A Lord From Planet Earth: Difference between revisions

* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]] - a quark bomb is a transparent cube about 2 meters in length. It explodes immediately upon construction, but the quark fission process is slowed down to a crawl. If the container is broken, then the fission process resumes in full force, breaking down any form of matter in the vicinity. A quark bomb is fully capable of destroying a planet in a matter of hours. Once started, the process is irreversible and cannot be stopped. The quark fission process can even spread to another planet by way of tiny meteorites or dust particles from the dead world. Using such a weapon is considered an atrocity in the galactic community. [[Teleporters and Transporters|Teleporting]] a quark bomb renders it inert.

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]] - Princess Terri of Tar is a beautiful young woman who meets Sergey several years before the main events of the book when she visits Earth. He defends her against a group of thugs, and she asks him to be her champion when the time comes, leaving him a ring. Several years later, she uses the ring to teleport him to Tar, when her planet is threatened. They later fall in love and marry. Unlike your typical princess, Terri is more than capable of handling herself, and the thugs were just a test for Sergey.

* [[Human Alien]] - this is actually explained by most known habitable worlds being [[Panspermia|seeded]] by [[Precursors]] aptly called the Seeders. Some aliens are virtually indistinguishable from humans, while others have grey skin, vampire fangs, etc.

** Played straight with the Fangs, who are from another galaxy and whose planet has not been visited by the Seeders.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] - Sergey, the protagonist, is a bully at the beginning of the first novel. At a party, he steals his friend's date and pretty much forces her to have sex with him (she was interested, but he didn't feel like "wasting" time wooing her; he simply ordered her to undress, the way he would order a private to "drop and give him 20" back in his army days). After ending up on planet Tar and asked to rescue Princess Terri, his personality changes a little, and, by the next two books, he drops his "jerk" shell, for the most part.

* [[Mental Time Travel]] - after arriving on Tar, Sergey is given two pencil-shaped crystals that are supposed to be Seeder artifacts with unknown properties. They turn out to be devices for throwing the user's consciousness back in time. Interestingly, when Sergey uses one and goes back a few hours, he no longer has the artifact.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]] - the Palians are a race of blood-drinking [[Human Aliens]], whose fangs, pale skin, and sensitivity to light from yellow dwarf stars became the origin of the vampire myths on Earth.

* [[Precursors]] - the Seeders were responsible for spreading life spores on all known inhabited worlds ({{spoiler|except Earth}}). Nobody knows what they looked like, as they disappeared long ago. They left behind numerous artifacts as well as a Temple on each planet, except Earth, that provides hyperspace coordinates to all other Temples, allowing interstellar travel. Because Earth lacks a Temple, it is cut out from the galactic community. As such, many aliens think that Earthlings have somehow wronged the Seeders and are thus cursed. At the end of the second book, it is revealed that {{spoiler|the Seeders are humans from the 22nd century, who are engaged in a losing war against a powerful extragalactic enemy and desperately need an army. For this purpose, they send automated seed ships into the past in order to populate the galaxy with life. The Temples are meant to guide the alien races in their development and prevent them from discovering Earth prematurely. In 2133, the Temples reveal the truth to all "seeded" aliens, and they join the human war effort}}.

** Being a [[Combat Pragmatist]], the protagonist desides to improve his chances by designing several new weapons, including a planar disc (a steel disc with monoatomic shards glued to the rim), which is capable of easily decapitating the target. There are also smaller, shuriken-like versions. He also later builds an airgun that fires these planar shurikens suspended in a magnetic field. Their design is similar to hollow-point bullets in that they change direction after entering the body, shredding the insides. Everybody else thinks his methods are horrible and prefers [[Honor Before Reason]].

* [[Teleporters and Transporters]] - teleportation is possible to any known planet, even Earth, despite Earth being unreachable via hyperspace. As such, aliens have been visiting Earth for centuries by using this method, sometimes resulting in myths being formed. Teleportation is a costly technology and cannot be used for commercial or military purposes, as only about 70 metric ton can be transported at once. All high-tech weapons are rendered inert by the process.