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[[caption-width-right:350:All your base, are belong to us.]]
''Space Force'' by Jeremy Robinson is a 2018 humorous MilitaryScienceFiction novel.
Captain Ethan Stone slept with the daughter of a general and has spent the past five years ReassignedToAntarctica as part of Space Force. Under the new administration, they have been defunded to the point of nonexistence and soon find out they are about to be discharged with the organization dissolved completely.
This is okay by Stone but not his partner, Jennifer Hale, a Native Hawaiian First Lieutenant who joined Space Force in hopes it would allow her to see the stars. Embarrassed by her naivite, she contemplates a relationship with Stone post-discharge when aliens invade. Aliens who are huge gamers and have decided Space Force will be the champions in a massive battle royale to determine who owns the Earth.
It is not to be confused with ''Series/SpaceForce2020''.
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* TheAce: Ethan Stone, despite being assigned to Space Force, is a former Navy SEAL and Tier One operator.
* ActionGirl: Hale is an AcePilot already but quickly ends up using advanced space weapons in hallways.
* AffectionateParody: Of high big-budget action scifi action movies like ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and ''Film/Battleship'' where AmericaSavesTheDay and a RagtagBandOfMisfits comes together to save the world. Our protagonists are the absolute last people in the world who would be chosen to defend the Earth and bumble through the situation mostly through luck. They also get a substantial amount of help from other nations that are better qualified and more capable. Also, who would have been able to have helped greatly if our heroes hadn't killed most of them.
* AliensAreBastards: The Chote are stereotypical online trolls and the worst sort of gamers, except they also invade planets and kill people for real in their games.
* AlienInvasion: The Chote invade the Earth but insist on a battle royale to determine who will control the planet.
* AsianAndNerdy: Jian is a Chinese hacker who is the physically weakest, a huge anime fan, and a massive gamer who knows Stone by his gaming livestreams versus special operations credentials.
* BattleRoyale: The aliens put sixty humans up against sixty aliens with an ever shrinking AdvancingWallOfDoom around them.
* TheCracker: Jian is one in the service of the Chinese government. He, sadly, points out this skill is useless against the aliens since their computers will undoubtedly use their own programming language.
* DidNotSeeThatComing: Space Force would have been massacred if not for the fact that they had a superpowered female robot on base. Neither the Chote nor Space Force itself knew about her existence.
* DrivenToSuicide: The Chote hate their own appearance so much that if seen naked, they will kill themselves rather than suffer the shame of it.
* EvilIsVisceral: The Chote all look like penises under their armor and explode in gross bloody ways. Even their bowel movements are like explosive jet streams as our heroes unfortunately discover.
* GenreSavvy: Stone and Taylor survive primarily due to their familiarity with BattleRoyale games.
* GotVolunteered: Taylor accidentally volunteers Space Force, which consists of about four people, to be the champions of Earth. He was just trying to check his cellphone.
* HiddenDepths: Loretta the Bus Driver proves to have these when she reveals she lost both of her children to war and is willing to perform a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the alien mothership. [[spoiler: It proves unnecessary.]]
* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Chote have incredibly advanced technology created by their most advanced minds but most of them are only able to work simple machinery. Indeed, the climax of the book has the protagonists struggling to work their devices because they're ''too'' simple and designed to be worked like an assembly line.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Hale frequently wonders what kind of sadistic weirdo would come up with such a cliche and bizarre premise. Later, she is interviewed by Jeremy Robinson alongside Stone.
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Ivan Petrovich is easily the toughest individual in the book aside from Captain Stone and attributes this to his HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood in Russia. This includes being shot three times by his parents for stealing cookies and having to kill his rabies-infected father with a flamethrower.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Billy Forte constructs a superpowered RobotGirl, Gerty, all by himself.
* NewMediaAreEvil: Played with. The Chote define themselves with the worst sort of gaming behavior found online (rudeness, racism, looting, mayhem, and teamkilling). So much so that they actually respect humanity for coming up with their games. Hale actually points out this means video games are not evil because humans keep that in the realm of the ''fictional.''
* PoorCommunicationKills: The Canadian, Russian, and Chinese Special Forces units come to fight the aliens only to mostly kill each other off. All of them want Space Force's experimental space fighter and its sole pilot, Hale, who ends up killing most of them herself.
* PunyEarthlings: The Chote are far stronger and more technologically advanced than humanity. Their armor is also immune to Earth weapons. Subverted in the fact the average Chote is much stupider than the soldiers of Space Force.
* RobotGirl: Gerty is a super-advanced android created by Billy Forte to be the former President's "companion" but instead was turned into a Terminator.
* ShipperOnDeck: Colonel Lauren Jones says that Stone and Hale should hook up since they're about to be discharged, are obviously attracted to one another, and they aren't likely to find better prospects.
* SkewedPriorities: Hale discovers the local news networks are more interested in whether she's going to marry Stone than the alien invasion that just began around them.
* SociopathicSoldier: Hale believes all of the Russian Special Ops soldiers are this and they don't help their case by gunning down the Canadian soldiers. Averted by Ivan who is a pleasant individual despite his ''odd'' qualities.
* SpaceOrcs: The Chote are obsessive gamers who pursue personal glory via murder, make obscene gestures over the dead, and cheat at video games. They're also described as being individually of below average human intelligence.
* SuperPrototype: Space Force, despite being shown to consist of a half-dozen people, possesses a fully functional starfighter (the only one in the world) as well as a SuperSoldier RobotGirl made by their resident tech genius.
* TakeThat: The novel is quite irreverant to many subjects.
** Jian is a hacker employed by the Chinese government to infiltrate the alien mothership and upload a computer virus like in ''Film/IndependenceDay.'' He points out this is insane and stupid since aliens wouldn't be using a human operating system.
** Space Force itself is depicted as a place to reassign problematic members of the US military, has no actual purpose before the alien invasion, and is a colosssal waste of everyone's time as well as talents.
** The "former President" is obviously Donald Trump (who created Space Force in RL) with no clear agenda, a bloated budget, and ridiculous demands like making a functioning starfighter as well as a SexBot (that was concealed from the other members).
** The new President, which doesn't appear to be Joe Biden but is a fictional Democrat, is a religious fanatic who ignores all the warnings about the imminent alien invasion due to his belief AmericaSavesTheDay.
* ToiletHumor: Quite a bit.
** Stone drops his cell phone in a full toilet and it is rendered useless.
** One of the Chote is caught using the bathroom by Stone and Taylor. He's more embarrassed by being seen naked than angry over being killed.
** The audio guns designed for use in space result in whoever is struck with them shitting themselves. This includes the Chote.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Russia, China, and Canada all sent Special Forces to fight the aliens but they end up killing each other or being killed by Space Force except for two other survivors.
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[[caption-width-right:350:All your base, are belong to us.]]
''Space Force'' by Jeremy Robinson is a 2018 humorous MilitaryScienceFiction novel.
Captain Ethan Stone slept with the daughter of a general and has spent the past five years ReassignedToAntarctica as part of Space Force. Under the new administration, they have been defunded to the point of nonexistence and soon find out they are about to be discharged with the organization dissolved completely.
This is okay by Stone but not his partner, Jennifer Hale, a Native Hawaiian First Lieutenant who joined Space Force in hopes it would allow her to see the stars. Embarrassed by her naivite, she contemplates a relationship with Stone post-discharge when aliens invade. Aliens who are huge gamers and have decided Space Force will be the champions in a massive battle royale to determine who owns the Earth.
It is not to be confused with ''Series/SpaceForce2020''.
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* TheAce: Ethan Stone, despite being assigned to Space Force, is a former Navy SEAL and Tier One operator.
* ActionGirl: Hale is an AcePilot already but quickly ends up using advanced space weapons in hallways.
* AffectionateParody: Of high big-budget action scifi action movies like ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and ''Film/Battleship'' where AmericaSavesTheDay and a RagtagBandOfMisfits comes together to save the world. Our protagonists are the absolute last people in the world who would be chosen to defend the Earth and bumble through the situation mostly through luck. They also get a substantial amount of help from other nations that are better qualified and more capable. Also, who would have been able to have helped greatly if our heroes hadn't killed most of them.
* AliensAreBastards: The Chote are stereotypical online trolls and the worst sort of gamers, except they also invade planets and kill people for real in their games.
* AlienInvasion: The Chote invade the Earth but insist on a battle royale to determine who will control the planet.
* AsianAndNerdy: Jian is a Chinese hacker who is the physically weakest, a huge anime fan, and a massive gamer who knows Stone by his gaming livestreams versus special operations credentials.
* BattleRoyale: The aliens put sixty humans up against sixty aliens with an ever shrinking AdvancingWallOfDoom around them.
* TheCracker: Jian is one in the service of the Chinese government. He, sadly, points out this skill is useless against the aliens since their computers will undoubtedly use their own programming language.
* DidNotSeeThatComing: Space Force would have been massacred if not for the fact that they had a superpowered female robot on base. Neither the Chote nor Space Force itself knew about her existence.
* DrivenToSuicide: The Chote hate their own appearance so much that if seen naked, they will kill themselves rather than suffer the shame of it.
* EvilIsVisceral: The Chote all look like penises under their armor and explode in gross bloody ways. Even their bowel movements are like explosive jet streams as our heroes unfortunately discover.
* GenreSavvy: Stone and Taylor survive primarily due to their familiarity with BattleRoyale games.
* GotVolunteered: Taylor accidentally volunteers Space Force, which consists of about four people, to be the champions of Earth. He was just trying to check his cellphone.
* HiddenDepths: Loretta the Bus Driver proves to have these when she reveals she lost both of her children to war and is willing to perform a HeroicSacrifice to destroy the alien mothership. [[spoiler: It proves unnecessary.]]
* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The Chote have incredibly advanced technology created by their most advanced minds but most of them are only able to work simple machinery. Indeed, the climax of the book has the protagonists struggling to work their devices because they're ''too'' simple and designed to be worked like an assembly line.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Hale frequently wonders what kind of sadistic weirdo would come up with such a cliche and bizarre premise. Later, she is interviewed by Jeremy Robinson alongside Stone.
* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Ivan Petrovich is easily the toughest individual in the book aside from Captain Stone and attributes this to his HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood in Russia. This includes being shot three times by his parents for stealing cookies and having to kill his rabies-infected father with a flamethrower.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Billy Forte constructs a superpowered RobotGirl, Gerty, all by himself.
* NewMediaAreEvil: Played with. The Chote define themselves with the worst sort of gaming behavior found online (rudeness, racism, looting, mayhem, and teamkilling). So much so that they actually respect humanity for coming up with their games. Hale actually points out this means video games are not evil because humans keep that in the realm of the ''fictional.''
* PoorCommunicationKills: The Canadian, Russian, and Chinese Special Forces units come to fight the aliens only to mostly kill each other off. All of them want Space Force's experimental space fighter and its sole pilot, Hale, who ends up killing most of them herself.
* PunyEarthlings: The Chote are far stronger and more technologically advanced than humanity. Their armor is also immune to Earth weapons. Subverted in the fact the average Chote is much stupider than the soldiers of Space Force.
* RobotGirl: Gerty is a super-advanced android created by Billy Forte to be the former President's "companion" but instead was turned into a Terminator.
* ShipperOnDeck: Colonel Lauren Jones says that Stone and Hale should hook up since they're about to be discharged, are obviously attracted to one another, and they aren't likely to find better prospects.
* SkewedPriorities: Hale discovers the local news networks are more interested in whether she's going to marry Stone than the alien invasion that just began around them.
* SociopathicSoldier: Hale believes all of the Russian Special Ops soldiers are this and they don't help their case by gunning down the Canadian soldiers. Averted by Ivan who is a pleasant individual despite his ''odd'' qualities.
* SpaceOrcs: The Chote are obsessive gamers who pursue personal glory via murder, make obscene gestures over the dead, and cheat at video games. They're also described as being individually of below average human intelligence.
* SuperPrototype: Space Force, despite being shown to consist of a half-dozen people, possesses a fully functional starfighter (the only one in the world) as well as a SuperSoldier RobotGirl made by their resident tech genius.
* TakeThat: The novel is quite irreverant to many subjects.
** Jian is a hacker employed by the Chinese government to infiltrate the alien mothership and upload a computer virus like in ''Film/IndependenceDay.'' He points out this is insane and stupid since aliens wouldn't be using a human operating system.
** Space Force itself is depicted as a place to reassign problematic members of the US military, has no actual purpose before the alien invasion, and is a colosssal waste of everyone's time as well as talents.
** The "former President" is obviously Donald Trump (who created Space Force in RL) with no clear agenda, a bloated budget, and ridiculous demands like making a functioning starfighter as well as a SexBot (that was concealed from the other members).
** The new President, which doesn't appear to be Joe Biden but is a fictional Democrat, is a religious fanatic who ignores all the warnings about the imminent alien invasion due to his belief AmericaSavesTheDay.
* ToiletHumor: Quite a bit.
** Stone drops his cell phone in a full toilet and it is rendered useless.
** One of the Chote is caught using the bathroom by Stone and Taylor. He's more embarrassed by being seen naked than angry over being killed.
** The audio guns designed for use in space result in whoever is struck with them shitting themselves. This includes the Chote.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Russia, China, and Canada all sent Special Forces to fight the aliens but they end up killing each other or being killed by Space Force except for two other survivors.
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