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Legacy of the Aldenata

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Legacy of the Aldenata	comment	The Legacy of the Aldenata, sometimes known as the Posleen War Series, is a science fiction universe created by Military Science Fiction author John Ringo. The series started in the year 2000 with the publication of A Hymn Before Battle, set 20 Minutes into the Future. As you can imagine, it is now Alternate History. The story starts with the Galactic Federation, a coalition of seemingly, note the operative word here, benevolent races make first contact (not really though for numerous reasons) with Earth. That's the good news.The bad news is that they are being invaded by the Posleen, or People of the Ships in their language, and for various reasons the Galactics can't fight worth a damn. This combined with humanity's long history of military confrontation means that Humans Are Special and get offered a job as Hired Guns for the Galactics, defending them from the Posleen in exchange for advanced tech. Oh, and a chance to defend Earth from the Posleen which are headed our way. And the rulers of the Galactic Federation, the Darhel, are a bunch of Corrupt Corporate Executives that want to turn all of humanity into slave soldiers to keep them in power. After the Posleen are defeated, however, The Federation is invaded by enemies worse than the Posleen, and all the mismanagement and cynical manipulation done by those Corrupt Corporate Executives starts to bite them in the ass.The series currently consists of twelve books: 1: A Hymn Before Battle (2000) Introduces the set-up and the setting. 2: Gust Front (2001) Marks the arrival of the Posleen on Earth; first of three to cover the war in the continental United States. 3: When the Devil Dances (2002) Second of three to cover the war in the continental United States, set five years after Gust Front. 4: Hell's Faire (2003) Third of three to cover the war in the continental United States. 5: Watch on the Rhine (2005; co-written by Tom Kratman) Side-story to the first four books, covering the war in Europe. Largely follows events after book 2. 6: Yellow Eyes (2007; co-written by Tom Kratman) Side-story to the first four books, covering the war in Central America with a focus on Panama. Begins during the events of book 1. 7: The Tuloriad (2009; co-written by Tom Kratman) Set after the defeat of the Posleen on Earth, and follows their struggle to survive as they travel through space in search of a safe haven. 8: Cally's War (2004; co-written by Julie Cochrane) Part one of the "Cally's War" trilogy, following a now 51-year-old Cally O'Neal, a member of an underground rebellion against the manipulative Darhel. 9: Sister Time (2007; co-written by Julie Cochrane) Part two of the "Cally's War" trilogy, reuniting Cally with her sister Michelle, who was among those sent off-world with the Indowy before the invasion began, and needs Cally and her allies to recover a piece of dangerous technology from a fellow Mentat. 10: Honor of the Clan (2009; co-written by Julie Cochrane) Part three of the "Cally's War" trilogy. 11: Eye of the Storm (2009) Set after the events of the "Cally's War" trilogy and long after the war on Earth is over; part one of a planned "Hedren War" trilogy. The Darhel and humans must put their differences aside in order to defend their worlds from a new threat, the Hedren, that have come from another galaxy. 12: The Hero (2004; co-written by Michael Z. Williamson) Set over a thousand years into the future, following a small team exploring one planet where a new enemy race are located, only to have one of the humans betray his teammates for a piece of Aldenata technology, leading their newest member — Tirdal of the Darhel — to become an unlikely hero as he tries to recover the item. Its events have been rendered non-canon by later books.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_109b036e	type	Abusive Precursors
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_109b036e	comment	Abusive Precursors: The Aldenata, long since vanished, are known to have meddled with every race aside from humanity, generally never with results for the better, ad the other races aren't so sure that the humans haven't been messed with, too. To be more explicit, the Aldenata are the reason why the Darhel become comatose after killing something — anything — despite clearly having evolved to be very efficient predators; the adrenaline triggers the release of tal which seems to be an endorphin-equivalent — the problem is, the release triggered by killing is so severe the Darhel in question becomes functionally, permanently chemically lobotomized. Most of the other races are quite sure that the Aldenata used to use the Posleen as shock troops in a war of some sort. This worries people, since they have no clue why the Aldenata vanished, or who they would have been using the Posleen against. But the heel face turn of the Posleen in the latest book seems to shed some light. In The Tuloriad Aldenata meddling with the Posleen is further explained, as Tula'stenaloor seeks information about the Posleen past.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_1161fb48	comment	Used again, though differently, in the climactic battle of Yellow Eyes. The strategy involves luring the attacking Posleen to a narrow pocket of land between a mountain range and the ocean, then bombarding them with White Phosphorus at a certain time of day. The intense flames will consume all of the oxygen, which wouldn't be much of a problem, except due to the location and the timing, a temperature inversion will occur that will trap the hot, oxygen-deprived air for a couple of hours. Despite being immune to pretty much every biological and chemical agent in that universe, the Posleen still need oxygen to keep living.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Few of the characters from the first book with any development at all survive to the current book of the series, and sometimes they die or are believed to be dead several times, and not just Buckleys (see Designated Victim, below).
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: During the approach to Earth in Watch on the Rhine, the God King Athenalras says to a freshly destroyed Planetary Defense Center "Defy me now, little abat." Five nearby PDCs immediately do just that, hammering on the incoming forces.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: Anne Elgars, a member of "The 600" and a captain in "The Ten Thousand", who was rendered comatose during the Battle of the Monument, only to have her mind and body rebuilt and upgraded by the Galactics. The resulting person is technically no longer Anne Elgars, but possessing a new personality, as well as the skill sets and memories of multiple Special Operations members. This includes being an expert marksman, master at hand-to-hand combat, and capable of rigging an entire hydroponics complex to blow up an underground city using only some spare parts found in a toolbox. Sadly, the experiments in perfecting the upgrading process made her think she was crazy. Elgars does make friends through Wendy Cummings, and many of her actions allow her to either make new friends, or protect what few friends she has.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: While the main series and most spin offs are following the ground war, the Cally Arc is a Series of Spy Novels.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_17e530e1	type	Punctuation Shaker
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_17e530e1	comment	Punctuation Shaker: Posleen names, as well as their language, demonstrated with the Posleen that get Character Development.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_1e12b5b7	type	Lawful Stupid
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_1e12b5b7	comment	Lawful Stupid: In addition to various political entities and factions being subverted by the Darhel to sabotage humanity in order to gain offworld transport for their families to give them a chance to survive, they also have their tendrils in the International Criminal Court. In Yellow Eyes, they manipulate The Inspector and use General Manuel Cortez to capture war heroes for trumped-up war crimes, many of which do not technically apply to fighting the Posleen, since they are not human.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_1ec5a73c	type	Space Fighter
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_1ec5a73c	comment	Space Fighter: The Space Falcon, developed to supplement the makeshift frigates guarding the solar system. It's explicitly stated that they are not capable of operating in an atmosphere.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Brasche in Watch on the Rhine, in his flashbacks to World War II. He is a sympathetic protagonist and brave and competent soldier, fighting against the totalitarian and murderous Soviet Union... But for the Nazis.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Earth, post-Posleen War, as explored in the Cally series (Cally's War, Sister Time, and Honor of the Clan). In addition to the nearly six billion casualties, the federal government is corrupt, deciding to not relinquish their emergency war powers due to a Posleen threat that is effectively suppressed, but still has most of humanity living in walled cities and communities along the East and West coasts of America, and the Sub-Urbs set up as shelters for the displaced refugees that are woefully inadequate for their intended purpose. Much of this is due to political manipulation by the Darhel, who are trying to keep humanity under their control.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_21fd09a7	type	How Do I Shot Web?
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_21fd09a7	comment	How Do I Shot Web?: All technology the Posleen have they inherited from the Aldenata and they have only a limited understanding how it works. This leads to some rather humorous scenes like when a fire control computer helpfully informs a Posleen commander of incoming artillery fire and he just stares at it like an idiot.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The Posleen will eat just about anything, including each other, and guess what's at the top of the menu, at least on Earth. They are fully omnivorous, but they prefer fresh meat.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_22a60f6a	comment	If there was a textbook example of this trope, a front-runner would be General Manuel Cortez from Yellow Eyes. Not only is he the nephew of the president of Panama and a West Point graduate, but he also deserted the forces he was in command of during the American invasion of 1989 and did it again during the first Posleen landings and even blows up his own tank to cover his cowardice. He also helped his uncle sabotage his own military logistics train so the president's family could travel offworld away from the alien invasion courtesy of the Darhel, who want the humans to win the war, just barely, so they can control them.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: When the Galactics contact Earth and tell them about the incoming Posleen fleet, Earth assembles a brain-trust to come up with ways to defeat the incoming horde. A large chunk of said team are science fiction authors; who are recruited because they actually think about this kind of crap all the time. They then get to help make some of their dreams reality. Then someone notices that the military suddenly recruited all these people...
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Tons of it, since that's the only practical way of fighting the Posleen to a standstill, let alone defeat them. In particular, massed fire from troops is the only way for snipers to avoid the insanely accurate targeting computers of God King saucers; confusing the sensors with too many targets to track.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_2bf1fd90	type	Proud Merchant Race
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_2bf1fd90	comment	Proud Merchant Race: The Darhel's fake hat. AKA what the Darhel want humanity to think they are: a bunch of pacifistic merchants. Just like the Himmit are pacifistic spies, the Tchpth are pacifistic scientists, and the Indowy are pacifistic workers. The Darhel have found the constant competition of business, combined with the corporate subjugation of their client races, to be the closest thing they can get to their old warrior ways.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_2d395ee9	type	Autobots, Rock Out!
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_2d395ee9	comment	Autobots, Rock Out!: Michael O'Neal, Jr uses a lot of older rock for inspirational music before battle, as well as for pacing ACS marching, since the long, loping strides of ACS don't lend themselves to traditional marching cadences used by unassisted soldiers.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: In Gust Front, Captain April Weston, commanding the frigate Agincourt, is said to curse two minutes straight without repeating herself, in reaction to an official e-mail, without even a sample of her actual language.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: All rejuvenated personnel qualify for this, appearing to be in their early twenties, while dating back, in some cases, to World War II and earlier.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: In Honor of the Clan, Matt Prewitt, hired for a hit on the family of a group that defected to the Bane Sidhe, has no problems with a contracted murder of the family, but when his immediate boss, a complete psychopath, knowingly leaves a baby to burn to death instead of taking the time to put the child out of her misery, Prewitt puts two rounds in the boss's head because of it, telling the now-corpse "even I wouldn't leave a baby to burn, you sick son of a bitch".
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_3298415e	type	Magic from Technology
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_3298415e	comment	Magic from Technology: The Indowy Zen manufacturing techniques using nanotechnology are effectively indistinguishable from magic..
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_34077cb2	type	Warfare Regression
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_34077cb2	comment	Warfare Regression: The Posleen point-defenses are so good it renders missiles and aircraft obsolete. However, artillery is unaffected, and results in the return of Battleships and the creation of big gunned, heavily armored Land Ships.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_35ca4848	type	Antimatter
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_35ca4848	comment	Antimatter: Antimatter is the primary source of power for Galactic ships, and forms the core of the heavy artillery shells fired by SheVas and the primary weapon of the space dreadnoughts, a giant rail gun.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_35d4beb4	type	Horde of Alien Locusts
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_35d4beb4	comment	Horde of Alien Locusts: The Posleen breed like crazy, to the point of driving them into a self-induced holocaust when they consume all available resources that ultimately leave the worlds they infest nothing more than shattered wrecks.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_36e63b81	comment	Some of the weapon choices e.g. the ACS, extreme velocity tiny caliber guns, refitting M1 tanks with Metalstorm battieres instead of 120mm guns or conventional autocannons are specific Rule of Cool as seen by the author.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_3a7266d3	type	Must Not Die a Virgin
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_3a7266d3	comment	Must Not Die a Virgin: Lampshaded, then carried out a few chapters later, with Tom Sunday Jr and Wendy Cummmings during the Fredericksburg engagement in Gust Front.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: The perspective of the Darhel and the Posleen towards humanity, though for different reasons: To the Darhel, humans cannot be allowed too much freedom in the Galactic Federation because, instead of being part of a species-specific caste system, humanity has the potential to be as good, or even surpass, any one of the Federation member races, even the Posleen, at their specialty,. To the Posleen, humans are ugly, primitive dual-gendered barbarians who live on a disgusting green world filled with vicious wildlife that do not understand the Path of Fire and Fury, the "honorable" Posleen philosophy on conducting warfare. Instead, humans indirectly launch stinging and eviscerating shrapnel at the Posleen, entangle them on concertina, boobytrap potential food sources (most of which are human corpses or humans that don't want to be eaten), and blow them up with antipersonnel landmines that chop up their victims without attempting to harvest the resources for later use.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Powered Armor: The ACS (Armored Combat Suits)
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_3f71b00e	type	Point Defenseless
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_3f71b00e	comment	Point Defenseless: Posleen defensive hardware is very dangerous to anything flying under its own power (even if with stealth equipment), but completely useless against unguided rockets or artillery shells. Not even the heros, save Mike when he singlehandedly takes down a Battle Globe, are immune.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_4176a2b1	type	Juggling Dangerously
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_4176a2b1	comment	Juggling Dangerously: In Gust Front, given the mess that the base in Indiantown Gap is in when the 555th Mobile Infantry members arrive they have to work their way through the chaos of the base to get to their quarters. In order to do so without getting caught up in a fight they'd rather avoid, James Stewart and several of his companions create a distraction that includes a juggling routine that includes knives and lit torches.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The Posleen's biggest hat. Due to their physiology and ability to outbreed other sapient species significantly, they can easily create a mass of charging yellow centauroids in the thousands, if not millions, each one an expert at firing unsighted from the hip, and a God-King in a heavy weapons-equipped saucer for every 300-600 "normal" Posleen. The Posleen Battlenet, which divvies out loot and territory to God-Kings, even encourages this behavior, as the more proactive and aggressive Posleen tend to get the best stuff by capturing it first, as opposed to those who wait and strategize.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Galactics tried to design AIs to fight the Posleen, but the AIs tried to take over. Subsequently, the AI devices (AIDs) the Darhel provide to humans turn out to have backdoors that allow the Darhel to learn exactly what the humans are doing, and pass that information along to the Posleen. (On the other hand, an AID that went "insane" turned into one of mankind's staunchest allies.) Meanwhile, the best human-made AI devices, Buckleys, have highly unstable personalities and are prone to crashing if their AI emulation is set too high. the original Buckley wasn't too stable when he was alive though...
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: The Posleen actually have a term for this; "threshkreen". However, it's not that much of a complement; their word for "every species except ours" is just "thresh"... which isn't actually synonymous for "food" — they literally have no other word for "food." "Threshkreen" just means "food with a sting" AKA "food capable of putting up a fight." Eventually "human" becomes an inherent part of their vocabulary, because "threshkreen" doesn't quite communicate how good a fight humanity puts up to being eaten. They often whine about how humanity refuses to fight "fairly", but they're impressed as hell for putting up more of a fight than any other species they've encountered. The Posleen under Tulo'Stenaloor (at least the warrior caste) come to respect the Swiss Guard protecting the Catholic delegation that encounters them in The Tuloriad, as they faced off against the physically and numerically superior aliens with only their halberds, swords, and faith in God. Tulo'Stenaloor is so impressed that he orders his underlings to convert to Catholicism once he steps in and ends the battle between the two.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_47325888	type	Latex Perfection
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_47325888	comment	Latex Perfection: Played with in Sister Time. In order to dispose of a high-ranking Darhel male holding Cally's sister Michelle's debt, Cally has her face and voice modified to appear as if she was a female Darhel. The disguise isn't perfect, though, and that is mentioned several times, since the objective is to make the Darhel become aroused from the female "Darhel" and enter lintatai, the comatose-like state a Darhel will enter from the release of their adrenaline equivalent, tal. All Cally has to do is play an elaborate game of Keepaway.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_47f524ff	type	Fantastic Religious Weirdness
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_47f524ff	comment	Fantastic Religious Weirdness: Because of the wiping out of five-sixths of Earth's population and the need to repopulate not only has the Catholic Church decided to permit priests and nuns to marry it has also decided to allow polygamy. Also, somehow a Posleen manages to be ordained both as an Episcopalian and and a Baptist minister. This may be a case of the Catholic authors assuming all Protestants are the same.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Elderly retired soldiers are rejuvenated with tech from more friendly alien allies to fight as young soldiers again. The "rejuv" pills become a major part of the plot, especially when they run out before the enlisted men are called into action in a bit of Author Tract about the current U.S. military being top-heavy with officers. In Watch on the Rhine, the Germans break out the Nazis, albeit under protest.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_4fafed32	type	Higher-Tech Species
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_4fafed32	comment	Higher-Tech Species: The Galactics have a degree of manipulation of materials at the atomic level that makes much of its tech seem like magic to Earth before officially being contacted, but there are still practical limits to what they can do, even before considering the artificially induced inability of Galactic races to fight.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": In The Hero, team member and main antagonist Dagger absolutely hates his birth name Hubert. Tirdal, the Darhel (and secret Bane Sidhe member) protagonist, purposely calls him that to aggravate him after Dagger turns on his team.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_52b9f0cc	type	Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_52b9f0cc	comment	Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon: The super monitor class ship has a spinal mounted Mass Driver that fires a huge slug packed with a gooey antimatter center for taking on the battle globes of the Posleen as they enter. A single round is said to be able to destroy a significant percentage of the ships in the formation of hundreds.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: Michael O'Neal, Sr is the patriarch of just one of many families that prove themselves a credit to their species.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_564d4e71	type	Tired of Running
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_564d4e71	comment	Tired of Running: In novel Gust Front, this is one of the reasons given for why The Six Hundred defended Washington, DC, after a horrific rout, compounded by Darhel interference and loads of General Failures, shredded US forces.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Pretty much how the entire Galactic Federation's judicial system is constructed, as shown in The Eye of the Storm. The accused is unable to view the proceedings, and is only brought into the courtroom to hear the verdict, which far more often than not finds defendants guilty if it suits Darhel needs.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_5e544ae6	type	We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_5e544ae6	comment	We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill: Subverted, as described in the page intro discussing the plot.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: This goes a long way to describing the Posleen's mentality at waging war. This is also Darhel philosophy towards Humans. specifically they want all but a small token minority that's under their thumb dead to prevent humanity from taking over the galaxy once the war is over To the Darhel, the loss of life among their Indowy workers is pretty much a non-issue, given that the Federation has a population of 18 trillion Indowy. Even a hundred billion Indowy deaths is irrelevant to the Darhel.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_62f9ee25	type	Nanomachines
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_62f9ee25	comment	Nanomachines: The main building block of Galactic technology, aka Gal Tech. Indowy use special swarms to construct items at the atomic level, allowing them to bend and subvert the laws of physics better than normal construction materials. However, the process is very resource and personnel-intensive for making a single item at a time over a long period, essentially making the Galactic manufacturing system, for all intents and purposes, cottage-level. On the other hand, these materials are built incredibly well, and are designed to last for centuries, and intended not to have to use spare parts.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: The Ten Thousand, an Armored Combat Suit support unit composed entirely of non-armored humans using a mixture of Human, Galactic, and stolen Posleen weapons and tech.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_65f5c15d	type	Designated Victim
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_65f5c15d	comment	Designated Victim: The Real Life Joe Buckley's fate as Baen's DV started with this series, as an originally unnamed ACS trooper who had a hand blown off by a grenade, then part of a destroyed Posleen warship dropped on his head, plus other abuses until the character's final death in Hell's Faire. By the time of Cally's War there is an AI upload of him that's the only known semi-stable human AI. Under high enough performance levels and enough stress, the AI will hard reboot dozens of times a second, each reboot killing him off again and reloading a back up copy of the default personality. During Yellow Eyes, the Posleen God-King Guanomariok also qualifies as this. Minutes after landing on Earth, he has his hand seared by the barrel of a machinegun, and by the time he recovers, the fighting is over, meaning he has to go farm. A few years later, his small clan is forced into The Darién Gap between Panama and Colombia. Not at first understanding why this region is undeveloped, Guano quickly discovers as he and his clan is assaulted by mosquitos, leeches, tree ants, cayman (which results in part of Guano's reproductive member being severed), Special Forces snipers, and a vengeful native. Guano is captured by the latter, the only survivor of his clan, but is released and becomes a minor character in The Tuloriad.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Ringo likes S&M apparently. Other interests of contributing authors that make it into this series include devout Christianity (in The Tuloriad), Sluggy Freelance, favorite music (see Autobots, Rock Out! below), and attractive women with oversized endowments (Cally in her "Sinda Makepeace" body, Daisy Mae, Glennis LeBlancnote based on a real person, etc.)
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Michael O'Neal has a rather similar background to the Author. Including the same career, similar family structure, same hobbies and so on.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: In Gust Front, we meet "town bicycle" Wendy Cummings, and geeky Tom Sunday. Subverted: Wendy is a virgin; all of the guys she's dated thought she would put out, and lied when she didn't, and Tom went to a military training camp where the teenage campers were screwing like bunnies. She loses her virginity to him, and they're still dating five years later. In the next book, she tells someone her name and winces at the anticipated joke.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License – Military: Due to Abusive Precursors, the Posleen behave in a particular way and also have to be fought in a particular way to create a particular type of war. The Posleen have no understanding of their heaviest weaponry and so cannot exploit orbital firepower to end the war in a way any other alien attacker could. The Posleen have no meaningful logistics or sensitivity to casualties and are all but immune to air attack via automated defenses. So they have to be fought head on and stopped cold with line troops and artillery. For various and sometimes unspecified reasons, the humans can't/won't solve the problem with nukes so this is a conventional (if very high firepower) war. For just one thing, Little Boy-yield artillery was designed in the 1950s and short range ballistic (unpowered descent) missiles (SRBM) should have a chance of getting through the defenses. And thermonuclear weapons have had warheads <550 kg in weight for decades if battleship caliber artillery is being used at all. Some of the weapon choices e.g. the ACS, extreme velocity tiny caliber guns, refitting M1 tanks with Metalstorm battieres instead of 120mm guns or conventional autocannons are specific Rule of Cool as seen by the author.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_722171e7	type	Straw Character
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_722171e7	comment	Straw Character: Loads, almost entirely as obstacles for the protagonists to overcome.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: The Germans revive former Waffen-SS veterans as a last ditch effort to shore up their military.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Due to the fact that the Posleen come pre-programmed with the skills they need, they usually do not see any reason to learn or develop, especially the barely-sentient normal Posleen. About 5% of all kessentai, or "God-Kings", are intelligent enough to be able to learn, but they still struggle with having, at best, an understanding of tactics and strategy on par with the Greeks or Romans.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: All four of the main series covers are in some way different from what the books describe. A Hymn Before Battle is fairly accurate, but Elsworthy is the sniper, yet both solders are shown with the same oddly designed weapon. They are also wearing cut down BDUs — not good for camouflage. Gust Front shows an ACS that you can see through the faceplate off. It is repeatedly mentioned that Armoured Combat Suits have blank faceplates. Also, the landers don't look like 'flying skyscrapers' so much as giant pentagonal pillboxes. When The Devil Dances shows spherical C-Decs. They are repeatedly stated to be dodecahedrons. Also, there is a nuclear blast in the background. Cally is never standing up brandishing weapons out in the open during nuclear blasts, not least because being out in the open like that is an invitation to Posleen to shoot at you. Also, nuclear detonation in plain view. She'd be knocked over or at the very least blinded. Not only does the cover lie, but it makes little sense either. Hell's Faire. Oh dear oh dear, Hell's Faire. The Posleen are shown as green and not yellow, with red blood despite the fact that the blood is described as yellow almost as much as the World War series reminds us the Race have turreted eyes. You can see through the ACS faceplates, the suits look positively skinny despite ranging from 'muscular' to 'spherical' from books in the description, and the SheVa in the background looks nothing like the functional, non-aesthetic vehicle's 3D models provided at the end of the book. Still, the cover's SheVa does look a lot more awesome.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_73b9b420	type	Fox News Liberal
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_73b9b420	comment	Fox News Liberal: A religious version in The Tuloriad which features a mullah whose main purpose seems to be to grudgingly admit how right Christianity is about everything. Played with if you consider being eaten political commentary. Several characters end up entrees after deliberately sabotaging Earth's defense effort.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_74c69a97	type	Nazi Protagonist
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_74c69a97	comment	Nazi Protagonist: Watch on the Rhine and the sequels co-written by Tom Kratman features rejuvenated Waffen SS troops brought back from senescence to fight off the Posleen invasion of Germany, as much of the Bundeswehr off fighting on other worlds and what remains isn't up to the task. With a few rare exceptions, however, the revived SS troops have no particular love for Nazi ideology, and those exceptions for the most part wound up dead by the time of The Tuloriad.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_777c0033	type	Technical Pacifist
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_777c0033	comment	Technical Pacifist: Thanks to Aldenata meddling the Darhel are this. The Indowy and Tch'pht border between this and Actual Pacifist. They won't, in fact can't, commit any violence themselves but are very reluctantly willing to let humans fight for them
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Mike O'Neal, twice — the first time when he mistakenly believes his father and daughter did not escape a nuclear blast he detonated to destroy attacking Posleen (they were rescued by Bane Sidhe, then went deep undercover), then when he unknowingly kills his own father during a raid on a Bane Sidhe base in Honor of the Clan.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_79631cf	type	Hungry Jungle
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_79631cf	comment	During Yellow Eyes, the Posleen God-King Guanomariok also qualifies as this. Minutes after landing on Earth, he has his hand seared by the barrel of a machinegun, and by the time he recovers, the fighting is over, meaning he has to go farm. A few years later, his small clan is forced into The Darién Gap between Panama and Colombia. Not at first understanding why this region is undeveloped, Guano quickly discovers as he and his clan is assaulted by mosquitos, leeches, tree ants, cayman (which results in part of Guano's reproductive member being severed), Special Forces snipers, and a vengeful native. Guano is captured by the latter, the only survivor of his clan, but is released and becomes a minor character in The Tuloriad.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_79cf6c4e	type	Join or Die
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_79cf6c4e	comment	Join or Die: In Gust Front, Mike O'Neal, Sr. is approached by an old acquaintance from his mercenary days, and offered a position in a shadowy Knight Templar organization with access to Galactic technology. Of course, if Mike refuses, he can't be allowed to live. Mike's granddaughter Cally shoots the acquaintance in the head, leaving a serious mess.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: One of the Darhel's other hats, due to their predatory origins before the Aldenata modified them. The Indowy are very wise to the Darhel corporate capabilities to not only fight amongst themselves and set each other up for defeat, but also to screw over the Indowy workers that they treat as expendable. Humans, on the other hand, are total schmucks due to their relative naivete that the Darhel are their friends. This leads to many a situation during the Posleen War where various groups work for the Darhel to guarantee offworld transit for their families away from the war, most not entirely realizing that they are simply pawns in a much bigger scheme to enslave the humans in much the same way the Indowy are, so the survivors of the Posleen War are permanently indebted to the Darhel. To do this, though, the humans must win against the Posleen by the barest minimum, and the continued possession of the Earth by human interests may or may not be part of the Darhel plan...
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: The Galactics have a pretty nasty version, with the Darhel controlling it as an entire race of corrupt corporate executives, though it's implied that the Tch'pht would change that if they felt it was in their interests to do so.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: In a fairly rare slip-up regarding firearms, in A Hymn Before Battle, Ringo has an assassin using a silenced Colt .45 with the shots described as "four rapid huffs", with no one reacting until the targeted people fall into the Reflecting Pool in front of the Washington Monument. However, the assassin was hired by the Darhel, who could've just engineered a more effective silencer.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_7f2c7fae	type	Explosive Instrumentation
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_7f2c7fae	comment	Explosive Instrumentation: During the Posleen assault on the Rabun Gap wall, in When the Devil Dances, one of the consoles in SheVa 14, supporting the wall's defenders, explodes after a plasma gun hit penetrates into the command center.It's immediately lampshaded by the SheVa's commander. And then it turns out that it killed another crew member, who had been surrounded by monitors in an almost 360-degree circle. When the power surge hit "there were thousands of volts all of a sudden going nowhere." The poor guy was "carbonized".
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: The fate of the transplanted humans on Ackia (and Julio and Unhat who were last seen ducking for cover), who come as part of a major revelation in the beginning of Eye of the Storm—but then vanish entirely for the rest of the book. Of course, there have been fairly significant danglers in the series before that were eventually addressed—for example, the fate of Tulo'stenaloor and his band was left hanging from the end of Hell's Faire until The Tuloriad half a dozen books later.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8334ba2e	type	Big, Bulky Bomb
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8334ba2e	comment	Big, Bulky Bomb: In Gust Front, the Fredericksburg Executive Building in Fredricksburg, Virginia is filled with propane for the purpose of turning it into a giant fuel-air explosive that, when detonated, completely levels the town, as part of a deception to keep the Posleen from locating the impromptu bomb shelter the townspeople are using to hide from the aliens.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Way too many examples to list, pretty much anything carried by the ACS and the Posleen.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_878d235d	comment	Couldn't Find a Lighter: In When the Devil Dances, Mike O'Neal's custom ACS has a flamethrower installed. When the non-ACS Colonel Cutprice sees it demonstrated, he asks to give it a try. In this case, it means Mike using the 'thrower with it held up for the flame to make a torch, and Cutprice leaning into to light a cigarette without any ill effects from being so close to the flame.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_88e5fcbc	type	One-Hit Polykill
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_88e5fcbc	comment	One-Hit Polykill: Rounds fired from the rail guns used by the ACS, traveling not much slower than the speed of light, will rip through multiple Posleen before running out of kinetic energy.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8b606a51	comment	There is No Kill Like Overkill: Justified, as it's the only way to effectively combat the Posleen due to their nature. Posleen are hermaphrodites, meaning any 2 can make more, and they grow to maturity within 1-2 years. They are immune to every chemical and biological agent known to man, and a few humans don't know about. They are also immune to radiation, meaning one of the biggest dangers of a nuke for humans doesn't even faze them. They are also naturals at shooting unsighted weapons from the hip. Furthermore, for every 300-600 "normal" Posleen, there is a "God-King" (kessentai in their language) equipped with a flying saucer called a tenar that possesses heavy anti-armor weaponry, and an advanced sensor suite capable of detecting anything moving through the air under its own power. However, if kept rushing blindly at fixed defenses with mass fire, both direct and indirect, mowing them down as snipers take out God-Kings, Posleen can be defeated, as they struggle with natural obstacles such as rivers and mountains. Plus, while missiles and rockets have trouble against tenar sensors, artillery is practically invisible to them, meaning the Posleen have no defense against artillery shelling from behind the fixed defenses. Therefore, the only way to beat the Posleen is to turn them into yellow chunks of meat by the thousands, if not millions.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8b93a168	comment	In When The Devil Dances and Hell's Faire, deployment and use of nukes is a significant issue, thanks to a president that's very against them. However, they do eventually get authorized for use, as area denial weapons to kill large numbers of Posleen, after the Rabun Gap defenses are breached, including flushing the nearly the entire US nuclear missile arsenal to nuke the Gap, just to get some warheads past the absurdly accurate anti-air fire from Posleen hardware.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8d83bed9	type	The Vietnam Vet
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8d83bed9	comment	The Vietnam Vet: Thanks to rejuvenation tech from the Galactics many Vietnam vets are returned to service against the Posleen. On seeing the utter chaos at the Indiantown training facility caused by monumental personnel screwups, Gunny Sgt Papas is uncomfortably reminded of the mess in Vietnam caused in part by low morale among the troops.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8e5c862	comment	Ancient Conspiracy: On the side of light, so to speak, are the Bane Sidhe and the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), who are working together against the Darhel, an evil Ancient Conspiracy aided by collaborationist humans. In Eye of the Storm, it comes out that the Darhel used to use humans as a labor force, with tame Posleen to train them in the ways of fighting. This turns out to form the basis for legends of Atlantis, and of ancient Greek centaurs.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_8f9f71a8	comment	Crazy Enough to Work: In A Hymn Before Battle during the events of the defense of Diess, Lt. O'Neal had acquired a reputation for plans that sounded crazy but were thought to possibly work, due to the successes of his unconventional campaign against the Posleen.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: SS Sergeant Major Krueger was once a concentration camp guard at Ravensbruck, who loved raping the prisoners and never bothered learning any of their names. His commanding officer, SS Colonel Hans Brasche, married a Ravensbruck survivor some years after after WWII. At the end of Watch on the Rhine, Brasche gets his tank driver alone... In a different case regarding Tulo'stenaloor, the Posleen God-King was present on Diess and watched the humans rout his people from the planet with ease. He then proceeded to learn from the humans, adopting modern human strategies and concepts of warfare to outsmart the humans, and, if not for the intervention of the same commander that turned the tide on Diess, he would have broken through the Appalachian defenses and overrun the last major stronghold of mankind. His core staff given the choice of fleeing the human counteroffensive, they boarded a Himmit scout ship and fled back to Diess to repair a Posleen battleglobe for a journey to Hemaleen. On Hemaleen, Tulo'stenaloor found out that the local Posleen, mutated due to an Aldenata virus, were incredibly hostile. So, with swarms of Posleen assaulting his relatively smaller forces, he adopted human tactics and was made to defend against essentially the same types of en masse assaults he had planned against the humans.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_91c651a1	type	Guilt-Free Extermination War
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_91c651a1	comment	Guilt-Free Extermination War: The Posleen are barely sapient, come in hordes of millions, and don't think twice about even eating each other, let alone anyone else, and call other sapient species "prey" or "prey that can fight". In war, you have to kill at least the vast majority of them; they have no concept of giving up, can rapidly rebuild numbers by breeding and stray Posleen still eat people. This is subverted in the later books where we learn how cruelly the Aldenata reduced the Posleen to this. Some humans feel that the Aldenata have a lot to answer for on the point if they ever turn up.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Multiple levels: Earth gets put through between a Class 1 and a Class 2 The Posleen pull Class 5s so often they have a term for it.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_95f6a58a	type	Sneaky Spy Species
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_95f6a58a	comment	Sneaky Spy Species: The Himmit are chameleons and natural camouflage experts, to the point that a Himmit can evade the detection of a group of highly-trained spec-ops scouts in a small conference room while they know it's there. Though they're biologically hard-wired to avoid doing anything that will reveal their position to "predators" - and thus cannot serve as assassins - they serve well as scouts and infiltration specialists, and sometimes provide transportation and covert supply lines to (human) scouting teams. Unusually, the Himmit are not particularly sly or sneaky in their day-to-day dealings, especially with beings who are interacting with them in good faith.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_9823f7c	type	ProudWarriorRace
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_9823f7c	comment	Proud Warrior Race: The Darhel's former Hat. Some of them lament the days when they could indulge in violence and warfare, before the Aldenata modified them to be incapable of it, though it is suggested that they would have nuked each other into oblivion if they hadn't been modified. This led to them becoming...
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_98c2a8f2	type	Humans Are Cthulhu
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_98c2a8f2	comment	To the Posleen, humans are ugly, primitive dual-gendered barbarians who live on a disgusting green world filled with vicious wildlife that do not understand the Path of Fire and Fury, the "honorable" Posleen philosophy on conducting warfare. Instead, humans indirectly launch stinging and eviscerating shrapnel at the Posleen, entangle them on concertina, boobytrap potential food sources (most of which are human corpses or humans that don't want to be eaten), and blow them up with antipersonnel landmines that chop up their victims without attempting to harvest the resources for later use.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_98ce21fe	type	Long-Running Book Series
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_98ce21fe	comment	Long-Running Book Series: The first book was published in 2000.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: In Gust Front, Tommy Sunday, Jr, and his future girlfriend make a promise that if one is unable to kill themself, the other will do it for them, instead of leaving them alive for the Posleen to find and invite for dinner.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: A tanker truck, a fire truck, and an intentionally damaged bridge that the Posleen have to cross provides much fun for the humans defending Fredricksburg, in Gust Front. Used again, though differently, in the climactic battle of Yellow Eyes. The strategy involves luring the attacking Posleen to a narrow pocket of land between a mountain range and the ocean, then bombarding them with White Phosphorus at a certain time of day. The intense flames will consume all of the oxygen, which wouldn't be much of a problem, except due to the location and the timing, a temperature inversion will occur that will trap the hot, oxygen-deprived air for a couple of hours. Despite being immune to pretty much every biological and chemical agent in that universe, the Posleen still need oxygen to keep living.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: In A Hymn Before Battle, an ACS troopernote identified in a later novel as Baen's Designated Victim, Joe Buckley comments, just before getting his hand blown off by a grenade he had planted as part of an effort to escape from a collapsed building, "this is gonna hurt".
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_9e8d81ac	type	Planet of Hats
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_9e8d81ac	comment	Planetof Hats: Played with. The Galactic Federation, on the surface, comes off as this. The Darhel are a bunch of pacifistic merchants and bankers leading the Himmit, a bunch of stealth experts who try very hard to not be detected, the Tchpth, bouncing crustacean-like beings that only seem to care about their own work, and the Indowy, expendable laborers who can communicate with nanites. However, the Galactic Federation races have interacted with humanity before, forming parts of our myths, and the Darhel and the Indowy and particular are not what they seem. On one hand, the seemingly peaceful and enlightened merchants are really a bunch of genetically-modified carnivores trying to maneuver humanity into being their corporate slaves. Furthermore, the Indowy, with help from the Himmit, have been able to create a passive resistance called the Bane Sidhe (Killers of Elves), though with humanity joining the resistance, they can go much more active.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_9fa80d1c	type	Framed for Heroism
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_9fa80d1c	comment	Framed for Heroism: The battleship USS Missouri, in the second book, fires a full salvo from one of its main turrets at a Posleen warship in a desperate attempt at destroying the vessel. The craft is destroyed, but it wasn't the battleship's rounds that did it: a nearby Planetary Defense Center armed with a gun designed to defend against those kinds of ships actually made the killing shot. However, from the perspective of the battleship's crew, their rounds were the fatal shot, as the PDC was completely destroyed by orbital bombardment from another Posleen warship immediately after firing. The notion of the battleship's rounds making the kill was ultimately responsible for the creation of the SheVa mobile artillery pieces featured in the third and fourth books.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: A few examples, in a subversion they usually aren't around long after proving their incompetence, mostly because they die rather soon afterwards. If there was a textbook example of this trope, a front-runner would be General Manuel Cortez from Yellow Eyes. Not only is he the nephew of the president of Panama and a West Point graduate, but he also deserted the forces he was in command of during the American invasion of 1989 and did it again during the first Posleen landings and even blows up his own tank to cover his cowardice. He also helped his uncle sabotage his own military logistics train so the president's family could travel offworld away from the alien invasion courtesy of the Darhel, who want the humans to win the war, just barely, so they can control them. Post-Posleen War, the Fleet is chock full of them (which is the way the Darhel like it — venal and corrupt brass make the Fleet a wonderful plaything for the Elves). Fleet Strike is less so.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_a08b0736	type	Nuclear Option
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_a08b0736	comment	Nuclear Option: The Chinese used nukes to try to slow down the Posleen, but failed to slow them for more than a day, winding up not only destroyed as a fighting force, but poisoning the Yangtze River for thousands of years. In When The Devil Dances and Hell's Faire, deployment and use of nukes is a significant issue, thanks to a president that's very against them. However, they do eventually get authorized for use, as area denial weapons to kill large numbers of Posleen, after the Rabun Gap defenses are breached, including flushing the nearly the entire US nuclear missile arsenal to nuke the Gap, just to get some warheads past the absurdly accurate anti-air fire from Posleen hardware.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: As Co-Authors came in, the Author's original list of surviving nations as published is retconned out of existence. Notably except for scattered survivors the original Arc ended with only the US and Canada between the Rockies and Appalachians being functional. Later books add at least survivor states for Germany, Switzerland, Panama, Scandinavia, Chile, Japan, China and Nepal. One of the co-author books, the farther-future-setting The Hero, was declared by Ringo to no longer canon, due to the epilogue of Watch on the Rhine and Eye of the Storm.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_a8559a9f	comment	The Real Life Joe Buckley's fate as Baen's DV started with this series, as an originally unnamed ACS trooper who had a hand blown off by a grenade, then part of a destroyed Posleen warship dropped on his head, plus other abuses until the character's final death in Hell's Faire. By the time of Cally's War there is an AI upload of him that's the only known semi-stable human AI. Under high enough performance levels and enough stress, the AI will hard reboot dozens of times a second, each reboot killing him off again and reloading a back up copy of the default personality.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_aa8dcc21	comment	Mega-Corp: The Galactic Federation's society and culture is dominated by these. Unlike most however, they use a "cottage production" rather than industrialized method. There are economic, political, and in some cases religious reasons for them to use this method.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Michael O'Neal, Jr's justification for ordering a massive nuclear strike on the continental United States; including an area where his father and daughter lived.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_b1b5081b	type	Sapient Ship
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_b1b5081b	comment	Sapient Ship: The USS Des Moines in Yellow Eyes, after the insane AID is installed as part of her upgrades to fight the Posleen.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_b4d6aa7d	type	Dungeon Bypass
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_b4d6aa7d	comment	Dungeon Bypass: The "Screaming Meemie" units accompanying the 7000 ton "Bun Bun", in When the Devil Dances and Hell's Faire, tend to take full advantage of the passage of the SheVa smashing everything in its path flat. The resultant path is still impassable for wheeled vehicles, but for the tanksnote The MetalStorm turrets replace the regular turrets on otherwise normal M-1 Abrams tanks traveling through the impressions that each section of tread leaves isn't a problem, and a SheVa isn't going to be noticeably slowed down even if a small town happens to be in its path.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: "Daisy Mae," even before her starship upgrade from a modernized Des Moines class heavy cruiser. The AI itself is the icing on the cake.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: A fairly controversial subversion of this trope (i.e. the S.S. are actually "the good guys") is the entire plot premise of Watch on the Rhine, where the German Chancellor resurrects the Waffen-SS in order to save his country. There is also a great deal of discussion and infodumps on the history of the special forces units versus the special prison units (and Karmic deaths for those with the prison units), and the SS groups are deliberately kept out until the last possible second as a futile last hope and specifically sent on the worst missions to die. However their operational parameters make them more resistant to the sabotage occurring to rest of the army using the Aides. Particularly controversial is probably the Judas Maccabeus division, an SS legion made up of Israeli volunteers.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_bf26c02e	type	Viral Transformation
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_bf26c02e	comment	In a different case regarding Tulo'stenaloor, the Posleen God-King was present on Diess and watched the humans rout his people from the planet with ease. He then proceeded to learn from the humans, adopting modern human strategies and concepts of warfare to outsmart the humans, and, if not for the intervention of the same commander that turned the tide on Diess, he would have broken through the Appalachian defenses and overrun the last major stronghold of mankind. His core staff given the choice of fleeing the human counteroffensive, they boarded a Himmit scout ship and fled back to Diess to repair a Posleen battleglobe for a journey to Hemaleen. On Hemaleen, Tulo'stenaloor found out that the local Posleen, mutated due to an Aldenata virus, were incredibly hostile. So, with swarms of Posleen assaulting his relatively smaller forces, he adopted human tactics and was made to defend against essentially the same types of en masse assaults he had planned against the humans.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_c0f87dda	type	Humans Are Warriors
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_c0f87dda	comment	Humans Are Warriors: Prior to Eye of the Storm, humanity is the only sentient species besides the Posleen who can be reasonably expected to fight a war and have plenty of practice in doing so. All other species either have a legitimate biological reason and contribute to the war effort in other ways or have been engineered to effectively become invalids after an act of violence. The Hedren and their subjugated species add to the count of species capable of carrying out war in Eye.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Lampshaded. "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. In years to come, men at home now in their beds will think of this day and do you know what they'll say? 'Jesus, I'm glad I wasn't with those poor doomed ACS assholes or right now I'd be dead'. But what the hell, that's why they pay us the big bucks. Board ships."
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_c3478f1d	comment	Another Badass Bookworm is Tommy Sunday, whose earliest appearance is as a computer geek and strategy gaming buff whose father is frustrated isn't going out for the football team. He is subsequently responsible for a number of combat simulation programs that are so good that they are used by the ACS itself.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_c64a7400	comment	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Averted when the French troops involved with the expeditionary force on Diess are treated well by Ringo in Gust Front. Their political leadership suffers the same fate as most political organs in the series in Watch on the Rhine, however. The French civilians in Watch on the Rhine, however, are pure Bush-era “stupid America-hating hippies” stereotypes who make Jean Girard look nuanced in comparison.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The supertank named "Bun-Bun" is a reference to Sluggy Freelance, a webcomic that Ringo really likes. There are even a small collection of comics by the same artist, some are references to the setting. One of those is a gut-wrenching combination of gut-wrenching hilarity and gut-wrenching horror: What If? the Posleen, instead of being centauroid lizards led by amoral ditzes with no idea how to Shot Web, were killer rabbits led by switchblade-flicking Magnificent Bastards? Honor of the Clan includes a dual shoutout to both Star Trek and Mobile Suit Gundam. Included repeated discussions of a rebel base with normal weapons under assault by a superior armored force and requests to make the commander's suit black, with a dome helmet. Which leads to the quote: The "Daisy Mae" is converted from a wet navy cruiser, the USS Des Moines, to space navy dreadnought complete with a direct reference to a series involving the similar treatment of the Battleship Yamato. Ringo also drops a brief reference to the computer game Starcraft when one character mentions they considered using part of its code in their new weapons' control systems but did not want them to mistake Himmit for enemy "Ghosts". (Interestingly enough, the backstory of the Starcraft setting with its vanished Xel'Naga precursors bears more than a passing resemblance to the history of the Aldenata.) In Starship Troopers, on learning that smaller starships are named after foot soldiers, Johnny Rico remarks "There ought to be one named Magsaysay." At the beginning of The Tuloriad, there is a light cruiser named Ramon Magsaysay. A Major Joachim Steuben, who also happens to be a former tank commander, shows up in the first book.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Colonel Cutprice, a rejuvenated Medal of Honor winner and one of the most decorated Korean War veterans. Later he's leader of The ten Thousand, an elite fighting group arguably more badass than the ACS as a whole, as the Ten Thousand fight without the benefit of Powered Armor. It's explicitly stated that he refuses promotion above the rank of Colonel.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: Eye of the Storm has SPACE TANKS. And the Hedren have 'Continental Siege Units.' If only the Humans had Bolos. Ordinary (if heavily upgraded) tanks also play a big role, earlier in the series. At one point, Mike O'Neal, Jr credits the conventional forces, which included German, French, and American tank units, with holding against the Posleen swarm until he could pull out the miracle that broke the Posleen army's back. And then there's the tank unit accompanying Bun-Bun in the final blitz of Hell's Faire, hammering the Posleen ground forces along with the upgraded defensive weaponry of the SheVa.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_cf3e5459	type	Spaceship Girl
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_cf3e5459	comment	Space Ship Girl: In Yellow Eyes, a US Navy cruiser, the USS ''Des Moines'' (CA-134), is converted to serve as a weapon platform for combating the aliens (it's a Sci-Fi novel, after all) and has a AID installed to control it. However the AI was left on while shipping to earth, and developed more sentience (and some mental instability, due to sensory deprivation) by thinking the human equivalent of 5000+ years (in real terms a month or so, because AI think fast). the AI then proceeds to buy a cloning device on eBay (a Running Gag in the book is that you can find anything on eBay) and the clothing of a famous actress for DNA, and creates a living avatar for the ship. This is more of a Ship Girl, though, because it is a wet navy ship. The AID's personality later merges with the "gestalt" of the original ship (basically a composite of the leftover traces of her crew's strong emotions, and in The Tuloriad she and several similar entities are rebuilt as starships using materials from the original ships because the non-AID portions of their "programming" make them resistant to several security flaws in the original AID design. Which proves to be of great benefit to humankind.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_d303e45e	type	Citadel City
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_d303e45e	comment	Citadel City: New York City and any city deemed indefensible against the Posleen were fortified.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_d40e1a9f	type	Break Out the Museum Piece
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_d40e1a9f	comment	Break Out the Museum Piece: Museum ships like old battleships are reactivated and upgraded to fight the invading alien Posleen. A WW2 cruiser, the USS Des Moines, is brought back into service and upgraded with Galactic Federation tech to help secure the Panama Canal region in Yellow Eyes, alongside her sister Salem and old battleship Texas. Elderly retired soldiers are rejuvenated with tech from more friendly alien allies to fight as young soldiers again. The "rejuv" pills become a major part of the plot, especially when they run out before the enlisted men are called into action in a bit of Author Tract about the current U.S. military being top-heavy with officers. In Watch on the Rhine, the Germans break out the Nazis, albeit under protest.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: The end of Hell's Faire, when a Fleet/Fleet Strike task force, acting against Darhel orders, shows up just in time to not only save the 555th's ass, but to finish breaking the back of Posleen activity on Earth. Naturally, the Darhel react by killing or torpedoing the careers of every officer involved....
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: The Pyramids of Giza, the Washington Memorial, and the Lincoln Memorial, in Gust Front. Subverted in the case of Arlington National Cemetery, thanks to Posleen spiritual beliefs regarding the dead.note Specifically, by burying the dead instead of eating them, their souls are left wandering around. Given Arlington is a military cemetery, by Posleen beliefs this results in a lot of very hostile warrior ghosts haunting the area. The thought scares even the sapient God Kings, and if the non-sapient soldiers knew it would probably send them fleeing in panic. In The Tuloriad, it is revealed that not much of humanity's historical sites survived the war, due to the Posleen tendency to destroy any existing structures to use their raw materials for their own settlements. Much of Rome's historical sites have been swept clean, though much of the Imperial Rome is being rebuilt. The office of the Vatican currently operates out of the Roman Catacombs, which, due to the combination of the reasons above for Arlington Cemetery surviving with the small size of the tunnels being just too big for Posleen to fit, survived untouched.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Much of the plot's unfolding is due to many different Companies, Governments, and Secret Societies master plans thwarting each other. Bane Sidhe versus Darhel are quite notable, and human groups like the Cyberpunks or Waffen-SS that don't use the Aides. The groups normally tapping the Aides will either guess or use misinformation designed to lead the non-users into a trap.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: The recovery of the Des Moines is depicted in The Tuloriad as happening in 2013, but in Yellow Eyes and Eye of the Storm as happening after "decades", around 2060. Presumably this was because the authors later realized there would not be adequate time for the events in The Tuloriad (which was written last) to unfold unless the recovery was pushed up a few decades.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_e2138f91	type	Military Mashup Machine
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_e2138f91	comment	Military Mashup Machine: The Tiger IIIs from Watch on the Rhine are land battleships, able to engage anything from Posleen hordes on the ground to their spacecraft in the skies. The SheVa unit "Bun-Bun" has added weapons and equipment to arguably make count as a land battleship, but it still isn't quite on the same level as the Tiger IIIs. Other SheVa units, however, are more akin to just really big mobile artillery pieces.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_e4d5e4c0	type	Five Rounds Rapid
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_e4d5e4c0	comment	Five Rounds Rapid: Given Ringo's background, it's not surprising he zig-zags all over the place with this trope.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The Posleen are semi-reptilian centauroids who were genetically manipulated into become a xenocidal race... just like the Achultanni from David Weber's "Empire from the Ashes" series. Of course, Ringo and Weber are good friends and it is possible that Ringo was essentially say "Cool Idea bro, but I can do it better."
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_e8dda3a2	type	Neglectful Precursors
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_e8dda3a2	comment	Neglectful Precursors: The Aldenata. You would think that they just might have realized their experiments on the Posleen and the Darhel might generate negative consequences. Afraid Not. The glossary in Yellow Eyes describes them as "Largely disappeared from the Galactic scene in sheer funk and shame at the damage they had, despite all the best intentions, wrought." They're off somewhere whining that they meant well. It's implied that Humanity will own them too should they ever show up, with Mike Jr. voicing a particular hatred of them for what they did to the Posleen.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: "Aliens are alien! is pretty much a mantra in the Cally series. Pretty much ignored in the rest of the novels.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Several of them, throughout the series: In When the Devil Dances, Captain Elgars disables an attacker with a kick to the crotch when ambushed in a Sub-Urb passageway. In Hell's Faire, Major LeBlanc punts the civilian technician helping run the damaged "Bun Bun" between the legs, for an earlier event caused by a wrong setting on a Geiger counter that resulted in the major stripping down for an anti-radiation wash-down, after being splashed by water that was thought to be highly radioactive. In Yellow Eyes, one of the named Posleen tromping around in the Panamanian jungles has a Cayman bite on its genitalia, to which a Normal replies with its Boma blade, only missing due to the victim's thrashing around, and cutting off part of the God King's member instead.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The ACS often serve in this role, particularly the units headed by Mike O'Neal, Jr. In one charge to the rescue in Gust Front, at the battle in Washington, DC he even plays Yellow Ribbon, the anthem for the US Cavalry, over the suit speakers.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_ec7da60a	type	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: The races touched by the Aldenata have interacted with humanity before. The Posleen formed the basis of several myths, such as centaurs, while the Darhel and Indowy became elves and dwarves, respectively. Furthermore, the Indowy once tried to create a weapon for the humans to use against the Darhel, but Siegfried, the hero of Germanic lore, betrayed the Indowy and slaughtered them all in their secret hideout, mirroring the heroism of the tales of Siegfried told by humans.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: One of John Ringo's writing quirks, which is most prominent in this series, is to have paragraphs from different perspectives or viewpoints connected together by shared words or phrases. For example, one character might say something at the end of one paragraph, then the character of the next paragraph, in a different location, might think or say something similar.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_ed8d9a50	type	Cosmetic Catastrophe
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_ed8d9a50	comment	Cosmetic Catastrophe: In Hell's Faire, the thirteen year old Cally O'Neal attempts to make her self up like Britney Spears does, but the end result winds up as "raccoon eyes", and Papa O'Neal afraid that if she's seen by others like that he'd be accused of child abuse. Fortunately for Cally some of the visitors to the farm where she and Papa live are much better at applying makeup, and fix the problem.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_f290a8bb	type	Attack Pattern Alpha
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_f290a8bb	comment	Attack Pattern Alpha: O'Neal develops a series of "plays", like those used in American football, to describe basic maneuvers for ACS troopers to perform when on the battlefield, for the sake of short commands that can be spoken quickly.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_f4d00fb0	type	Deadline News
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_f4d00fb0	comment	Deadline News: In Gust Front, a reporter doing a feature on the human forces battling the Posleen on another world is witness to and victim of an unexpected attack that's deliberately shown on the air when the President of the US does a press conference announcing Humanity's First Contact and the pending Alien Invasion. The last scene shown, recorded by the camera that was dropped when the operator was killed, was one of the French Foreign Legion bodyguards shouting "Camarón!" note Referencing the Battle of Camarón against the Mexicans in 1855, where outnumbered Legionairres held off a much larger Mexican force even as they were killed almost to a man, with the Mexicans calling them "The Demons of Camarón" as he jumps into combat with just his knife, presumably killed off-screen.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_f6d623ca	type	Eco-Terrorist
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_f6d623ca	comment	Eco-Terrorist: "Greens" conspire to sabotage the war effort and let most of humanity get killed by a Horde of Alien Locusts that eat anything organic on invaded planets, and then swarm to others once the biosphere collapses, fueled by a mixture of antipathy towards civilization and ignorance of Posleen behavior.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_f87886d2	type	Sharpened to a Single Atom
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_f87886d2	comment	Sharpened to a Single Atom: The monomolecular blades used by the Posleen, which can even penetrate ACS armor if there's enough force behind the swing.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: In a very dark comedy way that combines with Poor Communication Kills. After the Posleen touch down on Earth, they are quick to discover that humans do not "fight fair" or "fight honorably" by fighting out in the open in massive formations similar to Napoleonic-era British tactics. The kessentai of the Posleen hordes regularly complain that the humans do not seem to understand the Path of Fire and Fury, a Posleen, not human, war philosophy, and are "monsters" because they use landmines, boobytraps, and other defensive materiel, as well as guerilla tactics involving deception, trickery, and liberal usage of indirect fire. What they constantly fail to understand is that, to the humans, the Posleen are the monsters because they eat other sentient lifeforms.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_fcadd0e3	type	Impact Silhouette
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_fcadd0e3	comment	Impact Silhouette: Lt Rogers, in Gust Front, is said to leave a "vaguely human shaped hole" in a building he deliberately ran straight through, at the battle in Washington, DC, when stopping to turn would have put the troops he was leading at a tactical disadvantage. As part of an ACS unit, the building was the clear loser of the event.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Aldenata's legacy is a sullenly-gleaming example of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_fdeed2aa	type	Old-School Dogfight
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_fdeed2aa	comment	Old-School Dogfight: The sole Space Fighter scene averts this trope. The fighters in question using guided missiles to engage the enemy, and there's even an evasive maneuver that takes advantage of being able to change the direction one's pointing without changing vector until thrust is applied. The few scenes with the larger ships also avert the trope, maneuvering as one would expect massive battlewagons to handle, and not more like really big airplanes.
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Legacy of the Aldenata / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Legacy of the Aldenata / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Aelool makes the Posleen Tula'stenaloor "an offer you can't refuse" at the end of Hell's Faire... but it takes until The Tuloriad half a dozen books later for the outcome of that offer to be shown. In Watch On The Rhine, General Muelenkampf mentions offhandedly that the SS would have had a Jewish unit. Around halfway through the book, we are told that such a unit has now been formed.
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