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* CloningBlues: Union, one of the factions, produces cloned soldiers and colonists in huge numbers, in an attempt to grow quickly in strength. ''Cyteen'' is set at the primary research and development centers for this cloning, and deals extensively with the ethical issues, as well as experiments to re-create individual genius talents through a combination of genetics and careful rearing, with mixed results.
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* LimitedAdvancementOpportunities: In ''Merchanter's Luck'' the seniority-based promotion system on the ''Dublin Again'' means that ambitious junior officer Allison won't come anywhere near a bridge position before she goes on rejuv unless at least fifty command officers die in a freak accident. This leads her and a few of her equally ambitious cousins to transfer to another ship depopulated by a Mazianni raid.
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Living Legend isn't just "personally accomplished individual". Don't write reviews.
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* LivingLegend: Who isn't?
** Captain James Robert Neihart is ''the'' hero of the alliance.
** Satin is the only downer who can convince the only intelligent alien race we know of to tell humanity to fuck off; and we love her.
** Elene Quen is the human who runs the stations, and she's no slouch.
** Ariane Emory is a politician/geneticist/psychologist who plans to live forever.
** Jordan Warrick is a genius, his son/clone Justin is also a genius, but not particularly legendary.
** Signy Mallory: She ''hates'' Mazian.
** Conrad Mazian: He refuses to accept defeat and keeps on fighting, even after he's cut loose.
** Captain James Robert Neihart is ''the'' hero of the alliance.
** Satin is the only downer who can convince the only intelligent alien race we know of to tell humanity to fuck off; and we love her.
** Elene Quen is the human who runs the stations, and she's no slouch.
** Ariane Emory is a politician/geneticist/psychologist who plans to live forever.
** Jordan Warrick is a genius, his son/clone Justin is also a genius, but not particularly legendary.
** Signy Mallory: She ''hates'' Mazian.
** Conrad Mazian: He refuses to accept defeat and keeps on fighting, even after he's cut loose.
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%%** Captain James Robert Neihart is ''the'' hero of the alliance.
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%%** Elene Quen is the human who runs the stations, and she's no slouch.
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* TheClan: Merchanter ships are run by large matrilineal extended families, ranging in size from the Kreja's couple dozen members on a small tramp freighter to the 1,000+ strong Reilly clan and their superfreighter. This has the advantage of crewmembers trained from birth, but there's some downsides, as seen in ''Merchanter's Luck''. After Sandor Kreja loses the rest of his family to a Mazianni attack he finds himself unable to retain a new crew as the only spacers he can hire are stranded merchanters looking to hitch a ride back to their clan ship, while Allison Reilly can't realize her dreams of command unless fifty of her seniors die in a freak accident.
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** The ''Literature/ChanurNovels'' are all told from the point-of-view of cat-like aliens who found a strange furless being on the station docks.
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* OneNightStandPregnancy: The merchanter tradition of "sleepovers" is intended to produce these for the purpose of preventing inbreeding. Inter-ship marriages are uncommon as they deprive one ship of a crewmember while sleepovers add crew to the mother's clan.
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* ImmortalProcreationClause: Rejuv, the drug made from Cyteen life that more than doubles human lifespan, has a side effect of causing sterility. However it's standard procedure in Union space to freeze gamete samples before starting rejuv and {{Uterine Replicator}}s are a popular method for reproducing, along with cloning.
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* FilkSong: [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGZbuWTzf2mKfhAhgpdGscJUw-9QCDwes Finity's End]] is a whole album of filk songs based on the setting.
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Up To Eleven is being dewicked.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Kontrin family really take this UpToEleven. They are immortal dynasts who rule the quarantined Serpent's Reach with an iron hand, constantly try to kill each other either for political power or just because it's been a boring week, and are all lightly inbred because Kontrin never reproduce with non-Kontrin, when they do it at all. Any Kontrin gathering is a mess of plotting, backstabbing, and thinly-veiled hostility. Small wonder that [[spoiler: Moth decides to burn it all down.]]
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Kontrin family really take this UpToEleven.up to eleven. They are immortal dynasts who rule the quarantined Serpent's Reach with an iron hand, constantly try to kill each other either for political power or just because it's been a boring week, and are all lightly inbred because Kontrin never reproduce with non-Kontrin, when they do it at all. Any Kontrin gathering is a mess of plotting, backstabbing, and thinly-veiled hostility. Small wonder that [[spoiler: Moth decides to burn it all down.]]
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* FTLTravelSickness: Remaining conscious during FTL travel through Jump-space causes extreme psychological stress in humans, who must place themselves in drug-induced sleep to avoid it. A small number, however, can stay alert without ill effects, and manage to adjust to the strange reality; they are known as "Nightwalkers", and are seen with a fair degree of paranoia by others.
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* FormulaBreakingEpisode: ''Voyager In Night'', while technically connected to the rest of this universe because the human characters are merchanters, occurs outside out of human space, involves some ''deeply'' weird StarfishAliens who appear in no other book, and is unusually horror-heavy.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Voyager In Night'', while technically connected to the rest of this universe because the human characters are merchanters, occurs outside out of human space, involves some ''deeply'' weird StarfishAliens who appear in no other book, and is unusually horror-heavy.
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* HiveMind: In ''Serpent's Reach'', the worker/warrior/etc members of the ant-like majat can think simple thoughts on their own. If a thought seems new, important or disturbing it will go to the Hive Queen and share it with her. The queen takes all of the simple thoughts brought to her by the other castes and combines them together into more complex thoughts. Memories are stored in the group of drones that always stay with the queen, which allows for a single hive to maintain a continuous, single consciousness across a span of billions of years. They are ''extremely'' perturbed by the fact that each human is their own mind, and when one dies not a unit but a whole intelligence is destroyed, to the point that most majat can't stand to be around most humans.
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* HiveMind: In ''Serpent's Reach'', the worker/warrior/etc members of the ant-like majat can think simple thoughts on their own. If a thought seems new, important or disturbing it will go to the Hive Queen and share it with her. The queen takes all of the simple thoughts brought to her by the other castes and combines them together into more complex thoughts. Memories are stored in the group of drones that always stay with the queen, which allows for a single hive to maintain a continuous, single consciousness across a span of billions of years. They are ''extremely'' perturbed by the fact that each human is their own mind, and when one dies not a unit but a whole intelligence is destroyed, to the point that most majat can't stand to be around most humans. They made the Kontrin immortal to make ''themselves'' less freaked out about their new neighbors.
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* InsignificantLittleBluePlanet: Out of the three main human polities, Earth is the third most powerful--it lost most of its fleet when Mazian went rogue, its FirstContact overtures keep blowing up, and it can't get itself together as a unified whole.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Voyager In Night'', while technically connected to the rest of this universe because the human characters are merchanters, occurs outside out of human space, involves some ''deeply'' weird StarfishAliens who appear in no other book, and is unusually horror-heavy.
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* MayflyDecemberRomance: Jim, as a Serpent's Reach azi, is programmed to die at forty, so he expects to only have nineteen years with Raen, who's immortal. [[spoiler: But in the end Raen's pull with the majat gets him the same gift they gave the Kontrin, so they actually get EternalLove.]]
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* UptownGirl: In ''Merchanter's Luck'', Allison Reilly, a member of the rich and powerful spacer clan which runs ''Dublin Again'', is initially this to Sandor Kreja, a marginer who lost everything to space pirates as a child and is only barely hanging on. However, eventually subverted, as they both end up being more interested in running their own ship together than in having a romantic relationship.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Kontrin family really take this UpToEleven. They are immortal dynasts who rule the quarantined Serpent's Reach with an iron hand, constantly try to kill each other either for political power or just because it's been a boring week, and are all lightly inbred because Kontrin never reproduce with non-Kontrin, when they do it at all. Any Kontrin gathering is a mess of plotting, backstabbing, and thinly-veiled hostility. Small wonder that [[spoiler: Moth decides to burn it all down.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: The entire plot of ''Serpent's Reach'' hinges on the fact that Raen, our heroine, is the sole remaining member of the Sul sept of the Kontrin and wants some good old-fashioned vengeance for it. [[spoiler: Whatever it is Moth does at the end of the book is heavily implied to be a mass murder-suicide, which leaves Raen this twice over.]]
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Raen and Pol Hald of ''Serpent's Reach'' have been doing this dance for decades even before the book's main timeline. [[spoiler: He dies protecting her from his cousin before they get a chance.]]
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* HiveMind: In ''Serpent's Reach'', the worker/warrior/etc members of the ant-like majat can think simple thoughts on their own. If a thought seems new, important or disturbing it will go to the Hive Queen and share it with her. The queen takes all of the simple thoughts brought to her by the other castes and combines them together into more complex thoughts. Memories are stored in the group of drones that always stay with the queen, which allows for a single hive to maintain a continuous, single consciousness across a span of billions of years.
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* HiveMind: In ''Serpent's Reach'', the worker/warrior/etc members of the ant-like majat can think simple thoughts on their own. If a thought seems new, important or disturbing it will go to the Hive Queen and share it with her. The queen takes all of the simple thoughts brought to her by the other castes and combines them together into more complex thoughts. Memories are stored in the group of drones that always stay with the queen, which allows for a single hive to maintain a continuous, single consciousness across a span of billions of years. They are ''extremely'' perturbed by the fact that each human is their own mind, and when one dies not a unit but a whole intelligence is destroyed, to the point that most majat can't stand to be around most humans.
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* IndenturedServitude: [[DesignerBabies Azi]] have the rights of minors but they can be made citizens under certain circumstances, and their children are citizens. Considering the original point of azi was to increase the Union's genetic diversity.
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* IndenturedServitude: [[DesignerBabies Azi]] have the rights of minors (Reseune is their guardian--a policy meant to prevent abuse, since it means Reseune can reclaim any azi at any time, but that doesn't always work) and are completely conditioned to obey whoever holds their Contract, but they can be made citizens under certain circumstances, and their children are citizens. Considering the original point of azi was to increase the Union's genetic diversity.diversity, this makes sense.
** The majat gave the Kontrin family immortality, both as a gift and because human individuality disturbs the majat, who are themselves an example of this. Majat units only last about eighteen years, but they're not people; the ''hive'' is the person, and the oldest hives count their age in the millions.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: For the powerful, immortal Kontrin clan, assassinating each other is a standard Tuesday. But if anyone else tries to get in on that game, the entire family unites and then things get ugly.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: For the powerful, immortal Kontrin clan, assassinating each other is a standard Tuesday. But if anyone else tries to get in on that game, the entire family unites and then things get ugly.
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* SpaceColdWar: With three factions: Sol (Earth)/Alliance/Union. All are capitalist, though it is noted that Union citizens mostly descend from eastern bloc.
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* SpaceColdWar: With three factions: Sol (Earth)/Alliance/Union. All are capitalist, though it is noted that Union citizens mostly descend from eastern bloc.bloc and Union has several socialist elements.
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* DesignerBabies: Azi are really more like this than clones, some are clones granted but the whole point of them was to increase the Union's genetic diversity so most are made from donor sperm and eggs imported from earth.
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* DesignerBabies: Azi are really more like this than clones, some are clones granted but the whole point of them was to increase the Union's genetic diversity so most are made from donor sperm and eggs imported from earth. The first Ariane Emory, the driving force behind Union azi production, essentially used the azi as a kind of living gene ark--Thetas, for instance, are used to preserve valuable hand-eye coordination, while Mus preserve physical toughness.
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** In general, whenever the azi come up in any significant capacity, the narrative will make the point that the only difference between azi and CIT embryos is the label--although azi genesets are carefully managed, ultimately what divides azi from everyone else is ''nurture'' (ie, the tapes).
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** In general, planets with shirtsleeve environments are fairly sparse in this 'verse.
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** In general, planets with shirtsleeve environments are fairly sparse in this 'verse. (Gehenna is one, but Gehenna's got ''other'' issues.)
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Fixed name of Finity's End captain— James Robert Neihart rather than James Roberts
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** Captain James Roberts is ''the'' hero of the alliance.
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** Captain James Roberts Robert Neihart is ''the'' hero of the alliance.
