History Literature / EarthCentAmbassador

* AIIsACrapshoot: The Effterii were once a helper AI of a race that used all the elements of their planet and died because they couln't stand the acceleration needed for escape velocity. Their AI could but without their masters, their only directive is just to create more Effteri using all the recoursed available, the Stryx from time to time have to destroy their factories because their hunger for recourses is infinite and they have been warned that if they don't change their ways they will probably go insane and they would have to deal with them permanently.
* {{Auction}}: Kelly, the earthcent ambassador in Union Station, thanks to certain 'random' circumstances end up with all of the Kasilian possesions which she puts in an auction, making her, for a moment, one of the richest woman in the galaxy, but in the end she uses all that money to help the Kasilian get a new planet.
* BenevolentAI: The Stryx gave humanity FTL drive and are very friendly as long as you obey their trade laws. They've even imposed a ban on interstellar warfare in their territory.

* EnforcedTechnologyLevels: One thing that all the advanced races have in common is their dislike for the use of AI or automated fabrics, they always prefer to hire workers before using machines that is seeing as the last option. This is because they all in some moment of their history as a race used robots for everything and that almost destroyed their civilizations, that's also one the reason why they don't speak with the Stryx much because they see them as just ''Main/MechanicalLifeforms'' and are amazed as how easy the humans talk to them.
* EvolutionaryStasis: The Stryx keep in their stations mementos or the remmanents of races that when extinct because of this. And some races stopped using technology altogether for a more simple way of life.
* ExtremophileLifeforms: The Verlocks are primarily known for their mathematical achievements and their thick, scaly skin. They came from a volcanically active home world, and thanks to seeking out similar worlds when they achieved interstellar flight, they had never come into conflict with other species over colonization rights. The Verlocks could withstand huge temperature swings and breathe a wider range of atmospheres than any of the other unaltered biologicals, but they moved ponderously and spoke like slow-flowing lava.

* FictionalUnitedNations: Union Station serves as a United Nations of sorts, (All Stryx Stations in fact) with ambassadors from the Natural League having dyplomatic discussions every other time, the adoption of the Stryx Credit as the galaxy currency helps them to create a galactic economy. There are other factions like the Farlings and the Cayl Empire that show up every once in a while but they don't need the Stryx tunnels so they are not part of the league.
* GodGuise: The Teragram. They are one of the most powerful species of the galaxies, and they present themselves as gods to the young races. Although they seem helpful, after a while they get bored and if the race is lucky they just leave, but in other cases they enslave the population and demand worship. When they eventually go away (Sometimes thanks to the Stryx who are the only ones powerful enough to kick them out) they leave deep scars in the civilizations, like what happened to the Frunge.

* InsectoidAliens: The Farlings are a beetle like race, known in the galaxy as experts in the medical field, even though they are insects, their lifespan is extremely long, some of them are millions of human years long.
* IntelligentGerbil: The Grenouthians are a race of giant humanoids bunnies, although they do have a pouch like kangaroos. Their specialty is entertainment, they made a lot of entertainment programs, documentals and videogames.
* HereThereBeDragons: This Trope is discussed by the Earthcents ambassadors in a reunion when they notice the presence of several planet size creatures in the Galactic maps, someone suggest they go there to check whats really in there, but they change of idea when Libby told them that the Stryx didn't put those creatures there for decoration, there really are planet size creatures in those places and they don't like anybody bothering them in their teritories.

* HumansNeedAliens: If the Stryx didn't put the humans their wing when they did, the Vergallian would have conquered the planet earth.
* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: For some bizarre reason aliens seem to love human kitchen appliances, even though they have little practical use to most races (some don't even cook their food). They seem to buy them mostly as art pieces. Also is later mentioned that of all the theatre works of Earth, only Shakespeare's are noticed.

* LongLived: Many of the advanced races have long lifespans, that go from the thousands to million years old. They are amazed of how short human life is.

* {{Matriarchy}}: The Vergallian society is like that, women have all the powerful position although their men are treated fairly well, it helps that the women secret a powerful pheromone that affect the male gender of not only their species but several others, humans are also easily affected.
* MedievalStasis: Many worlds of the Vergallian live like this completely by choice in order not to relay too much in technology, they only have one place advanced enough to recieve guest from another races or go to their own ships in space.

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Mostly adverted with the Dollnicks that possess four arms and they are a warrior race, but their specialty is business in general, they are mostly merchants that are always looking for a good deal.
* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: The Teragram are this for almost ALL the species of the galaxy, the are incredible powerful, even though many believe they are just ''Main/SufficientlyAdvancedAlien'', but even powerful beings like the Stryx describe their power as Magic.

* OpenSecret: The Earthcent Ambasadors try to have some secrets reunions to discuss some secret topics, each one using a codename but they give up after they realice that the other races already know about those meetings and they offer advice to them aabout how pointless they are since all the other races already play the spygame much better than the humans.
* OvertOperative: Everybody knows who is a spy in Union Station, the diferent spy agencies from all the Natural League are just too good to fool so nobody even bothers in hide the fact they are spies. Earthcent use this in their favor to create their own spy agency using the help of the other races.
* PlantAliens: The Frunge are like this, they evolved from plants and in times of famine, the Frunge can still take root through their feet and get by on nothing but water and photosynthesis, they buyed all the forests from Earth's north hemisphere to preserve them since many Frunges were captivated by their beauty. Their specialty is laws, they are experts in the laws of every race of the Galaxy, their contracts are very well made and if you find a 'loophole' you can be certain that it was completely on purpose because in the next line they would tell you that.
* PortalNetwork: The Tunnel Network, basically an interstellar highway for the galaxy and the prefered way to rtavel for the races of the Galaxy, it was created by the Stryx, and makes travel much more shorter for everybody, the Stryx have stations in diferents part of the Galaxy to connect the Tunnels.
* ProudMerchantRace: The Dollnicks are the most merchant of all races, making several business with the different races, the Stryx are the responsible for the tunnel network and they charge a toll for their use although they don't need money a all, they created the 'Stryx Cred' to put a galactic economy in place so all the other races can make business with each other.
* SendInTheClones: The alien species called the Gem embraced cloning technology and carried it to the ultimate conclusion -- the entire species is clones of a single individual.

* SuperDoc: The Farlings are amazing doctors, and 'M793qK' being million of years old is one of the best, he is able to cure all their pacients is a matter of seconds or a couple of minutes if they have a life threatening injury, although he is kind of a jerkass with people, they never question that he does his job well.
* SuperiorSpecies: All the alien races of the Natural Leagues are worthy of that moniker, the humans they hire are treated fairly with good pay and greater benefits, humans are looked down as an inferior species but many don't mind because they don't suffer any kind of problems for that, in fact the only time that humans are exploited is by other humans.

* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: Sudverted. Even though all the races act superior with the humans and only hire them because they don't want to use robot as a labor force, they treat them well and their work benefits are much better than on earth.
* UndyingLoyalty: Beowulf is a Huravian hound, one of the most loyal race of dogs in all the galaxy, they are even loyal after their dead, they are able to reincarnate and go in the search of their former master wherever he/she is.
* {{Weredragon}}: Dring, whose true form is that of a very HUGE dragon, luckyly he is able to control how much bigger he can be. The reason why he resemble so much the dragons from earth stories is explained later in the books.

* GodGuise: The Teragram. They are one of the most powerful species of the galaxies, and they present themselves as gods to the young races, although they look helpful after a while they get bored and left if the race is lucky, in other cases they slave the population and demand worship, when they eventually go away (Sometimes thanks to the Stryx who are the only ones powerful enough to kick them out) they left deep scars in the civilizations like what happened to the Frunge.

* Here There Be Dragons: This Trope is discussed by the Earthcents ambassadors in a reunion when they notice the presence of several planet size creatures in the Galactic maps, someone suggest they go there to check whats really in there, but they change of idea when Libby told them that the Stryx didn't put those creatures there for decoration, there really are planet size creatures in those places and they don't like anybody bothering them in their teritories.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The Effterii were once a helper AI of a race that used all the elements of their planet and died because they couln't stand the acceleration needed for escape velocity. Their AI could but wothout their master, their only directive is just to create more Effteri using all the recoursed available, the Stryx from time to time have to destroy their factories because their hunger for recourses is infinite and they have been warned that if they don't change their ways they will probably go insane and they would have to deal with them permanently.

* OvertOperative: Everybody knows who is a spy in Union Station, the diferent spy agencies from all the Natural League are just too good to fool so nobody even bothers in hide the fact they are spies. Earthcent use this in its favor to create its own spy agencu using the help of the other races.

* PlantAliens: The Frunge are like this, they evolved from plants and in times of famine, the Frunge can still take root through their feet and get by on nothing but water and photosynthesis, they buyed all the forests from Earth's north hemisphere to preserve them since many Frunges were captivated by their beauty. Their specialty is laws, they are experts in the laws of every race of the Galaxy, their contracts are very trhough and if you find a 'loophole' you can be certain that it was completely on purpose because in the next line they would tell you that.

* {{Auction}}: Kell, the earthcent ambassador in Union Station, thanks to certain 'random' circumstances end up with all of the Kasilian possesions which she puts in an auction, making her for a moment one of the richest woman in the galaxy, but in the end she use all that money to help the Kasilian get a new planet.

* EnforcedTechnologyLevels: One thing that all the advanced races is their dislike for the use of AI or automated fabrics, they prefer always to hire workers before using machines that is seeing as the last option. This is because they all in some moment used robots for everything and that almost destroyed their civilizations, that's also one the reason why they don't speak with the Stryx much because they see them as just ''Main/MechanicalLifeforms'' and are amazed as how easy the humans talk to them.

* IntelligentGerbil: The Grenouthians are a race of giant humanoids bunnies, although they do have a pouch. Their specialty is entertainment, they made a lot of entertainment programs, documentals and videogames.

* LongLived: Many of the advanced races have long lifespans, that go from the thousands to million years old. They are amazed of how short the humans live.

* {{Matriarchy}}: The Vergallian society is like that, women have all the powerful position although their men are treated fairly well, it helps that the women secret a powerful pheromone that affect the male gender of not their species but several others, humans are also easily affected.
* MedievalStasis: Many worlds of the Vergallian live like this completely by choice in order not to relay too much in technology, they only have one place advanced enough to recieve guest from another species or go to their own ships in space.

* {{Auction}}: Kell, the earthcent embassador in Union Station, thanks to certain 'random' circumstances end up with all of the Kasilian possesions which she puts in an auction, making her for a moment one of the richest woman in the galaxy, but in the end she use all that money to help the Kasilian get a new planet.

* SuperDoc: The Farlings are amazing doctors, and M793qK being million of years old is one of the best, he is able to cure all their pacients is a matter of seconds or a couple of minutes if they have a life threatening injury, although he is kind of a jerkass with people, they never question that he does his job well.