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* {{Precognition}}: [[spoiler:Bob can predict the future to a limited extent, which is implied to be based on probability analysis. He also mentions he ''can't'' predict Tanis.]]
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** {{Inverted}} in ''The Last Bastion of Star City''. Jessica and her AI Iris both birth and raise several AI children inside a LotusEaterMachine that lets all the kids grow to maturity in only two meatspace ''days''.
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* LongestPregnancyEver:
** {{Justified}}: Tanis was probably pregnant with her and Joe's first daughter for several years (she was conceived at some point during ''Building Victoria'' and is born in ''New Canaan''). Tanis had put the embryo in stasis inside her so the child could be born on New Eden, though that didn't work out (they were {{lightspeed leapfrog}}ged and ended up having to barter a new planet from the Transcend, and Angela had to remove the stasis from the embryo to save Tanis from an injury, allowing the child to resume growing).
** {{Justified}}: Tanis was probably pregnant with her and Joe's first daughter for several years (she was conceived at some point during ''Building Victoria'' and is born in ''New Canaan''). Tanis had put the embryo in stasis inside her so the child could be born on New Eden, though that didn't work out (they were {{lightspeed leapfrog}}ged and ended up having to barter a new planet from the Transcend, and Angela had to remove the stasis from the embryo to save Tanis from an injury, allowing the child to resume growing).
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* PregnantBadass: In ''Destiny Lost'' it's revealed that Tanis became pregnant at some point during ''Building Victoria'' and placed the embryo in stasis inside her so she can birth the child once they get to New Eden. In ''Destiny Lost'' and ''New Canaan'' she fights several battles during her first trimester after Angela had to turn off the stasis while saving Tanis's life from a serious injury.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: In ''The Last Bastion of Star City'', Jessica, Trevor, and Iris voluntarily spend eighteen perceived years in a LotusEaterMachine birthing and raising AI "children" to take over defense of the DysonSphere and its inhabitants from the title character. Two days pass in meatspace.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: ''Intrepid'' has the most advanced and powerful multi-nodal AI ever constructed, a computer being that can actually predict the future to a limited extent. His name? Bob.
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** {{Discussed}} in ''The World on the Edge of Space'': with the invention of FTL travel, any other lost colony ships that survive will probably ''never'' find an unsettled world without help from the terraforming fleets.
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** {{Discussed}} in ''The World on the Edge of Space'': with the invention of FTL travel, any other lost colony ships that survive survived will probably ''never'' find an unsettled world without help from the terraforming fleets.fleets.
* MergerOfSouls: AI are forbidden to fuse with organic minds under the Phobos Accords to prevent [[YourSoulIsMine one from being dominated by the other]], and AI/human partnerships are legally limited in duration to keep it from happening. However:
** In ''Orion Rising'', Amanda (a human "avatar", a computer expert whose job is to interface between human crew members and ''Intrepid'''s super-AI, Bob) and the shipboard AI Ylonda are seriously injured fighting a rogue AI. They subdue their attacker but the remnants of their minds seek each other out and merge into a new personality in Amanda's body, Amavia (a portmanteau of the Latin forms of their names).
** [[spoiler:In ''Outsystem'', Tanis and Angela perform a dangerous computing maneuver while leaving the Sol system, linking their minds more deeply than usual in order to gain their fighters an edge over attacking mercenaries. Afterwards it's revealed that their bond is now such that they can no longer be separated without killing them both, though they're still separate personalities in a MindHive. In ''Orion Rising'' they acknowledge to Sera that they'll eventually become a single being, though it's likely centuries off.]]
* MergerOfSouls: AI are forbidden to fuse with organic minds under the Phobos Accords to prevent [[YourSoulIsMine one from being dominated by the other]], and AI/human partnerships are legally limited in duration to keep it from happening. However:
** In ''Orion Rising'', Amanda (a human "avatar", a computer expert whose job is to interface between human crew members and ''Intrepid'''s super-AI, Bob) and the shipboard AI Ylonda are seriously injured fighting a rogue AI. They subdue their attacker but the remnants of their minds seek each other out and merge into a new personality in Amanda's body, Amavia (a portmanteau of the Latin forms of their names).
** [[spoiler:In ''Outsystem'', Tanis and Angela perform a dangerous computing maneuver while leaving the Sol system, linking their minds more deeply than usual in order to gain their fighters an edge over attacking mercenaries. Afterwards it's revealed that their bond is now such that they can no longer be separated without killing them both, though they're still separate personalities in a MindHive. In ''Orion Rising'' they acknowledge to Sera that they'll eventually become a single being, though it's likely centuries off.]]
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* MindHive: Tanis by the end of ''Outsystem''. [[spoiler:Tanis and Angela perform a dangerous computing maneuver while leaving the Sol system, linking their minds more deeply than usual in order to pool processing power and give ''Intrepid'''s fighter squadrons an edge over attacking mercenaries. Afterwards it's revealed that their bond is now such that they can no longer be separated without killing them both. They remain separate personalities for the moment but there's the odd unusual moment of heightened perceptions.]]
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* RankUp: Tanis is restored to her former rank of lieutenant colonel at the end of ''Outsystem'', apparently in the vain hope by the Terran Space Force that she'll change her mind about leaving. [[spoiler:In ''Building Victoria'', due to Admiral Sanderson's age meaning he'll probably only have a century or so of life left when they reach New Eden even if he spends most of the remaining travel time in stasis, she's promoted all the way to general and is made governor of the colony-to-be.]]
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* RankUp: Tanis is restored to her former rank of lieutenant colonel at the end of ''Outsystem'', apparently in the vain hope by the Terran Space Force that she'll change her mind about leaving. [[spoiler:In ''Building Victoria'', due to Admiral Sanderson's age meaning he'll probably only have a century or so of life left when they reach New Eden even if he spends most of the remaining travel time in stasis, she's promoted all the way to general ''and'' admiral and is made governor of the colony-to-be.]]
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* SexyScandinavian: Tanis is regarded as quite attractive and is genetically of Scandinavian descent.
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* SexyScandinavian: Tanis is genetically of Scandinavian descent and is a tall blonde who is regarded as quite attractive by other characters.
* ShoutOut:
** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' apparently still existed in the 42nd century. In ''The Dance on the Moons of Serenity'', after being duplicated by a robot designed to KillAndReplace specified people, Jessica andis genetically the robot both jokingly yell to Cheeky, [[Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy "Kill us both, Spock!"]]
** In ''Orion Rising'', Angela compares how a group ofScandinavian descent.[=AIs=] were {{Mind Control}}led to adding 2+2 and returning 3.999 instead of 4, and being convinced it was correct. This references Legion's explanation of the Reapers' subversion of the geth in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''.
* ShoutOut:
** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' apparently still existed in the 42nd century. In ''The Dance on the Moons of Serenity'', after being duplicated by a robot designed to KillAndReplace specified people, Jessica and
** In ''Orion Rising'', Angela compares how a group of
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* DysonSphere: Star City in, well, ''The Last Bastion of Star City''. Unusually for the trope, it's built around a neutron star, and the inhabitants have reportedly fended off Orion Guard attacks by using the star to generate targeted X-ray bursts (dump matter into the gravity well and X-rays are produced by its decay).
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* ShownTheirWork: Hefty doses of AppliedPhlebotinum notwithstanding, the series has a lot of astrophysics research put into it. Stellar distances are kept consistent (and [[SpaceIsBig consistently vast]]) and the stars themselves are real ones, and gravity assists factor heavily into maneuvering.
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* RankUp: Tanis is restored to her former rank of lieutenant colonel at the end of ''Outsystem'', apparently in the vain hope by the Terran Space Force that she'll change her mind about leaving. [[spoiler:In ''Building Victoria'', due to Admiral Sanderson's age meaning he'll probably only have a century or so of life left when they reach New Eden even if he spends most of the remaining travel time in stasis, she's promoted all the way to general and is made governor of the colony-to-be.]]
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''Aeon 14'' is described as an epic and consists of several sub-series, the first of which, ''The Intrepid Saga'', was completed in November 2016.
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''Aeon 14'' is described as an epic and consists of several sub-series, the first of which, ''The Intrepid Saga'', was completed in November 2016. \n Stylistically it liberally mixes AppliedPhlebotinum with well-researched astronomy and physics: stars present in the series can usually be found in the sky, and phenomena such as gravity wells and Lagrangian points are extremely important in maneuvering.
* EthicalSlut: Jessica, after some CharacterDevelopment. She's introduced in ''Path in the Darkness'' as a borderline nymphomaniac who's left a trail broken hearts behind her (to the point of being confined to quarters by commercial transport captains for causing fights among crew members), but after spending time with Tanis's team she becomes more circumspect, and even has a couple of committed relationships in which she chooses monogamy.
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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The ''Intrepid'' crew names LHS 1565 "Estrella de la Muerte", Spanish for "star of death".
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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The ''Intrepid'' crew names LHS 1565 "Estrella de la Muerte", Spanish for "star of death". In the 90th century they find out the name stuck.
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** {{Discussed}} in ''The World on the Edge of Space'': with the invention of FTL travel, any other lost colony ships that survive will probably never find an unsettled world without help.
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** {{Discussed}} in ''The World on the Edge of Space'': with the invention of FTL travel, any other lost colony ships that survive will probably never ''never'' find an unsettled world without help.help from the terraforming fleets.
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* TidallyLockedPlanet: Victoria is a super-Earth that orbits in the habitable zone of Kapteyn's Star, a red dwarf. This means it's tidally locked to its sun.
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* NamingYourColonyWorld: A {{justified}} Symbolica variant. ''Intrepid'' planned to settle the planet New Eden. [[spoiler:When Eden is denied them by a LightspeedLeapfrog courtesy of the TimeDilation through Kapteyn's Streamer, they name the star system they buy from the Transcend New Canaan, after the Biblical promised land. The rest of the system is similar: the main settlement is located on Carthage[[note]]Founded by inhabitants of the Canaanite city of Tyre. Angela also points out that main Carthaginian god was Tanit, of which Tanis is a variant.[[/note]], and the other planets are renamed Tyre, Troy, and Athens.]]
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* NamingYourColonyWorld: A {{justified}} Symbolica variant. ''Intrepid'' planned to settle the planet New Eden.Eden, orbiting 82 Eridani. [[spoiler:When Eden is denied them by a LightspeedLeapfrog courtesy of the TimeDilation through Kapteyn's Streamer, they name the star system they buy from the Transcend New Canaan, after the Biblical promised land. The rest of the system is similar: the main settlement is located on Carthage[[note]]Founded by inhabitants of the Canaanite city of Tyre. Angela also points out that main Carthaginian god was Tanit, of which Tanis is a variant.[[/note]], and the other planets are renamed Tyre, Troy, and Athens.]]
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* BenevolentAI: Tanis has a number of very funny ''arguments'' with Angela, the AI who is implanted in Tanis' BrainComputerInterface, but [=AIs=] are generally quite benign and even friendly in this series, with some exceptions. In Sol they even have their own court system to deal with [=AIs=] that ''do'' go bad. However, this all came about as a result of a RobotWar which is detailed in the ''Sentience Wars'' sub-series.
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* ArtificialIntelligence: The series draws a line between sentient and non-sentient AI (NSAI). Non-sentient AI can parse complex commands but appear to be rules-based. Sentient AI, e.g. Tanis's companion Angela or ''Intrepid'''s shipboard AI Bob, are creative, feel and express emotions, and grow and change with their experiences like humans do.
* BenevolentAI: Tanis has a number of very funny ''arguments'' with Angela, the AI who is implanted in Tanis' BrainComputerInterface, but [=AIs=] are generally quite benign and even friendly in this series, with some exceptions. In Sol they even have their own court system to deal with [=AIs=] that ''do'' go bad. However, this all came about as a result of a RobotWar which is detailed in the ''Sentience Wars'' sub-series. It's also mentioned briefly in ''The Dance on the Moons of Serenity'' that NSAI are more dangerous than sentient AI.
* BenevolentAI: Tanis has a number of very funny ''arguments'' with Angela, the AI who is implanted in Tanis' BrainComputerInterface, but [=AIs=] are generally quite benign and even friendly in this series, with some exceptions. In Sol they even have their own court system to deal with [=AIs=] that ''do'' go bad. However, this all came about as a result of a RobotWar which is detailed in the ''Sentience Wars'' sub-series. It's also mentioned briefly in ''The Dance on the Moons of Serenity'' that NSAI are more dangerous than sentient AI.
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* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Not just Earth, most settled planets suffered major damage in the FTL Wars. Sol got the worst of it, though: Earth and Mars were glassed, most of the {{space station}}s Tanis and the others knew from their time were destroyed and the population is a fraction of what it once was. Earth ''is'' still relevant, though, in that it's one of the three core planets of [[TheEmpire the imperialist AST]] (an expansion of the Jovian state after they won the war with Earth).
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* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: EarthThatWas: Not just Earth, most settled planets suffered major damage in the Jovian Independence War and the FTL Wars. Sol got the worst of it, though: Earth and Mars were glassed, glassed (they've since been repopulated), most of the {{space station}}s Tanis and the others knew from their time were destroyed and the population is a fraction of what it once was. Earth ''is'' still relevant, though, in that it's one of the three core planets of [[TheEmpire the imperialist AST]] (an expansion (a descendant of the Jovian state after they won the their war with Earth).
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tanis ''loves'' a good BLT sandwich, the ingredients for which ''Intrepid'' can supply from on-board farms.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: TrademarkFavoriteFood:
** Tanis ''loves'' a good BLT sandwich, the ingredients for which ''Intrepid'' can supply from on-boardfarms.farms.
** Due to the [[ApocalypseHow FTL Wars]], ''Intrepid'' now has the only strawberries in the galaxy. After trying some, Sera declares she will eat a bowl every day for the rest of her life.
** Tanis ''loves'' a good BLT sandwich, the ingredients for which ''Intrepid'' can supply from on-board
** Due to the [[ApocalypseHow FTL Wars]], ''Intrepid'' now has the only strawberries in the galaxy. After trying some, Sera declares she will eat a bowl every day for the rest of her life.
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* NamingYourColonyWorld: A {{justified}} Symbolica variant. ''Intrepid'' planned to settle the planet New Eden. [[spoiler:When Eden is denied them by a LightspeedLeapfrog courtesy of the TimeDilation through Kapteyn's Streamer, they name the star system they buy from the Transcend New Canaan, after the Biblical promised land. The rest of the system is similar: the main settlement is located on Carthage[[note]]Founded by inhabitants of the Canaanite city of Tyre. Angela also points out that main Carthaginian god was Tanit, of which Tanis is a variant.[[/note]], and the other planets are renamed Tyre, Troy, and Athens.[[/note]]
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* NamingYourColonyWorld: A {{justified}} Symbolica variant. ''Intrepid'' planned to settle the planet New Eden. [[spoiler:When Eden is denied them by a LightspeedLeapfrog courtesy of the TimeDilation through Kapteyn's Streamer, they name the star system they buy from the Transcend New Canaan, after the Biblical promised land. The rest of the system is similar: the main settlement is located on Carthage[[note]]Founded by inhabitants of the Canaanite city of Tyre. Angela also points out that main Carthaginian god was Tanit, of which Tanis is a variant.[[/note]], and the other planets are renamed Tyre, Troy, and Athens.[[/note]]]]
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* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Tanis's nano gives her HealingFactor that lets her survive wounds that should have killed her, even by 9th millenium standards, on a number of occasions.
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* LadykillerInLove: Jessica, the nymphomaniac SpacePolice officer who got kidnapped and put on ice aboard ''Intrepid'' to be discovered in ''A Path in the Darkness'', falls in love with the thief Trist who is part of Tanis's team.
* LightspeedLeapfrog: Because of the TimeDilation incident ''Intrepid'' is beaten to New Eden by other colonists. [[spoiler:Sera contacts the FGT to find them a new planet out of reach of the governments warring over the colony ship's technology.]]
* LightspeedLeapfrog: Because of the TimeDilation incident ''Intrepid'' is beaten to New Eden by other colonists. [[spoiler:Sera contacts the FGT to find them a new planet out of reach of the governments warring over the colony ship's technology.]]
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* LadykillerInLove: Jessica, the nymphomaniac SpacePolice officer who got kidnapped and put on ice aboard ''Intrepid'' to be discovered in ''A Path in the Darkness'', falls in love with and marries the thief Trist who is part of Tanis's team.
team. [[spoiler:She's killed by Myrrdan in ''Building Victoria'', and Jessica subsequently falls in love with Trevor of the ''Sabrina'' crew.]]
*LightspeedLeapfrog: LightspeedLeapfrog:
** Because of the TimeDilation incident ''Intrepid'' is beaten to New Eden by other colonists. [[spoiler:Sera contacts the FGT to find them a new planet out of reach of the governments warring over the colony ship's technology.]] They succeed at the first part, settling New Canaan, but the war comes to them.]]
** {{Discussed}} in ''The World on the Edge of Space'': with the invention of FTL travel, any other lost colony ships that survive will probably never find an unsettled world without help.
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** Because of the TimeDilation incident ''Intrepid'' is beaten to New Eden by other colonists. [[spoiler:Sera contacts the FGT to find them a new planet out of reach of the governments warring over the colony ship's technology.
** {{Discussed}} in ''The World on the Edge of Space'': with the invention of FTL travel, any other lost colony ships that survive will probably never find an unsettled world without help.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: [[spoiler:{{Justified}} when Tanis is stabbed in the heart (on two different occasions!) in ''New Canaan''. Having [[GoodThingYouCanHeal nearly died as a result of a railgun round through the chest]] in the previous book, she had a second, auxiliary heart put in lower down.]]
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* HostileTerraforming: Sort of. In ''The World at the Edge of Space'', ex-terraformer Finaeus relates how the FGT usually cleanses a planet of all life it might have as part of the terraforming process. So far they haven't encountered anything more intelligent with a cat, but they ''have'' found a number of indigenous pathogens that could wipe out all humanity if not eliminated.
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''[[http://www.aeon14.com/ Aeon 14]]'' is a MilitaryScienceFiction novel series by Creator/MDCooper.
It's the year 4123, and while humanity has expanded across the Sol system and nearby stars and humanity is in a technological golden age, FasterThanLightTravel has yet to be developed. Major Tanis Richards is a counterinsurgency officer in the Terran Space Force with a black mark as "{{the Butcher}} of Toro", a treatment that derailed a promising career and destroyed her loyalty to her government the Sol Space Federation. Fortunately, the colony ship GSS ''Intrepid'', the most advanced HumanPopsicle carrier ever built, is nearing completion over Mars. Her destination is the {{terraform}}ed planet New Eden orbiting 82 Eridani, and Tanis has managed to score a ticket in return for serving aboard as chief of security.
It's the year 4123, and while humanity has expanded across the Sol system and nearby stars and humanity is in a technological golden age, FasterThanLightTravel has yet to be developed. Major Tanis Richards is a counterinsurgency officer in the Terran Space Force with a black mark as "{{the Butcher}} of Toro", a treatment that derailed a promising career and destroyed her loyalty to her government the Sol Space Federation. Fortunately, the colony ship GSS ''Intrepid'', the most advanced HumanPopsicle carrier ever built, is nearing completion over Mars. Her destination is the {{terraform}}ed planet New Eden orbiting 82 Eridani, and Tanis has managed to score a ticket in return for serving aboard as chief of security.
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''[[http://www.aeon14.com/ Aeon 14]]'' is a MilitaryScienceFiction MilitaryScienceFiction[=/=]SpaceOpera novel series series. Created by Creator/MDCooper.
It'sAmerican author M.D. Cooper in 2012, it now comprises [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/1768305096738079/permalink/2002558463312740/ several sub-series by multiple authors]].
''Outsystem'', the first book in publication order, begins in the year 4123, and while humanity has expanded across the Sol system and nearby stars and humanity is in a technological golden age, FasterThanLightTravel has yet to be developed. Major Tanis Richards is a counterinsurgency officer in the Terran Space Force with a black mark as "{{the Butcher}} of Toro", a treatment that derailed a promising career and destroyed her loyalty to her government the Sol Space Federation. Fortunately, the colony ship GSS ''Intrepid'', the most advanced HumanPopsicle carrier ever built, is nearing completion over Mars. Her destination is the {{terraform}}ed planet New Eden orbiting 82 Eridani, and Tanis has managed to score a ticket in return for serving aboard as chief of security.
It's
''Outsystem'', the first book in publication order, begins in the year 4123, and while humanity has expanded across the Sol system and nearby stars and humanity is in a technological golden age, FasterThanLightTravel has yet to be developed. Major Tanis Richards is a counterinsurgency officer in the Terran Space Force with a black mark as "{{the Butcher}} of Toro", a treatment that derailed a promising career and destroyed her loyalty to her government the Sol Space Federation. Fortunately, the colony ship GSS ''Intrepid'', the most advanced HumanPopsicle carrier ever built, is nearing completion over Mars. Her destination is the {{terraform}}ed planet New Eden orbiting 82 Eridani, and Tanis has managed to score a ticket in return for serving aboard as chief of security.
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* ''The Intrepid Saga''
** ''Outsystem'' (2012): Tanis and her team oversee security during the completion of ''Intrepid'' and attempt to foil the plot to destroy her before she can launch.
** ''A Path in the Darkness'' (2015): ''Intrepid'' is sabotaged passing LHS 1565 and Tanis and her friends must get the ship moving again and foil the saboteurs.
** ''Building Victoria'' (2016): ''Intrepid'' stops for repairs at Kapteyn's Star after the prior misadventure and allies with escaped slaves fleeing the Sirius system.
* ''The Orion War''
** ''Destiny Lost'' (2016): ''Intrepid'' is catapulted into the late 9th Millennium by TimeDilation, where FasterThanLightTravel has become commonplace but humanity has fallen on harder times. Tanis is kidnapped by SpacePirates and allies with tramp freighter captain Sera to get back to her ship.
** ''Set the Galaxy on Fire'' (2016): ShortStory anthology detailing the other characters' adventures during ''Destiny Lost''.
** ''New Canaan'' (2017, forthcoming)
** ''Outsystem'' (2012): Tanis and her team oversee security during the completion of ''Intrepid'' and attempt to foil the plot to destroy her before she can launch.
** ''A Path in the Darkness'' (2015): ''Intrepid'' is sabotaged passing LHS 1565 and Tanis and her friends must get the ship moving again and foil the saboteurs.
** ''Building Victoria'' (2016): ''Intrepid'' stops for repairs at Kapteyn's Star after the prior misadventure and allies with escaped slaves fleeing the Sirius system.
* ''The Orion War''
** ''Destiny Lost'' (2016): ''Intrepid'' is catapulted into the late 9th Millennium by TimeDilation, where FasterThanLightTravel has become commonplace but humanity has fallen on harder times. Tanis is kidnapped by SpacePirates and allies with tramp freighter captain Sera to get back to her ship.
** ''Set the Galaxy on Fire'' (2016): ShortStory anthology detailing the other characters' adventures during ''Destiny Lost''.
** ''New Canaan'' (2017, forthcoming)
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** ''Outsystem'' (2012): Tanis and her team oversee security during the completion
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** ''A Path
** ''Building Victoria'' (2016): ''Intrepid'' stops for repairs at Kapteyn's Star after the prior misadventure and allies with escaped slaves fleeing the Sirius system.
* ''The Orion War''
** ''Destiny Lost'' (2016): ''Intrepid'' is catapulted into the late 9th Millennium by TimeDilation, where FasterThanLightTravel has become commonplace but humanity has fallen on harder times. Tanis is kidnapped by SpacePirates and allies with tramp freighter captain Sera
** ''Set the Galaxy on Fire'' (2016): ShortStory anthology detailing the other characters' adventures during ''Destiny Lost''.
** ''New Canaan'' (2017, forthcoming)
* AbsentAliens: The series takes its name from a conceit that it takes approximately 14 billion years (1 billion years = 1 eon in timekeeping terms) for intelligent life to arise. So far, even the far-ranging terraformer fleets have not encountered anything smarter than a cat in [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/1768305096738079/permalink/2001941813374405/ the admittedly small chunk of the galaxy that has been explored]] (the Messier 25 cluster, the location of New Canaan, is only 2,000 light-years from Sol, and it took several years' travel at FTL speeds to get there from where they exited Kapteyn's Streamer).
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* BenevolentAI: Tanis has a number of very funny ''arguments'' with Angela, the AI who is implanted in Tanis' BrainComputerInterface, but [=AIs=] are generally quite benign and even friendly in this series, with some exceptions. In Sol they even have their own court system to deal with [=AIs=] that ''do'' go bad.
* TheButcher: Tanis is known as the "Butcher of Toro" due to the official story of an incident in her counterinsurgency career, reportedly involving a massacre on a dwarf planet. She opens up to Joe about the ''real'' story in ''A Path in the Darkness'': [[spoiler:a lunatic cult had taken over the mining colony and was turning visitors into monsters with BioAugmentation. Tanis was forced to order OrbitalBombardment that obliterated the whole place.]]
* TheButcher: Tanis is known as the "Butcher of Toro" due to the official story of an incident in her counterinsurgency career, reportedly involving a massacre on a dwarf planet. She opens up to Joe about the ''real'' story in ''A Path in the Darkness'': [[spoiler:a lunatic cult had taken over the mining colony and was turning visitors into monsters with BioAugmentation. Tanis was forced to order OrbitalBombardment that obliterated the whole place.]]
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* BenevolentAI: Tanis has a number of very funny ''arguments'' with Angela, the AI who is implanted in Tanis' BrainComputerInterface, but [=AIs=] are generally quite benign and even friendly in this series, with some exceptions. In Sol they even have their own court system to deal with [=AIs=] that ''do'' go bad.
bad. However, this all came about as a result of a RobotWar which is detailed in the ''Sentience Wars'' sub-series.
* TheButcher: Tanis is known as the "Butcher of Toro" due to the official story of an incident in her counterinsurgency career, reportedly involving a massacre on a dwarf planet. She opens up to Joe about the ''real'' story in ''A Path in the Darkness'': [[spoiler:a lunatic cult had taken over the mining colony and was turning visitors into monsters with BioAugmentation. Tanis was forced to order OrbitalBombardment that obliterated the wholeplace.place, and then was forced to take the fall and accept a reduction in rank for PR reasons.]]
* TheButcher: Tanis is known as the "Butcher of Toro" due to the official story of an incident in her counterinsurgency career, reportedly involving a massacre on a dwarf planet. She opens up to Joe about the ''real'' story in ''A Path in the Darkness'': [[spoiler:a lunatic cult had taken over the mining colony and was turning visitors into monsters with BioAugmentation. Tanis was forced to order OrbitalBombardment that obliterated the whole
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* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Not just Earth, most settled planets suffered major damage in the FTL Wars. Sol got the worst of it, though: Earth and Mars were glassed, most of the {{space station}}s Tanis and the others knew from their time were destroyed and the population is a fraction of what it once was. Earth ''is'' still relevant, though, in that it's one of the three core planets of [[TheEmpire the imperialist AST]].AST]] (an expansion of the Jovian state after they won the war with Earth).
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* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: The series is somewhere between Mohs/PhysicsPlus and Mohs/OneBigLie. With the exception of stasis fields, FasterThanLightTravel, and ArtificialGravity (the latter two of which are related), most technology is based on present-day theories, all stars are real, and orbital mechanics and TimeDilation provide several major plot points.
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* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Orion Guard broke away from the Future Generation Terraformers millennia ago, seemingly over relations with the rest of the galaxy: the Transcend are opposed to trying to rule over mankind (at least openly), whereas the Orion Guard are the ultimate authority in their space.
* SchizoTech: During the TimeSkip betweenbooks 3 ''Building Victoria'' and 4, ''Destiny Lost'', some technology advanced and some backslid. For example, ''Intrepid'''s nano is much better, but they lack gravitic DeflectorShields or FTL.FTL and have to acquire the technology.
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* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Not just Earth, most settled planets suffered major damage in the FTL Wars. Sol got the worst of it, though: most of the {{space station}}s Tanis and the others knew from their time were destroyed and the population is a fraction of what it once was. Earth ''is'' still relevant, though, in that it's one of the three core planets of [[TheEmpire the imperialist AST]].
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* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Not just Earth, though: most settled planets suffered major damage in the FTL Wars. Sol got the worst of it, though: most of the {{space station}}s Tanis and the others knew from their time were destroyed.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The spectacular destruction of the gas giant Aurora in ''Destiny Lost''. ''Intrepid'' passes through to refuel and discovers the Bollam's World government has been using orbital graviton generators to keep it from collapsing and becoming a brown dwarf, so that it serves as a helium-3 factory. Trying to destroy ''Intrepid'', an AST fleet blows up the generators, which essentially turns the entire multi-Jupiter-mass planet into a planet-sized thermonuclear bomb. What they ''don't'' expect is that the explosion of the gaseous upper layers ''[[UpToEleven compresses the lower layers into a black hole]]'', causing a predictable amount of complete chaos, not to mention ''Intrepid'' is able to ride the shockwave with its newfangled stasis shields and accelerate to LudicrousSpeed before jumping to FTL.]]
* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The spectacular destruction of the gas giant Aurora in ''Destiny Lost''. ''Intrepid'' passes through to refuel and discovers the Bollam's World government has been using orbital graviton generators to keep it from collapsing and becoming a brown dwarf, so that it serves as a helium-3 factory. Trying to destroy ''Intrepid'', an AST fleet blows up the generators, which essentially turns the entire multi-Jupiter-mass planet into a planet-sized thermonuclear bomb. What they ''don't'' expect is that the explosion of the gaseous upper layers ''[[UpToEleven compresses the lower layers into a black hole]]'', causing a predictable amount of complete chaos, not to mention ''Intrepid'' is able to ride the shockwave with its newfangled stasis shields and accelerate to LudicrousSpeed before jumping to FTL.]]
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The spectacular destruction of the gas giant Aurora in ''Destiny Lost''. ''Intrepid'' passes through to refuel and discovers the Bollam's World government has been using orbital graviton generators to keep it from collapsing and becoming a brown dwarf, so that it serves as a helium-3 factory. Trying to destroy ''Intrepid'', an AST fleet blows up the generators, which essentially turns the entire multi-Jupiter-mass planet into a planet-sized thermonuclear bomb. What they ''don't'' expect is that the explosion of the gaseous upper layers ''[[UpToEleven compresses the lower layers into a blackhole]]'', hole]]'' and causing a predictable amount of complete chaos, not to mention ''Intrepid'' is able to ride the shockwave with its newfangled stasis shields and accelerate to LudicrousSpeed before jumping to FTL.]]
* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The spectacular destruction of the gas giant Aurora in ''Destiny Lost''. ''Intrepid'' passes through to refuel and discovers the Bollam's World government has been using orbital graviton generators to keep it from collapsing and becoming a brown dwarf, so that it serves as a helium-3 factory. Trying to destroy ''Intrepid'', an AST fleet blows up the generators, which essentially turns the entire multi-Jupiter-mass planet into a planet-sized thermonuclear bomb. What they ''don't'' expect is that the explosion of the gaseous upper layers ''[[UpToEleven compresses the lower layers into a black
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'''Sera:''' That's exactly what I'm saying. She's extended her sexual stimulus to include her piloting skill. People can train their sexual response to be triggered by anything.\\
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'''Helen:''' ''(laughs)'' Are you saying that the secret behind Cheeky's exemplary piloting skill is that she's a nymphomaniac and always aroused?\\
'''Sera:''' That's exactly what I'm saying. She's extended her sexual stimulus to include her piloting skill. People can train their sexual response to be triggered by anything.\\
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''[[http://www.aeon14.com/ Aeon 14]]'' is a MilitaryScienceFiction novel series by Creator/MDCooper.
It's the year 4123, and while humanity has expanded across the Sol system and nearby stars and humanity is in a technological golden age, FasterThanLightTravel has yet to be developed. Major Tanis Richards is a counterinsurgency officer in the Terran Space Force with a black mark as "{{the Butcher}} of Toro", a treatment that derailed a promising career and destroyed her loyalty to her government the Sol Space Federation. Fortunately, the colony ship GSS ''Intrepid'', the most advanced HumanPopsicle carrier ever built, is nearing completion over Mars. Her destination is the {{terraform}}ed planet New Eden orbiting 82 Eridani, and Tanis has managed to score a ticket in return for serving aboard as chief of security.
However, Tanis quickly learns that not all is as it should be aboard ''Intrepid''. Somebody powerful, perhaps several somebodies, doesn't want her millions of crew members to leave Sol, and they're hiring crews of mercenaries to ensure that doesn't happen. Together with her {{AI}} symbiote Angela, AcePilot Joseph Evans, SpacePolice officer Jessica, and LovableRogue Trist, can Tanis defeat the attackers and get the
''Aeon 14'' is described as an epic and consists of several sub-series, the first of which, ''The Intrepid Saga'', was completed in November 2016.
* ''The Intrepid Saga''
** ''Outsystem'' (2012): Tanis and her team oversee security during the completion of ''Intrepid'' and attempt to foil the plot to destroy her before she can launch.
** ''A Path in the Darkness'' (2015): ''Intrepid'' is sabotaged passing LHS 1565 and Tanis and her friends must get the ship moving again and foil the saboteurs.
** ''Building Victoria'' (2016): ''Intrepid'' stops for repairs at Kapteyn's Star after the prior misadventure and allies with escaped slaves fleeing the Sirius system.
** ''Destiny Lost'' (2016): ''Intrepid'' is catapulted into the late 9th Millennium by TimeDilation, where FasterThanLightTravel has become commonplace but humanity has fallen on harder times. Tanis is kidnapped by SpacePirates and allies with tramp freighter captain Sera to get back to her ship.
** ''Set the Galaxy on Fire'' (2016): ShortStory anthology detailing the other characters' adventures during ''Destiny Lost''.
The author's website also contains a [[TheWikiRule wiki]] and chronology.
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!!Tropes:
* AcePilot: Joe Evans, Tanis' LoveInterest. A memorable scene in ''Outsystem'' has a merc attack against ''Intrepid'' get foiled by his fancy flying of a cargo shuttle, which included them getting boarded. Then there's a jolt, the mercs are thrown off, and Tanis and the SpaceMarines fill them with holes.
-->'''Joe:''' Oops, did I clip that cargo net? Sorry about that.
* TheAlternet: The Link, which is basically the Internet when you incorporate [=AIs
* AncientConspiracy: The Future Generation Terraformers (FGT) [[spoiler:turns into essentially TheIlluminati [-InSpace-] by ''Destiny Lost'', trying to quietly guide humanity out of the FTL-induced dark ages it fell into]].
* ArtificialGravity: Accomplished by pulling gravitons out of the dark layer and projecting them. In the 5th millennium only very large installations such as ''Intrepid'' can fit them, but they're later miniaturized and become much more versatile, ultimately leading to ReactionlessDrive and the discovery of FasterThanLightTravel. By ''Destiny Lost'' graviton emitters are so common that ships don't even need to be airtight anymore.
* BenevolentAI: Tanis has a number of very funny ''arguments'' with Angela, the AI who is implanted in Tanis' BrainComputerInterface, but [=AIs=] are generally quite benign and even friendly in this series, with some exceptions. In Sol they even have their own court system to deal with [=AIs=] that ''do'' go bad.
* TheButcher: Tanis is known as the "Butcher of Toro" due to the official story of an incident in her counterinsurgency career, reportedly involving a massacre on a dwarf planet. She opens up to Joe about the ''real'' story in ''A Path in the Darkness'': [[spoiler:a lunatic cult had taken over the mining colony and was turning visitors into monsters with BioAugmentation. Tanis was forced to order OrbitalBombardment that obliterated the whole place.]]
* ClosestThingWeGot: Joe is a pilot, but had to fill in as chief of security until Tanis arrived because of all the sabotage.
* DeflectorShields: Three types.
** Initially ''Intrepid'' has ES shields, which are essentially electromagnetic interference capable of screening out hard radiation and directed energy weapons.
** 9th millennium ships have gravitic shields, which use ArtificialGravity to destroy threats.
** [[spoiler:''Intrepid'' combines 9th millennium gravitic technology with its own, and creates stasis shields, which can allow SpaceFighters to stand up to gravitically shielded dreadnoughts for a time.]]
* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Not just Earth, though: most settled planets suffered major damage in the FTL Wars. Sol got the worst of it, though: most of the {{space station}}s Tanis and the others knew from their time were destroyed.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The spectacular destruction of the gas giant Aurora in ''Destiny Lost''. ''Intrepid'' passes through to refuel and discovers the Bollam's World government has been using orbital graviton generators to keep it from collapsing and becoming a brown dwarf, so that it serves as a helium-3 factory. Trying to destroy ''Intrepid'', an AST fleet blows up the generators, which essentially turns the entire multi-Jupiter-mass planet into a planet-sized thermonuclear bomb. What they ''don't'' expect is that the explosion of the gaseous upper layers ''[[UpToEleven compresses the lower layers into a black hole]]'', causing a predictable amount of complete chaos, not to mention ''Intrepid'' is able to ride the shockwave with its newfangled stasis shields and accelerate to LudicrousSpeed before jumping to FTL.]]
* FasterThanLightTravel: Featured beginning in ''Destiny Lost''. Follows a hyperspace model: ships transition into the "dark layer", where their pre-transition velocity is multiplied by 500. Also {{deconstructed}} in an unusual way. For the first three books FTL is impossible, which also means that interstellar warfare is impossible. The invention of FTL causes a minor ApocalypseHow and much of ''Intrepid'''s underlying tech becomes LostTechnology.
* GreyGoo: Unlike nanotechnology, which is well-understood, [[spoiler:''picotechnology'' is experimental, and highly illegal because of an accident that ate a dwarf planet. The genius scientist Earnest Redding on the ''Intrepid'' succeeds in mastering it, and the war with Sirius forces them to weaponize it. A picobomb can eat fleets, and ''does'' on two occasions.]]
* HappilyMarried: Tanis and Joe by ''Building Victoria''. The couple spend about a century off-and-on out of cryo while ''Intrepid'' travels to Kapteyn's Star for repairs, guarding against further sabotage, and are expecting a daughter in ''Destiny Lost''.
* HumanPopsicle: Two types. Cryogenic suspension is actually out of use in the 5th millennium, obsoleted by a technology that "freezes" atoms in place.
* InhumanableAlienRights: In Sol the rights of {{Artificial Intelligence}}s are guaranteed by the Phobos Accords, which lay down rules for their creation, upbringing, and treatment, and also provide a legal system to govern them. The Accords have been abandoned by the 9th millennium.
* LightspeedLeapfrog: Because of the TimeDilation incident ''Intrepid'' is beaten to New Eden by other colonists. [[spoiler:Sera contacts the FGT to find them a new planet out of reach of the governments warring over the colony ship's technology.]]
* MileLongShip: ''Intrepid'' is 30 kilometers long and is utterly dwarfed by many space structures in the series.
* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: The series is somewhere between Mohs/PhysicsPlus and Mohs/OneBigLie. With the exception of stasis fields, FasterThanLightTravel, and ArtificialGravity (the latter two of which are related), most technology is based on present-day theories, all stars are real, and orbital mechanics and TimeDilation provide several major plot points.
* {{Nanotechnology}}: Nanotechnology is very well-understood and put to many uses of both peaceful and military natures, such surveillance and allowing Tanis to survive a number of injuries that should have killed her instantly.
* OfficeRomance: Tanis and Joe start as one of these. She's chief of security on ''Intrepid'''s construction site, he's a pilot on her team and filled in as chief of security before she arrived on board. They become close and fall in love between crises and eventually marry.
* SchizoTech: During the TimeSkip between books 3 and 4, some technology advanced and some backslid. For example, ''Intrepid'''s nano is much better, but they lack gravitic DeflectorShields or FTL.
* SexyScandinavian: Tanis is regarded as quite attractive and is genetically of Scandinavian descent.
* SpaceshipSlingshotStunt: Gravity assists are common in the series, but the turn around Estrella de la Muerte is unusually harrowing: ''Intrepid'' is already severely damaged by the saboteurs and has to harness a sunspot cluster's magnetic field to accelerate, which causes a solar eruption and damages her still further.
* SpaceStation: Many insanely huge ones that can have populations in the hundreds of billions.
* {{Terraforming}}: Accomplished by a group called the FGT created in the 24th century,
* TimeDilation: [[spoiler:Caused by ''Intrepid'' running into a dark matter stream that comes from Kapteyn's Star. The Bollam's World Federation has apparently made a killing off of extorting ships that get dumped out of it after traveling thousands of years of objective time longer than they should have, though the now highly militarized ''Intrepid'' takes exception to that.]]
* TimeSkip: Many, of months, years, decades, even ''millennia'' in one case.
* TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: The AST (for Alpha Centauri, Sol, Tau Ceti), a successor state to the ''Intrepid'' crew's Sol Space Federation, is the biggest star-spanning empire in the ''Destiny Lost'' period, and its imperialism drives many smaller states to build huge navies for self defense.
* WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture: Thanks to high technology, {{nanotechnology}} in particular, humans can live in perfect health for several centuries during humanity's golden age (Tanis gives her age in ''Destiny Lost'' as 211 in "real-time"), though some of it becomes LostTechnology during the FTL Wars and life expectancy drops to about 200. Nano also gives Tanis some HealingFactor and allows her to place her embryonic daughter in stasis within her womb, in hopes of scheduling her gestation and birth so that she's born on New Eden.
* WeWillNotUseStageMakeupInTheFuture: In one chapter of ''Outsystem'' Tanis has a bunch of her leg muscle scooped out and her legs and feet reshaped to imitate a monastic order, and in ''Destiny Lost'' she uses nano to change her jawline as a disguise.
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''[[http://www.aeon14.com/ Aeon 14]]'' is a MilitaryScienceFiction novel series by Creator/MDCooper.
It's the year 4123, and while humanity has expanded across the Sol system and nearby stars and humanity is in a technological golden age, FasterThanLightTravel has yet to be developed. Major Tanis Richards is a counterinsurgency officer in the Terran Space Force with a black mark as "{{the Butcher}} of Toro", a treatment that derailed a promising career and destroyed her loyalty to her government the Sol Space Federation. Fortunately, the colony ship GSS ''Intrepid'', the most advanced HumanPopsicle carrier ever built, is nearing completion over Mars. Her destination is the {{terraform}}ed planet New Eden orbiting 82 Eridani, and Tanis has managed to score a ticket in return for serving aboard as chief of security.
However, Tanis quickly learns that not all is as it should be aboard ''Intrepid''. Somebody powerful, perhaps several somebodies, doesn't want her millions of crew members to leave Sol, and they're hiring crews of mercenaries to ensure that doesn't happen. Together with her {{AI}} symbiote Angela, AcePilot Joseph Evans, SpacePolice officer Jessica, and LovableRogue Trist, can Tanis defeat the attackers and get the
''Aeon 14'' is described as an epic and consists of several sub-series, the first of which, ''The Intrepid Saga'', was completed in November 2016.
* ''The Intrepid Saga''
** ''Outsystem'' (2012): Tanis and her team oversee security during the completion of ''Intrepid'' and attempt to foil the plot to destroy her before she can launch.
** ''A Path in the Darkness'' (2015): ''Intrepid'' is sabotaged passing LHS 1565 and Tanis and her friends must get the ship moving again and foil the saboteurs.
** ''Building Victoria'' (2016): ''Intrepid'' stops for repairs at Kapteyn's Star after the prior misadventure and allies with escaped slaves fleeing the Sirius system.
** ''Destiny Lost'' (2016): ''Intrepid'' is catapulted into the late 9th Millennium by TimeDilation, where FasterThanLightTravel has become commonplace but humanity has fallen on harder times. Tanis is kidnapped by SpacePirates and allies with tramp freighter captain Sera to get back to her ship.
** ''Set the Galaxy on Fire'' (2016): ShortStory anthology detailing the other characters' adventures during ''Destiny Lost''.
The author's website also contains a [[TheWikiRule wiki]] and chronology.
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!!Tropes:
* AcePilot: Joe Evans, Tanis' LoveInterest. A memorable scene in ''Outsystem'' has a merc attack against ''Intrepid'' get foiled by his fancy flying of a cargo shuttle, which included them getting boarded. Then there's a jolt, the mercs are thrown off, and Tanis and the SpaceMarines fill them with holes.
-->'''Joe:''' Oops, did I clip that cargo net? Sorry about that.
* TheAlternet: The Link, which is basically the Internet when you incorporate [=AIs
* AncientConspiracy: The Future Generation Terraformers (FGT) [[spoiler:turns into essentially TheIlluminati [-InSpace-] by ''Destiny Lost'', trying to quietly guide humanity out of the FTL-induced dark ages it fell into]].
* ArtificialGravity: Accomplished by pulling gravitons out of the dark layer and projecting them. In the 5th millennium only very large installations such as ''Intrepid'' can fit them, but they're later miniaturized and become much more versatile, ultimately leading to ReactionlessDrive and the discovery of FasterThanLightTravel. By ''Destiny Lost'' graviton emitters are so common that ships don't even need to be airtight anymore.
* BenevolentAI: Tanis has a number of very funny ''arguments'' with Angela, the AI who is implanted in Tanis' BrainComputerInterface, but [=AIs=] are generally quite benign and even friendly in this series, with some exceptions. In Sol they even have their own court system to deal with [=AIs=] that ''do'' go bad.
* TheButcher: Tanis is known as the "Butcher of Toro" due to the official story of an incident in her counterinsurgency career, reportedly involving a massacre on a dwarf planet. She opens up to Joe about the ''real'' story in ''A Path in the Darkness'': [[spoiler:a lunatic cult had taken over the mining colony and was turning visitors into monsters with BioAugmentation. Tanis was forced to order OrbitalBombardment that obliterated the whole place.]]
* ClosestThingWeGot: Joe is a pilot, but had to fill in as chief of security until Tanis arrived because of all the sabotage.
* DeflectorShields: Three types.
** Initially ''Intrepid'' has ES shields, which are essentially electromagnetic interference capable of screening out hard radiation and directed energy weapons.
** 9th millennium ships have gravitic shields, which use ArtificialGravity to destroy threats.
** [[spoiler:''Intrepid'' combines 9th millennium gravitic technology with its own, and creates stasis shields, which can allow SpaceFighters to stand up to gravitically shielded dreadnoughts for a time.]]
* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: Not just Earth, though: most settled planets suffered major damage in the FTL Wars. Sol got the worst of it, though: most of the {{space station}}s Tanis and the others knew from their time were destroyed.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:The spectacular destruction of the gas giant Aurora in ''Destiny Lost''. ''Intrepid'' passes through to refuel and discovers the Bollam's World government has been using orbital graviton generators to keep it from collapsing and becoming a brown dwarf, so that it serves as a helium-3 factory. Trying to destroy ''Intrepid'', an AST fleet blows up the generators, which essentially turns the entire multi-Jupiter-mass planet into a planet-sized thermonuclear bomb. What they ''don't'' expect is that the explosion of the gaseous upper layers ''[[UpToEleven compresses the lower layers into a black hole]]'', causing a predictable amount of complete chaos, not to mention ''Intrepid'' is able to ride the shockwave with its newfangled stasis shields and accelerate to LudicrousSpeed before jumping to FTL.]]
* FasterThanLightTravel: Featured beginning in ''Destiny Lost''. Follows a hyperspace model: ships transition into the "dark layer", where their pre-transition velocity is multiplied by 500. Also {{deconstructed}} in an unusual way. For the first three books FTL is impossible, which also means that interstellar warfare is impossible. The invention of FTL causes a minor ApocalypseHow and much of ''Intrepid'''s underlying tech becomes LostTechnology.
* GreyGoo: Unlike nanotechnology, which is well-understood, [[spoiler:''picotechnology'' is experimental, and highly illegal because of an accident that ate a dwarf planet. The genius scientist Earnest Redding on the ''Intrepid'' succeeds in mastering it, and the war with Sirius forces them to weaponize it. A picobomb can eat fleets, and ''does'' on two occasions.]]
* HappilyMarried: Tanis and Joe by ''Building Victoria''. The couple spend about a century off-and-on out of cryo while ''Intrepid'' travels to Kapteyn's Star for repairs, guarding against further sabotage, and are expecting a daughter in ''Destiny Lost''.
* HumanPopsicle: Two types. Cryogenic suspension is actually out of use in the 5th millennium, obsoleted by a technology that "freezes" atoms in place.
* InhumanableAlienRights: In Sol the rights of {{Artificial Intelligence}}s are guaranteed by the Phobos Accords, which lay down rules for their creation, upbringing, and treatment, and also provide a legal system to govern them. The Accords have been abandoned by the 9th millennium.
* LightspeedLeapfrog: Because of the TimeDilation incident ''Intrepid'' is beaten to New Eden by other colonists. [[spoiler:Sera contacts the FGT to find them a new planet out of reach of the governments warring over the colony ship's technology.]]
* MileLongShip: ''Intrepid'' is 30 kilometers long and is utterly dwarfed by many space structures in the series.
* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: The series is somewhere between Mohs/PhysicsPlus and Mohs/OneBigLie. With the exception of stasis fields, FasterThanLightTravel, and ArtificialGravity (the latter two of which are related), most technology is based on present-day theories, all stars are real, and orbital mechanics and TimeDilation provide several major plot points.
* {{Nanotechnology}}: Nanotechnology is very well-understood and put to many uses of both peaceful and military natures, such surveillance and allowing Tanis to survive a number of injuries that should have killed her instantly.
* OfficeRomance: Tanis and Joe start as one of these. She's chief of security on ''Intrepid'''s construction site, he's a pilot on her team and filled in as chief of security before she arrived on board. They become close and fall in love between crises and eventually marry.
* SchizoTech: During the TimeSkip between books 3 and 4, some technology advanced and some backslid. For example, ''Intrepid'''s nano is much better, but they lack gravitic DeflectorShields or FTL.
* SexyScandinavian: Tanis is regarded as quite attractive and is genetically of Scandinavian descent.
* SpaceshipSlingshotStunt: Gravity assists are common in the series, but the turn around Estrella de la Muerte is unusually harrowing: ''Intrepid'' is already severely damaged by the saboteurs and has to harness a sunspot cluster's magnetic field to accelerate, which causes a solar eruption and damages her still further.
* SpaceStation: Many insanely huge ones that can have populations in the hundreds of billions.
* {{Terraforming}}: Accomplished by a group called the FGT created in the 24th century,
* TimeDilation: [[spoiler:Caused by ''Intrepid'' running into a dark matter stream that comes from Kapteyn's Star. The Bollam's World Federation has apparently made a killing off of extorting ships that get dumped out of it after traveling thousands of years of objective time longer than they should have, though the now highly militarized ''Intrepid'' takes exception to that.]]
* TimeSkip: Many, of months, years, decades, even ''millennia'' in one case.
* TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: The AST (for Alpha Centauri, Sol, Tau Ceti), a successor state to the ''Intrepid'' crew's Sol Space Federation, is the biggest star-spanning empire in the ''Destiny Lost'' period, and its imperialism drives many smaller states to build huge navies for self defense.
* WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture: Thanks to high technology, {{nanotechnology}} in particular, humans can live in perfect health for several centuries during humanity's golden age (Tanis gives her age in ''Destiny Lost'' as 211 in "real-time"), though some of it becomes LostTechnology during the FTL Wars and life expectancy drops to about 200. Nano also gives Tanis some HealingFactor and allows her to place her embryonic daughter in stasis within her womb, in hopes of scheduling her gestation and birth so that she's born on New Eden.
* WeWillNotUseStageMakeupInTheFuture: In one chapter of ''Outsystem'' Tanis has a bunch of her leg muscle scooped out and her legs and feet reshaped to imitate a monastic order, and in ''Destiny Lost'' she uses nano to change her jawline as a disguise.
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