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* DistressedDamsel: Was kidnapped in 3307 by a private security firm backed by a group of corrupt nobles. Players helped to track her down, with her finally being rescued in February 3308.
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* DistressedDamsel: DamselInDistress: Was kidnapped in 3307 by a private security firm backed by a group of corrupt nobles. Players helped to track her down, with her finally being rescued in February 3308.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Very few things are known for sure about them, including their motivations. Both players and in-game sources have theorized that Thargoids fight only to defend their territory that humans have encroached upon.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Very few things are known for sure about them, including their motivations. Both players and in-game sources have theorized that Thargoids fight only to defend their territory that humans have encroached upon. It's also worth noting that Thargoid interceptors won't become hostile towards players unless they're attacked first or the player is carrying Thargoid or Guardian cargo.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: All attempts at diplomacy with the Thargoids have been met with unrelenting hostility so far. It's not yet known if the Thargoids don't understand these diplomatic gestures, if they don't even understand diplomacy the way we do, or if they're simply declining the offers.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Very few things are known for sure about them, including their motivations. Both players and in-game sources have theorized that Thargoids fight only to defend their territory that humans have encroached upon.
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And then I went to re-write the whole thing because why not.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: One of the friendliest factions you can meet, but both TheEmpire and TheFederation know better than to screw around with the Alliance even if they don't recognize it as a legitimate government. Presently, the Alliance—under Edmund Mahon—controls by far the most systems of any faction in the game, surpassing the Federation's two factions ''combined'', though the Empire collectively controls the most overall.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The Battle of Alioth, where the Alliance—then occupying a single solar system—pushed out both the Empire ''and'' the Federation after their citizens [[RageBreakingPoint grew weary of always having a war fought in their front yard]].
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The Battle of Alioth, where the Alliance—then occupying a single solar system—pushed out both the Empire ''and'' the Federation after their citizens [[RageBreakingPoint grew weary of always having a war fought in their front yard]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: One of the friendliest factions you can meet, but both TheEmpire and TheFederation know better than to screw around with the Alliance even if they don't recognize it as a legitimate government. both superpowers are better equipped militarily. The reason for this caution can be traced back to the Alliance's OffscreenMomentOfAwesome, described below. Presently, the Alliance—under Edmund Mahon—controls Alliance controls by far the most systems of any single faction in the game, surpassing the Federation's two factions ''combined'', though although the Empire Empire, via its numerous subsidiaries, collectively controls the most systems overall.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The Battle ofAlioth, where the Alliance—then occupying a single solar system—pushed out both the Empire ''and'' Alioth where, after numerous generations of back-and-forth struggle between the Federation after their citizens [[RageBreakingPoint grew weary and Empire for control of always having a war fought in their front yard]]. the system and its resources, the indigenous population of Alioth GrewASpine and pushed out ''both'' superpowers with the help from the nearby independent systems. This battle serves as the ComingOfAgeStory for the modern-day Alliance and explains why both the Federation and Empire do not provoke the Alliance willy-nilly.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The Battle of
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Square Peg Round Trope on the use of I Will Fight No More Forever in the Alliance's section; changed to Rage Breaking Point.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: One of the friendliest factions you can meet, but both TheEmpire and TheFederation know better than to screw around with the Alliance even if they don't recognize it as a legitimate government. Presently, the Alliance -- under Edmund Mahon -- controls by far the most systems of any faction in the game, surpassing the Federation's two factions ''combined'', though the Empire collectively controls the most overall.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The Battle of Alioth, where the Alliance -- then occupying a single solar system -- pushed out both the Empire and the Federation after their citizens [[IWillFightNoMoreForever grew weary of always having a war fought in their front yard]].
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The Battle of Alioth, where the Alliance -- then occupying a single solar system -- pushed out both the Empire and the Federation after their citizens [[IWillFightNoMoreForever grew weary of always having a war fought in their front yard]].
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: One of the friendliest factions you can meet, but both TheEmpire and TheFederation know better than to screw around with the Alliance even if they don't recognize it as a legitimate government. Presently, the Alliance -- under Alliance—under Edmund Mahon -- controls Mahon—controls by far the most systems of any faction in the game, surpassing the Federation's two factions ''combined'', though the Empire collectively controls the most overall.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The Battle of Alioth, where theAlliance -- then Alliance—then occupying a single solar system -- pushed system—pushed out both the Empire and ''and'' the Federation after their citizens [[IWillFightNoMoreForever [[RageBreakingPoint grew weary of always having a war fought in their front yard]].
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The Battle of Alioth, where the
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* StephenUlysseysPerhero: His terrorist identity of "The Witch." Or, rather, "The ''Wych''."
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* VehicularSabotage: [[spoiler: Masterminded this with [=AEGIS=]' megaships.]]
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* StephenUlysseysPerhero: His terrorist identity of "The Witch." Or, rather, "The ''Wych''."
* VehicularSabotage: [[spoiler: Masterminded this with [=AEGIS=]'megaships.megaships under the identity of The Witch.]]
* VehicularSabotage: [[spoiler: Masterminded this with [=AEGIS=]'
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* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Not nearly as wide a gap as the trope normally implies, but it's still very clear that the Thargoids are leagues above both humans ''and'' guardians when it comes to materials and hyperspace.
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* MagnificantBastard: '''Absolutely.''' [[spoiler: Masterminded the undermining and disbandment of [=AEGIS=] as The Witch, while publicly acting as Salvation to give the superpowers someone to turn to due to the apparent ineffectiveness of their own organization. And it ''worked''.]]
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* MagnificantBastard: MagnificentBastard: '''Absolutely.''' [[spoiler: Masterminded the undermining and disbandment of [=AEGIS=] as The Witch, while publicly acting as Salvation to give the superpowers someone to turn to due to the apparent ineffectiveness of their own organization. And it ''worked''.]]
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* MagnificantBaster: MagnificantBastard: '''Absolutely.''' [[spoiler: Masterminded the undermining and disbandment of [=AEGIS=] as The Witch, while publicly acting as Salvation to give the superpowers someone to turn to due to the apparent ineffectiveness of their own organization. And it ''worked''.]]
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* FrameUp: [[spoiler: The organization was actively framed, sabotaged, and undermined by Caleb Wycherly, a fact that really only came to the fore after the superpowers disbanded [=AEGIS=] and Wycherly himself was killed.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: While she's normally good about keeping it in check, her dislike of Hudson and his behavior has resulted in her failing to hold back comments when she really ought to.
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!!The Thargoids
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[[caption-width-right:200:Don't stop to smell these flowers.]]
Once thought to have been wiped out by INRA's mycoid bioweapon, the Thargoids have returned. Their facilities, barnacles and ships can be mostly found dotted around the Pleiades nebula. Their ships come in two main varieties: Interceptors and Scouts.
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!!The Thargoids
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[[caption-width-right:200:Don't stop to smell these flowers.]]
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!!The Thargoids
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[[caption-width-right:200:Don't stop to smell these flowers.]]
Once thought to have been wiped out by INRA's
!!Dr. Caleb Wycherly, aka "Salvation" and "The Witch"
Scientist for the original incarnation of Azimuth, and leader for it's second incarnation. Was one of the developers of the mycoid
* CardCarryingVillain: The man was about as close to an open supervillain as you can find in a world like Elite Dangerous.
* DrawAggro: [[spoiler: Deliberately drew the Thargoids into attacking specific worlds, allegedly for the purpose of collecting data; in reality it was to make [=AEGIS=] look bad.]]
* FatalFlaw: ''Ego.'' Wycherly had a massive ego, to the point he could be seen as what happens when a MilesGloriosus is played for ''drama'' instead of laughs. [[spoiler: To be specific: Wycherly deliberated baited the Thargoids into attacking specific systems and sabotaged the megaships belonging to [=AEGIS=] because the idea of anyone else managing to save humanity ''offended him'', and any solution that didn't originate from him was unacceptable. His inability to see past the end of his own nose ultimately led to the Proteus Wave disaster and his own death.]]
* FrameUp: [[spoiler: Ran one on [=AEGIS=], which ultimately got the organization disbanded.]]
* IveComeTooFar: [[spoiler: A log recovered from his command ship following the Proteus Wave disaster has Wycherly expressing this view, though it gives way to his messiah complex and monomania as he declares that nobody else is qualified to save humanity from the Thargoids.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Wycherly was one of the scientists who developed the fungal bioweapon unleashed on the Thargoids under [=INRA=], and managed to get away relatively clean. [[spoiler: He also did everything he could to undermine [=AEGIS=] and their efforts in the second Thargoid war simply to make sure the superpowers would turn to him as their savior. His KarmaHoudiniWarranty came due when his solution, the Proteus Wave, backfired and the Thargoids destroyed his command carrier, killing him.]]
* MagnificantBaster: '''Absolutely.''' [[spoiler: Masterminded the undermining and disbandment of [=AEGIS=] as The Witch, while publicly acting as Salvation to give the superpowers someone to turn to due to the apparent ineffectiveness of their own organization. And it ''worked''.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Salvation" was intended to be this, and a number of players would admit that it did speak volumes about his ego and sense of self worth.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Averted; in the aftermath of the Proteus Wave disaster, Azimuth's retrieval personnel found his corpse still strapped in it's command chair aboard his command ship.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The large-scale Proteus Wave device he constructed to end the Thargoids backfired, powering the aliens back up, giving the ones closest to the system the ability to remotely damage devices with Guardian technology in them, and driving them absolutely berserk.]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: To the Thargoids.
* PlayingWithSyringes: Helped develop the bioweapon used on the Thargoids in the backstory. [[spoiler: Also ran an operation trying to [[WetwareCPU merge humans with Thargoid ship controls]].]]
* Really700YearsOld: Was at ''least'' 250 years old in 3308, being kept alive by anti-aging treatments and cybernetics.
* VehicularSabotage: [[spoiler: Masterminded this with [=AEGIS=]' megaships.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Despite his [[PlayingWithSyringes previous actions]] [[spoiler: and undermining [=AEGIS=] (and by extension the entire war effort)]], Wycherly managed to be charismatic enough to have the superpowers eating out of the palm of his hand. The players, on the other hand, were fairly divided, with a number going on to form Operation Wych Hunt.
* WalkingSpoiler: Caleb Wycherly is hard to talk about without spoiling a ''lot'' of things going on with Humanity's side of the Second Thargoid War.
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!!The Thargoids
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unknown_ships_group_thargoids.png]]
[[caption-width-right:200:Don't stop to smell these flowers.]]
Once thought to have been wiped out by INRA's mycoid bioweapon, the Thargoids have returned. Their facilities, barnacles and ships can be mostly found dotted around the Pleiades nebula. Their ships come in two main varieties: Interceptors and Scouts.
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* DrawAggro: [[spoiler: Deliberately drew the Thargoids into attacking specific worlds, allegedly for the purpose of collecting data; in reality it was to make [=AEGIS=] look bad.]]
* FatalFlaw: ''Ego.'' Wycherly had a massive ego, to the point he could be seen as what happens when a MilesGloriosus is played for ''drama'' instead of laughs. [[spoiler: To be specific: Wycherly deliberated baited the Thargoids into attacking specific systems and sabotaged the megaships belonging to [=AEGIS=] because the idea of anyone else managing to save humanity ''offended him'', and any solution that didn't originate from him was unacceptable. His inability to see past the end of his own nose ultimately led to the Proteus Wave disaster and his own death.]]
* FrameUp: [[spoiler: Ran one on [=AEGIS=], which ultimately got the organization disbanded.]]
* IveComeTooFar: [[spoiler: A log recovered from his command ship following the Proteus Wave disaster has Wycherly expressing this view, though it gives way to his messiah complex and monomania as he declares that nobody else is qualified to save humanity from the Thargoids.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Wycherly was one of the scientists who developed the fungal bioweapon unleashed on the Thargoids under [=INRA=], and managed to get away relatively clean. [[spoiler: He also did everything he could to undermine [=AEGIS=] and their efforts in the second Thargoid war simply to make sure the superpowers would turn to him as their savior. His KarmaHoudiniWarranty came due when his solution, the Proteus Wave, backfired and the Thargoids destroyed his command carrier, killing him.]]
* MagnificantBaster: '''Absolutely.''' [[spoiler: Masterminded the undermining and disbandment of [=AEGIS=] as The Witch, while publicly acting as Salvation to give the superpowers someone to turn to due to the apparent ineffectiveness of their own organization. And it ''worked''.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Salvation" was intended to be this, and a number of players would admit that it did speak volumes about his ego and sense of self worth.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Averted; in the aftermath of the Proteus Wave disaster, Azimuth's retrieval personnel found his corpse still strapped in it's command chair aboard his command ship.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The large-scale Proteus Wave device he constructed to end the Thargoids backfired, powering the aliens back up, giving the ones closest to the system the ability to remotely damage devices with Guardian technology in them, and driving them absolutely berserk.]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: To the Thargoids.
* PlayingWithSyringes: Helped develop the bioweapon used on the Thargoids in the backstory. [[spoiler: Also ran an operation trying to [[WetwareCPU merge humans with Thargoid ship controls]].]]
* Really700YearsOld: Was at ''least'' 250 years old in 3308, being kept alive by anti-aging treatments and cybernetics.
* VehicularSabotage: [[spoiler: Masterminded this with [=AEGIS=]' megaships.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Despite his [[PlayingWithSyringes previous actions]] [[spoiler: and undermining [=AEGIS=] (and by extension the entire war effort)]], Wycherly managed to be charismatic enough to have the superpowers eating out of the palm of his hand. The players, on the other hand, were fairly divided, with a number going on to form Operation Wych Hunt.
* WalkingSpoiler: Caleb Wycherly is hard to talk about without spoiling a ''lot'' of things going on with Humanity's side of the Second Thargoid War.
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!!The Thargoids
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unknown_ships_group_thargoids.png]]
[[caption-width-right:200:Don't stop to smell these flowers.]]
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* TheMothership: Haven't been seen, but are mentioned in-game and in lore. [[spoiler: One ''may'' be on the way, as a mobile ''star'' resembling a large Thargoid interceptor has appeared following the Proteus Wave backfiring making an apparently beeline towards the system the device was fired in.]]
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* DistressedDamsel: Was kidnapped in 3307 by a private security firm backed by a group of corrupt nobles. Players helped to track her down, with her finally being rescued in Feburay 3308.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: After Fleet Admiral Lucas Vincent (a close friend of Hudson) was implicated in the ''Starship One'' disaster, Hudson refused to comment for quite some time, leading to speculation that he had been behind the plot in the hopes of replacing President Halsey. No evidence was ever brought against him, but the scandal damaged his reputation.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: After Fleet Admiral Lucas Vincent (a close friend of Hudson) was implicated in the ''Starship One'' disaster, Hudson refused to comment for quite some time, leading to speculation that he had been behind the plot in the hopes of replacing President Halsey. No evidence was ever brought against him, but the scandal damaged his reputation. His increasingly authoritarian behavior over the course of 3307 and announcement of his intent to repeal the term limits of his office in 3308 have only increased this perception.
* PresidentEvil: Between his increasingly aggressive actions over the latter half of 3307 and attempting to repeal his term limits in 3308, Hudson seems to be heading this way.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Hudson's political reputation with the Federation's congress came out of 3307 in poor shape. Following his announcement to remove term limits on the office of Federation President, said reputation is now in tatters. Hudson might have support from some of the ''public'', but as Galnet points out his ability to survive a No-Confidence vote is pretty much nil.
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* YouAreInCommandNow: When the previous President and Vice President were missing and presumed dead in the ''Starship One'' disaster of 3301, Winters (then the Secretary of State) was sworn in as Acting President. Shadow President Zachary Hudson soon called a vote of no-confidence, which she lost.
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* OnlySaneMan: Basically plays this role for the Federation's political establishment; as Shadow President, she's effectively the mouthpiece for the Federal Congress, which has shone itself to be much more level headed than the increasingly erratic Hudson.
* YouAreInCommandNow: When the previous President and Vice President were missing and presumed dead in the ''Starship One'' disaster of 3301, Winters (then the Secretary of State) was sworn in as Acting President. Shadow President Zachary Hudson soon called a vote of no-confidence, which shelost.
lost. She's since taken the Shadow President post herself.
* YouAreInCommandNow: When the previous President and Vice President were missing and presumed dead in the ''Starship One'' disaster of 3301, Winters (then the Secretary of State) was sworn in as Acting President. Shadow President Zachary Hudson soon called a vote of no-confidence, which she
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Hudson's reaction to a terrorist attack on a summit of the superpowers' leadership in March 3307 was to institute this. It would end up being the catalyst for what would snowball into a minor rebellion in the latter half of 3307.
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* TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: Began waging Waged one in 3307 when three worlds withdrew from the Federation in protest over [[BigBrotherIsWatching extensive domestic survelliance programs]]. It's It lost ''every battle to date'', single major battle'', managing to do little beyond inspire more worlds to rebel.
rebel. When Congress finally shut the entire mess down (over the objections of President Hudson), over thirty systems had left the Federation's control and remain independent as of early 3308.
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* TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: Began waging one in 3307 when three worlds withdrew from the Federation in protest over [[BigBrotherIsWatching extensive domestic survelliance programs]]. It's lost ''every battle to date'', managing to do little beyond inspire more worlds to rebel.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Will just as easily extend GunboatDiplomacy and [[BigBrotherIsWatching extensive domestic surveillance]] to the Federation itself if it means keeping his nation safe and intact.
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** Hilariously enough, her engagement collapsed when Jarl Toredo went public with the claim that he and Aisling had been having a months long affair and that the marriage was purely a political one, and he did this ''three days'' before the planned wedding. Since Rochester's own mother, Isolde, was the one to immediately cancel the wedding, most assume that there is at least some truth to Jarl's statements, and Isolde no longer trusted Aisling.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: What her impending marriage to Rochester was accused of being by Jarl Toredo. Its unknown how true that is.
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* ButtMonkey: In lore, at least; 3307 would ''not'' be a kind year to Hudson, with his reaction to a terror attack during a galactic summit in March [[DisasterDominoes snowballing into three dozen worlds seceding from the Federation by the end of August]], while his ordering an attempt at capturing Yuri Grom a month not only failed but resulted in both a formal rebuke from the Federation's diplomatic corps and Congress forcing him to formally apologize to Grom for ''violating Grom's diplomatic immunity''.
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* ButtMonkey: In lore, at least; 3307 would ''not'' be a kind year to Hudson, with his reaction to a terror attack during a galactic summit in March [[DisasterDominoes snowballing into three dozen worlds seceding from the Federation by the end of August]], while his ordering an attempt at capturing Yuri Grom a month later not only failed but resulted in both a formal rebuke from the Federation's diplomatic corps and Congress forcing him to formally apologize to Grom for ''violating Grom's diplomatic immunity''.
