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** So ''[[Fridge Brilliance|that's]]'' [[Fridge Brilliance|how the Rebels knew it was designed to repel a large-scale assault!]]
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: [[Discussed Trope|Called out by name]], with [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade lovingly hung]].
* [[Defector From Decadence|Defector From Evil]]: Why some of the surviving characters decide to join the Rebellion. They know nothing about it, but it's got to be better than the government that decides to annihilate inhabited planets as a [[Tested
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: When he transfers onto the Death Star, Nova's Force-Sensitivity starts giving him horrible, horrible dreams that all end up coming true, to one extent or another.
* [[Drink Order]]: Only to be expected when one character is a bartender.
* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: Alderaan, obviously, but before that, {{spoiler|Despayre}}.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Despayre's environment is explicitly like that. It doesn't help that it's populated by (mostly) [[Penal Colony|dangerous convicts]].
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Motti, "stripped to", well, anything, but the use of the word "strap" makes it sound like the GFFA version of a jockstrap.
* [[Fan Service]]: Twi'lek "micro" clothing leaves readers wondering what it is.
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** A snowflake's chance in a supernova.
* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: The prison world "Despayre".
* [[I Have Many Names]]: [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Celot_Ratua_Dil Celot Ratua Dill], the smuggler, also gets called "Teh Roxxor", "[[Green
* [[I'm Having Soul Pains]]: Nova
* [[Improbable Piloting Skills]]: Darth Vader. The TIE pilot saw him fly once and promised himself that he'd commit suicide if Vader ever came after him; late in the novel the pilot and his new defecting friends flee in a shuttle, are pursued, and the pilot manages to not get shot down ''just'' long enough that Vader's attention turned to the Rebels.
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** C-4ME-O is l33t5p33k3 for "cameo".
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Oh yes.
* [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]]: Thirteen characters in the Dramatis Personae (ten male, three female). {{spoiler|three males and three females survive}}. Admittedly some characters are [[Doomed
** And {{spoiler|not a single named woman dies!}}
** 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
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* [[Sergeant Rock]]: Despite not being in the Army, Master Chief Petty Officer Tenn Graneet certainly fits the bill.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: A sort of odd example. Uli often thinks back to the young Jedi he knew twenty years ago during the Clone Wars, who died in Order 66. He's not sure if he loved her, but her death left him badly shaken, and he tries not to think of her too often. When Princess Leia is taken on board the Death Star and tortured, he's summoned to tend to her and is struck by the various ways in which she's like that Jedi. Later his friends refer to Leia as Uli's girlfriend, and he tiredly says the trope name.
* [[Shout
** Uli's a surgeon, not an internal meds doctor!
** Additionally [[The Terminator|Dybersyne Engineering Systems]] is said to be one of the companies contracted to assemble the Death Star's superlaser.
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* [[Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness]]: The whole spectrum is well-represented.
* [[Sympathetic POV]]: Tenn Graneet. He'd always aspired to fire the biggest gun in the galaxy, and actually getting that wish meant [[Being Evil Sucks|guilt and misery beyond his ugliest dreams.]]
* [[Taking You
* [[Talk to
* [[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
* [[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
* [[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.
{{quote| Nova could fight a room full of men straight-up, face-to-face, and if he had to kill half of them to survive, he'd do it. But he hadn't signed on to slaughter children in their beds.}}
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