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The Rage War

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The Rage War	comment	The Rage War is a trilogy of novels set in the Aliens vs. Predator universe, written by Tim Lebbon. They follow on from the Alien: Out of the Shadows trilogy, advancing the timeline even further.The novels are: Predator: Incursion Alien: Invasion Alien vs. Predator: ArmageddonThe later Short Stories "Devil Dogs" from Predator: If It Bleeds and "Spite" Aliens: Bug Hunt both feature Akoko "Snow Dog" Halley before the events of the trilogy.
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The Rage War / int_11d206ef	type	Subliminal Seduction
The Rage War / int_11d206ef	comment	Subliminal Seduction: The code that sends the information to begin the biotech nano takeover of sleeper agents is a subliminal message embedded in a short transmission.
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The Rage War / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
The Rage War / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: "The Rage," who seem to have picked the name because they want everyone to know exactly how they feel about the rest of humanity.
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The Rage War / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
The Rage War / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Most Alien media is sci-fi horror with minor Cosmic Horror elements, and occasional action. This Trilogy is full Space Opera with horror elements.
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The Rage War / int_204a1207	type	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
The Rage War / int_204a1207	comment	Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: Regular "warp" travel using a ship's engines isn't too bad, though cryosleep is still advised. Traveling through a drop hole requires a human go into stasis, lest their minds break. This even applies to real-time FTL communication; messages that take time but are still faster-than-light are fine, but the Company's new subspace communication that permits two-way conversations has some odd and disquieting effects. Seeing people older or younger than they are, or both at the same time, seeing ghost images of them doing different things, and so on.
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The Rage War / int_3270a3d7	type	Low Culture, High Tech
The Rage War / int_3270a3d7	comment	Low Culture, High Tech: The novels double down on this interpretation of the Yautja. Not only is their tribal, hunt-based culture exaggerated to the point it's claimed they almost never interact with each other beyond mating, several mentions are made of them stealing and adapting technology they come across (and doing the same with language), implying they have little or science and innovation of their own. However, this is speculation from the human characters studying them, and it's just as often pointed out that the humans who know the most about the Yautja still know basically nothing.
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The Rage War / int_354c4dc0	type	Bioweapon Beast
The Rage War / int_354c4dc0	comment	Bioweapon Beast: The Rage uses Xenomorphs as shock troopers, having learned how to control them. Android generals control the Xenomorphs, and the generals are utterly loyal to the Rage in general and Beatrix Maloney personally.
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The Rage War / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
The Rage War / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Powered Armor: The combat suits worn by Colonial Marines, containing sensors and heads-up displays, limited environmental and armor protection, resistant to Xenomorph blood, enhancing strength, and linking up with a Marine's com-rifle.
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The Rage War / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Rage War / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The conclusion novel ends the series on one of these. The Rage have been destroyed by causing all their android generals to engage their nuclear self-destruct, taking out most Rage ships and much of their armies. But Gerard Marshal misinterprets the massive nuclear detonations in the Sol system as the Rage bombarding bases, installations, and populations, so initiates the command to shut down all of humanity's drop holes. Without those, it takes years or decades for even warp-capable ships to travel through the human sphere, meaning humanity's days as a consolidated interstellar power are over for the foreseeable future. But humanity may have made some strides in making lasting peace with the Yautja, and Isa Palant, at least, may be permitted to study them and their culture up close, and perhaps even visit their homeworld. But for as much of the Rage armies that have been destroyed, there are still Xenomorphs scattered throughout the sphere, and without the Rage generals they'll revert back to their regular instincts, forming hives.
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The Rage War / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Rage War / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: When Liliya is found by a Predator ship, they believe she is part of the Rage and responsible for numerous Yautja deaths. So they take their anger out on her in this fashion, such as by whipping her with a spiked chain, the spikes tipped with insect eggs, so that when the spikes pierce her flesh the insects are hatched into her body and begin eating.
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The Rage War / int_471fdb9e	type	Defeat Equals Explosion
The Rage War / int_471fdb9e	comment	Defeat Equals Explosion: The Xenomorphs controlled by the Rage self-destruct automatically when they take lethal damage, the better to spread their destructive acid blood around, and to prevent anyone from figuring out how the Rage are controlling them. The android generals controlling the Xenomorphs have nuclear self-destruct options, to keep them from leaving behind any useful remains and deal as much damage to the opposing force as possible.
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The Rage War / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Rage War / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Liliya works against the Rage because she secured the first research data that led to them eventually weaponizing Xenomorphs, as well as feeling she could have done more to keep Beatrix Maloney from killing Wordsworth and taking over the Founders. Her primary motivation is to make up for all the harm she's caused, directly and indirectly, working with the Founders/Rage.
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The Rage War / int_51d8f2e3	type	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
The Rage War / int_51d8f2e3	comment	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: "The Thirteen," the leaders of the Weyland-Yutani corporation, like to present as an Omniscient Council of Vagueness, but as we see their meetings, they're really this.
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The Rage War / int_5ed3ace2	type	Batman Can Breathe in Space
The Rage War / int_5ed3ace2	comment	Batman Can Breathe in Space: Averted for the Xenomorphs, despite most other Alien media showing they're perfectly fine in vacuum, sometimes for prolonged periods. The Aliens either won't pursue people into unpressurized environments, or die in short order if they do. The Rage outfits them with breathing apparatus attached to the back spines when expecting them to operate in vacuum.
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The Rage War / int_61ff365d	type	Deflector Shields
The Rage War / int_61ff365d	comment	Deflector Shields: Rage ships have some kind of defense screen that makes damaging them very difficult. Predator ships can batter through this a bit more reliably.
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The Rage War / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Rage War / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Mains and Lieder hotwire nukes aboard the Othello to destroy it, blowing themselves to atoms in the process.
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The Rage War / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
The Rage War / int_7ad2c23d	comment	Shout-Out to Shakespeare: The three ships the Founders originally left with, the Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth.
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The Rage War / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Rage War / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: In the chapters entitled "Victims," you'll be introduced to characters in the Rage's path, and spend some time learning about them. Don't expect any of them to make it out of the chapter alive.
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The Rage War / int_80874b5d	type	Mechanical Abomination
The Rage War / int_80874b5d	comment	Mechanical Abomination: "The Faze," a thing the Rage found on a remote constructed habitat. It's so mysterious Rage scientists debate on if it's a mechanism, a creature, both, or neither. It works tirelessly building, refining, and enhancing anything it inhabits, and since these enhancements are useful to the Rage, they don't ask too many questions about its possible motives.
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The Rage War / int_8313a744	type	Dark Lord on Life Support
The Rage War / int_8313a744	comment	Dark Lord on Life Support: All the leaders of the Rage, but especially their overall leader, Beatrix Maloney. They're all around three centuries old, kept alive only by an alien "gel" they found during their explorations beyond the human sphere. They're contained in tanks of the stuff that constantly tries to repair their failing bodies, and these tanks are supported by robotic mechanisms of a personalized design to allow them to move around.
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The Rage War / int_8618825d	type	Portal Network
The Rage War / int_8618825d	comment	Portal Network: The "drop holes" that provide faster FTL travel than a ship's engines alone, but only work from one drop hole to another and only one way. Establishing new drop holes is critical to humanity's continued expansion.
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The Rage War / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
The Rage War / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: The dog-like aliens seen mummified in the derelict and city from Out of the Shadows are seen again here, in a habitat far beyond the human sphere the Rage found and named Midsummer. The Yautja know of them, call them the Drukathi, and even though the Drukathi seem to have left the galaxy ages ago, the Yautja still fear them.
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The Rage War / int_95bac90d	type	Subspace Ansible
The Rage War / int_95bac90d	comment	Subspace Ansible: Weyland-Yutani has developed the technology to have two-way FTL communication. They keep it to themselves and only use it when necessary.
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The Rage War / int_9ae5a580	type	Razor Floss
The Rage War / int_9ae5a580	comment	Razor Floss: Recycled In Space. Charon station is protected by nanofilament netting, which can be drawn close to the station when inactive or deployed to cover a large area around it, intercepting and destroying any ships or ordnance hurled at the station. Effectively, it's a poor man's Deflector Shield, and is even called out in percents of remaining integrity, just like shields in Star Trek.
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The Rage War / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Rage War / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Akoko Halley's encounters from "Devil Dogs" and "Spite" are referenced.
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The Rage War / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
The Rage War / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The series borrows a lot from Mass Effect. The drop holes function effectively like mass relays, allowing rapid transit between distant points and forming transit hubs to reach destinations within a few light years of each drop hole/mass relay relatively quickly with the ship's own FTL engines. The nanoshot munitions of the com-rifles are similar in concept to the mass effect weapons, and while com-rifles often run out of ammo, they are also mentioned occasionally overheating, require a decrease or cessation of fire. The Faze might be similar to the Keepers who maintain the Citadel, inscrutable, unable to be communicated with, and doing whatever it thinks will improve its surroundings. Late in the series, it's feared the Drukathi are manipulating the whole conflict for their own ends from beyond the galaxy, specifically by allowing the Rage to utilize their technology, ensuring the Rage will grow in a direction dictated by the Drukathi, in much the same way that using the mass relays and Citadel encourages galactic civilization to grow in a manner dictated by the Reapers. The ending, where the drop holes are shut down, bears similarity to sone endings of Mass Effect 3, where the mass relays are destroyed, leaving the future extremely uncertain.
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The Rage War / int_b5ba2c2b	type	It's Raining Men
The Rage War / int_b5ba2c2b	comment	It's Raining Men: Not men. Rage ships airdrop Xenomorphs like bombs. Later in the books, they even shoot them out into space to board enemy craft.
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The Rage War / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Rage War / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Staying awake during drop hole transit results in supposedly instantaneous travel taking eternities subjectively. In other words, "It's longer than you think."
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The Rage War / int_cd218d63	type	Swiss-Army Gun
The Rage War / int_cd218d63	comment	Swiss-Army Gun: The com-rifle used by the Colonial Marines can fire lasers, plasma, nano ordnance, or microdot munitions, all programmable by the combat suit's computer.
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The Rage War / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
The Rage War / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: The "units" subtype. Apparently, the human sphere has eight quadrants. That's twice as many as the word "quadrant" permits. And That's Terrible.
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The Rage War / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
The Rage War / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: Between "Spacebourne" Marines, who tend to travel in ships and visit different planets, and "Terrestrials," marines assigned to planetside bases. Excursionists are another subset of marines, operating in small groups on long-term assignments on the borders of human space, but how they feel about the other two branches, or the Spacebourne and Terrestrials feel about them, is not addressed, beyond Halley objecting to her assignment of rescuing Isa Palant because it's more along the lines of what Excursionists are supposed to do.
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The Rage War / int_d89e305a	type	Area of Effect
The Rage War / int_d89e305a	comment	Area of Effect: The com-rifles seem to excel at these. Nanoshot is programmable to fire in wide spreads and explode, creating big areas of damage, useful against cloaked Predators when you aren't sure exactly where they are, or hordes of Xenomorphs. Microdot munitions are noted to be more dangerous in close quarters because they have even bigger areas that nano, and using plasma requires warning any other marines who might be in the vicinity. Only laser is not specifically noted to be useful across an area, but if the descriptions of "sprays" of lasers is accurate, even that can spread damage around.
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The Rage War / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
The Rage War / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Downplayed, Lieutenant Johnny Mains and a private on his Excursionist squad, Lieder, are Friends with Benefits, and fight together because they're on the same squad. Becomes more prominent as the novels progress and it becomes clear Mains and Lieder really do love each other, they're just really bad at admitting it.
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The Rage War / int_e070ebe6	type	Manchurian Agent
The Rage War / int_e070ebe6	comment	Manchurian Agent: The Rage uses a coded signal to program biotech nanobots in the recipients to trigger them to ease the Rage's return to the human sphere. Explosively.
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The Rage War / int_e1636077	type	SchrÃ¶dinger's Canon
The Rage War / int_e1636077	comment	SchrÃ¶dinger's Canon: Because of their place immediately after the "first revision" of the Alien expanded universe, the novels are not fully consistent with the timeline and technology presented in the "second revision" brought about with Alien: The Roleplaying Game.
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The Rage War / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
The Rage War / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: Upped even from the Alien franchise norm. Liliya is actually stated to have human components that can atrophy or petrify if not maintained, but can be repaired by a donation of actual human tissue. She refers to her circulating fluid as blood, and has nerves, organs, and skin.
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The Rage War / int_fb7bc4a8	type	Never Trust a Title
The Rage War / int_fb7bc4a8	comment	Never Trust a Title: Despite the first novel being billed as a "Predator" novel and the second as an "Alien" novel, all three books feature both species, and so all are "Alien vs. Predator" novels. Despite that, the first novel deals with what looks like an incursion by Predators into human space, the second focuses on an invasion spearheaded by Xenomorph shock troopers, and the third shows the Rage preparing for Armageddon against human civilization.
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The Rage War / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
The Rage War / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The Rage's android generals are all named after famous historical generals, such as Alexander, Patton, Rommel, and Montgomery. Some of the later generals fall into Famous, Famous, Fictional.
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