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Orson Scott Card's Empire
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A 2006 What If? novel by Orson Scott Card, telling the story of Major Reuben "Rube" Malich and Captain Bartholomew Coleman, who get caught up right in the middle of the next American Civil War - the war between the Left and the Right. Takes place in the same universe as the game Shadow Complex. Card was hired to write a story for the game, about a second Civil War, and the authors got more than they bargained for. Card takes a very serious look at the rising extremism and political tensions in modern America and extrapolates them to their logical conclusion: when both sides toss around enough "they're going to destroy our way of life" rhetoric, someone on one side will start shooting, and then it becomes a matter of self-defense for everyone involved. This has actually happened before, in several parts of the world, in the last couple decades, and Empire is the story of how it could happen in the 21st-century United States.It was followed with Hidden Empire in late 2009. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Mark, and the whole jeesh except for Cole. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Mostly averted except for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, likely because it doesn't seem appropriate to have real-life politicians getting assassinated as a major plot point, and George Soros, likely so that he won't sue for libel. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Ersatz: Averell is a rare in-universe example. He wants to be Augustus Caesar. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: Mark. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The Progressive Restoration's Mini-Mecha. In the one major combat action shown, they get blown to bits by missiles from Apache helicopters before they even get into the mechs' weapon range. They did, however, manage to successfully occupy New York City without any problem, so they couldn't have been too impractical. Aircraft and artillery are next to useless in Urban Warfare; mechs might have a maneuverability and elevation advantage over conventional ground vehicles, though. | |
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Offscreen Villain Dark Matter: The Progressive Restoration manages to research, construct, and train an army big enough to occupy New York, without anyone picking up on their shenanigans until the moment of their attack. It's hand waved as being funded by a phenomenally wealthy hardcore-liberal, not to mention several characters question where the Hell they got the manpower. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: The Progressive Restoration movement. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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He gets another one earlier in the book when he spreads the nictovirus to Northern Nigeria in order to infect the Muslim population. See Kick the Dog. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Averell Torrent manages to give the right people the right ideas at the right time for the extreme measures of the plot to occur, then get himself in the right spots to say the right things and end up President. But as he himself says later, he never planned anything specific — he just saw trends and gave them a push, then had gumption and personal connections to make use of them. | |
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The Man Behind the Man | |
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The Man Behind the Man: Averell Torrent. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: That the disease will eventually break containment is treated as this, but since it can't be part of public policy, other actions are taken that will conveniently strengthen America's position, readiness, and moral standing. | |
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Powered Armor | |
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Powered Armor: The jeesh get these near the beginning. | |
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Second American Civil War | |
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Second American Civil War: This occurs near the start of the book as tensions over political extremism in the United States boils over into a full-blown war that divides the country. | |
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Broken Aesop | |
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Broken Aesop: The book is about the evils of divisiveness in political discourse and extremism on both ends of the political spectrum, but the right-wing response to the leftist uprising turns out to be a sham and never materializes — it's an attempt by the Progressive Restoration's mole to identify who's going to take the most hardline action against them. The Progressive Restoration itself has no manifesto or demands, despite a paragraph talking about the divide it caused in the left-wing community, especially among hard-left radicals. | |
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Urban Warfare | |
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Aircraft and artillery are next to useless in Urban Warfare; mechs might have a maneuverability and elevation advantage over conventional ground vehicles, though. | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Around halfway through the novel, Rube gets betrayed and shot right through the eye in a very sudden but effective scene. | |
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Divided States of America | |
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Divided States of America: Divided along political lines, not geographic ones. | |
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Alternate Character Interpretation: There's a couple in-universe of Averell Torrent's actions. One might make one regarding Cole's actions being that of a Face–Heel Turn. | |
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BadassNormal | |
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Badass Normal: Rube and Cole face people with power armor and mecha on foot with normal weapons. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: The village headman performs one for Reubens. It haunts him for much of the book. | |
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The Extremist Was Right | |
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The Extremist Was Right: Seems to be the conclusion at the end of Hidden Empire. | |
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Straw Character | |
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Straw Character: The point of the novel — the two extremes of the political spectrum decided to stop beating around the bush and just beat the snot out of each other — except the only punches we see thrown are by the left. A moderate ends up being The Man Behind the Man, though. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: The cover art depicts a futuristic tank shelling the Capitol Building, which never comes close to occurring. Apparently the artist was only told "future American Civil War 2". | |
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Unwitting Pawn | |
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Unwitting Pawn: Reuben inadvertently helps the bad guys set up their plans and prepare their new technology through his assigned tasks at the Pentagon, leading him to need to Clear My Name once the fireworks start. | |
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Fox News Liberal | |
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Fox News Liberal: Reuben's wife Cessily is the only good liberal major character, but never expresses any liberal views and several conservative ones. | |
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Depopulation Bomb | |
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Depopulation Bomb: The nictovirus is feared to be one of these. | |
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Balkanize Me | |
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Balkanize Me: Happens to Nigeria by the end of the book. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Reubens is asked to make a plan for assassinating the President to guard against it. You can guess how this goes. Even better, he's guilty of funding the terrorists. | |
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Alternate Universe | |
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Alternate Universe: There are less-than-subtle hints that the story is meant to take place during the summer of 2008, during the heated race for the U.S. Presidency for that November, and what was still in the future when the book was first published. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Aldo Verus, a liberal billionaire, is the leader of the Progressive Restoration. | |
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Saintly Church | |
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Saintly Church: Virtually all of Christianity gets this. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: This occurs when mecha start showing up in what was previously a Tom Clancy-esque political thriller. | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
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One might make one regarding Cole's actions being that of a Face–Heel Turn. | |
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I Did What I Had to Do | |
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I Did What I Had to Do: Torrent's rationale at the end, which Cole agrees with. | |
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Author Filibuster | |
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Author Filibuster: Done several times by Averell Torrent at the beginning of each chapter. | |
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Hard Truth Aesop | |
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Hard Truth Aesop: A benevolent dictator who started a civil war to put himself into power can sometimes be the best man for the job. Card's The Worthing Saga and Songmaster also share this aesop, an apparent author favorite. | |
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Sexy Secretary | |
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Sexy Secretary: Dee Nee. | |
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Qurac | |
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Qurac: The unnamed middle eastern country at the beginning of the novel where the US Military is not officially operating. | |
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Mini-Mecha | |
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Mini-Mecha: The walkers fielded are pretty much spheres with giant legs, and are piloted via cockpit. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: "Aldo Verus" (an Expy of Real Life's George Soros). | |
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Colonel Badass | |
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Colonel Badass: Cole. | |
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Good Shepherd | |
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Good Shepherd: Cecily becomes one of these. So does Mark. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Many fans had this with Cole siding with Averell Torrent at the end. He gets another one earlier in the book when he spreads the nictovirus to Northern Nigeria in order to infect the Muslim population. See Kick the Dog. A literal example occurs when Cole confronts Mingo about infecting the team with the nictovirus deliberately. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: Averell Torrent pushes his pieces with ideas and words to trigger their own thoughts. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
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Humongous Mecha: The Progressive Restoration build some, both piloted and autonomous. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Dee Nee. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: It's today… except with Mini-Mecha, Powered Armor, hovercraft, etc... Also, there's no specific mention of who the President and other political figures are except by allusion. This keeps the book from being dated. Literally, it's 2008, about two years after the book was published. This is clued in not only by clear call-outs to modern devices and cars, but also to then-current Senators and specific calendar dates (the Friday 13th mentioned in the book fits with the calendar alignment) and the election cycle. Which brings up the question of why they assassinate a guy that would be out of office in a few months. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Literally, it's 2008, about two years after the book was published. This is clued in not only by clear call-outs to modern devices and cars, but also to then-current Senators and specific calendar dates (the Friday 13th mentioned in the book fits with the calendar alignment) and the election cycle. Which brings up the question of why they assassinate a guy that would be out of office in a few months. | |
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Mighty Whitey | |
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Mighty Whitey: A good chunk of the plot of the second novel is about American Christians saving Nigerian Christians from disease, to the point that Cecily gets compared to and the same name as a sainted religious figure amongst the Nigerian Christians. | |
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Strawman News Media | |
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Strawman News Media: Solidly a left-wing type III, except for Fox News, of course. | |
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