Gaming Steve Universe drifted further and further away from its parent material, eventually becoming its own independent universe.
The game itself can be found [[http://www.gamingsteve.com/blab/index.php?board=18.0 here.]]
While the individual creations' pages can be found [[http://www.gamingsteve.com/blab/index.php?board=17.0 here.]]
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* AGodAmI: Zerone AKA The Walking God. He even dragged his entire race into a life of blind and eternal worship towards him.
** The Nameless certainly feel this way.
*** Especially [[spoiler: their leader, Bathariadne.]]
*** The fact that they can justify it in the eyes of their more primitive subjects doesn't help either.
* AllJustADream: The entire [[spoiler: Nameless War all turned out to be a video game played by Dimikos Talin, ex-President of the Perrachi Socialist Republic. The climax of an epic battle made way for a ridiculous cartoon that made fun of him. [[RageQuit He didn't take it well.]]]]
* AndIMustScream: The Eternal Torture Device. Developed by the ''Terran-Ixians,'' of all people.
* ArtificialGravity: A staple of almost all space-faring civilizations.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The Nauceans.
** And apparently, the [[BoringButPractical ViS]] as well.
* AsceticAesthetic: The Robotic Wexxians ultimately take the cake for this one. They use sleek and shiny design principles like organics breathe air. Just to make it clear, this is the same race that puts crystals and spires on their blueprints wherever, and whenever, they possibly can.
** The Omic as well, with their equally ascetic architecture.
** This is a side-effect of [[BoringButPractical ViS]] design, and to a greater extent philosophy, which optimizes efficiency to a point where everything is as minimal as possible.
** The Bino planet of Khuris, a planet covered ''completely'' in gardens and plazas which give out an aura of peace and tranquility. That is, before it's atmosphere got [[ApocalypseHow blasted by an unholy amount of radiation from its sun going supernova, plunging it into a global ice age and destroying much of its once paradisaical surface.]]
** The Graidient as well.
* AttackDrone: The Mon-Krai ''love'' to use their drones.
** Dronels. It's even in their name.
* BadassArmy: Essentially the Second Galactic War was several of these clashing. What with the first Emergence of the Austians and their SuperSoldier-esque Marines, the Alliance of Honor (which just sounds Badass) and the Grand Union deciding that Communism isn't badass enough for them and deciding to kick out REDSTAR.
** The Communicant horde managed to take on half the galaxy at once. I'd certainly say they fit this description.
* BizarreAlienBiology: While most creatures possess a relatively familiar biology, some of the more exotic ones can be [[SiliconBasedLife very,]] ''[[SolidGoldPoop very]]'' [[MechanicalLifeforms alien]] [[EnergyBeings indeed...]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Some of the more "villainous" races usually have this. Though, that doesn't mean that benevolent civilizations are completely immune to it.
** The Elbeasts' philosophy is to eat everything, as in ''everything'' everything. Some Elbeasts have even stated that they'll go as far as ''modifying their own biochemistry'' just so they can succeed in eating everyone. Suffice to say, no amount of logical or physical persuasion has convinced them to think otherwise. Ever.
* BodyHorror: The Corrupted.
** Agnasi of the Iavolg. He's called the ''Fetus King'' for a reason.
*** Just about any Iavolg for that matter.
* ChestBlaster: The Knights of Vengeance's First Knight, Verys, has a chest blaster powered directly by his energy core.
* CombatClairvoyance: The ''entire Jyunkichi race'' is notorious for this.
* CoolStarship: Almost ''all'' civilizations have at least one.
** This pretty much describes the majority of the Kratairian fleet.
** The Pentekonterus don't have one... yet... and potentially, never will.
* CoolSword: The Blade of Axon. Definitely.
** [[spoiler: It can even transform into a ''fully-functional CoolStarship.]]''
* CreatorProvincialism: The Luzonians, and ''how.''
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The [[BoringButPractical ViS]] definitely fit this trope. Though, they'd probably consider spires and togas to be far too inefficient for their tastes.
** The Robotic Wexxians. ''Especially'' the "crystal spires" part.
*** The later Tri-Wexxian Empire even more so. Their Capital City, Void, is located in an entirely separate, artificially constructed ''pocket universe.''
** The Orealyianis Monarchy, what with their reverse engineering of [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien sufficiently advanced technologies]] in order to compensate for their lack in numbers.
** Practically any civilization in the ''Extended Yuuniverse'' which has the technology necessary to field a Starship can be considered as one.
* [[strike: DirtyCommunists]] '''Democratic Socialists''': The Perrachi temporarily became this when they started to aggressively "liberate" weaker nations under tyrannies,
** Played Straight in terms of the REDSTAR, who crossed into CompleteMonster territory towards the end of the Second Galactic War.
** The species that the former PSR (Perrachi Socialist Republic) liberated/conquered are independent, though their governments are "The Slakos Democracy" and "The Makal Commune". They appear to be averting this trope.
* EmpathicWeapon: The Blade of Axon ''chooses its master.''
* EmperorScientist: Overlord Raganza of the [[ProudScholarRace Choro Deidalus.]]
** Agnasi.
* EnemyCivilWar: If you take the viewpoint of anyone outside the REDSTAR Union, or the Grand Union, or, eventually, the Liberal Union, then basically most of the history of the Union can be seen as this.
* EnemyMine: During the Battle for Origin most of the species of the galaxy, even the ''Core Combine,'' were willing to ''temporarily'' put aside their current hatreds to fight the Nameless.
* EpicFail: The Pentekonterus did this a couple of times.
* ExpandedUniverse: ''Meridian,'' ''Operation Sporegate,'' the ''Extended [[IncrediblyLamePun Yuuniverse,]]'' to name a few.
* EvilIsNotWellLit: Almost any race which is considered as evil will have pretty bad lighting.
** The Iavolg don't have internal light fixtures in their vessels.
*** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that ''they don't need them anyway.''
** The Nameless' Luminary Assault Carriers.
*** The [[spoiler: Prismatic Palace]] after it transformed into the [[spoiler: [[OminousFloatingCastle Obsidian Palace.]]]]
** Averted with the Yerxe, whose homeworld basks in the sun at day and a large colorful nebula at night. [[FrickinLaserBeams They're fond of lasers,]] and are not above using murder as an art form.
* EvolvingWeapon: The Blade of Axon has the extremely useful ability of ''perfectly copying any technology it comes in contact with.'' And it once managed to stab a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien straight in the gut. Guess what that means.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Almost all races utilize them.
** The Terran-Ixians have this as their most basic form of long-range attack.
*** This is the ''entire reason'' for the Terran-Radians' existence.
*** The ''Extended Yuuniverse'' essentially ''breathes'' this trope.
* GalacticConqueror: Zerone of the Communicants. He already succeeded in conquering his own galaxy, after which he decided to conquer the game's main galaxy next. Let's just say most of its inhabitants didn't take it kindly.
** With over four million fully industrialized galaxies conquered through [[ForeverWar billions of years of constant military expansion,]] Lord Bathariadne certainly fits the bill. Fortunately, he's recently been losing far more territory against [[LaResistance the resistance]] than whatever he's currently gaining, or regaining. It probably has something to do with all the {{BigDamnHeroes}} popping up all over the place, sometimes even [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters in his own back yard.]]
* GiantEnemyCrab: The Yerxe are 9-foot-tall super-strong desert-dwelling [[StarfishAliens crustacean... things.]] The Galante also have more trope-appropriate giant crab-like walker mechs.
* GreenRocks: Omnium a.k.a. Alkahest, self-replicating crystals which serve as additional processing power for people who perform Programming.
* HappinessinSlavery: Averted. If anyone's happy, then they where forced to be... brutally. Communicants messed you up with [[MindScrew Mind Screw]] tech until you were a fanatical follower of the Walking God, the Nameless seem to go out of their way to be complete jerks to their slaves, and the Core Combine simply screw with your genetics so much that your brain is ''basically rewired genetically to serve them.''
* HenchmenRace: Most races in possession of OrganicTechnology have done this at least once or twice.
** The Nameless were so fond of doing this, they created eight ''fully-functioning'' CIVILIZATIONS of them.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Verys]] during the Battle of Olosis.
* HiveMind: The Supara.
** The Core Combine, with varying levels of individual freedom.
** The Terran-Siptians.
** The Atomna, a semi-singularity which have individual minds that are subservient to a central consciousness.
* HordeofAlienLocusts: The Core Combine has elements of this. Once they're done conquering a world or exterminating a race, they simply move on to the next one. Also the Supara, who are actually an ''even more'' triumphant example.
* HumongousMecha: The Torpals' [[SecretWeapon Secret Weapon.]]
** The Photos ''love'' their giant walkers.
** The Orealyianis Variable Armors, which also double as TransformingMecha.
** The Illuminator, a mecha constructed in the image of a Terra-Ixian, including its ability to use Programming. One drawback is that it's [[EmpathicWeapon particularly picky when it comes to who it wants to be its pilot.]]
* InsectoidAliens: The Austians.
** The Jyunkichi, who are basically alien mosquitoes with a knack for [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjutsu.]]
** The Yerxe, who have six limbs and an exoskeleton. They still look more like crustaceans, though.
* IntelligentGerbil: A large number of races are this.
** The Omic are a race of ''literal'' [[IntelligentGerbil Intelligent Gerbils.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: The Communicant GodEmperor Zerone certainly fits this trope, being a veritable giant to his people.
** The [[MasterRace Nameless]] of the Nameless Empire take this to a whole new level, with their shortest members being several 'hundred' meters tall.
*** This becomes ''even more'' egregious when it comes to the elite Elders, who are so massive they can fit ''entire capital ships'' of most other non-giant races within the palm of their hands.
*** Though, the penultimate offender would be Lord Glutenheimer, who is as large as a full-sized ''planet.''
*** And then we go to Lord Bathariadne, who, [[spoiler: like most other Universal Administrators,]] is slightly taller than a ''Luminary Assault Carrier.'' To put that into perspective, if he and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris this star]] were to stand side by side, the star would be about the height of his ''shoulder.''
** A good guy example would be King Moriadne of the Terran-Ixians, whose "normal size" ([[SizeShifter they can, to an extent, change size at will]]) is three times that of an average Terran-Ixian.
* LivingShip: Most races which employ organic spacecraft are likely to have these.
** Wexxian spaceships, which also happen to be the race's closest analogue to females.
** The Vara Orealyianis is implied to be one. And a wrathful one at that. Though, it's [[PlayedForLaughs mostly played for laughs.]]
** The Hnangha. The ''womb'' of the Fetus King.
** It is implied that all Starships from the ''Extended Yuuniverse'' are this.
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: Agnasi.
* LizardFolk: The Kratair.
** The Pentekonterus.
** Every single creature classified under the reptilian category.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: A side-effect of having so many races.
* LostTechnology: You'll be surprised at how often people manage to forget even ''their own'' technologies, let alone those that don't belong to them.
* MagicFromTechnology: The Technomages, who use advanced technology in order to make things ''seem'' like magic.
** The ancient art of Disjuncting was developed by the Communicants through an extremely precise and mathematically rigorous application of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory Chaos Theory.]] It is literally ''powered by Math.''
** The ''Extended Yuuniverse'' employs a similar art called Programming. Its underlying principles are almost, if not completely, identical to the former.
** Oddly enough, the latter two arts were clearly invented independently of each other. Somewhat justified if such developments are seen as an expected product of [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens sufficiently advanced civilizations.]]
* MechanicalLifeforms: The Robotic Wexxians.
** The Terran-series.
*** Most residents of the Dominion whose biology fall under the "Soft" category.
* MiniMecha: The Chivi. ''Every single one of them.'' [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that they lost all of their limbs after a pre-contact world war involving the use of biological weapons.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Terran-Ixians, after their [[HeelRaceTurn Heel Race Turn.]]
** The other Terran series who also did the same.
** Averted in the case of the Terran-Radians, who have always been LawfulGood and were only obedient to the Nameless because of an [[MindControl absolute obedience program embedded into their very beings.]]
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Just about every space-faring species.
** [[AvertedTrope Actually, that's often not true.]] The Goonals hail from Apica, the Galante from Yravo, and the Bino from Khuris.
* {{Ninja}}: The Jyunkichi. And seeing from the fact that they seems to prefer going solo, they're probably well aware of [[ConservationOfNinjutsu what their status as ninja entails.]]
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Played straight, and ''how.''
** Lampshaded by the Orealyianis, who use a pseudo-atmosphere of nanomachines on their ships and planets in order to make them habitable to anyone who sets foot on them.
*** Equally averted, and in the same manner, in the ''Extended Yuuniverse.''
* OrganicTechnology: The Core Combine uses this combined with some inorganic systems and the Supara uses this in ''even more'' staggering amounts.
** But who really takes the cake are the Zeront, whose technology consists ''solely'' of biological constructs.
* OverlyLongName: ''King Glutenheimer His Excellency Master for Eternity, Field Marshal Prince Physician Gluten, Master Programmer, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Master of Universal Affairs, Lord of all the Species of the Earth and Creatures of the Sea, and Conqueror of all other races in the Universe in General and Galaxy-627 in Particular.''
** Or his style: ''One Whose Rank Is So High That Even His Rank Cannot Be Named Except By Himself.''
** This gem comes from the Yerxe: ''Zvirnnau VII of the Most Honorable Above All Others Zvau Dynasty, Greatest and Holiest Emperor of the Mightiest Empire of Sahrzhir, May No Words Ever Foul the Proud and Glorious Name of Sahrzhir, King of Kings of Kings by Divine Right, The Chosen One of the Sun and the Nebula and the Rivers, Conqueror of the Desert Tribes, Destined to Rule all of Yerx, All Beings of the Entire Universe Who Ever May Even Allow the Slightest Thought of Harming Our Wonderful King of Kings of Kings to Pass Into Their Feeble Brains Condemn Themselves to Eternal Torment Justified by the Completely Obvious Divine Righteousness Surrounding He Who Will Annihilate All Evil a.k.a. Zvirnnau VII''
* PaintItBlack: The corrupted Bathariadne and the [[spoiler: Atheim]] who chose to side with him during the [[spoiler: Great Rebellion.]] Their skin turned pitch black to show the fact they they [[DarkIsEvil no longer emit any light,]] but rather absorb it. Well at least anything not in the yellow part of the spectrum.
* PeopleJars: The entire Chivi race was forced to become this after consuming an antidote for the many genetic anomalies that were caused by a global biological war. By the time they found out about its long-term side-effect, it was already too late.
* PlanetLooters: Core Combine, and they take everything.
* PlantAliens: The Pakuweinia, Fnarls, and Xinmayi.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Many, ''many'' wars were started because of this.
* PoweredArmor: The Kratair's military Exo-Suits.
** To a limited degree at least.
** The Photos military has this as standard equipment for all of their soldiers.
** Averted by the Chivi. Their power armors are actually [[MiniMecha Mini Mecha]] made to resemble their race's original body scheme.
* PowerGlows: In the ''Extended Yuuniverse,'' a very reliable way of measuring how powerful a person or object is is by looking at how bright he/she/it is.
** Except for those whose nature were corrupted. For them, it's usually the other way around.
* PowersAsPrograms: Programming. ''Literally.''
** Good luck trying to gather enough RAM to run them, though.
*** That's what the GreenRocks are for.
* ProudMerchantRace: The Sombrerons are 'the' merchant race of the galaxy. If there's anyone who can [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries screw the rules]] or drive their enemies to submission through sheer power in the world of Economics, it's them.
* ProudWarriorRace: The Torpals, the epitome of HotBlooded. Their entire culture pretty much revolves around combat. They love fighting so much, they even have an ongoing project with the express purpose of uplifting primitive planets [[BloodKnight ''just so they could fight them.'']]
* RasputinianDeath: Yerxe have backup brains and hearts in their torso, head, and each of their six limbs. This means that to effectively kill one you have to slice it up into at least twenty carefully cut pieces.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Most player-controlled royals exemplify this trait.
** The Wexxian Monarchy, and later, the Tri-Wexxian Empire.
** The Orealyianis Monarchy, whose caste of royalty are ''genetically designed'' for a life of selfless leadership.
** The Luzonian King ''always'' charges first. No exceptions.
* RubberForeheadAliens: ''Completely'' averted. One of the creatures closest to being one would be the Photos, and they are definitely ''not'' human.
* SerialEsscalation: Lets see...
** How many more Core Combine, Shadow, and Nameless can we add to this battle to make it more epic?
** How much more [[MoreDakka Dakka]] can we fit onto one star ship?
** How much bigger can the star ships of the extended Yuuniverse get?!
** How much bigger can the '''CHARACTERS''' of the extended Yuuniverse get?!
** How many more [[DirtyCommunists Dirty Communists]], [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Bug Swarms]], [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]], and [[AGodIAm Extra Dimensional Demi Gods]] can Origin face and kick their assess?
** What kind of new horrible super weapon will the creators demented minds come up with next?!
* ServantRace: The Robotic Wexxians, who vow to protect all organic life in the entire universe, at any cost to their own. Even their ''name,'' "Wexxian", means "Servant" in their native language.
** "Terran" means "Vassal" in the Dominion's local tongue.
** The Pentekonterus were employed as pack animals before they became sapient.
* ShiningGoodness: The Universal Administrators and [[spoiler: Atheim.]]
** The Terran-Radians, being sentient [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights In Shining Armor]] and all. Though instead of wearing the armor, they ''are'' the armor.
* ShinyLookingSpaceships: Naucean spacecraft.
** With their sleek white and flawless exteriors, Wexxian spaceships fit this trope to a T.
* SlaveMooks: The Communicants, Nameless, Core Combine, almost ''all'' villainous races have this.
* SlaveRace: Several races have them, Communicants had them, Nameless have tons of them, and they make up a vast majority of both the Nameless' and Core Combine's military.
* StarshipLuxurious: The flagships of most Terran-Ixian fleets have ''entire planets'' inside of them just to house representatives of other species, or any refugees they might come across on their travels.
** The Orealyianis' home system is actually the salvaged remains of a Terran-Ixian Starship.
** Each Luminary Assault Carrier contains a Nameless' personal planet.
* StandardSciFiArmy: Almost everyone has one.
* StandardSciFiFleet: Almost everyone has one, too.
* StarfishAliens: A considerable number of creatures are this.
** Actively encouraged, in fact. To the point that anything remotely humanoid or familiar was [[FanDumb flamed off of the forum]] at one point.
* StarfishLanguage: What limited samples of languages there are don't fit this description, but UFO King recently went ahead and [[ConLang invented a language]] for the Perrachi. The phonology looks like a somewhat limited version of English with emphasis on sounds that seem more fitting of a beak than a human mouth. Oh, and they speak in different "voices" for different types of words which sound like weird musical instruments, represented in the writing system by different colors.
** A lot of previously established Perrachi names don't fit the phonology, like "Tuolfs". This was explained by the fact that Perrachi [[VoiceChangeling are excellent at vocal imitation]], but non-basic sounds are seen as unorthodox and unusual. [[FridgeLogic This probably makes them amazing translators...]]
* SuperRobot: All robotic Wexxians have the potential to become these. Most military ones already ''are.''
** The Terran-Ixians and the other Terran series.
* SuperSoldier: Almost all races have them.
** Some are even composed of nothing ''but'' super soldiers.
* ThatsNoMoon: The Nauceans' Moon Spheres, which are ''literally as large as the MOON.'' And ever since their owners ascended, they've also doubled as [[BigDumbObject BigDumbObjects.]]
** The Vara Orealyianis certainly fits the bill, essentially being a gigantic mecha space carrier with two capital ship-sized space guns attached to its shoulders, as well as countless other smaller weapons sprinkled across its surface.
*** The Vara Orealyianis even has an entire city in it!
** The ''Extended Yuuniverse's'' sense of scale is a very egregious offender, with most major space navies having flagships the size of ''supergiants.''
*** That's no planet... It's an Assault Node!
*** That's no star... It's a Starship!
*** That's no event horizon... It's a Luminary Assault Carrier!
* TheAtoner: The Terran-Ixians and other Terran-series who chose to join the [[LaResistance resistance.]]
** On a more personal level: [[spoiler: Kanenatsu, a reformed AxCrazy mercenary who later founded [[FiveManBand The Six.]]]]
* TheBattlestar: Almost everyone has this, and often in great numbers, in their respective space navies.
** Freedom, the Royal Wexxian Flagship.
* TheBerserker: Lord Zantetsunheimer of the Nameless, who acts as a conduit for the entire Nameless Empire's collective rage. No wonder he's in such a bad mood all the time.
* TheChosenOne: The Wexxian Avengers, the only people whom the Blade of Axon chooses as its wielder.
* TheEmpire: There are more generally benevolent empires than there are malevolent ones, ironically.
** The, usually, benevolent Urshan Empire is one of, if not ''the'' greatest and most long-lived empire in the galaxy.
** The benevolent Tri-Wexxian Empire, which encompasses much of the ''Meridian Galaxy.''
** The Nameless Empire plays the evil archetype horrifyingly straight, however.
* TheFederation - Early on, the C.A.B, then the S.W.U, then eventually the Grand Union, and then it gets complicated...
* ThePlague: The Infection.
* TheSpock: Professor Karlan Talsenreave.
* TheUnpronounceable: Some races have languages so incomprehensible they have to create hybrids of themselves and other species just to make it ''physically possible to understand each other.''
* TheUsualAdversaries: The [[YouWillBeAssimilated Core Combine.]] Verily.
* ThouShaltNotKill: The Terran-Ixians. Though, it doesn't stop them from [[AFateWorseThanDeath doing something else.]]
* TransformingMecha: The [[YouWillBeAssimilated Core Combine's]] Raider-class Assault Armors.
** There's also the Orealyianis' Variable Armors. From SpacePlane to something roughly humanoid, and sometimes in between. The flagship of the [[SpaceNavy Orealyianis Stellar Navy]] itself is one of the largest transforming mecha in the known galaxy. The Variable Fortress Vara Orealyianis is over ''three hundred fifty kilometers long.''
*** There is a reasonable explanation for the use of these mecha. The Variable Armors were designed to allow the Orealyianis to combat the Nameless on a more or less equal footing. Basic use of FridgeBrilliance reveals that "on equal footing" doesn't mean technologically, but the sheer fact that using Variable Armors is the only way to engage the Nameless (whose smallest members are as tall as ''modern skyscrapers)'' in close-quarter combat. Their plane-like primary mode allows for fast, long-distance cruising that would usually be provided by shuttles, and the transitional form exists as a middle ground, providing respectable amounts of both speed and maneuverability. This is [[UpToEleven pushed to the extreme]] with the Vara Orealyianis, which was designed to fight the larger members of the Nameless, who can be ''as large as the minor planet Pluto.''
** The Luzonian Knighthood also utilize Variable Armors, though not as commonly as the Orealyianis do.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Some theories concerning the Core Combine's origins utilize this.
** The Terran-Ixians and most other Terran series to their former masters, the Nameless.
*** The [[spoiler: Nameless]] to ''their'' former masters, the [[spoiler: Universal Administrators.]]
* WarriorPoet: The Graidient are often this.
* WaveMotionGun: Almost everyone has at least one.
** The Vara Orelyianis' two main String Energy Amplification Through Concentrated Emission of SubSpace Vibration, AKA SEACESSV, cannons. At over a hundred kilometers long, each one is big enough to be considered a capital ship in its own right.
** The [[spoiler: Phitire's Splitter Cannon.]] A wave motion ''vacuum cleaner'' which creates a powerful wormhole that gobbles up ''entire enemy FLEETS.''
** In the ''Extended Yuuniverse,'' the main cannons of Starships are basically ''gamma ray bursts ON STEROIDS.''
*** The Nameless' Luminary Assault Carriers are said to be capable of downing enemy an Starship ''[[OneHitKill in a single hit.]]'' They'd have to [[TimTaylorTechnology redirect most of the ship's power]] for this to actually work, though.
* WeaksauceWeakness: The common Terran-Ixian, a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens sufficiently advanced]] [[SuperRobot super robotic]] [[ProudWarriorRace warrior]] capable of [[DeflectorShields summoning force fields,]] [[TeleportSpam teleporting all across the battlefield,]] [[RayGun shooting particle beams]] [[EyeBeams out of its eyes,]] and [[{{Sizeshifter}} growing into a three hundred meter tall rampaging killbot]] can easily be [[SensoryOverload thwarted]] by... [[spoiler: [[LogicBomb distracting it.]] ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlem4f37xq499gk With a ball.]]'']]
* WeCanRebuildHim: The Photos' ABU units are essentially maimed soldiers who chose to undergo extensive cybernetic upgrades in order to continue serving in the military.
* WeHaveReserves: Whenever this trope is invoked, it’s either: A.) The race in question is biologically designed for this and thus has no qualms about using such strategies or B.) The commander is a serious [[JerkAss Jerk Ass.]] Sometimes both.
** The Core Combine's general strategy is simply to deploy in such massive numbers that they will eventually obtain victory.
** The Supara's tactics are similar.
** Don't get me started with the Communicants.
** Same with the Nameless.
*** One particular type of minion, the Dronel, is designed to flood hostile ships and planets. ''Literally.''
* WillfullyWeak: The Kratair have yet to ever go all out fighting an opponent, out of the interests of toying with their quarry or avoiding collateral damage.
** The main purpose of Terran-Ixian Neutralization Divisions is to engage combatants without delivering lethal damage.
* YouWillBeAssimilated: As the Core Combine like to say it: ''"Prepare for Skrallification..."''
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The Gaming Steve Universe takes place in an expansive galaxy populated by a large variety of alien creatures, each with their own unique themes and stories, so much so that some have even created their very own [[ExpandedUniverse Expanded Universes.]] The main timeline is so expansive it's divided into several successive eras.
The story usually focuses on the military and diplomatic aspects of the galaxy's primary community of space-faring civilizations. It is not uncommon for players to role-play their respective civilizations as both individual characters and entire peoples, or more commonly, space fleets. That being said, the universe has developed [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters quite a respectable pool of characters]] in its several years of existence.
A currently less active aspect of the game is race creation. It's a rule of thumb that one cannot role-play in the Gaming Steve Universe without initially creating one's own species. This could lead to some very interesting results, as showcased by certain creators who are quite keen on fleshing out their works.
It originally developed as an offshoot of a {{Spore}} 2005 Fan Fic. As the fan-made creatures and stories became more and more complex, the Gaming Steve Universe drifted further and further away from its parent material, eventually becoming its own independent universe.
The game itself can be found [[http://www.gamingsteve.com/blab/index.php?board=18.0 here.]]
While the individual creations' pages can be found [[http://www.gamingsteve.com/blab/index.php?board=17.0 here.]]
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* AGodAmI: Zerone AKA The Walking God. He even dragged his entire race into a life of blind and eternal worship towards him.
** The Nameless certainly feel this way.
*** Especially [[spoiler: their leader, Bathariadne.]]
*** The fact that they can justify it in the eyes of their more primitive subjects doesn't help either.
* AllJustADream: The entire [[spoiler: Nameless War all turned out to be a video game played by Dimikos Talin, ex-President of the Perrachi Socialist Republic. The climax of an epic battle made way for a ridiculous cartoon that made fun of him. [[RageQuit He didn't take it well.]]]]
* AndIMustScream: The Eternal Torture Device. Developed by the ''Terran-Ixians,'' of all people.
* ArtificialGravity: A staple of almost all space-faring civilizations.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The Nauceans.
** And apparently, the [[BoringButPractical ViS]] as well.
* AsceticAesthetic: The Robotic Wexxians ultimately take the cake for this one. They use sleek and shiny design principles like organics breathe air. Just to make it clear, this is the same race that puts crystals and spires on their blueprints wherever, and whenever, they possibly can.
** The Omic as well, with their equally ascetic architecture.
** This is a side-effect of [[BoringButPractical ViS]] design, and to a greater extent philosophy, which optimizes efficiency to a point where everything is as minimal as possible.
** The Bino planet of Khuris, a planet covered ''completely'' in gardens and plazas which give out an aura of peace and tranquility. That is, before it's atmosphere got [[ApocalypseHow blasted by an unholy amount of radiation from its sun going supernova, plunging it into a global ice age and destroying much of its once paradisaical surface.]]
** The Graidient as well.
* AttackDrone: The Mon-Krai ''love'' to use their drones.
** Dronels. It's even in their name.
* BadassArmy: Essentially the Second Galactic War was several of these clashing. What with the first Emergence of the Austians and their SuperSoldier-esque Marines, the Alliance of Honor (which just sounds Badass) and the Grand Union deciding that Communism isn't badass enough for them and deciding to kick out REDSTAR.
** The Communicant horde managed to take on half the galaxy at once. I'd certainly say they fit this description.
* BizarreAlienBiology: While most creatures possess a relatively familiar biology, some of the more exotic ones can be [[SiliconBasedLife very,]] ''[[SolidGoldPoop very]]'' [[MechanicalLifeforms alien]] [[EnergyBeings indeed...]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Some of the more "villainous" races usually have this. Though, that doesn't mean that benevolent civilizations are completely immune to it.
** The Elbeasts' philosophy is to eat everything, as in ''everything'' everything. Some Elbeasts have even stated that they'll go as far as ''modifying their own biochemistry'' just so they can succeed in eating everyone. Suffice to say, no amount of logical or physical persuasion has convinced them to think otherwise. Ever.
* BodyHorror: The Corrupted.
** Agnasi of the Iavolg. He's called the ''Fetus King'' for a reason.
*** Just about any Iavolg for that matter.
* ChestBlaster: The Knights of Vengeance's First Knight, Verys, has a chest blaster powered directly by his energy core.
* CombatClairvoyance: The ''entire Jyunkichi race'' is notorious for this.
* CoolStarship: Almost ''all'' civilizations have at least one.
** This pretty much describes the majority of the Kratairian fleet.
** The Pentekonterus don't have one... yet... and potentially, never will.
* CoolSword: The Blade of Axon. Definitely.
** [[spoiler: It can even transform into a ''fully-functional CoolStarship.]]''
* CreatorProvincialism: The Luzonians, and ''how.''
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The [[BoringButPractical ViS]] definitely fit this trope. Though, they'd probably consider spires and togas to be far too inefficient for their tastes.
** The Robotic Wexxians. ''Especially'' the "crystal spires" part.
*** The later Tri-Wexxian Empire even more so. Their Capital City, Void, is located in an entirely separate, artificially constructed ''pocket universe.''
** The Orealyianis Monarchy, what with their reverse engineering of [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien sufficiently advanced technologies]] in order to compensate for their lack in numbers.
** Practically any civilization in the ''Extended Yuuniverse'' which has the technology necessary to field a Starship can be considered as one.
* [[strike: DirtyCommunists]] '''Democratic Socialists''': The Perrachi temporarily became this when they started to aggressively "liberate" weaker nations under tyrannies,
** Played Straight in terms of the REDSTAR, who crossed into CompleteMonster territory towards the end of the Second Galactic War.
** The species that the former PSR (Perrachi Socialist Republic) liberated/conquered are independent, though their governments are "The Slakos Democracy" and "The Makal Commune". They appear to be averting this trope.
* EmpathicWeapon: The Blade of Axon ''chooses its master.''
* EmperorScientist: Overlord Raganza of the [[ProudScholarRace Choro Deidalus.]]
** Agnasi.
* EnemyCivilWar: If you take the viewpoint of anyone outside the REDSTAR Union, or the Grand Union, or, eventually, the Liberal Union, then basically most of the history of the Union can be seen as this.
* EnemyMine: During the Battle for Origin most of the species of the galaxy, even the ''Core Combine,'' were willing to ''temporarily'' put aside their current hatreds to fight the Nameless.
* EpicFail: The Pentekonterus did this a couple of times.
* ExpandedUniverse: ''Meridian,'' ''Operation Sporegate,'' the ''Extended [[IncrediblyLamePun Yuuniverse,]]'' to name a few.
* EvilIsNotWellLit: Almost any race which is considered as evil will have pretty bad lighting.
** The Iavolg don't have internal light fixtures in their vessels.
*** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that ''they don't need them anyway.''
** The Nameless' Luminary Assault Carriers.
*** The [[spoiler: Prismatic Palace]] after it transformed into the [[spoiler: [[OminousFloatingCastle Obsidian Palace.]]]]
** Averted with the Yerxe, whose homeworld basks in the sun at day and a large colorful nebula at night. [[FrickinLaserBeams They're fond of lasers,]] and are not above using murder as an art form.
* EvolvingWeapon: The Blade of Axon has the extremely useful ability of ''perfectly copying any technology it comes in contact with.'' And it once managed to stab a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien straight in the gut. Guess what that means.
* FrickinLaserBeams: Almost all races utilize them.
** The Terran-Ixians have this as their most basic form of long-range attack.
*** This is the ''entire reason'' for the Terran-Radians' existence.
*** The ''Extended Yuuniverse'' essentially ''breathes'' this trope.
* GalacticConqueror: Zerone of the Communicants. He already succeeded in conquering his own galaxy, after which he decided to conquer the game's main galaxy next. Let's just say most of its inhabitants didn't take it kindly.
** With over four million fully industrialized galaxies conquered through [[ForeverWar billions of years of constant military expansion,]] Lord Bathariadne certainly fits the bill. Fortunately, he's recently been losing far more territory against [[LaResistance the resistance]] than whatever he's currently gaining, or regaining. It probably has something to do with all the {{BigDamnHeroes}} popping up all over the place, sometimes even [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters in his own back yard.]]
* GiantEnemyCrab: The Yerxe are 9-foot-tall super-strong desert-dwelling [[StarfishAliens crustacean... things.]] The Galante also have more trope-appropriate giant crab-like walker mechs.
* GreenRocks: Omnium a.k.a. Alkahest, self-replicating crystals which serve as additional processing power for people who perform Programming.
* HappinessinSlavery: Averted. If anyone's happy, then they where forced to be... brutally. Communicants messed you up with [[MindScrew Mind Screw]] tech until you were a fanatical follower of the Walking God, the Nameless seem to go out of their way to be complete jerks to their slaves, and the Core Combine simply screw with your genetics so much that your brain is ''basically rewired genetically to serve them.''
* HenchmenRace: Most races in possession of OrganicTechnology have done this at least once or twice.
** The Nameless were so fond of doing this, they created eight ''fully-functioning'' CIVILIZATIONS of them.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Verys]] during the Battle of Olosis.
* HiveMind: The Supara.
** The Core Combine, with varying levels of individual freedom.
** The Terran-Siptians.
** The Atomna, a semi-singularity which have individual minds that are subservient to a central consciousness.
* HordeofAlienLocusts: The Core Combine has elements of this. Once they're done conquering a world or exterminating a race, they simply move on to the next one. Also the Supara, who are actually an ''even more'' triumphant example.
* HumongousMecha: The Torpals' [[SecretWeapon Secret Weapon.]]
** The Photos ''love'' their giant walkers.
** The Orealyianis Variable Armors, which also double as TransformingMecha.
** The Illuminator, a mecha constructed in the image of a Terra-Ixian, including its ability to use Programming. One drawback is that it's [[EmpathicWeapon particularly picky when it comes to who it wants to be its pilot.]]
* InsectoidAliens: The Austians.
** The Jyunkichi, who are basically alien mosquitoes with a knack for [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjutsu.]]
** The Yerxe, who have six limbs and an exoskeleton. They still look more like crustaceans, though.
* IntelligentGerbil: A large number of races are this.
** The Omic are a race of ''literal'' [[IntelligentGerbil Intelligent Gerbils.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: The Communicant GodEmperor Zerone certainly fits this trope, being a veritable giant to his people.
** The [[MasterRace Nameless]] of the Nameless Empire take this to a whole new level, with their shortest members being several 'hundred' meters tall.
*** This becomes ''even more'' egregious when it comes to the elite Elders, who are so massive they can fit ''entire capital ships'' of most other non-giant races within the palm of their hands.
*** Though, the penultimate offender would be Lord Glutenheimer, who is as large as a full-sized ''planet.''
*** And then we go to Lord Bathariadne, who, [[spoiler: like most other Universal Administrators,]] is slightly taller than a ''Luminary Assault Carrier.'' To put that into perspective, if he and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris this star]] were to stand side by side, the star would be about the height of his ''shoulder.''
** A good guy example would be King Moriadne of the Terran-Ixians, whose "normal size" ([[SizeShifter they can, to an extent, change size at will]]) is three times that of an average Terran-Ixian.
* LivingShip: Most races which employ organic spacecraft are likely to have these.
** Wexxian spaceships, which also happen to be the race's closest analogue to females.
** The Vara Orealyianis is implied to be one. And a wrathful one at that. Though, it's [[PlayedForLaughs mostly played for laughs.]]
** The Hnangha. The ''womb'' of the Fetus King.
** It is implied that all Starships from the ''Extended Yuuniverse'' are this.
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: Agnasi.
* LizardFolk: The Kratair.
** The Pentekonterus.
** Every single creature classified under the reptilian category.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: A side-effect of having so many races.
* LostTechnology: You'll be surprised at how often people manage to forget even ''their own'' technologies, let alone those that don't belong to them.
* MagicFromTechnology: The Technomages, who use advanced technology in order to make things ''seem'' like magic.
** The ancient art of Disjuncting was developed by the Communicants through an extremely precise and mathematically rigorous application of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory Chaos Theory.]] It is literally ''powered by Math.''
** The ''Extended Yuuniverse'' employs a similar art called Programming. Its underlying principles are almost, if not completely, identical to the former.
** Oddly enough, the latter two arts were clearly invented independently of each other. Somewhat justified if such developments are seen as an expected product of [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens sufficiently advanced civilizations.]]
* MechanicalLifeforms: The Robotic Wexxians.
** The Terran-series.
*** Most residents of the Dominion whose biology fall under the "Soft" category.
* MiniMecha: The Chivi. ''Every single one of them.'' [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that they lost all of their limbs after a pre-contact world war involving the use of biological weapons.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The Terran-Ixians, after their [[HeelRaceTurn Heel Race Turn.]]
** The other Terran series who also did the same.
** Averted in the case of the Terran-Radians, who have always been LawfulGood and were only obedient to the Nameless because of an [[MindControl absolute obedience program embedded into their very beings.]]
* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Just about every space-faring species.
** [[AvertedTrope Actually, that's often not true.]] The Goonals hail from Apica, the Galante from Yravo, and the Bino from Khuris.
* {{Ninja}}: The Jyunkichi. And seeing from the fact that they seems to prefer going solo, they're probably well aware of [[ConservationOfNinjutsu what their status as ninja entails.]]
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Played straight, and ''how.''
** Lampshaded by the Orealyianis, who use a pseudo-atmosphere of nanomachines on their ships and planets in order to make them habitable to anyone who sets foot on them.
*** Equally averted, and in the same manner, in the ''Extended Yuuniverse.''
* OrganicTechnology: The Core Combine uses this combined with some inorganic systems and the Supara uses this in ''even more'' staggering amounts.
** But who really takes the cake are the Zeront, whose technology consists ''solely'' of biological constructs.
* OverlyLongName: ''King Glutenheimer His Excellency Master for Eternity, Field Marshal Prince Physician Gluten, Master Programmer, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Master of Universal Affairs, Lord of all the Species of the Earth and Creatures of the Sea, and Conqueror of all other races in the Universe in General and Galaxy-627 in Particular.''
** Or his style: ''One Whose Rank Is So High That Even His Rank Cannot Be Named Except By Himself.''
** This gem comes from the Yerxe: ''Zvirnnau VII of the Most Honorable Above All Others Zvau Dynasty, Greatest and Holiest Emperor of the Mightiest Empire of Sahrzhir, May No Words Ever Foul the Proud and Glorious Name of Sahrzhir, King of Kings of Kings by Divine Right, The Chosen One of the Sun and the Nebula and the Rivers, Conqueror of the Desert Tribes, Destined to Rule all of Yerx, All Beings of the Entire Universe Who Ever May Even Allow the Slightest Thought of Harming Our Wonderful King of Kings of Kings to Pass Into Their Feeble Brains Condemn Themselves to Eternal Torment Justified by the Completely Obvious Divine Righteousness Surrounding He Who Will Annihilate All Evil a.k.a. Zvirnnau VII''
* PaintItBlack: The corrupted Bathariadne and the [[spoiler: Atheim]] who chose to side with him during the [[spoiler: Great Rebellion.]] Their skin turned pitch black to show the fact they they [[DarkIsEvil no longer emit any light,]] but rather absorb it. Well at least anything not in the yellow part of the spectrum.
* PeopleJars: The entire Chivi race was forced to become this after consuming an antidote for the many genetic anomalies that were caused by a global biological war. By the time they found out about its long-term side-effect, it was already too late.
* PlanetLooters: Core Combine, and they take everything.
* PlantAliens: The Pakuweinia, Fnarls, and Xinmayi.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Many, ''many'' wars were started because of this.
* PoweredArmor: The Kratair's military Exo-Suits.
** To a limited degree at least.
** The Photos military has this as standard equipment for all of their soldiers.
** Averted by the Chivi. Their power armors are actually [[MiniMecha Mini Mecha]] made to resemble their race's original body scheme.
* PowerGlows: In the ''Extended Yuuniverse,'' a very reliable way of measuring how powerful a person or object is is by looking at how bright he/she/it is.
** Except for those whose nature were corrupted. For them, it's usually the other way around.
* PowersAsPrograms: Programming. ''Literally.''
** Good luck trying to gather enough RAM to run them, though.
*** That's what the GreenRocks are for.
* ProudMerchantRace: The Sombrerons are 'the' merchant race of the galaxy. If there's anyone who can [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries screw the rules]] or drive their enemies to submission through sheer power in the world of Economics, it's them.
* ProudWarriorRace: The Torpals, the epitome of HotBlooded. Their entire culture pretty much revolves around combat. They love fighting so much, they even have an ongoing project with the express purpose of uplifting primitive planets [[BloodKnight ''just so they could fight them.'']]
* RasputinianDeath: Yerxe have backup brains and hearts in their torso, head, and each of their six limbs. This means that to effectively kill one you have to slice it up into at least twenty carefully cut pieces.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Most player-controlled royals exemplify this trait.
** The Wexxian Monarchy, and later, the Tri-Wexxian Empire.
** The Orealyianis Monarchy, whose caste of royalty are ''genetically designed'' for a life of selfless leadership.
** The Luzonian King ''always'' charges first. No exceptions.
* RubberForeheadAliens: ''Completely'' averted. One of the creatures closest to being one would be the Photos, and they are definitely ''not'' human.
* SerialEsscalation: Lets see...
** How many more Core Combine, Shadow, and Nameless can we add to this battle to make it more epic?
** How much more [[MoreDakka Dakka]] can we fit onto one star ship?
** How much bigger can the star ships of the extended Yuuniverse get?!
** How much bigger can the '''CHARACTERS''' of the extended Yuuniverse get?!
** How many more [[DirtyCommunists Dirty Communists]], [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Bug Swarms]], [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]], and [[AGodIAm Extra Dimensional Demi Gods]] can Origin face and kick their assess?
** What kind of new horrible super weapon will the creators demented minds come up with next?!
* ServantRace: The Robotic Wexxians, who vow to protect all organic life in the entire universe, at any cost to their own. Even their ''name,'' "Wexxian", means "Servant" in their native language.
** "Terran" means "Vassal" in the Dominion's local tongue.
** The Pentekonterus were employed as pack animals before they became sapient.
* ShiningGoodness: The Universal Administrators and [[spoiler: Atheim.]]
** The Terran-Radians, being sentient [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights In Shining Armor]] and all. Though instead of wearing the armor, they ''are'' the armor.
* ShinyLookingSpaceships: Naucean spacecraft.
** With their sleek white and flawless exteriors, Wexxian spaceships fit this trope to a T.
* SlaveMooks: The Communicants, Nameless, Core Combine, almost ''all'' villainous races have this.
* SlaveRace: Several races have them, Communicants had them, Nameless have tons of them, and they make up a vast majority of both the Nameless' and Core Combine's military.
* StarshipLuxurious: The flagships of most Terran-Ixian fleets have ''entire planets'' inside of them just to house representatives of other species, or any refugees they might come across on their travels.
** The Orealyianis' home system is actually the salvaged remains of a Terran-Ixian Starship.
** Each Luminary Assault Carrier contains a Nameless' personal planet.
* StandardSciFiArmy: Almost everyone has one.
* StandardSciFiFleet: Almost everyone has one, too.
* StarfishAliens: A considerable number of creatures are this.
** Actively encouraged, in fact. To the point that anything remotely humanoid or familiar was [[FanDumb flamed off of the forum]] at one point.
* StarfishLanguage: What limited samples of languages there are don't fit this description, but UFO King recently went ahead and [[ConLang invented a language]] for the Perrachi. The phonology looks like a somewhat limited version of English with emphasis on sounds that seem more fitting of a beak than a human mouth. Oh, and they speak in different "voices" for different types of words which sound like weird musical instruments, represented in the writing system by different colors.
** A lot of previously established Perrachi names don't fit the phonology, like "Tuolfs". This was explained by the fact that Perrachi [[VoiceChangeling are excellent at vocal imitation]], but non-basic sounds are seen as unorthodox and unusual. [[FridgeLogic This probably makes them amazing translators...]]
* SuperRobot: All robotic Wexxians have the potential to become these. Most military ones already ''are.''
** The Terran-Ixians and the other Terran series.
* SuperSoldier: Almost all races have them.
** Some are even composed of nothing ''but'' super soldiers.
* ThatsNoMoon: The Nauceans' Moon Spheres, which are ''literally as large as the MOON.'' And ever since their owners ascended, they've also doubled as [[BigDumbObject BigDumbObjects.]]
** The Vara Orealyianis certainly fits the bill, essentially being a gigantic mecha space carrier with two capital ship-sized space guns attached to its shoulders, as well as countless other smaller weapons sprinkled across its surface.
*** The Vara Orealyianis even has an entire city in it!
** The ''Extended Yuuniverse's'' sense of scale is a very egregious offender, with most major space navies having flagships the size of ''supergiants.''
*** That's no planet... It's an Assault Node!
*** That's no star... It's a Starship!
*** That's no event horizon... It's a Luminary Assault Carrier!
* TheAtoner: The Terran-Ixians and other Terran-series who chose to join the [[LaResistance resistance.]]
** On a more personal level: [[spoiler: Kanenatsu, a reformed AxCrazy mercenary who later founded [[FiveManBand The Six.]]]]
* TheBattlestar: Almost everyone has this, and often in great numbers, in their respective space navies.
** Freedom, the Royal Wexxian Flagship.
* TheBerserker: Lord Zantetsunheimer of the Nameless, who acts as a conduit for the entire Nameless Empire's collective rage. No wonder he's in such a bad mood all the time.
* TheChosenOne: The Wexxian Avengers, the only people whom the Blade of Axon chooses as its wielder.
* TheEmpire: There are more generally benevolent empires than there are malevolent ones, ironically.
** The, usually, benevolent Urshan Empire is one of, if not ''the'' greatest and most long-lived empire in the galaxy.
** The benevolent Tri-Wexxian Empire, which encompasses much of the ''Meridian Galaxy.''
** The Nameless Empire plays the evil archetype horrifyingly straight, however.
* TheFederation - Early on, the C.A.B, then the S.W.U, then eventually the Grand Union, and then it gets complicated...
* ThePlague: The Infection.
* TheSpock: Professor Karlan Talsenreave.
* TheUnpronounceable: Some races have languages so incomprehensible they have to create hybrids of themselves and other species just to make it ''physically possible to understand each other.''
* TheUsualAdversaries: The [[YouWillBeAssimilated Core Combine.]] Verily.
* ThouShaltNotKill: The Terran-Ixians. Though, it doesn't stop them from [[AFateWorseThanDeath doing something else.]]
* TransformingMecha: The [[YouWillBeAssimilated Core Combine's]] Raider-class Assault Armors.
** There's also the Orealyianis' Variable Armors. From SpacePlane to something roughly humanoid, and sometimes in between. The flagship of the [[SpaceNavy Orealyianis Stellar Navy]] itself is one of the largest transforming mecha in the known galaxy. The Variable Fortress Vara Orealyianis is over ''three hundred fifty kilometers long.''
*** There is a reasonable explanation for the use of these mecha. The Variable Armors were designed to allow the Orealyianis to combat the Nameless on a more or less equal footing. Basic use of FridgeBrilliance reveals that "on equal footing" doesn't mean technologically, but the sheer fact that using Variable Armors is the only way to engage the Nameless (whose smallest members are as tall as ''modern skyscrapers)'' in close-quarter combat. Their plane-like primary mode allows for fast, long-distance cruising that would usually be provided by shuttles, and the transitional form exists as a middle ground, providing respectable amounts of both speed and maneuverability. This is [[UpToEleven pushed to the extreme]] with the Vara Orealyianis, which was designed to fight the larger members of the Nameless, who can be ''as large as the minor planet Pluto.''
** The Luzonian Knighthood also utilize Variable Armors, though not as commonly as the Orealyianis do.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Some theories concerning the Core Combine's origins utilize this.
** The Terran-Ixians and most other Terran series to their former masters, the Nameless.
*** The [[spoiler: Nameless]] to ''their'' former masters, the [[spoiler: Universal Administrators.]]
* WarriorPoet: The Graidient are often this.
* WaveMotionGun: Almost everyone has at least one.
** The Vara Orelyianis' two main String Energy Amplification Through Concentrated Emission of SubSpace Vibration, AKA SEACESSV, cannons. At over a hundred kilometers long, each one is big enough to be considered a capital ship in its own right.
** The [[spoiler: Phitire's Splitter Cannon.]] A wave motion ''vacuum cleaner'' which creates a powerful wormhole that gobbles up ''entire enemy FLEETS.''
** In the ''Extended Yuuniverse,'' the main cannons of Starships are basically ''gamma ray bursts ON STEROIDS.''
*** The Nameless' Luminary Assault Carriers are said to be capable of downing enemy an Starship ''[[OneHitKill in a single hit.]]'' They'd have to [[TimTaylorTechnology redirect most of the ship's power]] for this to actually work, though.
* WeaksauceWeakness: The common Terran-Ixian, a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens sufficiently advanced]] [[SuperRobot super robotic]] [[ProudWarriorRace warrior]] capable of [[DeflectorShields summoning force fields,]] [[TeleportSpam teleporting all across the battlefield,]] [[RayGun shooting particle beams]] [[EyeBeams out of its eyes,]] and [[{{Sizeshifter}} growing into a three hundred meter tall rampaging killbot]] can easily be [[SensoryOverload thwarted]] by... [[spoiler: [[LogicBomb distracting it.]] ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlem4f37xq499gk With a ball.]]'']]
* WeCanRebuildHim: The Photos' ABU units are essentially maimed soldiers who chose to undergo extensive cybernetic upgrades in order to continue serving in the military.
* WeHaveReserves: Whenever this trope is invoked, it’s either: A.) The race in question is biologically designed for this and thus has no qualms about using such strategies or B.) The commander is a serious [[JerkAss Jerk Ass.]] Sometimes both.
** The Core Combine's general strategy is simply to deploy in such massive numbers that they will eventually obtain victory.
** The Supara's tactics are similar.
** Don't get me started with the Communicants.
** Same with the Nameless.
*** One particular type of minion, the Dronel, is designed to flood hostile ships and planets. ''Literally.''
* WillfullyWeak: The Kratair have yet to ever go all out fighting an opponent, out of the interests of toying with their quarry or avoiding collateral damage.
** The main purpose of Terran-Ixian Neutralization Divisions is to engage combatants without delivering lethal damage.
* YouWillBeAssimilated: As the Core Combine like to say it: ''"Prepare for Skrallification..."''
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