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Humanx Commonwealth

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Humanx Commonwealth	comment	Humanx Commonwealth is the general name given to a series of novels and short stories written by Alan Dean Foster that is set in a common science fiction universe. The setting was introduced in Foster's first published novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, and has been the star franchise of his decades-long writing career. It has heavy roots in Space Opera as well as Speculative Fiction.The Humanx Commonwealth is also the name of the major alliance of spacefaring species in the stories, the two principal members of which are humans and the insectoid thranx. They are joined by a fantastically diverse cast of other species of varying levels of intelligence and technological progress. The spiritual counterpart of the Commonwealth is the United Church, an ecumenical council that embraces all religions under a single roof of universal tolerance. The major enemy of the Commonwealth is the AAnn, a xenophobic reptilian species that has its own empire and whose members constantly scheme against the humans and their allies (and each other).There is a long Back Story involving Precursors, the Xunca, who held the entire galaxy under their dominion a billion years in the past, but fled in the face of a galaxy-devouring Great Evil. More recently (500,000 years or so), two powerful species called the Tar-Aiym and Hur'rikku fought a war that resulted in their mutual annihilation and the scouring of all higher life forms from a swath of star systems known as the Blight. Artifacts from these civilizations and others litter the worlds of the galaxy and provide a plentiful source of Lost Technology and MacGuffins.The Humanx Commonwealth series is best known as the home of Phillip Lynx, aka Flinx, and his pet minidrag, Pip. Adopted at a young age, he manifested a talent for Empathy and promptly became embroiled in a number of unlikely schemes. Both the story and his powers expand over time to the point where he becomes the Chosen One who is fated to save the universe from the same Great Evil that the Xunca failed to deal with billions of years ago. And he hates it.The series tends to sit very heavily on the ideal side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism. In terms of hardness, it mainly falls under One Big Lie: FTL Travel is prevalent, as is FTL communication, although both are fairly expensive for the "average Joe". Distance is not ignored, but Space Is an Ocean is an inevitable consequence of the method of FTL travel, to the point where independent traders ply the spacelanes like merchantmen of the Age of Sail. Fantastic planets litter the galaxy, ripe for exploration but ready to entrap the unprepared, most with sufficiently-detailed ecosystems to rate as Speculative Biology. And there's always a Deus ex Machina around the corner to save the day.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Humanx Commonwealth / int_115b9907	comment	Starfish Language: The Sumacrea's empathic powers are so sophisticated that they don't need a spoken language to communicate, expressing their desires and concerns directly. The few audible signals and coherent feeling-"words" in their vocabulary aren't much more sophisticated than chimpanzees' vocalizations.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
Humanx Commonwealth / int_116a941b	comment	Applied Phlebotinum: The vast majority of technology in the Commonwealth 'verse is given no more than a Hand Wave explanation in terms of real world physics, if any explanation is given at all.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Humanx Commonwealth / int_1320d787	comment	Playing Sick: Des explains away his absence when he sneaked into the human compound by telling his co-workers he was being ill in the bathroom. Then he deliberately eats spoiled vegetables to give himself food poisoning and back up his deception.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_13d2ffe1	type	Humanity Is Superior
Humanx Commonwealth / int_13d2ffe1	comment	Humanity Is Superior: The idealistic version — plus, we had the help of the thranx.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_14607695	type	Super-Intelligence
Humanx Commonwealth / int_14607695	comment	Super-Intelligence: The Ulru-Ujurrians are said to be capable of exponential learning, which is triggered by Flinx arriving on their world and offering to teach them the "game of civilization". In the months he spends there, they go from illiterate hunter-gatherers to building spacecraft. Over the next ten years, they learn to tunnel through space-time and are hinted to be Reality Warpers. Flinx and the Commonwealth are very lucky that they are true Innocent Aliens, lacking any malice or ambition.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
Humanx Commonwealth / int_153299b4	comment	Skua September is a Boisterous Bruiser who plays by his own rules and has a mysterious, quasi-criminal past. He's not intentionally a hero type, but gets roped into helping Flinx when the latter winds up on his doorstep, pursued by a small army of Alaspinian natives.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_17058a90	type	No Biochemical Barriers
Humanx Commonwealth / int_17058a90	comment	No Biochemical Barriers: Played With. The majority of species can breathe the same atmospheres and eat the same food, they just don't always find it comfortable, and often require dietary supplements. The other side of it is that just about every species has something that some other race considers Alien Catnip as part of their essential diet. This drives drug cops into conniptions; the one time they found a drug that got pretty much every species high, they wiped out all life on its planet of origin in order to eliminate it — and still failed to keep it out of the hands of drug lords.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Humanx Commonwealth / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Pip suffers from this increasingly as the series goes on. Justified in the sense that anyone seriously threatening Flinx does their homework to learn how to neutralize her, but it still feels a bit cheap. On the other hand, by the end of the series, he doesn't need her protection nearly as much.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_18e33968	type	Earth Is the Center of the Universe
Humanx Commonwealth / int_18e33968	comment	Earth Is the Center of the Universe: Averted in that Earth is one of the two capitals of the Commonwealth (the other is the thranx homeworld of Hivehom), but gets no more (and often less) plot time than any of dozens of other worlds.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_1c512c6c	type	The Swarm
Humanx Commonwealth / int_1c512c6c	comment	The Swarm: The Akadi of Midworld.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_1d435a4d	type	A Boy and His X
Humanx Commonwealth / int_1d435a4d	comment	A Boy and His X: The basic premise of Flinx's story is that he is an empathic, genetically altered mutant who has formed a lifetime bond with Pip, a Alaspinian miniature dragon, who acts as an amplifier for his powers.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Humanx Commonwealth / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Humans and thranx tend to form these types of partnerships, especially after they've worked closely together. The most prominent example is Bran Tse-Mallory and Truzenzuzex. Of course, in these cases there's no question of biological compatibility, so any Ho Yay has to be limited to the imagination. Not that Kitten Kai-Sung didn't try...
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_1ec5a73c	type	Space Fighter
Humanx Commonwealth / int_1ec5a73c	comment	Space Fighter: The Commonwealth has stingships, two-person attack ships each carrying a single SCCAM missile.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Humanx Commonwealth / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: A rare example of the protagonist using this trope; after Orphan Star, Flinx is so rich (the Ujurrians rigged his account with effectively infinite wealth) that he can buy his way out of many situations. Of course, in later novels he's wanted by nearly every Commonwealth authority, so the value of his "inheritance" is a bit dubious. Blatantly invoked by Jack-Jax Coerlis, the first villain of Mid-Flinx, at least until the real threat (the AAnn) show up.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_258a59e9	type	Our Centaurs Are Different
Humanx Commonwealth / int_258a59e9	comment	Our Centaurs Are Different: A hefty centaur-like alien mercenary serves as The Big Guy for the team which pursues Flinx to Midworld. One of the (too) many sentient races on Quofum, the spikers, combine this trope's quadruped legs with Abnormal Limb Rotation Range.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_263bb4ec	type	Wave-Motion Gun
Humanx Commonwealth / int_263bb4ec	comment	Wave-Motion Gun: Constructing superweapons was apparently a hobby of the Tar-Aiym, Hur'rikku, and Xunca. The first one we are introduced to, the Krang, can obliterate entire fleets of starships. By the end of the series, weapons are found that can destroy entire solar systems and even galaxies.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_26ea11ed	type	Mysterious Parent
Humanx Commonwealth / int_26ea11ed	comment	Mysterious Parent: Flinx's search for his genetic mother and father doesn't turn out quite the way he expected.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_28848c12	type	Life-or-Limb Decision
Humanx Commonwealth / int_28848c12	comment	Life-or-Limb Decision: Lost in the caverns of Longtunnel, Flinx and Clarity sever a truleg from a thranx geologist whose limb was infested by an invasive fungus. This saves the thranx's life, although he finds the subsequent need to walk using his foothands humiliating.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
Humanx Commonwealth / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: Via a device known as the KK, or posigravity drive, which "pulls" ships through space by generating an artificial gravity field in front (with a bit of No Conservation of Energy thrown in). Later in the series, more exotic forms are found to have been used by the Precursors.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
Humanx Commonwealth / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: One villain from the Icerigger subseries chooses to die rather than be mindwiped for his crimes, because he believes the process will invoke this trope upon him rather than just change him into a good citizen.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Humanx Commonwealth / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: Bloodhype, obviously, plus a handful of others that don't get as much page time. Another notable example is the emotion-inducing drugs in the short story Emoman.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_2da5273e	type	Just Like Robin Hood
Humanx Commonwealth / int_2da5273e	comment	Just Like Robin Hood: First line of The Tar-Aiym Krang — "The Flinx was an ethical thief, in that he only stole from the crooked."
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_306b9de9	type	Electric Torture
Humanx Commonwealth / int_306b9de9	comment	Electric Torture: Flinx encounters a version of this at Conda Challis' hands — a bracelet that administers an extraordinarily painful neural discharge. The hovering orbs in Quofum use something similar to this trope to force the marooned scientists deeper into the underground complex, although it's for herding purposes rather than interrogation.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_3081bed	type	Unseen Evil
Humanx Commonwealth / int_3081bed	comment	Unseen Evil: The galaxy-eating horror that's approaching from across the universe. Although it's presented as the greatest threat to existence ever known, it doesn't do much aside from giving off "evil vibes" and is so far away that it only shows up in the most advanced of astronomical instruments, as well as Flinx's mental projections — justified as if it weren't so far away, it would have already destroyed everything. And then, in Flinx Transcendent, Flinx triggers an ancient Xunca weapon that simply makes it go "foop".
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Humanx Commonwealth / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The commander of the AAnn base on Repler may be studying a world-devouring Eldritch Abomination under the nose of the Commonwealth and lamenting the lack of humans to eat, but he's still disgusted by Bloodhype peddler Dominic Rose.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
Humanx Commonwealth / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: Foster delights in presenting fantastically weird alien species in every new book he writes. The one notable aversion in the Back Story (the Pitar) come with a nasty little twist. Perhaps the greatest example of this is the planet Quofum, where mutation and evolution have been artificially sped up to absurd rates.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_337b9528	type	The Worf Barrage
Humanx Commonwealth / int_337b9528	comment	The Worf Barrage: Despite being over a hundred times more powerful than the original Krang, the one and only time the Tar-Aiym weapons platform is fired is in the last novel and it proves completely ineffective against the Great Evil.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_33981caf	type	Street Urchin
Humanx Commonwealth / int_33981caf	comment	Street Urchin: Flinx starts out as a orphan who spends a lot of time on the streets as a petty thief under the auspices of his adoptive mother. In Trouble Magnet, he takes some urchins under his wing because they remind him of his past.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_34bd7be2	type	Super Drowning Skills
Humanx Commonwealth / int_34bd7be2	comment	Super Drowning Skills: Due to their physiology (a rigid exoskeleton, normal posture that is upright but canted forward from the vertical, and breathing spicules located on the underside of their abdomens,) a thranx would drown while standing in a two-foot-deep puddle. They would rapidly sink in deeper water.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Humanx Commonwealth / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Dominic Rose casually murders a songbird by crushing it within its cage, as a way of expressing his anger. Flinx has an anti-heroic dog-kicking episode in Reunion when he uses his projective empathy to infiltrate the Terran Shell by convincing one of its engineers that she's in love with him.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
Humanx Commonwealth / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: Flinx has a tendency to violently explode in a telekinetic storm when his powers are stressed. It's as bad for his surroundings as you might imagine.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_380faa43	type	Your Tomcat Is Pregnant
Humanx Commonwealth / int_380faa43	comment	Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Pip started as a "he" by default, since there was no xenobiologist handy to inform Flinx otherwise. In The End of the Matter, the duo visit Alaspin, where Pip socializes with a male minidrag. A few months later, Flinx discovers to his surprise that Pip is a "she".
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_3b358c4d	type	Bird People
Humanx Commonwealth / int_3b358c4d	comment	Bird People: The Quillp, sapient avians that resemble giant secretary birds and have friendly relations with the thranx and humans.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
Humanx Commonwealth / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: A side-effect of the Vom and Guardian's mental battle is a bunch of weird things happening in physical reality. Some rocks turn to precious gems, a nearby gas giant's orbit is altered, a crustacean has a massive intelligence boost (and is promptly eaten by a fish), and so on.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_3bebfcc0	type	Living Lie Detector
Humanx Commonwealth / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Living Lie Detector: Both Flinx and Pip can detect lies by reading the emotional state of the person telling them. Pip does it instinctively, which can lead to some rather nasty consequences (read: she spits a corrosive venom).
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_3ed8a8b9	type	I'm Melting!
Humanx Commonwealth / int_3ed8a8b9	comment	I'm Melting!: One of the many (many many many) nasty ways to die on the green world with no name. Rundle, one of Jack-Jax's hirelings, learns this the hard way.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_3ee5fd12	type	One-Letter Name
Humanx Commonwealth / int_3ee5fd12	comment	One-Letter Name: Among the Aann, the fewer letters there are in one's surname, the higher one's rank in society. Their Emperor thus has a one-letter surname.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Humanx Commonwealth / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Ethan from the Icerigger series has a tendency to do this, and get ragged on by his associates for it.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
Humanx Commonwealth / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: Played with. There's no grand destiny of the Universe that anyone knows of, but it just so happens that Flinx is the "lucky accident" that the Xunca were hoping would evolve to become the trigger for their ancient weapon against the Great Evil. Once this is revealed, major forces dedicate themselves to the sole purpose of making sure Flinx fulfills this destiny, often over his strenuous objections.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Humanx Commonwealth / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The Ulru-Ujurrians are The Cavalry for Flinx on several occasions. They do so by showing up completely unannounced, almost literally out of thin air, and fixing whatever problem he's got. Flinx lampshades this on one occasion, and it's subverted in Flinx and Flux by having them show up after he's solved the problem himself. More generally, Flinx has a habit of getting himself into hopeless situations and then getting bailed out by the arrival of a completely unexpected third party.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Humanx Commonwealth / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Jack-Jax Coerlis, the first antagonist from Mid-Flinx. He decides that he's going to get Pip as a pet despite Flinx's insistence that she's not for sale, then gets a first-hand demonstration of why mini-drags are so dangerous. Only Flix's last-minute intervention stops her from outright killing Jack-Jax, followed by his giving instructions for the necessary medical treatment. Jack-Jax responds by trying to attack Flinx's ship, then follows him to Midworld to murder him and steal Pip. Unsurprisingly, this just results in him and all his employees dying in a variety of nasty ways.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_3fff5717	type	Genius Cripple
Humanx Commonwealth / int_3fff5717	comment	Genius Cripple: The human children raised alongside thranx larvae in the Founding Of The Commonwealth novels tend to see their quick-witted, limbless companions this way, although it's more a case of the larvae being mentally somewhat more mature than smarter.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
Humanx Commonwealth / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: The novel Cachalot is set on a world almost entirely covered by ocean, a planet to which all terrestrial cetaceans have been transplanted after they've been administered a serum which makes them as intelligent as, or more intelligent, than humans. The plot opens with the mysterious destruction of several human habitats and the arrival of a team of specialist investigators who attempt to discover what has happened. Possible candidates are the highly intelligent but aloof toothed whales, the dumb but inoffensive baleen whales, or some indigenous but unknown form of life. Except... the cover of the first UK paperback edition clearly showed a bunch of baleen whales smashing up a town. Cheers, cover artist.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_43273c71	type	LongRunner
Humanx Commonwealth / int_43273c71	comment	Long Runner: From 1972's The Tar-Aiym Krang to 2009's Flinx Transcendent, plus 2017's follow-up Strange Music.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_44141b67	type	Sssssnaketalk
Humanx Commonwealth / int_44141b67	comment	Sssssnaketalk: The AAnn.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: Flinx, Teal, and her children are saved from Jack-Jax and his hired thugs, who've taken them captive, by a party of AAnn who also take them captive.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
Humanx Commonwealth / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon : Lasers are treated fairly realistically, and are only one of a myriad of weapons used in personal and spatial combat. There is an odd case in The Tar-Aiym Krang where a laser weapon is employed in space-plus, implying that the beam travels faster than light. The Photoid floaters of Midworld can focus sunlight into organically-generated laser beams.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Humanx Commonwealth / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Flinx's resentment of the separation his powers cause from the rest of humanity drives him to quite a bit of Wangst in the later novels.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Humanx Commonwealth / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: The Vom, also in Bloodhype. Although in this case, it's a planet-sized can that is opened when an AAnn exploratory vessel lands there and decides to take the mysterious alien lifeform to an inhabited world for study. This doesn't turn out so well for them.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_486268b8	type	Trail of Bread Crumbs
Humanx Commonwealth / int_486268b8	comment	Trail Of Breadcrumbs: Beset by kidnappers, Mother Mastiff douses herself with perfume, allowing Pip to scent-track her captors' route out of the city.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_4b084bdd	type	Planimal
Humanx Commonwealth / int_4b084bdd	comment	Planimal: A whole bunch of Midworld species including the furcots.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_4ee5989a	type	Bizarre Alien Senses
Humanx Commonwealth / int_4ee5989a	comment	Bizarre Alien Senses: The setting gives us the insectoid thranx, who have a "Faz" sense granted by their antennae. Apparently, the antennae are sensitive to air currents.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Humanx Commonwealth / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: In The Tar-Aiym Krang, Flinx's quasi-telepathic powers are not well defined in their scope, and he seems to have no compunction about using them openly in front of people. Further, other characters observing him seem to accept his powers as unremarkable, if not precisely commonplace. Once the Meliorare Society backstory becomes canon, this becomes nonsensical, as Flinx's capabilities are shockingly rare and a public demonstration could easily trigger a Witch Hunt. Plus, he is empathic rather than telepathic and is never clairvoyant. In Orphan Star, Flinx visits Earth and sees thranx body surfing. Later novels (by publication date) establish that thranx have breathing spicules on their abdomens and would therefore drown in two feet of water, plus they are not buoyant. Bloodhype was the second Flinx novel Foster wrote but runs 11th in the chronology. Flinx and Pip only appear in the last third of the novel. Flinx asks for a reward for his efforts - an hour alone with Kitten Kai-Sung - which is rather out of character with the later books. Also, Flinx refers to Pip as "he" despite knowing quite well by that point that Pip is female. The earliest appearances of the AAnn depict them as brute-force villains who quite openly consider humans to be potential food. Later books re-invent them as far more subtle, cunning, manipulative and strategic in their aggression towards all other sentient races, but not inclined to eat them, even when they have no particular reason not to.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Humanx Commonwealth / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The outcomes of many of the Meliorares' genetic experiments were horrifically deformed children that had to be Mercy Killed. The flora and fauna of Midword have evolved a massive number of ways to horrifically kill people. Among them: Having your insides liquefied while a narcotic toxin keeps you too high to notice. Being consumed from the inside by a ravenous plant whose flower you unwittingly clip to your hair. Having your blood painlessly sucked out through your foot while you're distracted by a decoy, and replaced with spores that will hatch out and devour you from within. Quite a few frontier planets besides Midworld have their own nasty indigenous life, from millimites and miner beetles that'll chew up anyone without protective clothing on Alaspin to fungal infestations from Longtunnel that'll grow into living flesh as easily as detritus. Getting spat on by Pip isn't exactly a tidy way to die, what with the corrosive venom that will eat its way into your eyes and face, and all.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_515189ab	type	Single-Biome Planet
Humanx Commonwealth / int_515189ab	comment	Single-Biome Planet: There are both aversions and straight uses of this, depending largely on how much time the story spends on a given world. Terra, Hivehom, and Moth get the most love, and have highly detailed descriptions of widely varying climates and terrains; but then you have examples like Midworld (forest), Longtunnel (caves), Tran-ky-ky (ice), and Cachalot (ocean).... Prism falls somewhere in between the two extremes. Somewhat justified in the case of Tran-ky-ky, when it's strongly implied that it was a more Earthlike world with oceans and continents before the climate turned cold and the oceans froze.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Humanx Commonwealth / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Mahnahmi's childhood features rape by mental proxy, as she telepathically witnessed the full extent of Conda Challis' depravity, including his intention to turn her into a sex toy when she matured.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_53027509	type	Long-Runner Tech Marches On
Humanx Commonwealth / int_53027509	comment	Long-Runner Tech Marches On: The early Flinx novels have him accessing information on microfiche. A mere ten in-universe years later, the Commonwealth has globally networked data storage facilities overseen by sapient AI.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Humanx Commonwealth / int_53c9fc92	comment	The posigravity/KK drive is capable of gouging out sizable chunks of a planet's crust if brought too near, which makes its use near a planetary body one of the most severe crimes in the Commonwealth. A flashback scene in Orphan Star reveals that a partially constructed KK drive sabotaged by a mind-controlled engineer obliterated an entire underground starship construction facility and the mountain it was built beneath.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_53ecf83f	type	Lensman Arms Race
Humanx Commonwealth / int_53ecf83f	comment	Lensman Arms Race: Happened between the Tar-Aiym and Hur'rikku in the Back Story, to the point where the two species destroyed not only each other but wiped out all higher life forms from a large chunk of the galaxy. The efforts of the Xunca to counter the Great Evil fall into this category as well, when you consider that the grand finale in Flinx Transcendent involves using the equivalent of several million galaxies' worth of energy to rip a hole between universes to remove the Great Evil from existence.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_546e23f6	type	Evilutionary Biologist
Humanx Commonwealth / int_546e23f6	comment	Evilutionary Biologist: The Meliorare Society's goal is to "improve" humanity through applied genetic engineering. Even after they are outlawed and hunted down, their last remnants continue to stick to their beliefs, making life quite difficult for Flinx as they try to recover their "subject".
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_551d3457	type	Food Pills
Humanx Commonwealth / int_551d3457	comment	Food Pills: Meal concentrates. Most characters express a preference for the real thing, however, or at least use equipment to make the concentrates more meal-like.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_556a3059	type	The Empath
Humanx Commonwealth / int_556a3059	comment	The Empath: Flinx's primary power is this. Unlike many examples, it is very useful when it works, and later he develops a projective version which is downright devastating when used improperly.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
Humanx Commonwealth / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: Happens to Flinx in Shifting Sands due to a Tap on the Head, leading to him being adopted into an AAnn nest.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_56855fa3	type	Casual Interstellar Travel
Humanx Commonwealth / int_56855fa3	comment	Casual Interstellar Travel: Interstellar travel in the Humanx galaxy is a matter of buying a ticket, hopping on a passenger ship, and arriving at your destination a few days or weeks later. While not cheap, it's easily within reach of the middle-class or equivalent. Corporations and wealthy individuals may own or lease private craft.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_56c163a8	type	Subspace or Hyperspace
Humanx Commonwealth / int_56c163a8	comment	Subspace or Hyperspace: Called "space minus" and "space plus", respectively, and occupying the traditional roles for each.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Humanx Commonwealth / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Flinx's abilities are erratic, to say the least. One minute, he'll be receiving the emotions of every being on a planet, the next he's as ordinary as the next person. Naturally, his powers have a tendency to go out when he most needs them.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_57a91010	type	Green Rocks
Humanx Commonwealth / int_57a91010	comment	In The Howling Stones, the protagonist believes that his superior sophistication over the natives means he can steal their ancient Green Rocks and experiment with them to his heart's content, despite not knowing the first thing about how they work. This backfires badly.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Humanx Commonwealth / int_57b80b45	comment	Many of the stories involve Fantastic Racism between "primitive" tribes of aliens, which the more advanced Commonwealth representatives often try to settle.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_59103508	type	Deadly Environment Prison
Humanx Commonwealth / int_59103508	comment	Deadly Environment Prison: How to imprison a bunch of human lawbreakers on frigid Tran-ky-ky? Herd them into a heated but isolated warehouse, take away all but the minimum of clothing, and don't even bother to lock the door.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Humanx Commonwealth / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Happens between the AAnn and Commonwealth twice, both in the face of overwhelming external threats. The first time is in Bloodhype when their respective fleets offer to team up against the Vom (which proves futile, but hey, it's the thought that counts). The second occurs in Flinx Transcendent, and is somewhat one-sided, as the AAnn Emperor agrees to call off all acts of aggression against the Commonwealth for one year in order to allow Flinx to pursue the resolution to the Great Evil crisis unhindered. Happens in a very ironic manner in Diuturnity's Dawn, the last book of the Founding of the Commonwealth trilogy: human and thranx terrorists opposed to unification run into each other while planning to attack a cultural fair, and, while at the fair, coordinate their efforts for maximum effect; they work together to prevent their species from working together.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_59d7839f	type	Animal Lover
Humanx Commonwealth / int_59d7839f	comment	Animal Lover: Lauren Walder claims this is why she's so devoted to the animals of Moth, so much so that she teams up with Flinx to take down Mother Mastiff's kidnappers. Not because they abducted an old lady, but because two harmless and endangered fuzzy animals she'd raised from cubhood got killed in the crossfire at the lodge.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
Humanx Commonwealth / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: Used more than once, but most prominently in Bloodhype, when Kitten Kai-Sung, Mal, and Porsupah infiltrate the AAnn enclave on Repler using pistols that fire Tranquillizer Darts. They note that the darts aren't exactly instantaneous, but do contain a drug that interrupts short-term memory, so victims won't remember getting shot.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Humanx Commonwealth / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Abalamahalamatandra is really five hundred thousand years old, give or take a few dozen millennia. The Xunca Mutable assigned to Horseye, which the Redowls encounter in Voyage to the City of the Dead in the form of one of the natives, is close to a billion years old.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_5ec15a79	type	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
Humanx Commonwealth / int_5ec15a79	comment	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: The Meliorare Society sought to manipulate the genes of unborn children to create supermen. What they got was... ugly, to say the least, leading to them and their victims being outlawed and hunted down. Flinx and Mahnahmi are the only two altered subjects known to have escaped.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_61ff365d	type	Deflector Shields
Humanx Commonwealth / int_61ff365d	comment	Deflector Shields: Standard equipment on most starships.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_63557923	type	Death World
Humanx Commonwealth / int_63557923	comment	Death World: A lot of planets are like this, but the up to eleven example is Midworld. A huge, complex ecosystem, the plants will kill you, the animals will kill you, and the native humans might not kill you, but either way you're pretty much fucked unless you have a native human or four to guide you- and even then, they might die because some forms of death are just impossible to predict.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Humanx Commonwealth / int_63a8a557	comment	Improbable Use of a Weapon: Skua September puts in his first appearance wielding a Mark Twenty, a military grade laser that's designed to be tripod or vehicle mounted.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_640ebd81	type	Bizarre Alien Reproduction
Humanx Commonwealth / int_640ebd81	comment	Bizarre Alien Reproduction: One of Quofum's weird aerial life forms births its young from multiple ventral cloacae as it glides silently over potential hosts for its parasitic larvae. The newborn larvae are transparent, tissue-thin leaf-shaped creatures that drift down to land on unsuspecting animals, which don't feel a thing until the parasites have adhered to their skin. The larvae then pull in their sides, becoming worm-like, and either burrow into their prey or (if detected and disturbed) coil around any handy appendages with an unbreakable grip, while secreting caustic fluids that fend off efforts to scrape them off.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Humanx Commonwealth / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: The climactic chapters of Flinx Transcendent read like an exercise in applied string theory. Where did the Xunca go again? How exactly does the Lost Superweapon work? Better hope you're up on your applied math or have a scientist friend handy.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_650a309b	type	Forgot About His Powers
Humanx Commonwealth / int_650a309b	comment	Forgot About His Powers: The times Flinx remembers to use his Emotion Bomb and Superpower Meltdown powers offensively in the later novels seem to be based less on his competence and more on whether someone else is coming to save him.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
Humanx Commonwealth / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Although the United Church is established as the spiritual arm of the Commonwealth, exactly what they believe in is never really stated, and it's implied that, for most people, direct deity worship has been discarded in favor of a kind of universal spiritualism.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_661a66d8	type	Animal Wrongs Group
Humanx Commonwealth / int_661a66d8	comment	Animal Wrongs Group: The main antagonists of Flinx in Flux are an ecoterrorist group who feel that any human exploitation of the natural world is a crime and seek to punish offenders by summary execution. They attack the Coldstripe research installation on Longtunnel and later hunt Flinx down.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_666648a3	type	Hostile Terraforming
Humanx Commonwealth / int_666648a3	comment	Hostile Terraforming: Attempted by the villains of The Deluge Drivers, to convert Tran-ky-ky from an ice world to a human-habitable one. In a twist, this would happen naturally several thousand years in the future, but the culprits don't want to wait and would cause a change too swift for the native Tran to endure.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
Humanx Commonwealth / int_67f26dcc	comment	Planet of Hats: Most obviously, the AAnn. Lots of other species get this treatment due to limited page time, but the thranx are a notable exception.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_6861146e	type	Epiphany Therapy
Humanx Commonwealth / int_6861146e	comment	Epiphany Therapy: In Flinx Transcendent, Flinx conveniently gets over his Wangst in time to wrap up the series. On the other hand, Flinx's powers give him the ability to inflict a form of this on others... Mahnahmi may be the most extreme example.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_69aa26d1	type	Poison Is Corrosive
Humanx Commonwealth / int_69aa26d1	comment	Poison Is Corrosive: Pip's caustic neurotoxin spittle.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Humanx Commonwealth / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Abalamahalamatandra. His name, when run through the translation program that Bran Tse-Mallory and Truzenzuzex create for him, comes out as "key". Ab says this himself in one of his sing-song nonsense rhymes, but Flinx has no way to understand the significance at the time.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_6c46615c	type	Talking through Technique
Humanx Commonwealth / int_6c46615c	comment	Talking through Technique: Phycode, employed by Kitten Kai-Sung in Bloodhype to send a hidden message to the Humanx authorities on Repler, consists of subtle body language adjustments and muscular twitches that are invisible to any unpracticed observer.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_6f572188	type	Another Dimension
Humanx Commonwealth / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: Space-plus and space-minus are alternate dimensions used for travel and communication. "Elsewhere", the source of the antimatter "white hole" created by the Hur'rikku anticollapsar weapon. The Xunca packed up their entire galaxy-spanning civilization and moved to another dimension, possibly one that they manufactured, in order to escape the Great Evil. The Great Evil itself is thought by the Xunca to have come from an alternate universe, and is eventually banished to another one by their superweapon.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_72217e12	type	Murder, Inc.
Humanx Commonwealth / int_72217e12	comment	Murder, Inc.: The Quarm are a feared guild of assassins whose creed, apart from ruthless efficiency, is that they never fail to kill a target. Flinx and his allies are among the few claimants to have successfully defeated them, as is Williams from the Icerigger subseries.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_727b5779	type	Cat Folk
Humanx Commonwealth / int_727b5779	comment	Cat Folk: The Tran have several feline anatomical features, albeit obscured by the dan and chiv they use to traverse the ice-fields. The Golden Saia, a hot-weather phenotype of the same species, lack these membranous sails and skating-claws, so are more of a straight example.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Humanx Commonwealth / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Clarity Held, Flinx's Love Interest, gets this twice. At the end of Flinx in Flux, Flinx more or less tells her to get lost and he'll come find her again when he's figured out what to do about the Great Evil. At the end of Flinx's Folly, just after their reunion, she nearly gets blown to pieces and Flinx leaves her in Bran and Tru's care.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Humanx Commonwealth / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: In Bloodhype, between Mal Hammurabi and Kitten Kai-Sung. He rescues her from certain death and she rewards him by acting like a spoiled brat. The clash of personalities is so strong that it is practically inevitable that they hook up in the end.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_77aae115	type	Hated by All
Humanx Commonwealth / int_77aae115	comment	Hated by All: The Meliorare Society is outlawed by the United Church after their scheme to produce genetic supermen is exposed, and all information about them is edicted. Those who know about them and/or remember the outcomes of their experiments uniformly revile them. Flinx is subject to the same treatment merely by being associated.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Humanx Commonwealth / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: Literally so: in Mission to Moulokin, black-powder explosives bring down tons of rocks from the cliffs between Moulokin's paired gates, which crush an invading army and the stolen laser-cannon with which its villainous leaders cut through the first gate's defenses.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_7c46c734	type	Common Tongue
Humanx Commonwealth / int_7c46c734	comment	Common Tongue: Symbospeech was developed to allow humans and thranx to share a language pronounceable by both species, and turned out, serendipitously, to be at least functionally usable by most of the other species in the galaxy.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_7c48b272	type	Summon Bigger Fish
Humanx Commonwealth / int_7c48b272	comment	Summon Bigger Fish: Born saves the Home Tree via this trope, by luring in the only jungle menace capable of challenging the Akadi: another swarm of Akadi. The Slanderscree's crew blow apart the carcass of a baby thunder-eater to attract a whole herd of adults to come investigate the stench, crushing their besieging Horde enemies in the process. Lauren and Flinx destroy the Meliorares' base on Moth by using devilope blood and musk to attract a herd of the gigantic hoofed mammals onto the site, where they proceed to trample or demolish everything in sight.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
Humanx Commonwealth / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: The Humanx Commonwealth is an egalitarian and democratic alliance of dozens of spacefaring species, under the notional leadership of the humans and thranx. Throughout the main series, the stability of the Commonwealth (and its spiritual arm, the United Church) is taken as a given, with little in the way of existential conflict.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_7d97ab06	type	Space Is an Ocean
Humanx Commonwealth / int_7d97ab06	comment	Space Is an Ocean: Most particularly in that the method of FTL used allows interplanetary travel measured in days or weeks. "KK drive" starships therefore cruise the void much like sailing vessels, complete with merchant traders and trading companies run by wealthy magnates.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Humanx Commonwealth / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Mahnahmi, as the only other surviving Meliorare experiment, has a backstory that could charitably be called a Deus Angst Machina and might qualify for Worst Childhood Ever. Unfortunately, she tries taking it out on Flinx while he's busy trying to save the universe.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
Humanx Commonwealth / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: Abalamahalamatandra fiddles with rocks, arranging them in circles and patterns, as Flinx's party escorts him through the ruined city on Alaspin. On one occasion, the narrative reveals that the "rocks" in question are actually valuable gemstones which Ab found lying around in the dirt, but none of the befuddled little creature's companions comes near to look at them before they call Ab away and he leaves them behind.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Humanx Commonwealth / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Averted, as the series takes biological compatibility quite seriously. However, the concept is given quite a working over by Kitten Kai-Sung, who has apparently studied the art of interspecies sexual stimulation and deliberately uses this knowledge to squick out her companions.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_860b267a	type	Kinky Spanking
Humanx Commonwealth / int_860b267a	comment	Kinky Spanking: Mal Hammurabi administers some "eleemosynary chastisement" to Kitten Kai-Sung in Bloodhype, in retribution for the number of times her stubborness has nearly gotten them all killed. It winds up as Slap-Slap-Kiss.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_867f9f5c	type	Alien Non-Interference Clause
Humanx Commonwealth / int_867f9f5c	comment	Alien Non-Interference Clause: The Commonwealth has one of these a-la Star Trek, providing rules of conduct when dealing with species that haven't developed interstellar travel on their own. Like all such rules, it exists mainly to be bent or broken by the protagonists. Sometimes coupled with placing a planet or species Under Edict so nobody stumbles upon them accidentally. In one particular case (the Ulru-Ujurrians), this was used not to protect the Innocent Aliens from Commonwealth society, but vice versa. Running from the Diety is all about Flinx finding out that having the best of intentions doesn't mean his interference won't damage an alien society.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Humanx Commonwealth / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Flinx's empathic powers are the focus of his storyline, but there are lots of naturally telepathic and empathic beings throughout the galaxy, such as the Tar-Aiym, the Ulru-Ujurrians, the natives of Longtunnel, the entire planet of Midworld, and more.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Humanx Commonwealth / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Vom is a hyperintelligent mass of pitch black organic material that consumes all life on a planet to satiate its hunger. Its mental powers are such as to be able to Mind Control and/or Mind Rape any other sapient being it encounters. It is theorized by the AAnn who discover it that it may be extragalactic in origin. The Great Evil is a region of sapient nothingness that consumes entire galaxies. Its presence can only be detected by the absence of other matter, and by Flinx, whose mental journeys have led him to witness it directly. Even at a distance of parsecs, its merest glance in his direction is sufficient to destroy his being; it is fortunate for him that it misses. It's so horrifying that anyone without a very strong mind will Go Mad from the Revelation when they share Flinx's experience.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_87f13be4	type	Designer Babies
Humanx Commonwealth / int_87f13be4	comment	Flinx himself can be said to be a weapon, as he is both genetically designed and possessed of powerful talents that can be used offensively.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_884df77f	type	Instant Waking Skills
Humanx Commonwealth / int_884df77f	comment	Instant Waking Skills: Flinx possesses this trait. He doesn't know if it comes from his abnormal genetic heritage or his early life as a petty thief on the streets of the planet Moth, but it comes in handy a few times. He also finds as he gets older that he needs only a few hours of sleep each day and can adjust his circadian rhythm more or less at will.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Humanx Commonwealth / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: In For Love of Mother-Not, the giant lakes of the planet Moth contain fish so huge that they are hunted from giant skimmers using explosive harpoons. In one scene, Lauren notes to Flinx that the penestral they have just caught — a fish large enough to swallow a skimmer whole, and feed an entire town for months — is itself predated on by an even larger fish known as an oboweir. The flora and fauna of Midworld frequently serve as the Bigger Fish to rescue the heroic characters from potential death, and for every ridiculously efficient predator, there's always one bigger and more terrifying. An enemy raft from the Tran-ky-ky subseries gets gobbled up by something really huge from under the thinning ice. Just what it is, is never stated, but Williams gets enough of a look to think it looks like a sea cucumber.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_89443850	type	Absolute Xenophobe
Humanx Commonwealth / int_89443850	comment	Absolute Xenophobe: The Pitar are a species of Human Aliens who are encountered by humans shortly after meeting the thranx. They turn out to have a dark secret — they hate all other life forms and befriend humanity only to steal the women to use as Uterine Replicators for their rapidly declining species.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_89a98f45	type	Living Relic
Humanx Commonwealth / int_89a98f45	comment	Living Relic: Peot, the Tar-Aiym Guardian, from Bloodhype. Five hundred thousand years old and the Last of His Kind, after his task of defeating the Vom is concluded, he commits suicide.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Humanx Commonwealth / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Anyone who touches the Great Evil needs some pretty strong willpower to avoid having their brain fried.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Humanx Commonwealth / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Both Flinx and Mahnahmi can use their projective empathy/telepathy offensively, and do, even to the point of killing people (by accident in Flinx's case). Also one of the powers of the Vom in Bloodhype.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Humanx Commonwealth / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Being a Space Opera series, various horrifically destructive events occur or are threatened. The Blight in the backstory was the result of an interplanetary biological weapon released during a massive war. It wiped out all higher life forms (anything with a developed nervous system) on millions of planets. The posigravity/KK drive is capable of gouging out sizable chunks of a planet's crust if brought too near, which makes its use near a planetary body one of the most severe crimes in the Commonwealth. A flashback scene in Orphan Star reveals that a partially constructed KK drive sabotaged by a mind-controlled engineer obliterated an entire underground starship construction facility and the mountain it was built beneath. In Bloodhype, the Vom is an Eldritch Abomination that travels from planet to planet by using Mind Control to hitch a ride with any hapless spacefaring race that answers its call. Once on a world, it eats all life, down to the smallest microbe. In The End of the Matter, the protagonists must deal with a rogue collapsar, a super-massive black hole that sucks up entire star systems and threatens, in its path across the galaxy, to destroy three inhabited Commonwealth planets. The Great Evil is a region of sentient nothingness that can swallow entire galaxies. If left unchecked, it could in theory render the entire universe down to inert matter. On a smaller scale, the third Icerigger novel features a devastating threat to Tran-ky-ky's environment, as its Ice World climate begins to warm up.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
Humanx Commonwealth / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: The Xunca. Also the Tar-Aiym and Hur'rikku to a lesser extent. In fact, the planets of the Commonwealth universe are absolutely littered with the ruins of ancient civilizations.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_95bac90d	type	Subspace Ansible
Humanx Commonwealth / int_95bac90d	comment	Subspace Ansible: The Deep Space Beams, which use "space minus", but are very expensive. Ordinary interstellar communications are carried on starships through space plus, or sent via messenger drone.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Humanx Commonwealth / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Two AAnn scientists, trapped by the Vom in a corridor with no way out, are spared from being Eaten Alive when one shoots his companion and then himself. Qyl-Elussab, a Vssey terrorist, is eventually discovered by the end of Sliding Scales. Faced with his enemies discovering his location, he disguises himself as medical staff, attaches himself to Takuuna as the nye is being taken back to the AAnn HQ on Jast, and then blows up the aircar once it arrives in the middle of the HQ.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_99390db0	type	Saintly Church
Humanx Commonwealth / int_99390db0	comment	Saintly Church: The United Church is portrayed as well-meaning and idealistic, almost saccharinely so. On the other hand, its operatives are well trained, and can go around very well-armed, when called for.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_997719d0	type	Exposition Beam
Humanx Commonwealth / int_997719d0	comment	Exposition Beam: Flinx has a unique way of telling people about the Great Evil — he takes their minds there to experience it themselves.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_9adcd93a	type	Bizarre Alien Locomotion
Humanx Commonwealth / int_9adcd93a	comment	Bizarre Alien Locomotion: The Tran from the Icerigger subseries move using their "chiv" skate-claws, propelled by the "dan" sails beneath their arms. Many other life forms of Tran-Ky-Ky use sails to glide across the ice on padded feet or mucus-coated bellies. The sentient inhabitants of Jast, the Vssey, are basically giant mushrooms that get around by hopping. None of the life forms on Jast evolved multiple feet and none can really walk. Many evolved lift balloons and took to the air instead. The xenologists of Quofum meet a primitive race that slides along the ground on paired narrow skids, and discover carved pictures of another species that bounced like rubber balls.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Humanx Commonwealth / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Midworld, Born passes by a stormtreader tree and avoids a Buna floater just before witnessing the skimmer crash. It's a stormtreader tree, together with the floater's laser-shooting Photoid cousins, that bring down the company station at the end.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_9de3b377	type	Unrealistic Black Hole
Humanx Commonwealth / int_9de3b377	comment	Unrealistic Black Hole: The conclusion of The End of the Matter, wherein a "white hole" composed entirely of antimatter sucks material out of the black hole so it can mutually annihilate.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_9f9b5a20	type	Arbitrarily Large Bank Account
Humanx Commonwealth / int_9f9b5a20	comment	A rare example of the protagonist using this trope; after Orphan Star, Flinx is so rich (the Ujurrians rigged his account with effectively infinite wealth) that he can buy his way out of many situations. Of course, in later novels he's wanted by nearly every Commonwealth authority, so the value of his "inheritance" is a bit dubious.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_9fb2452d	type	Evil Is Not a Toy
Humanx Commonwealth / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: Curious AAnn, meet the Vom. The Vom wants to eat everything in existence. Trying to control it won't turn out well for you.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
Humanx Commonwealth / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: Sagyanak the Death, leader of the Horde.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_a19135a6	type	Mind Control
Humanx Commonwealth / int_a19135a6	comment	Mind Control: The AAnn scheme to implant suicidal thought plays into the Janus Jewels mined from Ulru-Ujurr in Orphan Star.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_a1dfb30e	type	Lost Superweapon
Humanx Commonwealth / int_a1dfb30e	comment	Lost Superweapon: The ancient civilizations of the galaxy had a penchant for building superweapons, then going extinct (or going elsewhere). Specific examples include the Hur'rikku anticollapsar weapon, the Tar-Aiym Krang, the Tar-Aiym weapons platform that is made of Krangs, and the Xunca's galaxy-sized superweapon.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_a20b2263	type	Purple Is Powerful
Humanx Commonwealth / int_a20b2263	comment	Purple Is Powerful: As they age, thranx chiton changes from a youthful blue-green to a deepening purple hue. Because most thranx officials acquire their status through seniority and long experience, this means that ones with the greatest authority and prestige (Hive-mothers, Eints, the current Commonwealth President, etc) tend to be so deep a purple that it's nearly black.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Humanx Commonwealth / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Pip's primary weapon is an extremely potent and caustic neurotoxin, which she instinctively aims at the eyes. If it enters the bloodstream, it kills in less then a minute, and it leaves horrible scars behind even on the survivors.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_a4878b81	type	It's Not You, It's My Enemies
Humanx Commonwealth / int_a4878b81	comment	It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Flinx's justification for leaving Clarity Held in the care of Bran Tse-Mallory and Truzenzuzex in Flinx's Folly, conveniently putting her on a bus until the grand finale.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_a9fa639a	type	Interstellar Weapon
Humanx Commonwealth / int_a9fa639a	comment	Interstellar Weapon: The Tar-Aiym weapons platform and the Xunca superweapon, in Flinx Transcendent, which can fire (if such a term is even applicable) across intergalactic distances.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_ab27d196	type	Apocalypse Cult
Humanx Commonwealth / int_ab27d196	comment	Apocalypse Cult: A cult called the Order of Null appears in Flinx's Folly and later novels. They have learned of the approach of the galaxy-devouring Great Evil, and see it as their role to remove any obstacles to its coming. This includes Flinx himself, who is the Chosen One fated to destroy it. It is later revealed that they are abetted by none other than Flinx's archnemesis, Mahnahmi, a powerful telepath and an embittered nihilist.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Humanx Commonwealth / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: Happens to Flinx in Orphan Star, courtesy of an unscrupulous thranx hired by Conda Challis.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_abe166cc	type	Bond Creatures
Humanx Commonwealth / int_abe166cc	comment	Bond Creatures: Alaspinian minidrags form empathic bonds with their partners. Normally this is one-sided, with the human only able to generate affection rather than receive it, but Flinx has a unique relationship with Pip, who acts as an amplifier for his powers. Furcots in Midworld and Mid-Flinx are symbiotes created by the planet's sapient ecosystem to act as lifetime partners for their humans.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Humanx Commonwealth / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: At the climax of Flinx in Flux, the Animal Wrongs Group that has been hunting Flinx down in order to "make him normal" shows up just in time to accidentally rescue him from the Big Bad who wishes to experiment upon him instead. As a double example, Flinx finds that the sedation method that the Big Bad used on him has also woken a new form of his empathic powers, which he subsequently uses to defeat both groups of antagonists.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_ae69516f	type	Artificial Gravity
Humanx Commonwealth / int_ae69516f	comment	Artificial Gravity: Both used to create and applied as a side effect of the posigravity/KK drive.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b04fdcc4	type	Loners Are Freaks
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b04fdcc4	comment	Loners Are Freaks: Flinx in a nutshell. Which one causes the other is a matter for debate, but he's not helping things by his constant indulgence in self-pity.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b1118d5e	type	Bizarre Seasons
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b1118d5e	comment	Bizarre Seasons: Because it has an extremely eccentric orbit around its star, Tran-ky-ky alternates between a frozen ice world and a tropical climate over the course of tens of thousands of years.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: If you merely count eating all life on a planet and moving on to the next, you get the Vom. If you count eating the galaxy, the Great Evil would fall into this category. If you count believing the galaxy is too corrupt to continue existing and therefore killing anyone who tries to stop the Great Evil, you get the Order of Null.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: Because both The Tar-Aiym Krang and Bloodhype were written before the major plot points of the ongoing series had been established, a lot of work had to be done to fit them in. For Love of Mother-Not establishes Flinx's canonical origin story at odds with some elements of Krang (the given explanation is that Mother Mastiff was lying to Flinx for his protection), and there are some glaring continuity gaps around Bloodhype (Pip's gender, Flinx's age, and the design of his starship). Foster acknowledged these and offered some explanations, but admitted that complete consistency was impossible.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b2280b66	comment	Flinx and Pip: Chronologically, this series begins with For Love of Mother-Not, although that book was published much later and retconned Flinx's origin story to bring it into the main plot. From The Tar-Aiym Krang through The End of the Matter, the story is fairly lighthearted and episodic in nature, with Orphan Star starting Flinx's search for his parentage. Flinx in Flux brought Cerebus Syndrome by introducing both the Great Evil plot and Flinx's ongoing Love Interest. The next several books fill in the story of his quest for a Lost Superweapon to counter the Great Evil, as well as the resolution of the search for his parents. The Grand Finale to the Great Evil plot is Flinx Transcendent. Most recently, Strange Music re-introduces Flinx as older and more mature, yet still prone to getting into complicated messes.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b2ad812d	type	So What Do We Do Now?
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b2ad812d	comment	So What Do We Do Now?: Flinx's last line in Flinx Transcendent — "I'm bored."
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b2d8059f	type	Innocent Aliens
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b2d8059f	comment	Innocent Aliens: The Ulru-Ujurrians start out this way, being exploited by the AAnn and Rudenuaman Enterprises for their little schemes. After Flinx gets in touch with them, however, they reveal that they are exponentially intelligent and rapidly develop a society and technology far beyond the Commonwealth's.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b3da5507	type	Space Sector
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b3da5507	comment	Space Sector: There are mentions of places like "the Bryan Sector" and "the Vandy sector".
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: Abalamahalamatandra, whose gibberish mumblings are revealed to be the whimsical alien's attempts to render hundreds of thousands of languages as phonetic symbospeech, all to communicate the location of a Lost Superweapon.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: A fairly brief one at the end of Flinx Transcendent.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b7e1dcc8	type	Empathic Weapon
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b7e1dcc8	comment	Empathic Weapon: The Krang is the ultimate weapon constructed by the Tar-Aiym. In keeping with their martial nature, it is both musical instrument and weapon, and is telepathic/sapient to boot, merging with its operator in a synergistic mecha-mental fusion. Flinx himself can be said to be a weapon, as he is both genetically designed and possessed of powerful talents that can be used offensively.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b7fea698	type	Emotion Bomb
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b7fea698	comment	Emotion Bomb: One of Flinx's offensive uses of his empathic abilities is to project terror and/or despair into his enemies. In one case, the terror is enough to kill a weak-hearted man. In another situation, he uses it to open up the depths of his personal angst to a prideful street gang, who are promptly incapacitated.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b894042e	type	False Dichotomy
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b894042e	comment	False Dichotomy: Is the Krang a musical instrument, as per one myth, or a deadly weapon, as per another? Turns out it's both.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b922a720	type	Standard Time Units
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b922a720	comment	Standard Time Units: All spacefaring sapients, humanx, AAnn, or others, use the same units, "time-parts", for short intervals of time. Humanx use T-years, short for Terra, as their basis for longer periods.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_b98626c2	type	Traveling Landmass
Humanx Commonwealth / int_b98626c2	comment	Traveling Landmass: Quofum is this on a cosmic level, being a planet that's only occasionally found at its traditional spacetime coordinates. It's the Xunca homeworld, and they rigged it to dimension hop, which is admittedly more convenient than getting in a starship if you want to go somewhere quickly.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
Humanx Commonwealth / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: The Slanderscree, of the Icerigger subseries — literally a giant raft on skates used to cross the frozen seas of Tran-ky-ky.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Humanx Commonwealth / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: While "genius" may be overstating it, in Icerigger Boisterous Bruiser Skua September knows enough engineering to jury-rig an 'electrodyne forge,' a device which is the only known way to work the otherwise-nearly-indestructible metal alloy called "duralloy."
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Humanx Commonwealth / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: The Church agents from the Moral Operations branch who pursue Flinx and the Meliorares in For Love of Mother-Not wish to see the Meliorares destroyed and all their experimental subjects put down or "made normal", regardless of the cost in lives and/or the desires of said subjects.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_bd3dc623	type	Fiendish Fish
Humanx Commonwealth / int_bd3dc623	comment	Fiendish Fish: In For Love of Mother-Not, some of the kidnappers Flinx is pursuing over a huge lake on Moth are gobbled up — with their two-man watercraft — by a gargantuan fish called a penestral. Flinx's wilderness-savvy companion remarks that the fifteen-meter penestral, while good-sized for its kind, would rate as only a mid-range predator in the sea-sized lakes farther north: the real challenge there is fishing for oboweir, a species that eats penestrals.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
Humanx Commonwealth / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: The earliest few novels' depictions of the AAnn tended to use this trope, although later books dropped the idea of AAnn thinking of humans in culinary terms.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Humanx Commonwealth / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Flinx spends much of his early life as a thief and spends most of his adult life trying to avoid being The Hero of whatever situation he's in. He wants the universe to leave him in peace, but his uniqueness attracts problems to him like flies to honey. Skua September is a Boisterous Bruiser who plays by his own rules and has a mysterious, quasi-criminal past. He's not intentionally a hero type, but gets roped into helping Flinx when the latter winds up on his doorstep, pursued by a small army of Alaspinian natives. Malcolm Hammurabi is a merchant captain, not a hero, but when he accidentally stumbles upon a cache of the vicious drug bloodhype in one of his shipments, he decides to hunt down the man responsible. He's also a romantic, and his chivalrous urges cause him, against his better judgement, to rescue Kitten Kai-Sung from torture and death. From the prequel trilogy, the human Cheelo Montoya and the thranx Desvendapur, both accidental murderers with few scruples, lay the groundwork for what would eventually become the Commonwealth. Completely by accident.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Humanx Commonwealth / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Kitten Kai-Sung, in Bloodhype, or at least that's the impression she likes to give. Flinx calls her bluff when he asks for his reward and she delivers, if not very enthusiastically.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Humanx Commonwealth / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Bran Tse-Mallory and Truzenzuzex, military veterans and renowned scientists both, carry around enough firepower for an entire squad of peaceforcers and know how to use it. They also like making The Cavalry entrances. In one book Flinx picks up telepathic reverberations of violence fading into the distance. He later learns that it was Bran and Tru disposing of an ambush laid for him, Flinx, by trained assassins. In the Tran-ky-ky trilogy, Milliken Williams is a quiet, unassuming schoolteacher who specializes in Earth history. Working entirely from memory, he provides the local Tran with a design for a crossbow, devises primitive black-powder explosives for defeating the Horde, and also designs the enormous ice ship Slanderscree based on late-1800s Earth clipper ships. He can also hold his own in a fight, as he proves in the third novel by outwitting and killing a trained assassin.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_c34b316c	type	Bee People
Humanx Commonwealth / int_c34b316c	comment	Bee People: Averted by the thranx, which used to have an ant-like social structure, but re-evolved the capacity for all females to breed in the course of becoming sentient.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_c37813c5	type	Ninja
Humanx Commonwealth / int_c37813c5	comment	Ninja: The clannish, secretive muscle-and-murder-for-hire Qwarm are essentially a futuristic version of this, although there's no indication they actually descend from historical ninjas.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_c66f2bb5	type	Witch Hunt
Humanx Commonwealth / int_c66f2bb5	comment	In The Tar-Aiym Krang, Flinx's quasi-telepathic powers are not well defined in their scope, and he seems to have no compunction about using them openly in front of people. Further, other characters observing him seem to accept his powers as unremarkable, if not precisely commonplace. Once the Meliorare Society backstory becomes canon, this becomes nonsensical, as Flinx's capabilities are shockingly rare and a public demonstration could easily trigger a Witch Hunt. Plus, he is empathic rather than telepathic and is never clairvoyant.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_c72af5a8	type	Mini-Mecha
Humanx Commonwealth / int_c72af5a8	comment	Mini-Mecha: In Sentenced to Prism, Evan Orgell is sent to the planet Prism equipped with a Mobile Hostile Worlds (MHW) exo-suit which falls just on the "mecha" side of the dividing line vs Powered Armor.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Humanx Commonwealth / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The silverslith from Midworld is essentially an arboreal shoggoth. Foster's first published work was a short Lovecraft pastiche, originally a gag letter he sent to Arkham House for fun.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
Humanx Commonwealth / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: Flinx's KK starship was engineered by the super genius Ulru-Ujurrians and has capabilities that Commonwealth scientists can only dream of. Among other things, it can disguise its appearance and it can land on a planet on KK drive.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_c987803b	type	Ursine Aliens
Humanx Commonwealth / int_c987803b	comment	Ursine Aliens: The Ulru-Ujurrians are described as resembling immense Kodiak bears. More than one human has fainted at the mere sight of them.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Humanx Commonwealth / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Abalamahalamatandra from The End of the Matter acts with a complete disregard for danger and speaks in a neverending flow of gibberish, creating the impression of a whimsically brain-damaged alien puppy.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_cac6d1d2	type	Mental Fusion
Humanx Commonwealth / int_cac6d1d2	comment	Mental Fusion: Commonwealth stingships are piloted by one human and one thranx, mentally linked to one another and their ship. Sophisticated battle-drugs enhance the human's killing instincts and the thranx's calculating dispassion, effectively letting them operate as two halves of a single brain and pinpoint the optimum moment for a devastating attack.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_cd3527d9	type	Negative Space Wedgie
Humanx Commonwealth / int_cd3527d9	comment	Negative Space Wedgie: In terms of its narrative function, the collapsar from The End of the Matter functions as a doom-bringing space anomaly that Flinx and company have to find a superweapon to defeat. The Great Evil is a galaxy-sized negative space wedgie that eats other galaxies.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Humanx Commonwealth / int_cdac8795	comment	Gene Hunting: Flinx was adopted and never knew his real parents. In Orphan Star, Conda Challis claims to have found information about his "maternal line", and this prompts Flinx to chase him over half the Commonwealth. The subsequent search for his father takes more than ten years and at least six novels.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_d0edc982	type	The Chief's Daughter
Humanx Commonwealth / int_d0edc982	comment	Icerigger probably comes the closest to playing this trope straight, with the castaway humans' aid allowing the native Tran to defeat the Horde, construct the Slanderscree, and establish an alliance of city-states: feats that would've been virtually impossible without help. Deconstructed in that the humans' presence merely provides an excuse for Sofold's anti-Horde Tran to swing the vote for resistance in their favor, the giant iceboat is mostly possible thanks to the castaways' wrecked ship providing materials, and the alliance is only necessary in the first place because other humans are exploiting the Tran economically. (Plus, The Chief's Daughter only toys with Ethan romantically in order to make her Tran suitor, Sir Hunnar, jealous ... and Williams, the Slanderscree's actual designer, is black.)
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_d0f63e83	type	Magnetic Hero
Humanx Commonwealth / int_d0f63e83	comment	Magnetic Hero: Flinx's oddity and straightforward self-sufficiency attract people to him wherever he goes, which makes his desire to be a loner all the more ironic.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Humanx Commonwealth / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Mal Hammurabi and Kitten Kai-Sung are at each others' throats for most of Bloodhype. By the end, after a session of Kinky Spanking, they become lovers.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_d2ef6cb4	type	Spaceship Slingshot Stunt
Humanx Commonwealth / int_d2ef6cb4	comment	Spaceship Slingshot Stunt: In The Tar-Aiym Krang, the protagonists use a neutron star as an FTL slingshot to escape pursuing AAnn, who refuse to follow due to the danger of the maneuver.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Humanx Commonwealth / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: The Commonwealth puts Flinx on their wanted list in response to his actions in Reunion, which include using projective empathy to manipulate his way into the Terran Shell and then triggering a trap that nearly levels the entire complex. Also, Flinx gets rather thoroughly chewed out by Tru and Bran in Flinx Transcendent, after revealing that he spent the last four novels navel gazing rather than searching for the Tar-Aiym superweapon.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Humanx Commonwealth / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: The one glaring example here is the scale of the interstellar merchant trade. There would have to be literally millions of ships running nonstop routes between every star system to deliver even a fraction of the goods required to sustain an economy the size of the Commonwealth's. On the other hand, The Tar-Aiym Krang does contain a passage explaining how difficult it is to patrol interstellar space; if you don't travel within sensor range of a monitored system, you can go anywhere you want.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Humanx Commonwealth / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: The United Church puts information about people or places it doesn't want anyone to know about Under Edict. Public records are redacted, the few remaining official records are heavily guarded, and even star maps are altered to remove planetary coordinates. Automated warning systems are placed around Edicted planets with instructions to destroy intruders who don't have a Church override.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_d8f636b8	type	Salvage Pirates
Humanx Commonwealth / int_d8f636b8	comment	Salvage Pirates: In Cachalot, a group of human "salvagers" race to loot the wreckage of any floating town destroyed by the whales before any official investigators arrive. While they never killed survivors before because they didn't find any, their commander has no problem ordering that the main characters be killed to protect the massive amounts of money he and his crew are making off their plunder.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_d9de318a	type	Appetite Equals Health
Humanx Commonwealth / int_d9de318a	comment	Appetite Equals Health: In Phylogenesis, Desvendapur loses his appetite after a strenuous escape in bad weather, then dies in his sleep of exhaustion and exposure.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Humanx Commonwealth / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	Bran Tse-Mallory and Truzenzuzex, military veterans and renowned scientists both, carry around enough firepower for an entire squad of peaceforcers and know how to use it. They also like making The Cavalry entrances. In one book Flinx picks up telepathic reverberations of violence fading into the distance. He later learns that it was Bran and Tru disposing of an ambush laid for him, Flinx, by trained assassins.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_dae3999d	type	Action Bomb
Humanx Commonwealth / int_dae3999d	comment	Action Bomb: As Flinx gains more control over his powers, he sometimes tries to use his Super-Power Meltdown offensively, with varying degrees of success, and occasionally forgets about it completely when it's inconvenient to the plot.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_dbea254f	type	ChosenOne
Humanx Commonwealth / int_dbea254f	comment	Chosen One: Flinx, by virtue of his powers and unique origin, is the key to defeating the Great Evil... whether he likes it or not.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_dcd29760	type	They Would Cut You Up
Humanx Commonwealth / int_dcd29760	comment	They Would Cut You Up: Why Flinx doesn't trust Humanx authorities or reveal his abilities to anyone who's not extremely close to him.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_ddfb4e53	type	A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read
Humanx Commonwealth / int_ddfb4e53	comment	A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Mahnahmi, a telepath, grew up in Conda Challis' household and was unavoidably subjected to the full extent of his depravity. This warped her youthful psyche beyond recognition.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Humanx Commonwealth / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Tellenberg in Quofum, who's the main viewpoint character for the first half of the book, up until he's killed by the Quarm infiltrator.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_e277967	comment	What Is Evil?: The Vom attempts to bargain for its existence by claiming that evil is a meaningless concept. Peot and Flinx' answer: "Shut up and die."
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_e4d9e13b	comment	Mars Needs Women: The reason that the Pitar make contact with humans. They believe that their similar appearance may indicate convergent evolution, and they may be able to interbreed, which would counter the Pitar's falling birthrate. However, the Pitar move to accomplish this by stealing female reproductive organs from a human colony...
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_e7117c09	comment	The Founding of the Commonwealth: A trilogy that details the Back Story elements discussed in The Tar-Aiym Krang, beginning with the first encounter between humans and thranx, going through the Pitar war, and culminating with the The Plan that eventually led to Amalgamation.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_eb27c1f2	comment	Sealed Good in a Can: Peot, the Tar-Aiym Guardian, in Bloodhype.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_ee6fc4e0	comment	No Warping Zone: The use of a posigravity/KK drive too close to a planet causes devastating damage and is banned by all civilizations. One of the reasons Flinx's Cool Starship is special is that its Applied Phlebotinum allows it to avoid this issue.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Truzenzuzex is occasionally afflicted with this malady. The rather more laconic Bran Tse-Mallory loves to rib him about it.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Mahnahmi is introduced this way in Orphan Star, cheerfully telling Flinx how her "daddy" is going to torture him and asking to be present while he does it. It is a facade concealing far worse things.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_f4aeb714	comment	Human Aliens: The Pitar, tragically so. Humanity goes nuts over the uncanny similiarities and rapidly moves to befriend them, only to have the Pitar turn out to be Absolute Xenophobes.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_f6d623ca	comment	Eco-Terrorist: Flinx in Flux features as its primary antagonists a fanatical ecoterrorist group who believe in destroying all forms of "exploitation" of the natural order by humans. Their current target: a small genetic engineering firm working on the planet Longtunnel, which is renowned for the plasticity of its native lifeforms. Flinx gets involved when he accidentally rescues one of the company's researchers, the lovely and talented Clarity Held, who was kidnapped, interrogated, beaten, and left for dead on Alaspin. The group later mounts a full-scale armed assault on the Longtunnel facilities, and eventually tries to capture Flinx himself, once they learn what he is. In this final battle, they pull a Nice Job Fixing It, Villain by accidentally breaking the mechanism keeping Flinx and Pip asleep.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_f7b32015	comment	Sufficiently Advanced Alien: The Xunca. Also, the Ulru-Ujurrians become this over the course of the novels. That is, they grow from illiterate hunter gatherers to near Reality Warper level in less than ten years.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_fba863ae	comment	Here There Be Dragons: The Blight is a region of the galactic map noted for a lack of higher order life forms on any planets. This is because they were exterminated by the Tar-Aiym's plague half a million years ago, and spacefaring species in the nearby regions are still afraid to go there for fear that it might be lurking somewhere.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Meliorares. Their professed goals were to "improve the species" through genetic manipulation. Even as they are being hunted down, they persist in the belief that just one successful "experiment" might yet justify their actions; hence, their pursuit of Flinx.
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
Humanx Commonwealth / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Flinx tries playing up his superior "alien" knowledge and technology with some primitive aliens in Running from the Deity, only to find out that they aren't so innocent after all, running a scam to sell access to his medical equipment. In The Howling Stones, the protagonist believes that his superior sophistication over the natives means he can steal their ancient Green Rocks and experiment with them to his heart's content, despite not knowing the first thing about how they work. This backfires badly. Painfully subverted by virtually any newcomer to Midworld who assumes this trope applies. If they're lucky, the jungle's predators kill them before eating them... Icerigger probably comes the closest to playing this trope straight, with the castaway humans' aid allowing the native Tran to defeat the Horde, construct the Slanderscree, and establish an alliance of city-states: feats that would've been virtually impossible without help. Deconstructed in that the humans' presence merely provides an excuse for Sofold's anti-Horde Tran to swing the vote for resistance in their favor, the giant iceboat is mostly possible thanks to the castaways' wrecked ship providing materials, and the alliance is only necessary in the first place because other humans are exploiting the Tran economically. (Plus, The Chief's Daughter only toys with Ethan romantically in order to make her Tran suitor, Sir Hunnar, jealous ... and Williams, the Slanderscree's actual designer, is black.)
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Humanx Commonwealth / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Alan Dean Foster loves using his Real Life excursions to exotic locations on Earth as inspiration for describing alien worlds.
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Humanx Commonwealth	hasFeature	What Is Evil? / int_353bdeb0
Humanx Commonwealth	hasFeature	What Measure Is a Non-Cute? / int_353bdeb0
Humanx Commonwealth	hasFeature	What the Fu Are You Doing? / int_353bdeb0
Humanx Commonwealth	hasFeature	When Trees Attack / int_353bdeb0
Humanx Commonwealth	hasFeature	Woobie Species / int_353bdeb0
Humanx Commonwealth	hasFeature	World Shapes / int_353bdeb0
Humanx Commonwealth	hasFeature	You Are Already Dead / int_353bdeb0
Humanx Commonwealth	hasFeature	Zeerust / int_353bdeb0
Humanx Commonwealth	hasFeature	Coca-Pepsi, Inc. / int_353bdeb0

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