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Pale Grey Dot

462 statements
90 feature instances
18 referencing feature instances

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Pale Grey Dot	label	Pale Grey Dot
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Pale Grey Dot	comment	Pale Grey Dot is a fusion of Space Opera and Cyberpunk set five hundred years in the future in a fully inhabited solar system.Fifty years before the book begins, three super spies were involved in a cataclysmic disaster during an insurrection on Mars. Exiled from ESS (the Earth Security Service), they found themselves spread across every social strata. Jenna lived in dirty alleys, scrounging for food and supplies as she waged a one woman war against her former agency. Ezza landed a job commanding a warship with the United Fleet. James Bond to Captain Kirk is, at worst, a lateral move. Cherny wound up in a dead-end job pumping gas for a living.But when ESS recalls them back to service, each operative must choose what to do. That choice becomes harder when the first assignment is to track their old friends down.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_124469cb	type	Diplomatic Back Channel
Pale Grey Dot / int_124469cb	comment	Diplomatic Back Channel: Clandestine communiques between the Premier of Earth and her subordinates are included within the text.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_159ce749	type	Ensign Newbie
Pale Grey Dot / int_159ce749	comment	Ensign Newbie: Xiang Adams
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Pale Grey Dot / int_18e33968	type	Earth Is the Center of the Universe
Pale Grey Dot / int_18e33968	comment	Earth Is the Center of the Universe: In the disastrous backstory, we're told of the Martian Insurrection. It failed, and so Earth remains the centre.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_19944e8f	type	Terraform
Pale Grey Dot / int_19944e8f	comment	Terraform: Mars has been terraformed. Its environment actually seems nicer than Earth's.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_1c5bf1fd	type	The Tower
Pale Grey Dot / int_1c5bf1fd	comment	The Tower: The, uh, Tower is an example of a tower. It's ESS's headquarters. And She lives in the deepest basement.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_1d9af117	type	Gender-Equal Ensemble
Pale Grey Dot / int_1d9af117	comment	Gender-Equal Ensemble: The Athena Six originally consisted of three men and three women. With Sal and Taylor already dead when the book begins, we're left with two men and two women.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Pale Grey Dot / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Jenna defeats Amanda this way in the final battle, literally stabbing her in the back.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Pale Grey Dot / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Many characters, ranging from replacement prosthetics to military augmentation. Most notable, ESS agents tend to feature a cybernetic left arm with numerous gadgets and spyware.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Pale Grey Dot / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Dilton Rowe, Primary Adjunct to the Director of the Ganymede Travel Bureau, tries to pull this on Ezza and Nirali when they try to procure a train to take them to Uruk Sulcus-132. It works until Ezza gets fed up and threatens to ruin the man—a sign the Pull is affecting her.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_20598ec4	type	Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain
Pale Grey Dot / int_20598ec4	comment	Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: We have Cyberpunk, and we have rain, all in the first chapter.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_28e90e30	type	More than Mind Control
Pale Grey Dot / int_28e90e30	comment	More than Mind Control: Even when Cherny is freed from the Athena Protocols, he still considers staying loyal to Her. Fortunately, his guilt over betraying Jenna helps him resist.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Pale Grey Dot / int_2dddd99d	comment	Jupiter Station was destroyed by ESS, framing the Syndicate in order to destroy two enemies at once.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_2e417275	type	Guilt-Tripping
Pale Grey Dot / int_2e417275	comment	Guilt-Tripping: Jenna does this to Cherny after he betrays her. He does it to himself also, though.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_305bcbb9	type	Space Pirates
Pale Grey Dot / int_305bcbb9	comment	Space Pirates: The Syndicate has shades of this. They have spaceships, but we never see exactly what sort of crime they carry out. It may be they're simply dedicated to bringing down the government.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_30a0067b	type	Supervillain Lair
Pale Grey Dot / int_30a0067b	comment	Supervillain Lair: The Tower serves as this for Her. She even resides deep in the basement in a capsule reminiscent of a vampire's coffin.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_31655611	type	Impeded Communication
Pale Grey Dot / int_31655611	comment	Impeded Communication: The speed of light causes delays during cross-world communications.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
Pale Grey Dot / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: ESS, aka the Earth Security Service.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_35850a4f	type	The Fellowship Has Ended
Pale Grey Dot / int_35850a4f	comment	The Fellowship Has Ended: The Athena Six broke apart fifty years ago and sent into disgraced exile. Pale Grey Dot picks up when they first start getting back together.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_397f480b	type	Spy School
Pale Grey Dot / int_397f480b	comment	Spy School: The Athena Six grew up in one of these—the blandly named Kazan Institute for Education
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Pale Grey Dot / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Pale Grey Dot / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: As mentioned above, Jenna has every right to think everyone is after her.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
Pale Grey Dot / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Powered Armor: Occasionally worn by soldiers that expect heavy resistance.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
Pale Grey Dot / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Played with. Admiral Tolj comes across as an older mentor figure to Ezza, but in reality they're both hundreds of years old.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_48ac82d0	type	Audit Threat
Pale Grey Dot / int_48ac82d0	comment	Audit Threat: Ezza does this to Dilton Rowe.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Pale Grey Dot / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The overwatches, machine-human hybrids who serve as Mission Control for the Earth Security Service, certainly qualify. Strangely, they seem perfectly content with their lives.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_51c7574c	type	Abandon Ship
Pale Grey Dot / int_51c7574c	comment	Abandon Ship: Ezza orders this for Starknight in the final battle against Pravedni.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_52b36340	type	What Measure Is a Mook?
Pale Grey Dot / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: Marcus, the operative ambushed and killed by Jenna in the opening scene, may seem to be an irrelevant character, but winds up getting far more characterization after his death. Similarly, a nameless guard is slain by Brylan. Cue half a book later, and said nameless guard gets a name and proves to be a motivating factor for Ezza resisting the Pull and fighting against Her.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_5c613245	type	Thrown Out the Airlock
Pale Grey Dot / int_5c613245	comment	Thrown Out the Airlock: Captain Hecktor Ramirez threatens to do this to Jenna.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Pale Grey Dot / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Numerous times in the book, She claims to love her agents. Characters believe this to varying degrees. Jenna wakes up in the grimy back alleys of a slum, ambushes an ESS operative, and refuses to save his life. Cherny gets pushed around and belittled by his Mean Boss before getting a chance to return to his old glory. Ezza's crew expertly captures a Syndicate vessel, she subdues its captain, and then tries and fails to avoid being dragged into ESS drama.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Pale Grey Dot / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: A Syndicate member accuses Cherny of arresting her parents years ago. The accusation seems levied at ESS as a whole, but Cherny still questions if he was involved.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_65ce79f1	type	High-Speed Missile Dodge
Pale Grey Dot / int_65ce79f1	comment	High-Speed Missile Dodge: Averted. With the sort of maneuverability that no manned craft could hope to achieve, there is no dodging a missile. Either you hit it with a defensive mine or shoot it with lasers. Or you die.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Pale Grey Dot / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Many revelations throughout the book, after stringing the reader along: The Martian Insurrection is revealed to be the mission where two members of the Athena Six went insane thanks to their loyalty chips and decided to kill as many civilians in Olympus Mons as they could, since that would technically stop the insurrection. ESS's leader, known only as She/Her, is revealed to be a decaying husk of a woman hooked up to computers and life support, controlling ESS with her mind. Jupiter Station was destroyed by ESS, framing the Syndicate in order to destroy two enemies at once. The Ganymede Blitz is revealed to be the mission in which Sienar betrayed ESS and joined the Syndicate.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Pale Grey Dot / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Dalton Rowe takes his trains very seriously
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Pale Grey Dot / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Pale Grey Dot / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: True to the title, most factions are grey. ESS engages in a conspiracy to wipe out the United Fleet, the Syndicate are anarchist seeking pirates, and the government as a whole is morally bankrupt. Even the United Fleet is accused of being bloated and overly-bureaucratic.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Pale Grey Dot / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Ezza has "Remember the mask" for when trying to resist the Pull. It serves as a double meaning: Keep a brave face in front of her crew, and the literal mask of the guard that Brylan Ncube murdered.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_7adc9fc6	type	Colonized Solar System
Pale Grey Dot / int_7adc9fc6	comment	Colonized Solar System: We see Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and the moon of Ganymede, but we hear of many other inhabited settlements.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Pale Grey Dot / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Done for all three point of view characters:
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Pale Grey Dot / int_83364794	type	Asteroid Miners
Pale Grey Dot / int_83364794	comment	Asteroid Miners: Mentioned a few times in passing, but not focused on.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_87109887	type	Data Drive MacGuffin
Pale Grey Dot / int_87109887	comment	Data Drive MacGuffin: Near the end of the book, Bev Stroud's memory data drive becomes key to proving ESS's culpability, and so Cherny races to Earth to deliver it to the authorities. But unbeknownst to both him and the reader, it's been given to Nirali to deliver.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_899bb0bf	type	Space Mines
Pale Grey Dot / int_899bb0bf	comment	Space Mines: Slightly unusual for the trope, spaceships use defensive mine clouds to protect them from incoming missiles, so the area they must protect is significantly smaller than blocking a planet. The mines are also capable of moving to intercept their targets, but are subject to the laws of motion—meaning if their parent ship slows down or speeds up, any deployed mines may be unable to compensate.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_89baee12	type	Space Opera
Pale Grey Dot / int_89baee12	comment	Space Opera: Mixed with Cyberpunk.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Pale Grey Dot / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre: The main strategy of ship battles, with the twist that thanks to physics, just one missile slipping through their defences is enough to utterly destroy it.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_8cda3dc2	type	Flawed Prototype
Pale Grey Dot / int_8cda3dc2	comment	Flawed Prototype: The Athena Six themselves are flawed prototypes of the loyalty chips. Later on, Amanda is revealed to be the next iteration.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_93c04c8a	type	Future Food Is Artificial
Pale Grey Dot / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: How does meat paste sound?
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Pale Grey Dot / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Pale Grey Dot / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: Jenna's MO. All other considerations are secondary to her intense desire to kill Her.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_994928f9	type	Crapsack World
Pale Grey Dot / int_994928f9	comment	Crapsack World: Earth has fallen under such heavy pollution that the inhabitants need breather masks to survive. It is the titular pale grey dot—a riff on the Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Pale Grey Dot / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Upon arriving at the United Fleet HQ on Jupiter Station, Ezza watches as supply shipments are loaded into every warship in the armada except hers. This is how ESS destroyed the fleet. Starknight, having been excluded, survives.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_9e03dbd6	type	Mr. Fixit
Pale Grey Dot / int_9e03dbd6	comment	Ms. Fixit: Carmen
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Pale Grey Dot / int_a10775b7	type	Mean Boss
Pale Grey Dot / int_a10775b7	comment	Cherny gets pushed around and belittled by his Mean Boss before getting a chance to return to his old glory.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_a19135a6	type	Mind Control
Pale Grey Dot / int_a19135a6	comment	The Martian Insurrection is revealed to be the mission where two members of the Athena Six went insane thanks to their loyalty chips and decided to kill as many civilians in Olympus Mons as they could, since that would technically stop the insurrection.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_a41f13e5	type	Bad Job, Worse Uniform
Pale Grey Dot / int_a41f13e5	comment	Bad Job, Worse Uniform: Supreme badass Jenna is subjected to this when serving aboard the cruise liner Ã‰toile. It makes her reminisce about her time in the slums.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_a9c7258a	type	Absent Aliens
Pale Grey Dot / int_a9c7258a	comment	Absent Aliens: Although Earth has explored the solar system and has two extra-system colonies, there's no hint of alien life.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_aabdf2c6	type	Tyke-Bomb
Pale Grey Dot / int_aabdf2c6	comment	Tyke Bomb: ESS agents like our protagonists are recruited as young as five years of age. Initially, the children don't think it's anything unusual, and that weapons training and spycraft are perfectly normal in school. It's left unsaid what happens to children who don't pass.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_aaedd10	type	Given Name Reveal
Pale Grey Dot / int_aaedd10	comment	Given Name Reveal: Right near the end, Her first name is revealed: It's Karla.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Pale Grey Dot / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Due to their love-hate-fear relationship, most characters sympathize with Her death. Except for Jenna, of course.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_ada3f7f3	type	Hunting the Rogue
Pale Grey Dot / int_ada3f7f3	comment	Hunting the Rogue: Jenna spends fifty years on the run from ESS, ambushing their agents and stealing their tech. Finally, ESS brings Cherny, her former teammate, out of retirement to hunt her down.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: All the damn time between the United Fleet and ESS. Ezza's first chapter leans heavily on this, and she spends most of the book with torn loyalties because of it.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The Athena Six, naturally. They met as children, trained together until adulthood, and consider each other siblings.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: A big one when Jenna discovers that her brother, Cherny, betrayed her. The reader already knew this, having seen it happen.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: A common theme throughout the book. Cherny heavily empathizes with Her, and even Ezza shows shades of this when affected by the Pull. Jenna, being The Determinator, never once has a positive thought for Her.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Averted. Travel time takes weeks or months, depending on how fast a ship can accelerate and how much fuel it's willing to spend. Space travel is not something taken lightly.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_dcebff1	comment	Command Roster: We see much of UFS Starknight's crew: The Captain: Ezza Jayens Number Two: Rachelle Eday Ensign Newbie: Xiang Adams The Marine: Ajay Gole Ms. Fixit: Carmen
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Pale Grey Dot / int_e77e2787	comment	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: Thanks to a ban on certain types of technology, humans (usually cybernetically augmented) still do most of the grunt work.
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Pale Grey Dot / int_f0e48274	comment	Taken Off the Case: Offered to Cherny by Her, when it seems the former might stress out over having to hunt down Jenna. Cherny recognizes it for what it is: a threat.
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