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The Draka

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The Draka	comment	"Gather 'round lads and lasses and we shall tell ye a story of a good republic and an evil empire where the bad guys are vanquished and truth, justice, and the American Way prevail."Science Fiction author S. M. Stirling said "Screw that." Apparently tired of seeing the same cliches being used again and again, he created the Domination of the Draka, an Evil Empire that doesn't intend to loseâ€¦ ever.The Draka timeline diverges from our own during The American Revolution, where American Crown Loyalists, due to the Dutch intervening in the war, are shipped to the new British Crown Colony of Drakia—named after Sir Francis Drake—on the southern coast of Africa. They are joined shortly by French Royalists, defeated Confederate troops, and generally the other losers of history. Burning with a desire for revenge, they founded the Domination of Draka: an Empire forged on conquest and slavery. Their goal is nothing less than world domination. Standing in their way is the United States of America and the Alliance for Democracy. And you just know this is going to be bloody.The main trilogy consists of: Marching Through Georgia, released May 1, 1988 (set in the opening hours of the Drakan entry into the Eurasian War, the alternate equivalent of our World War II) Under the Yoke, released September 1, 1989 (covering Europe's incorporation into the Domination after the Eurasian War) The Stone Dogs, released July 1, 1990 (covering the "Protracted Struggle" between the Domination of Draka and the remaining democratic nations, now joined into the "Alliance for Democracy")There are also: Drakon, released January 1, 1996 (a Draka from the 25th century is hurled back to 1990s Earth by a space-warp experiment) Drakas!, released October 31, 2000 (a collection of short stories set in the Draka timeline, edited by S. M. Stirling but written by other authors)The Domination is an abridged omnibus of the main trilogy, not a separate book.
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The Draka / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
The Draka / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing: In Drakon, Samothracian cyber-agent La Farge insistently refers to Gwendolyn, a drakensis, as "it." During a parley she complains about this, saying that she's at least a fellow hominid.
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The Draka / int_192a7b3	type	Nested Ownership
The Draka / int_192a7b3	comment	Nested Ownership: Very high-ranking serfs might have servants of their own, although being slaves themselves they don't directly own them.
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The Draka / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
The Draka / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: Drakan society is very focused on pleasure, with sexual promiscuity a fact of life.
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The Draka / int_21ac3809	type	Ancient Grome
The Draka / int_21ac3809	comment	Ancient Grome: Not literally , but the Draka love for the ancient classics leads to a lot of Greek, Roman, and Indian themes in the names of their cities, architecture, and even military ranks.
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The Draka / int_21d41a5b	type	Praetorian Guard
The Draka / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: The Archonal Guard Legion, nicknamed "Boss' Brass Knucks" by Draka regular troops for their unit insignia—a gauntlet-wearing hand crushing a globe.
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The Draka / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Draka / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The raison d'etre of the series. Before the stories even begin, the Draka enslave the entire native population of Africa and much of Asia's. The Drakaverse version of World War 2, made worse by the radical nature of Drakan tactics, including arbitrary starvation of resisting cities, unflinchingly brutal punishment of partisan activity, and much more liberal use of atomic weapons, kills off approximately one-tenth of humanity, and ends in a majority of survivors going into slavery. Out of self-defense, the United States and her allies become massive armed camps. Eventually, a nuclear holocaust ensues in which The Bad Guy Wins, and most Americans who aren't killed or enslaved are treated as hunting game for the Draka. Then, of course, the Draka create two posthuman species, and the Serfs are engineered into a pliant, non-resistant slave race which happily serves the Draka masters. The Draka then develop interstellar and interdimensional travel, attempting to enslave sentient alien races and alternate timelines. So far their first attempt is stopped by a human cyborg. For now.
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The Draka / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
The Draka / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Marching Through Georgia has a scene where Karl von Shrakenberg (the father of the book's Draka protagonist, Eric) tells an American journalist that any partnership of between the Domination and the USA will be "a temporary alliance of convenience". He then adds that it's only to keep the United States out of the Domination's hair while they conquer and enslave Europeâ€¦ in pretty much those exact words. All in a gentlemanly, conversational tone. The American is understandably shaken by how brazen Karl is, and outright terrified that his country is already being sized up for conquest.
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The Draka / int_24d94c	type	Dread Zeppelin
The Draka / int_24d94c	comment	Dread Zeppelin: Airships are one of the Draka's signature forms of transportation.
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The Draka / int_25a31943	type	Slave Mooks
The Draka / int_25a31943	comment	Slave Mooks: Although Janissaries — soldiers drawn from the slave population — have lots of privileges, this is their main function. In Marching Through Georgia, the fact they're used in attritional fighting, frontal assault, etc. is explicitly discussed.
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The Draka / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
The Draka / int_2a3006e5	comment	State Sec: The Draka Directorate of Security, or "headhunters", based out of Skull House, operate their own coastal defense forces, the serf-manned Order Police, and the Citizen-manned Intervention Squads to suppress serf revolts, and wield enough political clout to rival that of the War Directorate.
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The Draka / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
The Draka / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: More correctly, the worst guys ever win.
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The Draka / int_30537448	type	The War to End All Wars
The Draka / int_30537448	comment	The War to End All Wars: Occurs in The Stone Dogs.
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The Draka / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Draka / int_319e4a2f	comment	In the timeline, Nietzsche himself emigrates to the Domination and makes a huge contribution to their underlying philosophy (although even the Draka admit that he had to calm down a little first).
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The Draka / int_326bed3	type	Battle Thralls
The Draka / int_326bed3	comment	Battle Thralls: In Under The Yoke, Alliance infiltrator Frederick Kustaa thinks some European Janissaries might've fought against the Draka — the pan-European government was taking soldiers pretty young toward the end. More generally averted — the usual Draka practice seems to be to execute enemy prisoners of war or send them to destructive-labor sites. In Marching Through Georgia, Eric specifically brings up phosphate mining in the Sahara. Soldiers are viewed as too dangerous to sell as ordinary serfs.
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The Draka / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
The Draka / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: Upon closer reading, it can be ascertained that the Draka Empire is in severe danger in Drakon. Humanity has finally lead a Roaring Rampage of Revenge by teleporting a Fleet above Earth, being stopped by a hair's length. Since Lefarge blew up the gate to Alternate Earth, it is possible that humanity may win this struggle.
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The Draka / int_33c99c49	type	Might Makes Right
The Draka / int_33c99c49	comment	Might Makes Right: The impalement of rebellious slaves is referred to as "the ultimate argument" in Under The Yoke and dueling is "the ultimate argument" in Draka politics.
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The Draka / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
The Draka / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: The Finns are the only nation presented as waging anything like a determined resistance in the face of Drakan occupation. Under the Yoke seems to suggest that the free Finns will eventually simply die from attrition or lack of supply, never posing a serious threat to Drakan strategic interests. According to the chronology given for the series, Switzerland apparently is considered a hotbed of resistance into the 1970's. And the French Resistance at the beginning of Under The Yoke is featured, but only as a shadow of its former self, its members forced into cannibalism to survive and generally considered little more than an annoyance by not only the Draka but also the serf population. The Finns are the only ones we actually get to see in action. In addition to Switzerland and France, Russia is also said to have pockets of holdouts, Barcelona was nuked to stop an uprising, and as late as the 1960s some serfs in former Italy are trying (unsuccessfully) to resist the Draka (seen at the beginning of The Stone Dogs). Most of the rest of Europe has been so battered by war that the Draka are mostly picking up the pieces and rebuilding—many civilians are so worn-out and beleaguered that they're actually lining up for their serf tattoos just to get food and medical care.
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The Draka / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
The Draka / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: Especially the first (WW2-centered) book glories in misspelled and otherwise butchered German (as well as some bad Russian). For just one example, the SS division the Drakas fight is consistently identified as the "Liebstandarte"—Which, when spelled in this manner, translates into English as the "Regiment of Love"â€¦ (Stirling has since improved in this regard, presumably making this aspect of the Draka books something of an Old Shame.)
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The Draka / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
The Draka / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: A Draka defector who concluded that all the people he cared about had serf numbers on their necks and he was grinding them down. He defects to the Alliance and helps the OSS train spies to infiltrate the Domination.
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The Draka / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
The Draka / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Until the last few years of World War Two the Eurasian War, this happened a lot because of the Draka tendency to be one or two generations ahead of everybody else. Somehow. At the end of the 18th century, the Draka regularly used lever-operated multi-shot rifles, steam engine trucks with primitive machineguns on them and dirigibles. This trope reaches its apex in The Stone Dogs. At the end of the novel, the Alliance for Democracy launches a sublight starship powered and propelled by matter-antimatter reactions to Alpha Centauri. The starship contains 100,000 cryogenically-frozen Alliance citizens, enough to start a colony and continue the fight against the Draka. In what year does this happen? 1997. Stirling goes into some detail about this in the afterword to the story, at least in some editions. He envisioned a world where the constant warfare forced all sides into taking the "Manhattan Project" approach—throw lots of money and resources at the problem right now, build something usable on the battlefield right now, expenses be damned, risks be damned, refinement or subtlety or elegance be damned. It gets results quickly, if you don't mind the results being big and crude and clunky and maybe a bit unreliable. It produces crude atomic bombs that weigh many tons, to be delivered by Mach 2+ ramjet bombers that are more dangerous to their own crews than any enemy air defense. He observes that a "Manhattan Project" approach to polio would have been far more likely to produce a "magnificently advanced iron lung" than a vaccine to prevent the disease in the first place. In one of the novels there is an in-universe book excerpt in which a scientist complains that an experiment using superconductive materials is producing anomalous results that were not predicted either by quantum theory or by Relativity—but no one knows what it means because no one will fund any large-scale research on anything that doesn't have an immediate obvious utility for blowing people up.
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The Draka / int_3cfeeb48	type	I Die Free
The Draka / int_3cfeeb48	comment	I Die Free: In Under The Yoke, Solange's father tries this. Tanya von Shrakenberg refuses to kill him or have him executed at the request of his daughter, whom she's been sleeping with.
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The Draka / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
The Draka / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Played extremely straight. The unflinching loyalty and the extent of the rapine the Janissaries inflict on the civilized world; or their casual laughter and enjoyment when 13 year old Finnish kids get impaled. Slavery or not, there is no excuse, abuse or not, virtually every ethnic group and social caste in and out of the Domination is full of it. Hitler tacitly allowed Italy to be partitioned, letting his own race be taken as slaves. The United States Government is completely unwilling to enter the war, preferring to roll in its riches and clearly ignore the atrocities the Draka inflicts until it became apparent Europe was going under. The threat of Draka support to the Japanese sounds unrealistic: a Japan at the brink of defeat, even when filled with Draka materiel, would not be a match for nuclear missiles the U.S had already started to bombard the Japanese fleets with. The Jewish community of the United States may have single handedly let the Alliance lose. The financial clout the American Jews prevented an alliance of U.S, U.K and the Third Reich to ally against the Draka, and a constant series of attempts at blocking any cooperation. They simply let their brethren in Levant and Eastern Europe "Under the Yoke" due to petty hatred of Germany. The Japanese go wild, implied to be even worse than OTL Imperial Japan concerning non-Japanese Asians. Even after a dozen nukes, their unending stubbornness and ego makes Draka overrun entire Asia whereas they could have surrendered to the U.S and stopped the Draka rush to the east. The Finnish partisans openly declare that they make no difference between killing enemy Janissaries and their comfort women or noncombatant serfs in a patrol, and are heavily implied to be cannibals. Given their enemies have absolutely no mercy, it is understandable, but jarring nevertheless. Security Directorate serfs (a.k.a Chaindogs) abuse and torture shiploads of captured Indian and other Alliance personnel and force them to thank for torturing a random captive to death to break them in early. The serf doing this is a heavily tattoed, bald-shaven woman who clearly enjoys the abuse she dishes on the captives, detailing they'll be sold separately to new owners. Scientist Draka collaborators post WW2 are often quite morally bankrupt, or plain manbabies like Ekstein, a stereotypical nerd who simply defected to the Domination and sold his sapphire solar cell technology to get laid with scantily-clad Serf women. The Shrakenbergs' newcomer serfs from warzones set out to bully and abuse their inferiors at the first opportunity. Such as Chinese Deng, who was saved barely from an execution, only to abuse, hit and deny cigarette breaks to his assistant after some experience. He doesn't get any better, only more tyrannical over the years. A janissary under the Shrakenberg household abuses newly bought serfs who are in a transport, telling his stories of rape and plunder of their cities, until a still trauma-ridden French male snaps, only to be beaten to death. The Janissary is the father of one of the female serfs, and is widely respected in the household. A Frenchman who is a plumber who lost his legs during the Drakan occupation of Europe is bought to improve the household's water system. He quickly marries a serf woman and sets out to slap and rain abuse on inferior serf workers who aren't well versed in his particular method of plumbing. The books clearly intend to show there are no differences in the morality of the oppressor and the oppressed. American tourists to the Domination, implied to spend dollars for "pleasures not found in the Alliance territories." It's up to the reader to determine. Considering how uptight and sexually repressed Catholic-dominated spartan Alliance is, pleasures we would find very mundane, such as strip club or casual swinging sex amongst the household serfs and Drana joining in, are likely to be a shocking draw for American tourists.
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The Draka / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Draka / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: India secedes from the Alliance for Democracy, figuring it is big and strong enough to stand up to the Draka alone. Their independence lasts one week before the Draka war of conquest is over. Curb Stomp Cushion: The Draka victory in the Final War does conquer Earth, but at heavy cost - they don't simply roll over the Alliance, but when the prize is final conquest of the entire planet that doesn't count for much. Due to a combination of (clean) nuclear bombs and biological weapons, the Alliance loses 400 million people; the Draka lose 300 million - 22% of their serf population, and 15% of their Citizen population. These are staggering Citizen losses, as there weren't that many of them to begin with. The Alliance's counter-part to the Stone Dogs virus, a computer virus meant to trigger the self-destruct systems in Draka vehicles, actually worked very well - just not enough. The Alliance nuclear strike on Archona fails, but they do manage to destroy Cape Town - the mother city of the Draka (though this is largely a symbolic act). The Alliance also has a better space fleet, so they actually win control over trans-Lunar space (despite the loss of their Ceres base). Vast ecological damage has also been done to Earth with a mini-nuclear winter, meaning the Draka need the infrastructure of the space colonies to rebuild, so they have to offer a truce with the Alliance survivors. Given their infrastructure damage and the extreme difficulty of establishing a permanent occupation force over half the planet at a stroke, the Draka themselves estimate they won't fully secure the planet for fifty to a hundred years - giving time for the Alliance colony ship heading to Alpha Centauri time to set up their own planet.
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The Draka / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Draka / int_443b78cd	comment	How bad of an idea is it? In a flashback, Eric's father scolds him for crying over a dead serf, and sending the girl away—which caused a scandal for the family. When he goes to whip Eric, the latter snatches the switch out of his father's hand and calmly tells him that if he ever hits him again, he's a dead man.
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The Draka / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Draka / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The Draka gleefully burn mosques full of Afghan children when the Afghanis resist, with their least evil members like Karl Shrakenberg shrugging off as if it's a chore. To put it mildly, the scenes are horrifying.
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The Draka / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
The Draka / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: To the point a lot of readers feel it's overdone. The creole of the Draka slaves, in particular, is so weirdly spelled that at times it comes across as a genuinely foreign language.
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The Draka / int_4aafd3c8	type	Fling a Light into the Future
The Draka / int_4aafd3c8	comment	Fling a Light into the Future: The New America Project, an antimatter-powered sleeper ship that takes the Alliance survivors of the Final War to Alpha Centauri, away from the Draka Yoke, to continue the war against the Domination.
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The Draka / int_5067fd81	type	Everyone Is Bi
The Draka / int_5067fd81	comment	Everyone Is Bi: The genetically-engineered New Race—"Homo drakensis"—portrayed in Drakon, is all bisexual. But male bisexuals are almost never shown.
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The Draka / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
The Draka / int_525df529	comment	Not Using the "Z" Word: Draka never call their slaves slaves, instead they refer to them as serfs. This is ostensibly to get around British anti-slavery laws; the author attempts to justify this by saying the Draka were virtually independent by the mid-19th century.
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The Draka / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Draka / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: A lot of Draka characters, when you get past the slavery and the warmongering and the rampant amorality, are actually surprisingly pleasant people. However, it only really serves to make them even more unsettling.
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The Draka / int_546e23f6	type	Evilutionary Biologist
The Draka / int_546e23f6	comment	Evilutionary Biologist: At the Virunga Biocontrol Institute, the Draka manage to crack the human genome with horrible experiments, allowing them to create a literal Master Race, a literal Servant Race, and other breeds of mutant creatures as soldiers or game. Drakon makes reference to centaurs, goblins, and other mythical/prehistoric creatures being created to populate Draka hunting preserves, as well as "a few hundred American test subjects, ranging from prepubescent to adults used up fast in a secret project." Virunga Biocontol is also responsible for weaponizing HIV for use against the Alliance in the Final War.
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The Draka / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
The Draka / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: The Domination of the Draka.
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The Draka / int_568974fd	type	Single-Species Nations
The Draka / int_568974fd	comment	Single-Species Nations: The trope comes into effect in the final book, The Stone Dogs. The Draka started out as regular humans, but later genetically engineered themselves into a Human Subspecies called Homo drakensis. The rest of humanity, meanwhile, had long since banded together into a super-state called the Alliance for Democracy. By the time of the book's Distant Finale, the war between the two nations is also a war between two species, with the Alliance being regular humans and the Draka being Homo drakensis.
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The Draka / int_56a77d27	type	Beautiful Slave Girl
The Draka / int_56a77d27	comment	Beautiful Slave Girl: Eric's teen concubine was taken from occupied Circassia as a child and basically raised to be this. Eric's sister said that her and Eric's daughter Anna would face trouble in her teens due to her looks (aka be a sexual target) and doesn't mind his having broken the law to send her to America.
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The Draka / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
The Draka / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: As it becomes obvious the Alliance's civilian leadership is not taking the increasingly-obvious Draka threat seriously, General Le Farge and some allies take more aggressive steps against the Domination without their superiors' knowledge. Le Farge flat-out says if they get caught, he could get shot and it would end the others' careers.
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The Draka / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
The Draka / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": PCs are "perscomps", ubiquitous steam-driven cars are "steamers", to name a few.
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The Draka / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Draka / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: The Draka are horrified at the Holocaustâ€¦ because it was a tremendous waste of slave labor. After the Final War nearly destroys the ecosystem, the Draka respond by invoking strict environmental standards to ensure stability. Nature preserves are created from entire continents and the population levels are kept low.
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The Draka / int_5ec15a79	type	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
The Draka / int_5ec15a79	comment	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: The Draka gain a massive lead over the Alliance in genetics and biotechnology due to their willingness to experiment on live human (serf) subjects, sequencing the human genome by the 1970s. Alliance characters bemoan how public opinion prohibits the Alliance from conducting its own research in genetics. Using their expertise, the Draka produce human-wolf-baboon hybrid "ghouloons" to serve as super-strong shock troops, as well as the New Race. They also produce the Stone Dogs, the bioweapon that wins the Final War for them.
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The Draka / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
The Draka / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: In Drakon, Gwendolyn Ingolfsson goes home with a stockbroker who, after sex, catches her reading his books and surfing his Internet with supernatural speed. Upon realizing she's being observed, Gwen asks him some questions that are pretty obviously this before she kills him.
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The Draka / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Draka / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: The entire point of the Janissaries. It's a measure of how much life as a Draka serf sucks that they still get millions of volunteers for human wave cannon fodder duty, as while Janissaries are still serfs they're at least allowed to work off some of their mad by oppressing other serfs and "ferals" (i.e., the inhabitants of countries invaded by the Draka). Put to diabolically good use with Jewish concentration camp survivors. Note that Zionism seems to have been averted when the Draka took control of the Holy Land after their universe's equivalent of World War I. Furthermore, as genetic sequencing becomes easier, the Draka breed Ghouloons, gene-spliced Baboons with human and wolf genes, to provide massive numbers of obedient, cheap, and expendable shock troopers that can handle levers, buttons, rifles and simple tools. And like to eat shrimp.
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The Draka / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
The Draka / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Played straight in that, while a Draka citizen is technically allowed to practice a religion, it is considered at the very least tacky and, in general, politically suspect. Averted in that the Draka have absolutely no qualms about using (modified) religions as a means of control over their serfs. It appears, however, that by the time of Drakon, 400 years into the Final Society, both the servus and drakensis are uniformly materialist atheists, and for some reason, many Alliance personnel are still devout Catholics.
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The Draka / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Draka / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: S.M. Stirling seems to like lesbian or bisexual female characters. Johanna, Rahksan, Yolande, Myfwanwy, Gwendolynâ€¦ you can't throw a rock in any of the books without hitting at least two. Mind you, he does try to handwave it a couple of ways—primary education is sex-segregated, and prior to the development of the drakenses the Race Purity Laws create a variation on Really Gets Around in that it's acceptable for male Draka to have sex with any serf woman they like, but for a female Draka to have sex with a male serf is a capital offense (diluting the Race, presumably) well until the 70's (Ironically, around the age of Civil Rights era in Real Life), with a side of Family Versus Career for female Draka, who are required by law to produce a minimum number of offspring (the actual pregnancy eventually being off-loaded to host mothers after the 60's)—but it still feels heavy-handed at times. Stirling also seems to have a thing for Afrikaner villains—they also show up in The Peshawar Lancers and Conquistador.
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The Draka / int_6651bba7	type	Bio-Augmentation
The Draka / int_6651bba7	comment	Bio-Augmentation: The New Race and the servus Homo drakensis is the human genome with several genes modified (allowing drakensis to produce powerful pheromones, have a hyperactive metabolism, or stopping aging) or introduced from foreign sources (feline genes are mentioned as being introduced to impart night vision, and canine genes for supersensitive smell). Homo servus is almost identical to Homo sapiens, but psychologically mind-gelded to be incapable of resistance and to derive pleasure from service to their Race overlords.
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The Draka / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
The Draka / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: It's actually possible to feel sorry for those bastards when reading Marching Through Georgia.
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The Draka / int_6f546e9f	type	Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!
The Draka / int_6f546e9f	comment	Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!: Eric seems to think the Americans have too much of this mentality to be successfully enslaved — he thinks to win the Protracted Struggle, the Draka will need to kill most of them.
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The Draka / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Draka / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: The first Drakan colonists are slaveholders from the American south. As the colony grows, the Draka go from simply viewing all non-whites as slaves to viewing anyone who isn't Drakan as slaves.
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The Draka / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
The Draka / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: One of the complaints that gets brought up is that the Draka are seemingly completely unaffected early on by the logistics of waging war in what was historically, for Europeans, a medical nightmare, on a continent that, for anyone, lacked the necessary fundamental infrastructure to create or maintain a continent-spanning empire.
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The Draka / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
The Draka / int_768ae1c9	comment	Les Collaborateurs: The "chain-dog" serfs who serve as the muscle for the Security Directorate qualify. They are resented by the Citizens and utterly detested by their fellow serfs (particularly those who are highly-placed, or attached to powerful Citizen families).
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The Draka / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
The Draka / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: Draka Citizens still practice dueling, and it is considered "the ultimate argument" in their politics. This becomes less and less common later in their history, although young Yolande Ingolfsson recalls her mother killing a visitor who had insulted her in a duel.
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The Draka / int_7b0fddcd	type	Battle Cry
The Draka / int_7b0fddcd	comment	Battle Cry: The Draka use "Bulala" as a battle cry, appropriating it from one the Bantu peoples who were their first conquests. It means kill in various Bantu languages in South Africa, like Zulu.
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The Draka / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
The Draka / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: The Draka play chess; unfortunately, the only moves quoted are complete nonsense ("Knight to King's Pawn Four" is syntactically invalid, never mind whether it would be a good move or not).
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The Draka / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
The Draka / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Project Fenris in the third book: a secret Draka project concerning enough explosives to dislodge the Moon from its orbit and smash into the Earth in event of a Draka defeat.
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The Draka / int_7cc8c8c4	type	Villain World
The Draka / int_7cc8c8c4	comment	Villain World: The Final Society, wherein humanity has either evolved to become superhuman (Homo drakensis) or been successfully domesticated (Homo servus). Earth has been largely depopulated and de-industrialized, with entire continents used as nature reserves and industry shifted into orbit.
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The Draka / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
The Draka / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: The United States. After the Draka conquer India in The Stone Dogs, the remaining Alliance states fully merge their sovereignty. This bites them hard when the Alliance's peacenik leadership overrules the U.S. President's demand for a preemptive strike on the mobilizing Draka, allowing the Domination to activate its superweapon first.
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The Draka / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Draka / int_808cbaeb	comment	Furthermore, as genetic sequencing becomes easier, the Draka breed Ghouloons, gene-spliced Baboons with human and wolf genes, to provide massive numbers of obedient, cheap, and expendable shock troopers that can handle levers, buttons, rifles and simple tools. And like to eat shrimp.
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The Draka / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
The Draka / int_80b57bec	comment	Super-Soldier: Homo drakensis, for one, but even as far back as Marching Through Georgia, the Draka citizen-soldiers were effectively these compared to everyone else. 400 years later, the Draka Archon (leader) wears a nanosuit with firepower reported to be able to destroy entire cities.
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The Draka / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
The Draka / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: Just look at the page quote! In the timeline, Nietzsche himself emigrates to the Domination and makes a huge contribution to their underlying philosophy (although even the Draka admit that he had to calm down a little first).
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The Draka / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
The Draka / int_8430699a	comment	Alternate Universe: The Draka were experimenting with wormholes for FTL travel and instead opened a gateway to another Earth.
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The Draka / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
The Draka / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed: Service to the State. Glory to the Race.
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The Draka / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
The Draka / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The Draka Citizen army. The Janissaries aren't anything to mess with either.
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The Draka / int_89baee12	type	Space Opera
The Draka / int_89baee12	comment	Space Opera: The series becomes more and more Space Opera-ish as it goes on. The Draka rulers in Drakon dream of The Race eventually conquering the entire galaxy. It is wisely pointed out that there may be powerful species in space that could destroy the Draka if they are not cautious.
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The Draka / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
The Draka / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Draka Race, having been fighting since they first landed in South Africa, are extremely proud of their military heritage and traditions.
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The Draka / int_8f0c88f	type	Invincible Villain
The Draka / int_8f0c88f	comment	Invincible Villain: The Draka in a nutshell. They manage to industrialise faster than all of Europe, easily conquer Africa, and sweep aside European forces. Oh, and they're an empire of racist slave-traders so despicable that many readers unironically preferred the Nazis winning to them.
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The Draka / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
The Draka / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: Alliance heavily invests in cybernetics as opposed to Drakan Bio-Augmentation. The fruit is an extremely skilled and resourceful operative, Kenneth Lafarge, descendant of Chantal, the serf girl saved from Draka yoke who travels to the alternate universe where Gwendolyn Ingolfsson, Chantal's rapist's descendant has gone to subvert the world and build a quantum gate for the Drakan invasion. At that point, Alliance operatives can craft items and clothings from scratch that push the limits of laws of physics, from bulletproof suits to antimatter minigrenades and plasma rifles, and play as a foil to Drakan technology which take the form of genetic re-sequencing, biological bulletproof implants in the form of a painful symbiotic virus and biological weapons.
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The Draka / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
The Draka / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: The Draka can be seen as an evil counterpart of the United States of America. Both are world powers that started as colonies. Both expanded by taking over other colonies and native lands. Both originally had very slavery-dependent economies. But whereas the USA ultimately rejected slavery, the Domination embraced it.
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The Draka / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
The Draka / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Taken to extremes with the drakensis. Gwendolyn slaughters twenty street thugs with ease mere seconds after she arrives in the present, killing many with her bare hands. Later, she faces dozens of cops and soldiers, some armed with Samothracian weaponry, and kills thirteen of them before escaping unharmed.
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The Draka / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
The Draka / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Quite a few of the Draka Serfs suffer from this. And after the Draka master human genetic engineering, they all suffer from it. Crosses over with Even Evil Has Standards since Tanya von Shrakenberg, a Draka, openly expresses to her new captive serf, Chantal, that she would prefer her serfs to be happy here. By the Great War, most of Africa had been Draka land for decades and knew no other way of life. The Draka had a hundred years to "perfect" their dark art and everybody was genre savvy in regards to the consequences of a successful slave uprising. Even worse, at the turn of the 20th Century, they knew the outside world would not tolerate them beyond necessity. The Domination is a Super North Korea which has an exacting knowledge of keeping the masses in-line and a extreme amount of incentive to keep doing so. And, unlike North Korea, the Draka have the resources to back up their threats, and enough sense to let their serfs keep pets, personal gardens and up to a point, rudimentary luxuries and entertainment, often enticing them to join in.
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The Draka / int_a633a438	type	Really700YearsOld
The Draka / int_a633a438	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Common among the drakensis in Drakon, as they are immortal. Gwendolyn is one of the first generation of drakensis, so despite looking thirty-something she's actually around 460 years old, one of the oldest of her kind.
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The Draka / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Draka / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: An entire nation of them. In the end, homo drakensis even stop aging, ensuring they can enjoy the fruits of slavery forever, all the while hunting the descendants of Alliance humans for sport during holidays, keeping the atavistic feeling of unjust vengeance for an eternity.
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The Draka / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Draka / int_a8559a9f	comment	It needs them to explain how and why a sparsely-populated colony of farmers of the late 1700s could industrialize quicker than all European nations put together and conquer a continent which no less than three Real Life superpowers (British, French and German Empires) could barely do, even with several other Great Powers' help.
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The Draka / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
The Draka / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: And not the nice kind either!
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The Draka / int_a8af3e53	type	Secret Police
The Draka / int_a8af3e53	comment	Secret Police: The Draka Security Directorate monitors the serfs for any hint of uprising, and the Draka Citizens for any hint of sedition. The "distressingly liberal" Eric is a particular foe of theirs. There are some hints the Alliance for Democracy's OSS is trending that way as well — executions approved by secret courts, while Alliance officers of a sufficiently high rank have "the power of summary execution."
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The Draka / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
The Draka / int_ab2ffd70	comment	Foreign Ruling Class: The Citizens, from a British, Icelandic and Dixie background, are ruling over Serfs from across the lands they conquered.
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The Draka / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
The Draka / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: The inviolable law is that no serf is to raise a hand in anger to any of the Draka, on pain of death. The crowning example was when a serf rebellion in Barcelona managed to overwhelm the local garrison, which made the Draka decide to suppress the riot by nuking the entire city, mentioned in passing in The Stone Dogs. This was probably a better death than the fate that would have awaited the rebels if the Draka had used conventional methods. Rebels they capture alive get impaled.
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The Draka / int_b486877f	type	Squick
The Draka / int_b486877f	comment	American tourists to the Domination, implied to spend dollars for "pleasures not found in the Alliance territories." It's up to the reader to determine. Considering how uptight and sexually repressed Catholic-dominated spartan Alliance is, pleasures we would find very mundane, such as strip club or casual swinging sex amongst the household serfs and Drana joining in, are likely to be a shocking draw for American tourists.
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The Draka / int_b4fca546	type	Alternate History Wank
The Draka / int_b4fca546	comment	Alternate History Wank: A textbook example thereof. A lot of this story rests on various world powers refusing to get involved with intervening against a growing fascist empire until it's way too late.
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The Draka / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
The Draka / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: As a teen Eric risked the wrath of the Security Directorate to send his daughter with his serf concubine to freedom in America and enters Draka politics with reformist goals, but in order to get high enough to actually accomplish anything he has to make more and more compromises with truly evil people, such as signing off on human experimentation to create the Stone Dogs and the Militants' aggressive off-Earth actions toward the Alliance. Ultimately it's he who initiates the Final War that leads to Draka conquest of the entire Solar System.
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The Draka / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Draka / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Discussed, then Played Straight. When India is considering seceding from the Alliance for Democracy, OSS officer Frederick Lefarge remarks upon how stupid it is for the Indians to believe they can survive outside of the Alliance, and how some Pakistanis are even considering mounting a jihad against the Domination. His superior, OSS chief Stoddard, replies that "human beings don't have to be stupid to act stupidly, they just have to feel strongly about something" and that the Hindu nationalists behind the secession movement have genuine grievances. Then India does secede, and the Draka overrun it inside of a week.
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The Draka / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Draka / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Eric von Shrakenburg once had a child with one of his serfs, who died in childbirth. Some years later he covertly had the child smuggled away to the United States. Bringing the serf-woman up in a negative light around Eric is not a good idea. How bad of an idea is it? In a flashback, Eric's father scolds him for crying over a dead serf, and sending the girl away—which caused a scandal for the family. When he goes to whip Eric, the latter snatches the switch out of his father's hand and calmly tells him that if he ever hits him again, he's a dead man.
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The Draka / int_bf72d5e8	type	The Spartan Way
The Draka / int_bf72d5e8	comment	The Spartan Way: The Draka train their children in military boarding schools from the age of 5. This program is called the Agoge, which fits with the Drakan obsession with Classical society.
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The Draka / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Draka / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Archona gets targeted by 3 submarines' payloads-worth of nukes near the end of the war. All of them get intercepted.
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The Draka / int_c6bc89f7	type	Curb-Stomp Cushion
The Draka / int_c6bc89f7	comment	Curb Stomp Cushion: The Draka victory in the Final War does conquer Earth, but at heavy cost - they don't simply roll over the Alliance, but when the prize is final conquest of the entire planet that doesn't count for much. Due to a combination of (clean) nuclear bombs and biological weapons, the Alliance loses 400 million people; the Draka lose 300 million - 22% of their serf population, and 15% of their Citizen population. These are staggering Citizen losses, as there weren't that many of them to begin with. The Alliance's counter-part to the Stone Dogs virus, a computer virus meant to trigger the self-destruct systems in Draka vehicles, actually worked very well - just not enough. The Alliance nuclear strike on Archona fails, but they do manage to destroy Cape Town - the mother city of the Draka (though this is largely a symbolic act). The Alliance also has a better space fleet, so they actually win control over trans-Lunar space (despite the loss of their Ceres base). Vast ecological damage has also been done to Earth with a mini-nuclear winter, meaning the Draka need the infrastructure of the space colonies to rebuild, so they have to offer a truce with the Alliance survivors. Given their infrastructure damage and the extreme difficulty of establishing a permanent occupation force over half the planet at a stroke, the Draka themselves estimate they won't fully secure the planet for fifty to a hundred years - giving time for the Alliance colony ship heading to Alpha Centauri time to set up their own planet.
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The Draka / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Draka / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Recurring references to Nineteen Eighty-Four, most notably when a Draka characterizes their economic system as "oligarchical collectivism" as a reference to Emmanuel Goldstein's treatise The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism. In The Stone Dogs, Doctor Harry Snappdove of the Strategic Planning Board is described as a balding man with a hooked nose and a brush of dark-brown beard, a description of Harry Turtledove, another well-known author of alternate-history fiction.
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The Draka / int_c8c968c3	comment	The Alliance: The Alliance for Democracy, the timeline's analogue to the Allies of the Second World War. Led by the United States and established at the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro in 1943, the Alliance is a defensive and free-trade pact between the US, Australasia, SE Asia, Japan, South America, India, and Britain. It is made permanent at the Second Treaty of Rio in 1945, and made into The Federation after the 1975-76 Indian Incident.
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The Draka / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Draka / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: Although the Draka are too disciplined to be truly decadent (Alliance infiltrator Frederick Kustaa even remarks on this in Under The Yoke), dueling is "the ultimate argument" in Draka politics. In The Stone Dogs it's stated that Eric's rival Louise Gayner has killed several other politicians in duels.
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The Draka / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
The Draka / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: The book "Stone Dogs" has Project Fenris: Draka plan to destroy the world in the event of defeat. Drakon has Gwendolyn setting up a bio-bomb to destroy all the life in the world if she is suddenly killed. Kenneth Lefarge does this to Gwendolyn Ingolfsson in Drakon The Japanese also do this, on a much smaller scale, in the Final War, detonating fusion bombs on the Home Islands to prevent the Draka from enserfing them. Eric von Shrakenberg notes that the fallout will drift towards the Korean Peninsula and kill Citizens and serfs alike.
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The Draka / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
The Draka / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Eventually, the remaining countries not under Drakan control have little choice other than to band together under the American-led Alliance for Democracy.
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The Draka / int_cdc4a218	type	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
The Draka / int_cdc4a218	comment	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: By the 20th century, the timeline has changed so much that almost no real-world historical figures show up. Guess who is one of the few exceptions.
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The Draka / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Humanity at the fourth book, Drakon, finally manages to settle Alpha Centauri, escaping the Draka yoke, and survive for 400 years and develop superior fleets to stymie Draka expansion, and even manage to open wormholes in Earth orbit to send a huge fleet that is "stopped barely".
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The Draka / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: One of the major criticisms of the timeline. Despite radical alterations to history starting in 1783, we still get a US Civil War over slavery in 1860, a Great War in 1914 (which the US joins on the exact same date in 1917), and both Hitler and FDR still rise to power in 1932. Word of God says that these are different people, but they aren't given different names. Of course, the Draka is more of a thought experiment than an attempt at a plausible Alternate History.
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The Draka / int_dbf877ac	comment	Sympathetic Slave Owner: In order to have Draka protagonists readers actually like, this happens. The von Shrakenberg family in particular pride themselves on how benevolently they treat their serfs, with Tanya von Shrakenberg telling her daughter Gudrun that sadism is "a sickness" that she will not tolerate. That said, members of the family other than Eric often don't live up to this. In Under The Yoke, Tanya suggests her husband Edward repeatedly rape the French serf Chantal to break her spirit and pimps the nun Marya to whom she thinks is a disabled Draka veteran, while Edward himself can be downright nasty when his old war wound is hurting. In The Stone Dogs, Eric's sister Johanna forces the serf Ali — her own nephew and the son of longtime servant and occasional lesbian lover Rakshan — to beat his friend Marco to death with a shovel when she catches them trying to escape.
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The Draka / int_ddf56e0a	comment	Stirling also seems to have a thing for Afrikaner villains—they also show up in The Peshawar Lancers and Conquistador.
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The Draka / int_e0309d03	comment	Slave Race: Homo servus.
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The Draka / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: A Turkish Janissary soldier in Finland is explicitly described in the likeness of BÃ¼lent Ecevit, and his name is Ecevit. Sadly said soldier is a child-raping psychopath, whereas BÃ¼lent Ecevit was a social liberal politician that kept OTL Turkey from barreling to chaos with his policies.
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The Draka / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
The Draka / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: The Draka as a whole. Their ancestors principally consist of American Loyalists, Hessians from the American Revolution, Icelanders who fled the volcanic eruptions of the 1780s, French aristocrats, white Haitians, and American Confederates. Once they've become powerful enough to declare independence from Britain, they seek the most horrifying revenge that they can. They started out as a British colony in what is now South Africa in the late 18th century. By World War II, they've all but taken over Africa and Eurasia, and the series ends with them having completely overrun the world.
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The Draka / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Draka / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Serfs, not slaves.
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The Draka / int_e77e2787	type	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future
The Draka / int_e77e2787	comment	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: In Drakon, the engineered Homo servus serfs still harvest crops by hand. The dimensionally-displaced Homo drakensis Gwendolyn tells an environmentalist from our world that it's "healthier" this way.
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The Draka / int_e78e4ba1	type	Black Site
The Draka / int_e78e4ba1	comment	Black Site: In The Stone Dogs the Alliance is building an antimatter-fueled starship in one.
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The Draka / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Draka willingly admit to this.
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The Draka / int_edf8db61	comment	Oh, My Gods!: Draka characters frequently swear by Norse deities. Subverted in that they don't seem to be actively worshiped (there's mention of a move to "revive the Old Faith", but it apparently failed), so this may more of an In-Universe pop-cultural quirk.
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The Draka / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Tyansha for Erik and Myfwany for Yolande. The former mopes about her and illegally has their child smuggled to America, while the latter holds a grudge for literally decades, to the point she starts the Final War.
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The Draka / int_f2fe5ff8	comment	Master Race: The Draka consciously craft themselves into a master race by living The Spartan Way. The books contrast the Draka with the Nazis, who believed they were a master race because of an inherently superior genetic lineage. It is mentioned that the average Draka footsoldier could crush the skull of an SS trooper with his (or her) bare hands. Later, genetic tinkering accentuates this to the point that the Draka literally are a Superior Species.
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The Draka / int_f8117297	comment	Go-Go Enslavement: In Under The Yoke, European concubines are seen on the action block wearing heels and jewelry and nothing else.
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The Draka / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
The Draka / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: Ghouloons, genetically engineered by the Draka as shock troops, are wolf/baboon hybrids that resemble horror-movie werewolves.
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The Draka / int_fe10cf42	comment	Alien Space Bats: The only decent explanation why no one else stopped them before they became too powerful. Knowing the Draka, they have them as slaves. It needs them to explain how and why a sparsely-populated colony of farmers of the late 1700s could industrialize quicker than all European nations put together and conquer a continent which no less than three Real Life superpowers (British, French and German Empires) could barely do, even with several other Great Powers' help.
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The Draka / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: In The Stone Dogs, Yolande Ingolfsson keeps a teen Alliance prisoner taken from the Pathfinder in her quarters to protect her from "bored horny Draka" and, much to other Draka's amusement, trades the Pathfinder prisoners back to the Alliance for a group of high-ranking serfs whose ship had suffered a malfunction and crashed in Alliance territory.
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