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* BuryYourGays: A crewman is murdered in cold blood for proposing to another. The murderer ? He isn't sanctioned and will have a HeroicSacrifice later on.
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* BuryYourGays: A crewman is murdered in cold blood for proposing to another. The murderer ? He isn't wasn't sanctioned and will have a HeroicSacrifice later on.
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* HumansAreWhite: The survivors ? The men are from the US and there is no mention of any being black or asian. The women are from Europe, though there's mention of Russian and Chinese expeditions.
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* HumansAreWhite: The male survivors ? The men are from the US and there is no mention of any being black or asian.Asian. The women are from Europe, though there's mention of Russian and Chinese expeditions.
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* PlanetOfHats: Averted when Ramri explains how the Monvaing are not a homogeneous culture. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a ChekhovsLecture when a faction of the Monvaing turns out to be responsible for the destruction of Earth.]]
** Then again, all members of a given Monvaingian culture apparently think and feel alike, or so it is assumed.
** Then again, all members of a given Monvaingian culture apparently think and feel alike, or so it is assumed.
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* PlanetOfHats: Averted when Ramri explains how the Monvaing are not a homogeneous culture. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a ChekhovsLecture when a faction of the Monvaing turns out to be responsible for the destruction of Earth.]]
**]] Then again, all members of a given Monvaingian culture apparently think and feel alike, or so it is assumed.
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* ChromosomeCasting: Played with in the book, which has a TwoLinesNoWaiting plot involving an all-male spaceship crew and an all-female crew on another spaceship, who are the [[ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts only survivors after Earth is destroyed]]. Naturally the survival of the species [[AdamAndEvePlot depends on them finding each other]].
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* ShoutOut: After being captured, there's a line over how the humans aren't just going to "turn a micro-ultra–filtmeter into a Von Krockmeier hyperspace lever" and escape. This refers a joke by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon on the overblown {{Science Hero}}s of the genre.
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* ShoutOut: After being captured, there's a line over how the humans aren't just going to "turn a micro-ultra–filtmeter into a Von Krockmeier hyperspace lever" and escape. This refers a joke by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon on the overblown {{Science Hero}}s Hero}}es of the genre.
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* ShoutOut: After being captured, there's a line over how the humans aren't just going to "turn a micro-ultra–filtmeter into a Von Krockmeier hyperspace lever" and escape. This refers a joke by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon on the overblown {{Science Hero}}s of the genre.
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** Then again, all members of a given Monvaingian culture apparently think and feel alike, or so it is assumed.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The vorlakka. Averted as it's mostly their warrior caste, which has come to the fore; it's assumed their peacefully-inclined bureaucrats will be back in control when the war ends.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The vorlakka. Averted as it's mostly their warrior caste, which has come to the fore; it's assumed their peacefully-inclined bureaucrats will be back in control when the war ends.
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* BalladOfX: ''The Ballad of Brandobar'' is written in the CommonTongue of the sector, and taught to aliens as a drinking song in hopes that other humans will hear it and come to the ''Ben Franklin'''s position.
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* BalladOfX: ''The Ballad of Brandobar'' is written in the CommonTongue of the sector, and taught to aliens as a drinking song in hopes that [[EpicHail other humans will hear it it]] and come to the ''Ben Franklin'''s position.
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* EpicHail: Knowing that space is too vast to find the other human expeditions, and they can't hang around Earth waiting for survivors to turn up because of the missiles, the crew of the Franklin decide to [[HumansAreWarriors win an epic battle]] and then distribute a ballad among the alien races telling of their deed, in the hope that other humans will hear it and know where to look for them. The ballard is carefully designed so it makes an appealing DrinkingSong yet can't be easily changed so the message won't be distorted beyond recognition.
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* EpicHail: Knowing that space is too vast to find the other human expeditions, and they can't hang around Earth waiting for survivors to turn up because of the missiles, the crew of the Franklin decide to [[HumansAreWarriors win an epic battle]] and then distribute a ballad among the alien races telling of their deed, in the hope that other humans will hear it and know where to look for them. The ballard is carefully designed so it makes an appealing DrinkingSong [[DrunkenSong drinking song]] yet can't be easily changed so the message won't be distorted beyond recognition.
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* EpicHail: Knowing that space is too vast to find the other human expeditions, and they can't hang around Earth waiting for survivors to turn up because of the missiles, the crew of the Franklin decide to [[HumansAreWarriors win an epic battle]] and then distribute a ballad among the alien races telling of their deed, in the hope that other humans would hear it and know where to look for them.
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* EpicHail: Knowing that space is too vast to find the other human expeditions, and they can't hang around Earth waiting for survivors to turn up because of the missiles, the crew of the Franklin decide to [[HumansAreWarriors win an epic battle]] and then distribute a ballad among the alien races telling of their deed, in the hope that other humans would will hear it and know where to look for them.them. The ballard is carefully designed so it makes an appealing DrinkingSong yet can't be easily changed so the message won't be distorted beyond recognition.
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* TokenNonhuman: Ramri of Tantha; justified as humans are new to interstellar exploration so he's serving as the Franklin's advisor. No such advisor serves on board the ''Europa'', apparently because the women are seeking to prove that they can do it all themselves.
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* TokenNonhuman: Ramri of Tantha; justified as humans are new to interstellar exploration so he's serving as the Franklin's advisor. No such advisor serves on board the ''Europa'', apparently because the women are seeking to prove that they can [[YouGoGirl do it all themselves.themselves]].
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* EpicHail: Knowing that space is too vast to find the other human expeditions, and they can't hang around Earth waiting for survivors to turn up because of the missiles, the crew of the Franklin decide to [[HumansAreWarriors win an epic battle]] and then distribute a ballad among the alien races telling of their deed, in the hope that other humans would hear it and know where to look for them.
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* TokenNonhuman: Ramri; however humans are new to interstellar exploration so he's serving as the Franklin's advisor. No such advisor serves on board the ''Europa'', apparently because the women are seeking to prove that they can do it all themselves.
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* TokenNonhuman: Ramri; however Ramri of Tantha; justified as humans are new to interstellar exploration so he's serving as the Franklin's advisor. No such advisor serves on board the ''Europa'', apparently because the women are seeking to prove that they can do it all themselves.
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* TokenNonhuman: Ramri; however humans are new to interstellar exploration so he's serving as the Franklin's advisor. No such advisor serves on board the ''Europa'', apparently because the women are seeking to prove that they can do it all themselves.
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* HopeIsScary: A friendly alien still doesn't get it.
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* HopeIsScary: A friendly The alien still doesn't get it.Ramri tries to calm Donnan as the plan to escape comes to fruition; he admits that he never understood why humans find hope more terrifying than despair.
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* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The storylines of the two spaceships -- the all-male ''Franklin'' and the all-female ''Europa''.
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* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Turns out the Kandemirian missiles had been bought secondhand, and a faction of the Monvaing is responsible. Rami is so shocked he returns to his own planet to expose the culprits, knowing it will lead to civil war.]]
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* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Turns out the Kandemirian missiles had been bought secondhand, and a faction of the Monvaing is responsible. Rami The ruse is so shocked he returns to his own planet to expose exposed by a conversion table scrawled on the culprits, knowing it will lead interior of the missile by a Laothaung technician, so he can convert numbers written in the base 12 arithmetic used by the Kandemirians to civil war.their base 6 system.]]
