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* Implied at the end of [[Out of the Dark]], again by [[David Weber]]. The Shongairi announced themselves to Earth with a series of [[Colony Drop]]s on Earth capitals, and when controlling Earth proved to be impossible tried to exterminate mankind with a biological weapon. They failed, and at the end Humans knows how to replicate Shongairi technology and where they live.
* A small-scale version of this is the core plot of [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s first [[Heralds of Valdemar|Vows & Honor]] short story ''Sword-Sworn''. A large force of bandits, with the aid of a wizard to strike down the sentries, ambushed the Shin'a'in clan Tale'sedrin on the way back from a horse fair and killed every one of them... save the skinny teenager they did [[Not Quite Dead|not bother making sure of]] after strangling and gang-raping her.
** Subverted in that the other Shin'a'in clans would still have sent Sword-Sworn of their own to avenge the deaths of Tale'sedrin (both because they are relatives and because of the pragmatic reason that letting the genocide go unpunished increases their own clans' risk factor from bandits exponentially). Tarma's survival affects the course of events only to the extent that, as the party who was by far the most personally wronged by the event, it is her right by Shin'a'in custom to be given the chance to attempt vengeance before anyone else is.
* ''[[Last Legionary]]'': The [[Big Bad]] deciding the Legions of Moros were the major obstacle to him conquering the galaxy and that eliminating was the best course of action? Doesn't work out so well. The Legions weren't even aware of the Warlord's existence prior to the attack that left Keill the only survivor of his race.
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