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Xeelee Sequence

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Xeelee Sequence	comment	The Xeelee Sequence, by Stephen Baxter, is a sprawling series of novels and short stories all set within the same universe.In the far future, mankind expands out into a hostile universe, filled with intelligent species as weirdly varied as they are ruthless. Above them all, however, are the top dogs of the universe: the Xeelee, the god-like de-facto rulers of the universe. The novels of the "sequence" follow various threads, such as Earth being invaded and occupied by bizarre aliens, or a Hopeless War between mankind and the Xeelee, along with various other stories concerning humanity's place in a relatively bleak universe.Overall, the Sequence is a loosely connected series, covering billions of years of history, with later stories expanding the scope to include the entire history of the universe, from beginning to end. The main connecting thread throughout all the novels are the Xeelee's enduring presence and influence on the history of the universe and mankind. The series has a definite chronology, but the novels and short stories were published in Anachronic Order. However, all of them can be read as individual stand-alone stories.Novels in the Xeelee Sequence: Raft: A group of humans are stranded in an alternate universe where the force of gravity is much stronger. Timelike Infinity: Set during a time where Earth has been conquered by aliens. A group of cultists Time Travel 1,500 years into the past but, rather than warning anyone about the invasion, they follow their own inscrutable agenda. Flux: Follows a group of highly-modified humans who live inside a neutron star. A particular severe magnetic field instability, worse than any on record, threatens to destroy their home. To survive, a young woman must travel to a far off city, and eventually outside of the star itself. Ring: A generation ship is launched on a thousand-year mission, cruising near the speed of light. Five million years pass in the outside world due to time dilation. The ship arrives back in our Solar System only to find that the sun (and every other star in the observable universe) has aged prematurely into a red giant...something that shouldn't happen for another five billion years. Vacuum Diagrams (short story collection) The Destiny's Children sub-series Coalescent: In contrast to the other novels, this is set on modern-day Earth, with flashbacks to the age of the Roman Empire. George Poole (uncle of Michael Poole, a prominent character in Transcendent) discovers he has a long-lost sister with ties to an ancient conspiracy. Exultant: Set during one of mankind's hopeless wars against the Xeelee, this novel follows a young soldier who pulls off an exotic maneuver in battle which results in him time-traveling into the past and encountering his younger self. The bold tactic pays off and they capture a Xeelee ship. But when they return to Earth, he and his younger self are not welcomed as heroes for their breakthrough but rather tried as deserting criminals (true From a Certain Point of View) and learn about the dark side of their government. Transcendent: Follows Michael Poole's early life, as well as a posthuman woman named Alia who's observing Michael's life half a million years in the future. Michael tries to save the near-future Earth's ecosystem from failing, all the while dealing with mysterious visions of his dead wife. A direct sequel to Coalescent, as George and several other characters show up. Resplendent (short story collection) Xeelee: Endurance (short story collection) Xeelee: Vengeance Xeelee: Redemption
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Xeelee Sequence / int_106f1a77	type	A Form You Are Comfortable With
Xeelee Sequence / int_106f1a77	comment	A Form You Are Comfortable With: Invoked by Reth Cana when he is trying to find a way for humans to enter configuration space — a realm beyond human experience. Reth constructs metaphors, a kind of interface to make its features accessible to human minds. There is an island — a beach. At the centre is a mountain that represents order, and at its peak is that special dust grain that represents the initial singularity: the Big Bang. The sea is the opposite — maximal entropy — the ocean of meaninglessness to which everything washes, in the end.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_111f375d	type	HeavyWorlder
Xeelee Sequence / int_111f375d	comment	Heavy Worlder: The human colonists on the Rustball evolved a squat, short body plan with thick, powerful limbs to adapt to their new home's strong gravity.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Xeelee Sequence / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: Qax biology is based around chemical cycles embedded in convection cells. A Qax is composed of millions of such cells that exist in any kind of turbulent fluid (water, air, gas giant, star, space-time). In short theyâ€™re highly organised, living storms. The eponymous creatures in The Logic-Pool are a species of white light-worms who are living logical entities made of mathematical postulates and quantum non-linearity that live for the advancement of more and more complex math.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_11d38820	type	Big Dumb Object
Xeelee Sequence / int_11d38820	comment	Big Dumb Object: Bolder's Ring, built by the titular aliens; it's constructed out of cosmic strings (and is revealed to be the cause of the Real Life Great Attractor) and is essentially a black hole that has been stretched into a one-dimensional loop millions of light years in length. It's eventually revealed to be an escape route for the Xeelee from the Universe, by means of tearing a hole in spacetime through the middle of the ring via the unimaginably strong gravitational forces created through its rotation. The Sugar Lump — a perfect cube the size of a small moon, which appears to serve no purpose whatsoever. Later is revealed to be one of many identical devices which sent the Xeelee back in time to essentially create themselves using a Stable Time Loop. The Snowflake is a regular tetrahedron built around the remains of a black dwarf. It measures over ten million miles along its edges. How it maintains its structure in the gravity well of the star remains unknown. While possessing about the same mass as the Earth, it has been puffed out like candy-floss, filled with struts, threads and whiskers of iron, like delicate scaffolding. It has a fractal architecture with the tetrahedron motif, repeated again and again, on all scales. It is actually a gigantic computer created by the Snowmen to record anything in the universe up to the quantum level. The Xeelee Belt in Redemption (no relation to the Belt in Raft) is a circle a light year in circumference located in the centre of the galaxy. It rotates at near lightspeed, and because of relativistic effects, distances are compressed and time drastically slowed. The purpose of the Belt is to preserve a community of Xeelee into the very far future, when they will be able to tap dark energy for their own purposes, but the immense surface area and energy flows have attracted lesser species as well.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_11dd3268	type	Empire with a Dark Secret
Xeelee Sequence / int_11dd3268	comment	Empire with a Dark Secret: The Silver Ghosts spend a million years denying the bloody civil war that followed the death of their sun, and they don't want anyone else to learn about its existence either. But that doesn't compare to the skeletons that the Coalition keeps in its closet.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_12d4a4c2	type	The Migration
Xeelee Sequence / int_12d4a4c2	comment	The Migration: The theme of The Baryonic Lords: the migration of the last humans from their dying Pocket Dimension to Bolder's Ring and there to another universe that can sustain life.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
Xeelee Sequence / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Each narrative of Coalescent is kicked off by a death: the Roman narrative by the death of Marcus (along with the abandonment of Britain by The Roman Empire), which forces Regina to move from her family villa; and the modern narrative by the death of George Poole's father, which indirectly causes him to find out the existence of a long-lost sister and begin the search for her.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Xeelee Sequence / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Though they are presented as antagonists in the stories set during the Third Expansion era, the Silver Ghosts and the Xeelee don't seek to destroy humanity and only fights the humans because of aggression instigated by the absolutely xenophobic Coalition. And in the case of the Xeelee, it is revealed that all the time, the Coalition was fighting an enemy that actually wanted to save them, since the Xeelee's ultimate goal was to provide a way for baryonic species to escape from the Photino Birds and the doomed universe.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1592e954	type	Man Bites Man
Xeelee Sequence / int_1592e954	comment	Man Bites Man: Borno resorts to biting the Black Ghost after all of his crew's weapons turn out to be useless against this creature. It actually works.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Xeelee Sequence / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: In the finale of The Baryonic Lords, Paul tricks the photino birds into thinking the Xeelee are returning, leading them to aggressively ramp up their destruction of the Ring. The genocidal Qax remnants — who have been waiting patiently to exterminate the last humans — have a collective "oh shit" moment and lead a last ditch attack on the birds at the Ring so that they can escape the universe. The humans use the confusion of the battle to sneak through the Ring, escaping both the Qax and the slow death from the machinations of the birds.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_16f40dc1	type	Cool of Rule
Xeelee Sequence / int_16f40dc1	comment	Cool of Rule: All of the science is explained, and not just in a Hand Wave.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_17330d6c	type	Terrible Trio
Xeelee Sequence / int_17330d6c	comment	Terrible Trio: Out of universe, the Xeelee Sequence is considered as an equal to 1984 and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream in terms of being the trifecta of Dystopias. If anything, these three literature pieces is sometimes debated on which is the most depressing, bleakest and nihilistic works ever written into fiction.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
Xeelee Sequence / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: The Coalition turns children as young as six into psychotic machines design to kill and kill only. One side character, for example, almost committed suicide just from the mere thought of doing something non-doctrinal. The main character from Exultant even suffered a minor existential crisis on what he would do once the Coalition finally drives off the Xeelee, as his life would become meaningless without perpetual bloodshed and genocides. That is how indoctrinated an average human has become. To say that the Coalition is a broken society made up of broken people, creating an environment that churns out even more broken people, is an understatement. The Transcendence is no better, as they pretty much continued the Coalition's xenocidal campaigns on a much larger scale and have become so transhuman, that they no longer think in the same plane of human consiousness or morality; becoming just as alien as the aliens themselves.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_17521f7f	type	Clothes Make the Superman
Xeelee Sequence / int_17521f7f	comment	Clothes Make the Superman: In Hero, the amazing powers of the eponymous superhero come from his suit.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Xeelee Sequence / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Unlike every other Xeelee story, Coalescent is a work of historical fiction instead of a distant-future high-concept space opera; it is mostly set in the dying days of the Western Roman Empire and has little science fiction elements until the end.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_18150c85	type	Democracy Is Flawed
Xeelee Sequence / int_18150c85	comment	Democracy Is Flawed: Democracy from the largely liberal First Expansion Humanity didn't save its ass from a cruel, dark universe, filled with vastly superior and hostile aliens. It is telling that the Interim Coalition of Governance, one of the worst sci-fi polity ever written in its abject scale of its cruelty, is acknowledged in-universe as one of the longest standing human civilizations to have ever exist.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_19028da	type	Eternal Engine
Xeelee Sequence / int_19028da	comment	Eternal Engine: The Coalition dedicates certain planets as factory world to generate the materials and weaponry used by the Green Army and Navy along the Front.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_19b6f396	type	Alternate Timeline
Xeelee Sequence / int_19b6f396	comment	Alternate Timeline: Vengeance and Redemption are set in a second timeline that changes most of what we know from the rest of the series. Characters and personalities are taking very different paths, especially for people like Michael and Harry Poole. Monopole cannons have been put to use, a weapon that was humanity's best in the Exultant war period. The Squeem and Qax will most likely be unable to enslave humanity: even if they found the humans on Cold Earth or scattered, they already have technology that could win the war.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
Xeelee Sequence / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: The Friends of Wigner's plan to send a message to the Ultimate Observer involves turning Jupiter into a black hole, shaping the singularity at its heart and loading it with information. The Friends want the Observer to select a chosen history to favour humanity — in particular, to pick out a causal line that would not include the Qax Occupation. Of course their scheme was overcomplicated, and it didn't work: the Friends didn't even manage to make their black hole properly, let alone send their plea to the end of time. They managed to destroy Jupiter, though, and in response the Qax begin the Extirpation that wipe clean the history of humanity and Earth itself.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
Xeelee Sequence / int_19fc58a2	comment	Pirius and Commissary Nilis from Exultant may look like level-headed individuals. But that's only in comparison to the walking insane asylum that is the Coalition. Always remember that they are still part of a regime so absolutely evil and morally reprehensive that it will give the Daleks some pause for thought. They are still very much strong believers of Hama Druz and the Coalition's practices and are either directly or indirectly responsible for an innumerable amount of war crimes. They may be portrayed as A Lighter Shade of Black but they would still be considered as absolute racist, xenocidal, sadistic monsters by our standards.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1ad744c5	type	Son of an Ape
Xeelee Sequence / int_1ad744c5	comment	Son of an Ape: By the time of Exultant humanity has converted almost the entirety of the Milky Way into an industrial war machine with which they are engaging in a multi-millenial pan-galactic campaign against the Xeelee. Still, the Xeelee view this as roughly the equivalent of an especially persistent cockroach infestation, and think of humanity as little more than pond life.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1b45acae	type	Post-Peak Oil
Xeelee Sequence / int_1b45acae	comment	Post-Peak Oil: In the 2040s, the depletion of fossil fuels and desperate efforts to contain further environmental damage has made the average person dramatically less mobile, with automobiles a memory, air travel a luxury of the ultra-privileged.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Xeelee Sequence / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: When the crew of the Island reach Goober c, they meet Susan Chen, the last surviving original crew member of the Gourd, a scattership that was dragged to the planet a millennium ago via FTL by the Silver Ghosts, and what appears to be the degenerate descendants of the rest of the crew. In truth, the last of the crew died centuries before that, and what appeared to be the crew are simply biotechnological constructs created by the Ghosts to keep Susan sane.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
Xeelee Sequence / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: On the Mayflower generation ship, all dead human bodies are recycled for raw materials, since on such a closed-out environment, burial, cremation or other ways of Due to the Dead are luxuries that cannot be afforded.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Xeelee Sequence / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Humans start a massive war with Xeelee because they believe that the Ring is intended to wreck the Universe. Unforunately, they discover too late that it's actually a wormhole created by the Xeelee as the only way for baryonic life to escape extinction at the hands of the unstoppable Photino Birds. Similarly, the Photino Birds are so alien that they most likely do not even realise that they are wiping out untold numbers of species in the process of making the Universe more comfortable for themselves.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
Xeelee Sequence / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: Borno's desperate attempt to bite the Black Ghost successfully creates an opening for Hex to kill it, although he doesn't survive the attack.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1e679bd0	type	The Quisling
Xeelee Sequence / int_1e679bd0	comment	The Quisling: Jasoft Parz, the human ambassador to the Qax occupation regime. He was never loyal to the invaders, and actually betrays them when they go back in time 1500 years to invade the Earth in the past, but he's still seen in a negative light by almost all humans of the later eras.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
Xeelee Sequence / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: The Coalition's Ministry of Public Enlightenment is basically this series' equivelent of the Ministry of Truth.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Xeelee Sequence / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: The Coalition is your typical bastion of entrenched, institutionalised mediocrity in which someone might actually be punished for figuring out how to win a war. Thematically, it's a reductio ad absurdum of much that goes on in modern-day politics. Nearly everyone on the top is hypocritical, short-sighted, repulsive, fears change, and is more interested in holding to their power more than anything else. It is necessary to see how the decision to launch the special weapons project comes about, and a large part of the point of Exultant is how human institutions prove more of a barrier than even the physical challenges of engineering an instantaneous computer and black hole weapons.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Xeelee Sequence / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: More like Crapsack multiverse. Seriously, Crapsack wouldn't even scratch the surface of the Sequence as it is one condensed Nightmare Fuel singularity. More can be read in the Nightmare Fuel section.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Xeelee Sequence / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: On the Mayflower, the subhuman descendants of the long-lived Autarchs turn to cannibalism after breeding immortality into themselves and no longer seeing children as a way to preserve their genes, but simply as food.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_22569655	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Xeelee Sequence / int_22569655	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Conurbation 2473 shows the typical human reaction to their suppressive Qax dictators suddenly fleeing Earth, leaving humans free for the first time in centuries. Rather than banding together to rebuild society, humans fight among themselves for dominance.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
Xeelee Sequence / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: Some view the Sequence as a whole, to the Cosmic Horror Story genre. The Eldritch Abominations in the Sequence aren't depicted as a all-consuming apathethic cosmic evil. Each of the ancient races follow a pattern of rationality within their own mindframe. As alien as they are, they all seek a common purpose to survive. The titular Xeelee even had enough compassion to save as many baryonic races as possible. Even for the Photino Birds, one can argue that they are terraforming the entire multiverse so that their own offspring can survive without any intentional malice. If anything, it is the humans and lesser aliens like the Qax that are depicted as the utterly depraved ones. On the flipside, the Sequence also heavily deconstruct the Humans Are Warriors trope. The ICoG and the Transcendence, two of the most well known and successful human polities, are treated as utterly unhinged, self-destructive and tyrannical. The Sequence is what happens when one use that trope and drive it to its own logical conclusion. Children are expended as disposable flesh to the meat grinder. Girls from Mars are turned into Breeding Slaves. Any and all forms of resources and ingenuity are wasted on war, causing societal stagnation. All aspects of human joy and happiness are erased including the concept of family. Entire human sub-species are bred to commit mass suicide. The Sequence shows that such a trope is nihilistic in its inherent self-destructive nature that should never, ever be praised.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_24d05c2f	type	Third Eye
Xeelee Sequence / int_24d05c2f	comment	Third Eye: The space whales of Beta have a total of three eyes.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_25774afa	type	Generation Ships
Xeelee Sequence / int_25774afa	comment	Generation Ships: Mayflower II is set on a generation ship bound for a satellite galaxy 25,000 light years away; at .5c, the trip will take fifty thousand years. A crew of pharaohs rule over the mortal transients. As the ship drifts through space and time, the society of the transients breaks down as the pharaohs slowly die off, evolving into beasts who only maintain the ship out of instinct.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_263bb4ec	type	Wave-Motion Gun
Xeelee Sequence / int_263bb4ec	comment	Wave-Motion Gun: The Xeelee starbreakers, which shoot focused gravity waves that can tear apart stars or cause them to go nova, certainly qualify. By the time of Exultant, humanity also uses guns which fire magnetic monopoles and later black holes.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_28c40e81	type	Trapped in the Past
Xeelee Sequence / int_28c40e81	comment	Trapped in the Past: By the end of Timelike Infinity, Jasoft Parz and Shira, two humans from AD 5407, are trapped in AD 3717.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_2919486a	type	The Conqueror
Xeelee Sequence / int_2919486a	comment	The Conqueror: Sixty-five thousand years after the conquest of the Galaxy, the self-styled, charismatic, monstrous Unifier, using one human type as a weapon against another and carelessly spending human life on a vast scale, briefly forges an empire before his assassination leads to its disintegration.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Xeelee Sequence / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The "Interim Coalition of Governance" actually rules humanity for an "interim" period over 20,000 years long.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
Xeelee Sequence / int_2a3006e5	comment	State Sec: The Coalition have two. The Guardians are the regular law enforcement. They make use of various robots and other technologies to protect Coalition interests. They also supply guards and security to the various Ministries, as well as ensuring that there are no human dissidents looking to cause the Coalition problems. The Office of Doctrinal Responsibility is the Coalitionâ€™s ideological police, the equivelent of the Gestapo or the KGB. They are tasked with ensuring that the Druz Doctrines are enforced throughout human controlled space. It has agents throughout the galaxy and is always assigned to frontline units.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Xeelee Sequence / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: The Coalition dumped so much firepower into the Galactic Core that it glowed bright pink and could be seen tens of thousands of light years away. Given that these are the same nutjobs that have hand-held Big Bang assault rifles, is anyone surprise?
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Xeelee Sequence / int_2c20a843	type	Nom de Mom
Xeelee Sequence / int_2c20a843	comment	Nom de Mom: In the Poole clan, a tradition that lasts for many generations is that children inherit their mother's Poole surname — both Michael Pooles took the surname from their mothers Gina Poole and Muriel Poole.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_2d7c66d3	type	The Stars Are Going Out
Xeelee Sequence / int_2d7c66d3	comment	The Stars Are Going Out: Due to the photino birds' interference, the stars are aging far, far faster than they should, and in five million years — rather than 100 trillion — almost all the stars in the universe will become white dwarfs. In Gravity Dreams (a sequel to Raft), the alternate dimension Beta's Stelliferous Era is coming to an end, and the humans stranded there need to be evacuated.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_2dbc1855	type	Ghost City
Xeelee Sequence / int_2dbc1855	comment	Ghost City: In 2047, declining birth rates in many countries have turned formerly bustling cities into near-ghost towns, as shown by Seville, which is visited by Michael Poole halfway through Transcendent.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_2e90b7fb	type	TheBadGuysWin
Xeelee Sequence / int_2e90b7fb	comment	The Bad Guys Win: Sort of, but if you want to go by technicality then the Photino Birds are the great antagonists and they end up winning the war. Played straight with the war between the Silver Ghosts and the Coalition, with the Coalition eventually overcoming the formidable defences of the Ghosts and wiping every single Ghost from existence. This may also count with the wider war between the Coalition and the Xeelee, with the Coalition finally ousting the Xeelee from the Milky Way in Exultant. Although how much of a victory you can call that, knowing what happens to the Coalition, is up to debate. Likewise, the earlier history on when the Squeem and Qax utterly crushed and brutalize humanity also counts in this regard.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Xeelee Sequence / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Anti-Senescence treatment makes it difficult to determine the true age of a human.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Xeelee Sequence / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Symat, protagonist of The Siege of Earth, is named after Symat Suvan, an old friend of his creator Luru Parz, who lived nearly a million years before him and appears in Cadre Siblings.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_30a0067b	type	Supervillain Lair
Xeelee Sequence / int_30a0067b	comment	Supervillain Lair: The HQ of the Black Ghost, a sphere black as night and kilometres across.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Xeelee Sequence / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: When every weapon the humans have at their disposal fail to move the Xeelee Probe hurtling towards Earth by any meaningful distance, Michael Poole resorts to ramming his ship (except for the lifedome) into it. Unfortunately, even the force of a GUT drive isn't enough to scratch the Probe's shell made from Xeelee construction material.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
Xeelee Sequence / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: Pretty much every single race in the series. There's almost nothing remotely human-like, aside from humanity's descendants— if then.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Xeelee Sequence / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: The Xeelee and the photino birds are at irreconcilable odds because each species is fundamentally seeking to threaten the ideal habitat of the other. Seemingly as a unified species, the Xeelee have concerned themselves with defeating the photino birds for almost the entire history of the universe.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_33179374	type	Deity of Human Origin
Xeelee Sequence / int_33179374	comment	Deity of Human Origin: The Transcendence is a posthuman collective consciousness with billions of humans spread across the galaxy who are attempting to evolve into a form of godhood, in effect leaving their humanity behind.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Xeelee Sequence / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: The final chapters of Timelike Infinity take place five million years in the far future, after Michael Poole is trapped there due to the destabilisation of the wormhole interface. Most of Coalescent is set from the waning days of the Western Roman Empire to 2005, except for half of the final part, which takes place during the Third Expansion, in a human colony that has been knocked out of its solar orbit, and whose inhabitants have developed eusociality to adapt to living underground in the scarcity of living space and resources. Ring ends in the very far future where the Photino Birds rule the universe, all stars have died and proton decay is decomposing their corpses. Michael Poole, with Nothing Left to Do but Die, kills himself by falling into a neutron star.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_342c2ebc	type	Longevity Treatment
Xeelee Sequence / int_342c2ebc	comment	Longevity Treatment: Anti-Senescence technology repairs genetic damage due to age via nanobots. The treatment has a 99% success rate, though failures typically end with a terminal illness. Lifespan with AS treatments theoretically has no upper limit, though in practice the treatments begin to break down at 400-500 years.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_347e35d6	type	Grim Up North
Xeelee Sequence / int_347e35d6	comment	Grim Up North: To the Romano-British in Coalescent, the north is an uncivilised land, home to the Pictish barbarians.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
Xeelee Sequence / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: What happens to Subject Five on board a Silver Ghost experimental science ship. When she was a child, she was effectively gang-raped by several human samples. The Silver Ghosts merely watched. This could also apply to the women in the Mayflower II as well.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3687d605	type	Rapid Aging
Xeelee Sequence / int_3687d605	comment	Rapid Aging: During her brief life as a human, Lieserl's body is engineered by nanobots that cause her to age rapidly. Memories and learning are also implanted into her cortex. The combination of these effects results in Lieserl living the equivalent of a 90-year life in 90 days.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Xeelee Sequence / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Celestial bodies up to and including entire galaxies used as projectiles? Megastructures millions of light years across? Handguns that can destroy stars? Aliens altering the value of Planck's constant simply in order to build a faster computer? Stephen Baxter was rocking this trope before it was mainstream.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
Xeelee Sequence / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: It's eventually revealed that the Xeelee sent themselves back in time to supercharge their own development. Then it turns out the Photino Birds can go one better. They do this naturally and at will, even from the end of the universe back to the beginning.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_38b2491d	type	The Fog of Ages
Xeelee Sequence / int_38b2491d	comment	The Fog of Ages: Luru Parz claims that the pharaohs can remember events from throughout their lives, but no more or less clearly than a normal person. Sometimes, events may bring forth a distinct memory that hadn't been recalled in several thousand years.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_391aa30b	type	You ALL Look Familiar
Xeelee Sequence / int_391aa30b	comment	You ALL Look Familiar: The degenerate descendants of the mortal transients on the Mayflower all resemble to some degree Lora, the dead girlfriend of the last living pharaoh Rusel. In an attempt to curry favour with Rusel, the transients are breeding themselves into replicas of Lora's images: if the Elder loved this woman so much, then choose a wife that looks like her, if only a little, and hope to have daughters with her delicate looks, and so win favour.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3a90dc63	type	Aliens Are Bastards
Xeelee Sequence / int_3a90dc63	comment	When the second Qax governor of Earth takes two Spline warships and travels back in time 1500 years to invade Earth and destroy the human race, it brings alongside Jasoft Parz, the human ambassador to the Qax regime, with the intent of forcing him to watch Earth's destruction. Parz then proceeds to sabotage the warship, foiling the invasion, and even calls out the Qax on this:
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
Xeelee Sequence / int_3b39c254	comment	Dystopia: One of the bleakest examples in literary history, which is considered one hell of a feat. The sheer levels of nihilistic destruction, trauma on a cross-generational scale, time-travel abuse, and tyrannical despotism on a multi-millennia and multi-galactical scale rivals the likes of 1984 and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. It is of no surprise that 1d4chan considers the Xeelee, alongside '84 and I Have No Mouth as the Holy Trinity of Dystopias. Nightmare Hellscape, indeed.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
Xeelee Sequence / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: The "Snowmen" technology used to protect Earth in the short story "The Siege of Earth" (from Resplendent) seems to at least border on this.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3bb487aa	type	King Bob the Nth
Xeelee Sequence / int_3bb487aa	comment	King Bob the Nth: The Empire of Sol is ruled by a dynasty of empresses all named Shira; the Empress during the events of Starfall is Shira XXXII. In truth there's no dynasty, mother or daughter here: all the Empresses are the same person, Shira, the Friend of Wigner trapped in the past, as shown in Timelike Infinity.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Xeelee Sequence / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: In the first part of Coalescent, which is set in Britain after the end of Roman rule, many ex-Roman citizens consider that their hardship is only temporary until the Emperor can sort out his difficulties and reassert his rule over the abandoned province. If you know your history, though, you're going to know that the Western Roman Empire is already on life support in this time, and no Emperor will come to defend Britain from the Saxons who will conquer the southeastern part of the island.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Xeelee Sequence / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Sometimes a pharaoh's children are born with Qax immortality. But they donâ€™t all grow — they stop developing, at the age of two years or one year or six months or a month; some of them even stop growing in the womb and have to be aborted.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3d5c5deb	type	Flat Character
Xeelee Sequence / int_3d5c5deb	comment	Flat Character: The story generally doesn't have much interest in its characters, with people being important only insofar as they've connected to current ideologies, current economic realities, or certain modes of scientific inquiry.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Xeelee Sequence / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: In-Universe. The Seer and the Silverman refers to Joens Wyman investing in the Susy drive, but after the test case, he got bankrupt, suggesting him as an innovative, heroic figure wronged by how things turned out. In fact, from reading The Quagma Datum (which takes place 199 years before), we know Wyman was a dick, and his financial ruin was a triumphant climax of the story, turning the tables on the callous, amoral fatcat.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3ea7916d	type	Immortality Immorality
Xeelee Sequence / int_3ea7916d	comment	Immortality Immorality: The increased intelligence and longevity of the pharaohs come along with callousness, a ruthless push to do whatever it takes to serve power or hold onto power yourself, all under the justification that this will provide greater insight to guide humanity's future. Yet such justifications ring hollow, as it's not the schemes of the pharaohs that ends Qax rule, any more than it's the Friends of Wigner. Instead it's Jim Bolder's rash, daring, individual subversion of the system that succeeds, while in the following eras, the immortals, the pragmatists, help perpetuate destructive patterns of domination that last far longer than alien rule.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_3fe6a857	type	Public Domain Character
Xeelee Sequence / int_3fe6a857	comment	Public Domain Character: A post-Roman British warlord named Artorius and his genius friend Myrddin make an appearance in the Roman narrative of Coalescent. After Artorius' death, the despairing British are left with nothing but legends of how he's not dead, but sleeping, his mighty sword Chalybs at his side.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Xeelee Sequence / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Xeelee ultimately lose against the Photino Birds and the universe becomes unsuitable for baryonic life. However in one last act, the Xeelee give the remnants of humanity and others a vessel to escape to a new universe where they can hopefully build civilization anew.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Xeelee Sequence / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: In Raft (which is set in an Alternate Dimension), the nebula where the humans live is turning into an increasingly hostile environment and the humans, suffering the effects of environmental collapse, need to migrate to another nebula. In its sequel Gravity Dreams, the alternate universe itself is dying, and the story involves the humans trying to get back to their home dimension. In the Photino Victory stories, the humans' Pocket Dimension is failing and will eventually freeze and become uninhabitable. The theme of The Baryonic Lords is the humans' search for a way to escape their dying home and seek another. The entire universe is this for the baryonic species: there's no way to prevent the photino birds from making the universe uninhabitable for them. The goal of the Xeelee is to provide a way out of the universe for all baryonic species via Bolder's Ring.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_413c475b	type	Space Age Stasis
Xeelee Sequence / int_413c475b	comment	Space Age Stasis: The Coalition regime embraces stagnation to preserve human continuity, avoiding political and even most technological change. The imperative commitment to total war stagnates human physical and intellectual evolution. The Druz Doctrines do not encourage exploration or research, and very little effort is directed toward projects without an immediate and conspicuous benefit to maintaining the massive logistics necessary to continue the Xeelee war. From hundreds of thousands of years later human historians note that the Coalition was freakish in how cohesive, unified and stagnant they were.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Xeelee Sequence / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The only tactic that the Coalition is able to use against the Xeelee is to throw endless warm human bodies at them, suffering staggering casualties for little to no gain.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_420080ed	type	Alien Sea
Xeelee Sequence / int_420080ed	comment	Alien Sea: On the Core of Cores, there are oceans of some quasi-liquid material, thick and red as blood; they lap at lands that thrust above the general spherical surface.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_42d3be0b	type	Population Control
Xeelee Sequence / int_42d3be0b	comment	Population Control: On the Nord, you are allowed two children at the maximum. If you have any more, one of the existing ones must leave the ship.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_43eeaee8	type	The Republic
Xeelee Sequence / int_43eeaee8	comment	The Republic: In The Sun-People, which is set in AD 3672 during humanity's early expansion, it is directly assumed that the human incursions into the asteroid where the story happens will automatically halt when it comes into conflict with other, and vulnerable, intelligent life. That, combined with the sketched out detail of an array of governments and institutions to be navigated, give a very different feeling from the stories set under the totalitarian, xenophobic, rapacious human regimes in the later eras.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
Xeelee Sequence / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: The Qax are tricked into fulfilling this role at the end of The Baryonic Lords, distracting the photino birds long enough for the last of humanity to escape through the Ring.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_44a893af	type	Humans Through Alien Eyes
Xeelee Sequence / int_44a893af	comment	Humans Through Alien Eyes: Half of The Sun-People is told from the point of view of a Toolmaker alien whose homeworld is first visited by the humans during the story. The alien refers to humans as the 'Sun-people', bizarre, otherworldly and seemingly destructive creatures that ultimately turn out to be benevolent.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
Xeelee Sequence / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon: One of the Coalition's standard-issue weapons are laser rifles. Unlike the majority of Sci-Fi, the lasers depicted in the Xeelee are accurate to real physics. They are invisible, provide no recoil and its affects can only be seen on whatever is being targeted at. It is also - as per tradition - absurdly overpowered; capable of liquifying a large steel boat instataneously and vapourizing scores of humans in a single flash. To a lesser extent, the Starbreakers and Monopole Cannons can also be considered one, although they veer more into the gravitational weapon category than true directed energy.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
Xeelee Sequence / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: George Poole only learns about the existence of his twin sister Rosa when he's 45 years old, after his father's death.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_470b73a7	type	Recursive Precursors
Xeelee Sequence / int_470b73a7	comment	Recursive Precursors: The very first of them are the spacetime-defect creatures (ancestors of the Xeelee), who dominated the universe during the grand unification epoch, which ended 10-36 seconds after the Big Bang. After them came the quark-gluon based lifeforms, who flourished during the first millionth of a second of the universe. And finally there are the quagmites, who lived for thirty times that period before another cosmic transition lets baryonic life like humans inherit the universe.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_489ce93a	type	Capital Offensive
Xeelee Sequence / int_489ce93a	comment	Capital Offensive: Both the Starfall invasion of Earth and the Squeem invasion open with an attack on New York City, then-capital of humanity.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_4987746e	type	Ridiculously Fast Construction
Xeelee Sequence / int_4987746e	comment	Ridiculously Fast Construction: The construction of a Qax conurbation takes place in just minutes.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_4abc2ca9	type	Virtual Ghost
Xeelee Sequence / int_4abc2ca9	comment	Virtual Ghost: Virtuals, basically a copy of a living human's personality stored in a computer. Many of them inevitably outlive the original humans.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Xeelee Sequence / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: It is hard to consider the Coalition as anything but gigantic bastards of the Third Expansion. They murdered every single piece of sapient life they came across that was not human. The Silver Ghosts and the Xeelee have no interest in fighting the humans, but they stand in the path of humanityâ€™s expansion.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_4c4bebf4	type	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology
Xeelee Sequence / int_4c4bebf4	comment	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology: In her VR simulation of the Late Permian, Gea uses the term 'mammal-like reptile' to refer to animals that were not, like pareiasaurs and procolophonids.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_4ee5989a	type	Bizarre Alien Senses
Xeelee Sequence / int_4ee5989a	comment	Bizarre Alien Senses: The modified humans in Flux 'see' sound waves which are transmitted through the Air (their term for the neutron superfluid in the neutron star), 'smell' photons that can only diffuse slowly in the Air, and 'hear' temperature fluctuations.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_4fafed32	type	Higher-Tech Species
Xeelee Sequence / int_4fafed32	comment	Higher-Tech Species: The Xeelee are an extreme example. Despite being "only" this trope (because their universe-shattering technology is recognizable as such), they could absolutely run rings around quite a few examples of Sufficiently Advanced Aliens from other works. How high-tech? To put it into perspective, humanity at one point controls multiple galaxies and has a superweapon that literally uses neutron stars as ammunition. They use this in an assault on the Xeelee, and the Xeelee's response can be summed up as "Cut that out, humanity. We're a little busy right now."
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Xeelee Sequence / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Xeelee Sequence / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: A character in Vengence speculates, following the Xeelee accessing a large cache of Construction Material and other supplies on Mercury, that based on the principle of mediocrity the Xeelee likely keep similar caches in most solar systems just in case they ever need to travel back in time to wipe out a civilisation in that system before it can cause the Xeelee problems in the future.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_515189ab	type	Single-Biome Planet
Xeelee Sequence / int_515189ab	comment	Single-Biome Planet: The homeworld of the Qax is a swamp planet, covered from pole to pole by an ocean.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_51c70be6	type	Obliviously Evil
Xeelee Sequence / int_51c70be6	comment	Obliviously Evil: The photino birds set out to transform all stars into white dwarfs, which would cause the eventual extinction of all baryonic life forms, including humans. Despite having goals that are hostile to us, photino birds do not seem to be malevolent. In fact, they are most likely unaware that there are baryonic life forms (apart from the Xeelee, who figured out that intense gravity can affect them and so drawing their notice), because their own form prevents them from noticing us at all or realising that the ageing of stars has unfortunate effects to the baryonic universe. Any attempt to communicate them was fruitless.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_52871b4e	type	Vichy Earth
Xeelee Sequence / int_52871b4e	comment	Vichy Earth: Earth is occupied twice by aliens, first by the Squeem from AD 4874 to AD 4925, and later by the Qax from AD 5088 to AD 5407.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_52e52099	type	Deathbed Confession
Xeelee Sequence / int_52e52099	comment	Deathbed Confession: Just before she dies, Cartumandua reveals to Regina that her father Marcus cheated his wife by sleeping with her and later atoned by castrating himself; he doesn't survive, and his death is one of the factors that forced Regina to move away from her family villa.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_539a77a5	type	Silicon-Based Life
Xeelee Sequence / int_539a77a5	comment	Silicon-Based Life: On Titan, Michael Poole and Miriam Berg find life based on silicon-silicon bonds between silanol molecules dissolved in liquid ethane, and ammono life, based on chemical bonds between carbon and nitrogen-hydrogen chemical groups rather than carbon-oxygen, using ammonia as its solvent rather than water. A group of human colonists on a silicon-rich world (visited in Transcendent) encountered indigenous silicon-based life, abandoned their carbon-chemistry medium and chose to download their children into the silicon.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_53c37297	type	Flash Step
Xeelee Sequence / int_53c37297	comment	Flash Step: The people on the Nord have the ability to teleport by effort of will, called Skimming.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_53ecf83f	type	Lensman Arms Race
Xeelee Sequence / int_53ecf83f	comment	Lensman Arms Race: The Xeelee use cosmic strings to build a wormhole (dubbed by humans as "Bolder's Ring") in order to escape into another universe. The Ring is so massive that it's gravity well is pulling in galaxies from all directions towards it at high speed. The Xeelee's antagonists one up on this by meticulously arranging galaxies around the Ring in just the right pattern to form a gravitational resonance that will shake the Ring apart.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Xeelee Sequence / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: The Coalition regime is repressive, controlled, fanatical, extremely xenocidal, and responsible for the staggering slaughter and extinction of virtually all other sentient life in the galaxy. Their ultimate goal is basically the complete genocide of all non-human civilisations everywhere. Among the strongest of the Coalition's successor states, the Ideocracy is explicitly the Coalition 2.0, except they are even more hypocritical and willing to actively manufacture an apparent nonhuman threat, while their enemy, the Kardish Imperium, is aggressive, intolerant and jingoistic.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_56585e87	type	Combat Clairvoyance
Xeelee Sequence / int_56585e87	comment	Combat Clairvoyance: The Integrality's Adepts have a limited precognitive ability. They could see a few minutes, or less, into the future, and only aspects of it that concerned their own surroundings — their own destiny. That few minutes' edge made them formidable soldiers, enough to let them get out of the way of the next bullet.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Xeelee Sequence / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Once the Black Ghost comes into power and starts to lead the Silver Ghosts in an effective resistance war against the Coalition, a group of rebellious Ghosts decide to cooperate with the humans and help them assassinate the Black Ghost, in full knowledge that they'll be enslaved or exterminated after the Coalition wins; because they'd prefer such an outcome over what could happen if the Black Ghost wins: either human and Ghost will enter an arms race and devastate the galaxy; or the Black Ghost unleashes such destruction that nothing will be left for the victor.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
Xeelee Sequence / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: After the extermination of a Squeem colony in Lake Superior, the Squeem decide to round out all people who were involved in the act in concentration camps and force them to watch as they freeze all of the water on Earth, killing many humans and causing many species to go extinct. The Qax governor of Earth from the future brings along Jasoft Parz during its invasion of Earth in the past, with the intention of forcing him to watch Earth's destruction. Unfortunately for the Qax, Parz was never loyal to them at the first place. What happens to the Silver Ghost civilians once they lost the war with humanity, as Silver Ghost parents were forced to watch as the Coalition systematically start skinning their children for shits and giggles, and turn their skin into solar sails.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_5b84f2a	type	Transhuman
Xeelee Sequence / int_5b84f2a	comment	Transhuman: The various species of Weaponised, modified from humans by scientists of the Integrality.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_5c53c410	type	Scry vs. Scry
Xeelee Sequence / int_5c53c410	comment	Scry vs. Scry: Humanity fights a War against the Xeelee over the Milky Way Galaxy where both sides can send information backwards in time using FTL. In practice, neither side can ever get an advantage. This goes on for tens of thousands of years.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_5cbb67eb	type	Pocket Dimension
Xeelee Sequence / int_5cbb67eb	comment	Pocket Dimension: After their defeat by the Xeelee, the human race are locked away in a vast hypersphere bigger on the inside than on the outside, and imprisoned within an artificial world.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
Xeelee Sequence / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: The Coalition definitely have one of the most horrific forms of surveillance apparatus ever written into fiction. That is, the ability to use tactical and strategic foreknowledge to correctly predict a crime before it even happens. Your actions will be watched and monitored, and you will be harshly punished for a crime you have yet to commit. Just ask Pirius Red who learned it the hard way. This is without factoring in the Office of Doctrinal Responsibility who ARE the Coalition's ideological secret police.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Xeelee Sequence / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: Jim Bolder, hence his being entrusted with a Xeelee nightfighter by the Qax, with bad results. For them.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_5fb6411f	type	We Are as Mayflies
Xeelee Sequence / int_5fb6411f	comment	We Are as Mayflies: Hama Druz's doctrines actively invoke the 'humans as short-lived vicious vermin' mentality. The slogan most associated with that and endlessly repeated in the stories of this era is "A brief life burns brightly." That is, it's better to have a short and violent existence in the face of endless war than a longer, happy and more settled life. The Coalition's approach makes the Stalinist New Man look Epicurean by contrast.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_5fc516bf	type	Mechanical Lifeforms
Xeelee Sequence / int_5fc516bf	comment	Mechanical Lifeforms: By the time of The Siege of Earth, many old machines abandoned by humans have evolved by themselves and formed rich ecologies.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Xeelee Sequence / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The first part of Ring ends with the launch of the Great Northern in AD 3951. The second part starts after nearly a thousand subjective years on the ship, which equals five million years outside due to time dilation. The Roman narrative of Coalescent starts in AD 410 and skips a few years every several chapters. Each chapter of The Venus Generations take place a century after the previous one.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_60441d9	type	Future Slang
Xeelee Sequence / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: The word Lethe comes to be used in this manner from the time of Transcendent onward.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Xeelee Sequence / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Their shared blood doesn't stop MacoFeri from siring a child on his own daughter.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_60ea2a89	type	Starter Villain
Xeelee Sequence / int_60ea2a89	comment	Starter Villain: The Squeem, the first aliens that pose a true threat for the humans, manage to conquer the Solar System and enslave humanity for 51 years, but it later turns out that they are not especially intelligent or advanced, and are dependent on scavenged technology from the Xeelee, like the hyperdrive. After the overthrow of the Squeem, the humans gain access to Xeelee technology for the first time, which opens up a new expansion era, while the Squeem themselves become Demoted to Extra.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_6141b228	type	Full-Boar Action
Xeelee Sequence / int_6141b228	comment	Full-Boar Action: The 'Air-boars' that inhabit the neutron star in Flux are described as savage cousins of the Air-pigs used by the transhuman habitants as livestock. One of them kickstarts the plot of the story by goring Adda, forcing Dura and Farr to seek work in Parz City to pay for Adda's treatment.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_61c0e60d	type	Star Killing
Xeelee Sequence / int_61c0e60d	comment	Star Killing: The Xeelee starbreaker gun is aptly named indeed. This is also the goal of the photino birds, who seek to turn all stars in the universe into white dwarfs.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Xeelee Sequence / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: The Coalition's Child Soldiers are more or less similar to modern teenagers, aside from the fact that they are artificially grown in clutches of hundreds at a time and become fertile at a much younger age. As a result of this, the Coalition loses over 10 billion Child Soldiers a year to the Xeelee. It's their duty to die. Not to fight for humanity, but to die. According to their "A brief life burns brightly!" ideology, there is nothing as glorious as child soldiers dying for the sake of dying.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Xeelee Sequence / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Timelike Infinity ends with a cryptically-described paragraph introducing an unknown character, which ends up being a setup for Ring: Formidable Caress (supposedly the very last story in chronological order) also ends with one paragraph which claims that the story hasn't ended yet (and eventually ends up continued in Vengeance):
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Xeelee Sequence / int_6383a034	type	The Mutiny
Xeelee Sequence / int_6383a034	comment	The Mutiny: In AD 415, the Roman soldiers stationed on Hadrian's Wall, having received no pay for five years after the Roman withdrawal from Britain, rebel against and kill their commander Aetius.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Xeelee Sequence / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: The first Ghost encountered by a human chooses to sacrifice itself to save the human character. Deconstructed in Coalescent. Members of the Order sacrifice their lives or freedom at various points to allow their community to survive, but this is revealed as being an act of self-preservation on the part of a Hive Mind, where individuals are expendable as long as the genetic heritage survives. Towards the end of the novel, the question is implicitly asked whether regular humans sacrificing themselves for a nation or an organisation really is that different.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_64fd1e63	type	Other Me Annoys Me
Xeelee Sequence / int_64fd1e63	comment	Other Me Annoys Me: The two versions of Pirius do not get along well with each other.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Xeelee Sequence / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: The single Xeelee Nightfighter in Vengence doesnâ€™t appear even to notice that the entirety of humanityâ€™s resources are being thrown at it at least until human invent monopole cannons several thousand years earlier than they acquire them in the main series. Those donâ€™t stop it either but do manage to make it react.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_666648a3	type	Hostile Terraforming
Xeelee Sequence / int_666648a3	comment	Hostile Terraforming: The Photino Birds are this on a universal scale: they engineer every single star in the universe, shortening their lifespan by billions of years, in order to make the universe more suitable for themselves.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_672fcdc8	type	Cosmic Entity
Xeelee Sequence / int_672fcdc8	comment	Cosmic Entity: An extremely rare Hard Sci-Fi example. But nearly every ancient race such as the Monads, Xeelee and Photino Birds count as one given that they are omnipresent, omnipotent and are born from the very fabric of reality itself. Even Transcendent humanity would eventually reach that status.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_677ecaa9	type	People Farms
Xeelee Sequence / int_677ecaa9	comment	People Farms: The army of the Interim Coalition of Governance commands vast birthing crÃ¨ches to ensure a steady supply of infantrymen. These children are grown in clutches of hundreds and taught the Druz Doctrines to an almost cellular level, ensuring loyalty and every single one of them is trained to kill a variety of aliens in the most efficient way possible. The Black Ghost plans to breed a group of captive humans to serve as laboratory animals. Too bad this plan never leaves the concept stage. The humans of Old Earth are not the owners of the sentient Weapon machines. The Weapons are farming them like livestock.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_680a5252	type	In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race
Xeelee Sequence / int_680a5252	comment	In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race: The Qax invoke this trope to homogenise humanity as part of their Extirpation to erase human culture and history.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_68f95429	type	That's No Moon
Xeelee Sequence / int_68f95429	comment	That's No Moon: The humans mistake bunch of ur-Ghosts huddled together as a wall during their mission to assassinate the Black Ghost:
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Xeelee Sequence / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
Xeelee Sequence / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: Basically a Hard Sci-Fi take on the genre.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_6a6760fa	type	The Power of Hate
Xeelee Sequence / int_6a6760fa	comment	The Power of Hate: Say what you will about the Coalition, the Transcendence and the Qax, but their absolute species-wide hatred among one another and against other aliens allowed them to somehow survive in ages beyond the lifespan of most Sci-Fi factions. Seriously, the Daleks would be taken aback on how completely bonkers that the power of racist hatred in the Xeelee Sequence could persist for so long.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_6acb89db	type	Evil Poacher
Xeelee Sequence / int_6acb89db	comment	Evil Poacher: A group called the Last Hunters seek to become the killer of the last individual of each endangered animal species.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_6b510ace	type	Hopeless War
Xeelee Sequence / int_6b510ace	comment	Hopeless War: Humans stand no chance against the Xeelee, just like how the Xeelee have no hope of defeating the photino birds — in fact, with time travel, they can barely escape the Photino Birds, after many resets..
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Xeelee Sequence / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Xeelee Sequence / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: Rusel finds the inbred, savage descendants of the Autarchs, with their blank eyes and wizened-faced children, peculiarly disturbing.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
Xeelee Sequence / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: In Coalescent, the birth of Brica and the death of the midwife Cartumandua happens within minutes of each other. The birth of spacetime-defect creatures is a quantum process. The uncertainty principle dictates that it is impossible to clone quantum information: it could be swapped around, but not copied. For the daughter to be born, the motherâ€™s genotype has to be destroyed. Every birth required a death.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
Xeelee Sequence / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: In In the Un-Black, the language of the savage post-humans, which has "devolved into jabber", is represented by broken English: "un-" replaces "no" and "not" as negative particles (hence "the Un-Black"), and some verbs have been replaced by nouns used as if they were verbs ("to death" instead of "to die" or "to kill", "to crime" instead of "to commit a crime", among others).
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Xeelee Sequence / int_7041e520	type	Super Breeding Program
Xeelee Sequence / int_7041e520	comment	Super Breeding Program: Garry Uvarov's eugenic program aims to improve the human stock by getting rid of late acting lethal genes, which normally could never be selected out of the gene pool because they only kill old bodies after they have reproduced. Uvarov orders his followers to live as hunter-gatherers in the sealed off forest, abandons Anti-Senescence treatments and bans reproduction before the age of 40, with this limit being steadily raised over the years. After eight centuries, the jungle folk's average lifespan goes up from 100 to 250, with the 80-year-old Arrow Maker being in the prime of life.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_72426bbd	type	Self-Duplication
Xeelee Sequence / int_72426bbd	comment	Self-Duplication: Each photino bird is a perfect copy of its parent.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_730c2e3	type	Void Between the Worlds
Xeelee Sequence / int_730c2e3	comment	Void Between the Worlds: The monads dwell in the chaotic ur-reality between universes:
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Xeelee Sequence / int_742088d4	type	The Dictatorship
Xeelee Sequence / int_742088d4	comment	The Dictatorship: The Interim Coalition of Governance is a deranged, unhinged, time-traveling, totalitarian oligarchical dictatorship of unparalleled cruelty in all of fiction, and its structure is very similar to that of Oceania. The Coalition's structure is broken down as can be seen here: Grand Conclave: The central ruling polity of the Coalition. The Grand Conclave is a type of council that rules over a number of Commissionaries at all times; each representing the various Ministries and Councils that forms the overall bureaucratic structure of the wider Coalition. Each Ministries all report to a single Grand Conclave member such as the Plenipotentiary of Total War. Overall, the Grand Conclave is composed of twelve representatives of Humanity. Plenipotentiary of Total War: A sub-body of the Grand Conclave. As its name implies, the Plenipotentiary deals with the perpetual, neverending war conducted by the Coalition against the various alien threats humanity face over the millennia. It is in charge of current Coalition strategies, the Green Army and the Green Navy and they are responsible for the sheer wastage of resources to combat the Xeelee. War Cabinet: A Subcommittee in the Coalition, dedicated to the sole purpose of the war effort against the Xeelee. It responds directly to the Plenipotentiary of Total War. Commission of Historical Truth: Their job is to explore any new methodologies of increasing the effectiveness of warfare, as well as documenting the various tactics and possible futures for the military for cataloguing purposes. This Commission makes heavy use (if not, complete dependence) on the Library of Futures to document and record all known and potential futures for the Green Army and Navy. Due to its immense task and scope relating to strategic foreknowledge, the Commission sets up various academies across the galaxy dedicated to various projects, such as the cultivation of food to better feed the innumerable child soldiers to even the Silver Ghost colony on Pluto. Conurbation Councils: These are the ruling bodies of the various cities across Earthâ€™s surface. They therefore act as representatives to the Grand Conclave during annual meetings and events. It is the Conurbation Councils that deal with housing and the various administrative tasks of running the various cities. Ministry of Economic Warfare: As its name implies, this Ministry is responsible for all available technology and projects that lead to a more effective form of warfare, such as the improvement of nanomachine-based food production. It also ensures the complete dedication of all of the Coalitionâ€™s resources to the war effort in a more cost-effective measure. Any and all weaknesses in the Coalition's economy will be inspected on as the Coalition runs on a perpetual war economy. Ergo, the only form of production would be weapons of war and the only form of consumption are weapons of war. Private ownership is basically non-existant and even 'civilian' products are few and far between. Surveyors of Revenues: The pen pushers and estate holders of the Grand Conclave. They are the banking and financial branch of the Coalition, serving to preserve the Coalitionâ€™s economy of war. May possible work under the rule of the Ministry of Economic Warfare. Auditor Generalâ€™s Office: Another sub-position that falls under the preview of the Ministry of Economic Warfare. The Auditor Generalâ€™s Office is responsible for any accounts of Coalition citizens and the personal banking of each member of the Coalition. Ministry of Supply: The Ministry of Supply is the ministry in charge of logistics and logistics only. It is responsible for the supply ships and various other materials needed for the war effort against the Xeelee, making sure that all materials needed are supplied to the correct locations and the correct time. Guild of Navigators: A guild whose chief role is to become overglorified mapmakers for the Coalition. It is their task to ensure that ships around the galaxy are aware of their destinations and their journey routes. May possibly work under the rule of the Ministry of Supply given their similar roles. Ministry of Production: The work-engine of the Coalition, the Ministry of Production is the body responsible for ensuring the production of all weaponry, ships and technology necessary for the war against the Xeelee. From ships to monopole cannons, this Ministry ensures that there is plentiful supply for the Green Army and the Navy. If you want to know if it produces anything outside of war, then the answer would be zero. Guild of Engineers: A guild whose primary purpose is to act as the R&D arm of the Coalition. Somewhat similar to the Ministry of Production, except that they most likely work under their rule. It is their job to ensure the research and development of new weapons and the construction of projects to aid the Coalition in its war effort. It was formed during the early years of the Assimilation. Ministry of Public Enlightenment: The Coalition's Ministry of Truth. The propaganda arm of the entire polity that is in charged of overseeing the Coalition's media section. It is their job to ensure the distribution of Doctrinal advice and law to all aspects of the public in the Interim Coalition of Governance. Guild of Communicators: A guild that is responsible for the broadcasting of all official channels in the Coalition and is also responsible for ensuring fast and effective communication between any of itâ€™s citizens. Works under the rule of the Ministry of Public Enlightenment. Ministry of Psychological Warfare: Pretty on the nose, this Ministry is responsible for any wartime projects of the Coalition dedicated to psychological warfare against the various alien races as well as psychological conditioning for the Coalition's inhabitants. This naturally has no effect on the Xeelee, but against the past wars of the Silver Ghosts and other 'lesser' races, it proved its purpose. Benefactors: They are the medical service of the Coalition. They provide free hospitals for the civilians of the galaxy and provide dole handouts to poorer citizens. This has less to do with altruism and more to do with buying loyalty and ensuring that any civilians would 'gladly volunteer' their services into the military later on for 'repayment'.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_7568eb84	type	Human Subspecies
Xeelee Sequence / int_7568eb84	comment	Human Subspecies: In Flux, humans have been modified to microscopic lifeforms to live within a Neutron Star. In the turbulent centuries between Regina's time and ours, the Order keeps itself hidden and so separate that natural selection has the time and the opportunity to take effect, and the Order's members are nudged onto a divergent evolutionary path. Over time, living in the dark, the society develops a hypersensitivity to pheromones. Space is strictly limited, so the right to bear children is tightly controlled; delayed puberty becomes a desireable trait, as does adaptation for bearing multiple children at once. The same traits are observed in workers and queens, in eusocial species.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Xeelee Sequence / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: When the second Qax governor of Earth takes two Spline warships and travels back in time 1500 years to invade Earth and destroy the human race, it brings alongside Jasoft Parz, the human ambassador to the Qax regime, with the intent of forcing him to watch Earth's destruction. Parz then proceeds to sabotage the warship, foiling the invasion, and even calls out the Qax on this: The Black Ghost's undoing comes from arrogantly letting a group of humans enter its lair, believing that their weapons can do nothing against it. It was partially correct in that none of the humans' weapons can penetrate its hide... but the Black Ghost surely didn't anticipate having said hide opened by the enemy's bare hands and mouth and then getting killed by a bullet that goes through this open wound.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_77480c5e	type	God Is Good
Xeelee Sequence / int_77480c5e	comment	God Is Good: The Transcendence's ultimate purpose is to redeem any and all forms of human suffering that has ever existed, couldâ€™ve existed, or possibly will exist. Deconstructed as even the slightest moment of discomfort any single human experiences in any timeline causes unfathomable mental agony for the Transcendence, so it comes to the conclusion that it must ensure humanity never existed to begin with, to spare every human timeline possible pain.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_77a55dfa	type	Endless Daytime
Xeelee Sequence / int_77a55dfa	comment	Endless Daytime: When the universe was ten million years old, many worlds were warmed by the afterglow of the Big Bang itself, where the sky was still glowing with a comfortable heat. The whole universe was then habitable, where you could potentially find liquid water on any planet surface, no matter how far from a star. The home planet of the Silver Ghosts and many others are tidally locked to their sun, meaning that one side experiences perpetual daytime and the other perpetual night time. The planets located near the centre of the galaxy (like Base 478 in Between Worlds), despite the absence of a sun, never know night due to the heavy star density near the galactic core.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_77aedc5c	type	Horse of a Different Color
Xeelee Sequence / int_77aedc5c	comment	Horse of a Different Color: In Gravity Dreams, the space whales are seen used as mounts by a group of barbarians.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Xeelee Sequence / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Teeg takes great pride at the moment when he killed his neglectful father, a Foron noble (implied to be MacoFeri) who had raped his mother, a servant.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Xeelee Sequence / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: It is safe to say that things just gets worse as the story progresses. There is a reason why the Xeelee Sequence can be a bit tough to read as you would know how things would end.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_7913833c	type	Balkanize Me
Xeelee Sequence / int_7913833c	comment	Balkanize Me: The Interim Coalition of Governance collapses almost immediately after the withdrawal of the Xeelee, leaving behind countless successor statelets. The Unifier's brief empire also suffers the same fate after its founder's assassination.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_796fa10c	type	The Ageless
Xeelee Sequence / int_796fa10c	comment	The Ageless: The Qax are practically immortal, since their convection cells can readily be renewed and replaced, without degradation of consciousness. Their human collaborators, the pharaohs, who receive immortality in exchange for service, also qualify. The Qaxâ€™s tampering with the genomes of the pharaohs (one of whom is the ancestor of most of the Mayflower crew) imperfectly passes on to subsequent generations, so the Autarch ruling class on the Mayflower choose breeding partners from long-lived families to prolong their own lives, and after many millennia their subhuman descendants manage to breed immortality into themselves. The Silver Ghosts are immortal unless killed. Being made of semi-independent components, these components might die but the Ghost itself does not.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Xeelee Sequence / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: Despite the extent of the Silver Ghosts' reworking of their physical environment (they frequently toy with the laws of physics to advance their own knowledge), they ultimately lose against the humans, who manage to survive and kill through savage innovation.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_7adc9fc6	type	Colonized Solar System
Xeelee Sequence / int_7adc9fc6	comment	Colonized Solar System: Humans start to colonise the Solar System during the 3rd millennium.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_7c4ba0e0	type	Red Sky, Take Warning
Xeelee Sequence / int_7c4ba0e0	comment	Red Sky, Take Warning: One of the indicators that the nebula in Raft needs to be evacuated.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
Xeelee Sequence / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: During the earliest moments of the universe, before the breakup of the GUT force, a multispecies federation established itself among the spacetime-defect creatures of this age.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_7f67e11	type	The Night That Never Ends
Xeelee Sequence / int_7f67e11	comment	The Night That Never Ends: At the end of Vengeance, Earth is moved into a new orbit in the Oort Cloud, where the sunlight is a million times as dim. Harry Poole even uses this exact phrase when describing the situation.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_7fe8b5b5	type	Time Machine
Xeelee Sequence / int_7fe8b5b5	comment	Time Machine: Pretty much any vessel capable of traversing FTL is effectively a time machine. As the Sequence honours general relativity, travelling faster-than-light breaks causality. As such, any races that can travel FTL has in effect, an armada of timeships.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
Xeelee Sequence / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: Harma Druz is this factored up to an eleven. The abovequote is one of the most nihilistic motto ever written in literature.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
Xeelee Sequence / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The Roman narrative of Coalescent is set in Britain from AD 410 (the year the Romans withdrew from Britain) to AD 455, and in Rome from AD 455 (the date of the second Sack of Rome by the Vandals) to Regina's death in AD 476 (the end of the Western Roman Empire). The filth and decay of civilisation, the rapid decline of cities, withering of trade, decline of population and the loss of education and skills; or in other words, the rapid onset of the Dark Ages in just a couple of generations, is described in vivid detail.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_81c8dd41	type	Deus Est Machina
Xeelee Sequence / int_81c8dd41	comment	Deus Est Machina: The anti-Xeelee is an AI created by the Xeelee with a purpose: to go back in time and found the civilisation that built it at the beginning of time, so they'll have a billion year technological jump on all other intelligent life. Its hardware: Absolutely none — it's encoded directly into the quantum structure of the universe. Its attitude on everything: dryly amused.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Xeelee Sequence / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: An absurd example. But one of the standard issue weapons given to Green Army child soldiers of the Coalition are assault rifles that fires pellets that contain the raw mass-energy density of the Big Bang. Ergo, one of the most common weapons in the Coalition are Big Bang Rifles. The reason why the whole universe ain't exploding with the force of the Big Bang is because all of that energy is condensed into a shaped charge, so the resulting kinetic energy is focused into a point. And the crazy thing is? it is still as useless as a stapler against Xeelee Construction Material. If that is not a statement on how overpowered the Sequence is, I don't know what is.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_8573ac0a	type	The Social Darwinist
Xeelee Sequence / int_8573ac0a	comment	The Social Darwinist: The Coalition is an extreme example. The primary goals of Hama Druz is to make humans stay as human. To do so requires a level of genetic surviellence on an extreme, totalitarian end. Nevermind the mass xenocides, just the human factor of the Coalition would make the likes of the Imperium of Man look like progressive hippies because at least the Imperium tolerates Abhumans and Transhumans. The Coalition view ALL human offshoots as abominations worthy of neither pity nor mercy.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Xeelee Sequence / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Xeelee are creatures made of the raw fabric of the universe twisted into arcane forms that lived and forged long-forgotten civilizations in the first billionth of a second of the universe's existence and have watched the passing of aeons. They were here when the primal forces diverged from each other when the universe shifted from an opaque plasma soup to a transparent world of blackness and stars when civilizations cried out against the first birth of the atom. It is hinted that Xeelee has combined with their technology (and possibly symbiotes) to such a degree that they have no real 'body'. Photino birds are a super-symmetric species of dark matter entities that inhabit the gravity wells of stars, with a multi-billion-year life span and the ability to travel faster than the speed of light. Photino birds have begun their existence shortly after the birth of the universe and have existed in a continual time loop, so their relative age is effectively infinite, and their knowledge and technology keep accumulating. Being made of dark matter, they are immune to any non-gravity-based attack. They are capable of moving galaxies easily and accelerating them to relativistic speeds for use as projectiles. The anti-Xeelee is an artificial intelligence created by the Xeelee billions of years ago (or billions of years ahead, in the far future) to ensure their great projects would be completed. The anti-Xeelee is an incorporeal entity made of probability quantum wave functions that fill the universe like a spiderweb. The anti-Xeelee awareness is spread across the entire universe and is not bound by the restraints of time or space. It is also acausal — in the sense, there's no beginning or end to it, it's always there in some form or another. As a particle with a negative vector in time, its main job is to travel backward in time as a reverse time capsule to speed up Xeelee evolution.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_8844a843	type	Seeing Through Another's Eyes
Xeelee Sequence / int_8844a843	comment	Seeing Through Another's Eyes: The second level of the Transcendence's Witnessing is Hypostatic Union: not just watching the subject but experiencing everything they experience. Through Hypostatic Union the Transcendence can go through the thoughts and experiences of anyone, even dead people.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_89443850	type	Absolute Xenophobe
Xeelee Sequence / int_89443850	comment	Absolute Xenophobe: While recovering from the brutal Qax occupation that enforced stagnation and flirted with extinction, humanity adopts an extremely xenophobic imperative that aimed to ensure the future of the species (known as the Druz Doctrines after its founder, Hama Druz). When humanity begins to expand into the galaxy, they become responsible for killing off the entire non-human population of at least one galaxy.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Xeelee Sequence / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: The protagonists in The Ghost Pit are perhaps the vilest in the whole series. In other stories, the worst cruelty is done by child soldiers in pursuit of collective victory, it's appalling, but somewhat understandable, and don't seem as individually perverse. In this story we see the hunting down of the last Silver Ghosts, not for fanatical conditioning, nor the belief in xenocide necessary for human survival, and not even motivated by ideology. Instead it's two people who want to do it for individual profit, and even more to be able to take out the last Ghosts. Pirius and Commissary Nilis from Exultant may look like level-headed individuals. But that's only in comparison to the walking insane asylum that is the Coalition. Always remember that they are still part of a regime so absolutely evil and morally reprehensive that it will give the Daleks some pause for thought. They are still very much strong believers of Hama Druz and the Coalition's practices and are either directly or indirectly responsible for an innumerable amount of war crimes. They may be portrayed as A Lighter Shade of Black but they would still be considered as absolute racist, xenocidal, sadistic monsters by our standards.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_89a98f45	type	Living Relic
Xeelee Sequence / int_89a98f45	comment	Living Relic: Following the Qax occupation, this is the argument used by the pharaohs (humans who collaborated with the Qax and were gifted immortality in return) to dissuade the new human government from killing them: they have become the last keepers of the history and lore of humanity and the planet Earth, which were largely erased during the Qax's Extirpation.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_8a0d290b	type	Conlang
Xeelee Sequence / int_8a0d290b	comment	Conlang: In-Universe, as part of their great Extirpation to erase all human culture, the Qax force humans to speak a constructed language.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_8a27f768	type	Space Whale
Xeelee Sequence / int_8a27f768	comment	Space Whale: The Spline are giant living armored spaceships that evolved from alien whales. They live off interstellar gas and other species use them as transports and warships. There are also more literal space whales that inhabit the alternate universe where Raft takes place.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Xeelee Sequence / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In a multiverse of high Kardashev IV civilizations, you can bet there are hand-held weapons that has more firepower than a Deathstar. You have pistol-sized 'construction equipment' that can make Stars go supernova to weaponized topological defects of space-time capable of bisecting weaponised galaxies like silly string. The factions of the Xeelee Sequence are not to be trifled with.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Xeelee Sequence / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The publication order of the stories does not correspond at all to the chronological order in which they happen.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_8bf19707	type	No Dead Body Poops
Xeelee Sequence / int_8bf19707	comment	No Dead Body Poops: Implied aversion in Raft. One character sees "a shape hanging from rope" and "a pool of something brown and thick" beneath it.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_8c00901a	type	Creepy Good
Xeelee Sequence / int_8c00901a	comment	Creepy Good: The Puissant Order of Holy Mary Queen of Virgins is basically a group of Roman Christians who unconsciously adopt eusocial reproduction patterns because of the hardships during the end of the Western empire, eventually evolving away from standard Homo sapiens. They grew wealthy during centuries, and use most of that wealth for charity and educating those who would otherwise not recieve any education. Basically, they are really alien and creepy, but benevolent in their conscious goal (the unconscious one is, of course, preserving the hive).
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Xeelee Sequence / int_8c732f20	type	Time Dilation
Xeelee Sequence / int_8c732f20	comment	Time Dilation: Frequently, due to the prevalence of ships that move close to the speed of light: the Great Northern is designed to undergo a journey that will take 1000 years for its crew to return to Earth in AD 5 million. In Old Earth, a world with stratified time, time runs faster the higher up you climb, leading to the longer-lived upper crust living at the bottom exploiting the (relatively) short-lived caste further up, and passes much more slowly than outside, so its inhabitants can live off the trickling geothermal heat of the Earth alone, to the point that the gaps between the stories are measured in hundreds of millions of years.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_8d407165	type	Human Architecture Horror
Xeelee Sequence / int_8d407165	comment	Human Architecture Horror: Whatever happened to the Mayflower II, the Boneys or any transhuman societies that lived in the Coalescents are this.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_908ad334	type	Time Master
Xeelee Sequence / int_908ad334	comment	Time Master: In a multiverse of time-travelling great power rivalries. The Xeelee and Photino Birds are both grandmasters of time. The only ones outside of the series that could compete with them on an equal basis are the goddamned Time Lords and Daleks.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
Xeelee Sequence / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: All Squeem are linked into a mass mind. So the death of a single Squeem affected the totality, but only in a minor way, as the loss of a single neurone from a human brain wouldnâ€™t even be noticed.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_90abf35b	type	Formerly Sapient Species
Xeelee Sequence / int_90abf35b	comment	Formerly Sapient Species: In conditions that do not change and where innovation is not necessary or taboo, humans have a tendency to breed intelligence out of themselves; for example, the Shipbuilders in Between Worlds and transients (mortal human crew) on the Mayflower generation ship are little more than beasts that can nonetheless maintain their ships out of instinct because that's their way of attracting sexual partners, the Coalescent hive that appears at the end of Coalescent, the fish-like posthumans that briefly appear in Transcendent, the savage 'drones' in In the Un-Black, among others.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_93c04c8a	type	Future Food Is Artificial
Xeelee Sequence / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: The Coalition sustains its massive population of disposable child soldiers with synthetic gruel made out of nanomachines. Given that Earth has been twice sterilised, the amount of natural food is few and far between.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
Xeelee Sequence / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The Xeelee Nightfighter in Vengeance appears to be doing this (in typical Xeelee fashion it doesnâ€™t ever bother to communicate its goals or justification to the humans) to prevent the mass extinction event caused by humanity exterminating all alien races it encounters during the third expansion in the main timeline by annihilating humanity before it can leave its home system. Remarkably, once the human survivors understand this in Redemption a significant faction of them agree that the Xeelee attack was justified.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Xeelee Sequence / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: The Qax's gift of immortality to the pharaohs was ambiguous: they don't breed true and have to watch their children die, if their growth isn't stunted as an infant.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_95dec9d2	type	Plant Aliens
Xeelee Sequence / int_95dec9d2	comment	Plant Aliens: One of the indigenous lifeforms of the alternate universe where Raft takes place is a species of mobile floating trees.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_977d4b19	type	Tree Vessel
Xeelee Sequence / int_977d4b19	comment	Tree Vessel: In Raft, one of the strange lifeforms in the high-gravity universe is a species of mobile floating trees. Humans turn them into vessels and steer them through space.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_98431ae2	type	Gemstone Assault
Xeelee Sequence / int_98431ae2	comment	Gemstone Assault: The projectiles (dubbed Probes by humans) launched from the Cache to the human habitats on Earth, the Moon and Mars are diamond rough spheres.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Xeelee Sequence / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Late in Exultant, This Burden Must Pass, a member of the Friends of Wigner cult, has a chat with the Silver Ghost, and people point out a lot of similarity between their world views, but very different implications, with the Ghosts seeking to proactively fix their broken universe, while the Friends are ultimately about acceptance, waiting to be rescued.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
Xeelee Sequence / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: The traitorous humans who collaboratorated with the alien who conquered Earth were given eternal life as a reward. They eventually begin to regret this.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
Xeelee Sequence / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: The Spline genetically engineered themselves to be organic starships, and support themselves by being hired by various alien empires. The employers can mount whatever weapons or equipment they want in each Spline, as long as it doesn't adversely affect the Spline's health.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_9b0b8109	type	Floating Continent
Xeelee Sequence / int_9b0b8109	comment	Floating Continent: The first generations of human colonists on Venus live in cities floating in the Venusian sky.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Xeelee Sequence / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: Raft is set in an alternate universe where the gravitational force is a "billion" times as strong as our own. Stars are only a mile across and have extremely brief lives, becoming cooled kernels a hundred yards wide with a surface gravity of five g. Humans possess a "respectable" gravity field in and of themselves.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
Xeelee Sequence / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: An extremely absurd example. Hell, propably the most extreme example in all of fiction. But when your Big Bang rifles are treated like pellet guns, you know you're in for a doozy. But by far the most infamous example is the first ilteration of Star Breakers, which were essentially pistol-sized weapons that can blow up a star.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
Xeelee Sequence / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: The Sequence is THE quintessential hard sci-fi time travel epic with FTL-time machines and weaponised tactical and strategic foreknowledge. Numerous novels and shrot stories feature time travel as its central theme.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Xeelee Sequence / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Near the end of Ring, Louise and Spinner visit the same neutron star where Flux took place, and later, before the Great Northern passes through Bolder's Ring, its crew has a brief glimpse at the alternate universe depicted in Raft. The Seer and the Silverman ends with the independent human colony pulling out the old Susy drive from The Quagma Datum for a wild plunge forward.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_9eb7e397	type	Long-Lived
Xeelee Sequence / int_9eb7e397	comment	Long-Lived: No pharaoh is truly immortal; it's just that they couldn't foresee a time when they would die, and count their lives in tens of millennia or more. The most enduring of them, Luru Parz, lives for nearly 1 million years.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Xeelee Sequence / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: The alien Qax attempt to do this to the entire history of humankind, in a project know as the "Extirpation", in order to make humans more docile slaves. The Coalition also does this to various dissidents on a constant basis and the Transcendence one-ups all of them by attempting to unperson the entire human race, as in, every single alternate reality of humans from every single existing and potential timelines from existence.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Xeelee Sequence / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: The bloodsuckers are out-of-control Martian Virtuals that learned to steal something far more precious to any Virtual than blood: processor time. There are rules that unnecessary programmes are eventually shut down, but the bloodsuckers can integrate other Virtuals into their own programming and steal their ration of processor capacity.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Xeelee Sequence / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Harry Gage, hidden away from the Squeem when they conduct their operation to erase all memory of their freezing of the oceans that killed many humans and species, emerges as the sole person who remembers the event. He becomes the first Rememberer, and after his death his successors continue to keep and pass this knowledge until the discovery of a Squeem holdout in the Solar System, and the last Rememberer decides it's time to reveal it.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_9ffbadef	type	Fantastic Naming Convention
Xeelee Sequence / int_9ffbadef	comment	Fantastic Naming Convention: The nobility of Old Earth write their given name and surname as a single word in a CamelCase style. Only the eldest son and eldest daughter of each couple inherit their father's surname, the others taking the surname of their mother.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
Xeelee Sequence / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: Reality Dust details an incident involving reality dust and Pharaohs on Callisto that causes Hama Druz to turn from an abstract-minded bureaucrat into the insane ideologue whose demented 'humans as vicious vermin' philosophy fuels the atrocities of the Coalition and plagues humanity for twenty thousand years.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_a10775b7	type	Mean Boss
Xeelee Sequence / int_a10775b7	comment	Mean Boss: After they are sent to the Belt for mining labour, the scientists are supervised by Roch, a huge, half-mad troublemaker and alcoholic. He doesn't waste any time making life hell for them.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_a1588c2a	type	Living Ship
Xeelee Sequence / int_a1588c2a	comment	Living Ship: The Spline are immense, space-faring creatures who engineer themselves to be spacecraft and then hire themselves out to other species.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_a44cd048	type	Meet the New Boss
Xeelee Sequence / int_a44cd048	comment	Meet the New Boss: The day-to-day life of the drones of Conurbation 2473 changes little after the overthrow of the Qax and the three changes in regime — Qax to bandits to Green Guard to Million Heroes — over a year after that. One set of rulers was much the same as another, and the series of ugly power struggles and material erosion makes many people genuinely miss the days of Qax rule.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Xeelee Sequence / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: The protagonist of The Venus Generations is a woman named Hank Poole.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_a5c29c9c	type	Persecuted Intellectuals
Xeelee Sequence / int_a5c29c9c	comment	Persecuted Intellectuals: In Raft, the scientists on the Raft are sent to the Belt to do hard labour after the working class revolts against them and the officers.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Xeelee Sequence / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: The Interim Coalition of Governance seeks to counter the blatant Xeelee qualitative superiority with numbers and making suicide rushes, billions dying each year for thousands of years to achieve fractional gains. The inefficiencies and stupidity of the Coalition is one of the main points of Exultant. This is a group that thought reviving trench warfare like manual charges would be a good point.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Xeelee Sequence / int_a8559a9f	comment	Bolder's Ring, built by the titular aliens; it's constructed out of cosmic strings (and is revealed to be the cause of the Real Life Great Attractor) and is essentially a black hole that has been stretched into a one-dimensional loop millions of light years in length. It's eventually revealed to be an escape route for the Xeelee from the Universe, by means of tearing a hole in spacetime through the middle of the ring via the unimaginably strong gravitational forces created through its rotation.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_a9317105	type	Age Without Youth
Xeelee Sequence / int_a9317105	comment	Age Without Youth: The pharaohs' immortality treatment is imperfect, in that they still age albeit slower than normal humans, as shown by Rusel, the 25000-year-old protagonist of Mayflower II, who spends most of his time sleeping and is barely able to function without his life support systems, and even moreso by the 994721-year-old Luru Parz in The Siege of Earth.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_a95fc331	type	Mad God
Xeelee Sequence / int_a95fc331	comment	Mad God: The Transcendence ultimately desires to erase all suffering in the past, thereby ensuring that every human that could have existed does so. But since this is seen as too great a task, the Transcendence is prepared to reach back in time and stop humans from ever existing, thereby "erasing" the suffering that they intend to redeem. Now that's a messed up god.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
Xeelee Sequence / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: With a series as dark as the Sequence, this has become the standard operational procedure for nearly every faction in the series. Humanity obviously has this in spades through the Coalition and post-Coalition on both a galactic and universal scale against all aliens. The Qax has this for humanity ever since their homeworld was destroyed. Even the Silver Ghosts had something more akin to a suicide pact during the height of their war with the Coalition.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_a96c2803	type	Space Master
Xeelee Sequence / int_a96c2803	comment	Space Master: Both the Xeelee and Photino Birds can warp space like a child manipulating playdoh. You know you are worthy of such a title if a faction can create galaxy-sized cosmic strings (errors and defects of space-time itself) with absolute ease.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_aa596c58	type	The War of Earthly Aggression
Xeelee Sequence / int_aa596c58	comment	The War of Earthly Aggression: Starfall documents the preparations and events of the Starfall rebellion conducted by the human extrasolar colonies against the Empire of Sol, based in New York.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_aa7dc8ce	type	Luke Nounverber
Xeelee Sequence / int_aa7dc8ce	comment	Luke Nounverber: The primitive people of the jungle on the Great Northern have names like Arrow Maker, Spinner-of-Rope, Trapper-of-Toads and Painter-of-Faces.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_aabdf2c6	type	Tyke-Bomb
Xeelee Sequence / int_aabdf2c6	comment	Tyke Bomb: The Coalition makes use of Child Soldiers, many of whom are grown in vats at the Front. Each of these children are taught the Druz Doctrines to an almost cellular level, ensuring loyalty to the cause and every single one of them is trained to kill a variety of aliens in the most efficient way possible. Every Child Soldier is sent into battle when they are ready, often with special augmentations to suit their job.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Xeelee Sequence / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: The Xeelee are called the Baryonic Lords, for a good reason. And woe befall to any poor sod not named the Photino Birds who accidentally ended up pissing off the Lords of all Baryonic Matter.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_ac7471b0	type	The Dead Have Names
Xeelee Sequence / int_ac7471b0	comment	The Dead Have Names: On the nameless Rock that the protagonist of Riding the Rock visits, the soldiers carve the name of their dead on the surface. Within the grooves of each letter are inscribed more names, and there are many more layers of names nestled within each other.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
Xeelee Sequence / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: The Squeem missile sent to destroy an asteroid engineered by some humans to be an escape hatch off the occupied Solar System in Pilot. Among the pursuit, the missile adapts itself to accelerate faster, the humans have to modify their ship to do the same. This continues on, moving significant distances for what is millions of years outside due to time dilation. By the time they manage to crash the missile into a black hole, the humans have abandoned their physical forms, and Squeem rule over humanity has long since ended, that the chase continues past the point where there are probably any other humans still alive.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Xeelee Sequence / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Played straight with the war between the Silver Ghosts and the Coalition, with the Coalition eventually overcoming the formidable defences of the Ghosts and wiping every single Ghost from existence. This may also count with the wider war between the Coalition and the Xeelee, with the Coalition finally ousting the Xeelee from the Milky Way in Exultant. Although how much of a victory you can call that, knowing what happens to the Coalition, is up to debate.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Xeelee Sequence / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: From the point of view of the Gemo Cana, she accepts that in helping the Qax with their Extirpation the pharaohs are doing violence to the past, but insists on the need to collaborate, to destroy all records, to be able to keep a continuity through their memory that will enable further independence and defiance.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_b1e9444f	type	Baby Factory
Xeelee Sequence / int_b1e9444f	comment	Baby Factory: Possibly one of the most disturbing examples ever written into fiction. The Sequence is what happens when you objectify women down to its most logical conclusion. From the Coalescent human hives to the deformed women-turned-vending-machines in the Mayflower II. It is going to suck being female in this hellscape.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Xeelee Sequence / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: There's some inconsistencies across the series, mainly between the earlier novels and the Destiny's Children books. Some of it is simply the result of a lot more light being shed on the period between the fall of the Qax and the end of Ring, but (for example) the fact that Xeelee-style FTL drives function as time machines, including the ability to create paradoxes is only revealed in Exultant, when one would have expected it to be mentioned earlier. In The Xeelee Flower (the very first story written in the series), the Xeelee seem like an advanced species somewhat similar to humans, having buildings, doors, rooms, handguns, and nightfighters have tiny hand-operated control panels. Later books (from Exultant onward) depict them as eldritch beings totally bound up with their technology (part spacetime defect symbiotes) such that one can't really distinguish between themselves and their technology.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
Xeelee Sequence / int_b3eecaae	comment	Colony Drop: There's the extreme colony drop option where a Neutron Star is accelerated to high fraction of light speed and smashed into Bolder's Ring.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_b401ff67	type	Multiversal Conqueror
Xeelee Sequence / int_b401ff67	comment	Multiversal Conqueror: What the Photino Birds end up doing in the end.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_b59bbb0c	type	Moving Buildings
Xeelee Sequence / int_b59bbb0c	comment	Moving Buildings: The buildings made of Xeelee construction material on Goober c are capable of uprooting and moving to avoid danger.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Xeelee Sequence / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: Averted with the "Anti-Xeelee", since its name actually refers to the fact it travels backwards in time, like some anti-particles are theorized to do. The antagonists of the Xeelee, the Photino Birds, fit.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_b6844837	type	Evil Is Bigger
Xeelee Sequence / int_b6844837	comment	Evil Is Bigger: The Interim Coalition of Governance was the most dominant faction of the Milky Way Galaxy for 20,000 years, and these guys were downright monstrous. The Transcendence were even bigger and more powerful, occupying an entire galactic supercluster and was just as unhinged and deranged as the Coalition. Out of universe, the Xeelee Sequence is this to its fellow contemproary dystopias.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
Xeelee Sequence / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: The relations between the members of the Poole family are a non-stop car wreck.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_b91be405	type	Dyson Sphere
Xeelee Sequence / int_b91be405	comment	Dyson Sphere: The setting of The Lakes of Light is a star encased wholly by a sphere made up of Xeelee construction material. During the Xeelee Scourge, the Xeelee take care of the human vermin by encasing their star systems within such spheres.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_b9e8ad28	type	The Multiverse
Xeelee Sequence / int_b9e8ad28	comment	The Multiverse: The universe floats in a greater space, called the Bulk, of many extra dimensions. There are many universes floating parallel to each other in the Bulk, like pages in a book. These other universes can be reached through engineering, like wormholes.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_b9e90c0a	type	Vertebrate with Extra Limbs
Xeelee Sequence / int_b9e90c0a	comment	Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: The spindlings of Old Earth (which were originally aliens that were brought to Earth) have an inner skeletal structure but differ from native Earth tetrapods in one way: they have six legs. The creationists on the world uses this detail to justify their hypothesis (which is actually correct).
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Xeelee Sequence / int_bb03c099	type	Cool Gate
Xeelee Sequence / int_bb03c099	comment	Cool Gate: Bolder's Ring is a portal to other universes, meant to provide an escape for the Xeelee and other baryonic species if the universe was destroyed.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
Xeelee Sequence / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: Xeelee nightfighters, which can travel at near-lightspeed even before they fire up their hyperdrive, by flapping wings made of folded space-time.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_bba34b82	type	Humans Are Divided
Xeelee Sequence / int_bba34b82	comment	Humans Are Divided: Humans are the only race that fight their kinsmen on a regular basis.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_bbdafd63	type	Relationship Sabotage
Xeelee Sequence / int_bbdafd63	comment	Relationship Sabotage: Regina twice tries to get rid of her daughter Brica's budding romances, first with the Farm Boy Bran and then with the blacksmith apprentice Galba until she's satisfied with her third boyfriend, the Roman freeman Castor.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Xeelee Sequence / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: The tribelike mannerisms of the Boneys from Raft hide minds well-versed in orbital mechanics to rival trained scientists.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
Xeelee Sequence / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: Breeding Ground ends with the protagonist being consumed from inside-out by her Squeem symbiont. In The Lowland Expedition, the living buildings of the unnamed city feed on the humans that stay inside them.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_bf6907cb	type	Destroyer Deity
Xeelee Sequence / int_bf6907cb	comment	Destroyer Deity: The ancestors of the Silver Ghosts venerated the pulsar that was destroying their sun, made it a god and called it 'Destroyer'.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_bfc84d44	type	Calling Parents by Their Name
Xeelee Sequence / int_bfc84d44	comment	Calling Parents by Their Name: Michael Poole casually calls his father Harry Poole by his first name. Later in her life Hank Poole starts to do the same thing to her mother, as generation differences are kinda blurred when her own son became a centenarian.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_c0f87dda	type	Humans Are Warriors
Xeelee Sequence / int_c0f87dda	comment	Humans Are Warriors: Heavily, heavily subverted, at least when it comes to depicting this trope in a positive light. Once the "Interim Coalition of Governance" comes into power. The Xeelee outclass Humans in pretty much every sphere of technology, but the Fantastic Racism of Mankind's "Third Expansion" era doesn't let a little thing like that stand in the way of galactic conquest. Humanity has never been depicted to be heroic as the Sequence brutally exposes what this trope is like to its own logical conclusion. Rather than some noble, badass action heroes, the human race is depicted as jingoistic, savage, vicious, petty barbarians no better than vermin. If anything, humanity is viewed as utterly pathetic in the grand scheme of things as exemplified by how quickly the human race collapsed once a common enemy leaves the galaxy; fighting over scraps of power. A line in Exultant expresses humanity's wasteful savagery as such:
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Xeelee Sequence / int_c10d7b86	type	Flash Sideways
Xeelee Sequence / int_c10d7b86	comment	Flash Sideways: In Vengeance and Redemption (which take place in an alternate timeline), the Poole family archive includes, among others, prophecies of a future that will never come (or in other words, the story of the main timeline).
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Xeelee Sequence / int_c18d469b	type	Mutually Assured Destruction
Xeelee Sequence / int_c18d469b	comment	Mutually Assured Destruction: In the primordial universe, there were wars between matter-based and antimatter-based life, but they were always so devastating that mutual deterrence became the only option.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_c1ec8100	type	Guardian of the Multiverse
Xeelee Sequence / int_c1ec8100	comment	Guardian of the Multiverse: The Xeelee view themselves as the foremost protector of the material multiverse. They are called the Baryonic Lords for a reason.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_c2d4fa13	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Xeelee Sequence / int_c2d4fa13	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: By the time of the Coalition, there really isn't any faction that would be even considered remotely 'okay'. Even the factions considered 'nice' is more alien than anything else.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_c34b316c	type	Bee People
Xeelee Sequence / int_c34b316c	comment	Bee People: The Coalescent human hives, including the Puissant Order of Holy Mary Queen of Virgins, some of the outlying human colonies isolated during the Qax occupation, and the Coalition's Archive inside Olympus Mons. Males are outnumbered by females, most of whom are sterile and serve the hive as workers, helping their mothers produce more siblings; any female that becomes fertile will spend her entire life producing babies. For example, in the Order, boys are born, but there are few of them, and they either leave or are gay. Most girls do not reach puberty, remaining prepubescent in their physical appearance; those few that do develop a spermatheca and become veritable baby factories that can churn out hundreds of children from menarche to death. The women develop a way of communicating with each other through body language and pheromones that takes place almost unconsciously.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Xeelee Sequence / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: One of the simulations enacted by Martian Virtuals during the events of Xeelee: Vengeance is named 'Barsoom', and involves mostly naked, red-skinned, egg-laying human-like beings, apparently based on the works of a certain Discovery-era (read: 20th century) author. Sounds familiar?
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Xeelee Sequence / int_c7a56f9e	type	The Symbiote
Xeelee Sequence / int_c7a56f9e	comment	The Symbiote: A Silver Ghost is a community of symbiotic creatures: an autarky, a miniature biosphere in its own right, all but independent of the universe outside.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
Xeelee Sequence / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: The Black Ghost is twice to three times as big as its minions.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Xeelee Sequence / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: While the Coalition is completely insane, irrational and wasteful, they at least have reasons. Twice occupied by alien powers. Last occupation erased all human history and destroyed Earth's biosphere, placed immortal Quislings to rule humans... And all the species in the galaxy that ventured out of their home systems were more or less that. Opportunistic imperialism and capitalism, any real invention blocked by subconscious inferiority to Xeelee and knowledge that no matter how good you do, the Xeelee have invented it and perfected it before your Sun existed. Sure, some species weren't evil, but the trauma on human civilisation was too great to make any decisions about who lives and who dies, so they killed them all.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_c8bea4ec	type	My Species Doth Protest Too Much
Xeelee Sequence / int_c8bea4ec	comment	My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Unlike any of its kind, the Black Ghost is a Silver Ghost that fights like humans, with a militaristic hierarchy that proves dangerously capable of fighting humans, using new weapons, tactics and forms of organisation that threaten to turn the tide of battle.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Xeelee Sequence / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: Most of the main characters in Exultant. The Druz Doctrines' primary article of faith is that â€œa brief life burns brightlyâ€�: most of the human soldiers who fight the Xeelee are no older than 16.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_ca5938c0	type	Hive Caste System
Xeelee Sequence / int_ca5938c0	comment	Hive Caste System: The Puissant Order of Holy Mary Queen of Virgins is a hive of eusocial humans who have evolved into distinct castes. Boys in the Order are more or less the same as normal humans, but they are outnumbered by girls and usually leave the Order if not gay. Most girls are sterile, never reach puberty, do all of the Order's work and maintain a childlike physiology well into adulthood; if a girl does undergo puberty, she develops a spermatheca and spends the rest of her life producing three or four children per year non-stop from menarche to death (which is possible since Order matres only need 13 weeks to carry a baby to term and never undergo menopause). The Interim Coalition of Governance's Archive, located inside Olympus Mons, is a eusocial hive, home to a vast number of specialised castes: archivists, who have big heads, are much younger and age a lot faster than normal humans; runners, who can run faster and longer but live shorter lives; mechanics, who have long legs to allow them to reach tall places and reach distances faster; drones, normal sterile females that do the menial work; and breeders, perpetually pregnant and always seen floating in some sort of milky liquid.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Xeelee Sequence / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The only aliens that have names are the relatively unimportant Toolmakers (in The Sun-People), Cilia-of-Gold (in the short story of the same name) and the mummy-cows in the Photino Victory stories. Other individual aliens are always referred to by their species, or a title if said alien is particularly important (the Qax governor, the Black Ghost, the Ambassador to the Heat Sink,...).
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Xeelee Sequence / int_cac6d1d2	type	Mental Fusion
Xeelee Sequence / int_cac6d1d2	comment	Mental Fusion: The Transcendence, the emergent gestalt of a collective consciousness with billions of posthumans. This collective consciousness is made from individuals but they are not overwhelmed by the greater whole and maintain their individuality.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_ccf6b1b0	type	Rock Monster
Xeelee Sequence / int_ccf6b1b0	comment	Rock Monster: The colonists of the desert planet Baynix II ditched their carbon-based bodies for slower silicon models which leave them resembling motionless, man-shaped monoliths.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_cd3527d9	type	Negative Space Wedgie
Xeelee Sequence / int_cd3527d9	comment	Negative Space Wedgie: Constructed and weaponised. Both the Xeelee and the Photino Birds fire topological defects of space-time including cosmic strings, singularity lasers and weaponised galaxies.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_cdcd7a78	type	Derelict Graveyard
Xeelee Sequence / int_cdcd7a78	comment	Derelict Graveyard: The Reef is a heap of decommissioned automobiles piled up, crushed down on each other, glittering with bits of smashed windscreen and gaudy paintwork, the whole thing laced together by a patina of orange rust.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_cf5335c	type	Energy Absorption
Xeelee Sequence / int_cf5335c	comment	Energy Absorption: Its exotic properties allow Xeelee construction material to absorb energy in a perfect way, one hundred percent efficient. In fact, it "grows" from radiant energy, causing energy weapons to not only be useless but also 'restore' anything made of Xeelee construction material. It is, however, susceptible to be damage from spacetime flaws or weapons that distort and/or change spacetime itself (like monopoles, singularities, starbreakers etc).
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Xeelee Sequence / int_cfa1ad9	type	Life in Zero G
Xeelee Sequence / int_cfa1ad9	comment	Life in Zero G: The inhabitants of the generation ship Nord have slim bodies, arms only a little shorter than legs, and long toes, not as long as fingers but capable of grasping and manipulation — a body built for zero gravity.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
Xeelee Sequence / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: The microscopic aliens from Beta Pegasi are able to force carbon dioxide into a form of silicate-like rock that superficially resembles chalk.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
Xeelee Sequence / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Morag, Michael Poole's wife, dies giving birth to their second child.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Xeelee Sequence / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Jovik Emry gives one to Michael Poole after Poole destroys the Titan ecosystem and edits the memory of Miriam Berg, who opposed it, to make her forget.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Xeelee Sequence / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Heavily, HEAVILY subverted. Stephen Baxter is one of the few Sci-Fi writers who actually understands the concept of scale and the Sequence sure encapsulates the sheer vastness of space.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Xeelee Sequence / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: According to the Druz Doctrines, the official ideology of the Interim Coalition of Governance, unmodified humans are the best, humans should not use Anti-Senescence technology or any other useful self-modification they could do that would make the war easier and life better. The top ranks of the regime are total hypocrites about the Druz Doctrine, using extensive cybernetic modification, making themselves immortal while banning it for everybody else, and actively making use of immortal pharaohs, eusocial transhumans and alien symbionts.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_d5a84e45	type	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
Xeelee Sequence / int_d5a84e45	comment	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": The term photino bird is one, as these creatures are obviously not birds, or even matter at all. To the tiny Starfolk that inhabit the neutron star in which Flux takes place, 'Air' is the neutron superfluid in which they live; 'plants' and 'animals' are, respectively, the sessile and mobile indigenous lifeforms of the star (the 'plants' are in turn divided into 'trees' and 'grasses'); 'wood' is the building material made from the 'trees'; 'leaves' are the edible appendages of the 'trees'; 'wheat' is the 'grass' cultivated for food ('bread'); 'Air-pigs' are the main 'animals' used as livestock; 'Air-boars' are the savage cousins of the Air-pigs; and there are also 'animals' called 'spin-spiders' and 'rays'. The Squeem, the Titan fauna and the lifeforms of Beta are sometimes described as fish, spiders, birds, whales, trees or lilies, despite being aliens that only physically resemble these animals and plants. Exultant uses terms as plant, animal, fish, bird, insect or flower to refer to the various types of lifeforms that inhabited the primordial universe, where atoms didn't even exist yet.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Xeelee Sequence / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the humans attack the Xeelee from the Chandra black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, the Xeelee abandon the black hole because the method that the humans are using to attack them is potentially causing damage to the black hole itself and the monads inside.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_da4f8f0	type	The Blacksmith
Xeelee Sequence / int_da4f8f0	comment	The Blacksmith: Myrddin, the genius advisor of Artorius and supposedly a wizard, is depicted in Coalescent as an iron-making genius.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
Xeelee Sequence / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: The Order runs a vast subterranean complex located beneath the Catacombs, the ancient underground Christian tombs on the outskirts of Rome, described by George Poole as a nuclear bunker and Vatican crypt rolled into one.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Xeelee Sequence / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: The Black Ghost compares itself to the Silver Ghosts' Destroyer god of old.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Xeelee Sequence / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: Pirius lampshades this trope after losing two of his close comrades:
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Xeelee Sequence / int_dd7127d1	type	Benevolent Precursors
Xeelee Sequence / int_dd7127d1	comment	Benevolent Precursors: The Xeelee are one of the first species to develop and gain sentience after the universe's formation; indeed, their progenitors are older than physics as we know them today. They rarely take direct interest in messing with lesser civilisations, and are usually benevolent in the rare case they do. Their ultimate goal is to provide a way for all baryonic species to escape the doomed universe and the photino birds via Bolder's Ring.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_dd8deee1	type	Xenofiction
Xeelee Sequence / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: A few of the short stories set in the Expansion era in Vacuum Diagrams are partially told from the point of view of the aliens.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
Xeelee Sequence / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: Stonehenge is mostly lost in space near the end of Timelike Infinity, except for a single megalith which becomes a satellite of Jupiter.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e0309d03	type	Slave Race
Xeelee Sequence / int_e0309d03	comment	Slave Race: After the humans overthrow the Squeem occupation, they bring the fight to the Squeem home system and subjugate their former overlords, who are only allowed to live due to their usefulness as symbionts for humans.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e0d133d0	type	Insufficiently Advanced Alien
Xeelee Sequence / int_e0d133d0	comment	Insufficiently Advanced Alien: The Hive Mind Starfish Aliens known as the Squeem conquer Earth, despite being no more intelligent and not much older than humans, because they lucked out on finding technology left over from the sufficiently advanced Xeelee.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Xeelee Sequence / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Regina in the Roman-era plot of Coalescent is this to her daughter Brica, including killing a Saxon looter who attempts to rape Brica. Later in her life, she essentially becomes this to the entire Order.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Xeelee Sequence / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Happens in-universe to: Jasoft Parz, the human ambassador to the Qax occupation regime. In life, he works to moderate the bleak fact of Qax rule into a livable arrangement for as many humans as possible and contributes to thwarting the Qax when they travel back in time to AD 3717 and invade the Solar System. After the end of the Occupation, the word 'jasoft' came to be used by the new human regime to refer to traitors who must be purged. The Silver Ghosts, from the point of view of the Engineers, are a group of humans who escaped being enslaved by the Qax by dwelling between the stars in rafts made from spacecraft, where a small number of Silver Ghosts settled. The Coalition later came, suppressed the Engineer culture, and maltreated the Ghosts living there, ultimately starting the Ghost-Coalition war, during which the Engineer raft worlds were caught in the crossfire and mostly destroyed. Their descendants blame the Ghosts for destroying their ancient home, even if it was Coalition policy that precipitated the crisis in the first place.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e1ecdac3	type	Our Gods Are Different
Xeelee Sequence / int_e1ecdac3	comment	Our Gods Are Different: The monads, eternal, abstract beings which create each Universe in turn and then sleep through the lifespan of each Universe inside black holes. They can create universes with a stupendous amount of dimensions, and the entire story is just part of their dreams. Baxter remarks that they care nothing for humans, or quagmites, or Xeelee, or photino birds.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e26c3c72	type	Mile-Long Ship
Xeelee Sequence / int_e26c3c72	comment	Mile-Long Ship: The Xeelee Nightfighter has "wings" that stretch out for kilometers, though the cabin is rather small.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e2e55e86	type	Super Supremacist
Xeelee Sequence / int_e2e55e86	comment	Super Supremacist: The ancient ancestors of the Silver Ghosts were one group among their species who achieved spaceflight, left their homeworld, rarely came back and diverged from those who had stayed. Once the people who stayed summoned back the ur-Ghosts to help with an incoming crisis, they found themselves resenting having to aid a primitive, weaker form and began to see ways to exploit their own homeworld, ultimately leading to a civil war.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e3def52f	type	Egopolis
Xeelee Sequence / int_e3def52f	comment	Egopolis: The capital of the tiny humans in Flux, Parz City, is most likely named after Luru Parz.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Xeelee Sequence / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Regina is single-minded in her intent to forge ahead and adapt to circumstances, and her instinct for survival often prompts her into heartless and calculating actions; she actually trades her daughter's sexual services to secure passage to Rome from Britain. But it's also this instinct for survival that informs her leadership of the Puissant Order of Holy Mary Queen of Virgins, and her ideas about the preservation of bloodlines that becomes the Order's modus operandi in the subsequent centuries.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e5a93e61	type	Homeworld Evacuation
Xeelee Sequence / int_e5a93e61	comment	Homeworld Evacuation: The liberation of Earth from Qax rule was caused when Jim Bolder fires the starbreaker gun at the Qax homeworld's sun, forcing them to abandon Earth and try to save as many individuals as possible before their world burns.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e5e07b2d	type	You Cannot Grasp the True Form
Xeelee Sequence / int_e5e07b2d	comment	You Cannot Grasp the True Form: In some interviews when asked about it, Baxter says any human attempts to comprehend Xeelee 'culture' and 'society' would be equal as an ant somewhere in Africa trying to comprehend workings and behaviour of the UN.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e77e2787	type	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future
Xeelee Sequence / int_e77e2787	comment	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: The Coalition's Green Army forces their soldiers to dig their own trenches even if it's more efficient to let machines do it, in order to reinforce their superstition that a shelter constructed by a machine will never be as safe as one you have dug out yourself.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Xeelee Sequence / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: Michael Poole erases the events of his destruction of the Titan ecosystem from the memory of Miriam Berg, who opposed the act, to keep her quiet. After the Squeem temporarily freeze all of Earth's water, killing many humans and nearly sterilising the oceans in the process, they engineer a virus to erase all memory of this event from all humans. They mostly succeeded; all but one human come out of it believing the oceans have always been depleted of life.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_e96fe76d	type	Hobbes Was Right
Xeelee Sequence / int_e96fe76d	comment	Hobbes Was Right: This is Hobbes Was Right in literature form. The longest human civilizations are ones so brutal and monstrous it gives the Daleks a run for their money. Every human have proven to be self-serving, backstabbing, egotistical and megalomaniacal cunts of the highest order when push comes to shove. Humans are viewed as childish, petulant, petty and instinctively tribal and xenophobic to the point that any attempts at democracy would end up falling apart due to various external and internal factors unique to human sociology.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_ea74a7bf	type	Merged Reality
Xeelee Sequence / int_ea74a7bf	comment	Merged Reality: The Restoration plan of the Transcendence is to have merge every possible timeline into a single universe so that any and all possible humans will exist in this single universe regardless of logic.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Xeelee Sequence / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: In Coalescent, Marcus does this to himself to atone for his crime of cheating his wife. He doesn't survive long after.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Xeelee Sequence / int_eb04f8d5	comment	Fascist, but Inefficient: Subverted. Yes, if you view the ICoG under the lense of a modern human society, its abillity to provide welfare to its citizens is, to put it lighly, horrendously ineffecient. But that in itself is a problem isn't it? As the ICoG is NOT a normal human society. It is a posthuman one and the Coalition was never built originally to be a utopia for mankind. Rather, the goal of Druz's Coalition is to prevent humanity from evolving at all cost, exterminate all potential existential threats of humanity and to unite and give humanity purpose for the first time in millennia no matter how monstrous the steps needed to take in achieving it. In that case, the Coalition proves to be both Fascistic and effecient to a horrifying degree. So once the Xeelee finally high-tailed it, the original goals of Druz became completed. And as such, the Coalition collapses almost immediately after the Xeelee withdrew from the galaxy as there were no reason for the Coalition to exist.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_eb284c81	type	Sci-Fi Horror
Xeelee Sequence / int_eb284c81	comment	Sci-Fi Horror: The Sequence is one of the darkest science-fiction stories ever told, this is to be expected.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Xeelee Sequence / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When a battle turns to disaster for the Coalition forces, Pirius chooses to risk survival instead of following his orders to stand to fight and die pointlessly, in the process capturing a Xeelee nightfighter for the first time in history. Rather than being lauded as a hero, he is court-martialed for disobeying orders.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_ecf76ce6	type	Decapitated Army
Xeelee Sequence / int_ecf76ce6	comment	Decapitated Army: The Black Ghost inspires its kindâ€™s last effective stand. After its fall, the Ghosts' political unity fragments, and effective Ghost resistance to human conquest comes to an end.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
Xeelee Sequence / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: The society in Raft is highly stratified, led by the Officers, descended from the officers of the original ship that came through Bolder's Ring, who share the Raft (the remains of the ship that contains almost all the high technology) with the scientists and some of the labourers; the various Belt worlds are inhabited by the majority of miners that mine burnt-out star kernels in bad conditions; and there are the cannibalistic Boneys who live on worlds created out of corpses. People are born into their class, work in it throughout their life and usually die in it. There is talk about being able to rise to the top with talent, but this seems to be predominantly a myth. There is at least one case where this happens (Rees) but it's clearly far from usual.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_ee19d278	type	Blob Monster
Xeelee Sequence / int_ee19d278	comment	Blob Monster: Swimmer-with-Somethings looks disturbingly like a flayed human, immersed in a kind of gummy soup within which smaller creatures swim.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Xeelee Sequence / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. There are two characters named Julia (the mother and one of the granddaughters of Regina), two named George Poole (one of the protagonists of Coalescent, and his ancestor who lived in the 16th century), two named Michael Poole (the protagonist of Transcendent and his descendant who appears in Timelike Infinity and Ring; the former is usually called Michael Poole Bazalget when he needs to be distinguished from his more famous descendant) and two named Lora (the girlfriend of Rusel in Mayflower II and the crush of the eponymous protagonist of PeriAndry's Quest).
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Xeelee Sequence / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Xeelee Sequence / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Lora, the girlfriend of Rusel, protagonist of Mayflower II. When the Coalition forces reach their home, he is chosen to escape on a generation ship and she is forced to stay behind to be killed, but he never stops thinking about her for the rest of the story.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_f13a0451	type	Suicide Attack
Xeelee Sequence / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack: During the Squeem occupation of Earth, a human assassin, pumped full of Squeem-specific toxins and pathogens, jumps into the Squeem colony of Lake Superior laden with rocks, slits her own wrist and lets her blood fill the lake to exterminate the colony. Also considered a viable tactics for the Interim Coalition of Governance as they expect their child soldiers to die; so mass suicide charges or crashing their damaged fighters into the enemy is a given.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_f2350614	type	Nothing Left to Do but Die
Xeelee Sequence / int_f2350614	comment	Nothing Left to Do but Die: Michael Pooleâ€™s final fate in the Distant Finale of Ring, having seen the Photino Birds bring about the end of the universe, commits suicide via falling into a neutron star.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_f364de89	type	Make Wrong What Once Went Right
Xeelee Sequence / int_f364de89	comment	Make Wrong What Once Went Right: Xeelee: Vengeance takes place in an Alternate Timeline created when a Xeelee from after the war goes back in time with the intent on taking out humanity in general and Michael Poole in particular.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
Xeelee Sequence / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Amator is last seen staying on the surface of Rome before the Vandalic hordes come and sack the city. He is never seen or heard of again after that.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_f5b42c55	type	Global Warming
Xeelee Sequence / int_f5b42c55	comment	Global Warming: Earth in the 2040s is a world drastically diminished. Global warming has raised sea levels drastically and shifted climates around the world, devastating the biosphere and displacing entire nations.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Xeelee Sequence / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: In Coalescent, a Saxon raider attempts to rape Brica when happening upon her and her mother Regina. Seeing her daughter in danger makes Regina realise that there are no lengths to which she will not go to protect her child, and she pretends to offer herself in place of Brica, then stabs the attacker with his own knife.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_f863bb6d	type	Battle Trophy
Xeelee Sequence / int_f863bb6d	comment	Battle Trophy: The human-descended "drones" in In the Un-Black have the habit of taking trophies from their kills.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
Xeelee Sequence / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: After each universal mass extinction, small enclaves of the survivors would survive in one manner or another, witnessing the universe becoming progressively colder and slower.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Xeelee Sequence / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Harry Gage opposed the Squeem to the end of his life for their murder of his parents.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_fbb54ba6	type	Forever War
Xeelee Sequence / int_fbb54ba6	comment	Forever War: The Xeelee are nearly immortal, and humanity quickly proves itself a race of consummate survivors. They don't like each other. Do the math. But even that pales before the Xeelee-Photino war. Mankind vs. Qax. Infuriated by their improbable repulsion from an enslaved earth, and further goaded by humanity being indirectly responsible for the destruction of their home system, the Qax bear their grudge so long that it becomes a species imperative (i.e. eat, breathe, breed, destroy all humans).
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Xeelee Sequence / int_fbcaf7b0	type	The Watcher
Xeelee Sequence / int_fbcaf7b0	comment	The Watcher: At some point of their evolution, the Snowmen turned themselves completely toward the philosophy that to record events — and only to record — was the highest calling of life. They took apart their world and rebuilt it as a monstrous storage system. They used all the material at their disposal to freeze as much data as they could in an artificial structure called the Snowflake, making near-optimal use of matter, by recording information right down to the thermodynamic limit set by the background temperature of the Universe. As the universe cools down they can store more data.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_fe3368cf	type	My Future Self and Me
Xeelee Sequence / int_fe3368cf	comment	My Future Self and Me: If you grow up in a Green Navy base, meeting your own future self was no big deal. The whole point of the place is that from birth you are trained to fly FTL starships (or, in other words, time machines). Most people figure out that that means there might come a day when you would meet a copy of yourself from the future — or the past, depending which end of the transaction you look at it from.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: With how batshit insane the Coalition is, it is no surprise that their callous mass extermination of the Silver Ghost for simply just being in the way is completely unnecessary. This is doubly so for their war with the Xeelee. The war with the Xeelee is such a big waste of time and human resources that even Pirius, the main character in Exultant lamented how much of a huge waste it is. But that didn't stop the Coalition from waging an endless war with the Xeelee for 20,000 years just because the Xeelee are aliens. The Transcendence is also no better, continuing the pointless blood feud with the Xeelee across the universe all because they don't like the idea of humanity being second best. Than there is the Qax, whose answer to their human slaves rebelling is to try every attempt including time travel, to annhilate humanity from all existence. Like humanity's relationship with the Xeelee, the Qax has a eternal blood feud with humanity that stretches for 500,000 years.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_feb0e2fe	comment	Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: The Xeelee are sufficiently mysterious in-universe that no one is sure what they really are. Though their actual power far exceeds many other examples that are the traditional sufficiently advanced aliens, in many of the earlier short stories the reader is given the impression they are normal biological lifeforms. This is simply because their godlike technology is still recognizable as such and uses comprehensible interfaces, if not comprehensible principles; they're a hyper-extreme example of Higher-Tech Species instead. However, there are indications that Bolder's impression of the Xeelee were retconned, or at the very least the Nightfighter he piloted was a second-hand cast off, like so much of Xeelee technology. In Exultant, it is revealed that the Xeelee are self-aware space-time constructs that have existed since very earliest moments of the universe.
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Xeelee Sequence / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Xeelee Sequence / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: When the author of the series has a degree in mathematics and engineering, this is bound to happen. Although a few of the theoretic physics is now outdated (i.e. Great Attractor) and paleontology not being Baxter's strong suit. Overall, the series still holds up incredibly well; from how time travel works, to how dimensions should properly behave via quantum mechanics. The Sequence is still chock full of applied and theoretical physics on both the very small and the very big.
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