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* [[Complete Monster]] - The villains of the first and third books. Anu stands a good chance at being the most evil man in the history of mankind. To put it in perspective, ''Hitler'' was one of his subordinates! "Mister X" from the third book was one of Anu's followers and rivalled him in heartless evil.
** "Mister X" arguably exceeds Anu - while Anu was utterly monstrous, he never actually tried to set up an entire alien species for genocide just to have a fall guy for his regicidal plot.
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] - Colin's [[Big Damn Heroes]] scene in the second book, which he follows up with not long afterward by ''' {{spoiler|[[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun|blowing up a sun]]}}'''. ▼
*** Neither did Anu actually plan to destroy an entire inhabited planet just to kill less than ten people.
**** He did, however, plan the nuclear bombardment of an entire inhabited planet just to revenge himself against ''one'' person.
▲* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] - Colin's [[Big Damn Heroes]] scene in the second book, which he follows up with not long afterward by ''' {{spoiler|[[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|blowing up a sun]]}}'''.
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] - "Will there be a reply?"
** This exchange when ''Dahak'' is too damaged to accompany the fleet to Earth:
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'''Jiltanith:''' Worry not, my Dahak. Never shalt thou know loneliness again. Whilst humans live, they'll not forget thy deeds nor cease to love thee. }}
* [[Fridge Logic]] - The book really needed a scene where ''Dahak'' preserves the Apollo sites. Just because the Moon wasn't a moon ''doesn't'' mean people wouldn't be heartbroken is the sites were destroyed...
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* [[What an Idiot!]] - "I need to ''urgently'' tell the governor about the mole I placed in the terrorist organization, even though nothing's happening right now. This is on a strictly need-to-know basis, so don't tell any one. Why no, no I ''haven't'' told anyone else. Leave a message? Sure! Here's the datachip with all the information, as well as the codes to decrypt it." The third book is a little frustrating about this.
** He also needed to stay at his desk to manage the upcoming operation, and so trusted the Lieutenant Governor to be his courier to the temporarily offplanet Governor instead of bringing another officer into the loop.
*** Indeed, he would never have told the Lieutenant Governor at all if the man was not legitimately in the chain of command for that information. How was he to know that early in the plot that said personage was also secretly the enemy mastermind?
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] - The Achuultani, once their backstory is revealed. ''Really''.
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