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Confederation of Valor
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The Confederation of Valor is a science fiction book series by Canadian author Tanya Huff. The lead character is Torin Kerr, a non-commissioned officer in the Confederation Marines. Alongside her fellow humans, the Confederation has recruited the Taykan and Krai to fight their battles as they've completely outgrown the desire, or even ability to fight. This becomes a problem when The Others, a war-like collective of various races, slowly start to attack Confederation space. The books follow Torin Kerr and the Marines serving under her as they face down various threats to their society and their lives.Written with a sharp sense of humor and a lot of strong characterization, the series is well-worth reading, especially since Torin Kerr stands out as a true Action Girl who still manages to avoid any unnecessary sacrifices to the altar of Badass. It also manages the delicate balance between glorifying the combat and condemning it, often presenting the battles (and lives lost in them) as something that is a necessity, but not something anyone really enjoys.The stories, while possessing a chronology, are very much self-contained in their own right as well and do not necessarily need to be read in order to enjoy them, though occasional Brick Jokes will make the experience more enjoyable.The original Confederation series contains five books: Valor's Choice (2000) — Staff Sergeant Kerr, along with a platoon of Confederation Marines, are sent on a diplomatic mission which turns out to be anything but diplomatic when their transport ship shot down. The Better Part of Valor (2002) — Staff Sergeant Kerr, along with a hand-picked squad of marines, investigate a ship of unknown origin in a previously unexplored area of space alongside Craig Ryder, the civilian salvage operator who found it. The Heart of Valor (2007) — Gunnery Sergeant Kerr escorts a newly rehabilitated major to training grounds for a field exercise which does not go as planned. Valor's Trial (2008) — Gunnery Sergeant Kerr must escape from an underground POW Camp. The Truth of Valor (2010) — Kerr has retired from the Marines after learning the real reason for the war with the Others and is trying to build a life with Craig Ryder. Instead they're attacked by Space Pirates; Craig is taken prisoner and Torin is left for dead. Their biggest mistake? Not killing her outright.In 2015, Huff began a sequel series, Peacekeeper, starring Kerr after her retirement. An Ancient Peace (2015) — Taking off from her adventure in The Truth of Valor, Torin Kerr forms a team of independent troubleshooters that can go outside the law to handle postwar problems the Confederation can't. First on the list is black market H'san grave goods that people fear could lead to the recovery of lost superweapons. A Peace Divided (2017) — Officially inducted into the Confederation Wardens, Torin Kerr and her team are sent to intervene in a Hostage Situation at an archaeological dig, opposed by former soldiers from both the Confederation and the Primacy. The Privilege of Peace (2018) — The Grand Finale. "Big Yellow" returns amidst unrest involving the Silsviss. | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: The Taykans become physically and sexually mature (the "di'" stage) years before they actually become fertile, at which point they essentially go through a second puberty (the "qui'" stage). Krai have extremely efficient digestive systems that can break down just about anything remotely carbon-based The Big Yellow aliens are a Higher-Tech Species colony organism made of plastic. | |
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Chunky Salsa Rule | |
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Chunky Salsa Rule: The Krai have several descriptive words for the impact of an anti-personnel rocket on a soft target. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Don't get too attached to the well-characterized marines introduced at the beginning of each book. Some of them are going to die. | |
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Ensign Newbie | |
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Ensign Newbie: Lieutenant di'Ka Jarret is this at the start of Valor's Choice. He grows out of it by the end thanks in part to Torin's tutelage. | |
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet | |
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Standard Sci-Fi Fleet: Mostly ignored, but present. The battleship Berganitan is most commonly seen, but cruisers and destroyers are mentioned, while surplus patrol boats are popular among civilians and criminals. | |
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Our Elves Are Different | |
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Our Elves Are Different: Taykan are essentially Space Elves with pastel hair, superior senses to a human, and the ability to produce pheromones which can get any mammal in the mood. Lampshaded in that the Taykans have been compared to elves in-universe and find said comparison amusing. Torin's even met a di'Taykan named Celeborn. | |
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Punctuation Shaker | |
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Punctuation Shaker: The Taykan language is a mishmash of this. (For example, mature but not yet fertile individuals of the race are called "di'Taykan.") | |
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Death from Above | |
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Death from Above: Marine dropship pilots employ this method of attack to get the troops on the ground before anything goes amiss. | |
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Artificial Limbs | |
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Artificial Limbs: Mentioned, but when one marine is informed his legs will have to be replaced, it's noted that it'll mean a medical discharge. | |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place | |
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Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Susumi Space requires very specific calculations in order to successfully traverse it. Making even a tiny small mistake can destroy a ship completely. Valor's Trial adds that it also exposes travelers to severe irradiation (though ships are built to withstand it) such that spacers and military personnel typically bank reproductive material just in case. | |
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Chekhov's Gag | |
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Chekhov's Gag: In The Truth of Valor, both Torin and Craig touch basically any piece of plastic because the Big Yellow aliens are sapient plastic, and during The Better Part of Valor they left a protein marker in them that can reveal BYAs masquerading as inanimate objects. Usually nothing happens, but at the end of the book, it turns out there were BYAs on the space station, and they helped Torin and Craig escape. | |
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Everybody's Dead, Dave | |
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Everybody's Dead, Dave: The Others' orbital bombardment in Valor's Trial kills everyone involved in the ground battle on both sides, including several named characters from previous books. Torin and a few others are "rescued" by the Big Yellow aliens. | |
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Back for the Dead | |
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Back for the Dead: Torin serves in Sh'quo Company during Book One, is on detached duty for the next two books, and returns to her unit in Book Four just before it is destroyed in battle. | |
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Puny Earthlings | |
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Puny Earthlings: Taykan have superior senses and the Krai are, in some ways, ridiculously durable compared to humans. | |
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Plot Armor | |
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Plot Armor: Torin, to a degree. Forgivable since she's the main character. Averted for every other marine. | |
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Faster-Than-Light Travel | |
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Faster-Than-Light Travel: Susumi space. Enter it, and you can emerge on the other side of the galaxy exactly when you departed, though for the people on the ship it does take hours to get there. | |
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Going for the Big Scoop | |
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Going for the Big Scoop: Presit, who not only risks herself and her crew, but also the entire Berganitan and everyone aboard following it into Susumi space in her quest to get the story on whatever top-secret thing the ship must be doing. She then promptly insists on being escorted into unknown territory, relying on the marines to keep her safe. | |
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Hollywood Hacking | |
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Hollywood Hacking: Ressk indulges in this as one of two defining character traits. In the Peace trilogy, Alamber becomes the team hacker. Both of them constantly break military-grade encryption, usually against orders, and it often saves the day. | |
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Starfish Aliens | |
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Starfish Aliens: Aside from the entries mentioned under Rubber-Forehead Aliens, the Big Yellow aliens are sapient plastic colony organisms. | |
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Humans Are Average | |
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Humans Are Average: In the sense of Humans Are Adaptable. This is particularly the view of a speciesist terrorist group that Torin fights in the Peace trilogy, but it's also the case when you consider that even the other bipedal mammal "younger races" are basically humans-with-technicolor-"hair"-and-huge-sex-drives and humans-but-short-apelike-and-eat-everything. | |
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Declining Promotion | |
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Declining Promotion: At the end of Valor's Choice, the general offers Torin a commission as an officer for more-or-less singlehandedly getting the Silsviss to join the Confederation. Because she's still pissed about the near-Uriah Gambit the brass pulled to put her in that positionnote They arranged for her company to be shot down in hostile territory and have to hold off blindly aggressive Silsviss adolescents for several days of battle, to prove to the Silsviss that they were worthy allies., she turns him down saying she could never be an officer because "my parents were married." She does, however, accept a Rank Up to gunnery sergeant between The Better Part of Valor and The Heart of Valor. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: Most Confederation military technology and practices. The Marines are armed with chemical-propelled bullets and use hand-carried stretchers because they aren't vulnerable to EMP, unlike energy weapons and antigravity. The Navy uses wet-navy logistical and command structures because they work just as well for it. The Others are similarly pragmatic. | |
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Klingons Love Shakespeare | |
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Klingons Love Shakespeare: Humans are apparently the only species in the galaxy to develop cheese, which incredibly popular with the H'san (it's the only major thing we're told about them until An Ancient Peace). | |
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Aliens Are Bastards | |
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Aliens Are Bastards: The whole reason the Confederation had to recruit the humans to fight for them in the first place. They sent diplomats to point out to The Others that Space Is Big and that there was no reason whatsoever for them to fight the Confederation for territory. The Others sent back the dead diplomats with a bomb. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: Torin more than once. In the third book she thinks that she really doesn't care if people call her paranoid so long as it saves her people's lives. With the reveal of the Big Yellow Aliens, her paranoia cranks up a notch. When they visit a military Intelligence facility in An Ancient Peace, it's noted that there's no visible plastic, and an offhand remark indicates that natural materials and fabrics are making a comeback. She also notes that the H'San grave goods they find in the crypts are made of metal, wood, ceramic, fabric...essentially every type of material except plastic. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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The H'san are different somehow, but their appearance was carefully avoided in the original series. The only thing mentioned, usually as an [[in-series quip Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"?]], is that they like cheese. According to An Ancient Peace, they're large, non-bipedal at least some of the time, and have oversized eyes that make their faces look child-like. Also, they smell good, and sing to the dawn. | |
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Cold Sniper | |
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Cold Sniper: Binti Mashona. Granted, she's perfectly social when she's not shooting things in the face at extraordinary distances, but put her behind the butt of a rifle and she's more likely to be annoyed at the inferior equipment she's using than anything. | |
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Sssssnaketalk | |
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Sssssnake Talk: In an unlikely occurrence, Torin hears the Silviss this way due to her translator being broken. | |
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Energy Weapon | |
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Energy Weapon: The "Bennies" used in battles taking place aboard ships fire a beam which does not do nearly as much damage to a purely inorganic substance as it does to an organic substance. This is because putting holes in a space ship is a very bad thing. | |
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Bang, Bang, BANG | |
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Bang, Bang, BANG: Subverted with the Marines' KC-7 rifles. The Confederation has the ability to make the weapons completely silent, but research showed that the soldiers preferred to have their shots be audible. | |
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Introduction by Hookup | |
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Introduction by Hookup: Valor's Choice opens with Torin waking up with a pheromone hangover from the di'Taykan she went to bed with. At the briefing she discovers that said di'Taykan happens to be her platoon's new second lieutenant, di'Ka Jarret. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: In the first book, Haysole stands out as equal parts this and Plucky Comic Relief. | |
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Always Chaotic Evil | |
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Always Chaotic Evil: The general belief by the Confederation about The Others. It certainly seems to apply to their leadership. Turns out not to be true: the two federations were being manipulated into fighting each other by the Big Yellow aliens. | |
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Combat Pragmatist | |
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Combat Pragmatist: In Valor's Trial, the Others apparently say "screw this" and hit the ground battle from space with some kind of strategic warhead that fuses the entire battlefield into volcanic glass. According to the Primacy lieutenant Torin and company team up with later on, members of their own ruling council considered this weapon horrific. | |
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Mirroring Factions | |
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Mirroring Factions: What Torin discovers of the Others once she has a chance to interact with them in a non-combat setting in Valor's Trial. "The Primacy" actually has almost the same style of government as the Confederation and thought they were the ones defending themselves, just like the Confederation did. This ultimately leads to the war-fighting races on both sides effectively mutinying and refusing to continue the war, forcing their governments to open peace talks (this time without the Big Yellow aliens' interference). In A Peace Divided, Torin's Strike Team works alongside an equivalent Primacy team, who inform her that the Primacy is having some of the same postwar political problems as the Confederation. | |
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Higher-Tech Species | |
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The Big Yellow aliens are a Higher-Tech Species colony organism made of plastic. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: Prominent in the Peacekeeper series. The elder races of the Confederation have a tendency to think of the formerly war-fighting races as primitives, even though the difference between them really isn't that big (they've outlawed war, but interpersonal violence still happens). There's reportedly a movement to reverse the uplift of the humans, Taykans, Krai, and Silsviss (who had only just entered the war when it ended), and Torin's mission to keep graverobbers from digging up old H'san weapons in the first book is partly motivated by a desire to keep that movement from gaining steam. On the flipside, Torin also tangles several times with a group called "Humans First", a human-supremacist terrorist organization made up in large part of war veterans; a Primacy team Torin works with in book two tells her they have some of the same problems. | |
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Beta Couple | |
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Beta Couple: Torin has two different Krai squadmates in books one and two, straight-up grunt Werst, and computer tech Ressk. The two meet in book four and marry in A Peace Divided. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: Torin's marines join up with a group of Others to escape a shared prison camp. | |
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Space Navy | |
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Space Navy: Mostly depicted from the point of view of Marines, which means lots of rivalry. | |
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Intrepid Reporter | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_5f52cfcf | comment |
Intrepid Reporter: Presit, especially in the third book. Although her motivation may be more that 'verse's equivalent of a Pulitzer rather than the truth. | |
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Death Glare | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_627264e0 | comment |
Death Glare: Torin has one that, by all indications, can curdle milk. | |
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BadassNormal | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Badass Normal: Again, Torin Kerr and her marines, but applies especially to Torin. She's not especially tall or heavy, yet she'll go up against the worst horrors The Others have to offer. | |
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Author Appeal | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: Much like many of her other stories, pretty much everyone is bisexual as well as sexually active. The Beta Couple is even a male-male Krai pair. | |
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Human Outside, Alien Inside | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_6994b346 | comment |
Human Outside, Alien Inside: A fairly subtle example: the Taykans become mature physically, sexually, and (to a limited extent, at least) socially long before they become fertile. | |
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Puppeteer Parasite | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_6cc39b20 | comment |
Puppeteer Parasite: The Grey Ones, although they more often tend to only be observers. From your brain. | |
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Swiss-Army Weapon | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_6dec2f19 | comment |
Swiss-Army Weapon: The Heavies have a weapon which allows them to swap between various guns. | |
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Extreme Omnivore | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_6eb1268c | comment |
Extreme Omnivore: The Krai as a race have the most efficient gut in the galaxy and can eat pretty much anything (including plastics and metal)... and often do. Upon being integrated into the budding Taykan and Human military, a rule about not eating the bits which might fall off fellow soldiers had to be established. | |
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Bar Brawl | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_716d9138 | comment |
Bar Brawl: A memorable scene in the first book, when some of the Marines sneak out of barracks for a night on the town. Torin uses it as an opportunity to see how the Silsviss and existing Marines react to each other off-duty. | |
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Cat Folk | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_727b5779 | comment |
The Katrien are small Cat Folk. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: Averted in the second through fourth books, and even the first book's cover is fairly accurate... except for the landscape. This◊ does not look like the dense jungle described. (But it does look like the landscape at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, a real life battle in what is now South Africa, and which the events of the book were explicitly based. In fact, the cover bears a strong resemblance to many famous paintings of the battle.) | |
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ColorCodedForYourConvenience | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_740f59b4 | comment |
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Nutrient tabs for the three Younger Races. Blue are for humans, pink for di'Taykan, and yellow for Krai. | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_75d6bf40 | comment |
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Torin and Ryder spend much of The Better Part of Valor sniping at each other and are the Official Couple by the end of it. | |
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No One Gets Left Behind | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_7969f21e | comment |
No One Gets Left Behind: A rule of the Corps. If there's a body, it gets brought back. If only a trace of DNA or a speck of blood on someone else's clothing is all that's left, it gets brought back. If there's an injured marine, there is no such thing as too injured to bring along. Played with a little, though, in that Marine body bags are designed to cremate the remains and dump them into attached canisters, which are hooked to the web gear of the senior NCO (meaning Torin, usually). | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_7a143509 | comment |
Shell-Shocked Veteran: As a civilian, Torin is eventually required to go through mandatory counseling because of all she's been through, and she regularly runs into other military and former military personnel who have suffered because of combat service, some irreparably. She's functional and mostly healthy, but among other things has developed a tic of reaching up to where the cylinders that carried cremated marines' remains would hang from her web gear. | |
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Language Equals Thought | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_7c77081d | comment |
Language Equals Thought: We're informed by the narration in An Ancient Peace that the Taykans have multiple words for "touch", mainly correlated with how much sex, personal connection, and comfort is involved. | |
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Space Is an Ocean | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_7d97ab06 | comment |
Space Is an Ocean: The Confederation still uses wet-navy command and logistical structures for its Space Navy (because they work), but the rest of the trope is averted. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_8409a385 | comment |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Most of marines in the books do demonstrate valor quite a bit. | |
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Psychic Powers | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_874176be | comment |
Psychic Powers: Hinted at in the first book, with Jarret informing Kerr that "there's a reason mind-reading races in the galaxy are universally despised" when she is able to read his body language and use her experience with other new second lieutenants to accurately guess his thoughts. | |
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Because I Said So | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_8776162d | comment |
Because I Said So: Often used by Torin or other Sergeants serving with her to get their marines doing something when not actively being shot at. | |
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Atop a Mountain of Corpses | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_88b1a0cb | comment |
Atop a Mountain of Corpses: Pretty much the end of the first book. It is treated as horrifically as it actually is. | |
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Our Zombies Are Different | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_8ba9512b | comment |
Our Zombies Are Different: The last line of defense the H'san use to defend their ancient weapons cache from intruders are preserved corpses animated by cybernetics and robotic implants and contaminated with a biowarfare agent. And for good measure, they'll do the same to the bodies of any intruders who are killed. | |
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No One Could Survive That! | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_8c96ae78 | comment |
No One Could Survive That!: The Marines to Ryder after Torin is declared KIA. He doesn't really believe it, and neither does Torin's father. | |
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Pardon My Klingon | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_973291cd | comment |
Pardon My Klingon: Aside from the obvious pun, the races in the Marines learned to get along by learning to swear at one another in their native languages. | |
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Elves Versus Dwarves | |
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Elves Versus Dwarves: The Confederation thought there'd be a huge problem with Humans learning to get along with Taykan (genetically slutty space-elves) and Krai (Extreme Omnivore hairless ape people). The fact that all three are similarly-sized mammals beside the more bizarre anatomies of the elder races of the Confederation meant these fears fell short. | |
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Kill It with Fire | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_9c1f758a | comment |
Kill It with Fire: Heavies in each squad have flamethrowers, though the use of it on sentient beings is generally regarded as completely outside of acceptable battlefield practice. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
With the reveal of the Big Yellow Aliens, her paranoia cranks up a notch. When they visit a military Intelligence facility in An Ancient Peace, it's noted that there's no visible plastic, and an offhand remark indicates that natural materials and fabrics are making a comeback. She also notes that the H'San grave goods they find in the crypts are made of metal, wood, ceramic, fabric...essentially every type of material except plastic. | |
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Alien Catnip | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_9d1fa121 | comment |
Alien Catnip: Inverted. The Krai drink a beverage called sah, which for them is the equivalent of a hot cup of tea. For humans, it's the equivalent of a hot cup of PCP with an amphetamine chaser. The law requires that anyone buying it be a Krai, and holds the Krai in question responsible if a human gets any. | |
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Badass in a Nice Suit | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_9fbe06a5 | comment |
Badass in a Nice Suit: The first book finds Torin and her marines fighting a last stand in dress uniform. Thankfully, the Marine Corps was smart enough to realize that dress uniform should probably still offer some decent protection, and thus they're not entirely helpless. | |
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Fantastic Naming Convention | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_9ffbadef | comment |
Fantastic Naming Convention: Taykan names go [life stage]'[family name] [given name], and having a shorter family name indicates a higher-class family (e.g. di'Ka Jarret). They usually go by their given name rather than their surname. Krai use Only One Name, which typically has lots of 'r's and 's's and is usually but not always monosyllabic. | |
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Living Ship | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_a1588c2a | comment |
Living Ship: Big Yellow, which is mostly made of organic material, heals damage to itself, reconfigures its interior architecture, and is secretly testing both sets of alien species that have landed on board. As it turns out, it's not really a ship, but rather a group of molecule-sized aliens with a Hive Mind. | |
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Homage | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_a1a1491e | comment |
Homage: Tanya Huff based the major battles of the first book on the battle of Rorke's Drift. The prison break sequence in Valor's Trial bears a strong resemblance to the Crematoria sequence in The Chronicles of Riddick. | |
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Hollywood Tactics | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_a6b14ee1 | comment |
Hollywood Tactics: One character is implied to use these, on the grounds that everything he's been decorated for has ended with most of his team dead. Unfortunately for everyone else, he's their commanding officer. None of the marines are happy about this. | |
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Space Marine | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_a96b8b63 | comment |
Space Marine: Who actually operate in space, unlike many other examples; they are trained for zero-grav and have specialized weapons for ship-board use that won't decompress the hull when fired. | |
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Perfect Pacifist People | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_acbd5c12 | comment |
Perfect Pacifist People: Zigzagged. In the backstory it's justified: for the most part only species that evolve past violence achieve Faster-Than-Light Travel, because species that don't have a tendency to blow themselves up first. Deconstructed when the Others show up and begin attacking, and the Confederation has to uplift first humanity, then the Taykans, Krai, and Silsviss because they haven't evolved past violence. Arguably Reconstruction as of the latest books. The war turned out to be a giant sociology experiment by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens operating under Blue-and-Orange Morality, and it turns out the Others, who call themselves the Primacy, have the same arrangement as the Confederation. The war promptly ends. And then later subverted in An Ancient Peace: the elder races have given up war, but more minor interpersonal violence still happens (including a Fantastic Racism-motivated back-alley ambush on a pair of Krai on Torin's team, which doesn't end well for the attackers). | |
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Heavyworlder | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_ade69f7d | comment |
Heavyworlder: Torin is from a world with 1.2 times Earth's gravity, which comes in handy during a Bar Brawl in the first book since the Silsviss homeworld has about 0.8 gravity. | |
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Standard Sci-Fi Army | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_ae1d84f7 | comment |
Standard Sci-Fi Army: The series mainly deals with line infantry wearing Powered Armor, but we've also seen tanks, artillery, and aircraft. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Several characters, including Torin. Ryder is prominent example, as well. | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_afd181c7 | comment |
Xtreme Kool Letterz: Fuk you, it's awesome to swear like that. | |
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Rank Up | |
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Rank Up: Torin starts as a staff sergeant and is promoted to gunnery sergeant after book two. | |
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Fantasy Conflict Counterpart | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_b5ab695c | comment |
Fantasy Conflict Counterpart: The author admitted to basing the final battle of Valor's Choice on the Battle of Rorke's Drift during the Anglo-Zulu War. | |
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Standard Time Units | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_b922a720 | comment |
Standard Time Units: A ten-day week and twenty-eight-hour day, implied to be an average between all species and worlds. | |
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Humans Are Warriors | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_c0f87dda | comment |
Humans Are Warriors: Downplayed in the back story. The Confederation offered humanity membership because they hadn't yet evolved past violence (unlike the rest of its member races), and thus could fight the Others. The Taykans, Krai, and Silsviss were brought in later for the same reason. | |
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Pleasure Planet | |
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Pleasure Planet: Any Taykan world, very likely. | |
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Cliffhanger | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_c6b8d37a | comment |
Cliffhanger: In several books, usually on the last page. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: There are a few subtle nods to other science fiction works. Some less subtle than others: the prison escape sequence in Valor's Trial is basically a shot-for-shot homage to the Crematoria escape sequence in The Chronicles of Riddick. | |
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The Alliance | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_c8c968c3 | comment |
The Alliance: The Others are a collective of races bent on destroying the Confederation. The Confederation are a collective of pacifist races who were forced to recruit several war-like races to help avoid extinction. Except in reality, neither one is really any worse than the other: the Big Yellow aliens tricked the two sides into fighting as a sociology experiment. | |
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Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_ccab244d | comment |
Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: Justified. Both sides explicitly have the ability to use EMP to knock out high-tech weapons, so all tech used by the Marines is designed to work just as well in its primary function when its electronics have been disabled. Explosive-propelled bullets don't need electricity to fire. Also averted somewhat in shipboard combat, where bullets run the risk of causing a hull breach. The Marines are issued cellular disrupters nicknamed "Bennies" in such situations. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: In the second book, Werst and Guimond quickly grow to be this. Pretty much all of the vitriol is on Werst's end of the relationship. By the start of the Peacekeepers series, Torin admits that Presit has become this with her. | |
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| Confederation of Valor / int_dae5c997 | type |
Action Girl | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Boy howdy, does this series feature this in spades. Aside from the obvious example of Torin Kerr herself, a few of the female marines in Sh'quo Company certainly qualify. If a marine is given more than a handful of lines, expect them to do something awesome or heroic at some point in the story. | |
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| Confederation of Valor / int_db9940c4 | type |
Famed In-Story | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_db9940c4 | comment |
Famed In-Story: Torin eventually becomes widely recognized by many civilians across Confederation due to what she's accomplished, and within the military has become somewhat legendary. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: Discussed in-story. By the time of An Ancient Peace, Torin is paranoid about how many coincidences have started to pop up in her life. Given the revelations about the Big Yellow Aliens and their manipulations behind the scenes, her concerns are not unwarranted. | |
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Sergeant Rock | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_e061d153 | comment |
Sergeant Rock: Torin, of the stereotypical type. She struggles to put it away once she's out of the military, but her voice can still make civilians and criminals take notice. | |
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Your Head A-Splode | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_e0789c2a | comment |
Your Head A-Splode: This is what happens when you combine a sniper like Binti Mashona with a rifle round titled an "impact boomer". | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole-Plot Reference: The battle in Valor's Choice is explicitly modeled on Rorke's Drift. | |
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We Need a Distraction | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_e43b42ea | comment |
We Need a Distraction: Used several times, particularly in The Truth of Valor when both Ryder and Torin are running low on time. It's easy to get Marines to break out into a fight when need be, and villainous Di'Taykan are easy to distract with Show Some Leg. | |
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Fascinating Eyebrow | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_e4b82f6f | comment |
Fascinating Eyebrow: Torin's weapon of choice whenever asked what she considers a particularly stupid or obvious question. She mentions buying an app to teach her the technique then spending hours practicing; judging by the in-story reactions, she got her money's worth. | |
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| Confederation of Valor / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: In the first book, Ressk is a somewhat irritable Krai who has a bit of a superiority complex about his computer abilities. Remove the computer abilities and add Recon. Meet Werst in the second book. Which gets interesting when Ressk meets Werst in book four. In the first book of the Peacekeeper series, they even get married. | |
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| Confederation of Valor / int_e567510d | type |
Determinator | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: Torin Kerr is certainly one, though several minor characters prove to be this as well. | |
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We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_e77e2787 | comment |
We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: Justified. Both sides of the conflict can use EMP to knock out a lot of the fancier gear, so the Marines quickly realized that they needed to | |
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| Confederation of Valor / int_e78aa97d | type |
Rubber-Forehead Aliens | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_e78aa97d | comment |
Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Both averted and lampshaded. The reason that the humans, Taykan, and Krai get along is because they're all bipedal mammals with two arms and legs. The rest of the Confederation are vastly more alien: The Dornagain are absolutely massive furry cat-bear things. The Katrien are small Cat Folk. The Miktok are large spider aliens renowned throughout the galaxy for the beauty of their art. The Rakva are feathered, bipedal birds with hands. The H'san are different somehow, but their appearance was carefully avoided in the original series. The only thing mentioned, usually as an [[in-series quip Is the Answer to This Question "Yes"?]], is that they like cheese. According to An Ancient Peace, they're large, non-bipedal at least some of the time, and have oversized eyes that make their faces look child-like. Also, they smell good, and sing to the dawn. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Big Yellow aliens started an interstellar war between the Confederation and the Primacy as a sociology experiment. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Presit. She's a reporter with a superiority complex, an inflated sense of entitlement, and a lot of dislike for the military in general. Even her own news crew doesn't like her in the novel she's introduced. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_f1492605 | comment |
Redemption Equals Death: During the second book, Torin uses this to make her useless, fatally-injured superior look good for the Katrien reporter who's been watching the "war-hero" be a useless Jerkass. | |
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Not Staying for Breakfast | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_f95baed | comment |
Not Staying for Breakfast: Torin, in the very first chapter, with a di'Taykan she shacked up with. Although in this case, it's more her sneaking out so that he won't ask her for "once more before breakfast", making her late coming back from leave. | |
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Forever War | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_fbb54ba6 | comment |
Forever War: The Confederation, as a whole, wishes for a pacifist solution. The Others, as a whole, wish for everything that is not them to die. Valor's Trial reveals that the Big Yellow aliens have been manipulating things for the entire length of the war, to keep their sociology experiment going. The Others, who call themselves the Primacy, are actually a lot like the Confederation and thought they were the unreasonable ones. Soldiers from both sides, Kerr included, end up telling the Big Yellow aliens to stop screwing with them and the soldier species open peace negotiations. | |
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Attack! Attack! Attack! | |
| Confederation of Valor / int_ff070bbd | comment |
Attack! Attack! Attack!: Again, the first book. Two thousand Silviss against roughly forty marines in a fortified position. | |
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