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The story is centred around the human homeworld Ava, which, thanks to precursor artefacts, created a small (compared to other races; a mere 200+ planets) empire in a thousand years after finding them. However, Ava's first colony Hades, aggravated by Ava's total free marketing ideas (i.e. no workers' rights), revolted and turned <s> communist</s> collectivist, taking fully half of Ava's colonies with them and renaming themselves the Red Blok. This forced Ava to cancel the debts of, and grant full membership into the U.N.A., to the remaining colonies in other to stop them from joining the revolt. Civil war soon followed.

Then the precursors showed up, with [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Monkeys|giant chain-smoking apes]] with big guns.

Then the precursors showed up, with [[Everything's Better With Monkeys|giant chain-smoking apes]] with big guns.

Turns out the Therians, a race of [[Transhuman]] Internet junkies are the ''real'' humans having reached [[The Singularity]] over half a million years ago. One of their pet projects happens to be taking over the universe in order to stop it from dying in about 25 billion years. They do this by seeding worlds with humans, giving them databases of information to speed up their development and waiting until the planet's resources are used up, whereupon the Therians come in and blow it up so they can use what's left to make a Dyson Sphere, which the Therians then move.

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* Red Blok: The polar opposite of the U.N.A., i.e. Space Commies. Weak and inaccurate weapons but make up for it by [[We Have Reserves|sheer numbers]] and [[More Dakka]] (in addition, their walkers are tougher than the U.N.A.'s).

* Therian: The [[Big Bad]] of the game, all culture is based on MMORPGs and Internet forums, they have the most powerful and numerous units and weapons, but lack any form of effective strategy.

* Karmans: A race of [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Monkeys|giant apes]] created by the Therians. Very small numbers and fragile vehicles but most weapons have very high rate of fire and are very powerful.

* Karmans: A race of [[Everything's Better With Monkeys|giant apes]] created by the Therians. Very small numbers and fragile vehicles but most weapons have very high rate of fire and are very powerful.

* Cogs: Aliens that look like the Greys, whole race of clones and old enemies of the Therians, somewhat of the [[Glass Cannon]] of the armies.

* Oni: the local [[Mega Corp]], hires their legions of zombies and mercenaries armed with U.N.A. and Therian weapons to anyone. Only faction so far with tanks.

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* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: Averted for the most part, played a bit more straight with Cogs but only for their type 3 (who are 95% machine) but that's what brainwashing is for!

* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Great place to live, everyone doesn't hate each up for the most part, no one is really evil, but there's the fact that Therians outnumber and outgun everyone by a factor of a billion to one and are only delaying their victory because war is too much ''fun''.

* [[Instant AI Just Add Water]]: Babel was formed by UNA hackers messing around the EMI Grid (the Therian Internet).

* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]: Babel was formed by UNA hackers messing around the EMI Grid (the Therian Internet).

* [[Laughably Evil]]: Dear lord, ''Therians''. Frankly, it's hard to believe that ''[[Cloudcuckoolander|these]] [[Genius Ditz|guys]]'' are the scourge of the universe on occasion.

* [[Les Yay]]: Zero and Babel view each other as soulmates.

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* [[My Hero Zero]]: Babylon/Nina Zero

* [[Living Forever Is Awesome]]: The Therians think it's so awesome that once they found out that the Universe was to die in 25 billion years, they launched a massive invasion of the universe in order to stop it.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Since they think of war as a game, Therians often make some ''[[Villain Ball|very]] [[What an Idiot|stupid]]'' decisions. They have a literally infinite amount of tactical knowledge and resources to draw on, have the most advanced technology and aren't exactly lacking in the numbers department either, but they're too rash to properly apply these.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Since they think of war as a game, Therians often make some ''[[Villain Ball|very]] [[What an Idiot!|stupid]]'' decisions. They have a literally infinite amount of tactical knowledge and resources to draw on, have the most advanced technology and aren't exactly lacking in the numbers department either, but they're too rash to properly apply these.

* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: Given their general intentions, you ''could'' make the argument that the Therians are not ''that'' evil, and it's not like the other factions are saintly, either. It's stated that they even let live those species that don't actively oppose their project.

* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Cogs and Karmans seem to like this.

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* [[Send in The Clones]]: All but four Cogs are non-clones.

* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]: The Therians are Internet junkies and gamers; sounds [[Narm|Narmy]] until you realize that they are killing ''trillions'' and blowing up countless planets all over the universe ''because it's their hobby'' and only lose battles because winning too quickly is boring.

* [[Screw the Rules I Have Connections]]: Averted with UNA's Captain H. Newton. As the daughter of Ava's president, she is very much aware of this trope and made sure that her mother's position never gave her any special treatment. Played a bit more straight with Shogun Natalya Bokov, one of Oni's directors and leader of V-Swat who was chosen because she (like everyone on the board) is a descendant of Oni's founder Okamura Kazuo. It helps she's also a ruthless [[General Ripper]].

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]: Averted with UNA's Captain H. Newton. As the daughter of Ava's president, she is very much aware of this trope and made sure that her mother's position never gave her any special treatment. Played a bit more straight with Shogun Natalya Bokov, one of Oni's directors and leader of V-Swat who was chosen because she (like everyone on the board) is a descendant of Oni's founder Okamura Kazuo. It helps she's also a ruthless [[General Ripper]].

* [[Shout Out]]:Lots of them concerning the Karmans. Let's begin with their battlestation being called ''[[Planet of the Apes|Zaius]]''.

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: there are no models of female regular troops, and the only unit that has more than one female model is a unit of medics.