History XUniverse / TropesMToR

* OneNationUnderCopyright: The Teladi Space Company. Their entire race is organized like one MegaCorp. The head honcho, the Chairman (his name is Ceo at the time of the games), and business and smaller companies are arranged like subsidies or divisions. However, they employ an actual police force and a proper military.

* ProudMerchantRace: The Teladi have their entire race organized like a MegaCorp, calling their interstellar government the Teladi Space Company. They leveraged their status as a neutral party between the rival Argon/Boron and Paranid/Split alliances to enrich themselves, which had the beneficial side effects of the founding of the Community of Planets and creation of unified currency and timekeeping systems to simplify interstellar trade. We should note that the encyclopedia says the ProudMerchantRace Hat really only applies to space-living Teladi: planetbound Teladi are apparently much more varied.

** The Mass Driver, a fighter-class weapon which can bypass shields and damage the ship directly. You will learn to [[GameBreaker fear this weapon]].
** Also in this category is the Gauss Cannon, a Teladi capital ship weapon that fires metal slugs instead of the usual energy disco-balls of doom that other capital ship weapons fire. The weapon does good enough shield damage, but it is notable for dealing the most hull damage out of any weapon. It is often paired with the Boron-designed Ion Cannon to quickly eradicate capital ships; the latter weapon being notable for having the highest shield damage out of any weapon.

** Also in this category is the Gauss Cannon, a Teladi capital ship weapon that fires metal slugs instead of the usual energy disco-balls of doom that other capital ship weapons fire.

* MadeOfExplodium: ''You'' are. If a pilot is EVA, including the player, getting shot or running out of air results in the character going up like they were wearing a suicide vest.

* OneGenderRace: {{Justified|Trope}}. The Teladi ''do'' have males, but they nearly all still live on the homeworld because the Teladi discovered early in their space age that unfertilized eggs would always hatch females. This leads to...
** MenAreTheExpendableGender: ... an inversion of this trope. The vast majority of Teladi flying in space are female and, as a result, their deaths, whether untimely or not, tend to be more common and not as dramatic.

* OneGenderRace: {{Justified|Trope}}. The Teladi ''do'' have males, but they nearly all still live on the homeworld because the Teladi discovered early in their space age that unfertilized eggs would always hatch females.

* NamedAfterTheirPlanet: Mostly averted. The Boron homeworld is Nishala, and the Teladi homeworld is Ianamus Zura. The Argon capital is Argon Prime, but that's a case of the planet being named after the faction rather than the other way around: the Argon renamed Sonra-4 after their then-leader Nathan R. Gunne. The Terran homeworld is Earth, [[CaptainObvious obviously]]. According to legend the Split are from a world called Hodie, which they apparently destroyed in a nuclear war. The Paranid play the trope straight: their homeworld is Paranid Prime. Nobody knows the name of the Kha'ak homeworld, and the Xenon homeworld is technically Earth since they're an entire race of insane terraforming drones first built by the Terrans back in the 22nd century.

** In ''X2: The Threat'' and ''X3: Reunion'', Kha'ak craft were once one of the deadliest vessels a player encounter at the time, since their then buffed weaponry can vaporize other ships in seconds. Come the time of ''Terran Conflict'', they no longer became [[StealthPun the threat]] they were in the previous games, with their weaponry sapped in stats for balancing reasons.

* In ''X2: The Threat'' and ''X3: Reunion'', Kha'ak craft were once one of the deadliest vessels a player encounter at the time, since their then buffed weaponry can vaporize other ships in seconds. Come the time of ''Terran Conflict'', they no longer became [[StealthPun the threat]] they were in the previous games, with their weaponry sapped in stats for balancing reasons.

** The deadliest [=M7M=] of them all is the [=ATF=] Skirnir, which uses the Shadow missile (650k damage per warhead on an ''[[RecursiveAmmo 8-warhead missile]]''). Think MacrossMissileMassacre taken UpToEleven.

* OneHitKill: Larger, more powerful weaponry can pretty much destroy smaller craft in a single shot. [[FragileSpeedster M5s, for example]], can't take damage from any capital ship weapon and certain powerful missiles such as Hurricanes and Disruptors.

** ''Terran Conflict'' introduces the [=M7M=] missile frigate class. These ships can hold hundreds of missiles and use MacrossMissileMassacre as their only form of attack. They can launch dozens of missiles in a matter of seconds, and the anti-fighter missiles each [[RecursiveAmmo split into 8 sub-missiles]]. They also {{Robotech}} in a spiral pattern. ''And'' they'll go after new targets if the original is destroyed while the missiles are en route.

* MookMaker: Drone Frigates in the ''Xtended Terran Conflict'' mod. They produce their own advanced combat drones on the spot, and manage them like a carrier would manage their fighter wings.

* MoreDakka: Certain M6 and many M7 can mount a ridiculous number of flak weapons. One of the most popular loadouts for the otherwise underwhelming Terran Yokohama and ATF Aegir[[note]]Underwhelming because the small Terran weapon selection limits their In-Sector tactics to either [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile spam]] or [[DeathOfAThousandCuts pecking you to death]] with corvette-grade guns.[[/note]] is to put Starburst Shockwave Cannons everywhere possible. OOS, this lets them tear other frigates to shreds in seconds.

*** Kha'ak capships avert this with their (almost) HitScan Kyon emitters. They can rapidly cut through the shielding of even an M2 and are murderously effective at destroying fighters.

* NeoconNewscaster: ''Xtended Terran Conflict'' adds news services for each race. The Terran version, Terran Morning News, is a satire of {{Fox News|Channel}} as a whole and Radio/GlennBeck's and Radio/AlexJones's shows in particular, what with rampant paranoia, conspiracy theories, and subtle or not-so-subtle discrimination (Muslims in post-9/11 Fox News have been replaced by Aldrinites in Terran Morning News, for example).

* NeverTrustATrailer: ''X3: Reunion'''s trailer shows ships flying in close formation (not likely with the [[ArtificialStupidity autopilot]]), sound effects that don't exist in the game (such as more prominent engine noises and weapons impacts), and ''much'' more impressive station destruction than in the final game. The real-time tech demo also shows a ''massive'' space station with internal tunnels that is nowhere to be seen in the game. The real-time tech demo of ''Terran Conflict'' shows a pair of Terran Schimitars chasing each other through tiny gaps in the [[BigDumbObject Torus Aeternal]], which is completely ''impossible'' in the game, as the AI will freak out and fly straight into a wall when it realizes that it's too close to a station several dozen kilometers wide.

* NeverTrustATrailer: ''X3: Reunion'''s trailer shows ships flying in close formation (not likely with the [[ArtificialStupidity autopilot]]), sound effects that don't exist in the game (such as more prominent engine noises and weapons impacts), and ''much'' more impressive station destruction than in the final game. The real-time tech demo also shows a ''massive'' space station with internal tunnels that is nowhere to be seen in the game.

** Support frigates in the ''Xtended'' mod for Reunion (which were classed as "M8") had) so-so armament, but had a useful gimmick. The Argon Griffon, Paranid Agamemnon, Split Panther, and OTAS HCF (all appeared in some form in ''Terran Conflict'', albeit without their abilities) could build MKII drones, carry phased missile launchers, build fighters, and board enemy ships, respectively. The Boron Swordfish could sap shields from ships, the OTAS Custodian could buff the shields and repair the hulls of nearby allied ships, the Teladi Tern could build and deploy minefields, and the Terran Ollerus could build jump gates.

* MookMaker: Drone Frigates in the ''Xtended Terran Conflict'' mod. They produce their own advanced combat drones on the spot, and manage them like a carrier would manage their fighter wings.

* MadeOfExplodium: ''You'' are. If a pilot is EVA, including the player, getting shot or running out of air results in the character exploding.