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In Fury Born

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In Fury Born	comment	A novel by David Weber. It's an expanded version of Path of the Fury, which centers on elite drop commando Alicia DeVries' Roaring Rampage of Revenge across the galaxy as she hunts down the pirates who slaughtered her family. She has two key allies, though: a sentient starship named Megaira and an honest-to-gods Greek Fury named Tisiphone, who lives in her head. In Fury Born fleshes out Alicia's past: specifically, her military career from the academy to her induction into the Marine Corps to her getting recruited into the ranks of the Imperial Cadre: the most elite military branch humanity has to offer.Greek gods notwithstanding, this is a fairly hard military science fiction novel, and it incorporates ideas found in Weber's other stories, such as a strong female hero, imperial naval-style combat and vessels similar to his Honor Harrington series, and bioimplants similar to his Heirs of the Empire series.In 2021, Weber started a prequel series about Terrence Murphy and the founding of the Empire during the League and Human/Rish Wars; the first book is titled Governor.
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In Fury Born / int_111f375d	comment	Heavy Worlder: Alley's wing and combat medic, Tannis Cateau.
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In Fury Born / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
In Fury Born / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Alley's grandpa: holder of mankind's highest medal, and a Marine to boot!
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In Fury Born / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
In Fury Born / int_128e4ba8	comment	Gatling Good: Calliopes are the equivalent in this story. They come in all flavors, from human-carryable to assault shuttle-mountable. They shoot armor piercing tungsten penetrators very, very quickly.
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In Fury Born / int_13f5b1b	type	Instant-Win Condition
In Fury Born / int_13f5b1b	comment	Instant-Win Condition: Alley captures a Rish war mother to end a nasty battle immediately.
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In Fury Born / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
In Fury Born / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The omnibus puts the trilogy in chronological order, but the chronologically third book Path of the Fury was published first. The two prequel novels, which fill out Alley's story before she met Tisiphone, are pretty hard military sci-fi, which makes the completely unforeshadowed introduction of a figure from Classical Mythology and shift into Science Fantasy a little jarring.
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In Fury Born / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
In Fury Born / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: There's a reason why everyone in the Cadre addresses Brigadier Keita as "Uncle Arthur". Rear Admiral Terrence Murphy starts to become this in "Governor" due to bucking the perception that he's merely another Heart World crony out to rule over a Fringe sector just to get his ticket punched for later political ambitions. His actions start to inspire the Fringe-born soldiers and sailors under his command that he genuinely does care about their exploitation at the hands of the rest of the Terran Federation.
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In Fury Born / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
In Fury Born / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: Second Admiral Xing Xuefeng of the Terran League uses this as her own personal talisman in "Governor". She makes her name off of destroying the power infrastructure of a planet she is raiding, in the middle of that planet's winter, and continues to act petty and cruel for the rest of the novel, making the Humiliation Conga above very satisfying when she orchestrates her own downfall.
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In Fury Born / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
In Fury Born / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners / Platonic Life-Partners: The two members forming a Cadre wing are noted to usually spend almost all their time together on duty and off, even taking leave together. Alicia and Tannis spend so much time together the latter eventually is considered another daughter by Alley's parents.
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In Fury Born / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
In Fury Born / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: The Rish matriarch who was behind the Shallingsport ambush is punished several years later for the failure of the operation when she and her entire clan are sent on what is essentially a suicide assault on a human planet.
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In Fury Born / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion
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In Fury Born / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
In Fury Born / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: The novel uses Fasset Drives â€” that is, a ship generates an artificial black hole that draws the ship toward it. At the same time, the black hole moves away from the ship since the ship is generating the thing. This leads to unlimited acceleration. When the ship hits 1.0c, something technobabbly happens and the ship enters wormhole space, where it can go much faster than should be possible (to the tune of several thousand times the speed of light). As far as FTL sensors go, gravitic sensors can pick up on gravity wells at speeds much faster than light. Since any ship with FTL capability generates a huge gravity well, it can be picked up at incredible distances with gravitic sensors. This leads to odd events such a ship's gravitic sensors reporting an orbital fortress destroyed while it looks just fine on the viewscreen... only because the viewer is seeing the fortress before its destruction.
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In Fury Born / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
In Fury Born / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: The Quarn: Imagine a giant starfish mixed with a giant spider. You're pretty close. Oddly, humans and Quarn get along really well. Humans and Quarns don't like to live in the same planets or environments, so that eliminates a lot of potential conflict areas. And unlike the Rish, humanity can take a joke. Being fully hermaphrodite, the Quarn think sexual dimorphism is a joke. The Rish think it's Serious Business while humans, because the difference between human males and females is fairly minimal and technology (and culture) has made it mostly irrelevant, tend to agree with the Quarn's humorous view.
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In Fury Born / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
In Fury Born / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Commodore Howell's execution of his reluctant fire control officer.
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In Fury Born / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
In Fury Born / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Being a prequel, "Governor" is subject to this. Anyone who read the previous book beforehand will know that the days of both the Terran Federation and the Terran League are numbered, that both will fall under control of a new nation born from the star system of New Dublin, and that this new power, the Terran Empire, will be ruled by Emperor Terrence Murphy as he declares war on the Rish for interfering in the previous war.
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In Fury Born / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
In Fury Born / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Powered Armor: Marines have it, and so do some FALA terrorists. Cadre drop commandos have powered armor on crack.
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In Fury Born / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
In Fury Born / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Alley's fight with the raiders after her family is killed is pretty damn one-sided. She gets home after the attack, activates The Tick, kills several raiders silently with her knife, then uses her fifty-caliber big game rifle to kill more raiders (including their leader as he tries to run), gets several grenade kills (complete with Unflinching Walk), and manages to wipe out all 25 remaining raiders single-handedly while shot several times and bleeding out. It was explicitly mentioned that all those 25 men needed to do to turn the tables on her was get two of their number back to the shuttle, and she exterminated them before they get a chance. And this is before she gets a Bronze Age Eldritch Abomination on her side! The Battle of New Dublin in "Governor". On one side is Dragon Fleet, led by Second Admiral Xing, with twelve FTL Carriers, each with a full compliment of a dozen attached capital ships. On the other is Murphy's ragtag cadre of seven FTL Carriers with barely a third as many attached ships between them. However, it's Dragon Fleet that gets curbstomped thanks to Murphy taking advantage of his opponent's personality to reverse the tide of battle through a carefully-laid trap and kill seven of Xing's carriers and half of their compliment of attached ships.
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In Fury Born / int_40ad4941	type	Sword and Gun
In Fury Born / int_40ad4941	comment	Sword and Gun: During the nasty Shallingsport battle, Alley engages FALA terrorists (who are wearing Powered Armor) with a pistol in one hand and a force blade in the other after she runs out of ammunition for her battle rifle. She would shoot an enemy in the face with her pistol and while he was stunned, she'd slice him up with the force blade. The FALA armor would stop the bullet, but not the blade.
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In Fury Born / int_40df2ec6	type	BigFreakingGun
In Fury Born / int_40df2ec6	comment	Big Freaking Gun: The military's plasma cannons count, as do hypervelocity missiles. HWVs! They're not just for capital ships any more!
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In Fury Born / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
In Fury Born / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Most of the AIs in this novel are notably ... unstable. Most characters find them disconcerting.
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In Fury Born / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
In Fury Born / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: After allowing herself to be defeated in personal combat by Alicia to save the rest of her clan, the Rish Matriarch, in recognition of Alicia being a Worthy Opponent in having (unknowingly) beaten her at Shallingsport and for Alicia's actions which will allow her clan to survive, provides Alicia with the name of the human traitor who'd set up the Cadre to be ambushed. In a way, Rear Admiral Murphy of the Terran Federation Navy considers this of Third Admiral Phan of the Terran League Navy, though Phan does not reciprocate.
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In Fury Born / int_4686734b	type	Saved by the Awesome
In Fury Born / int_4686734b	comment	Saved by the Awesome: In Inspector Ben Belkassem's words, "when the Emperor awards the sole living holder of the Banner of Terra his personal thanks for services rendered, it would be downright tacky to send the recipient to prison for grand theft, however grand it was."
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In Fury Born / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
In Fury Born / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: Most of humanity belongs to it.
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In Fury Born / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
In Fury Born / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: 800 pages.
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In Fury Born / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
In Fury Born / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: Alicia DeVries is the granddaughter of one of the most highly decorated marines in Imperial history. The two of them represent the only family unit that has had more than one living holder of the Empire's highest military honor in it at the same time. The villain's field commander would later go on to say that if he had known they'd been living on Mathison's World, he'd have bombed their home from orbit instead of sending in a shuttle of raiders. (And that would have been the right call—despite having numbers, weapons, and surprise on their side, every raider on that shuttle dies. And that's not counting what happened to the villains because that platoon of raiders wasn't able to take Alicia down with them.)
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In Fury Born / int_56855fa3	type	Casual Interstellar Travel
In Fury Born / int_56855fa3	comment	Casual Interstellar Travel: This being a Weber novel, this is pretty much averted. However, once a ship with a Fasset Drive hits the speed of light, it enters wormhole space, where it can reach at least 1,400 times light speed relative to the rest of the galaxy.
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In Fury Born / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
In Fury Born / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Alicia, Tisiphone, and Megarea frequently get into it with each other.
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In Fury Born / int_5fff364d	type	Combat Medic
In Fury Born / int_5fff364d	comment	Combat Medic: Alley's "wing" Tannis Cateau is this. More accurately, she's a soldier who doubles as a medic.
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In Fury Born / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
In Fury Born / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: Brigadier Sir Arthur Keita is over a hundred years old, and while he's no longer going on missions in person, he's still on active duty as second-in-command of the Imperial Cadre - and it's implied that he could get General Arbatov's job as head of the Cadre at any time if he wanted it.
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In Fury Born / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
In Fury Born / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Many, as to be expected, including one by a Rish matriarch who allows Alicia to kill her, which will allow the rest of her clan to survive when they return home. Colonel Mc Ilhenny combines this with Feed the Mole, he sends out a memo to a very small list of people saying that he expects to identify the traitor within a few weeks and then takes a vacation with no security fully expecting The Mole to attempt to kill him and prove that there is a mole. He does survive but barely.
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In Fury Born / int_66f69cd4	type	Invisibility Cloak
In Fury Born / int_66f69cd4	comment	Invisibility Cloak: The Wasps' chameleon armor is essentially adaptive camouflage for powered and unpowered armor.
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In Fury Born / int_67a7cd88	type	Battle in the Center of the Mind
In Fury Born / int_67a7cd88	comment	Battle in the Center of the Mind: The book contains several instances where Tisiphone and Megarea have to work together to keep Alley's madness/bloodlust at bay before she gets them all killed.
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In Fury Born / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
In Fury Born / int_6b35bdff	comment	Being fully hermaphrodite, the Quarn think sexual dimorphism is a joke. The Rish think it's Serious Business while humans, because the difference between human males and females is fairly minimal and technology (and culture) has made it mostly irrelevant, tend to agree with the Quarn's humorous view.
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In Fury Born / int_6ca52003	type	Master of All
In Fury Born / int_6ca52003	comment	That said, among military personnel who aren't the Cadre, she's a Master of All.
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In Fury Born / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
In Fury Born / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Gyangtse's planetary leaders attempting to arrest a terrorist leader after they promised him safe passage? Yeah, there's no way that's gonna end well. Similarly, the leadership of the Terran Federation in "Governor" is more concerned with maintaining their own wealth and prestige than actually winning the war they've been embroiled in for more than half a century.
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In Fury Born / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
In Fury Born / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: The Terran Federation and the Terran League during "Governor". The former is an enlightened oligarchy where the Five Hundred, the wealthiest and most politically powerful families, control the core systems, the "Heart Worlds", while exploiting their colonial frontier, the "Fringe", for all that it is worth. The latter is a totalitarian ethnostate where a single party dominates the wills of the people, and any success is considered worthy of propaganda. Both sides have been at war, by the time the novel starts, for over half a century, to the point that the Heart Worlds consider the war economy to be the status quo, and aren't incentivized to push for a lasting victory, despite the billions of casualties on both sides. Both sides also consider kinetic strikes on each other's worlds to be perfectly acceptable, albeit distasteful. And both sides are being secretly manipulated by the Rish, with the Federation economically incentivized through trade while the League is more overtly militarily supported.
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In Fury Born / int_777c0033	type	Technical Pacifist
In Fury Born / int_777c0033	comment	Technical Pacifist: At first, Alley's dad seems like he's one (he even has the genes that predispose him to nonviolence)... until he blows away five raiders who are attacking his family, and would have gotten more if he hadn't needed to stop to reload.
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In Fury Born / int_7b4240c8	type	Your Little Dismissive Diminutive
In Fury Born / int_7b4240c8	comment	Your Little Dismissive Diminutive: Invoked by the Rish by analogy when they refer to the human Emperor using masculine pronouns. Rish will refer to humans regardless of sex using female terms if they are being polite or consider the human a Worthy Opponent. Using male terms to describe anyone is considered an insult by the Rish as Rish males are small, weak, and considered generally pathetic.
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In Fury Born / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
In Fury Born / int_80b57bec	comment	They are so much the Super-Soldier that their numbers are restricted by law to 40,000, and the selection criteria is so demanding that they still can't fill in all of the slots - in an Empire with a population in the trillions.
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In Fury Born / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
In Fury Born / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Alicia absorbed part of Tisiphone in order to not die, and was eventually driven insane by the Fury's elemental, overwhelming rage. Tisiphone explained that Alley had forced a connection through an unused psychic link to her and tapped her basic structure. Tis is an immortal, semi-divine personification of punishment. Alley is a human being. Alley's mind broke.
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In Fury Born / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
In Fury Born / int_8878f3be	comment	The entirety of the Imperial Cadre probably falls under this as well.
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In Fury Born / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
In Fury Born / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: The moment Second Admiral Xing enters New Dublin space at the climax of "Governor", she suffers from this. First, she detaches her subordinate, Third Admiral Phan, to go attack the habitable planet, preferring to chase down Rear Admiral Terrence Murphy's much smaller force with the bulk of her fleet, so when she runs into the trap he sets for her, all but two of her FTL-capable ships and most of their sublight craft are lost. Then, Phan, able to watch this from across the system, is able to get back to their secret base first, due to having intact ships, but while he first heads away from New Dublin on a false vector before going back to their base, Xing opts to head directly for the secret base, providing Murphy and his allies the ability to backtrack her course to the correct star. Weeks later, Xing arrives back at base with her damaged ships just in time for Murphy to have followed her after taking care of things in New Dublin, and her course has left her trapped inside of the gravity well of the local star, unable to evade Murphy's forces. She demands for Phan to give her his flagship, but Phan refuses, choosing to use the same reasoning that allowed Xing to have her victory at Scotia, that trying to rescue Xing would put his precious ships in peril when she is unable to escape the enemy. Phan then departs the system after making a secret agreement with Murphy to offer Xing on a plate in exchange for the safety of everyone else in-system, knowing Murphy wants Xing to pay for what she did to Inverness. Which leads to Xing attempting to fake her death, and the Hoist By Her Own Petard moment above.
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In Fury Born / int_94f4832c	type	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism
In Fury Born / int_94f4832c	comment	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Rish females are two and a half to three meter tall mountains of muscle who are so massively built they look squat even with their height and in combat armour are individually a match for a human tank. Rish males, not so much. Humans, even though they are small and weak by (female) Rish standards, consider them scrawny and puny.
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In Fury Born / int_950329d8	comment	Dynamic Entry: The Marine rescue force at Shallingsport announces their presence with airstrikes that obliterate the FALA troops assembling for a final rush that would have overrun and killed the last of Alicia's force.
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In Fury Born / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Faced with a Rish clan that has been forced into a situation where they either win or will commit suicide (with nukes) before losing, Alicia comes up with a plan that involves a surprise attack on their headquarters and hand-to-hand combat with their leader, beating her and forcing her Rish subordinates to peacefully surrender.
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In Fury Born / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Both averted and played straight: several imperial dukes and senators are awaiting trial for treason at the end of the book, but the Emperor of Man himself seems like a nice enough guy. Though not officially nobility, the Five Hundred families of the Terran Federation play this much more straight in "Governor". They would rather profit off of the war economy and Rish imports than conclude the war or investigate Rish interference in the war.
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In Fury Born / int_9943823	comment	Reactionless Drive: Ships use a singularity drive for STL travel, generating a black hole that pulls the ship forwards. It also makes for an inversion of Weaponized Exhaust, since the drive singularity greedily devours incoming ordnance.
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In Fury Born / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Any Cadreman — and they operate in company strength. Alley, with little of her normal Cadre equipment, can take on pirates by the dozen.
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In Fury Born / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: After the pirates raid Alley's homeworld and kill her entire extended family, leaving her the Sole Survivor (Not to mention 99.5% of the planet's total population), holy fuck is it personal. She kills all the raiders in a state of Tranquil Fury, then spends the rest of book on Roaring Rampage of Revenge against their leaders.
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In Fury Born / int_a2fea27d	comment	The Chosen Many: Alley has spent most of her life being recognized for her intelligence and physical abilities, is singled out right from boot as an exceptional soldier and is recognized by her peers in the Marines as someone truly special and noted for heroism and leadership on the battlefield. When she gets recruited for the Imperial Cadre she's explicitly informed that all of that makes her, at best, average as a Cadre member and for the first time in her life she's not going to automatically be the best among her peers.
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In Fury Born / int_a42f56b0	type	Royal "We"
In Fury Born / int_a42f56b0	comment	Royal "We": In formal contexts, the Emperor's pronouns are plural and capitalized. Off duty, he talks normally.
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In Fury Born / int_a47340fe	type	One Riot, One Ranger
In Fury Born / int_a47340fe	comment	One Riot, One Ranger: The Cadre puts it as "One crisis, one company." In the Empire's 400 year history, less than twenty situations have occurred which have merited needing the Cadre to deploy a larger force. When Admiral Montoko learns that Keita is planning to send a battalion of them to capture the leaders of the pirate fleet that killed his brother, he gets a brief Oh, Crap! moment on their behalf.
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In Fury Born / int_a96b8b63	comment	Space Marine: That'd be Alley again.
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In Fury Born / int_ac9f78d9	comment	Jack of All Stats: Alicia is noted, on joining the Cadre, of not necessarily being the best in any specific category they evaluate (physical fitness, marksmanship, intelligence, leadership, et cetera) compared to other Cadre personnel, but she's good enough in all of them to stand out even among The Chosen Many. That said, among military personnel who aren't the Cadre, she's a Master of All.
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In Fury Born / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
In Fury Born / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Happens a few times in any David Weber book, but "Governor" takes the cake. First, as mentioned above, Second Admiral Xing chooses to retreat directly back to her secret naval yard than choose to go back on a false vector first, then change course when no one is looking. This allows for Rear Admiral Murphy to determine where her secret base is by simply following her vector back along to a probable star and doing some math based on travel times. It's even more ironic when her subordinate, Third Admiral Phan, is able to do exactly that, and get back to said base faster than her, thanks to having less damaged forces that don't slow him down, so he has time to prepare for Murphy's counterattack. Secondly, Captain Lipchen, under orders from the leadership of the Terran Federation to arrest Murphy on trumped-up charges for supposed warlordism, decides to do so during a public ceremony being broadcast to the entire New Dublin system rewarding Murphy for saving all of them. And then shoots the system President when he resists. This basically serves as the spark that ignites decades of resentment in the Fringe, and will serve as the inciting incident for the fall of the Terran Federation.
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In Fury Born / int_b1b5081b	comment	Sapient Ship: More like self-aware AI ship. The AI controlling the Alpha-synth imprinted on Alley. Since she's a drop commando and not a trained Alpha-synth pilot (having a Fury living in her mind didn't help much either), the ship didn't fuse completely with her mind. The human and AI became symbiotes of a sort: separate entities merged together.
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In Fury Born / int_b3da5507	type	Space Sector
In Fury Born / int_b3da5507	comment	Space Sector: Crown Sectors (such as the Franconia Sector or the Melville Sector) are collections of systems ("ninety-three systems under imperial claim—twenty-six with habitable planets") with a Governor General and a planet as the sector capital.
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In Fury Born / int_baa60bd	type	Cassandra Gambit
In Fury Born / int_baa60bd	comment	Cassandra Gambit: Keita asks Alley to explain how she survived a week in the snow with fatal injuries. Alley knows he'll spot it immediately if she lies, so she tells him the pure truth—that her life was saved by a being out of Greek mythology—and simply lets him assume she's crazy.
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In Fury Born / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Alley's parents.
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In Fury Born / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
In Fury Born / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: A whole planet of 'em!
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In Fury Born / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy: Tisiphone's presence makes Alley a touch telepath.
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In Fury Born / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
In Fury Born / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: There are 40,000 Cadre members. Given that they are essentially the Adeptus Astartes in a Lighter and Softer setting (and with David Weber writing, so there's none of that "Women can't be Space Marines" BS), this is probably not a coincidence.
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In Fury Born / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: Megarea is a rare Alpha-synth starship: basically a single-seater destroyer, only lightning fast and armed to the teeth with an unparalleled EW suite. Meg's stolen Bengal-class assault shuttle also counts. It's painted black and red, complete with eyes painted on the fuselage, jagged-toothed mouths painted on the muzzles of its cannons, and flames painted onto the engine pods.
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In Fury Born / int_ccab244d	type	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
In Fury Born / int_ccab244d	comment	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: Capital ships use a combination of energy and physical weapons, but small arms are almost exclusively projectile-based; except for the neural disruptor, that is, which is an instant kill weapon and can stun a target with a near-miss. As Alley's enemies find out the hard way, all Cadre drop-commandos have their brains surrounded with a sort of Faraday cage to negate disruptor effects. There's a reason for this - lasers don't work very well in atmosphere, and can be disrupted by aerosol grenades in vacuum, but bullets work everywhere.
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In Fury Born / int_cdb51e34	type	Powered by a Black Hole
In Fury Born / int_cdb51e34	comment	Powered by a Black Hole: The Fasset drive generates an artificial black hole in the direction of travel. This doubles as a Deflector Shield.
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In Fury Born / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
In Fury Born / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Pretty much the whole point of the book.
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In Fury Born / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
In Fury Born / int_d397657d	comment	Which leads to Xing attempting to fake her death, and the Hoist By Her Own Petard moment above.
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In Fury Born / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
In Fury Born / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Marines end the Shallingsport mess by dropping right on top of the terrorists. From orbit.
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In Fury Born / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
In Fury Born / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Yeah, David Weber wrote it.
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In Fury Born / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Brigadier Keita and General Arbatov fill the bill, but the Emperor also demonstrates it at the end when he asks for Alicia's forgiveness for his decision that had led to her resignation. However justified it had been politically, he'd betrayed her loyalty and given the opportunity, he swears (and demonstrates) that he won't make that mistake again.
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In Fury Born / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Alley. The entirety of the Imperial Cadre probably falls under this as well.
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In Fury Born / int_e824190a	type	Grand Theft Prototype
In Fury Born / int_e824190a	comment	Grand Theft Prototype: When Alley gets the alpha-synth.
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In Fury Born / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Alley really moves up the chain of command quickly during the Shallingsport raid due to this. To put this in perspective, at the start of the drop, she's a mid-level sergeant (Not to mention the most junior sergeant in her grade in the entire Cadre, much less the company), about 30 minutes later, every single person higher ranked than her is dead. She then leads them to victory against impossible odds.
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In Fury Born / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Alicia's company at Shallingsport starts with 275 troops, loses four fifths of them on the drop, then marches to the target through fire and blood and ends up with nine survivors, five of them effective.
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In Fury Born / int_f178203a	comment	Secondly, Captain Lipchen, under orders from the leadership of the Terran Federation to arrest Murphy on trumped-up charges for supposed warlordism, decides to do so during a public ceremony being broadcast to the entire New Dublin system rewarding Murphy for saving all of them. And then shoots the system President when he resists. This basically serves as the spark that ignites decades of resentment in the Fringe, and will serve as the inciting incident for the fall of the Terran Federation.
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In Fury Born / int_f5c6409a	comment	Military Academy: Alley attends one on Old Earth; for centuries it's been producing the best marines humanity has ever seen. Judging by the location and age, it's probably supposed to be Parris Island, currently used by the United States Marine Corps.
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In Fury Born / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: At the end of the Shallingsport mission, there are 5 Cadre members out of the initial company force of 275 left standing between several hundred enemy troops and several hundred civilians, with 4 others wounded when the Marines make their Dynamic Entry.
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