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* DeflectorShields: TheVerse's shield technology relies on manipulation of spacetime to bend incoming ordnance back in on itself. This destroys missiles outright and deflects kinetic and beam weapons. Douglas also recognizes that an effective deflector shield also makes for a decent cloaking device: the shields also block light, and must be dropped to return fire or send and receive transmissions. This means that ships under heavy enough fire can't shoot back, nor can they radio for help.
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* DeflectorShields: TheVerse's shield technology relies on manipulation of spacetime to bend incoming ordnance back in on itself. This destroys missiles outright and deflects kinetic and beam weapons. Douglas also recognizes that an effective deflector shield also makes for a decent cloaking device: the shields also block light, and must be dropped to return fire or send and receive transmissions. This means that ships under heavy enough fire can't shoot back, nor can they radio for help.help or give orders.
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* FantasticRacism[=/=]FantasticSlurs: Trevor Gray gets some of this due to his having [[DarkAndTroubledPast grown up in the slums in the ruins of Manhattan]]. "Prim," short for "primitive," is used against him by a couple of rather {{Jerkass}} squadmates who look down on him for his mild technophobia.
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* ExpandedStatesOfAmerica: {{Implied|Trope}}, based on the fact that it's now called the United States of ''North'' America.
* FantasticRacism[=/=]FantasticSlurs: Trevor Gray gets some of this due to his having [[DarkAndTroubledPast grown up in the slums in the ruins ofManhattan]].Manhattan]], outside USNA jurisdiction. "Prim," short for "primitive," is used against him by a couple of rather {{Jerkass}} squadmates who look down on him for his mild technophobia. Similarly "monogie," from "monogamous," is a slur used by the supposedly more enlightened arcology dwellers against those who reject their extended family sex circles.
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* NoWarpZone: Most starships in this series are unable to transit to Alcubierre drive within approximately 40 Astronomical Units of a star, and then only after accelerating to near-lightspeed in normal space. The Slan, however, [[spoiler: can apparently subvert this trope quite easily. Not only do they transit to FTL deep within a "NoWarpZone", but they do it without a long, tedious acceleration, even "micro-jumping" during combat to attack or evade.]]
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* NoWarpZone: NoWarpingZone: Most starships in this series are unable to transit to Alcubierre drive within approximately 40 Astronomical Units of a star, and then only after accelerating to near-lightspeed in normal space. The Slan, however, [[spoiler: can apparently subvert this trope quite easily. Not only do they transit to FTL deep within a "NoWarpZone", "NoWarpingZone", but they do it without a long, tedious acceleration, even "micro-jumping" during combat to attack or evade.]]
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* {{Arcology}}: Various ones on Earth, "grown" by throwing nanites at decommissioned garbage dumps to have them rearrange the available materials at the atomic level into {{Star Scrap|er}}ing arcologies.
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* TechnologyPorn: Many, many, many infodumps on how the AppliedPhlebotinum of the setting works.
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** Regional/SocietalCollapse: In the backstory. Global warming-induced sea level rise forced the evacuation of most coastal regions; they're currently lawless slums. WorldWarIII was set off by Islamic terrorists nuking several major cities around the world, and World War IV by a Chinese ColonyDrop that struck the South Atlantic and killed half a billion people. As a result the Islamic alliance is barely tolerated by the Confederation Parliament and the Chinese Hegemony is denied representation altogether.
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** Regional/SocietalCollapse: Regional/Societal Collapse: In the backstory. Global warming-induced sea level rise forced the evacuation of most coastal regions; they're currently lawless slums. WorldWarIII was set off by Islamic terrorists nuking several major cities around the world, and World War IV by a Chinese ColonyDrop that struck the South Atlantic and killed half a billion people. As a result the Islamic alliance is barely tolerated by the Confederation Parliament and the Chinese Hegemony is denied representation altogether.
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* ApocalypseHow: In chronological order:
** Regional/SocietalCollapse: In the backstory. Global warming-induced sea level rise forced the evacuation of most coastal regions; they're currently lawless slums. WorldWarIII was set off by Islamic terrorists nuking several major cities around the world, and World War IV by a Chinese ColonyDrop that struck the South Atlantic and killed half a billion people. As a result the Islamic alliance is barely tolerated by the Confederation Parliament and the Chinese Hegemony is denied representation altogether.
** In ''Earth Strike'', when the Turusch return to Mufrid they do a Planetary/Human Extinction by long-range kinetic strike. [[spoiler:They attempt to do the same to Sol, but thanks to the heroics of ''America's'' fighter group it is reduced to Stellar/Societal Disruption.]]
** Regional/SocietalCollapse: In the backstory. Global warming-induced sea level rise forced the evacuation of most coastal regions; they're currently lawless slums. WorldWarIII was set off by Islamic terrorists nuking several major cities around the world, and World War IV by a Chinese ColonyDrop that struck the South Atlantic and killed half a billion people. As a result the Islamic alliance is barely tolerated by the Confederation Parliament and the Chinese Hegemony is denied representation altogether.
** In ''Earth Strike'', when the Turusch return to Mufrid they do a Planetary/Human Extinction by long-range kinetic strike. [[spoiler:They attempt to do the same to Sol, but thanks to the heroics of ''America's'' fighter group it is reduced to Stellar/Societal Disruption.]]
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* {{Wingman}}: In theory Terran Confederation fighter pilots in the ''Literature/StarCarrier'' series are organized into wing-pairs. Trevor Gray's is Lt. Katie Tucker. In practice the chaotic nature of fighting in a 3D environment where ships can spin on a dime and fly backwards on inertia while shooting guys behind them means that more often than not, pilots fight individually and cover their own asses.
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* MileLongShip: ''America'' is stated to be a kilometer long, and the Turusch have several ships that are created from hollowed-out asteroids that are several times larger. H'rulka ships are nearly twent
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* AlienCatnip: Acetic acid (read: vinegar) is a mild intoxicant for the Agletsch.
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* FantasticDrug: Acetic acid (read: vinegar) is a mild intoxicant for the Agletsch.
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* OldSchoolDogfight: Played with. Fighters have weapons aimed on the forward arc and use similar maneuvers to dogfighting. However they also carry a good number of nuclear-tipped homing missiles and are quite capable of pivoting to shoot targets behind them while flying backwards on inertia. The ranges are also far greater, such that one of the purposes of shipboard AI is to calculate firing solutions (the pilot picks who to shoot, the AI picks ''how'' to shoot).
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* OldSchoolDogfight: Played with. Fighters have weapons aimed on the forward arc and use similar maneuvers to dogfighting. However they also carry a good number of nuclear-tipped homing missiles and are quite capable of pivoting to shoot targets behind them while flying backwards on inertia. The ranges are also far greater, such that one of the purposes of shipboard AI is to calculate firing solutions (the pilot picks who to shoot, the AI picks ''how'' to shoot).
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* SpaceIsAnOcean: But one that relies on 20th- and 21st-century nautical metaphors rather than ones from the Age of Sail, somewhat like ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined''. For example, it's not a bridge or quarterdeck, it's a CIC, and the commander of the fighter wing has the title "Commander, Air Group" (which gets lampshaded, and explained as the old name sticking despite efforts to update it), CAG for short. And space itself is not an ocean.
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* FantasticDrug: Acetic acid (read: vinegar) is a mild intoxicant for the Agletsch.
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* TheEmpire: The Sh'daar are called one, and in fact are one in the governmental sense of the word, as a conglomeration of various peoples under a single totalitarian government.
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The ''Star Carrier'' series is a series of MilitaryScienceFiction novels by Creator/WilliamHKeithJr under his pen name Ian Douglas, better known for a variety of ExpandedUniverse titles and the nine books of the ''Literature/GalacticMarines'' series.
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* OrbitalBombardment: Frequent Turusch tactic, though the ranges vary considerably, ranging from continuous orbit-to-surface fire to kinetic strikes from several AU away.
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* KickedUpstairs: In ''Center of Gravity'' the Peace Faction in the Confederation Senate tries to
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* AbnormalAmmo: H'rulka weapons shoot what amounts to miniature black holes at enemy ships. They can one-shot smaller Confederation ships at quite long range.
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* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: Cleanly averted. Eta Boötis IV, locally called Mufrid, is more like Venus than Earth, but has several types of native life and several hab-dome colonies.
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* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: Cleanly averted. Eta Boötis IV, locally called Mufrid, is more like Venus than Earth, but has several types of native life and several hab-dome colonies. Various other species are known to have evolved on non-Earthlike planets.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Koenig's FriendsWithBenefits lover Admiral Karyn Mendelson is killed by one of the long-range kinetic strikes launched by the Turusch during their attack on Sol in ''Earth Strike''.]]
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* TheFederation: A pretty good example of a federation in the legal sense. Earth's nation-states are still around in various forms, but they all contribute representatives to a world government that grew into the Confederation, and contribute ships and soldiers to the Confederate military. The ''America's'' prefix TC/USNA denotes the Confederation first and her nation of origin, the [[ExpandedStatesOfAmerica United States of North America]], second.
* HigherTechSpecies: The Turusch are noted to have better combat tech than the Confederation.
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* FasterThanLightTravel: Ships accelerate to near ''c'', then use the extra relativistic mass to bend spacetime around themselves to accelerate past lightspeed. Most Confederation ships can make about a light-year and a half per day.
* TheFederation: A pretty good example of a federation in the legal sense. Earth's nation-states are still around in various forms, but they all contribute representatives to a world government that grew into the Confederation, and contribute ships and soldiers to the Confederate military. The ''America's'' prefix TC/USNA denotes the Confederation first and her nation of origin, the [[ExpandedStatesOfAmerica United States of North America]],second.
second. The Confederation Senate is a parliamentary system with no political parties and where the executive and legislative branches are merged.
* FrickinLaserBeams:
** Turusch and human ships have particle beam emitters that accelerate charged particles drawn from the zero point field to near ''c''. They vary in effectiveness but are generally not as powerful as their kinetic guns and missiles.
** The Sora ships introduced in ''Center of Gravity'' are armed with gamma ray lasers that are terrifyingly efficient against fighters.
* HigherTechSpecies: The Turusch are noted to have better combat tech than the Confederation. The H'rulka in turn are even higher on the scale.
* TheFederation: A pretty good example of a federation in the legal sense. Earth's nation-states are still around in various forms, but they all contribute representatives to a world government that grew into the Confederation, and contribute ships and soldiers to the Confederate military. The ''America's'' prefix TC/USNA denotes the Confederation first and her nation of origin, the [[ExpandedStatesOfAmerica United States of North America]],
* FrickinLaserBeams:
** Turusch and human ships have particle beam emitters that accelerate charged particles drawn from the zero point field to near ''c''. They vary in effectiveness but are generally not as powerful as their kinetic guns and missiles.
** The Sora ships introduced in ''Center of Gravity'' are armed with gamma ray lasers that are terrifyingly efficient against fighters.
* HigherTechSpecies: The Turusch are noted to have better combat tech than the Confederation. The H'rulka in turn are even higher on the scale.
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* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Various types of kinetic weapons are used in conjunction with nuclear warheads and beam weapons, [[spoiler:including in a devastating attack on Sol]]. In particular two capital ships in the ''America'' battle group are described as using [[MagneticWeapons railguns]] for their primary weapons, and in addition to their other armaments SG-92 Starhawks are armed with [[MoreDakka Gatling railguns]] that fire steel-jacketed[[note]]so the magnetic fields have something to launch it with[[/note]] degenerate matter.
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* KickedUpstairs: In ''Center of Gravity'' the Peace Faction in the Confederation Senate tries to
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Various types of kinetic weapons are used in conjunction with nuclear warheads and beam weapons, [[spoiler:including in a devastating attack on Sol]]. In particular two capital ships in the ''America'' battle group are described as using [[MagneticWeapons railguns]] for their primary weapons, and in addition to their other armaments SG-92 Starhawks are armed with [[MoreDakka Gatling railguns]] that fire steel-jacketed[[note]]so the magnetic fields have something to launch it with[[/note]]degenerate matter.depleted uranium slugs. ''America'' herself sometimes uses her fighter launch catapults to accelerate slugs instead. And of course there's the non-standard tricks Trevor Gray has used with AMSO canisters, anti-missile countermeasures filled with sand. [[spoiler:In ''Earth Strike'', he and the fighters he's leading accelerate to near light-speed before firing the canisters at the Turusch. This causes a spectacular amount of chaos and wins the day. In ''Center of Gravity'' Gray destroys the previously mentioned Sora ships the same way.]]
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Various types of kinetic weapons are used in conjunction with nuclear warheads and beam weapons, [[spoiler:including in a devastating attack on Sol]]. In particular two capital ships in the ''America'' battle group are described as using [[MagneticWeapons railguns]] for their primary weapons, and in addition to their other armaments SG-92 Starhawks are armed with [[MoreDakka Gatling railguns]] that fire steel-jacketed[[note]]so the magnetic fields have something to launch it with[[/note]]
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* ProudMerchantRace: The Agletsch are this by day. They also unknowingly act as forward scouts for the Sh'daar Masters, evaluating new species.
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* ReportingNames: Turusch capital ships are designated with the MilitaryAlphabet since the Confederation doesn't know their actual names. Also the Turusch apparently call themselves the Gweh, with "Turusch" being the name given to them by the Agletsch.
* TheSingularity: The Sh'daar Masters are reportedly attempting to prevent humanity from reaching it. One theory floated in ''Center of Gravity'' is that the Sh'daar are actually Luddites (relatively speaking) left over from a race that ''did'' achieve the Singularity and vanished.
* TheSingularity: The Sh'daar Masters are reportedly attempting to prevent humanity from reaching it. One theory floated in ''Center of Gravity'' is that the Sh'daar are actually Luddites (relatively speaking) left over from a race that ''did'' achieve the Singularity and vanished.
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* WorldWarIII: Earth is noted to have suffered it, mostly started by Islamic radicals getting ahold of nuclear weapons and destroying several major cities including Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C. There's also been a war with the Chinese Hegemony that involved a ColonyDrop.
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* StarfishAliens: Most of them.
** The Turusch evolved to live in Venus-like atmospheres and exist as pairs of cylindrical organisms with a StarfishLanguage where each speak a different line, and the two lines together form a third.
** The H'rulka are {{Living Gasbag}}s, colony organisms a couple hundred meters long that originated in the upper atmosphere of a gas giant and were technologically uplifted by an unidentified Sh'daar race called the Starborn.
** The Agletsch are spider-shaped aliens with a method of eating that most humans find very disgusting.
* TimeDilation: Taken into account with high velocities, but it's more of a wrinkle of a few extra minutes or hours due to a
* WorldWarIII: Earth is noted to have suffered it, mostly started by Islamic radicals getting ahold of nuclear weapons and destroying several major cities including Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C. There's also been a war with the Chinese Hegemony that involved aColonyDrop.ColonyDrop which struck the South Atlantic and killed half a billion people.
** The Turusch evolved to live in Venus-like atmospheres and exist as pairs of cylindrical organisms with a StarfishLanguage where each speak a different line, and the two lines together form a third.
** The H'rulka are {{Living Gasbag}}s, colony organisms a couple hundred meters long that originated in the upper atmosphere of a gas giant and were technologically uplifted by an unidentified Sh'daar race called the Starborn.
** The Agletsch are spider-shaped aliens with a method of eating that most humans find very disgusting.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Koenig's FriendsWithBenefits lover Admiral Karyn Mendelson is killed by one of the long-range kinetic strikes launched by the Turusch during their attack on Sol in ''Earth Strike''.]]
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* FantasticRacism[=/=]FantasticSlurs: Trevor Gray gets some of this due to his having [[DarkAndTroubledPast grown up in the slums in the ruins of Manhattan]]. "Prim," short for "primitive," is used against him by a couple of rather {{Jerkass}} squadmates who look down on him for his mild technophobia.
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* InterserviceRivalry: Marines/Navy, mostly played for laughs. For example, the Marines general on Mufrid grumping that he had to get his ass bailed out by the Navy.
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* AcePilot: The VFA-44 Dragonfires, with Commander Marissa Allyn and Lieutenant Trevor Gray being particular examples.
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* AcePilot: The VFA-44 Dragonfires, with Commander Marissa Allyn and Lieutenant Trevor Gray being particular examples. Allyn's Blue Omegas at one point use the Bushwhacker style to ambush some Turusch fighters.
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* HomeGuard: The High Guard, a sub-fleet of the Navy that acts mostly as an early warning system for Earth and was originally set up to spot and prevent {{Colony Drop}}s. [[spoiler:Several High Guard ships sacrifice themselves to provide intelligence on a Turusch fleet attacking Triton, [[SenselessSacrifice which turns out to be a diversion]].]]
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* SpaceFighter: The SG-92 Starhawks have variable hull geometry (nanotech is involved) that allows them to reconfigure themselves between several forms: a slim needle for launch and space combat, an airfoil for atmospheric flight, and a sperm-like teardrop for crossing distances at near-''c''. They're armed with kiloton-yield nuclear missiles, the aformentioned Gatling railguns, and a particle beam. Turusch "Toads" are armed similarly but are more massive, less maneuverable, and lack the variable geometry which makes them crap for air combat.
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The series focuses on the efforts of Admiral Alexander Koenig, commanding officer of the a Confederation Navy battle group led by the [[MileLongShip kilometer-long]] star carrier ''America'' ''America'', to turn back the Turusch and save humanity. It currently consists of:
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[[caption-width-right:305:At center, [[CoolStarship TC/USNA CVS]] ''[[CoolStarship America]]''. Launching from her bays, [[SpaceFighter SG-92 Starhawks]].]]
The ''Star Carrier'' series is a series of MilitaryScienceFiction novels by Creator/WilliamHKeithJr under his pen name Ian Douglas, better known for the nine books of the ''Literature/GalacticMarines'' series.
In the 24th century humanity is a spacefaring power, the Terran Confederation of States, that had been trading profitably for about fifty years with a species called the Agletsch Collective. This came to an abrupt end when the masters of the Agletsch, a vast empire calling themselves the Sh'daar, demanded that humanity take its place as a vassal state or cease all trade with the Collective. There was [[{{Understatement}} some disagreement on that point]], and when the series picks up in 2404 with ''Earth Strike'' humanity has spent the last four decades slowly losing ground to a second, very warlike, Sh'daar vassal race called the Turusch.
The series focuses on the efforts of Admiral Alexander Koenig, commanding officer of the Confederation Navy battle group led by the [[MileLongShip kilometer-long]] star carrier ''America'' to turn back the Turusch and save humanity. It currently consists of:
* ''Earth Strike'' (2010)
* ''Center of Gravity'' (2011)
* ''Singularity'' (2012)
* ''Deep Space'' (2013)
The series is pretty crispy mil-SF, probably rating Mohs/PhysicsPlus on the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness. Spacetime manipulation is about the only really out-there technology and it informs much of the rest.
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!! The ''Star Carrier'' series provides examples of:
* AcePilot: The VFA-44 Dragonfires, with Commander Marissa Allyn and Lieutenant Trevor Gray being particular examples.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: Cleanly averted. Eta Boötis IV, locally called Mufrid, is more like Venus than Earth, but has several types of native life and several hab-dome colonies.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: [[spoiler:''Earth Strike's'' title is justified: two-thirds of the way through the book, the Turusch launch an attack on Sol. Thanks to Koenig spotting their diversion and managing to intercept the main force, coupled with an absolutely insane offensive use of anti-missile countermeasures by Trevor Gray, the attack does much less damage than it rightfully should have, but that's a relative statement: millions are killed by long-range kinetic strikes to Earth, Mars, and several space stations, including much of the Confederation military brass.]]
* TheBattlestar: ''America's'' primary armament is her fighters, but she does have a modicum of weaponry of her own and is quite well-shielded.
* BigApplesauce: New York, along with most other coastal cities, had to be evacuated because of rising sea levels. What was left was devastated by tsunami brought on by a Chinese ColonyDrop.
* DeflectorShields: TheVerse's shield technology relies on manipulation of spacetime to bend incoming ordnance back in on itself. This destroys missiles outright and deflects kinetic and beam weapons.
* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: In the wake of WorldWarIII, sparked in large part by radical Islam, every faith was required to ratify a pledge called the White Covenant that outlawed many religious practices. It took the "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins" approach: ''all'' adherents of ''all'' faiths could believe as they wished so long as that belief did not harm others. Proselytizing, most missionary work, and conversion by threat or force were now violations of basic human rights. Naturally this didn't go over well, with some, such as the colonists on Mufrid, choosing to GTFO rather than ratify.
* TheFederation: A pretty good example of a federation in the legal sense. Earth's nation-states are still around in various forms, but they all contribute representatives to a world government that grew into the Confederation, and contribute ships and soldiers to the Confederate military. The ''America's'' prefix TC/USNA denotes the Confederation first and her nation of origin, the [[ExpandedStatesOfAmerica United States of North America]], second.
* HigherTechSpecies: The Turusch are noted to have better combat tech than the Confederation.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Various types of kinetic weapons are used in conjunction with nuclear warheads and beam weapons, [[spoiler:including in a devastating attack on Sol]]. In particular two ships on the Confederate side particular are described as using [[MagneticWeapons railguns]] for their primary weapons, and in addition to their other armaments SG-92 Starhawks are armed with [[MoreDakka Gatling railguns]].
* MacrossMissileMassacre: The primary method of fighter combat, and the primary Turusch point-defense technique.
* MileLongShip: ''America'' is stated to be a kilometer long, and the Turusch have several ships that are created from hollowed-out asteroids that are several times larger.
* ThePoliticalOfficer: The rather useless John Quintanilla is the ''America's'' so-called political liaison. He doesn't really have any power over the fleet's operations and is at worst an irritant to Koenig.
* ReactionlessDrive: Ships bigger than 80 meters use an Alcubierre drive to accelerate to speeds fast enough to cross solar systems in hours. It's noted in an {{infodump}} that turning it off drops the ship back to the speed they started at, making a suggestion by ''America's'' Senate liaison foolish. Ships smaller than 80 meters can generate a singularity ahead of the ship that allows far greater accelerations: Whereas it takes the battle group the better part of an Earth day to cross to Mufrid from the Eta Boötis Kuiper Belt, the fighter squadron Koenig sends ahead for a surprise attack crosses in about an hour and a half.
* StandardSciFiFleet: Space fighters, reconnaissance ships, destroyers, frigates, heavy cruisers, line battleships, carriers, command and control ships, et cetera.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Koenig's FriendsWithBenefits lover Admiral Karyn Mendelson is killed by one of the long-range kinetic strikes launched by the Turusch during their attack on Sol in ''Earth Strike''.]]
* WorldWarIII: Earth is noted to have suffered it, mostly started by Islamic radicals getting ahold of nuclear weapons and destroying several major cities including Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C. There's also been a war with the Chinese Hegemony that involved a ColonyDrop.
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[[caption-width-right:305:At center, [[CoolStarship TC/USNA CVS]] ''[[CoolStarship America]]''. Launching from her bays, [[SpaceFighter SG-92 Starhawks]].]]
The ''Star Carrier'' series is a series of MilitaryScienceFiction novels by Creator/WilliamHKeithJr under his pen name Ian Douglas, better known for the nine books of the ''Literature/GalacticMarines'' series.
In the 24th century humanity is a spacefaring power, the Terran Confederation of States, that had been trading profitably for about fifty years with a species called the Agletsch Collective. This came to an abrupt end when the masters of the Agletsch, a vast empire calling themselves the Sh'daar, demanded that humanity take its place as a vassal state or cease all trade with the Collective. There was [[{{Understatement}} some disagreement on that point]], and when the series picks up in 2404 with ''Earth Strike'' humanity has spent the last four decades slowly losing ground to a second, very warlike, Sh'daar vassal race called the Turusch.
The series focuses on the efforts of Admiral Alexander Koenig, commanding officer of the Confederation Navy battle group led by the [[MileLongShip kilometer-long]] star carrier ''America'' to turn back the Turusch and save humanity. It currently consists of:
* ''Earth Strike'' (2010)
* ''Center of Gravity'' (2011)
* ''Singularity'' (2012)
* ''Deep Space'' (2013)
The series is pretty crispy mil-SF, probably rating Mohs/PhysicsPlus on the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness. Spacetime manipulation is about the only really out-there technology and it informs much of the rest.
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!! The ''Star Carrier'' series provides examples of:
* AcePilot: The VFA-44 Dragonfires, with Commander Marissa Allyn and Lieutenant Trevor Gray being particular examples.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: Cleanly averted. Eta Boötis IV, locally called Mufrid, is more like Venus than Earth, but has several types of native life and several hab-dome colonies.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: [[spoiler:''Earth Strike's'' title is justified: two-thirds of the way through the book, the Turusch launch an attack on Sol. Thanks to Koenig spotting their diversion and managing to intercept the main force, coupled with an absolutely insane offensive use of anti-missile countermeasures by Trevor Gray, the attack does much less damage than it rightfully should have, but that's a relative statement: millions are killed by long-range kinetic strikes to Earth, Mars, and several space stations, including much of the Confederation military brass.]]
* TheBattlestar: ''America's'' primary armament is her fighters, but she does have a modicum of weaponry of her own and is quite well-shielded.
* BigApplesauce: New York, along with most other coastal cities, had to be evacuated because of rising sea levels. What was left was devastated by tsunami brought on by a Chinese ColonyDrop.
* DeflectorShields: TheVerse's shield technology relies on manipulation of spacetime to bend incoming ordnance back in on itself. This destroys missiles outright and deflects kinetic and beam weapons.
* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: In the wake of WorldWarIII, sparked in large part by radical Islam, every faith was required to ratify a pledge called the White Covenant that outlawed many religious practices. It took the "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins" approach: ''all'' adherents of ''all'' faiths could believe as they wished so long as that belief did not harm others. Proselytizing, most missionary work, and conversion by threat or force were now violations of basic human rights. Naturally this didn't go over well, with some, such as the colonists on Mufrid, choosing to GTFO rather than ratify.
* TheFederation: A pretty good example of a federation in the legal sense. Earth's nation-states are still around in various forms, but they all contribute representatives to a world government that grew into the Confederation, and contribute ships and soldiers to the Confederate military. The ''America's'' prefix TC/USNA denotes the Confederation first and her nation of origin, the [[ExpandedStatesOfAmerica United States of North America]], second.
* HigherTechSpecies: The Turusch are noted to have better combat tech than the Confederation.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: Various types of kinetic weapons are used in conjunction with nuclear warheads and beam weapons, [[spoiler:including in a devastating attack on Sol]]. In particular two ships on the Confederate side particular are described as using [[MagneticWeapons railguns]] for their primary weapons, and in addition to their other armaments SG-92 Starhawks are armed with [[MoreDakka Gatling railguns]].
* MacrossMissileMassacre: The primary method of fighter combat, and the primary Turusch point-defense technique.
* MileLongShip: ''America'' is stated to be a kilometer long, and the Turusch have several ships that are created from hollowed-out asteroids that are several times larger.
* ThePoliticalOfficer: The rather useless John Quintanilla is the ''America's'' so-called political liaison. He doesn't really have any power over the fleet's operations and is at worst an irritant to Koenig.
* ReactionlessDrive: Ships bigger than 80 meters use an Alcubierre drive to accelerate to speeds fast enough to cross solar systems in hours. It's noted in an {{infodump}} that turning it off drops the ship back to the speed they started at, making a suggestion by ''America's'' Senate liaison foolish. Ships smaller than 80 meters can generate a singularity ahead of the ship that allows far greater accelerations: Whereas it takes the battle group the better part of an Earth day to cross to Mufrid from the Eta Boötis Kuiper Belt, the fighter squadron Koenig sends ahead for a surprise attack crosses in about an hour and a half.
* StandardSciFiFleet: Space fighters, reconnaissance ships, destroyers, frigates, heavy cruisers, line battleships, carriers, command and control ships, et cetera.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Koenig's FriendsWithBenefits lover Admiral Karyn Mendelson is killed by one of the long-range kinetic strikes launched by the Turusch during their attack on Sol in ''Earth Strike''.]]
* WorldWarIII: Earth is noted to have suffered it, mostly started by Islamic radicals getting ahold of nuclear weapons and destroying several major cities including Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C. There's also been a war with the Chinese Hegemony that involved a ColonyDrop.
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