Line #27 Literature/PlanetPirates


1	''Planet Pirates'' is a series of SpaceOpera novels by Creator/ElizabethMoon, Creator/AnneMcCaffrey, and Creator/JodyLynnNye. It comprises of the novels:
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3	* ''Sassinak'' ([=McCaffrey=] and Moon)
4	* ''The Death of Sleep'' ([=McCaffrey=] and Nye)
5	* ''Generation Warriors'' ([=McCaffrey=] and Moon)
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7	It is a continuation of [=McCaffrey=]'s ''Literature/DinosaurPlanet'' books.
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9	!!This series includes examples of:
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11	* AliensAreBastards: The galaxy is littered with planets which once contained life but have been destroyed. No one knows who did it or why.
12	* TheAlternet: "Looking GLASS", the Galactic Library All-Search System.
13	* BreakTheCutie: This is the main plot line in Sassinak.
14	* TheCaptain: Sassinak in the later books.
15	* FantasticFightingStyle: The Discipline is this and more.
16	* FantasticRacism: There is a lot of this around, with most races having a poor opinion of at least one other race. Sassinak is an exception to this. In the end, [[spoiler: the Theks decree that the Seti be punished as a race]].
17	* FantasyContraception: There are contraceptive implants that last a few years before needing replacement.
18	* TheFederation: The Federated Sentient Planets comprise a federation of multiple species and worlds, though the member races seem to remain mostly distrustful of each other.
19	* ForeignQueasine: In ''The Death of Sleep'', the vegan protagonist is undone when she realizes an hors d'oeuvre she's been enjoying actually contains meat.
20	* FutureSlang:
21	** Characters use "Muhlah!" or "Mullah!" where we'd use "God!" or "Christ!" While this is clearly some sort of religious figure (there's also "Thank Muhlah!" and "Muhlah knew..."), further details are not provided.
22	** "Plasmic!" gets used once by a young boy as the equivalent of "cool!" or "awesome!"
23	* HeavyWorlder: The genetically-enhanced Heavyworlders, due to their history, resent and distrust "lightweights" to the point of being open to manipulative propoganda and conspiracy theories by the planet pirates. In a greater society of near-universal vegetarians, they also have to eat meat due to their altered metabolism.
24	* HumanPopsicle: Sassinak's Great-great-great-grandmother Lunzie keeps getting turned into one of these, through no fault of her own. Due to having been in cold sleep so long and so many times, she ends up biologically younger then Sassinak.
25	* MadeASlave: Sassinak.
26	* MagicPants: Wefts, the shapeshifting alien of the setting, are implied to shapeshift the appropriate clothing. Fanservice is generally avoided, however - they're naturally a species of crustacean with six sexes, and fall into the UncannyValley when assuming human form.
27	* ManchurianAgent
28	* MilitarySchool: In the first book, after Sassinak is rescued from the slavers, she joins the military and attends the Navy Academy. She graduates with honors ''and'' as cadet commandant, which is stated to be rather rare.
29	* NubileSavage: In-universe, with LampshadeHanging. Sassinak talks about a fanservice-heavy movie series about a gorgeous ActionGirl that she watched as a kid and mentions that now that she's older, she thinks it's rather unlikely that a girl who was raised as a slave in a mining colony would grow up to have the body of a supermodel, or that said girl could climb up a sheer cliff in the buff and reach the top looking like she'd just come back from the spa.
30	* OrphansOrdeal: In ''Sassinak'', SpacePirates destroy the title character's home, murders her parents, turns her best friend into a depressed wreck, and makes her their slave. She spends the rest of her life setting things right.
31	* PlanetLooters: A central theme of the series; the planet itself, with its colony-safe environment, is the resource the pirates are after.
32	* POVSequel: To the ''Dinosaur Planet'' books.
33	* RealMenEatMeat: The Heavyworlders take this view, making the best of a biological necessity that sets them apart in a civilisation where vegetarianism is the law.
34	* SiliconBasedLife: The oldest and most powerful race in the Galaxy is Silicon based, and continues to grow as long as they keep feeding. Some of their elders are said to be the size of small moons.
35	* SpaceNavy: Sassinak becomes a Navy officer in the first book, and remains so throughout the series.
36	* SpacePirates: As you might expect from the series title. They evade the scale problems by mainly hitting settlements and ships near planets. They also go a step further in many cases, being PlanetLooters who will enslave and/or kill the inhabitants of a colony world, then settle their own people on it.
37	* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: The Theks have, as far as the lesser races can tell, infinite power. A decree by the Theks is absolute over the FSP and all other beings, and they're capable of wiping out a fleet with a trivial exercise of power. Being SiliconBasedLife, though, they don't have much to do with lesser beings except in the event of a major crisis, or their own interests being affected.

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