Dark Star One: Difference between revisions

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Bronis is a Raptor that owns an arms manufacturing business, and had attempted to incite a war between the Mortok rebels and the Raptor fanatic cults by supplying weapons to both sides. His plans fell through when Kayron blew up his arms factory.

* [[Covers Always Lie]]: On the game's cover, Kayron is holding a weapon that looks like an assault rifle. In the game, he never uses any weapon besides the Darkstar's, and the only weapon he DOES have is a handgun.

* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: The Thul, a clan of human women obsessed with perfection, use nanotechnology and enhansive implants to improve their overall condition. The Terran government had possibly thought that this would cause the Thul to rebel, and had exiled them to the depths of space. Their negative view on non-Thul races probably doesn't help.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Kayron's father, Simon Jarvis, is long dead at the beginning of the game. After the first story mission, Kayron finds out more about his father's death, which sets the stage for the main storyline. Also, absolutely nothing is mentioned about Kayron's [[Missing Mom|mother.]]

* [[Exposition Fairy]]: Eona, your erstwhile copilot.

* [[Fantasy Pantheon]]: The [[Added Alliterative Appeal|religious Raptors]] worship a faith that includes 2.1 gods per Raptor. Often, they make allusions to "The Threehundred," which could possibly be their major gods. As mentioned in the story, so much as taking a breath at the wrong time can offend at least one of their gods, so it's very easy for non-Raptors to make them mad.

** [[The Hero]]: Kayron

** [[The Lancer]]: {{spoiler|Jack Forrester}}

** [[The Chick]]: Eona/{{spoiler|Naara}}

** [[Sixth Ranger]]: Jiju, Nicolai

* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: While it's not really necessary to collect all of the artifacts for the Darkstar, snagging them and getting the upgrades they provide can be a real boon.

* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: Thul fighters have cloaking devices for their special ability. It hides the ship for about a minute, and you cannot target the ship when it is cloaked. However, its engine exhaust isn't covered by the cloak, so you could still track a cloaked ship easily.

* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]: The Mortoks fit this trope to a T. Their weapon of choice is the Railgun, just about the only mass driver weapon in the game.

* [[Large Ham]]: Many.

** The voice of the Oc'to patrol ships get a special mention for their exasperated, almost exhausted sounding voice.

** Hornblower, our lovable war hero, has enough ham for a Christmas dinner.

* [[Lovable Coward]]: Nicolai, a Raptor who could be scared by his own shadow. We first find him in a dogfight with some pirates, and losing. And when he and Kayron find a bomb on his ship at a research station, poor Nicolai panics and flees while cool and collected Kayron defuses it in five seconds.

* [[MacGuffin]]: The Darkstar One itself. It was made from alien artifacts, and the same can be used to upgrade the ship.

* [[Sentry Gun]]: Freighters, cruisers and stations use these as their primary weapons, as well as weapon platforms and satellites. The Darkstar can also get auto-turrets if you upgrade its hull.

* [[Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]

* [[Shout Out]]: In two sidequests involving you destroying some rogue satellites and a space-mad Thul cruiser, respectively, said targets utter [[Battle Cry|Battle Cries]] that reference [[Star Trek (Franchise)|the Borg.]]

* [[Sliding Scale of Linearity vs. Openness]]: In order to travel to another star system, you will need the "key" to the system and it must be within your Field Drive's maximum range. Most keys are obtained upon entering a system, and some are rewarded in sidequests. By the end of the game, should you have gotten all of the [[MacGuffin|artifacts]] and beaten every sidequest, you should be able reach every system on the map.