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Old Man's War

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Old Man's War	comment	Old Man's War is a series of Space Opera novels by author John Scalzi. Its follows the recruits of Earth's Colonial Defense Force, tasked with protecting Mankind's far-flung colony worlds from ruthless alien species. The twist? All recruits to the CDF are elderly citizens; the minimum sign up age is 75 years old. Recruits sign up while they are still on Earth, having already lived a long life, and are then given young, genetically-enhanced bodies upon joining the CDF.The series thus far: Old Man's War: The first novel, following a man named John Perry as he joins up with the CDF. The story follows his experiences as he is given a young new body, goes through hellish training, and is sent out into the galaxy to protect various colonies of humankind. In the middle of a pitched battle, John sees the face of his long-dead wife...on the body of a Special Forces soldier named Jane Sagan, who has no clue who John is. The Ghost Brigades: A human scientist named Charles Boutin betrays humanity and becomes a hero to an enemy alien race. To figure out why he did it and what he plans to do next, the Colonial Union downloads his stored memories into a new clone body so they can interrogate him. When the process doesn't work, the not-quite Boutin is given the new identity "Jared Dirac" and assigned to the Special Forces as a soldier in a new body. But things don't go quite according to plan as Boutin's memories start to resurface in Dirac. Along the way, Dirac meets Jane Sagan and finds out more about the mystery behind her. The Sagan Diaries, a novella from the rather unusual perspective of Jane Sagan, sometimes touching on events from the past two books. The Last Colony: Follows the founding of a new colony called Roanoke. John Perry and Jane Sagan, reunited at last, are placed in charge of making sure the colony succeeds. Amid hostile local lifeforms, limited technology, and tensions between the colonists, John and Jane find out things are even worse than they seem: the Colonial Union violated a galactic agreement in creating the colony, and now every intelligent alien species in the area wants to wipe the colony out. Zoe's Tale: A companion novel to The Last Colony that retells the events of the story but from the perspective of Zoe, John and Jane's adoptive daughter. The Human Division: Takes up the where the series left off, dealing with the fallout from The Last Colony and bringing back old characters while introducing new ones. Serialized as a "season" of short stories/chapters, it was released in weekly e-episodes, with each installment featuring unique cover art by illustrator John Harris. The End of All Things: The sequel to The Human Division. Despite what the name suggests, this novel is by no means necessarily the final chapter in the Old Man's War universe. It resolved the previous book's titular human division (between Earth and the Colonial Union).In August 2014, the Syfy Channel announced it was adapting the books into a television series called The Ghost Brigades (it still will begin with John's story from Old Man's War, they just thought the name sounded cooler). In 2017, Netflix announced a movie adaptation.
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Old Man's War / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
Old Man's War / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: A literal application of the trope with regards to the CDF soldiers, who have had their minds transferred from their aging human bodies into newly created bodies that are far sexier and attractive than their originals. So much so, that basic training allows time for CDF recruits to have as much sex as they can handle as they get used to and enjoy their new bodies before getting down to proper instruction.
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Old Man's War / int_109b036e	type	Abusive Precursors
Old Man's War / int_109b036e	comment	Abusive Precursors: Possibly the Consu to the Obin (a species artificially created by the Consu). The Obin have no souls or sense of individuality but have just enough awareness to know that their missing this and want to achieve it somehow, with Boutin speculating the Consu might have done that to them on purpose. This theory is confirmed by a Consu in Zoe's Tale.
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Old Man's War / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Old Man's War / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: John Perry, Jane Sagan, and Zoe seem to have Plot Armor, but nobody else does including Jared Dirac, who dies via Taking You with Me.
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Old Man's War / int_14d15f8f	type	Fictional United Nations
Old Man's War / int_14d15f8f	comment	Fictional United Nations: The Conclave, intended by its creator to put an end to the incessant territorial warfare between the Loads and Loads of Races and divvy up colony worlds fairly. First mentioned in The Ghost Brigades; The Last Colony and Zoe's Tale deal with an attempt by the Colonial Union to sabotage it. After determining that the alien in charge had the right idea after all, especially since the Union's success immensely pissed off 412 different species, John and Zoe help the Conclave reform and end Earth's enforced isolation by sending a Conclave trade fleet.
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Old Man's War / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Old Man's War / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: General Gau. He's an honorable being with few personal ambitions who is working hard for peace.
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Old Man's War / int_1646dd01	type	What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?
Old Man's War / int_1646dd01	comment	What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?: Roanoke, which is very much intended to act like its namesake.
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Old Man's War / int_1888979e	type	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist
Old Man's War / int_1888979e	comment	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: It slowly becomes clear as the series goes on that the CDF leaders are more interested in maintaining their own power than doing what is best for humanity. Most of The Human Division is about all the various morally dubious things they've been doing, and how the rank and file soldiers have to deal with the fallout. Their ways of dealing with the Conclave stand out starkly: They try to destroy it, first politically and then with an engineered civil war. When that fails, they finally resort to diplomacy... with everyone but the Conclave.
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Old Man's War / int_1be36a63	type	Immortal Procreation Clause
Old Man's War / int_1be36a63	comment	Immortal Procreation Clause: The bodies of the CDF soldiers are infertile/sterile. It's intentional, so they don't get ideas about trying to supplant humanity.
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Old Man's War / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Old Man's War / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: When the CDF gets their hands on one of the conspirators who has been putting people's brains in jars, they put his brain in a jar. Wilson isn't fond of the decision, but doesn't lose any sleep over it.
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Old Man's War / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Old Man's War / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Maggie.
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Old Man's War / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Old Man's War / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Actually, whole artificial bodies in Old Man's War, but also soldiers regularly have whole limbs replaced and regrown using nanobots.
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Old Man's War / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Old Man's War / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: At the end of the Human Division story "We Only Need the Heads", the Bula ambassador Ting gives Abumwe and Schmidt a case holding Drew Talford's head (one of the undercover CDF soldiers from Wantji).
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Old Man's War / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Old Man's War / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: In The Ghost Brigades, the method of weaponizing SmartBlood comes up no less than three times: once when it kills a mosquito, once when Jared uses it to blind an enemy in combat, and finally (and most epically) when he uses it as a Taking You with Me to counter Boutin's Grand Theft Me.
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Old Man's War / int_220c23cb	type	Condescending Compassion
Old Man's War / int_220c23cb	comment	Condescending Compassion: The Consu think you're inferior and unworthy to the point that everyone and everything that has come into contact with you afterwards must be ritually disposed of... but they love you anyway and hope to someday bring you up to perfection, like them. (By way of constant warfare.)
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Old Man's War / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Old Man's War / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: And plenty of it. This is, after all, a war story.
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Old Man's War / int_22a47d00	type	Freaky Friday Sabotage
Old Man's War / int_22a47d00	comment	Freaky Friday Sabotage: At the climax of The Ghost Brigades, Charles Boutin pulls a Grand Theft Me on Jared Dirac, a Colonial Special Forces soldier cloned from him. He then hears a message from Jared explaining that, shortly before being taken over, he programmed his body's nanites to self-immolate.
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Old Man's War / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Old Man's War / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The use of tree climbing to avoid hostiles in The Ghost Brigades.
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Old Man's War / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
Old Man's War / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Why the Consu uplifted the Obin. They just wanted to see what would happen.
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Old Man's War / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Old Man's War / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: The werewolves of Roanoke never come up again after the first conflict with them. Zoe's War goes into a bit more detail about them, though. At the end of the third book, Szilard comments that John's actions have forced the CU to rely more on the Special Forces and grant them liberties, but this isn't given much detail in the next book, (although this is somewhat justified if you consider what John did for them the end of the process rather than the beginning of it).
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Old Man's War / int_26d18908	type	Puny Earthlings
Old Man's War / int_26d18908	comment	Puny Earthlings: The reason why the Colonial Union no longer uses unaltered humans as soldiers. They didn't want to - the cost of producing CDF super soldiers is pretty high - but it was the only way to keep up with the neighbors: the first Battle of Coral was a Pyrrhic Victory with a staggering death toll. It seems that every single alien species is individually far stronger and tougher than a baseline human. Whether this is because the aliens have long since genetically altered themselves or are just naturally stronger is unclear.
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Old Man's War / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Old Man's War / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: How the Colonial Union justifies the various atrocities it commits. Much of the series involves deciding whether or not its actions are necessary for humanity's survival. Turns out that not only are they unnecessary (despite what initially seem like some pretty decent justifications), they're actively harmful.
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Old Man's War / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Old Man's War / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Although it is definitely its own novel, Old Man's War is, according to Scalzi, a riff on Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers.
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Old Man's War / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Old Man's War / int_2a090d00	comment	Roanoke, though it's both deliberate and temporary. Lampshade Hanging ensues when, after he figures out what's happening, the main character chews himself out for having missed the reference.
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Old Man's War / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
Old Man's War / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: Subverted: speeds approaching c are still impractical, so the skip drive drops your ship into a nearly-identical analogue universe at the location you wanted to go to, while their virtually-identical version of the same ship drops into your original universe. For pragmatic purposes, it's teleportation: the physicists tend not to dwell on the fairly mind-boggling ramifications when laymen are around.
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Old Man's War / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
Old Man's War / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: In The Ghost Brigades, Boutin compares the Obin and their quest for individual sentience and identity to Adam and Eve. Dirac dryly asks if that makes Boutin the serpent, something that the scientists admits is Actually Pretty Funny.
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Old Man's War / int_2bd44a0f	type	Hermaphrodite
Old Man's War / int_2bd44a0f	comment	Hermaphrodite: The Obin.
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Old Man's War / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
Old Man's War / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: The Obin. They were uplifted to give them intelligence but not individual self-awareness. Their own word for their species means "lacking." They border on The Soulless due to their drive to acquire consciousness and the utterly inhuman debt they feel towards Boutin for working on how to provide one for them.
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Old Man's War / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Old Man's War / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: How The Human Division ends, with the conspiracy succeeding in driving a permanent wedge between Earth and the Colonial Union. The tables are turned in the following book, however.
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Old Man's War / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Old Man's War / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: All traditional CDF soldiers, owing to the whole Brain Uploading thing. Zoe hangs a lampshade on it in The Last Colony by calling (the apparently 30-something) John "ninety-year-old dad".
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Old Man's War / int_30dff15f	type	Physical Fitness Punishment
Old Man's War / int_30dff15f	comment	Physical Fitness Punishment: On the platoon's first day in training, Master Sergeant Ruiz makes a point of finding a reason to give each and every person a twenty-kilometer run, with the threat of everyone having to do it again if one person takes longer than an hour. This is partly so everyone knows where they stand with him, and partly to make the point that, with their new technological enhancements, they all can run twenty kilometers in an hour, among other feats.
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Old Man's War / int_31578d72	type	Hates Everyone Equally
Old Man's War / int_31578d72	comment	Hates Everyone Equally: Ruiz can come up with a reason to hate everyone except John (whom he finds a reason to like, which Ruiz finds 'disturbing'). He immediately puts John in a position of authority... so that he can start hating him once he screws up.
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Old Man's War / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
Old Man's War / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: Just about everyone who isn't a human. There's only one race of aliens mentioned who get explicitly compared to humans, and they're about an inch tall. The most advanced race in the known universe look like giant, blade-armed beetles. A few like the Whaidians and Covandu are physically different from us but seem quite comprehensible in terms of motives and culture. Even the Consu have understandable (if odd and frightening) values. Hell, the man-eating Rraey even have celebrity cooking shows! The Gamerans are Starfish Humans. Progressively averted over the course of the series, however, especially in The Human Divison when the focus shifts from the Colonial Union's military to its diplomatic corps.
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Old Man's War / int_3270a3d7	type	Low Culture, High Tech
Old Man's War / int_3270a3d7	comment	Low Culture, High Tech: The Consu give the Rraey a sensor far in advance of any race's ability and understanding that can predict the exact location where a ship is about to arrive from Another Dimension, which they only bother to use for its intended purpose. When Perry manages to get the "owner's manual", it's enough to revolutionize human understanding of skip drive theory and allows major breakthroughs in the following books.
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Old Man's War / int_342c2ebc	type	Longevity Treatment
Old Man's War / int_342c2ebc	comment	Longevity Treatment: The CDF's main selling point. Rejuvenation treatment via consciousness transfer to a genetically enhanced body is only available to military personnel - and the minimum age for joining the military is 75. The twenty percent or so who survive long enough for their term of service to end get another one - they're loaded into a true clone of their original body so they can retire.
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Old Man's War / int_3495b94d	type	Gendercide
Old Man's War / int_3495b94d	comment	Gendercide: The Crimp which made ⅓ of Earth's male population sterile.
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Old Man's War / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Old Man's War / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The CU does this a few times in each book, with increasing severity as the story goes along. Equilibrium does almost nothing but this throughout The Human Division.
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Old Man's War / int_35bd222	type	Bizarre Human Biology
Old Man's War / int_35bd222	comment	Bizarre Human Biology: Justified in the CDF: nanites, genetic engineering and other modifications have led to green skin, cat eyes, and gray blood that knows when - and when not - to clot instantly.
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Old Man's War / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
Old Man's War / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: No in-plot examples, but Master Sergeant Ruiz mentions having had it happen to him; characteristically, the reason he brings it up is to make the point that if you're attracted to a fellow soldier, the time to talk about it is not when you both should be concentrating on not getting killed.
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Old Man's War / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Old Man's War / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: In The Ghost Brigades, Charles Boutin's attempts to gain revenge on the Colonial Union and repeated adapting to changes in plans. In The Last Colony, they're all over the place—The Colonial Union's attempt to destroy the Conclave, John Perry's plan to defeat Admiral Eser, and the most convoluted, General Szilard's "plan" to bring the Special Forces into the open.
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Old Man's War / int_3cb3772f	type	Pocket Rocket Launcher
Old Man's War / int_3cb3772f	comment	Pocket Rocket Launcher: The standard-issue weapon is the MP (Multi-Purpose)-35, a gun that can adapt itself for whatever role the user needs by interfacing with their BrainPal neuro-implant, including launching salvoes of miniature missiles.
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Old Man's War / int_403c6dbf	type	Neural Implanting
Old Man's War / int_403c6dbf	comment	Neural Implanting: Multiple instances and variations, particularly in The Ghost Brigades.
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Old Man's War / int_40b308f3	type	Biotech Is Better
Old Man's War / int_40b308f3	comment	Biotech Is Better: In the later novels the CDF starts phasing out the cybernetic BrainPals in favor of completely biotech ones. The Gameras are 100% biotech in contrast to the CDF's normal soldiers that are a mixture of bio- cyber- and nanotech with the objective of eventually making them capable of breeding true and forming a human species that doesn't need to compete with aliens for planets.
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Old Man's War / int_44a893af	type	Humans Through Alien Eyes
Old Man's War / int_44a893af	comment	Humans Through Alien Eyes: The opening in The Ghost Brigades.
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Old Man's War / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Old Man's War / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: The Consu again. Their highly ritualized style of warfare and idiosyncratic goals are basically the only reason they haven't wiped out every other intelligent species in the area.
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Old Man's War / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Old Man's War / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: John gets two in The Last Colony, in the form of Manfred Trujillo and General Gau. By the end of the book, he's good friends with both.
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Old Man's War / int_4612ec70	type	No Transhumanism Allowed
Old Man's War / int_4612ec70	comment	No Transhumanism Allowed: Averted. The CDF creates a spectrum of oddities built out of human DNA - ranging from 'pretty green people' to 'space tortoises'. Also, every CDF soldier has a computer in their head, and Special Forces soldiers utilize this to the level of Synchronization.
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Old Man's War / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Old Man's War / int_469e3e2f	comment	An In-Universe example, as The Obin named themselves after the word for "lacking" in their own language due to feeling their lack of sentience and being bothered by it.
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Old Man's War / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Old Man's War / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The plan to force the Eneshans to break off from their alliance with the Rraey and Obin in The Ghost Brigades involves abducting the Eneshan Matriarch's heir and sterilizing it, forcing the Matriarch to choose a new consort or risk the destruction of her line. Afterwards, the Matriarch must stand by and let them kill her child to prevent bloody civil war.
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Old Man's War / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Old Man's War / int_4ac8b81f	comment	The Colonial Union: a fascist, xenophobic, and violently expansionistic state that keeps its own people in the dark and farms them to populate colonies and die in endless wars.
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Old Man's War / int_4d359d57	type	Loyal Phlebotinum
Old Man's War / int_4d359d57	comment	Loyal Phlebotinum: The standard CDF assault rifle is designed so that it won't fire except in the hands of its authorized operator. In training, that's the weapon's owner. In combat, that's any CDF soldier. This comes in handy more than once, but becomes a problem in The Ghost Brigades when the villain disrupts the authentication process, leaving the attacking soldiers stuck with guns that won't fire for anybody.
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Old Man's War / int_4fafed32	type	Higher-Tech Species
Old Man's War / int_4fafed32	comment	Higher-Tech Species: The Consu.
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Old Man's War / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Old Man's War / int_5541da8c	comment	A piece of software that tricks a ship's computer into running on a virtual machine, leaving it unaware it isn't running on its real hardware, is known as Blue Pill.
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Old Man's War / int_557a31ce	type	Actual Pacifist
Old Man's War / int_557a31ce	comment	Actual Pacifist: The mennonites who are part of the Roanoke colonization effort, with their leader dying when he refuses to defend himself from the werewolves.
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Old Man's War / int_56855fa3	type	Casual Interstellar Travel
Old Man's War / int_56855fa3	comment	Casual Interstellar Travel: Averted due to the CU monopoly on skip drive. Trade, communication, and most of all colonization are strictly controlled.
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Old Man's War / int_56ade6eb	type	Sapient Eat Sapient
Old Man's War / int_56ade6eb	comment	Sapient Eat Sapient: It's brought up repeatedly that multiple alien species are quite willing to eat humans, given half a chance. In one horrific instance that the protagonists get told about in boot camp, an unauthorized colony of humans got captured by another species which promptly killed and ate most of the men and used the few that were left to forcibly impregnate the women so they could eat the resulting babies like veal. When Colonial Union forces arrived on planet, they barbecued and ate a number of the aliens in retaliation after defeating them.
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Old Man's War / int_56cc0339	type	United Space of America
Old Man's War / int_56cc0339	comment	United Space of America: The Colonial Union. English is the main language, the military is dominated by former US citizens, and the influential, older colonies are populated by many descendants of American (and other first-world) colonists. But subverted in that all the new colonies are populated by people from countries and regions that can't support their populations (thanks to being kept that way by the CU), which amounts to most of them being from Africa and Asia (especially India), though Norway is also mentioned as being unable to support its population, and so is a source for colonists.
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Old Man's War / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Old Man's War / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Or Horrifying Is Not Evil, as the case may be. This is Invoked during John's training as the recruits are shown two images of alien races, one a Starfish Alien that looks like something out of Lovecraft's nightmare, the other a cute deer. They're then informed that the Lovecraft aliens are actually rather personable and friendly, whereas the deer-like aliens think humans are quite tasty.
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Old Man's War / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Old Man's War / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: An oddly public one. Everyone knows that the Colonial Union controls information since it controls all FTL travel. They don't know the full extent of what is being hidden because, well, the CU is good at hiding it. While most of the colonies are only mildly perturbed when details of the Conclave come to light, Earth is pissed when they discover that they've been nothing but a farm for soldiers and colonists. They aren't even considered humanity's homeworld any more. One minor CU character justifies her continued support of the CU by saying that the CU has given countless people opportunities to escape hellish conditions on Earth. While she acknowledges that the CU doesn't actually care about anyone, she considers the good that they are accidentally doing to be worth it. She doesn't seem to have realized that the reason significant parts of Earth are in a constant state of civil war is because the CU was deliberately keeping them that way.
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Old Man's War / int_5a4ae281	type	Hellish Pupils
Old Man's War / int_5a4ae281	comment	Hellish Pupils: The members of the CDF have feline pupils.
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Old Man's War / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Old Man's War / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: Downplayed, but after enlisting, the new soldiers are always told that 75% of them will likely die in their ten year tours of duty. This is a grim enough figure itself, but the fifth book reveals that this figure is actually too low, considering the number who are killed after re-enlisting for a second tour.
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Old Man's War / int_5b8c285b	type	The Conspiracy
Old Man's War / int_5b8c285b	comment	In The Human Division, the Evil Conspiracy uses them to turn spacecraft into drones, with the added bonus of making it look like the Colonial Union is behind things, thanks to the aforementioned punishment.
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Old Man's War / int_5e66f8ca	type	Pro-Human Transhuman
Old Man's War / int_5e66f8ca	comment	Pro-Human Transhuman: The soldiers of the CDF. During boot camp one guy asks why they're bothering to defend baseline humanity when their new bodies are the next step in human evolution. Sergeant Ruiz tells him he couldn't be more wrong - all the alien DNA in their genomes makes them sterile and thus an evolutionary "dead end". One of the reasons for the advanced enlistment age is to ensure that many of the recruits would have grandkids back home... grandkids they will fight to the death to protect.
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Old Man's War / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Old Man's War / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: Knowing the title of book four, combined with the One-Steve Limit, takes most of the surprise out of a major plot twist in book two.
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Old Man's War / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Old Man's War / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Ghost Brigades explains this is why the CDF recruits the elderly, and only from Earth. They originally recruited youths from all over, but not only were their baseline human bodies too weak to fight aliens, losing so many of the young population was crippling the human race. Transferring seventy-five year-olds into engineered bodies had a number of advantages, not least being that people of that age are essentially a write-off, from society's perspective. They've made their impact and passed on their wisdom, so if they die in combat nothing unexpected is lost.
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Old Man's War / int_62f9ee25	type	Nanomachines
Old Man's War / int_62f9ee25	comment	Nanomachines: The CDF is very reliant on nano-technology (and that reliance is turned against them at points). Types of nanotech form armor, ammunition, blood substitute, etc.
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Old Man's War / int_6369571f	type	Never the Selves Shall Meet
Old Man's War / int_6369571f	comment	Never the Selves Shall Meet: Special Forces soldiers can't ever meet their dead progenitors - obviously - and it's sheer accident that John even finds out what happened to Kathy's "unused" clone.
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Old Man's War / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Old Man's War / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Master Sergeant Ruiz, who tells the recruits that he is not like those drill sergeants you see in the movies, he really does think they're worthless because he knows what humanity is up against. Comments from veterans that he's served with suggest that it's not an act: he really is hateful, contemptuous and sadistic.
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Old Man's War / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Old Man's War / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Boutin might be orchestrating an interstellar war that will kill billions of humans, but he's genuinely devoted to his daughter Zoe.
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Old Man's War / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Old Man's War / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Played with with Jane. She is her own person and wants to be treated as such but also wants very much to know about Kathy's life and John.
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Old Man's War / int_658854ee	type	I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder
Old Man's War / int_658854ee	comment	I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: In The Human Division.
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Old Man's War / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
Old Man's War / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: In The Ghost Brigades, Jared Dirac planting a Trojan Horse virus in his body that will destroy it when the guy taking it over opens a message explaining just how screwed he is. In The Human Division, Captain Coloma.
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Old Man's War / int_672c49e9	type	Morally Superior Copy
Old Man's War / int_672c49e9	comment	Morally Superior Copy: The authorities make a clone of a rogue scientist, implanted with a copy of the original's memories from just before he went rogue, in the hope that the clone will be able to tell them what the scientist is up to and how to stop him. The memory copy seems at first not to have taken, so the clone is given his own name and allowed to start building a life for himself, and by the time the memories do start surfacing he's formed his own moral code and freely chooses to oppose his progenitor.
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Old Man's War / int_677ecaa9	type	People Farms
Old Man's War / int_677ecaa9	comment	People Farms: One possible fate of a human colony conquered by aliens who think human meat makes good eating. The Rraey even capture a few breeding specimens so they can raise babies as veal.
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Old Man's War / int_68a91d1c	type	Honest Advisor
Old Man's War / int_68a91d1c	comment	Honest Advisor: Ristin Lause of the conclave shows herself to be this in the sixth book (with shades of The Good Chancellor). She is actively analyzing and considering the factors that threaten to make the Conclave collapse from within, and warns Sorvalh and Gau about them, while urging that steps be taken to fix this.
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Old Man's War / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Old Man's War / int_6b05b601	comment	As the drill sergeant in the first book points out, the Union isn't giving its volunteers brand-new, youthful, super-tough bodies bristling with genetic and nanotech enhancements because it loves them: it's spending all this money because all the other sapient species out there have their own Super Soldiers, and baseline humans have been proven to be totally outclassed.
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Old Man's War / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Old Man's War / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Last Colony has a few spoilerish examples: Roanoke colony and Perry calling himself a Commodore play it straight. Trujillo, the ambitious politician, is a subversion, since he's one of the good guys. An In-Universe example, as The Obin named themselves after the word for "lacking" in their own language due to feeling their lack of sentience and being bothered by it.
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Old Man's War / int_6ea3206	type	Numbered Homeworld
Old Man's War / int_6ea3206	comment	Numbered Homeworld: The Obin planets except Obinur. (The Obin don't have much imagination.)
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Old Man's War / int_6fd620fd	type	Anti-Human Alliance
Old Man's War / int_6fd620fd	comment	Anti-Human Alliance: Certain things the CDF does bring about an alliance between many of their neighbors. In a bit of a twist, this alliance eventually decides to court a relationship with Earth, hoping to deprive the CDF of their major source of manpower, and forcing the CDF to rely more on diplomacy rather than force.
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Old Man's War / int_722171e7	type	Straw Character
Old Man's War / int_722171e7	comment	Straw Character: Interestingly played with in Old Man's War. On one of their missions, John's squad gets a new recruit in the form of an ex-politician, who initially seems to perfectly fill out the military sci-fi stereotype of the obnoxious, sanctimonious bleeding-heart liberal. However, it soon turns out that his political views are at least somewhat correct - his problems (in the form of a raging Messiah-complex and blindness to practical concerns) are purely a matter of personality.
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Old Man's War / int_72d2ac55	type	Clone Army
Old Man's War / int_72d2ac55	comment	Clone Army: The Ala, one of humanity's few allies, used massive armies of fast-bred clones... until the Obin used a genetically engineered virus to wipe them all out at once and then genocide the civilian population. This is why the CDF doesn't use clones.
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Old Man's War / int_72e63a8b	type	Radio Silence
Old Man's War / int_72e63a8b	comment	Radio Silence: Used during the battles on Coral because the Rraey can detect BrainPal communication. Forced upon the Roanoke colonists in order to avoid the Conclave's attentions.
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Old Man's War / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Old Man's War / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: And plenty of it. Interestingly, it's often the Colonial Union (i.e., humanity) that comes across as a slightly darker shade of grey, though it's a very close-run thing.
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Old Man's War / int_7568eb84	type	Human Subspecies
Old Man's War / int_7568eb84	comment	The Gamerans are Starfish Humans.
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Old Man's War / int_7636678a	type	Tree Buchet
Old Man's War / int_7636678a	comment	Tree Buchet: Used by Special Forces soldiers to escape an enclosure guarded by automatic turrets that lacked the ability to aim up. Justified by it being a treelike lifeform on an alien planet, more elastic than actual trees.
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Old Man's War / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Old Man's War / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: Near the end of The Ghost Brigades, Harvey is left alone on a planet swarming with hostile Obin, with days until possible rescue. The next chapter strongly implies he survived.
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Old Man's War / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
Old Man's War / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: Created through BrainPal technology for soldiers.
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Old Man's War / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Old Man's War / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Interestingly, John delivers a proxy version in ''The Last Colony" about the absent Colonial Union leaders (albeit in front of someone who can repeat this to them) about all of the major moral and policy mistakes they've made, and why that's leading him to show the Conclave where Earth is to break their monopoly.
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Old Man's War / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Old Man's War / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: The CU's plan to break the Conclave turns into this. They humiliate the Conclave by using Roanoke as bait for their unified fleet and destroy it. Somehow they didn't realize that nearly every ship in the fleet was the flagship of each member race, meaning they just gave 412 different races a personal kick in the nuts. So they get the internal strife they wanted, but it's largely over whether or not to wipe out all humanity in retaliation. Turns out, though, that it worked out better than it seemed it would when it happened, as explained in the Conclave chapter of The Human Division. In The Human Divison, a quartet of unmodified Earth soldiers attempt this on Harry. He takes it in stride.
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Old Man's War / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Old Man's War / int_7fbb2a3	comment	The CU's plan to break the Conclave turns into this. They humiliate the Conclave by using Roanoke as bait for their unified fleet and destroy it. Somehow they didn't realize that nearly every ship in the fleet was the flagship of each member race, meaning they just gave 412 different races a personal kick in the nuts. So they get the internal strife they wanted, but it's largely over whether or not to wipe out all humanity in retaliation. Turns out, though, that it worked out better than it seemed it would when it happened, as explained in the Conclave chapter of The Human Division.
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Old Man's War / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Old Man's War / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: John has one during the rather one-sided battle against a race of inch-high aliens. In a subversion, he's told afterwards that not only were his superior officers expecting him (and every other new recruit) to have one eventually, they would've been worried about his mental health if he hadn't.
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Old Man's War / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Old Man's War / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In The Last Colony, Perry reflects on his first meeting with Savitri, his Hypercompetent Sidekick, during a PR tour he was doing as a war hero. She stood up during his talk and called him a "tool of the imperial and totalitarian regime of the Colonial Union."
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Old Man's War / int_80b57bec	comment	Super-Soldier: The Colonial Union's soldiers require only a few hours of sleep, can survive ten minutes without breathing, and have a fantastic Healing Factor. Their Special Forces (who don't have 'normal human' prejudices or instincts to cope with) have even better reflexes and reaction times, as well as other advantages that seem to vary by model number. And there are even some who can survive in hard vacuum. As the drill sergeant in the first book points out, the Union isn't giving its volunteers brand-new, youthful, super-tough bodies bristling with genetic and nanotech enhancements because it loves them: it's spending all this money because all the other sapient species out there have their own Super Soldiers, and baseline humans have been proven to be totally outclassed.
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Old Man's War / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Old Man's War / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: The CDF took this to the next logical level by putting Earth's grannies in twenty-year-old Super-Soldier bodies.
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Old Man's War / int_830343d8	type	We Will Use WikiWords in the Future
Old Man's War / int_830343d8	comment	We Will Use WikiWords in the Future: Mostly for the trademarked hardware that makes up a CDF soldier's body: the smarmy focus-group-style names, complete with Trade Snark, are almost a running gag.
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Old Man's War / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
Old Man's War / int_85f0f0fb	comment	And when aliens finally start getting speaking roles about midway through the series, it almost graduates to a Galaxy of Snark. One character, eavesdropping on some bickering among his mixed-species captors, notes that sarcasm must be a near-universal trait of intelligent species.
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Old Man's War / int_88f45711	type	Space Amish
Old Man's War / int_88f45711	comment	Space Amish: The Colonial Mennonites in The Last Colony, though they don't seem to actually have an objection to technology per se, but simply object to excess technology, and that's why the CU sends a large group of them to Roanoke, which is likely to be cut off from the rest of the CU for a very long time, meaning that coping with lower tech levels would probably be necessary at some point.
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Old Man's War / int_89443850	type	Absolute Xenophobe
Old Man's War / int_89443850	comment	Absolute Xenophobe: Zig-Zagged with the Consu. They consider themselves to be superior to any other species without exceptions (and at least technologically, they're quite right), so much so that their "diplomats" actually are convicted and dishonored criminals who are sent to negotiate with members of other species only because they are killed afterwards - if not during the negotiations - and not only that, the ship/structure on which contact with another species took place is then destroyed, compacted and flung into a black hole because the constituent atoms have been "contaminated" by the inferior beings. However, the ultimate species-wide goal of the Consu is, according to themselves actually to help the other species to perfection (by becoming more like the Consu), apparently a somewhat twisted expression of desire to help due to "universal love" the Consu feel towards all other species. So basically, they act condescendingly towards every other species without actually wanting to be condescending.
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Old Man's War / int_897ec256	type	Cozy Voice for Catastrophes
Old Man's War / int_897ec256	comment	Cozy Voice for Catastrophes: How else would we read calmly about such things as the graphic sentient mold attack?
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Old Man's War / int_8a9ecd0b	type	Bloody Murder
Old Man's War / int_8a9ecd0b	comment	Bloody Murder: CDF soldiers can ignite parts of their SmartBlood at will. It's mostly used to deliver a satisfying demise to alien mosquito-analogues, but Jared comes up with some more... ambitious applications. The Human Division has further application of this, with a captured CDF officer using it to incapacitate her torturer.
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Old Man's War / int_90769dd0	type	Evil Genius
Old Man's War / int_90769dd0	comment	Evil Genius: Charles Boutin.
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Old Man's War / int_91c651a1	type	Guilt-Free Extermination War
Old Man's War / int_91c651a1	comment	Guilt-Free Extermination War: The CDF leadership seems to feel this way in regards to their alien neighbors. It's not an entirely uncommon feeling: if nothing else, spacefaring races almost categorically refuse to share planets with each other, and exterminating someone else's colony prior to establishing your own is common practice. Subverted, however, by the narrative itself (which doesn't seem to agree with this), and by the fact that enough people eventually got fed up with this to form the Conclave.
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Old Man's War / int_943f7a7e	type	Wiki Walk
Old Man's War / int_943f7a7e	comment	Wiki Walk: The Special Forces BrainPal does this to explain concepts.
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Old Man's War / int_94c1e2f7	type	Grave-Marking Scene
Old Man's War / int_94c1e2f7	comment	Grave-Marking Scene: The first thing John Perry did on his seventy-fifth birthday, at the beginning of Old Man's War, was visit his wife's grave. Zoe Boutin visits her family grave at the end of The Ghost Brigades.
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Old Man's War / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
Old Man's War / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: The Obin, perhaps because they don't have souls.
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Old Man's War / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
Old Man's War / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: The CDF troopers can use their BrainPals to control just about everything, and their rifles are designed only to allow someone with a BrainPal to use them. Meanwhile, civilian humans can use their PDAs for many things, pulling up information, controlling equipment, communicating with each other, etc. The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, and Zoe's Tale all explore the problems with this when the various technologies become unavailable or disabled, or when their mere presence can give them away to the enemy.
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Old Man's War / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Old Man's War / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Daniel Harvey.
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Old Man's War / int_a627a930	type	Gender Is No Object
Old Man's War / int_a627a930	comment	Gender Is No Object: The Colonial Defense Force makes no distinction between its men and women. Their super-soldier bodies outweigh any gender differences. (And since the genetic engineering leaves them all sterile, female soldiers never get sidelined by maternity leave.) In the Special Forces, at least, fraternization is in fact encouraged.
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Old Man's War / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Old Man's War / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Harry Wilson, one of the last three survivors of the Old Farts in Old Man's War, returns as an extra in The Ghost Brigades, and is a major protagonist in The Human Division.
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Old Man's War / int_a6a68db3	type	Humble Goal
Old Man's War / int_a6a68db3	comment	Humble Goal: All that the Obin really want is individual souls and consciousness, to end their Creative Sterility and give them a sense of individuality and self.
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Old Man's War / int_ad4f656	type	Transhuman Aliens
Old Man's War / int_ad4f656	comment	Transhuman Aliens: The Gamerans. Human brains, but everything else about them is a bizarre space-monster. They're specialized military forces, but the other facet of their existence is to get at least one branch of humanity out of the fighting-for-limited-real-estate game by letting them live free in outer space.
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Old Man's War / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Old Man's War / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: All of his protagonists either start out this way (John and Zoe) or grow into it (Jared). Also, Savitri and Gretchen. Each character has their own flavor of snark too. And when aliens finally start getting speaking roles about midway through the series, it almost graduates to a Galaxy of Snark. One character, eavesdropping on some bickering among his mixed-species captors, notes that sarcasm must be a near-universal trait of intelligent species.
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Old Man's War / int_aec13030	type	Space People
Old Man's War / int_aec13030	comment	Their Special Forces (who don't have 'normal human' prejudices or instincts to cope with) have even better reflexes and reaction times, as well as other advantages that seem to vary by model number. And there are even some who can survive in hard vacuum.
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Old Man's War / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
Old Man's War / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: John, Zoe, and Harry. Especially Harry for his chapter of The End of All Things. In contrast, the Sagan Diaries indicates that Jane is exactly as fun in her head as she is in person.
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Old Man's War / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Old Man's War / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: One of the Colonial Union's key flaws (besides its arrogance) is its inability to look past short-term goals. They assume if they sow chaos among their enemies and win battles, they'll win the war. This worked for centuries because every other species was doing the exact same thing, but it begins to backfire when the Conclave actually proves to be a successful and reasonably peaceful union between hundreds of disparate races.
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Old Man's War / int_b13bb418	type	Alien Among Us
Old Man's War / int_b13bb418	comment	Alien Among Us: Hickory and Dickory.
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Old Man's War / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
Old Man's War / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: Perry starts Old Man's War as a recruit, and is commissioned as a lieutenant by the end. It's mentioned in The Last Colony that he later rose to be a Major and commanded a battalion before retiring. In comparison, Harry Wilson, in the same time period, seems to have topped out as a Lieutenant, possibly because he doesn't toe the party line and tends to annoy his superiors.
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Old Man's War / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
Old Man's War / int_b3eecaae	comment	Colony Drop: In The Ghost Brigades, one of the techniques used by the Special Forces to cover their tracks is to drop an asteroid on the site of their activities. They've apparently used this trick often enough to become very good at making it look like an accident. They also drop asteroids (with some pre-placed seismic sensors) to spot underground caves and complexes. Averted in The Human Division. Well, Earth Station does get blown up, but it's designed well enough to self-destruct rather than land intact on the city beneath it.
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Old Man's War / int_b4d1f1e1	type	Sense Loss Sadness
Old Man's War / int_b4d1f1e1	comment	Sense Loss Sadness: In Ghost Brigade, being pulled out of Integration (a type of Mental Fusion) has this effect, as does having the BrainPal shut off. Given that SpecOps troops are literally raised by their BrainPals, and spend pretty much their entire lives integrated, it's less 'sadness' and more 'crippling, mind-destroying shellshock'.
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Old Man's War / int_b578811d	type	Scary Dogmatic Aliens
Old Man's War / int_b578811d	comment	Scary Dogmatic Aliens: The Consu. Curiously enough, though, that dogma makes them less dangerous than they might be - they're so advanced that they could easily steamroll everyone else in the galaxy, but their philosophy/religion calls on them to fight 'fairly' in their continued effort to 'help' other races 'perfect' themselves so they limit themselves to using the same level of tech as their opponents. In their eyes, it's a species-wide Earn Your Happy Ending: in the eyes of most of their neighbors, it's random, scary mayhem. The Colonial Union: a fascist, xenophobic, and violently expansionistic state that keeps its own people in the dark and farms them to populate colonies and die in endless wars.
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Old Man's War / int_b5ba2c2b	type	It's Raining Men
Old Man's War / int_b5ba2c2b	comment	It's Raining Men: When using a Drop Ship to land on a hostile planet is unworkable, the CDF troopers can sky-dive from orbit, protected by a heat shield made from nanomachines which turns into a parachute before landing. While sometimes used by regular CDF troopers, this is a Special Forces signature move. In The Human Division, this maneuver is used for Harry Wilson and Danielle Lowen to escape the destruction of Earth Station. When he has to do it again in The End of All Things, Harry thinks to himself that he'd like to visit Earth the normal way for once.
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Old Man's War / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Old Man's War / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Many Special Forces soldiers, such as Crazy is Cool Harvey, and Goodal (who goes into a ritual duel with a Consu grinning, and does a little jig as he leaves victorious despite leaving behind one of his ears).
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Old Man's War / int_b7cedf9c	type	Smart Gun
Old Man's War / int_b7cedf9c	comment	Smart Gun: The Colonial Marines' weapons are biometrically locked, computer-controlled and programmable Swiss Army Guns. Special Forces can also control the gun remotely.
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Old Man's War / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
Old Man's War / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: Whilst it's never quite clear whether he's blessed with exceptionally good luck or cursed with exceptionally bad, John tends to be at the centre of a lot of improbable coincidences. Only a Magnet, having survived the disaster that wiped out the rest of his 95,000-person strike force, would be personally rescued by a super-soldier constructed from the DNA of the wife he lost eight years previously.
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Old Man's War / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
Old Man's War / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: A common opinion of the Special Forces soldiers, combat-trained clones who rarely have ages in the double digits. They resent it, and The Ghost Brigades shows that this is mostly due to Electronic Telepathy being their preferred mode of communication.
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Old Man's War / int_bd31fda5	type	ArtificialHumans
Old Man's War / int_bd31fda5	comment	The Ghost Brigades has the main character, John Dirac, assigned to research pop culture depictions of Artificial Humans; He reads about the creation in Frankenstein. He runs across R. Daneel Olivaw from Isaac Asimov's Robot Series. He runs across Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. He runs across HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. He runs across the titular character of Astro Boy He runs across the robotic and cybernetic Terminators from the Terminator franchise.
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Old Man's War / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
Old Man's War / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: Some species, the Rraey in particular, find humans to be quite tasty.
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Old Man's War / int_beb91a53	type	Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter
Old Man's War / int_beb91a53	comment	Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Zoe, though fairly well subverted in that you meet her at the age of 7.
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Old Man's War / int_c1d58ab0	comment	When using a Drop Ship to land on a hostile planet is unworkable, the CDF troopers can sky-dive from orbit, protected by a heat shield made from nanomachines which turns into a parachute before landing. While sometimes used by regular CDF troopers, this is a Special Forces signature move.
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Old Man's War / int_c271fe08	type	Machiavelli Was Wrong
Old Man's War / int_c271fe08	comment	Machiavelli Was Wrong: And the Colonial Union gets itself into some serious trouble as a result. But then manages to get out of it without a war.
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Old Man's War / int_c3cc5fa0	type	Mad Scientist Laboratory
Old Man's War / int_c3cc5fa0	comment	Mad Scientist Laboratory: Charles Boutin has one in The Ghost Brigades.
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Old Man's War / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
Old Man's War / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: In The Ghost Brigades, Charles Boutin, having discovered that Jared Dirac is his Special-Forces-enhanced clone, attempts to steal Jared's body.
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Old Man's War / int_c6ae3121	type	Modern Stasis
Old Man's War / int_c6ae3121	comment	Modern Stasis: Earth, enforced by the Colonial Union.
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Old Man's War / int_c6d11745	type	Telepathy
Old Man's War / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy: Possible to be done on anyone with a BrainPal, by anyone with the right clearance.
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Old Man's War / int_c6f6bc0b	type	NoSenseOfHumour
Old Man's War / int_c6f6bc0b	comment	No Sense of Humour: The woman in the army recruiting office doesn't respond to Perry's attempts to make jokes. She claims that her sense of humour was surgically removed when she was a child.
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Old Man's War / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Old Man's War / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In Old Man's War, two of Perry's fellow recruits are named Gaiman and McKean. The Ghost Brigades has the main character, John Dirac, assigned to research pop culture depictions of Artificial Humans; He reads about the creation in Frankenstein. He runs across R. Daneel Olivaw from Isaac Asimov's Robot Series. He runs across Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. He runs across HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. He runs across the titular character of Astro Boy He runs across the robotic and cybernetic Terminators from the Terminator franchise. The Ghost Brigades introduces the Gamerans, whose collective name is itself a shout out, and who take their individual names from science fiction writers, including Stross and Martin. The members of the Special Forces are similarly assigned surnames that are shoutouts to famous scientists of the past. The chap named Gabriel Brahe can't be a coincidence. The Obin are an author-admitted tip of the hat to David Brin's Uplift series. In Old Man's War, a whale-like species known as the Finwe gets a brief mention. The entire first book is a tribute to Starship Troopers. A piece of software that tricks a ship's computer into running on a virtual machine, leaving it unaware it isn't running on its real hardware, is known as Blue Pill.
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Old Man's War / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Old Man's War / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: Ghost Brigade soldiers enter the battlefield at two weeks of age, due to the unusual nature of their creation. Despite being utterly deadly, barely-human killing machines, the lack of emotional maturity does show on occasion and they tend to have poor social skills.
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Old Man's War / int_cac6d1d2	type	Mental Fusion
Old Man's War / int_cac6d1d2	comment	Mental Fusion: Special Forces are raised with an active BrainPal from "birth", allowing them to share their senses, thought, emotions and memories. While not a Hive Mind, it creates a powerful anti-self pro-group type of bias in them, and it's very unpleasant for them to be denied integration.
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Old Man's War / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Old Man's War / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Dirac's nasty surprise for Charles Boutin after the latter took over Dirac's body in The Ghost Brigades. How Captain Coloma deals with the Erie Morningstar in The Human Division.
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Old Man's War / int_ccc0d531	comment	Settling the Frontier: The Last Colony and Zoe's War both focus on the difficulties facing settlers creating a new, secret colony.
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Old Man's War / int_cd218d63	comment	Swiss-Army Gun: Justified in that it is a Matter Replicator for several different flavors of hurt.
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Old Man's War / int_d1d670cc	comment	Cut the Juice: In The Ghost Brigades, Steve Seaborg blows up the power generator running the Obin BrainPal jammer, and himself.
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Old Man's War / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Old Man's War / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Lots of 'em, in all sorts of different directions. Let's just say that this is a series that believes in giving weight to many different viewpoints in many different situations and leave it at that.
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Old Man's War / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Old Man's War / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: At the end of the sixth book it's speculated that Abumwe has been given the prestigious (yet difficult) job of overseeing the constitutional convention partially out of spite for committing the CU government to that convention (which is necessary for both the short and long-term survival of the Colonial Union, but costs the big wigs some of their power and ego).
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Old Man's War / int_d8ec79d5	comment	Benevolent Alien Invasion: Earth's enforced isolation is ended by a Conclave trade fleet.
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Old Man's War / int_da15842d	comment	In the later novels the CDF starts phasing out the cybernetic BrainPals in favor of completely biotech ones.
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Old Man's War / int_db165dcf	comment	Doomed Hurt Guy: Wigner in Ghost Brigades is wounded in the drop, and while he does last for a while, ultimately doesn't make it home.
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Old Man's War / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: In The End of All Things, General Gau arranges for his own assassination in the middle of a speech to the assembled representatives of the Conclave, creating a crisis situation that catapults his aide into the top job and inspires the representatives to pull together against a common threat.
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Old Man's War / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Old Man's War / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: In The Last Colony, John has a tendency to call Zoe "teenage daughter" whenever he's ribbing her; she gets back at him by calling him "ninety-year-old dad".
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Old Man's War / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: Manfred explains this as why he expects the CU to kill off Roanoake. To them it's not twenty-five hundred people, it's just one colony. They lose colonies all the time, so what's one more? He's wrong about most of the details, but the general idea that they're expendable is correct. And then there is the conspiracy that is trying to destroy both the CU and the Conclave. They are a group of hundreds of disparate races dedicated to keeping everything at a stable equilibrium. They justify this because they want to preserve all the races, while if anyone gets too powerful they'll get wiped out. They're perfectly fine with millions of people dying in pointless wars as long as the actual species survive.
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Old Man's War / int_dd51740f	comment	P.O.V. Sequel: Zoe's Tale, and The Sagan Diaries in a more disjointed way.
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Old Man's War / int_ddbf2ebf	comment	Lilliputian Warriors: One of the alien races fought in Old Man's War have great similarities to humans in their warmbloodedness, rapid reproduction, and general dealings with other species, except they're only an inch tall. They're depicted as being hopelessly outmatched by the human military in ground battles, but at the very least evenly matched in space battles. Tiny ships can only have tiny weapons, but they're also too small to aim at properly... and they're very, very cheap.
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Old Man's War / int_de085a36	comment	Green-Skinned Space Babe: The members of the CDF: their skin is photosynthetic, they are all in perfect physical shape, they won't age past appearing to be in their early twenties, and they are possibly altered to look even sexier than their normal genetics would allow, to encourage bonding and to exploit the natural human tendency to treat good-looking people better. Ruiz calls out minorities during his spiel at the start of basic training... then yells "BULLSHIT! You're all green!" (He has N-Word Privileges, since his original body was Latino.)
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Old Man's War / int_de66421f	comment	Congruent Memory: In The Ghost Brigades, the reason copying Boutin's mind into Jared doesn't work at first is that he's a blank slate with nothing for the mind to connect to. When he starts having experiences that relate to Boutin's (enjoying one of Boutin's favorite foods, visiting a place Boutin has been), parts of Boutin start to reappear.
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Old Man's War / int_dffd6a64	type	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex
Old Man's War / int_dffd6a64	comment	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: In The Ghost Brigades this is apparently a tradition after each mission for the Special Forces.
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Old Man's War / int_e04ffce3	comment	Lost Colony: Roanoke, though it's both deliberate and temporary. Lampshade Hanging ensues when, after he figures out what's happening, the main character chews himself out for having missed the reference. Before the CU monopoly on skip drive, "wildcat" colonies were fairly common: most failed within a year.
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Old Man's War / int_e34541d	type	One World Order
Old Man's War / int_e34541d	comment	One World Order: Averted in the case of Earth, which explicitly has no unifying government, making interstellar politics an interesting experience in later books. The United Nations sends a delegation to the Conclave, and the narrative clarifies that the UN is not the government of Earth, but they often pretend to be for the sake of representing the planet's interests offworld.
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Old Man's War / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Harry and Danielle look like they're heading in that direction by the end of The Human Division. By the end of The End of All Things, they appear to have the "star-crossed" bit sorted out.
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Old Man's War / int_e68b72	type	The Load
Old Man's War / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: What the SF forces worry John Perry will be when he asks to drop with them on Coral. They change their minds when he carries a wounded Jane across half a battlefield.
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Old Man's War / int_e7bffa82	type	Sarcastic Devotee
Old Man's War / int_e7bffa82	comment	Sarcastic Devotee: Savitri.
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Old Man's War / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
Old Man's War / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: Heavily averted in Old Man's War, where professionalism and discipline are repeatedly displayed to be the only things standing between CDF soldiers and being eaten by aliens. It occurs to some extent in The Ghost Brigades, though, justified by the characters being Super Soldiers taught to fight from birth: being an effective soldier is ingrained deeply enough into their identity that strict military discipline is redundant. But even they stick to business once they're on the clock. Seen later on in Heather Lee's squad in The End of All Things, who spend most of their episode bickering and debating the CU's response to colonial unrest.
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Old Man's War / int_e8dda3a2	type	Neglectful Precursors
Old Man's War / int_e8dda3a2	comment	Neglectful Precursors: The Consu created and abandoned the Obin, and have been extremely uh, snippy every time the Obin try to get in touch.
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Old Man's War / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Old Man's War / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Consu are, by their own lights, well-intentioned and helpful toward other races, but their idea of helpful is everyone else's idea of condescending and hostile.
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Old Man's War / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Old Man's War / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Unlike the CDF, who are older people in younger bodies, the Special Forces are "newborns" who have been inhabiting an adult body from their inception. Your average Special Forces member is a toddler or grade-schooler by regular human reckoning; high-ranking, experienced members may be in their teens.
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Old Man's War / int_eb2195d9	type	Rousseau Was Right
Old Man's War / int_eb2195d9	comment	Rousseau Was Right: It takes a while, but it slowly becomes clear that when given the chance for peace, most people are willing to take it. Unfortunately, centuries of horrific violence between species mean that many governments remain convinced that peace is a doomed effort and dismiss it out of hand. The Colonial Union causes many problems for itself in later books (which are invariably cleaned up by the main characters) because they can't stop being lying, backstabbing bastards and just trust anyone.
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Old Man's War / int_ecafe646	type	Information Wants to Be Free
Old Man's War / int_ecafe646	comment	Information Wants to Be Free: The CDF keeps a very tight grip on all human communication, which it can do thanks to a monopoly on all forms of interstellar travel and communication. Earth knows absolutely nothing about the rest of the universe, and while the colonies are better off, they are still kept in the dark about any rebellions, CDF defeats, and especially about the Conclave. General Gau grouses that he sometimes wishes he could just drop satellites over human worlds and start broadcasting, but they'd be shot down before they could say much. John Perry convinces him to send a trade fleet to Earth (which doesn't have a significant CDF presence and the rest of the galaxy largely ignores) and give them all the information that the CDF has been hiding from them for two hundred years. The CDF tries to spin it as best they can, but without much luck.
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Old Man's War / int_ee13f24f	type	Space Elevator
Old Man's War / int_ee13f24f	comment	Space Elevator: On Earth, but operated by the Colonial Union. A notable example because even though a Space Elevator could be built in the real world, the one the C.U. operates isn't physically workable (its anchor is in too low an orbit). This gratuitous violation of physics indicates to astute Earthlings that the C.U. is keeping secrets from them: the message is targeted at the various Earth governments who might become independence-minded if not for this constant mute warning.
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Old Man's War / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
Old Man's War / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: Subverted. At first it's taken for granted that Earth of the future is still recognizable to a reader in the early 21st century, but then the characters start questioning it, and it turns out the Colonial Union has been deliberately holding back Earth's social and technological development.
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Old Man's War / int_f3fac450	type	Brain in a Jar
Old Man's War / int_f3fac450	comment	Brain in a Jar: Mentioned in The Ghost Brigades as the CDF punishment for refusing direct orders. In The Human Division, the Evil Conspiracy uses them to turn spacecraft into drones, with the added bonus of making it look like the Colonial Union is behind things, thanks to the aforementioned punishment.
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Old Man's War / int_f56aeb67	type	Alien Invasion
Old Man's War / int_f56aeb67	comment	Alien Invasion: Not on Earth, but pretty much everywhere else.
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Old Man's War / int_f64a9cf7	comment	The Consu. Curiously enough, though, that dogma makes them less dangerous than they might be - they're so advanced that they could easily steamroll everyone else in the galaxy, but their philosophy/religion calls on them to fight 'fairly' in their continued effort to 'help' other races 'perfect' themselves so they limit themselves to using the same level of tech as their opponents. In their eyes, it's a species-wide Earn Your Happy Ending: in the eyes of most of their neighbors, it's random, scary mayhem.
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Old Man's War / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: The Subcontinental War in Old Man's War. The India/Pakistan region was at war with the United States, and the States used nuclear weapons to win.
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Old Man's War / int_f7b32015	type	Sufficiently Advanced Alien
Old Man's War / int_f7b32015	comment	Sufficiently Advanced Alien: The Consu.
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Old Man's War / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: An intelligent, humanoid yet hairy species on Roanoke are called "werewolves" because that's the closest thing they resemble. As far as we know, they don't shapeshift.
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Old Man's War / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Old Man's War / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Rafe Daquin against the The Conspiracy in the first episode of The End of All Things. It's glorious.
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Old Man's War / int_fb794269	comment	Electronic Telepathy: The BrainPal, especially when used by Special Forces.
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Old Man's War / int_fc52510	type	Brain Uploading
Old Man's War / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading: Central to the series. The CDF recruits retirees and transfers their adult consciousness into a speed-grown Super-Soldier body partially based on their DNA. Their Special Forces are fully synthetic people given a 'starter personality' by nanotech in their brains, but these soldiers - while superior - lack emotional maturity... and aren't completely trusted by their creators. Charles Boutin in The Ghost Brigades perfects the storage and downloading of mental copies, though it has kinks.
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Old Man's War / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Old Man's War / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Charles Boutin believes that the CDF leadership is corrupt and keeping humanity ignorant for their own power, and is willing to do anything to fix that. Even kill off the entire military (who he acknowledges are mostly innocent) and leave the civilians defenseless. While it's made clear that he has a point, he's also working off limited information and the assumption that he's the smartest man alive.
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Old Man's War / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Special Forces soldiers have the last name of a famous person in science and philosophy (or science fiction, for the Gamerans). Their troopships, similarly, are not named after cities like those of the regular CDF (and the Mobile Infantry in Starship Troopers); they're named after birds of prey.
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Old Man's War	hasFeature	Modern Stasis / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Morally Superior Copy / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	My Death Is Just the Beginning / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Named After Somebody Famous / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Neglectful Precursors / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Neural Implanting / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	No Sense of Humor / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Nobody Over 50 Is Gay / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Numbered Homeworld / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	People Farms / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Physical Fitness Punishment / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Pocket Rocket Launcher / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Poison and Cure Gambit / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Power Perversion Potential / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Puny Earthlings / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Redshirt Army / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Scary Dogmatic Aliens / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Secret Test / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Sedgwick Speech / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Semper Fi / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Smart Gun / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Space Elevator / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Sterility Plague / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Subspace Ansible / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Summation Gathering / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Swiss-Army Gun / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Swiss-Army Weapon / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Tell Me About My Father / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Thanatos Gambit / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	The Hyena / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	The Quiet One / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	The Voiceless / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	This Is My Chair / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	To Serve Man / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Tradesnarkâ„¢ / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Transhumans in Space / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Translator Microbes / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Universal Ammunition / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Unusable Enemy Equipment / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Who Needs Their Whole Body? / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost / int_ff536b75
Old Man's War	hasFeature	Pro-Human Transhuman / int_ff536b75

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