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* [[Con Lang]]: Vránsé, a language exclusive to the de Erwynes

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Besides being activity involved in their business practices, the de Erwyne's will often lead their forces into battle personally.

'''Count Théophile de Erwyne'''

* [[Latex Space Suit]]: They almost always wear form-fitting spacesuits to prevent bacterial contamination.

* [[Nebulous Evil Organisation]] Rumors are floating around that Qwib Tech is one of these.

* [[Shout-Out]]: The house name is a reference to [[Mass Effect]].

* [[Space Pirates]]: Accused of funding pirates. Who kidnapped Ezra and Simon Qwib-Qwib. [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie|And had robots. That were stealthy.]]

* [[Convenient Coma]]

'''Vice-Chairman Lorenzo Qwib-Qwib'''

== House Zealot ==

* [[Knight Templar]]: Currently one of the more aggressive houses in Capricorn, tends to jump on any house that violates the constitution within hours (real-world time).

'''Gwendolin Mckenna'''

* [[Brilliant but Lazy]] (She'll spend an hour a day making decisions, no more)

'''Dagmar Mckenna'''

'''Silja Mckenna'''

* [[Hot Mom]] (She's not married, but never mind. Silja's attractive and uses it for her own ends.

* [[Flaunting Your Fleets]] (House Savoie used the size and pedigree of the Alderamini navy as a deterrent against other Houses. Now, if only they had the crews to operate them all at once...)

* [[Forgotten Superweapon]] (How about an entire golden-age fleet?)

* [[Great Offscreen War]] (The civil war between Philippe and Joseph was overshadowed by the Valerian conflict.)

** Past [[Great Offscreen War|Great Offscreen Wars]] include, from most to least recent:

* [[In the Original Klingon]] (Alderamin views itself as the last bastion of Golden Age culture. This is ''barely'' true, but defensible.)

* [[Our Founder]] (Valerian Savoie.)

* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]] (The House was severely hampered by restrictions placed upon it by the treaty that allowed it to operate both on Alderamin and in the "New Empire". That treaty was largely self-imposed. However, Daniel would turn the situation on its head by forcing a new, largely favorable agreement in exchange for not stealing the local throne entirely.)

* [[Suspiciously Small Army]] (House Savoie kept most of its troops on Alderamin. Because of this, their military became something of a paper tiger when dealing with offworld threats.)

'''Philippe Savoie'''

* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]] (The civil war against Joseph ended poorly and suddenly.)

'''David Savoie'''

'''Munisa Lanning'''

* [[Field Promotion]] (When Joseph, Philippe, and David were all absent and/or missing, she took the reigns and tried to calm the chaos.)

* [[The Good Chancellor]]

* [[Master of Illusion]]

* [[Mysterious Past]]

* {{spoiler|[[The Real Remington Steele]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[The Slow Path]] (A variation without time travel.)}}

* [[Deep-Cover Agent]] (Within financial operations, commissioned by House Inviquantus.)

* [[Going Native]] (Orders stopped coming in, he decided to reveal himself to the current head of House Savoie - who had previously worked for his former masters.)

* [[Hazy Feel Turn]] (His identity never really changed, only his employer.)

* [[Mole in Charge]] (Became a very high-level employee before he defected.)

== Galaxy Eridanus ==

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Insufferable Genius]]

* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: While not technically the oldest of the Glenn siblings, he's the most level-headed, responsible, and devoted to his family. And he's absolutely furious about Constantine's latest stunt.

* [[Psychic Powers]]: Specifically,

** [[The Empath]]: Including [[More Than Mind Control|projective empathy]], although [[Tempting Fate|he swears he'd never use it]].

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: You saw who he was an [[Expy]] of, right?

'''Doctor Aidan Glenn'''

* [[The Ghost]]

'''House Tropes'''

* [[Author Appeal]] (Everywhere.)

* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] (Fluorescent irises; aging that keeps a Lunarian at around their 30-40's until around age 70, after which they rapidly age to "make up the difference", and the [[Petting Zoo People|obvious]].)

* [[Evil Albino]] or [[Heroic Albino]] (Depends; mostly heroic. They tend to have white hair and fur for their ears and tails, blood red eyes, and pale skin.)

* [[Hot Mom]] (Two daughters have not hurt her figure in any way.)

* [[Hot Scientist]] (Will run the House's psionics research.)

** [[The Trickster]] (Likes to mess with people's head - to detrimental or beneficial effect.)

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]

* [[Happily Married]] (To Tatsuaki Houraisan.)

* [[Hot Mom]]

* [[The Spymaster]] (Runs House Houraisan's intelligence operations.)

* [[She's Got Legs]] (Just ask Iowerth Quest.)

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]

'''Nagachika Houraisan'''

* [[Happily Married]] (To Constancia Invernigon... the writer for House Houraisan thinks.)

* [[I Like Swords]] (Big time.)

* [[Stoic Spectacles]] / [[Bespectacled Bastard]] (Depends on your point of view.)

* [[The Rival]] (To Iowerth Quest.)

'''Iowerth Quest(Lochlannach's eldest son)'''

* [[Now or Never Kiss]]: Played straight,with his future wife. Led to a [[Relationship Upgrade|Relationship Upgrade.]]

* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Oh boy, did he ever. "You have the chance to fight monsters in Dreamspace with your friends, but if you screw up once, you're braindead. Also, you're thirteen." (Merest of pauses) "Where do I sign?"

'''House Tropes'''

* [[Commissar Cap]] The standard headgear of the vampire officers.

* [[Evil Albino]] They ARE vampires.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]] Fairly.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] Default eye color for the species.

* [[Weapon of Choice]] Higher ups, security forces and covert operatives use knives and Thompson Submachine guns (no, it doesn't make sense). The elite knights in the military use swords and knives almost exclusively, while their less elite human counterparts use bolt action (though very powerful) rifles.

'''Agent Mannfred'''

* [[Badass Normal]] Jumps his way through a construction site sustaining any injuries, took on around fifty psychic power armored troopers, and may have even killed some.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]] While preparing to escape from the compound, he lights up while grabbing his weapon. See's his evac get blown up? Time for a smoke. Surrounded on all sides, with heavy weapons chipping away at your cover? Give him a sec, he's getting his lighter.

* [[People's Republic of Tyranny]]: Go figure.

* [[Theme Naming]]: House Gagarin fits its creator's trifecta of criteria for a good Imperium Nova house name - cool-sounding, historically relevant to the concept, and somehow space-related. Bonus points for starting with a G.

'''Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Parliament of the United Federation of People's Republics and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Total Democratic Party of the United Federation of People's Republics Viktor Gagarin'''