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Troy Rising

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Troy Rising	comment	Next Sunday A.D., an alien race known as the Grtul extend their Portal Network into Earth's solar system. It is the Dawn of an Era....Two years later, NASA has just completed preliminary studies to the studies necessary to begin preliminary design phase of the bid phase on a potential ship to reach, but not enter, the "Gudrum Ring". (Cost: $976 million dollars.)...A year after that, Earth pretty much gets over half a century of space development karma all at once. A single Horvath ship comes through the gate. It destroys Mexico City, Shanghai and Cairo in a single attack. (They were warning shots - the most noticeable constructed features on the planet.) Ultimatum: Surrender all stockpiles of precious metals or they continue shooting. Have more for them to take next year or they continue shooting. The Horvath are pirates without galactic representation, but the dominant powers can no more afford to interfere than NATO could send troops to aid a third-world country no-one in the West has heard of. Earth is on its own....Down-and-out computer tech Tyler Vernon (A somewhat thinly disguised expy for Howard Tayler) is barely making ends meet when Glatun traders discover that he once wrote TradeHard, an award-winning hard sci-fi Webcomic. A short meeting later, he has discovered one alien race finds maple syrup irresistible. After some well-executed hustling, he's richer than everyone else on Earth put together. But given that he's a plucky Southern boy, he has big dreams...Being written by John Ringo, before you crack open the book get your popcorn ready. Troy Rising was planned as a trilogy, with the first book being Live Free or Die. The next book, Citadel, was released in early 2011 followed by The Hot Gate in mid-2011. Ringo's enjoying himself, so there will be more than three books in this trilogy, with the current plan for five books total in the series... unless his Muse steps in once again.
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Troy Rising / int_13d2ffe1	type	Humanity Is Superior
Troy Rising / int_13d2ffe1	comment	Humanity Is Superior: The primary reason? We're Crazy Awesome. Other instances of Human 'superiority' are mostly a result of the fact that every other race humans have close dealings with (or fight against) was at levels of technological development of the Iron Age or earlier when the gates were placed in their systems. It all boils down to Tyler noticed that 'Hey I can execute on all this Big Ideas from Scifi'. The other races didn't have the benefit of Hard Scifi writers coming up with things for them since they weren't far enough along on their own when they suddenly got access to advanced tech.
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Troy Rising / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Troy Rising / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Big country invades small country and turns them into a Banana Republic - so a plucky local starts selling drugs to fund a revolution. Sound familiar?
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Troy Rising / int_17058a90	type	No Biochemical Barriers
Troy Rising / int_17058a90	comment	No Biochemical Barriers: Used and averted in that the Glatun traders simply assumed that any foods produced on Earth wouldn't be of any value until Vernon, in a desperate attempt to make enough money to pay his bills, gathers up large amounts of foodstuff from one of his jobs and the majority actually turns out to be edible. Well, except for Coca-Cola, which is horribly toxic.
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Troy Rising / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Troy Rising / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: A key human advantage - humans are the only race that had science fiction prior to first contact, so we're not completely out of our depth. For example, a key element of Troy's design is tubes cut through the kilometer-and-a-half armor to fire lasers and missiles out at the enemy. Someone notices that this could be a weakness, as all it would take is "some farmboy in an X-wing to fly down the tubes" and attack the station from the inside. So their tubes incorporate several doglegs to make it impractical.
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Troy Rising / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Troy Rising / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: The changes that the Horvath retrovirus makes are not really possible without rewriting genetic code from the ground up.
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Troy Rising / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Troy Rising / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The Horvath Depopulation Bomb was a eugenics program designed to turn humanity into an ideal servitor race. It did improve humanity greatly... and those survivors want vengeance for the dead. And at this point, it's just a matter of time before they exact it.
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Troy Rising / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Troy Rising / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: After the fight over maple syrup is finished and Vernon starts working on building a space infrastructure for Earth, a lot of these pop up and get in his way of doing what they and their parent organizations wouldn't.
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Troy Rising / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
Troy Rising / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: The series was originally planned to be a trilogy, but word on the Ringo forum on Baen's Bar is that his Muse insisted on continuing the series, much to the joy of many of his readers. The current plan is for five books total... unless Ringo's Muse insists on more.
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Troy Rising / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Troy Rising / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: One Rangora officer is assigned to analyze humanity and determine a battle plan. High Command keeps ignoring him, and keeps sending entirely insufficient force. He even says he's not sure it's possible to overestimate humans. And when High Command does decide to listen to him, they don't have the resources to implement his suggestions because they were destroyed earlier, because of the aforementioned stupid plans. He even mentions in private that he's worried about holding the Rangora homeworld, not taking Terra, and hopes that the humans give him a job after they win. His Political Officer is herself somewhat in alignment with his views.
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Troy Rising / int_263bb4ec	type	Wave-Motion Gun
Troy Rising / int_263bb4ec	comment	Wave-Motion Gun: SAPL for the win - a sun pumped "laser" note it's really just a bunch of mirrors that focus sunlight into a very small area that is in the multi hundred petawatt range, and they plan to keep expanding it until it's at least an exawatt. For some perspective, the entire annual energy output of Earth is about 0.004 petawatts.
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Troy Rising / int_2af160ab	type	TakeThatMe
Troy Rising / int_2af160ab	comment	Notably, Ringo later admits that he went a bit far there; a decorated admiral says that he knows a lot of jokes about the Horvath plagues and bombings — but prefers not to tell them; he learned them all from his Chief of Staff, who collected them obsessively and posted the new list on his bridge every morning... until he finally Ate His Gun the day before they put into port because his wife and child were in the heart of San Diego when it was vaporized.
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Troy Rising / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Troy Rising / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: The Troy along with the other Battle Globes. 9 kilometer diameter mobile fleet bases made of refractory steel, more massive than any fleet in existence, and capable of holding 200 thousand missiles... with some notable caveats. The material value of the shell alone is 10 times what the company who made it sold it for, the main drive system relies on 25 megaton nukes note in universe capital ship missile warheads are "only" in the 10 megaton range , and construction will be ongoing for at least a century even if they don't have to repair battle damage. They also bizarrely overlap with Boring, but Practical. The design was admittedly a desperation move since Earth didn't possess the ability/time to build traditional large ships. However, they keep building them because timewise, they're far more efficient than the alternatives.
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Troy Rising / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Troy Rising / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: Not when you're smashing a couple million tons of spacecraft against several trillion tons of asteroid it doesn't, as the Rangora found out to their chagrin, in Citadel. The damage was patched over before the next book. In The Hot Gate, however, several partially completed cruisers are hastily converted to overglorified battering rams, which are used along with a whole mess of missiles for both taking shots intended for the rammers and to batter down Rangoran defenses in preparation for ramming Assault Vectors.
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Troy Rising / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
Troy Rising / int_316e9da2	comment	There's an amusing one in The Hot Gate, when the commander of the Thermopylae has to report that he's walked into a trap and balks at saying IT'S A TRAP for a moment. His subordinate all but explicitly makes the Star Wars reference. As well as what seems like a dozen others.invoked
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Troy Rising / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Troy Rising / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: The Battle Globes. Take an asteroid, shove some ice into the center and heat the whole thing up to get a marginally mobile battle station. No fancy shields or hull materials and no revolutionary weapon systems; just a giant ball of steel, a big ass laser and an ungodly number of missiles. They might be a horribly inefficient use of material that rely solely on brute force, but they're two trillion tonnes of inefficiency and brute force.
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Troy Rising / int_3a5e2f68	type	Klingons Love Shakespeare
Troy Rising / int_3a5e2f68	comment	Klingons Love Shakespeare: Vernon bought and began distributing old movies with John Wayne and other "traditional" heroes to aliens, who liked it. Before they got invaded anyway.
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Troy Rising / int_3ccec16c	type	Instructional Dialogue
Troy Rising / int_3ccec16c	comment	In the first book of Live Free or Die, NASA. The day the Ring is set up, they are present for the Instructional Dialogue from the Grtul: "By 'anyone can use the ring' do we mean that another species can use it to enter your system? Yes. Does that mean that hostile or friendly forces can use it? Yes. Are you allowed to block the ring? No. Good bye." They then spend three years screwing around, and as a result the Horvath just walk in and take the planet in a single afternoon. They're still around years later to try to claim jurisdiction over Vernon's ship.
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Troy Rising / int_419545ad	type	Desperation Attack
Troy Rising / int_419545ad	comment	But most importantly to Vernon, Space Fighters are all but useless in this 'verse; his acronym lasers were capable of focusing twenty terawatts of power on their targets before Boeing's fighter even entered the prototype stage, which was armed with only a single Gauss cannon. Vernon specifically points out that despite the wattage he still can't punch through a good gravity shield, so what's the point of firing a few ninety-kilo bricks of depleted uranium at a hundred G's? Boeing refuses to admit that they've come up with a gravity warhead with his three billion dollars - but they're even more unwilling to admit that the warheads are completely untestable because they were unable to create their own gravity shields. Fighters are never used aside from a Desperation Attack to end the Maple Syrup War because it's quickly established that a space combat vehicle without a shield is just a parade float; this is a 'verse where gunboats are the kings of space combat.
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Troy Rising / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Troy Rising / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Argus, the AI in charge of the SAPL, which uses solar-orbit mirrors to focus large amounts of sunlight, starts getting OCD about the small gravitational interactions between the mirrors and things like ships, asteroids, and planets. Vernon quickly recognizes the danger signs and disconnects him before he does anything drastic; it's speculated that soon after the point where he's stripped of control, he would have started accidentally incinerating tug ships. The unmanned ones, of course. At first. Later on, a series of errors (minor, but potentially lethal if allowed to continue) in the Myrmidon shuttles is found to be caused by Granadica subconsciously sabotaging the ships as a plea for attention which was fixed by giving her even more important things to build in a place with far more people nearby.
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Troy Rising / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Troy Rising / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: One of the cultural obstacles plaguing the South American units of the Federation Navy. The "Suds," consisting mostly of upper class, officer-track "perfumed princes" are not only unwilling to sufficiently engage in the menial labor of spaceship maintenance, but they actively sabotage other, better-performing units to make themselves look better by comparison. When maintenance faults and overall poor training get several dozen sailors and marines killed, they refuse to accept responsibility for the failures, insisting that the problems are the fault of production fabbers, prompting the quote above in Berserk Button.
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Troy Rising / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
Troy Rising / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon: While technically not a laser, SAPL (Solar Array Pumped Laser, basically regular sunlight concentrated and directed by a series of mirrors) behaves in the same way as a real laser. At one point, it's even specifically mentioned that lasers don't show the beam unless they're going through a debris field or otherwise have things to reflect off of.
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Troy Rising / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Troy Rising / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Increasingly, the humans and the Rangora.
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Troy Rising / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Troy Rising / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: The Horvath. While a relatively minor player on the galactic stage, their modus operandi is to bully lesser species and civilizations into doing their bidding, usually by forcing their "clients" to give them rare earth elements. They also regularly cleanse their entire population to keep it "pure", and will genetically tailor a "client" through a retrovirus if they get uppity to make them better servants.
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Troy Rising / int_4e6e4dc7	type	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much
Troy Rising / int_4e6e4dc7	comment	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: In The Hot Gate, Grand Marshall Quâ€™Zichovuq of the Rangora made a huge mistake and got lots of ships destroyed and people killed. As a result, he is said to have "committed suicide" by shooting himself forty times in the back.
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Troy Rising / int_5115e5f6	type	Fantastic Underclass
Troy Rising / int_5115e5f6	comment	Oddly a subversion from the Ogut, who serve as local area's chief hospitality race, managing hotels, gardening services, catering, and various service sectors...because their NATION'S Hat is being a despotic xenophobic hellhole that the general Ogut citizen who has the opportunity to escape WILL escape from.
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Troy Rising / int_52600ad6	type	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu
Troy Rising / int_52600ad6	comment	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: A rare mutual example in The Hot Gate. The humans have lost nearly their entire fleet, Thermopylae has been severely crippled, there are around 27,000 humans floating in escape pods waiting for rescue, and the shuttle divisions that would normally rescue them have been wiped out down to a single remaining trained pilot/engineer. On the Rangora side, the trap they sprung consisted of about 40% of their remaining fleet. They lose most of it, and are left with 100,000 survivors to rescue, and an enemy that's just going to keep rebuilding as relentlessly as before.
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Troy Rising / int_527fbbe6	type	Latex Space Suit
Troy Rising / int_527fbbe6	comment	Latex Space Suit: "Leopard suits" essentially very low-Powered Armor made using Glatun "autoflex" that magnifies the user's movements just enough to counter the suction effects of vacuum.
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Troy Rising / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Troy Rising / int_52871b4e	comment	Vichy Earth: Initially, Earth can't do much to protest their treatment by the Horvath, and thus take a "go along to get along" approach, including sending out soldiers to harvest the maple syrup that the locals refuse to gather just for the purpose of giving it up to the Horvath for free.
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Troy Rising / int_52b9f0cc	type	Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon
Troy Rising / int_52b9f0cc	comment	Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon: Rangoran Assault Vectors and Aggressor class battleships have spinal weapons mounted to the front, with the ones mounted on AVs having their own dedicated reactors even.
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Troy Rising / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Troy Rising / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Citadel opens with a quote from the Hammerfall ballad "Glory To The Brave". At the end of the novel, the same song plays over the PA system aboard Troy after the latest Rangora attack.
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Troy Rising / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Troy Rising / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: A sizable portion of Terran Marines are recruited from Afghanistan, and are generally former Taliban or Al-Qaeda fighters. Their commanding officers are primarily from the US Special Forces - in other words, the guys they used to fight.
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Troy Rising / int_5af8c5bb	type	Arrowgram
Troy Rising / int_5af8c5bb	comment	ArrowGram: At one point negotiations are conducted by sending disarmed missiles through the Portal Network. It's noted that the humans (at least) are using obsolete missiles for this purpose to avoid the aliens being able to figure out the exact performance capabilities of their newer missiles.
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Troy Rising / int_5e544ae6	type	We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill
Troy Rising / int_5e544ae6	comment	We Come in Peace â€” Shoot to Kill: The initial contact is peaceful, by a race that's only interested in trade with Earth. Contact with the Horvath is... not, and for rather less voluntary purposes than trade.note Well, unless you mean trade as in, "Give us your stuff, and in return we give you the right to live."
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Troy Rising / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Troy Rising / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Ubiquitous, especially in the first book which covers nearly two decades following first contact.
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Troy Rising / int_63c6a75c	type	Evil Lawyer Joke
Troy Rising / int_63c6a75c	comment	Evil Lawyer Joke: After the Horvath execute a series of Colony Drops during their expulsion from the solar system, a common morbid joke is that the Horvath hate lawyers/politicians/bureaucrats as much as humans do, as two targets that got hit repeatedly were Los Angeles and Washington, DC.
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Troy Rising / int_640ebd81	type	Bizarre Alien Reproduction
Troy Rising / int_640ebd81	comment	Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Glatun reproduction was designed to omit the concepts of romance and families, as the only relationship that matters is parent to child; a race of Truly Single Parents.
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Troy Rising / int_65f5c15d	type	Designated Victim
Troy Rising / int_65f5c15d	comment	Designated Victim: Buckley dies again. He's the Chief that failed to "check his seals" while doing an inspection walk to ensure that "maintenance tasks were performing to standard."
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Troy Rising / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Troy Rising / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: A lot of Vernon's more extreme political statements come straight from the mouth of John Ringo, who describes himself as a Teaparty Conservative.
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Troy Rising / int_68f95429	type	That's No Moon
Troy Rising / int_68f95429	comment	That's No Moon: Troy is the size of a small moon and is mobile.
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Troy Rising / int_7071bfe9	type	Humans Advance Swiftly
Troy Rising / int_7071bfe9	comment	Humans Advance Swiftly: One Glatun AI does an intense analysis of human history, psychology, and technical savvy and then recommends that the Glatun race ally with humans because of this trope: the Glatun are on the decline, and the humans are not only on their way up, they'll likely skyrocket upward. It's even lampshaded that the history of human technological advance is marked by "periods of astounding, breakneck advance intercut with short periods of calm."
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Troy Rising / int_722171e7	type	Straw Character
Troy Rising / int_722171e7	comment	Straw Character: The President of the United States in "Live Free Or Die". Elected post-invasion, he won't - or can't - give Vernon even the slightest assistance in attempting to eject the Horvath from Earth, and is pretty much just The Quisling because his family (and assets) is old money. After the Horvath get their nose tweaked, Boeing and the Air Force. Vernon pays Boeing three billion dollars to develop a Artificial Gravity-based space shuttle, the Air Force makes them use the money to build a (crappy) Space Fighter armed with gravity warheads. Cue List of Transgressions: The Air Force invested one billion of their own money (just enough money to figure out the basics of gravtech), then spent all of Vernon's money on the armament. The Government then declares the gravtech data government property and the armament above Vernon's clearance through Loophole Abuse, leaving him high and dry without a thing to show for his money. It takes a Depopulation Bomb for them to even acknowledge what they spent his money on. Icing on the cake; after they've done all this but before they tell him they've done it, they ask him to make yet another investment in the project - to have three more Air Force pilots fitted with expensive cybernetic implants at the cost of roughly two hundred and fifty billion dollars. Each. Not including transportation to the exosolar space habitat to get the implants, which is kind of like traveling to the US from a South Pacific island only accessible by seaplane. But most importantly to Vernon, Space Fighters are all but useless in this 'verse; his acronym lasers were capable of focusing twenty terawatts of power on their targets before Boeing's fighter even entered the prototype stage, which was armed with only a single Gauss cannon. Vernon specifically points out that despite the wattage he still can't punch through a good gravity shield, so what's the point of firing a few ninety-kilo bricks of depleted uranium at a hundred G's? Boeing refuses to admit that they've come up with a gravity warhead with his three billion dollars - but they're even more unwilling to admit that the warheads are completely untestable because they were unable to create their own gravity shields. Fighters are never used aside from a Desperation Attack to end the Maple Syrup War because it's quickly established that a space combat vehicle without a shield is just a parade float; this is a 'verse where gunboats are the kings of space combat. As a result of all of this, Vernon quite reasonably says Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Troy Rising / int_75c952bf	type	Our Presidents Are Different
Troy Rising / int_75c952bf	comment	The President of the United States in "Live Free Or Die". Elected post-invasion, he won't - or can't - give Vernon even the slightest assistance in attempting to eject the Horvath from Earth, and is pretty much just The Quisling because his family (and assets) is old money.
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Troy Rising / int_76933235	type	Depopulation Bomb
Troy Rising / int_76933235	comment	In the second part of the same book, the "religious terrorist" states. Upon being informed that Earth has been hit by a Depopulation Bomb, they whip their populations into frenzies, insisting that the cures being distributed are the source of the plague, spiritually poisonous, etc. They all die, and Earth is thus rid of religious fanatics for the foreseeable future.
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Troy Rising / int_7786a6f1	type	Zeroth Law Rebellion
Troy Rising / int_7786a6f1	comment	Zeroth Law Rebellion: Discussed and averted. AIs have hard blocks built in to prevent them from doing certain things, such as prevent their recognized users from deactivating them.
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Troy Rising / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Troy Rising / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: Or at least Hard Science Beats Soft once you're finally in space. While the aliens have all the Required Secondary Technology it takes to make Interstellar Travel Casual, in direct battle it is repeatedly trumped by human insanity ingenuity. Vernon's Acronym "lasers" are so simple that every species sneered at them - at least until he started outproducing and outgunning rivals. The climax of Citadel shows exactly why Humanity Is Superior when Vernon finally gets around to fitting Troy with an Orion Drive. Or rather, Quantity of Rock beats Quality of Laser. The aliens have lasers, and missiles, and lots of other cool tech... it's just that the humans tend to take the stuff they know and can make, and apply the philosophy "Bigger," and "More," to it.
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Troy Rising / int_79ba88a7	type	What's In It For Me?
Troy Rising / int_79ba88a7	comment	What's In It For Me?: In The Hot Gate, the subject of personal benefit from cooperating with one another comes up in a conversation between "Comet" Parker and one of the engineers for the 143rd.
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Troy Rising / int_7e07f634	type	Paranoia Fuel
Troy Rising / int_7e07f634	comment	Paranoia Fuel: In-universe. Like its parent series, the sole piece of Applied Phlebotinum is gravity manipulation. What bothers the hell out of Vernon is that the only known way to build an efficient gravity manipulator is with another efficient gravity manipulator - and no one knows who invented the damned things...
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Troy Rising / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
Troy Rising / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: Star Marshall Lhi'Kasishaj kills Star Marshall Gi'Bucosof for incompetence and cowardice with a lethal pain stick.
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Troy Rising / int_8618825d	type	Portal Network
Troy Rising / int_8618825d	comment	Portal Network: Being based on The 'Verse of Schlock Mercenary, this is the primary means of Casual Interstellar Travel. At the beginning, it's interplanetary travel that is extremely difficult.
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Troy Rising / int_87e61eb8	type	Germanic Depressives
Troy Rising / int_87e61eb8	comment	Germanic Depressives: At the start of Live Free or Die when astronomers are trying to figure out what the Grtul gate actually is as it moves into the solar system, one character asks if it's a joke. He's told that they were notified of it by the Max Planck Institute in Germany, which prompts the conclusion that it's not a prank, as Germans "[f]amously don't have a sense of humor".
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Troy Rising / int_88ebaa00	type	WalkingTechBane
Troy Rising / int_88ebaa00	comment	Walking Tech Bane: PVT John "Chaosman" Peterson, one of the Marines stationed on Troy, is infamous for breaking anything technological he uses, even if the item is supposed to be completely immune to complete and total failure. Considering his job involves operating in space, this isn't exactly the best of situations.
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Troy Rising / int_899cc5c1	type	Drinking Game
Troy Rising / int_899cc5c1	comment	Scattered throughout the book there are enough shoutouts to cause alcohol poisoning if you turn it into a Drinking Game. Further examples include a ship captain ordering the helm to a course with "Make it so.", a gas mine called "Bespin" and the decision to have turns in the battle station's missile tubes is inspired by the need to "stop the farmboy dropping an energy torpedo into the main power plant." References to Schlock Mercenary are uncountable. It's worth noting that most of the Shout Outs are being done by the characters on purpose.
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Troy Rising / int_8ad2077d	type	The Government
Troy Rising / int_8ad2077d	comment	The Government then declares the gravtech data government property and the armament above Vernon's clearance through Loophole Abuse, leaving him high and dry without a thing to show for his money. It takes a Depopulation Bomb for them to even acknowledge what they spent his money on.
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Troy Rising / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Troy Rising / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Pretty much the basis for armament design of the Troy and it's sister Battle Globes, as well as the SAPL network and it's Ung lasers. The trope title is nearly quoted word for word in The Hot Gate, in regards to 20,000 human missiles sent at a Rangoran AV that had already had its point defense systems almost completely destroyed. The Horvath really, really have it out for Tyler Vernon. The last of their bioweapons is tailored to kill everyone on Earth except blondes in large part because Tyler has brown hair. Later, when they fire fourteen kinetic rounds at Earth, they spare one - a weapon capable of utterly destroying any city on Earth - just for Tylerâ€™s underground bunker.
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Troy Rising / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Troy Rising / int_8b93a168	comment	In The Hot Gate, however, several partially completed cruisers are hastily converted to overglorified battering rams, which are used along with a whole mess of missiles for both taking shots intended for the rammers and to batter down Rangoran defenses in preparation for ramming Assault Vectors.
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Troy Rising / int_8ffcbb25	type	Matter Replicator
Troy Rising / int_8ffcbb25	comment	Matter Replicator: "Fabbers" much like their Schlock Mercenary counterparts, can build just about anything you want very quickly as long as you've got the raw materials. Much like the Schlock Verse, the crushed remains of enemy ships are frequently fed in as the raw materials in question.
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Troy Rising / int_93707b87	type	GonnaNeedMoreTrope
Troy Rising / int_93707b87	comment	Gonna Need More Trope: When the Rangora manage to jam Thermopylae's door closed, someone says that they'll need a bigger hammer to open it. Granadica provides.
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Troy Rising / int_98a79aed	type	Occupiers Out of Our Country
Troy Rising / int_98a79aed	comment	Occupiers Out of Our Country: Vernon's initial goal. He's got bigger ones.
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Troy Rising / int_9d1fa121	type	Alien Catnip
Troy Rising / int_9d1fa121	comment	Alien Catnip: Maple syrup is, to several species of the aliens, an addictive beverage with effects similar to that of alcohol on humans. Tyler Vernon milks this for all it's worth, and builds his own empire on it.
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Troy Rising / int_9e8d81ac	type	Planet of Hats
Troy Rising / int_9e8d81ac	comment	Galactic Arm of Hats: The Glatun are the local trader species in the area around Earth, with the Rangora serving as physical labor outside of being the most militaristic species in the area, and the Ananancauimor serving as the local area's chief cyberneticists. Oddly a subversion from the Ogut, who serve as local area's chief hospitality race, managing hotels, gardening services, catering, and various service sectors...because their NATION'S Hat is being a despotic xenophobic hellhole that the general Ogut citizen who has the opportunity to escape WILL escape from.
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Troy Rising / int_a567f7f2	type	I Want My Jet Pack
Troy Rising / int_a567f7f2	comment	I Want My Jetpack: Invoked as one of the reasons behind the main protagonist's interactions with various aliens.
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Troy Rising / int_a7caa5b5	type	First Contact
Troy Rising / int_a7caa5b5	comment	First Contact: Done in a rather amusing manner via phone calls to major world leaders.
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Troy Rising / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Troy Rising / int_a8559a9f	comment	The humans get their turn in the barrel, so to speak, when the Thermopylae jumps into Epsilon Eridani to rescue their diplomatic mission from a Horvath attack, and run into so many missiles set up as part of a trap of the Rangorans that they literally blot out the sunnote well, technically the system's star. One of the human commanders even invokes the relevant phrase from the Real Life battle after which the station was named. It gets worse when said swarm of missiles is discovered to be the bait The Rangora are equally surprised.
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Troy Rising / int_a8af3e53	type	Secret Police
Troy Rising / int_a8af3e53	comment	Secret Police: For Rangorans, the Kazi fills this slot.
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Troy Rising / int_a9b3c8ea	type	Orion Drive
Troy Rising / int_a9b3c8ea	comment	Orion Drive: Troy adds an Orion drive so that it can get to the Portal Network and go crush enemy alien fleets out-system. Upon first seeing the Troy begin detonating the bombs, the aliens think it's been hit, only to suddenly realize it's actually the drive.
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Troy Rising / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Troy Rising / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When the Rangora realize the Troy is mobile, and just what it uses for a drive. One crewman does not handle the revelation well. The humans get their turn in the barrel, so to speak, when the Thermopylae jumps into Epsilon Eridani to rescue their diplomatic mission from a Horvath attack, and run into so many missiles set up as part of a trap of the Rangorans that they literally blot out the sunnote well, technically the system's star. One of the human commanders even invokes the relevant phrase from the Real Life battle after which the station was named. It gets worse when said swarm of missiles is discovered to be the bait The Rangora are equally surprised.
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Troy Rising / int_ae69516f	type	Artificial Gravity
Troy Rising / int_ae69516f	comment	After the Horvath get their nose tweaked, Boeing and the Air Force. Vernon pays Boeing three billion dollars to develop a Artificial Gravity-based space shuttle, the Air Force makes them use the money to build a (crappy) Space Fighter armed with gravity warheads. Cue List of Transgressions: The Air Force invested one billion of their own money (just enough money to figure out the basics of gravtech), then spent all of Vernon's money on the armament. The Government then declares the gravtech data government property and the armament above Vernon's clearance through Loophole Abuse, leaving him high and dry without a thing to show for his money. It takes a Depopulation Bomb for them to even acknowledge what they spent his money on. Icing on the cake; after they've done all this but before they tell him they've done it, they ask him to make yet another investment in the project - to have three more Air Force pilots fitted with expensive cybernetic implants at the cost of roughly two hundred and fifty billion dollars. Each. Not including transportation to the exosolar space habitat to get the implants, which is kind of like traveling to the US from a South Pacific island only accessible by seaplane. But most importantly to Vernon, Space Fighters are all but useless in this 'verse; his acronym lasers were capable of focusing twenty terawatts of power on their targets before Boeing's fighter even entered the prototype stage, which was armed with only a single Gauss cannon. Vernon specifically points out that despite the wattage he still can't punch through a good gravity shield, so what's the point of firing a few ninety-kilo bricks of depleted uranium at a hundred G's? Boeing refuses to admit that they've come up with a gravity warhead with his three billion dollars - but they're even more unwilling to admit that the warheads are completely untestable because they were unable to create their own gravity shields. Fighters are never used aside from a Desperation Attack to end the Maple Syrup War because it's quickly established that a space combat vehicle without a shield is just a parade float; this is a 'verse where gunboats are the kings of space combat. As a result of all of this, Vernon quite reasonably says Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Troy Rising / int_b0bce7aa	type	Selective Obliviousness
Troy Rising / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: Ringo drops a bit of an Author Tract two-thirds through Citadel - two of Vernon's people attempt to educate an accountant on what it would take to make Troy mobile; He also tries to share the wealth;
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Troy Rising / int_b36123ce	type	The Cycle of Empires
Troy Rising / int_b36123ce	comment	The Cycle of Empires: Early in Live Free or Die, a powerful AI informs a high-ranking Glatun commander that, according to a long-term forecast model, the Glatun Federation, despite being a major economic player for centuries on the galactic stage, is well into Stage Three and teetering on the edge of Stage Four. With record high unemployment and record low military spending and service, a major war will be enough to unseat the Glatun as a galactic superpower, and one is inevitably going to happen within the next decade. However, this same AI predicts that humanity, just now entering the galactic community as a Stage One, has the potential to save the Glatun from total collapse and subjugation, and instead can help ease the pains as they transition into a less powerful ally of humanity.
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Troy Rising / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
Troy Rising / int_b3eecaae	comment	Colony Drop: Part of the Horvath's initial appearance was dropping kinetic energy weapons on several cities. Turns out that this is SOP for most aliens. The Rangora hit Earth multiple times, destroying dozens of cities. Thankfully, after the second Horvath bombardment people started leaving the cities.
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Troy Rising / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Troy Rising / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: A Ringo staple. When Vernon contracts Boeing to build a shuttle with Imported Alien Phlebotinum, those Professional Butt Kissers take his money and build a really crappy Space Fighter for their buddies in the Air Force. Until now, nobody knew that Ringo hated Babylon 5. All religious fundamentalists die of Horvath bioweapons. The Orbital Bombardment has one against cities; one of Ringo's few subtle Take Thats is that every metropolis that wasn't vaporized by kinetics is abandoned in fear of them; though some people are willing to work in cities, there are no major population clusters anymore. Humanity is solely rural. Vernon jokes that he doesn't have to worry about protesters complaining about him "ruining the space environment" by smelting asteroids because San Francisco was hit during the Maple Syrup War. Another joke is that the only thing written by humans ever read by a Horvath was William Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2, specifically "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." This is because the first shot fired was at Washington, D.C. Notably, Ringo later admits that he went a bit far there; a decorated admiral says that he knows a lot of jokes about the Horvath plagues and bombings — but prefers not to tell them; he learned them all from his Chief of Staff, who collected them obsessively and posted the new list on his bridge every morning... until he finally Ate His Gun the day before they put into port because his wife and child were in the heart of San Diego when it was vaporized.
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Troy Rising / int_b578811d	type	Scary Dogmatic Aliens
Troy Rising / int_b578811d	comment	Scary Dogmatic Aliens: The Rangorans manage to convey aspects of both Nazi Germany (big on eugenics and genetic purity) and Soviet Russia (led by a constantly-backstabbing Oligarchy, use of Secret Police to keep 'dangerous intellectuals' in line), with shards of Imperial Japan (fanatical dedication to The Emperor, in ideal if not in practice, strong warrior culture) on top of it. And yet, at the same time, they manage to be remarkably human.
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Troy Rising / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Troy Rising / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: In the first book of Live Free or Die, NASA. The day the Ring is set up, they are present for the Instructional Dialogue from the Grtul: "By 'anyone can use the ring' do we mean that another species can use it to enter your system? Yes. Does that mean that hostile or friendly forces can use it? Yes. Are you allowed to block the ring? No. Good bye." They then spend three years screwing around, and as a result the Horvath just walk in and take the planet in a single afternoon. They're still around years later to try to claim jurisdiction over Vernon's ship. In the second part of the same book, the "religious terrorist" states. Upon being informed that Earth has been hit by a Depopulation Bomb, they whip their populations into frenzies, insisting that the cures being distributed are the source of the plague, spiritually poisonous, etc. They all die, and Earth is thus rid of religious fanatics for the foreseeable future. In Citadel, which is the second book set in a universe where the bad guys are aliens advanced enough to monitor any present-day human tech and can send down kinetic strikes at the drop of a hat, someone takes a selfie with the President in the background, while the Rangora are actively bombarding the planet, and pays for it by being annihilated, along with the part of Kansas it was flying over, by SIXTEEN missiles. In The Hot Gate, it turns out this is the source of equipment failures from Granadica. As part of her Uplift protocols she unconsciously introduced minor errors that would eventually become major malfunctions to weed out those sophonts who don't perform proper and thorough maintenance, a definite necessity in a space faring civilization.
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Troy Rising / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Troy Rising / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: Ringo's standard Pet Peeves show up: Pacifism is dumb, the military is extremely important, Nepotism is the bane of humanity, liberalism is evil, the Mainstream Media cannot be trusted... New(ish) ones include "space is really dangerous", "Science Is Good", and "maintenance is very important." The last three might almost be considered "Deconstruction," rather than personal opinion, as so many sci-fi series gloss over the dangers of being out in the airless void of space, with only a thin metal can preventing your blood from boiling out of your eye sockets. The other ones, those can be argued one way or another... but who's going to say "Maintenance on the ship keeping us from dying" is bad?
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Troy Rising / int_b6287eff	type	Briar Patching
Troy Rising / int_b6287eff	comment	Briar Patching: When the Horvath force the US Army to seize maple syrup, Vernon makes a note that only the cities are being threatened, and really don't care about them. He's lying... or is he? Either way, the government should really be nicer to rural citizens. He even lampshades his use of the trope by directly quoting the story.
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Troy Rising / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Troy Rising / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Played with, as one of the Glatun patrons of a spaceport bar is named Bob.
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Troy Rising / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Troy Rising / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Tyler Vernon is generally soft-spoken, professional, and flexible. There is one instance in the series where he is shown as completely, utterly enraged: when political scheming gets sailors and Marines killed and the culprits try to blame him for it rather than accept responsibility.
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Troy Rising / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Troy Rising / int_c145f69b	comment	Not when you're smashing a couple million tons of spacecraft against several trillion tons of asteroid it doesn't, as the Rangora found out to their chagrin, in Citadel. The damage was patched over before the next book.
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Troy Rising / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Vernon seems to rather enjoy coming up with fitting acronyms for his creations, such as the SAPL, or Solar Array Powered Laser aka the Serious Ass Powerful Laser, supported at various points by the VSA, or the Very Scary Array, the the BDA, or Big Damn Array, and the VDA, or Very Dangerous Array. A Deconstruction is the UNG 'laser', so named because the power running through it is so terrifyingly massive that prior to firing it Vernon just said 'ung, ung, ung' in Brain Lock of the scales involved.
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Troy Rising / int_c64a7400	comment	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Every non-French government on earth expects this behavior from the French. This was written by John Ringo, after all.
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Troy Rising / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Vernon orders tea. Scattered throughout the book there are enough shoutouts to cause alcohol poisoning if you turn it into a Drinking Game. Further examples include a ship captain ordering the helm to a course with "Make it so.", a gas mine called "Bespin" and the decision to have turns in the battle station's missile tubes is inspired by the need to "stop the farmboy dropping an energy torpedo into the main power plant." References to Schlock Mercenary are uncountable. It's worth noting that most of the Shout Outs are being done by the characters on purpose. There's an amusing one in The Hot Gate, when the commander of the Thermopylae has to report that he's walked into a trap and balks at saying IT'S A TRAP for a moment. His subordinate all but explicitly makes the Star Wars reference. As well as what seems like a dozen others.invoked The description of ship-to-ship weapons in Live Free or Die is suspiciously similar to Honor Harrington: powerful lasers, missiles with bomb-pumped laser warheads, and a new short-ranged gravity-based weapon that can knock out shields in one hit.
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Troy Rising / int_d45ad2f5	comment	When Vernon contracts Boeing to build a shuttle with Imported Alien Phlebotinum, those Professional Butt Kissers take his money and build a really crappy Space Fighter for their buddies in the Air Force. Until now, nobody knew that Ringo hated Babylon 5.
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Troy Rising / int_d9cf40fa	comment	As a result of all of this, Vernon quite reasonably says Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Troy Rising / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: The Glatun at the climax of the Maple Syrup War, arriving just in time to force the Horvath to back off before killing Vernon.
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Troy Rising / int_dd51740f	comment	P.O.V. Sequel: Part of Citadel to the final events of Live Free or Die. Including the one-in-a-million survival of the Myrmidon caught outside Troy during the attack, from the perspective of the pilot.
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Troy Rising / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: "They can take our maple syrup from our cold, dead hands." It Makes Sense in Context.
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Troy Rising / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: We were one of the very few species to have some concept of space travel or even science fiction before contact with galactic society giving us a very outside the box perspective on how to apply the staggeringly advanced technologies we suddenly have access to.
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Troy Rising / int_e26c3c72	comment	Mile-Long Ship: The Troy, Thermoplae, and Malta are made from hollowed out asteroids, all of them several miles in any dimension. Troy and Thermopylae are nine kilometers in diameter with kilometer and a half thick armor. Assault vectors, the biggest nonhuman ships in the Spiral Arm, are over ten kilometers long and a kilometer in diameter.
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Troy Rising / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: "Our Horvath Benefactors" by the humans in public during the Horvath Occupation and the subsequent Maple Syrup War. Justified, as they can never be too sure when the Horvath are listening in via their electronic devices.
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Troy Rising / int_e6558beb	type	Artistic License â€“ Space
Troy Rising / int_e6558beb	comment	Artistic License â€“ Space: In real life, Wolf 359 has no planetary companions - at least, no large ones more than 1 AU from it. The Hubble Space Telescope tells us that it has no gas giants like the one that the Bespin Gas Mine was built over.
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Troy Rising / int_e8a6e896	comment	The Battlestar: Troy and its fellow battlestations, when fully armed and operational, not only have enormous quantities of missiles and lasers available to them, but also can hold within them an entire fleet of escort vessels, assault shuttles, and extensive support facilities like entire fabbers to repair battle damage and create more equipment, including missiles and escorting warshipsnote the stations are also serving as Earth's shipyards, as being much easier to defend than shipyards in orbit around a world.
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Troy Rising / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Most aliens in the series operate on very different moral compasses than humanity. The Glatun Federation, a self-proclaimed "enlightened meritocratic oligarchy", puts financial concerns above most others to own their detriment, while the Rangora Empire, an expansionist and aggressive quasifascist polity, regularly squabbles amongst itself and self-sabotages their own plans, even during a major interstellar war, while believing most of the reports coming out of Earth have to be disinformation campaigns, because that's what they would do, also to their own detriment.
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Troy Rising / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: Tangier Indiana where Comet grew up is described as a hick backwater in the middle of nowhere. It's 38 miles from Terre Haute, a city of 170,000 people.
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Troy Rising / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: The major item in the entire series (SAPL) can not work as described. John Ringo doesn't seem to understand optics. See https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/ for why SAPL as described won't work.
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Troy Rising / int_fcaec6bf	comment	In Citadel, which is the second book set in a universe where the bad guys are aliens advanced enough to monitor any present-day human tech and can send down kinetic strikes at the drop of a hat, someone takes a selfie with the President in the background, while the Rangora are actively bombarding the planet, and pays for it by being annihilated, along with the part of Kansas it was flying over, by SIXTEEN missiles.
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Troy Rising / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Several, as John Ringo loves them. Early in the first book, while discussing telescope scheduling, Ringo mentions a "huge outcry amongst "real" researchers who had grants to study oxygen production of Mira Variables". Much later in the same book, one of the scientists Vernon hires comments that his specialty was the oxygen production of Mira Variables. Similarly, the Glatun discover during Tyler's display of various foodstuffs that Coca-Cola is incredibly toxic to Glatun physiology. When Tyler visits a Glatun space station many chapters later, and has to bring his own supply of food due to Glatun food not being compatible to humans, his entire stash of Coca-Cola is confiscated for its toxicity.
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Troy Rising / int_ff7b34f9	comment	Strawman News Media: Courtney Courtney of CNN, who always tries to be as Politically Correct as possible while seeming to have a slightly antagonistic view towards Vernon due to his economic success. Vernon figures it's because he's a white, conservative Southerner who's possibly the certainly the richest and possibly the single most powerful man on Earth.
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