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The Machineries of Empire

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The Machineries of Empire	comment	The Machineries of Empire is a military Science Fantasy trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee.The calendar shapes everything. Large amounts of people following the same calendar and celebrating the same holidays at the same time can warp reality, producing exotic effects that seem almost magical. Of course, this only works as long as everybody in the area follows the calendar, and when most of your weapons and technology is exotic rather than invariant, it stands to reason that calendric rot - degradation of the calendar - is a problem.It's a problem the Hexarchate is currently having. The Fortress of Scattered Needles, a space fort that has never been conquered, protected by an unbreakable shield of invariant ice, has been taken over by heretics. If left unchecked, the calendric rot will spread from there - and the Fortress lays in the heart of the Hexarchate. The suicidal task of reclaiming it falls to Kel Cheris, an infantry captain disgraced after utilizing heretic calendar to win a battle. Fortunately, she has the undead general Shuos Jedao, the most brilliant commander the Hexarchate ever had, attached to her shadow as an advisor.Unfortunately, Shuos Jedao is insane, and his last battle in his own body saw him murder everyone under his command. As the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust him – because she might be his next victim.The series consists of: "The Battle of Candle Arc" (short story, here) "Extracurricular Activities" (short story, here) Ninefox Gambit (2016) Raven Stratagem (2017) Revenant Gun (2018) Hexarchate Stories (2019; a collection of 20 short stories, and one novella titled Glass Cannon, the sequel to Revenant Gun)
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The Machineries of Empire / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Machineries of Empire / int_101500e	comment	Beneath Notice: The servitors see many things because no one pays attention to them. They also make excellent infiltrators. One of them kills the skilled assassin Vahenz, who was not thinking of threats from that quarter. In the second book, Cheris recruits a large number of them to act as spies, assassins, and even soldiers for her.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_10e866aa	type	Fangirl
The Machineries of Empire / int_10e866aa	comment	Fangirl: Hemiola in Revenant Gun is a fangirl whose main hobby is making fanvids for its favourite drama.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
The Machineries of Empire / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Kel Command would much rather terminate Jedao, but he's too brilliant to throw away. Exactly as Jedao intended.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_1440584e	type	Heroic RRoD
The Machineries of Empire / int_1440584e	comment	Heroic RRoD: Battle of Candle Arc starts shortly after someone tried to assassinate Jedao, which means that for the first part of the story, he's barely able to keep himself conscious, let alone stand. In Raven Stratagem, after Khiruev invokes Vrae Tala, her health begins to deteriorate rapidly throughout the rest of the book.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Machineries of Empire / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: In-depth descriptions of the Hexarchate factions can be found on author's website.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
The Machineries of Empire / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: Jedao is a magical meat shield for Cheris - any exotic attack that would kill her will hit him instead.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Machineries of Empire / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Underplayed in Raven Stratagem, when Cheris's mother thinks of all the Mwennin legends she could've taught her daughter and refers one that's a rather clear metaphor for Jedao's actions.note Note that a "thousand thousand" is a million, the number most commonly thrown around when Hellspin Fortress is discussed.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
The Machineries of Empire / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: Meng accepts that Jedao won and goes with him of their own free will when their game is up.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_1b88fa4e	type	Uterine Replicator
The Machineries of Empire / int_1b88fa4e	comment	Uterine Replicator: Crèche-born people are ones born from those. In present day, it's almost unheard of for a person to be natural-born, and many people have offspringnote "Child" is only used when you're the legal guardian by donating their genetic material for the crèche.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_1b8ff67c	type	Above the Influence
The Machineries of Empire / int_1b8ff67c	comment	Above the Influence: Jedao is quite attracted to Khiruev, but since formation instinct removes her ability to consent, he restrains himself. Unfortuantely, after she frees herself with the Vrae Tala clause, she's too ill from the side effects to do anything about it. In general, the temptation to avert this is the main reason that fraternization between Kel soldiers is punishable by execution.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Machineries of Empire / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Kel Command, who are responsible for putting Kel Cheris and Shuos Jedao together; they are more dangerous to Cheris than the heretics are because of how much they want Jedao to be dead, and because of how incompetently they are using their army. They are a composite mind. We don't meet any of them in Ninefox Gambit, but in Raven Stratagem, one of them, Kel Tsoro, participates in meetings of the Hexarchs. By the end of the book, they're all dead.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
The Machineries of Empire / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: To cow Jedao and Cheris into submission, the Hexarchs threaten to purge the Mwennin, a minority to which the latter belongs (Jedao's own Shparoi are long gone by this point). Jedao refuses to let it cow him and they follow through with the threat, with less than a few thousand Mwenning managing to escape the ensuing genocide. Subverted when it's revealed that "Jedao" was Cheris the entire time, and she allowed the sacrifice knowingly. Mikodez decides to improve the chances of Cheris's plan succeeding by having all the other hexarchs murdered at the same time as her calendar spike.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Machineries of Empire / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: All sorts. The Vidona make a speciality of coming up with them. Notable examples: The "feast of burning veins", which involves causing somebody's blood to catch fire, slowly burning them alive from inside. "Corpse calligraphy" (actually an Andan rather than Vidona speciality), which fatally poisons people in a manner that makes a written inscription appear on their skin. This is sometimes used as a means of suicide as political protest.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
The Machineries of Empire / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: The Vidona are responsible for propagating the Hexarchate cause, reforming heretics and educating people until they turn seventeen - which is to say, indoctrination.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Machineries of Empire / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Just what is going on with Jedao, as well as the plans of Kel Command regarding him and Cheris, are left ambiguous throughout Ninefox Gambit. Likewise, exactly how much of Cheris remains alive and in control is left ambiguous both in- and out-of-universe for most of Raven Stratagem.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
The Machineries of Empire / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: Kel Command agrees to send Jedao to attack the Fortress of Scattered Needles in the hopes that he does something that would allow them to get rid of him.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Machineries of Empire / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Jedao and Cheris slowly grow to like each other as the siege wears on, even if he still has his plans and she still distrusts him.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
The Machineries of Empire / int_24ae6005	comment	The Political Officer: Hexarchate voidmoths have Doctrine officers, usually drawn from Rahal, whose job is to watch out for any heresies the crew might have among them.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_24cdd048	type	Arcadia
The Machineries of Empire / int_24cdd048	comment	Arcadia: The entire Hafn culture is focused around worshipping the land and putting simple pastoral life on pedestal. Jedao remarks that they actually write poetry about stuff like milking machines.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_26764512	type	I Just Want to Have Friends
The Machineries of Empire / int_26764512	comment	I Just Want to Have Friends: The reason why Cheris joined Kel rather than Nirai is that she wanted to feel like she belongs somewhere, and Kel, with their conformity and formation instinct, fit this need perfectly.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_28e90e30	type	More than Mind Control
The Machineries of Empire / int_28e90e30	comment	More than Mind Control: The Kel formation instinct is part brainwashing, part long and arduous training, and part Kel's own desire to belong in a group.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
The Machineries of Empire / int_2a3006e5	comment	State Sec: The Vidona are responsible for enforcing the Doctrine in the Hexarchate. They're noted as being the most dogmatic of the six factions, as they have to make sure the calendar is preserved.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_2a4222ff	type	Benevolent A.I.
The Machineries of Empire / int_2a4222ff	comment	Benevolent A.I.: Servitors are uniformly helpful and courteous toward humans, in spite of being treated with contempt. Many of them even go beyond their duties to protect people.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_2a537eaf	type	Non P.O.V. Protagonist
The Machineries of Empire / int_2a537eaf	comment	Non P.O.V. Protagonist: Shuos Jedao is pretty much the main character of the series, but apart from a few flashback sequences seen through Cheris's eyes, he's never a point-of-view character in the books. Until the final volume, but that isn't the Jedao that we've previously known.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Machineries of Empire / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Most of Cheris's subordinates find Shuos Jedao absolutely terrifying - and understandably so, considering Hellspin. Nirai Kujen is this to anyone who knows his history and capabilities. Shuos Mikodez cultivates this reputation as well, as it helps prevent a Shuos-standard Klingon Promotion.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
The Machineries of Empire / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: The mothdrive enables Hexarchate moths to travel between star systems. The fact that it's exotic technology, and thus can't be used outside zones under the Hexarchate calendar, is part of why the Hexarchate fears and brutally punishes calendrical heresy.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_2bde52a3	type	Fantastic Firearms
The Machineries of Empire / int_2bde52a3	comment	Fantastic Firearms: The Hexarchate Galactic Superpower's Magitek arsenal includes guns that cause random amputations, guns that transmute their target into twisted effigies of carrion-glass and trapped memories, and guns that paradoxically collapse the target's lifespan into the present, alongside conventional pistols.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
The Machineries of Empire / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: In the Show Within a Show Cheris is watching with a group of servitors, the Nirai love interest's "hacking" leaves the servitors snickering and mocking the screenwriter.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_2cd8db8c	comment	Fantastic Slur: "Crashhawk", for a Kel with free will.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
The Machineries of Empire / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender: Invoked when Cheris hears a male voice in her mind and sees a man when looking in a mirror. She initially thinks that the Kel Command changed her sex for some reason, only to be told that both the voice she hears and the man she sees are how Jedao communicates with her. Istradez, Shuos Mikodez's sibling, was born female, and changed gender as part of their modifications to be Mikodez's body double.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_3012325a	type	Exotic Extended Marriage
The Machineries of Empire / int_3012325a	comment	Exotic Extended Marriage: The Hexarchate is perfectly fine with people having multiple spouses; it's mentioned Meng has four partners, and both Brezan and Khiruev have three parents each.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Machineries of Empire / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Jedao may have murdered a million people, but draws the line at rape or anything that's Powered by a Forsaken Child. Mikodez doesn't find that particularly reasonable.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
The Machineries of Empire / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Most servitors "speak" in bleeps, whirrs and other machine noises, meaning few people can understand them.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_328b32	type	Unequal Pairing
The Machineries of Empire / int_328b32	comment	It's mentioned that sexual relationships between Kel, especially Kel of different rank, are strictly forbidden, because the formation instinct means the junior Kel has no choice but to obey a superior, making it impossible for the sex to be truly consensual. Despite draconian punishments, and attempts to reduce the problem with libido-suppressing drugs and plenty of porn, it still happens quite frequently.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_3496b29a	type	Heart Is an Awesome Power
The Machineries of Empire / int_3496b29a	comment	Heart Is an Awesome Power: The Nirai faction ability is to always know the local time. Seems lame - until you realize that this makes Nirai the one group of people able to detect and measure the calendrical rot.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
The Machineries of Empire / int_34e15b76	comment	Kindhearted Cat Lover: Inverted; Zehun loves cats and has two they indulge that often make trips to Mikodez's office, but they're a Shuos bureaucrat, making them hardly "kindhearted".
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The Machineries of Empire / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The Machineries of Empire / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Nirai Kujen, whose experiments have taken the lives of more than a few people, and who often tinkers with people's minds to make them docile just because he can. He came up with the concept of the High Calendar and designed it to be based on ritual torture even though he could have chosen other ways.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_35e2fb78	type	The Mirror Shows Your True Self
The Machineries of Empire / int_35e2fb78	comment	The Mirror Shows Your True Self: Anyone possessed by a revenant sees their possessor's face in the mirror, instead of their own.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
The Machineries of Empire / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: "For the sake of fox and hound" and various other phrases where "god" is replace with "fox and hound".
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The Machineries of Empire / int_379ba10f	type	RealityWarping
The Machineries of Empire / int_379ba10f	comment	Reality Warping: The backbone of calendric warfare. Upholding a calendar allows for a wide variety of effects that cannot be reproduced using normal rules of physics, such as formation effects, force shields, FTL travel or bombs that multiply your numbers. Calendric rot means that one calendar is being replaced with another and exotic effects are no longer achievable.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
The Machineries of Empire / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Near the end of Ninefox Gambit, Cheris realizes that the "friendly" fleet is here to destroy her ships just in time to start giving orders, but not in time for anyone to do what she's telling them. Of course, Jedao catches on first.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Machineries of Empire / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Jedao's master plan. He used his military genius to become a hero, then murdered everyone in Hellspin fortress knowing that he'd be executed for it, but also guessed that Kel Command wouldn't want to let his genius go to waste. Instead, they'd "punish" Jedao by installing him in the Black Cradle, to be called back up whenever a Hexarchate-threatening crisis arose...giving him the ability to wait for the perfect moment to destroy the Hexarchate.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The Machineries of Empire / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: While officially the Nirai hexarch is Nirai Faian, the true leader of the faction is the immortal Nirai Kujen.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_3d29fed	type	NoKillLikeOverKill
The Machineries of Empire / int_3d29fed	comment	No Kill like Overkill: To make sure they get rid of Jedao once and for all, Kel Command destroys the entire fleet he's commanding.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_3e157a10	type	Twincest
The Machineries of Empire / int_3e157a10	comment	Twincest: The mistress of Istradez, Mikodez's brother and double, requests a threesome with the identical siblings because she finds the idea interesting.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
The Machineries of Empire / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: In-universe, the drama A Labyrinth of Foxes depicts Jedao and Heptarch Shuos Khiaz as having a mutual affair, when in reality she was a sadistic sexual predator who raped him.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_3ea7916d	type	Immortality Immorality
The Machineries of Empire / int_3ea7916d	comment	Immortality Immorality: So far, everyone who is or wants to be immortal is a terrible human being all around, the only difference being just how terrible they are.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Machineries of Empire / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Shuos Jedao's outstanding strategic and tactical successes are in large part due to his ability to read and manipulate his enemy by any means necessary. He's excellent at it. Shuos Mikodez possesses at least as high a skill, which he's used to remain Hexarch for four decades in spite of the Shuos tradition of Klingon Promotion. Cheris takes up the mantle after Jedao dies and she ingests his memories.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_411a35bd	type	Body Surf
The Machineries of Empire / int_411a35bd	comment	Body Surf: Nirai Kujen's immortality works this way. When Jedao shoots him for the first time, Kujen walks into his office again in a new body and claims that he has more bodies than Jedao has bullets.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_413c475b	type	Space Age Stasis
The Machineries of Empire / int_413c475b	comment	Space Age Stasis: Upon being brought out of the black cradle, Jedao asks to show him all technological advancements since the last time he was out, several decades ago, and is disappointed to see only minor things have changed.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
The Machineries of Empire / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: invoked Cheris's dramas are troperiffic and full of Hollywood Style.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_41d8a845	type	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic
The Machineries of Empire / int_41d8a845	comment	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: The calendar isn't even considered magic, and all exotic effects and various calendars are calculated using advanced mathematics, to the point that understanding heretic calendar allows Cheris to create formations from scratch using equations.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_41d9aaef	type	Brainwashed
The Machineries of Empire / int_41d9aaef	comment	Brainwashed: Kel recruits - or "fledges" - are conditioned with formation instinct, part of which is absolute obedience to the chain of command, regardless of what the orders are.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Machineries of Empire / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Invoked in Cheris's guide to handling Jedao, which mentions that in case he's uncooperative, the vessel should swallow wraith glass, which will, quote, "give the general a body so that he can be tortured". Keeping the Hexarchate calendar working requires the Vidona to torture heretics on holidays. They do the same to the entire Mwennin people, Cheris's ethnic group, in an attempt to distract Cheris's attention.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
The Machineries of Empire / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: The Kel general who contacts Cheris to warn her and Jedao that the Kel Command is hanging them out to dry says this trope almost word for word.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_445bc425	type	GreyAndGreyMorality
The Machineries of Empire / int_445bc425	comment	Grey-and-Grey Morality: It's hard to say who the good guys and bad guys are. Is it the Hexarchate, The Empire whose peace comes at the cost of the torture and suppression of dissidents and heretics? The heretics, who took over the Fortress of Scattered Needles but have decent intentions? Shuos Jedao, who's willing to commit mass murder to destroy the Hexarchate, but is nonetheless helpful and even friendly to Cheris?
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The Machineries of Empire / int_45de345c	type	The Peter Principle
The Machineries of Empire / int_45de345c	comment	The Peter Principle: Kel Khiruev joined the army because she wouldn't have to make any decisions and could simply follow orders. She ended up promoted to a general.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_4672ad3d	type	Moral Sociopathy
The Machineries of Empire / int_4672ad3d	comment	Moral Sociopathy: Explored with at least three different characters. Mikodez is a sociopath with morality, who maintains an overall good orientation because he intellectually reasons that treating other people well is more effective in keeping society stable and avoiding trouble. Jedao really tries to be one, because he thinks it's necessary, but is deeply tormented as a result. Kujen deliberately turned himself into a sociopath because he found being a Well-Intentioned Extremist too painful and thought he could continue to achieve good ends, but ended up as just a sociopathic villain because he didn't account for Motive Decay.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_47fe2e12	type	Consistent Clothing Style
The Machineries of Empire / int_47fe2e12	comment	Consistent Clothing Style: Unlike the other leaders of the Hexarchate, Nirai Kujen is an unabashed hedonist who always dresses in opulent, highly fashionable clothes with plenty of jewellery and never wears an outfit twice.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_4977d7b8	type	Body Double
The Machineries of Empire / int_4977d7b8	comment	Body Double: Mikodez's creche-sibling has been modded (up to and including a sex change) to be his body double, a job that mostly consists of them sitting at meetings and making visits Mikodez himself doesn't have time or patience for.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
The Machineries of Empire / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Enough people following the same calendar will cause exotic effects to become possible, with the calendar dictating how any given exotic works.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Machineries of Empire / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: "Jedao" easily shrugging off Tseya's attempt at enthrallment.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Machineries of Empire / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Jedao tells Khiruev that he's defending the Hexarchate from the Hafn because he wants to atone for his actions at Hellspin, though he doesn't expect - nor desire - actual forgiveness. Enforced, as Nirai Kujen did psych surgery on him to turn his guilt into a desire for atonement. Also subverted, as Jedao is gone save for remnant memories at this point, and it's Cheris imitating him.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_5067fd81	type	Everyone Is Bi
The Machineries of Empire / int_5067fd81	comment	Everyone Is Bi: Pretty much. The Hexarchate doesn't seem to differentiate between sexual orientations as much as we do.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Machineries of Empire / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Khiruev's Vidona mother executes her father - in front of Khiruev, no less - because he took their child to a historical reconstruction. In general, the Vidona crack down with extreme ferocity on the most minor heretical deviations.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_51f65a3e	type	Immortal Ruler
The Machineries of Empire / int_51f65a3e	comment	Immortal Ruler: Hexarch Nirai Kujen is immortal thanks to the Black Cradle making him an undead Body Surfer. He's held his position in secret from behind a proxy ruler for over 800 years, is the creator of the High Calendar that underpins Hexarchate society and drives its technology, and is unique in his position by virtue of being the only person who knows how to become immortal without going completely insane. Unfortunately for the Hexarchate, he's also a sociopath prone to boredom.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Machineries of Empire / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Multiple flashbacks to Jedao's past happen near the end of the first book, when Cheris starts eating wraith glass to relive his memories and figure out what his true plan is. Jedao has a flashback to the first time he met Meng in "Extracurricular Activities". Brezan has a flashback to his time in the academy, and later goes on a twisted trip through his memories during the Rahal interrogation. Khiruev has a flashback to the day her father died.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_54a20968	type	Immune to Mind Control
The Machineries of Empire / int_54a20968	comment	Immune to Mind Control: Kel Brezan is a crashhawk, meaning the formation instinct didn't take and he doesn't feel the need to slavishly obey orders of his superiors. On one hand, this allows him to oppose Shuos Jedao when he utilizes the instinct to take over the Swanknot swarm, but on the other, crashhawks are usually kicked out of Kel upon being discovered because they're considered unreliable. It turns out that Kel Command is right to mistrust Brezan's loyalty.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
The Machineries of Empire / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: The Hexarchate is a powerful, expansionist entity that enforces its calendar upon everyone in its borders, responds violently to any rebellion, and tortures heretics to keep its calendar going.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_56c52c50	type	Custom-Built Host
The Machineries of Empire / int_56c52c50	comment	Custom-Built Host: After centuries of Body Surfing as a Virtual Ghost, the Immortal Ruler Nirai Kujen succeeds in bioengineering a body he can inhabit indefinitely - a human-shaped Voidmoth with Complete Immortality. He's destroyed for good before he can inhabit it.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_57df9056	type	Glamour
The Machineries of Empire / int_57df9056	comment	Glamour: The Andan faction ability is enthrallment, which allows them to put any person of lower social status under their spell, though it grows less effective the more often it's used on any given target. It also can only be targetted at one specific person at a time, and for full effectiveness they need to know quite a lot about the target. This is why Tseya fails to glamour Jedao in Raven Strategem, because the person they think is Jedao is actually Cheris possessing the majority of Jedao's memories.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Machineries of Empire / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: While Raven Stratagem is taking place, Devenay Ragath apparently manages to survive the ending of Ninefox Gambit by getting himself stranded on the Fortress of Scattered Needles, frees himself from Kel Command's control, becomes an informant for Jedao, and eventually raises his own army. The protagonists only see and hear snatches of what could clearly be a novel unto itself.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_584a8581	type	Field Power Effect
The Machineries of Empire / int_584a8581	comment	Field Power Effect: The Hafn calendric warfare is apparently based on drawing energy from the land, such as their homeworlds, which is why their art is focused on pastoral scenes and why the Fortress of Spinshot Coins's phantom terrain ends up working against the Hexarchate - the Hafn can use it to channel their power more efficiently.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_599c74ea	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
The Machineries of Empire / int_599c74ea	comment	Zero-Approval Gambit: Jedao deliberately massacred his people at Hellspin so that he'd be executed and put in the Black Cradle.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
The Machineries of Empire / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: One of the ways the Vidona torture their prisoners is by showing them footage of their fellow captives being gruesomely mutilated. The video follows them on the walls if they look away, and their restraints make it impossible for them to close their eyes.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
The Machineries of Empire / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Nirai Kujen is, famously, the only man in Hexarchate who managed to achieve immortality using the calendar. He's a prominent character in Jedao's backstory, which happened several hundred years ago, and he's still the Nirai hexarch. Oh, and he still appears to be in the prime of his youth. Easy enough to achieve, when you're a revenant body-surfing different hosts all the time.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_5ff30573	type	Long Game
The Machineries of Empire / int_5ff30573	comment	Long Game: Jedao is playing one; he's essentially tricked the Hexarchate into putting him in the Black Cradle so that he can wait for the best moment - and the right host - to turn against it.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
The Machineries of Empire / int_61a12ee2	comment	Eccentric Mentor: Jedao's attempts at teaching Cheris are unusual at best, making extensive use of her formation instinct and various games.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Machineries of Empire / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: A Kel specialty. Formation instinct makes Kel incapable of ignoring direct orders in the chain of command...with the historical tidbit that a suicide formation instinct was the first one perfected. We see Kel give their lives in mass numbers again and again and again. Jedao gets outplayed by Kel Command at the end of Ninefox Gambit because he didn't expect even them to use a Carrion Bomb on an entire moth swarm just to kill him.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
The Machineries of Empire / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Jedao takes over the Swanknot swarm in Raven Strategem by waltzing aboard under the pretense of being sent there by the Kel Command and then pulling rank on everyone present. Intensified by the fact that It's not Jedao doing it at all, and instead Cheris imitating him.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Machineries of Empire / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Kel do this almost as a hobby; quite a few times, entire units sacrifice themselves to ensure the rest of the swarm can succeed or survive. Istradez takes it upon himself to travel to the meeting between hexarchs under the pretense of being Mikodez and take them all out in a suicide attack.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
The Machineries of Empire / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: Jedao is kept in the Black Cradle when not attached to a living human. He can't control Cheris's body and can't read her mind, but he can see in all directions at once, including watching her expression. He can talk to Cheris and is visible for her in mirrors, and his signifier replaces hers. He'll take a hit from any exotic weapon for her, and can be physically pushed into her body if she swallows wraith glass. Nirai Kujen operates by similar principles, except that he can control his hosts, albeit with effort, and can jump to nearby hosts at will if his current host is killed.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_675056e4	type	Signature Move
The Machineries of Empire / int_675056e4	comment	Signature Move: Each nexus fortress seems to have its own unique "special weapon". For Scattered Needles, it's the invariant ice; for Spinshot Coins, the phantom terrain.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Machineries of Empire / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In Ninefox Gambit: The invariant ice is not actually invariant; it's an exotic effect and as such, can be influenced by other exotics. Shuos Jedao intends to overthrow the hexarchate. This is less of a reveal for those who've read "The Battle of Candle Arc." Vahenz, one of the heresy's ringleaders, is a freelance agent employed by the Hafn. In "Extracurricular Activities": Meng is a double agent working for the Gwa, and the entire "rescue mission" is pointless, because the disappearance of their ship was them returning to the Gwa Reality. In Raven Stratagem: Cheris's mind isn't dead. She has Jedao's skills and memories, but remains the dominant personality between the two of them. Cheris's master plan is to change the High Calendar itself to make calendric effects - such as the formation instinct and falling under Andan enthrallment - voluntary. In Revenant Gun: Jedao Two isn't even human, he's a moth in humanoid form. Moths are sentient, and servitors are aware of this. Dhanneth is the former commander of the swarm that Kujen put Jedao in charge of.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Machineries of Empire / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Calendar, thanks to its Reality Warping properties. By extension, maths - the reason Jedao decides that now is the time to rebel is that he finally has a host who can compensate for his own dyscalculia.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Machineries of Empire / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Several of the characters. Back when Jedao was still alive, his hexarch raped him, and he would've killed himself because of it if it wasn't for his friend finding him and dragging him out to spend some time in other people's company. It seems he's had suicidal tendencies ever since. Even Jedao Two isn't immune to this, because he blames himself for Dhanneth's rape and death. Jedao Two sees Dhanneth as having done this because of their affair Jedao's brother committed suicide on the anniversary of the Hellspin massacre, presumably out of shame.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
The Machineries of Empire / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: In Raven Stratagem, Jedao uses Cheris's body and pretends to be her to get aboard Hierarchy of Feasts, whereupon he reveals himself. In the same book, it turns out that Jedao actually died at the end of Ninefox Gambit shielding Cheris from an exotic weapon, and it's Cheris who's been pretending to be Jedao all along, aided by having all of his memories.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_72426bbd	type	Self-Duplication
The Machineries of Empire / int_72426bbd	comment	Self-Duplication: The first weapon the heretics deploy is a radiant force multiplier, an exotic bomb that increases their number in a kaleidoscope-like way.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_73309776	type	Psycho Sidekick
The Machineries of Empire / int_73309776	comment	Psycho Sidekick: Jedao is one to Cheris in the first book, after a fashion.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_737394ab	type	Iconic Item
The Machineries of Empire / int_737394ab	comment	Iconic Item: For Shuos Jedao, his Patterner 95 pistol and fingerless gloves. A Kel can always be recognized by their black gloves.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
The Machineries of Empire / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: The servitors try to help Cheris because she treats them as friends rather than equipment.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Machineries of Empire / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: In Ninefox Gambit, "Yours in calendrical heresy, Vh." In Revenant Gun, "I'm your gun."
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The Machineries of Empire / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Machineries of Empire / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Mikodez and his brother (formerly sister) Istradez are lovers. Their parents know about it and don't even mind, reasoning that their two most energetic children might just as well keep themselves occupied. Averted, to a degree, because parenthood and genetic inheritance are no longer tied together in the Hexarchate, to the point that their language no longer acknowledges the concept.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
The Machineries of Empire / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: Ninefox Gambit opens with Kel Cheris leading her troops in a ground battle against the heretics.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_77aae115	type	Hated by All
The Machineries of Empire / int_77aae115	comment	Hated by All: Shuos Jedao, due to his actions at Hellspin Fortress, when he killed over one million people on both sides, is distrusted and disliked by absolutely everyone, though Cheris and her subordinates come to respect him for his genius. Nirai Kujen keeps a much lower profile, but everyone who knows who he is would really like to have him assassinated. If they can figure out how.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_79c2062e	type	Inappropriately Close Comrades
The Machineries of Empire / int_79c2062e	comment	Inappropriately Close Comrades: The Kel has an extremely strong taboo against sexual relationships with any other Kel, even in completely different units, to the point that it's an executable offence. This is because formation instinct means that any sexual activity between people of different ranks would be Questionable Consent at best. The Kel attempt to reduce this further by supplying troops on campaign with libido-supressing drugs, copious supplies of porn and, for the higher ranks, courtesans. However, it still doesn't entirely prevent it. In one example we see, the questionably-moral point-of-view character convinces themselves that they don't need to report it because the lower-ranking person seems to be enjoying themselves.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_7c46c734	type	Common Tongue
The Machineries of Empire / int_7c46c734	comment	Common Tongue: The high language is the Hexarchate's official tongue, while various worlds and cultures have their own languages.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
The Machineries of Empire / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: Invoked when Khiruev sees Jedao slide the muzzle of a gun along his jaw, finger on the trigger. She freaks out and asks if he doesn't require a refresher course on gun safety. He doesn't - his reasons are rooted in his mental problems rather than lack of knowledge.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_7ded4b6d	type	Thinking Wheels
The Machineries of Empire / int_7ded4b6d	comment	Thinking Wheels: The undead Evil Genius Nirai Kujen manifests as an abnormal shadow on his human host, full of intricate gears that transform to and from the Nirai Macabre Moth Motif as they spin.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_8347d55e	type	Has Two Mommies
The Machineries of Empire / int_8347d55e	comment	Has Two Mommies: Kel Brezan has three fathers. Kel Khiruev has two mothers and a father (at least until the latter was executed).
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The Machineries of Empire / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
The Machineries of Empire / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: It's a bit hard to talk about Raven Stratagem without mentioning that Ninefox Gambit ends with Jedao seemingly dead, and Cheris possibly possessed by his consciousness.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
The Machineries of Empire / int_853b7948	comment	Raven Strategem has chapters from the perspectives of Hexarchs Mikodez and Kujen, though Mikodez is more Ambiguously Evil.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_8a336276	type	Propaganda Piece
The Machineries of Empire / int_8a336276	comment	Propaganda Piece: invoked in Ninefox Gambit when Jedao has Cheris drop dozens of propaganda leaflets, alcohol and drugs to shake the resolve of the Fortress's occupants. Invoked again in Revenant Gun, when Mikodez, Brezan, and Tseya decide that it will be more effective to reveal the truth about Kujen via a drama than a bald press statement.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_8a451bc7	type	Mind Hive
The Machineries of Empire / int_8a451bc7	comment	Mind Hive: On strategic level, Kel utilize composites, which are a single entity comprised of minds dozens of Kel and, occasionally, members of other factions. Kel Command is one such composite.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Machineries of Empire / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: This is what the Rahal "scrying" ability feels like, when you're on the receiving end — it involves forcing people into incredibly traumatic nightmares in order to bring out revealing reactions and break down their resistance to interrogation. Nirai Kujen practices this as a hobby, sculpting minds like others might carve clay or marble.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
The Machineries of Empire / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: What little exposition the story gives you (and you'll be grateful for every scrap) comes about mostly when Jedao explains something to Cheris. In Raven Strategem, it becomes Jedao explaining to Khiruev. Occasionally Mikodez will explain things to one of his subordinates, as well.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The Machineries of Empire / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled IN SPACE!: According to Word of God, the universe of the trilogy is very loosely Legend of the Five Rings IN SPACE!
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The Machineries of Empire / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
The Machineries of Empire / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: In Raven Strategem, Jedao claims to have taken over Cheris at the end of the first book. In reality, his consciousness has been destroyed, and Cheris is faking possession with the help of his leftover memories.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_90a1fbd4	type	Split-Personality Takeover
The Machineries of Empire / int_90a1fbd4	comment	Split-Personality Takeover: In Raven Stratagem, Cheris's body has entirely been taken over by Jedao's mind. Apparently. She's actually Cheris with access to Jedao's memories and talents, Jedao's personality is completely dead, and she's impersonating him to take advantage of his reputation and his formation-instinct power over the Kel swarm.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_90a76abb	type	Non-Promotion
The Machineries of Empire / int_90a76abb	comment	Non-Promotion: To lead the siege of the Fortress of Scattered Needles, Cheris is given the rank of brevet general. Unfortunately, Kel formation instinct doesn't respond as strongly to brevet rank, and she still has to prove herself to her subordinates the hard way. Averted with Kel Brezan's promotion to High General in Raven Stratagem, precisely because brevet promotions don't trigger formation instinct as deeply. Comes back to bite Kel Command when Brezan joins Cheris/Jedao of his own free will.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Machineries of Empire / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When Cheris, Jedao and their fleet retake the Fortress, Kel Command sends another fleet to execute them. Interestingly, it's implied heavily that Nirai Kujen had a hand in arranging this because he was attempting to strike before his co-conspirator could do this to him, as with Cheris's mathematical skill, Jedao doesn't need him any more.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
The Machineries of Empire / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: Zig-zagged in Revenant Gun with Jedao and Dhanneth. Both of them are attracted to each other but Jedao is convinced that formation instinct makes it impossible for Dhanneth to truly consent, until Dhanneth persuades Jedao, already desperate for some relaxation and affection, that he is genuinely attracted to him. Then Kujen reveals to Jedao that he intentionally brainwashed Dhanneth to be sexually attracted to Jedao, and at a pivotal moment, when Jedao tries to save Dhanneth's life, Dhanneth deliberately kills himself to force Jedao to save another character instead. This leads Jedao to confess to Cheris that he raped Dhanneth and although he has at least two ulterior motivesnote He's trying to provoke Cheris into killing him out of general suicidal tendencies, and he wants to cover up the fact that the Revenant is sentient to protect it, he does believe it.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_94eb5311	type	Geometric Magic
The Machineries of Empire / int_94eb5311	comment	Geometric Magic: Formation channeling is based around this: by arranging troops - or ships - in a particular formation and putting them in the right frame of mind, Kel units can manifest exotic effects such as force shields and energy lances.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_94f41e7d	type	Mucking in the Mud
The Machineries of Empire / int_94f41e7d	comment	Mucking in the Mud: Phantom terrain basically invokes this IN SPACE! - it creates a sort of "mud" that slows the moths going through it to a crawl and blinds their sensors.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_952bcf83	type	The Phoenix
The Machineries of Empire / int_952bcf83	comment	The Phoenix: The Ashhawk is a fiery hawk, and the signature formation of the Kel, which use the Ashhawk as their symbol, is one that causes self-immolation.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
The Machineries of Empire / int_952f8f26	comment	Deadly Prank: In the Shuos academy, Jedao's contribution to the game competition was a game based around committing minor heresy. One of his friends ended up getting caught by a Doctrine official, while yet another claimed that she was the one to create the game, and both were grievously punished.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
The Machineries of Empire / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: In Ninefox Gambit, the story switches between massive space fights and the mental and intellectual tug-of-war between Cheris and Jedao. Continued in Raven Strategem, with action scenes broken up by the interplay between Jedao and Khiruev.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_99dfd4fc	type	Nothing Is the Same Anymore
The Machineries of Empire / int_99dfd4fc	comment	Nothing Is the Same Anymore: At the end of Raven Stratagem Cheris changes the Hexarchate's calendar to make all calendric effects - including formation instinct - voluntary for the recipients, and Mikodez kills all other hexarchs. The book ends on what's very clearly the opening days of a civil war.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
The Machineries of Empire / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: Cheris has to sacrifice a lot of her soldiers for greater good. This is how Jedao justified his plan for the Hellspin Massacre to himself.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Machineries of Empire / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Vahenz's messages to Liozh Zai warn her several times that Jedao has his own plan that's not necessarily aligned with Kel Command's. Yes he does, and yes, it's not. Jedao's claims that he wants to join the heretics when he tries to convince them to drop the invariant ice shields. It's a Sarcastic Confession. The occasional mentions of the rest of the Kel navy fighting off a Hafn incursion while Cheris and her people are trying to retake the Fortress of Scattered Needles. As of Raven Stratagem, the Hafn are a major problem. The ending of Ninefox Gambit can serve as foreshadowing of the big twist of Raven Strategem: Jedao is, in fact, very dead, and it's been Cheris imitating him the whole time.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
The Machineries of Empire / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: When trying to get the heretics to let the fleet in, Jedao has Cheris send a message that says he wants to destroy the Hexarchate. As it turns out, that's his actual goal. In Raven Stratagem, Jedao jokes about being a desperate impostor. Cheris is speaking.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_a0edf122	type	Good with Numbers
The Machineries of Empire / int_a0edf122	comment	Good with Numbers: Cheris is a math genius to the point that people are surprised she's a Kel, and a lot of her skill in command comes from her ability to utilize the complex mathematics involved in calendrical warfare.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Machineries of Empire / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: The most notable effect of a threshold winnower is that it melts the eyes of everyone in its proximity. It then opens up gashes in their flesh, from which tiny teeth and even more eyes emerge. Oh, and the earliest models didn't even have safe zones. One of Vidona torture methods involves scooping the victim's eyes out with a spoon.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
The Machineries of Empire / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: "Extracurricular Activities" ends with Jedao's partner starting to undress him.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
The Machineries of Empire / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: Downplayed; at the end of Ninefox Gambit, the Fortress of Scattered Needles is conquered and Cheris breathes a sigh of relief that she'll finally be rid of Jedao and her life will return to some semblance of normality, only for Kel Command to send a fleet and kill everyone in an attempt to get rid of the undead general once and for all. Cheris is the only survivor and she ends up having to ingest Jedao's memories to keep his cause alive.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
The Machineries of Empire / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Throughout Glass Cannon, Jedao Two's alien biology is repeatedly abused to Black Comedy levels.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_a6278d84	type	Wacky Parent, Serious Child
The Machineries of Empire / int_a6278d84	comment	Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Jedao's mother, it turns out. She's generally something of an eccentric - in "Extracurricular Activities," she sends him a tub of goose fat as a present and when he and his partner use it as a lubricant, he realizes she'll only send more if she every finds out what he did with it. He still adores her, though.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Machineries of Empire / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: The servitors pretend to be less sentient and stupider than they actually are to give themselves more freedom of movement and so that people wouldn't suspect them of scheming.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
The Machineries of Empire / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Jedao has a learning disability (dyscalculia) and he's the most feared general in the Hexarchate.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
The Machineries of Empire / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: When Mikodez asks Jedao how good Khiruev is in bed - implying the man had used the formation instinct to force her into having sex with him - the latter's calm facade completely breaks and he blanches in horror at what the Shuos hexarch is suggesting. Mikodez himself can't quite suppress his own sorrow and horror at sending his sibling to die in a suicide attack.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Machineries of Empire / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The Kel culture values martyrdom and total obedience, and brainwashing recruits is standard practice. Polygamy is perfectly normal, as are non-standard sexualities and gender identities. Mikodez frequently sleeps with his creche-sibling, who has had their gender and appearance altered to match his. Nobody considers this more than "somewhat eccentric." When Jedao asks Khiruev if she has any children, she points out there are none mentioned in her files and is astonished when he specifies he means genetic offspring, as in contrast to his days, in Hexarchate "child" means a minor you have custody over, not a blood relation. In fact, the high language doesn't even have a word for a biological child, and Khiruev has to use the phrase "genetic spawn" to clarify Jedao's question. The Hectarcate declared one of its seven factions heretical and committed an ethnic cleansing of the Leoj approximately 380 years before the story started. Their heresy? Exploring the idea of democracy, which is wholly incompatible with the consensus required for the High Calendar.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_ac928039	type	Four-Star Badass
The Machineries of Empire / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: Shuos Jedao, a spy and an assassin turned general who's never lost a battle.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Machineries of Empire / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Cheris has a natural gift for mathematics, to the point that many people assume she was trained by the Nirai. This leads to Nirai Kujen to send a second Kel swarm to destroy Cheris's, as disability with math was the only reason Jedao needed their help.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Machineries of Empire / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Combined with Internal Reveal and Precision F-Strike at the end of Glass Cannon. When informed that the moth ships are sentient and may be planning their own rebellion, Mikodez can only respond that "We are fucked."
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The Machineries of Empire / int_ad806839	type	Sexual Extortion
The Machineries of Empire / int_ad806839	comment	Sexual Extortion: It's mentioned that sexual relationships between Kel, especially Kel of different rank, are strictly forbidden, because the formation instinct means the junior Kel has no choice but to obey a superior, making it impossible for the sex to be truly consensual. Despite draconian punishments, and attempts to reduce the problem with libido-suppressing drugs and plenty of porn, it still happens quite frequently. Jedao suffers this at the hands of Heptarch Shuos Khiaz, through the more mundane means of coercion and power differential.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Machineries of Empire / int_adfd3165	comment	Kujen is an almost thousand year old parasitic intelligence who invented much of the setting’s tech and been manipulating civilisation, both to ensure his own survival and for his own amusement for centuries.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Machineries of Empire / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Most of the cast. The unnamed Nirai wraith who helps Cheris get used to having another mind in her head and keeps and eye on Jedao is particularly snarky towards the undead general. Which makes sense, as it's probably Kujen.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Machineries of Empire / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: In the prologue of Ninefox Gambit, Cheris's unit takes tremendous losses and she herself has to commit heresy to take the heretic infrastructure intact, only for her commanders to pull her out and blast the entire area into oblivion.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b116ac06	type	Weapon of Mass Destruction
The Machineries of Empire / int_b116ac06	comment	Weapon of Mass Destruction: The threshold winnower, one of the most dreaded weapon in the Kel arsenal, which turns every doorway and every bodily opening into a source of deadly radiation; fungal canisters, which destroy everything living on a planet as described in Raven Stratagem; and others (Nirai weapons designers are certainly not afraid of overkill).
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Machineries of Empire / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: With a touch of Deliberate Values Dissonance. Because of having participated in formations making use of a heretical calendar, Cheris's first battalion is dismantled and their formation instinct broken. They consider it this trope, because this means they are unable to channel formation effects, can't draw certainty and feeling of unity from each other's presence, and are left directionless.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b1b5081b	type	Sapient Ship
The Machineries of Empire / int_b1b5081b	comment	Sapient Ship: All moths are sentient. Jedao's moth, The Revenant, is a Deadpan Snarker.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
The Machineries of Empire / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: Among the Shuos, it's considered natural that to get promoted, you have to assassinate your superior. For this reason, the position of a Shuos hexarch changes hands exceptionally often - or at least it used to, until Shuos Mikodez got the job.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b38b6147	type	Science Fantasy
The Machineries of Empire / int_b38b6147	comment	Science Fantasy: You have spaceships, space forts, guns and sentient servitors, but you also have shapeshifting shadows, possession and calendar-based Reality Warping.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b3fda903	type	Touch of Death
The Machineries of Empire / int_b3fda903	comment	Touch of Death: The Vidona faction ability is "deathtouch", which works by turning the target into flat piece of paper.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
The Machineries of Empire / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: The Vrae Tala clause. It allows a Kel to shut down their own formation instinct, so they can use their own initiative in situations where blindly obeying orders would lead to disaster, but kills them exactly one hundred days after it's activated to keep them from just going rogue whenever.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
The Machineries of Empire / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: Jedao is only pretending that the Hellspin Massacre was the result of insanity; it was planned and premeditated as part of his Batman Gambit.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b5ab695c	type	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart
The Machineries of Empire / int_b5ab695c	comment	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart: The Battle of Candle Arc, which established Shuos Jedao as a tactical genius and is described in detail in a related short story, is inspired by the real-world Battle of Myeongnyang between Korea and Japan in 1597, when the severely-depleted Korean navy defeated a much larger Japanese force by taking advantage of unusual local currents and tidal effects.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b66a24a7	type	Trauma-Induced Amnesia
The Machineries of Empire / int_b66a24a7	comment	Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Jedao has only snippets and flashes of memories from the Hellspin Massacre as a result of what he did there. Supposedly.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b6c2e6ad	type	Villain Episode
The Machineries of Empire / int_b6c2e6ad	comment	Villain Episode: In Ninefox Gambit, the chapters written from Hexarchate perspective are sometimes interrupted by letters one heretic in the Fortress is sending to another. Raven Strategem has chapters from the perspectives of Hexarchs Mikodez and Kujen, though Mikodez is more Ambiguously Evil.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b7c85c86	type	Free-Love Future
The Machineries of Empire / int_b7c85c86	comment	Free-Love Future: The Hexarchate is chill with any sexual orientation or gender out there.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_b7fea698	type	Emotion Bomb
The Machineries of Empire / int_b7fea698	comment	Emotion Bomb: When Cheris's fleet enters the calendrical rot zone for the first time, everyone but her finds themselves unconscious or otherwise non-functional for several hours, and she's almost Driven to Suicide because of Jedao's memories bleeding over to hers.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_c00484eb	type	Accent Relapse
The Machineries of Empire / int_c00484eb	comment	Accent Relapse: Inverted; one of the ways Jedao's mind is influencing Cheris is that she starts speaking with his accent.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_c042eee9	type	Invisible to Normals
The Machineries of Empire / int_c042eee9	comment	Invisible to Normals: People who aren't possessed or undead themselves can't hear Jedao or see him in mirrors.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Machineries of Empire / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The dramas that Cheris is watching with the servitors in her spare time. In Raven Stratagem, it turns out the Andan are producing a biographical drama about Shuos Jedao. The reason this is mentioned is that for some reason, they decided to depict him in a positive light. The Vidona are, predictably, livid.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_c276fba0	type	Martyrdom Culture
The Machineries of Empire / int_c276fba0	comment	Martyrdom Culture: The Kel are perfectly willing to - and are even encouraged to - throw their lives away for the Hexarchate. Even their symbol, the ashhawk, is sometimes referred to as the "suicide hawk", and the first Kel formation discovered is the one that causes the entire unit to burn alive while destroying the target. This is not, of course, a view shared by any of the other factions.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
The Machineries of Empire / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Averted; Jedao being raped by his female superior is treated very seriously.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_c2ab0eaf	type	Double Agent
The Machineries of Empire / int_c2ab0eaf	comment	Double Agent: In "Extracurricular Activities," Meng has been a Gwa agent even before Jedao met them in the academy. In Ninefox Gambit, it turns out Vahenz is a freelance agent working for the Hafn. Raven Strategem, Jedao claims to be protecting the Hexarchate from the Hafn, while in reality he's working towards the destruction of the Hexarchate. Subverted, in that even the people forced by formation instinct to follow him don't believe his claims. Played straight in that it's Cheris channeling Jedao, and not Jedao at all.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_c3cc5fa0	type	Mad Scientist Laboratory
The Machineries of Empire / int_c3cc5fa0	comment	Mad Scientist Laboratory: Khiruev's subordinates joke that the servitors must see her room as this, thanks to her habit of collecting various pieces of junk and assembling and disassembling machines. As the story goes, servitors use it to scare baby servitors into behaving.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
The Machineries of Empire / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: In-universe, the Hellspin Massacre - where Jedao killed one million of his and enemy troops in what seems like a psychotic break - is seen as one for him. Both Cheris and Jedao are influenced by the Hexarchate hitting this for them, in-universe.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Machineries of Empire / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Regular ritual-torture-to-death is required to keep the Hexarchate's calendar functioning. Cheris powers her calendar spike by sacrificing the Kel Command and everybody else aboard their space station. In Revenant Gun, Kujen plans to reimpose the Hexarchate calendar permanently with a spike created by forcing Jedao Two to re-enact Hellspin, by massacring both Kujen's force and the combined Protectorate-Compact force with threshold winnowers on the original event's anniversary.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Machineries of Empire / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In the fencing scene in Revenant Gun, Jedao's calendrical sword blade is, of course, red.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_c78d3e08	type	Seppuku
The Machineries of Empire / int_c78d3e08	comment	"Corpse calligraphy" (actually an Andan rather than Vidona speciality), which fatally poisons people in a manner that makes a written inscription appear on their skin. This is sometimes used as a means of suicide as political protest.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Machineries of Empire / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The Nirai responsible for keeping an eye on Jedao's black cradle never introduces himself to Cheris.note Considering he's a revenant, he's most likely Nirai Kujen and/or his anchor.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Machineries of Empire / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: To win, Cheris and Jedao often have to commit terrible atrocities and send thousands of people to their deaths. Despite their commitment to their cause, it weighs heavily on both of them. Mikodez also often struggles with the burden, and cost, of being the most stable Shuos Hexarch in decades. Up to and including sacrificing their beloved sibling.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_cd914c2e	type	AloofBigSister
The Machineries of Empire / int_cd914c2e	comment	Aloof Big Sister: Brezan's eldest sister, who keeps rubbing him in his face about how better she is than him without even realizing that she's acting snobbishly.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_cda0c781	type	Revealing Skill
The Machineries of Empire / int_cda0c781	comment	Revealing Skill: Jedao figures out that the officer in charge of the Fortress of Spinshot Coins is a Shuos deep-cover agent when she refuses to follow his orders despite formation instinct (which she, as a Shuos, doesn't possess). Jedao is revealed to be Cheris pulling off a very detailed imitation, when she uses her genius-level math skills to alter the Hexarchate's calendar on a fundamental level.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_cdc710ad	type	Cooking Duel
The Machineries of Empire / int_cdc710ad	comment	Cooking Duel: In Gwa Reality, people settle their grievances with genetically-engineered viruses; it's mentioned that a Gwa duel can take years to finish.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Machineries of Empire / int_ce9f550c	comment	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: In "Extracurricular Activities," Jedao's attempts at speaking Tlen Gwa end up angering the person he's talking to rather than calming her down. It turns out a Gwa spy had messed with the dictionary Jedao's been using, replacing some words with ones with completely different (and mostly offensive) meaning.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Machineries of Empire / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Jedao is a brilliant planner, and knows how to manipulate both individuals and armies into doing what he wants them to. Mikodez is good enough that he’s outplayed his rivals to hold the Shuos hexarch’s seat for sixty years. Very few of his predecessors managed more than a decade. While it’s not suggested he intended the consequences it’s also notable that he made great efforts to bring Cheris and Jedao together, rather than use one of Kujen’s candidates as anchor, after confirming her math skills are the same level as Kujen’s. It’s never made clear if he knew that Jedao’s long term plan depended on being anchored to a math genius to compensate for his dyscalculia and was intentionally assisting with this; but things do tend to work out to his advantage. Kujen is an almost thousand year old parasitic intelligence who invented much of the setting’s tech and been manipulating civilisation, both to ensure his own survival and for his own amusement for centuries.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_d9f4777d	type	Refreshingly Normal Life-Choice
The Machineries of Empire / int_d9f4777d	comment	Refreshingly Normal Life-Choice: The Shuos Hexarch leads the intelligence arm of a totalitarian Galactic Superpower and usually gets replaced via Klingon Promotion after a few years of relentless scheming and paranoia. Mikodez got the job by helping his predecessor disappear to breed cockatiels.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
The Machineries of Empire / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Every single member of the Vidona is expected to at least have a theoretical knowledge of how to torture people, and most of them regularly do it.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
The Machineries of Empire / int_dd082289	comment	A Million is a Statistic: Cheris is very good with numbers and she struggles to comprehend the extent of Jedao's killing.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
The Machineries of Empire / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: In book three, the schemes of Cheris!Jedao, Kujen, Mikodez, Moth!Jedao and the Moths’ collide.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Machineries of Empire / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Everywhere. Spaceships are called "moths", with various types being called "__moths". Most factions are symbolized by an animal: Shuos - ninefox Kel - ashhawk ("suicide hawk") Rahal - scrywolf ("execution wolf") Vidona - the stingray Shuos Jedao's signifier is the Immolation Fox, a variation on ninefox. Kel Cheris's signifier is Ashhawk Sheathed Wings, symbolizing mentally stable Kel. Servitors are shaped like stylized animals, with a particular animal depending on the owners' faction and the servitor's purpose. Cheris's home is called the City of Ravens Feasting.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Cheris near the end of Ninefox Gambit, as she's the only survivor of the Kel Command destroying her fleet, despite being heavily wounded.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_e45a6365	comment	Unplanned Crossdressing: In "Extracurricular Activities," when Jedao escapes the Gwa prison, he swaps clothes with the first person he manages to knock out - who happens to be a woman, leaving him, in his own words, a crossdressing enemy agent. His inability to be a convincing Gwa woman is a running gag (he keeps getting aghast stares and wonders if his hairstyle is to blame).
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The Machineries of Empire / int_e49a3a77	comment	Offering Another in Your Stead: In "The Battle of Candle Arc", a rebel fleet tries to offer up their own general in exchange for a cease-fire. Knowing that the general would be publicly tortured to death, General Jedao refuses, both to spare them that fate and to prevent the mutineers from profiting by such a betrayal.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: People who join a faction drop their family surname and add their faction's name in front of their given one. At the end of the first book, Cheris drops "Kel" and returns to her family surname, as the Kel Command's betrayal causes her to abandon her faction.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_e6c72641	comment	Asian Fox Spirit: Called the ninefox, it's the symbol of the Shuos faction, as well as Shuos Jedao himself. It's associated with cunning and trickery, as is the real kitsune.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: The High Calendar is partly dependent on torturing large numbers of heretics on holidays known as "remembrances." The Hafn scout vessels are powered by young children, sewn together with symbols of their homeworlds such as birds or insects into elaborate devices.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: It's mentioned that people to whom Jedao is attached have their memories of that period wiped when he's returned to the black cradle. Turns out Nirai Kujen has deleted some of Jedao's memories as well, mostly, it seems, for the sake of experimentation.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: The letters sent from Vahenz to Liozh Zai show the state of affairs aboard the Fortress of Scattered Needles. They show the heretics in a far better light than any POVs on the Hexarchate side. The two short stories are written from Jedao's perspective and they portray a character far more likeable and unambiguous than the Jedao we see from Cheris's perspective. Then again, the short stories are both set before the Hellspin Massacre.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: Despite all the negative aspects of its society, the Hexarchate is notably free of gender-discrimination and homophobia, with men, women, and non-binary people all having representation in the leadership and widespread same-gender relationships with no social disapproval. There is still some lingering bigotry against trans people and body modification, but even this is depicted as limited to particularly old-fashioned circles.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
The Machineries of Empire / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Mikodez decides that even if the other hexarch figure out how to become immortal, he won't join them, as he believes the psychological issues that come with it far outweigh the pluses.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_ecdb8790	type	Decapitation Strike
The Machineries of Empire / int_ecdb8790	comment	Decapitation Strike: The Compact establishes itself as a strong rival to the Hexarchate with a two-pronged strike. One Suicide Attack destroys the Space Station where four Hexarchs have gathered; another bombing destroys the Aerie where the Kel Hexarch and High Command are based.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
The Machineries of Empire / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: The Hexarchate government is divided into six factions: Rahal (leadership, policing, law), Nirai (technology), Andan (culture, diplomacy, finance), Vidona (doctrine, calendar, education), Shuos (espionage, sabotage, assassination) and Kel (military). While a lot of people - perhaps even the majority - don't belong to any faction, to have any career in the factions' specialties or government, you must join a faction. All factions (except for Shuos, or so they say) have their own exotic effects.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_ef276485	type	Battle of Wits
The Machineries of Empire / int_ef276485	comment	Battle of Wits: Jedao and Cheris destroy the invariant ice shield by breaking its operator.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
The Machineries of Empire / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: The servitors' favourite meeting place on Cheris's ship is near the spot where the various couples aboard go to make out, as they're so busy with each other, they don't realize there's a secret conspiracy meeting going on a few metres away.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack: Mikodez kills the other hexarchs by sending his own brother Istradez to blow himself up, although Istradez volunteers for the duty.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Machineries of Empire / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Cheris loses thousands of soldiers and has to do some very questionable things to reclaim the fortress. It takes its toll on her, to say the least. Exposure to the Heptarchy's constant wars of suppression and expansion are what drove Jedao to his long-term plans for the Heptarchy's overthrow, leading the slaughter at Hellspin Fortress. The same slow grind is what eventually drives Cheris, Khiruev, and Brezan to side against the Hexarchy, and even influences Mikodez's scheming against the other Hexarchs.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_f1dcfb69	comment	Unconventional Food Usage: "Extracurricular Activities" begins with Jedao getting a tub of goose fat in the mail from his mother, much to his bemusement. It ends with him putting it to recreational use with a friendly soldier after a successful mission.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_f1e6402d	type	Suddenly Speaking
The Machineries of Empire / int_f1e6402d	comment	Suddenly Speaking: Brezan is mildly freaked out when one of the Andan servitors suddenly speaks in human words, as he's used to them communicating by machine whirrs and bleeps.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Machineries of Empire / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: The Shuos kill Dzera so that she doesn't have to endure more of Vidona torture.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_f6b7820b	type	Cosmic Keystone
The Machineries of Empire / int_f6b7820b	comment	Cosmic Keystone: The nexus fortresses project calendrical stability over large swathes of the Hexarchate, ensuring the exotic effects continue to work. Destroying one - or worse, subverting it - causes the whole Reality Warping to start falling apart in what is called calendrical rot.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_f974d1fc	type	The Shadow Knows
The Machineries of Empire / int_f974d1fc	comment	The Shadow Knows: People who belong to factions have shadows in the shape of their signifier - a version of the faction's symbol, details depending on individual personality. When Jedao is attached to Cheris, her shadow changes from being shaped like Ashhawk Sheathed Wings to Immolation Fox, letting everyone know who's accompanying her.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
The Machineries of Empire / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: By the time of the main action of Revenant Gun, the Hexarchate has split into two major successors: the Compact, a democracy practicing Cheris's ideals and led by Brezan and (covertly) Mikodez, and the larger Protectorate, an example of this trope led by Kel Inesser as a military dictatorship attempting to continue the Hexarchate's system.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: In the letters from Vahenz to Liozh Zai, the former keeps complaining and joking about the inane naming conventions of the new calendar the heretics are setting up. The various unrealistic things that happen in the dramas Cheris watches. The four hundred Kel jokes, some of which we actually get to hear.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_fadf1efc	comment	Happy Flashback: At one point, Cheris reminisces about her youth, when she had a Shuos girlfriend.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_fb9afaab	comment	Attack Drone: Generally averted, as servitors are incapable of channeling formation effects... under Hexarchate calendar. When Cheris realizes this isn't true for the heretic calendar, she utilizes servitors in combat as well.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_fbba5e98	type	Gadgeteer Genius
The Machineries of Empire / int_fbba5e98	comment	Gadgeteer Genius: Kel Khiruev can build an assassin servitor from a music box, pieces of a watch and some junk lying around her room.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_fbd1aeb	comment	Living Emotional Crutch: Not exactly living, per se, but Jedao seems to have taken it upon himself to help Cheris's emotional well-being.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_fcbcc221	comment	Robot Buddy: Cheris is very friendly with servitors, and they help her and are friends with her in turn.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Machineries of Empire / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Jedao murdered a million people to have a shot at overthrowing the Hexarchate.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_fdbd6162	type	With Friends Like These...
The Machineries of Empire / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: The various factions of the Hexarchate are always infighting, and Kel Command is almost as dangerous to Cheris as the heretics in the Fortress of Scattered Needles are, if not more so.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Jedao has a few events in his past that messed him up badly, like his superior raping him (with everyone knowing what happened), or him and his fellow agent being bombed by their own allies, or the Hellspin Massacre.
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The Machineries of Empire / int_ff369faa	comment	Symbiotic Possession: While Jedao is attached to Cheris and can speak in her head, he can't read her thoughts or control her body and his role is mostly advisory. Played more straight with Kujen and his hosts, because of his greater ability to control them.
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The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Moral Sociopathy / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	More than Mind Control / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Motile Vehicular Components / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Motive Decay / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Mystical 108 / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	No Eye in Magic / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Non-Heteronormative Society / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Non-Promotion / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Obfuscating Insanity / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Occult Blue Eyes / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Offering Another in Your Stead / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	108 / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Only One Who Likes Spam / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Our Doors Are Different / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Parasitic Immortality / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Phlebotinum Bomb / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Poisonous Captive / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Propaganda Machine / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Propaganda Piece / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Psycho Sidekick / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Rank Inflation / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Refreshingly Normal Life-Choice / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Robot Buddy / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Royal "We" / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Science Fantasy / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Self-Duplication / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Seppuku / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Sex by Proxy / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Sexy Discretion Shot / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Sigil Spam / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Somebody Named "Nobody" / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Space Age Stasis / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Space Station / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Speculative Fiction LGBT / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	State Sec / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Sweet Tooth / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Symbiotic Possession / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Sympathetic P.O.V. / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	The Empire / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	The Heretic / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	The Needs of the Many / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	The Phoenix / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	The Political Officer / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	The Shadow Knows / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Thinking Wheels / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Touch of Death / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Trauma-Induced Amnesia / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Unconventional Food Usage / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Unlimited Wardrobe / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Unplanned Crossdressing / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Used to Be a Sweet Kid / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Uterine Replicator / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Villain Episode / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Wacky Parent, Serious Child / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Was It All a Lie? / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	We Named the Monkey "Jack" / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Weapon of Mass Destruction / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	What Beautiful Eyes! / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	With Friends Like These... / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	You Must Be Cold / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_538ba773
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	The Chains of Commanding / int_538ba773

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