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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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 the humans live.
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* 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.
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* CannotTellALie: Hortens do not lie. Even the slightest falsehood causes their skin to break out in a terrible rash. The chemical agent that permanently altered their genome this way nearly put an end to their species. Everybody seems to think they introduced biological weapons in a terrible civil war, but in fact, the opposite was true. It was a badly engineered cosmetic product that changed them into what they are, and the civil war that followed was merely the logical outcome of their people losing the ability to lie to one another.
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* TerrifiedOfGerms: At some point in their history, the Hortens had fought a war with microbes, and the aftermath had traumatized them so severely that the whole civilization was obsessed with cleanliness. They usually wear an environmental suit in public although most people think they used them to protect their privacy since you can easily see how they feel since they change the color of their skin depending of their mood.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* LivingShip: The Stryx don’t need ships and weapons, they ARE ships and weapons. It’s their mastery of space and energy that makes them the most powerful of the galaxy’s denizens.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* DittoAliens: The Gems were widely reviled as cloners, a technology that most advanced species outlawed early in their development. It didn’t help that the Gems had pushed cloning to its logical conclusion, meaning that the whole race consisted of an indeterminately aged woman named Gem, although they did what they could to differentiate themselves in dress, hair style and accessories.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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The ''[[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01E6O2ZIU?ref=series_rw_dp_labf EarthCent Ambassador]]'' series by Creator/EMFoner is a series of e-books on Amazon's Kindle platorm platform that are essentially a GovernmentProcedural WorkCom [-InSpace-]
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The ''[[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01E6O2ZIU?ref=series_rw_dp_labf EarthCent Ambassador]]'' series by Creator/EMFoner is a series of e-books on Amazon's Kindle platorm that are essentially a GovernmentProcedural {{comedy}} WorkCom [-InSpace-]
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* 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.
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* FictionalGenevaConventions: The Stryx ban interstellar warfare outright within their sphere of influence, which leads to some species taking to using gaming tournaments for an InternationalShowdownByProxy.
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* FictionalCounterpart: By description ''Trader/Raider'' is something of an amalgam of ''VideoGame/EVEOnline'', ''VideoGame/EliteDangerous'', and ''VideoGame/SecondLife'', with the addition of using real starship cockpits as simulators.
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* OneWorldOrder: Most alien societies follow this, but [=EarthCent=] doesn't have much actual power over humans in general or Earth's nations in particular: it's initially little more than a formality imposed by the Stryx in exchange for the uplift. Kelly's diplomatic exploits start to expand its influence over the course of the series.
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The ''[[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01E6O2ZIU?ref=series_rw_dp_labf EarthCent Ambassador]]'' series by Creator/EMFoner is a series of e-books on Amazon's Kindle platorm that are essentially a GovernmentProcedural {{comedy}} [-InSpace-]
A couple decades after FirstContact with a ProudMerchantRace of benign {{Artificial Intelligence}}s called the Stryx, [[HumansAreSpecial humanity has exploded onto the galactic stage]]... [[SubvertedTrope as a backwater species struggling to reconcile its old system of capitalistic nation-states with a universe that prefers to barter goods and services and where nobody pays the nation-states much attention]]. Now Kelly Frank, a functionary at the [=EarthCent=] consulate on Union Station, struggles to pay her rent on a civil servant's salary while dealing with [[CultureClash clashing alien cultures]], collectives of school children buying starships with mining rights they don't own, video games that become internationally SeriousBusiness, and [[IWantGrandkids a mother who wants grandchildren and calls collect every week to nag her about it]]. And then, to cap it off, her office manager's daughters get her a gift subscription to a new dating service run by the Stryx themselves.
Elsewhere on the station, former mercenary Joe [=McAllister=] now works as a salvage operator. In between raising his adopted son, chasing down ships that skipped out on their bills, and trying to figure out just what the heck half of the junk in his shop left to him by the former owner is, he's paid for a job in trade with a partially used gift subscription to the dating service.
E.M. Foner wrote ''Date Night on Union Station'' to deal with writer's block in the middle of work on a more conventional sci-fi epic, but he unexpectedly ended up with a SleeperHit and was convinced to write sequels.
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* AffectionateParody: The series is almost to the level of ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' in the number of science fiction tropes it parodies or plays for laughs, but there's no doubt that the author is a big fan of the genre.
* 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.
* FantasticRacism: The Natural League is made up of species that became spacefarers without the aid of the Stryx, and deeply dislike species that the Stryx uplifted (e.g. humans).
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All the books are titled ''<descriptor> Night on Union Station''.
* HumansAreSpecial: {{Downplayed}}. Humans are the new kids on the block, discriminated against by Natural League species, and don't have much to offer in trade besides workers. However, they have a surprising proficiency at gaming.
* LoveAtFirstSight: After several disastrous dates for Kelly and Joe, at the end of ''Date Night'' the Stryx set them up with each other. They get married less than an hour after their first meeting and stay together for the remainder of the series.
* 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
* MilitaryMoonshiner: Joe has a sideline in homebrewing and his products are served at a number of bars on Union Station. It evidently dates back to his mercenary days, since he's able to barter permission to land at a merc encampment when he offers several kegs to an old war buddy.
* SeriousBusiness: ''Trader/Raider'', the hot new {{MMORPG}} virtual reality video game in ''Alien Night''. Once a team led by Kelly's stepson develops a reputation in the game-verse, she starts getting approached by aliens for alliances who think [=EarthCent=] is trying to use the game for an InternationalShowdownByProxy. Kelly is quite surprised at the prospect.
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The ''[[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01E6O2ZIU?ref=series_rw_dp_labf EarthCent Ambassador]]'' series by Creator/EMFoner is a series of e-books on Amazon's Kindle platorm that are essentially a GovernmentProcedural {{comedy}} [-InSpace-]
A couple decades after FirstContact with a ProudMerchantRace of benign {{Artificial Intelligence}}s called the Stryx, [[HumansAreSpecial humanity has exploded onto the galactic stage]]... [[SubvertedTrope as a backwater species struggling to reconcile its old system of capitalistic nation-states with a universe that prefers to barter goods and services and where nobody pays the nation-states much attention]]. Now Kelly Frank, a functionary at the [=EarthCent=] consulate on Union Station, struggles to pay her rent on a civil servant's salary while dealing with [[CultureClash clashing alien cultures]], collectives of school children buying starships with mining rights they don't own, video games that become internationally SeriousBusiness, and [[IWantGrandkids a mother who wants grandchildren and calls collect every week to nag her about it]]. And then, to cap it off, her office manager's daughters get her a gift subscription to a new dating service run by the Stryx themselves.
Elsewhere on the station, former mercenary Joe [=McAllister=] now works as a salvage operator. In between raising his adopted son, chasing down ships that skipped out on their bills, and trying to figure out just what the heck half of the junk in his shop left to him by the former owner is, he's paid for a job in trade with a partially used gift subscription to the dating service.
E.M. Foner wrote ''Date Night on Union Station'' to deal with writer's block in the middle of work on a more conventional sci-fi epic, but he unexpectedly ended up with a SleeperHit and was convinced to write sequels.
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!!Tropes:
* AffectionateParody: The series is almost to the level of ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' in the number of science fiction tropes it parodies or plays for laughs, but there's no doubt that the author is a big fan of the genre.
* 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.
* FantasticRacism: The Natural League is made up of species that became spacefarers without the aid of the Stryx, and deeply dislike species that the Stryx uplifted (e.g. humans).
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All the books are titled ''<descriptor> Night on Union Station''.
* HumansAreSpecial: {{Downplayed}}. Humans are the new kids on the block, discriminated against by Natural League species, and don't have much to offer in trade besides workers. However, they have a surprising proficiency at gaming.
* LoveAtFirstSight: After several disastrous dates for Kelly and Joe, at the end of ''Date Night'' the Stryx set them up with each other. They get married less than an hour after their first meeting and stay together for the remainder of the series.
* 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
* MilitaryMoonshiner: Joe has a sideline in homebrewing and his products are served at a number of bars on Union Station. It evidently dates back to his mercenary days, since he's able to barter permission to land at a merc encampment when he offers several kegs to an old war buddy.
* SeriousBusiness: ''Trader/Raider'', the hot new {{MMORPG}} virtual reality video game in ''Alien Night''. Once a team led by Kelly's stepson develops a reputation in the game-verse, she starts getting approached by aliens for alliances who think [=EarthCent=] is trying to use the game for an InternationalShowdownByProxy. Kelly is quite surprised at the prospect.
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