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Dread Empire's Fall
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A fairly hard space opera trilogy by Walter Jon Williams, comprising The Praxis (2002), The Sundering (2003), and Conventions of War (2005).Dread Empire's Fall is set in the far future. For thousands of years, a large interstellar empire comprising of all known intelligent life forms has been ruled over in a strict hierarchical manner by the Shaa. At the opening of the first novel in the trilogy the Shaa are all but extinct - having chosen to commit suicide out of boredom. The aristocrats responsible for running the Empire are seemingly more concerned with lining their own pockets and the whole edifice starts to crumble fairly quickly with Civil War breaking out shortly after the last master is interred.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The plot follows the progress of Lord Gareth Martinez, an ambitious space navy officer always looking out for advancement and Lady Caroline Sula, a cadet in the same navy mostly looking to protect her deep dark secrets. | |
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Space Friction - None. Accelerating is easy, it's planning the decelerations and turns that are tricky. | |
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Arbitrary Maximum Range - Missiles are sometimes even more effective when fired from a very long distance and allowed to cruise up to near relativistic speeds. The key point is sometimes. The defensive systems available mean that shorter range missile fires are generally more effective. | |
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Artificial Gravity - None. People stick to the deck, or don't based on how quickly their spaceship is accelerating. | |
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Old School Dogfight - The only use of fighter-sized ships is as low-cost scouts and to maintain real-time control over flights of missiles. The unfortunate pilots piloting these rarely survive a mission. | |
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