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* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Tenn Graneet calls it by name.
{{quote| There was an old proverb his grandfather had taught him when he'd been a boy: ''Take care what you wish for, Tenn- you might get it.''<br />
Now he understood exactly what that meant. He had wanted to fire the big gun, and he had gotten to do just that. The only man in the galaxy who had shot it for real, at real targets, and look what it had brought him: [[My God, What Have I Done?|misery beyond his ugliest dreams.]] }}
* [[Being Evil Sucks]]: Tenn Graneet is the one who pulled the trigger sending Despayre and Alderaan to their deaths. While Despayre unnerves him, he can at least partially rationalize it what with it being full of convicts declared too dangerous to be held locally. When he terminates Alderaan, however, he sinks into a deep, deep depression feeling that death would be too good for him.
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: The smuggler is Zelosian, and although he ''looks'' like a green-eyed human, he photosynthesizes.
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* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Memah Roothes(the bartender) and Celot Ratua Dil(the convict); also Villian Dance(the pilot) and Teela Kaarz(the architect). Interestingly, while Memah is a Twi'lek, Ratua is a [[Human Aliens|very humanlike]] [[Plant Aliens|plant alien]], and Teela is from a very humanlike offshoot of humanity.
* [[Large Ham]]/[[Oh Crap]]: Admiral Motti's last words.
* [[Last
* [[Leet Lingo]]: The name the convict takes for himself is "Teh Roxxor".
** C-4ME-O is l33t5p33k3 for "cameo".
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** Might be due less to a case of [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]] and more to the fact that only 1/5 of the cast is female
* [[Mind Probe]]: Vader does this casually to the architect, who senses him, freaks out, and closes down.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Tenn Graneet has a major one of these. Some time after shooting down a shuttle of escaping convicts, and then after killing Rebels in X-Wings, the TIE pilot, Dance, has a quieter one.
{{quote| He(Graneet) couldn't stop thinking about it. He didn't believe he would ever be able to stop thinking about it. The dead would haunt him, forever.<br />
[[Driven to Suicide|How could a man live with that?]] }}
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* [[Talk to The Fist]]: Those two contractors from Alderaan are kriffing sick of gloating Imps.
* [[Techno Babble]]: A thankfully short explanation of the process of the destruction of Alderaan is given by Tenn Graneet, who is more in horror of the fact that he just sent several billion innocent people to their deaths.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: "[[My God, What Have I Done?|Stand by.]] [[Redemption Equals Death|Stand by . . .]]"
* [[Tested On Humans|Tested On A Prison Planet]]: The Death Star was test-fired on Despayre. Neither the convicts nor the guards were evacuated beforehand.
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Tarkin never believed that the Death Star had a weakness. In the end, right before the Death Star explodes, he's thinking "Unthinkable. Unthinka-" *BOOM*
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Literally, with Tenn Graneet.
* [[Word of God]]: Motti's [[Only One Name]] status was to be ended with the authors of this novel giving him the name "Zi." However, that was changed before the novel was published after [[George Lucas]] jokingly said that the character's name was "Conan Antonio Motti" (in reference to [[Conan O Brien]]). A single use of "Zi" still remains in the novel, presumably as an editing mistake.
* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: Nova Stihl is badly shaken after Alderaan, the deaths of billions of innocent civilians of all ages, enough so that he concludes he has to try to prevent something like that from happening again.
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