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* KangarooCourt: The judicial system on the ''Harvest Reaper III'', and not just because geroo resemble kangaroos. They convict Kaz of double homicide simply because she went on one date with the serial killer's first victim, and [[TheCorpseStopsHere discovered the second victim's body]]. Fortunately Tori manages to convince them to give her and administrator O'lia a week to prove her innocence before they recycle Kaz, based on when commissioner Sarsuk next comes on board and asks questions about why a perfectly healthy geroo isn't working. [[spoiler: This allows time for a LastMinuteReprieve when the killer strikes again while she's imprisoned.]]
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* CloningBodyParts: The technology is available on krakun gateships, though commissioner Sarsuk forbade Ateri from regenerating the eye he gouged out, leaving him with an eyepatch.
** Sarsuk himself has the foreclaw he [[spoiler: shoved into the Recycler at the end of ''Skeleton Crew'']] replaced in the beginning of ''Small World'', though his old cleaning crew starved while he was away.
** Tori needs multiple cloned organs after prolonged sulfur exposure in ''Reaper's Lottery'', [[spoiler: though they fail to restore her sense of smell, which is so important to geroo that she almost commits suicide before Aziz pulls the strings to get her a full body transplant.]]
** Sarsuk himself has the foreclaw he [[spoiler: shoved into the Recycler at the end of ''Skeleton Crew'']] replaced in the beginning of ''Small World'', though his old cleaning crew starved while he was away.
** Tori needs multiple cloned organs after prolonged sulfur exposure in ''Reaper's Lottery'', [[spoiler: though they fail to restore her sense of smell, which is so important to geroo that she almost commits suicide before Aziz pulls the strings to get her a full body transplant.]]
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Krakun are massive quadrupedal reptiles with wings who require atmospheres with a notable sulfur content.
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* [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Turek-Species-Sheet-801508360 Turek]] are saurian in appearance, like large raptors or small tyrannosaurs with arms.
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* AlasPoorVillain: While he might be a brutal tyrant to the geroo under his command, the short story "Whatever Happened to Commissioner Sarsuk" shows him to be a frustrated middle-aged bachelor in a dingy apartment by krakun standards. [[spoiler: The crime that leads to his execution isn't even his doing, he's framed by his girlfriend.]]
* ExpressiveEars: The text refers to geroo's ears as their primary emotive signifiers, though Rick admits to drawing them expressing with their mouths for human convenience.
* FantasticRacism:
** Most of the krakun on screen treat their slaves slightly better than vermin, sourang are considered vermin.
** Many geroo hold a grudge against the geordian species as the Planetary Acquisitions ship that discovered them was crewed by geordians.
** Sourang tend to consider themselves superior to less adaptable species, and will gleefully extort slaves from krakun residential colonies by making them dependent on their food.
* FantasticRacism:
** Most of the krakun on screen treat their slaves slightly better than vermin, sourang are considered vermin.
** Many geroo hold a grudge against the geordian species as the Planetary Acquisitions ship that discovered them was crewed by geordians.
** Sourang tend to consider themselves superior to less adaptable species, and will gleefully extort slaves from krakun residential colonies by making them dependent on their food.
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** In Reaper’s Lottery the first victim is skinned alive [[spoiler: because he’d been bred for attractiveness.]]
** During their first meeting in Traitors, Thieves, and Liars Commissioner Pokokoro informs captain Ateri that geroo are cooked by skinning them alive and throwing them into frying oil still screaming, while threateningly running a claw down his front.
** During their first meeting in Traitors, Thieves, and Liars Commissioner Pokokoro informs captain Ateri that geroo are cooked by skinning them alive and throwing them into frying oil still screaming, while threateningly running a claw down his front.
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** In Reaper’s Lottery ''Reaper’s Lottery'' the first victim is skinned alive [[spoiler: because he’d been bred for attractiveness.]]
** During their first meeting inTraitors, ''Traitors, Thieves, and Liars Liars'' Commissioner Pokokoro informs captain Ateri that geroo are cooked by skinning them alive and throwing them into frying oil still screaming, while threateningly running a claw down his front.
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* InterspeciesRomance:
** In ''TT&L'' Gert (geroo) finds himself sleeping with the ringel pirate Inzari, though how much romance is involved is debatable.
** ''Fair Trade'' has a [[TinyGuyHugeGirl geordian and lio]] couple, though they both have sourang cell replacements so they can at least breathe the same air.
** In ''TT&L'' Gert (geroo) finds himself sleeping with the ringel pirate Inzari, though how much romance is involved is debatable.
** ''Fair Trade'' has a [[TinyGuyHugeGirl geordian and lio]] couple, though they both have sourang cell replacements so they can at least breathe the same air.
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* BadBoss: Commissioner Sarsuk is prone to killing geroo who annoy him with his own claws. He even "disciplined" Captain Ateri once by gouging out his eye. His replacement Pokokoro isn't much better, introducing herself with execution threats.
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* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: The geroo ship ''Harvest Reaper III'' has a small but active lio manga club, even though some of their media is banned due to the war between the Lio and Krakun Empires.
* BadBoss: Commissioner Sarsuk is prone to killing geroo who annoy him with his own claws. He even "disciplined" Captain Ateri once by gouging out his eye. His replacement Pokokoroisn't is calmer but not much better, introducing herself with execution threats.threats of mass executions.
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* BlackBox: Most krakun technology, especially that intended for use by their slaves, is designed to be usable without knowing how it works. In particular the Trinity of systems that allow gateships to run for centuries in deep space: gate, drive, and molecular recycler.
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* BlackBox: Most krakun technology, especially that intended for use by their slaves, is designed to be usable without knowing how it works. In particular the Trinity of systems that allow gateships to run for centuries in deep space: gate, drive, and molecular recycler. The entanglement of the Trinity prevents a gateship crew from severing their gate to Krakuntec without cutting off their own life support, and allows the home office to strand a rebellious (for instance, trying to reverse-engineer the Trinity) ship in deep space by deactivating the gate from their end.
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** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Lio-Species-Sheet-766687114 Lio]] are practically lions.lions, with both sexes having manes.
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* {{Privateer}}: One of the reasons ringels are known for piracy is that their [[GovernmentInExile King-in-exile]] funds privateers to harass the Krakun Empire.
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* SpacePirates: Ateri makes a deal with some pirates who've apparently been following them for years.
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* SpacePirates: Ateri makes a deal Ringel pirates tend towards Type 1 with some pirates who've apparently been following them for years.aesthetics of Type 2 (piercings, lax discipline...) They use cloaking devices to sneak through gates towards isolated ships discovered through spycraft and security leaks, and at least some times they have the collaboration of slave officers.
* TattooAsCharacterType: Sourang and tureks use tattoos to display tribal affiliation among other things, though sourang can only put them on their ears as they have fur [[spoiler: Saquel rips the tattooed ears off the sourang pups his gang kills to conceal their sapience from the rest of the colony.]] Ringel favor piercings, even as kits.
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** HostileTerraforming: Krakun need significant atmospheric sulfur levels, they attempted to increase Gerootec's sulfur levels, and accidentally turned it into a volcanic hellhole.
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** HostileTerraforming: Krakun need significant atmospheric sulfur levels, they attempted to increase Gerootec's sulfur levels, and accidentally turned it into a volcanic hellhole. They also successfully terraformed Sourangtec but the adaptable natives survived that one.
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* GenerationShip: The ''White Flower II'' has been in transit for four hundred years, the current geroo crew are at least three generations removed from the original ones.
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* FlayedAlive:
** In Reaper’s Lottery the first victim is skinned alive [[spoiler: because he’d been bred for attractiveness.]]
** During their first meeting in Traitors, Thieves, and Liars Commissioner Pokokoro informs captain Ateri that geroo are cooked by skinning them alive and throwing them into frying oil still screaming, while threateningly running a claw down his front.
* GenerationShip: The ''White Flower II'' has been in transit for four hundred years, the current geroo crew areat least three several generations removed from the original ones.
** In Reaper’s Lottery the first victim is skinned alive [[spoiler: because he’d been bred for attractiveness.]]
** During their first meeting in Traitors, Thieves, and Liars Commissioner Pokokoro informs captain Ateri that geroo are cooked by skinning them alive and throwing them into frying oil still screaming, while threateningly running a claw down his front.
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* {{Privateer}}: One of the reasons ringels are known for piracy universe is that their [[GovernmentInExile King-in-exile]] funds privateers to harass the Krakun Empire.
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* BilingualDialogue: Krakun slaveholders insist that their slaves speak in their own language to them while they speak Krakun. This inadvertently leads to Krakun acting as a CommonTongue between slave races.
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* MileLongShip: The White Flower II is actually seven kilometers in ''diameter'', most of it is the gate and the rest of the ship is wrapped around the outer edge of the ring.
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** Geordians breathe ammonia, but they can survive the nitrogen-oxygen mix geroo and ringels favor with daily ammonia injections or masks.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Geroo on generation ships are euthanized at the age of sixty, with years taken off as punishment for crimes. Captain Ateri is just over two weeks from "retirement" in chapter 1 of ''Traitors, Thieves, and Liars'', and part of the reason he agrees to the pirates' plan to steal a terraformer is that company policy delays euthanasia during planetary surveys and terraforming.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Geroo on generation ships are euthanized [[WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture euthanized]] at the age of sixty, with years taken off as punishment for crimes. Captain Ateri is just over two weeks from "retirement" in chapter 1 of ''Traitors, Thieves, and Liars'', and part of the reason he agrees to the pirates' plan to steal a terraformer is that company the company's ''Chiauo Gi'' policy delays euthanasia during planetary surveys and terraforming.
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* GeneticAdaptation: Sourang have an innate control over their biochemistry and can incorporate genetic material from other species into their own. Enabling them to survive in the krakun's sulfur atmospheres.
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** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Sourang-Species-Sheet-765963711 Sourang]] resemble a cross between giant rodents and lemurs, they're unclear.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Sourang-Species-Sheet-765963711 Sourang]] resemble a cross between giant rodents and lemurs, they're unclear.
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** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Coosa-Species-Sheet-767307421 Coosa]] are just plain adorable!
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Sourang-Species-Sheet-765963711 Sourang]] resemble a cross between giant rodents and lemurs, they're unclear.look like round-bodied raccoons or tanuki.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Sourang-Species-Sheet-765963711 Sourang]] resemble a cross between giant rodents and lemurs, they're unclear.
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* WouldHurtAChild: The serial killer's victims in ''Reaper's Lottery'' include three cubs, ages 1 to 3.
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* BilingualDialogue: Krakun slaveholders insist that their slaves speak in their own language to them while they speak krakun. This inadvertently leads to krakun acting as a CommonTongue between slave races.
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** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Sourang-Species-Sheet-765963711 Sourang]] resemble a cross between giant rodents and lemurs, they're unclear.
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** In ''Small World'' Kanti's tribe start eating sourang meat after Saquel's militia kills a couple of them and brings the bodies back without their tattooed ears.
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* BlackBox: Most krakun technology, especially that intended for use by their slaves, is designed to be usable without knowing how it works. In particular the Trinity of systems that allow gateships to run for centuries in deep space: gate, drive, and molecular recycler.
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* SapientEatSapient: Krakun occasionally eat their slaves. During their first meeting Pokokoro informs Ateri that geroo tastes best fried fresh (as in still alive) in oil.
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* StealthInSpace: The pirates' plan revolves around the use of layered cloaking fields. [[spoiler: Ateri's own plan is to hide the Terraformer behind a cloak and make it look like it self-destructed.]]
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* StealthInSpace: The pirates' plan revolves around the use of layered cloaking fields. [[spoiler: Ateri's own plan is to hide the Terraformer behind a cloak and make it look like it self-destructed.]]
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* BadBoss: Commissioner Sarsuk is prone to killing geroo who annoy him with his own claws. He even "disciplined" Captain Ateri once by gouging out his eye. His replacement Pokokoro isn't much better, introducing herself
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* HolographicDisguise: The geordian hacker [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/TTL-Camouflage-787612011 Moani]] uses one to disguise herself as a geroo. Due to the height difference her eyes are in the hologram's chest.
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* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Largely averted with the krakun, their atmosphere contains sulfur levels lethal to most of their slave races, as does their food, though Kanti finds some roots that geroo can eat safely.
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** The krakun's atmosphere contains sulfur levels lethal to most of their slave races, as does their food, though Kanti finds some roots that geroo can eatsafely.safely.
** Ringels metabolize glycerol (antifreeze and sweetener) as an intoxicating alcohol.
** Geordians breathe ammonia, but they can survive the nitrogen-oxygen mix geroo and ringels favor with daily ammonia injections or masks.
** The krakun's atmosphere contains sulfur levels lethal to most of their slave races, as does their food, though Kanti finds some roots that geroo can eat
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The ''Hayven Celestia'' universe is a creation of Rick Griffin and [=Gre7g=] Luterman, based on Griffin's short story ''Literature/TenThousandMilesUp''.
The krakun, a race of massive, long-lived reptiles, have enslaved dozens of smaller species through their use of gateways transported by GenerationShips crewed by their shorter-lived slaves. The primary focus of these stories are the geroo crew of the ''White Flower II'', and their attempts to survive the oversight of their krakun overlords.
In 2014 Luterman wrote a serial fanfic of ''Ten Thousand Miles Up'' on his Livejournal titled "Skeleton Crew", which received Griffin's endorsement and has been published as the first of a trilogy of novels by Thurston Howl Publications.
Rick Griffin's Website/DeviantArt [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/gallery/54816318/Hayven-Celestia gallery]] hosts species sheets and other worldbuilding information.
Published by Rick Griffin:
* ''Literature/TenThousandMilesUp'' (novella)
* ''Final Days of the White Flower II''
** Book 1: ''Traitors, Thieves, and Liars''
Written by [=Gre7g=] Luterman:
* ''The Kanti Cycle''
** ''Skeleton Crew''
** ''Small World''
** ''Fair Trade''
* ''The Tori Mysteries''
** ''Reaper's Lottery''
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* BadBoss: Commissioner Sarsuk is prone to killing geroo who annoy him with his own claws. He even "disciplined" Captain Ateri once by gouging out his eye.
* GenerationShip: The ''White Flower II'' has been in transit for four hundred years, the current geroo crew are at least three generations removed from the original ones.
* IntelligentGerbil: Most sapient species resemble Earth animals to some extent:
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Geroo-New-Species-Sheet-732639532 Geroo]] resemble a sort of cross between kangaroos and ferrets.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Species-Sheet-Krakun-669567318 Krakun]] are somewhat [[OurDragonsAreDifferent draconic]] in appearance.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Ringel-Species-Sheet-754224891 Ringel]] very strongly resemble raccoons, but typically skinnier.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Anup-Species-Sheet-756718056 Anup]] are blatantly Anubian jackals.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Geordian-Species-Sheet-765700862 Geordians]] are catlike.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Sourang-Species-Sheet-765963711 Sourang]] seem a bit like lemurs or rodents of some sort.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Lio-Species-Sheet-766687114 Lio]] are practically lions.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Coosa-Species-Sheet-767307421 Coosa]] are just plain adorable!
* LongLived: The krakun live for twelve thousand years. Which might be why they don't mind sending slaves on multiple-century generation ships.
* MileLongShip: The White Flower II is actually three miles in ''diameter'', most of it is the gate and the rest of the ship is wrapped around the outer edge of the ring.
* NamingYourColonyWorld: One krakun colony is known as Krakuntec IX, formerly known as Gerootec. Pre-terraformed planets get mere alphanumeric designations like C18-3.
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Largely averted with the krakun, their atmosphere contains sulfur levels lethal to most of their slave races, as does their food, though Kanti finds some roots that geroo can eat safely.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Krakun are massive quadrupedal reptiles with wings who require atmospheres with a notable sulfur content.
* PopulationControl: The ''White Flower II'' has ten thousand "birth tokens" given out to crew members at birth and given away when they die. Female crew are given nanites that prevent pregnancy unless authorized and "illegal" births are considered a capital punishment by the company.
* PortalNetwork: The only means of FTLTravel. The krakun send gates crewed by slaves out as Generation Ships to explore, when they find inhabitable or potentially inhabitable worlds they use the gate to send more ships in.
* SlaveRace: The geroo and many other species are enslaved by the krakun.
* SpacePirates: Ateri makes a deal with some pirates who've apparently been following them for years.
* StealthInSpace: The pirates' plan revolves around the use of layered cloaking fields. [[spoiler: Ateri's own plan is to hide the Terraformer behind a cloak and make it look like it self-destructed.]]
* {{Terraform}}: The krakun have the technology, deployed from specialized ships.
** HostileTerraforming: Krakun need significant atmospheric sulfur levels, they attempted to increase Gerootec's sulfur levels, and accidentally turned it into a volcanic hellhole.
* WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture: Jakari admits that the use of slaves for deep space projects makes some sense, they can't be hacked. But she thinks commissioner Pokokuro's use to slaves to bathe her when machines could do it just as easily seems unnecessarily decadent.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Geroo on generation ships are euthanized at the age of sixty, with years taken off as punishment for crimes.
The krakun, a race of massive, long-lived reptiles, have enslaved dozens of smaller species through their use of gateways transported by GenerationShips crewed by their shorter-lived slaves. The primary focus of these stories are the geroo crew of the ''White Flower II'', and their attempts to survive the oversight of their krakun overlords.
In 2014 Luterman wrote a serial fanfic of ''Ten Thousand Miles Up'' on his Livejournal titled "Skeleton Crew", which received Griffin's endorsement and has been published as the first of a trilogy of novels by Thurston Howl Publications.
Rick Griffin's Website/DeviantArt [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/gallery/54816318/Hayven-Celestia gallery]] hosts species sheets and other worldbuilding information.
Published by Rick Griffin:
* ''Literature/TenThousandMilesUp'' (novella)
* ''Final Days of the White Flower II''
** Book 1: ''Traitors, Thieves, and Liars''
Written by [=Gre7g=] Luterman:
* ''The Kanti Cycle''
** ''Skeleton Crew''
** ''Small World''
** ''Fair Trade''
* ''The Tori Mysteries''
** ''Reaper's Lottery''
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!!Tropes:
* BadBoss: Commissioner Sarsuk is prone to killing geroo who annoy him with his own claws. He even "disciplined" Captain Ateri once by gouging out his eye.
* GenerationShip: The ''White Flower II'' has been in transit for four hundred years, the current geroo crew are at least three generations removed from the original ones.
* IntelligentGerbil: Most sapient species resemble Earth animals to some extent:
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Geroo-New-Species-Sheet-732639532 Geroo]] resemble a sort of cross between kangaroos and ferrets.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Species-Sheet-Krakun-669567318 Krakun]] are somewhat [[OurDragonsAreDifferent draconic]] in appearance.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Ringel-Species-Sheet-754224891 Ringel]] very strongly resemble raccoons, but typically skinnier.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Anup-Species-Sheet-756718056 Anup]] are blatantly Anubian jackals.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Geordian-Species-Sheet-765700862 Geordians]] are catlike.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Sourang-Species-Sheet-765963711 Sourang]] seem a bit like lemurs or rodents of some sort.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Lio-Species-Sheet-766687114 Lio]] are practically lions.
** [[https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/art/Coosa-Species-Sheet-767307421 Coosa]] are just plain adorable!
* LongLived: The krakun live for twelve thousand years. Which might be why they don't mind sending slaves on multiple-century generation ships.
* MileLongShip: The White Flower II is actually three miles in ''diameter'', most of it is the gate and the rest of the ship is wrapped around the outer edge of the ring.
* NamingYourColonyWorld: One krakun colony is known as Krakuntec IX, formerly known as Gerootec. Pre-terraformed planets get mere alphanumeric designations like C18-3.
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Largely averted with the krakun, their atmosphere contains sulfur levels lethal to most of their slave races, as does their food, though Kanti finds some roots that geroo can eat safely.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Krakun are massive quadrupedal reptiles with wings who require atmospheres with a notable sulfur content.
* PopulationControl: The ''White Flower II'' has ten thousand "birth tokens" given out to crew members at birth and given away when they die. Female crew are given nanites that prevent pregnancy unless authorized and "illegal" births are considered a capital punishment by the company.
* PortalNetwork: The only means of FTLTravel. The krakun send gates crewed by slaves out as Generation Ships to explore, when they find inhabitable or potentially inhabitable worlds they use the gate to send more ships in.
* SlaveRace: The geroo and many other species are enslaved by the krakun.
* SpacePirates: Ateri makes a deal with some pirates who've apparently been following them for years.
* StealthInSpace: The pirates' plan revolves around the use of layered cloaking fields. [[spoiler: Ateri's own plan is to hide the Terraformer behind a cloak and make it look like it self-destructed.]]
* {{Terraform}}: The krakun have the technology, deployed from specialized ships.
** HostileTerraforming: Krakun need significant atmospheric sulfur levels, they attempted to increase Gerootec's sulfur levels, and accidentally turned it into a volcanic hellhole.
* WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture: Jakari admits that the use of slaves for deep space projects makes some sense, they can't be hacked. But she thinks commissioner Pokokuro's use to slaves to bathe her when machines could do it just as easily seems unnecessarily decadent.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Geroo on generation ships are euthanized at the age of sixty, with years taken off as punishment for crimes.
