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* RenaissanceMan: Swift-Killer. A military leader, inventor, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and]] [[ReallyGetsAround avid mater]] who establishes FirstContact with humans.
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* RenaissanceMan: Swift-Killer. A military leader, inventor, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and]] and [[ReallyGetsAround avid mater]] who establishes FirstContact with humans.
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* GeniusesHaveMultiplePhDs: The elite (human) crew of the ''Dragon Slayer'' ship have all at least two doctorates. TheSmartGal of the team has four, and expects to get a fifth for her work on the neutron star.
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** {{Justified}} up to a point, because the arrival of humans is explicitly said to have kickstarted the Cheela civilization: suddenly some "stars" are moving, so Cheela astrologists invent a writing system to keep track of them, which gets adopted by the general population, etc. It's still a heck of a coincidence, because if the humans arrived a few years earlier or later, the Cheela might have not evolved yet, or be already extinct.
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** {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} up to a point, because the arrival of humans is explicitly said to have kickstarted the Cheela civilization: suddenly some "stars" are moving, so Cheela astrologists invent a writing system to keep track of them, which gets adopted by the general population, etc. It's still a heck of a coincidence, because if the humans arrived a few years earlier or later, the Cheela might have not evolved yet, or be already extinct.
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* {{Sequelitis}}: The sequel ''Starquake'' is [[FanonDiscontinuity usually ignored]], both for its much bleaker tone that quickly causes a HappyEndingOverride before the book is even a quarter done, in which [[spoiler:the cheela are forced back into the Dark Ages for several millennia of subjective time, while the humans and offworlders can only look on helplessly]], but also because of [[ScienceMarchesOn science marching on]] in a bad way: we now know that starquakes are accompanied by massive gamma ray bursts that would sterilize any planet too close, so realistically, [[ShootTheShaggyDog all the humans and the offworld cheela should have died]]. Most discussions of this series, both on and off this wiki, completely ignore the events of the sequel.
