Commonwealth Saga: Difference between revisions

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Tropes specific to one of the books should be listed on that book's page. Use this page for tropes that describe the Commonwealth Saga as a whole.

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=== This series provides examples of: ===

* [[Absolute Xenophobe]]: The Primes are this. Primes exist as sentient, immobile "immotiles" that control vast armies of sub-sentient "motiles" and battle each other for resources and out of paranoia. You can guess what happened when they started building nukes. Also, the moment one of them {{spoiler|discovers wormhole technology}}, it exterminates all others and starts building a vast fleet in order to kill off every single living thing in the universe, other than itself. Its own psychology and lack of imagination prevent it from realising the utter futility of its endeavour until it is far too late for it.

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** Tochee doesn't speak or even understand the concept of sound since it can't hear. Its species communicates through body language and flashing ultraviolet light from one of their eyes.

* [[All Planets Are Earthlike]]: Averted. Wormhole technology allows the ever present [[Mega Corp|CST]] to use its exploration wormholes to scout new solar systems for "H-congruous" planets capable of supporting human life. The Commonwealth spans a vast amount of space, and most intervening systems between H-congruous planets are untouched completely by humans.

* [[Always Gets His Man]]: Paula Myo fits this trope to a T. Genetically engineered to be an incorruptible super-cop, she has been working for the Serious Crimes Directorate for centuries, and in all that time has only failed to solve ''one'' case. Which she is still pursuing, after a century and a half. {{spoiler|When circumstances force her to decide between arresting the [[Well Intentioned Extremist]] perpetrator and saving the human race from extinction, she suffers a near-fatal nervous breakdown.}}

* [[Always Gets His Man]]: Paula Myo fits this trope to a T. Genetically engineered to be an incorruptible super-cop, she has been working for the Serious Crimes Directorate for centuries, and in all that time has only failed to solve ''one'' case. Which she is still pursuing, after a century and a half. {{spoiler|When circumstances force her to decide between arresting the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] perpetrator and saving the human race from extinction, she suffers a near-fatal nervous breakdown.}}

* [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence]]: Most species who reach their Singularity do this.

* [[Augmented Reality]]: Humans can control objects, send messages, and watch emailed videos in their minds thanks to digital implants.

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* [[ET Gave Us Wi Fi]]: A more believable "future" variation of this trope - force field technology as an industry was created by the Halgarths reverse engineering the crashed alien ship ''Marie Celeste''.

* [[The Federation]]: The Commonwealth.

* [[Four Lines All Waiting]]: The ''[[Commonwealth Saga (Literature)|Commonwealth Saga]]'' follows something like seven plots all at once, and they'd each be enough for a book of their own.

* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]]: The ''[[Commonwealth Saga (Literature)|Commonwealth Saga]]'' follows something like seven plots all at once, and they'd each be enough for a book of their own.

* [[Free Love Future]]: Polyamory and alternate sexuality is pretty common in the Commonwealth.

* [[Hive Mind]]: Prime Immotiles control their Motile minions via radio receivers implanted into each one, making each Immotile into an intellect spread across a vast number of individual bodies.