History Literature / VattasPeace

A scifi novel series by Creator/ElizabethMoon and sequel series to the 'Literature/VattasWar'' series.

* TheLoad: Kylara's aide, Jen, is stuffy and strict on regulations, even on a world with a completely different and more relaxed set, and in emergency conditions.
* PlanetOfHats: The Cascadia hat as a lethally polite planet takes on a darker tone than in the first series, where to the protagonists it was a mostly harmless and fairly useful ally, becoming one of the major supporters of the Space Defense Force and a second home for Vatta. Here, stuffiness that always went with the politeness is accentuated, leading Ky's Cascadian aide, Jen, to undermine her command and Cascadia to hold Ky and Vatta responsible when Jen dies caught in crossfire with a traitor, stripping Ky of the command she created and freezing her assets. Stella is also rather nonplussed when she learns after AssassinOutclassin two men who broke in while she was in the bathtub, that if they'd survived the Cascadians would have executed them for ''[[FelonyMisdemeanor discourtesy]]''.

* TooDumbToLive: A couple of slackers literally qualify when they catch a pufferfish and try to eat it without sharing with the rest of the group, dosing themselves with neurotoxin as they didn't take care of the poison sac properly, ''despite'' having already been informed of the danger.

''Cold Welcome''
''Into the Fire''

* PlanetOfHats: The Cascadia hat as a lethally polite planet takes on a darker tone than in the first series, where to the protagonists it was a mostly harmless and fairly useful ally, becoming one of the major supporters of the Space Defense Force and a second home for Vatta. Here, stuffiness that always went with the politeness is accentuated, leading Ky's Cascadian aide, Jen, to undermine her command and Cascadia to hold Ky and Vatta responsible when Jen dies caught in crossfire with a traitor, stripping Ky of the command she created and freezing her assets.

A couple of years have passed since the victory that ended Vattas War, and the Space Defense Force Kylara Vatta founded and commands is still hunting the remnants of Gamnis Tureks fleet, if the supporting nations can be cajoled into keeping the SDF funded. However, Ky has been called back to her home planet of Slotter Key to attend to the business of her family and its rebuilding trade empire, and so reluctantly she returns to the place where most of her family was killed. When her shuttle trip down is sabotaged and the Academy Commandant who had come to receive her is killed, Kylara takes command of the motley mix of survivors, not all of whom are friendly, and gets them to shore on a chilly continent thought dead, but which turns out to be anything but, dodging dangers both human and climatic. Meanwhile, friends and family, including her lover, Rafe Dunbarger, CEO of InterStellar Communications, still a massive corporation if rapidly downsizing due to the revelations of the previous series, do what they can from afar to find and assist her. But the conspiracy that landed her in polar waters isn't finished yet...

A couple of years have passed since the victory that ended Vattas War, and the Space Defense Force Kylara Vatta founded and commands is still hunting the remnants of Gamnis Tureks fleet, if the supporting nations can be cajoled into keeping the fleet going. However, Ky has been called back to her home planet of Slotter Key to attend to the business of her family and its rebuilding trade empire, and so reluctantly she returns to the place where most of her family was killed. When her shuttle trip down is sabotaged and the Academy Commandant who had come to receive her is killed, Kylara takes command of the motley mix of survivors, not all of whom are friendly, and gets them to land on a chilly continent thought dead, but which turns out to be anything but, dodging dangers both human and climatic. Meanwhile, friends and family, including her lover, Rafe Dunbarger, CEO of InterStellar Communications, still a massive corporation if rapidly downsizing due to the revelations of the previous series, do what they can from afar to find and assist her. But the conspiracy that landed her in polar waters isn't finished yet...

* PlanetOfHats: Cascadia hat as the lethally polite planet takes on a darker tone than in the first series, where to the protagonists it was a mostly harmless and fairly useful ally, becoming one of the major supporters of the Space Defense Force and a second home for Vatta. Here, stuffiness that always went with the politeness is accentuated, leading Ky's Cascadian aide, Jen, to undermine her command and Cascadia to hold Ky and Vatta responsible when Jen dies caught in crossfire with a traitor, stripping Ky of the command she created and freezing her assets.

* PlanetOfHats: Cascadia takes on a darker tone than in the first series, where to the protagonists it was a mostly harmless and fairly useful ally, if overly polite, becoming one of the major supporters of the Space Defense Force and a second home for Vatta. Here, stuffiness goes with the politeness, leading Ky's Cascadian aide, Jen, to undermine her command and Cascadia to hold Ky and Vatta responsible when Jen dies caught in crossfire with a traitor, stripping Ky of the command she created and freezing her assets.
* SelectiveObliviousness: For hundreds of years Slotter Key has ignored its southern continent, vaguely tagged a terraforming failure and therefore assumed devoid of life. This apparently causes them to completely ignore the lack of proper satellite imagery and overwatch, the extensive vegetation on a continent they assume is denuded (which should have been quite visible to the eye from orbit regardless of the lack of imagery), and the wildlife that includes caribou, polar bears, and ''woolly mammoths'' (animals the characters make clear they either only vaguely recall from Old Earth fauna lists or were extinct when humanity left). The conspiracy, at least, knows that it's inhabitable and has done so, but how they both remained hidden and prevented all inquiries into a visibly vegetated continent has not been explained.

* PlanetOfHats: Cascadia takes on a darker tone than in the first series, where to the protagonists it was a mostly harmless and fairly useful ally, if overly polite. Here, stuffiness goes with the politeness, leading Ky's Cascadian aide, Jen, to undermine her command and Cascadia to hold Ky and Vatta responsible when Jen dies caught in crossfire with a traitor, stripping Ky of the command she created and freezing her assets.

* BrainComputerInterface: The series staple multipurpose implants have more abilities shown here, one of the most prominent being an event where a character sets his to safe mode to prevent intrusion, then has it mimic the effects of dementia to thwart kidnappers - to such a degree that he actually feels those effects and is concerned about being able to switch back. Fortunately, he does.

''Cold Welcome''