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* [[Absent Aliens]]: No aliens have been discovered beyond local, earthlike wildlife on the various planets. {{spoiler|The artifact buried in the mine subverts this, and is the point behind the whole plot.}}
* [[Action Survivor]]: Falk is not a trained fighter, and it shows.
* [[All Planets Are Earthlike]]: Averted with Eighty-Six. While humans can live there, the planet is unpleasantly hot and bright by terran standards.
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* [[The Big Guy]]: SOMD trooper "Bigmouse."
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: Though the SOMD troops are no angels, the Bloc soldiers are ruthless killers who take no chances and gun down civilians as well as SOMD troops. They ''really'' want that {{spoiler|artifact}}.
** Judging from the actions of SO Human Services,[[Grey and Gray Morality|SOMD would likely do the same if the situation were reserved. ]]
* [[Brand X]]: Lots of the everyday things that Falk uses as a civilian are mentioned. Once Falk ends up in Bloom's body, the stark lack of these civilian comforts becomes apparent.
* [[Bug Splat]]: One of the apparently native forms of life on eighty-six are the "Blurds", which are essentially moths, and some of which are particularly large. They're about as intelligent as normal moths when it comes to light sources. Or getting out of the way of fast-moving vehicles.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: A few of Falk's civilian skills prove to be invaluable as [[The Squad]] tries to keep ahead of the Bloc troops. In particular, his understanding of signals technology and his father's experience with aircraft engines both become useful later on.
* [[Dirty Communists]]: Generally averted; while the Bloc is made of the "classic" Communist nationalities, they're more united in opposition to the United Status than by any ideology.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Masry, the ordnance officer who survived the initial ambush. He eventually suffers a complete breakdown when {{spoiler|the squad is attempting to escape on a damaged transport VTOL, he lifts off without waiting for the rest of the squad to get aboard.}}
* [[Engineered Public Confession]]: Falk talks {{spoiler|Tedders}} into one of these,a s she doesn't realize he's controlling Bloom's body.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: The "hardbeam piper" weapons essentially serve this role. In combat, they're used as armor-piercing weapons, able to punch through vehicle plating and personal armor.
* [[Future Slang]]: There's a few specific terms used by the various characters. "Scorch" is used to refer to someone getting killed, and the SOMD troops refer to getting into combat as "the Hard Place." Using a word that starts with "re" is adjusted to "pre," i.e. "retard" -> "pretard," or "research" -> "presearch."
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Bigmouse is an enormous, strong man who specializes in infiltration and technical skills.
* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]: The "glares" that all SOMD troops carry have a number of valuable functions, such as IFF scanning, displaying medical status, recording video, taking snapshots, and so on.
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* [[Space Cold War]]: Between the NATO-style United Status and the Warsaw Pact-style Central Bloc. It's been ongoing for three hundred years without flaring up, mostly because with hundreds of worlds for settling, there's been no space constraints.
* [[The Squad]]: The SOMD survivors that Falk and his fellows pick up as they flee from the Central Bloc troops gradually become this.
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* [[Translator Microbes]]: The "ling" patches allow those outfitted with them to speak a language fluently, to the point that they don't even realize they're speaking the language. {{spoiler|This gets Falk in trouble when his benefactors patch him to speak Russian without telling him, and he starts speaking it in front of the other paranoid SOMD troops.}}
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