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* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Fatebane dives his ship through an interlocking field of fire generated by the planetary defenses. When that fails, he gets into a shuttle. When that fails, he jumps out in a [[Powered Armor|combat suit]], which then fails momentarily, only to come back on right before he [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress|plows into the ground.]]
* [[Not My Driver]]: Fatebane and David are not happy to find that the freighter captain they hired to help them escape from a planet turned out to be the detective chasing them.
* [[Officer and
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: Fatebane has a memorable run-in with the President of the Terran Associated States.
* [[Planet of Hats]]: Several of the planets visited or mentioned. Sarmatia is the planet of [[Space Amish]] nomadic horse warriors. New Tau Ceti is the planet of religious nutjob sheep-men.
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*** Now how many people get that reference?
* [[Shout-Out]]: Multiple references to previous writing projects by the same author, his friends, and obscure sources of inspiration.
** For example, ''Righteous Indignation'' was the name of [[Bucky O'Hare and
* [[Showy Invincible Hero]]: You could call Fatebane a [[One-Man Army|one man army]], but whether it's penetrating the [[Storming the Castle|enemy's secret lair]] or [[Blood Sport|finishing off mutant wolves]], he's gotta look good doing it.
* [[Space Amish]]: The Free Realm of Sarmatia was colonized by people who want to live simple, or at least live as steppe nomad horse warriors. They're not stupid, however, and thus keep modern medical technology, and hide the oh-so-convenient maglev trains underground so as to not spoil the illusion of primitive barbarism.
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* [[Space Jews]]: Coronado Salazar, one of Fatebane's underground contacts. As the author himself is a recent convert to Judaism, some sort of [[In Space|Jews In Space]] was [[Author Appeal|inevitable]].
** Sure, the character's a late-night jewelry store owner, but it's not like he's wearing a yarmulke and tzitzis.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: Not only to multiple previous projects by the same author, but it has been compared to the ''[[
* [[Stealth in Space]]: Notably averted, even explaining WHY you can't hide in space.
* [[Storming the Castle]]: Rescuing David from his mother's mansion, among other instances.
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