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* MindRape: Delvers can force people near them to experience horrifying hallucinations and can force cytonics near them to feal their horrible emotions and hatred of life.

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* MindRape: Delvers can force people near them to experience horrifying hallucinations and can force cytonics near them to feal feel their horrible emotions and hatred of life.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: This book involves way more direct interactions with alien species, so we get to see a lot of this. For instance, Hesho is the heir of a monarchy and Spensa notes how archaic a system of government that is--[[{{Irony}} and that Detrius's system of letting proven soldiers and military leaders make all the decisions is the best.]] She also meets the Dione people, who can test out the personalities when the parents temporarily merge. This phase is called a draft, and if the extended family don't like the personality the parents separate and merge again. Then during the book's finale [[spoiler: Spensa finds out why the delvers seem to be a ChaoticEvil species. They actually aren't, it turns out that they didn't realize the small creatures telegraphing so much hatred at them were alive like they were. They only felt so much hate because that's what anyone who interacted with them felt for them.]]

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: This book involves way more direct interactions with alien species, so we get to see a lot of this. For instance, Hesho is the heir of a monarchy and Spensa notes how archaic a system of government that is--[[{{Irony}} and that Detrius's system of letting proven soldiers and military leaders make all the decisions is the best.]] She also meets the Dione people, who can test out the personalities when the parents temporarily merge. This phase is called a draft, and if the extended family don't like the personality the parents separate and merge again. Then during the book's finale [[spoiler: Spensa [[spoiler:Spensa finds out why the delvers seem to be a ChaoticEvil AlwaysChaoticEvil species. They actually aren't, it turns out that they didn't realize the small creatures telegraphing so much hatred at them were alive like they were. They only felt so much hate because that's what anyone who interacted with them felt for them.]]



* ChekhovsGun: It's mentioned early in the book that dione "drafts" (diones in the middle of their BizarreAlienReproduction cycle), have two linked brains. [[spoiler: It turns out that this makes drafts almost immune to the hallucinations that the delvers use to defend themselves: since no two people see the same hallucination, a draft sees two separate illusions and can use this perspective to figure out what's actually real.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Doomslug and their species is the key to safe hyperspace travel.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: It's mentioned early in the book that dione "drafts" (diones in the middle of their BizarreAlienReproduction cycle), have two linked brains. [[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It turns out that this makes drafts almost immune to the hallucinations that the delvers use to defend themselves: since no two people see the same hallucination, a draft sees two separate illusions and can use this perspective to figure out what's actually real.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Doomslug [[spoiler:Doomslug and their species is the key to safe hyperspace travel.]]
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->''"We were allies once. They say that you were monsters. But I thought... nothing can be more monstrous than they are... And if anyone can fight... it would be the ones they locked away... the terror that once nearly defeated them... I opened myself up--I searched for you for so long. And only now did I finally hear you, calling out. Don't trust... their lies. Don't trust... their false peace."''

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->''"We were allies once. They say that you were monsters. But I thought... nothing can be more monstrous than they are... And if anyone can fight... it would be the ones they locked away... the terror that once nearly defeated them... I opened myself up--I searched for you for so long. And only now did I finally hear you, calling out. Don't ->''"Don't trust... their lies. Don't trust... their false peace."''

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