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* BadassBoast: When advised that additional power is needed, Admiral Redfield orders the crew to redirect power from the retrograde engines, declaring that the ''Shabayev'' will not move one inch backwards during the fight.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Admiral Redfield and the crew of the ''Shabayev'' stay behind to hold the line while the other ships and escape pods make the transit through the Gate. Only the ship's XO is sent back to Tantalus, carrying the ship's log and black box with him, with Redfield specifically telling him to tell the full truth of their actions, in reference to both their sacrifice and his attempted military coup.]]
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Cass' interactions with Elizabeth are suggestive of a mutual attraction, and Elizabeth is a redhead.
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** All in all, [[spoiler:out of at least 28 ships of the expedition, only 8 make it back to Tantalus]].
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* WeaponizedExhaust: During the final battle, [[spoiler:Ravi brings the severely damaged ''Avalon'' into the fray and uses the station's massive fusion engine to cut an Advari lightship in half. Unfortunately, the stress proves too much, and the ''Avalon''[='s=] reactor explodes, taking out every other ship in the vicinity, both enemy and friendly (not that there were many of the latter left)]].
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* VestigialEmpire: In the Season 1 finale, we learn that [[spoiler:the Holy Advari Empire is one by design. Because the Wheel has a certain population limit, the clerics enforce harsh PopulationControl via regular sacrifices to Advar. As a result, the vast majority of Advari colonies were wiped out, with the core worlds being all that's left. Still, even the Empress is unaware of this fact]].
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* CoolShip:
** The ''Guinevere'' is a one-of-a-kind assault corvette coming out of a failed CDF project to produce a small warship that can outmaneuver and outrun most ships while punching well above her weight class. They could never make the ship work and sold it off at an auction. Cassandra bought it and tweaked it enough to make it work for her and her crew, but no one outside knows how to make those tweaks.
** The ''Shabayev'' is a third-rate ship-of-the-line, and is the most powerful warship in the Expedition.
** [[spoiler:Advari lightships are extremely powerful, possessing energy weapons of an unknown nature that can one-shot most human ships. Their disadvantage is a reduced range compared to human kinetic weapons (that have no actual max range, just effective range). They can also launch waves of AttackDrones that can be rebuilt fairly quickly in onboard factories. The final battle also shows them launching a MacrossMissileMassacre since those same factories can produce missiles much quicker than fighters. The ships' main weakness are their sails that seem to be either powering the ship or act as heat radiators. Damaging them reduces the lightship's speed and weapons fire frequency. In the end we also learn that there are only a few lightships left in the Holy Advari Empire, at three of them end up getting destroyed in the final battle.]]
** The ''Guinevere'' is a one-of-a-kind assault corvette coming out of a failed CDF project to produce a small warship that can outmaneuver and outrun most ships while punching well above her weight class. They could never make the ship work and sold it off at an auction. Cassandra bought it and tweaked it enough to make it work for her and her crew, but no one outside knows how to make those tweaks.
** The ''Shabayev'' is a third-rate ship-of-the-line, and is the most powerful warship in the Expedition.
** [[spoiler:Advari lightships are extremely powerful, possessing energy weapons of an unknown nature that can one-shot most human ships. Their disadvantage is a reduced range compared to human kinetic weapons (that have no actual max range, just effective range). They can also launch waves of AttackDrones that can be rebuilt fairly quickly in onboard factories. The final battle also shows them launching a MacrossMissileMassacre since those same factories can produce missiles much quicker than fighters. The ships' main weakness are their sails that seem to be either powering the ship or act as heat radiators. Damaging them reduces the lightship's speed and weapons fire frequency. In the end we also learn that there are only a few lightships left in the Holy Advari Empire, at three of them end up getting destroyed in the final battle.]]
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* PopulationControl: This turns out to be the reason {{spoiler|for all the sacrifices to Advar. As the Lord Cardinal explains, the Wheel has an upper limit on how many sentient minds it will work for, hence the culling of the population and the desire to exterminate all outsiders in the Sanctum.}}
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* PopulationControl: This turns out to be the reason {{spoiler|for [[spoiler:for all the sacrifices to Advar. As the Lord Cardinal explains, the Wheel has an upper limit on how many sentient minds it will work for, hence the culling of the population and the desire to exterminate all outsiders in the Sanctum.}}Sanctum]].
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* PopulationControl: This turns out to be the reason {{spoiler|for all the sacrifices to Advar. As the Lord Cardinal explains, the Wheel has an upper limit on how many sentient minds it will work for, hence the culling of the population and the desire to exterminate all outsiders in the Sanctum.}}
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* TheEmpire: [[spoiler:The Holy Advari Empire is said to stretch throughout the nebula with hundreds of worlds. Except it's all a lie. Lord Cardinal Hastus Arvannis reveals to the Empress in the final episode of Season 1 that the core worlds she's visited is all there is and has been for centuries. All the inhabitants of the rest of the worlds were put to the sword long ago. As was anyone supposedly sent there. And their SpaceNavy consists of only a few lightships.]]
