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In the post [[Nanoha Striker S|StrikerS]] world, the Bureau has a lot of cleanup to do, and it's left to the little people to do it with help from the series' main characters where possible. At least until someone starts unleashing Wolkenritter clones. From there, things go progressively downhill until the Bureau finds itself at war against a group that identifies itself as the old Belkan Empire, whom the Bureau dubs New Belka.
[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6115250/1/In_The_Service In The Service], the main story, covers these events while using lesser mages (and original characters), mainly a Navy mage named Samuel al-Faddil, as a means of interacting with and exploring the main characters with a strong emphasis on the Wolkenritter. [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6102101/1/A_Numbered_Existence A Numbered Existence] tells the stories of Jail's Numbers, exploring their characters and their efforts to adapt (or not) to society...[[Out
Please bear with the author while he sorts this page out for further examples and occasionally drops spoilers for future chapters by mistake.
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* [[Knight Templar]]: Signum and Vita react in a very Knight Templar fashion to their Evil Twins. Vita goes absolutely berserk and will do whatever she thinks necessary to kill her twin(s). Signum attacks in a more controlled manner, but has expressed her sentiments to Hayate and others, most recently by comparing killing them to putting down a diseased dog.
** [[It Got Worse]]: Signum straight-up lost it and strangled one of her twins to death. At least a half-dozen other characters call her out on why this was an intensely stupid thing to do.
* [[Know When to Fold
* [[Magnetic Weapons]]: New Belkan mages almost uniformly lack distance attacks. Supporting fire is instead provided by crew-served railguns.
** The Combat Railgun Carbine [[Word of God|Model 9]], is a personal weapon maintained by the Bureau in case they're ever required to send troops into an environment where magic is ineffective. {{spoiler|They're ultimately used on the Huckebein, exploiting their vulnerability to direct physical effects.}}
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* [[Must Make Amends]]: The Wolkenritter. Signum in particular expresses happiness about her renewed immortality because that makes it much more possible for her to make amends.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Vita kills what the author outright admits is a Material-S reference early in the story.
** Isis Eaglet is currently a Combat Cyborg. Could also be considered either a nascent [[Take That]] or a nascent [[I Knew It!]].
** Uno talks to Signum about a world called Lamia, explicitly referring to it as “The loveless place.”
** Arnage and Veyron run into a Rogue Wolkenritter. Veyron thinks Other-Signum would have totally been BFF with Cypha.
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** Combat Cyborgs are "Gizmo" as a play on the already existent "Gadget" to describe Jail's other tools. The Bureau eventually classes units as "gizmo", "norm", and "cloud" for Combat Cyborgs, humans with no or only biological augmentation, and Wolkenritter. Flight-capable is indicated by an "-f".
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Explicitly averted. Bureau medical technology giggles at the concept of permanent scarring, and the Wolkenritter simply don't.
* [[Shout
* [[Strange Salute]]: The salute of a Belkan Knight to another Knight; right hand fist, palm inward above the heart. If the salute-r has a weapon on their person, they should be holding it in their right fist.
** The Bureau, by contrast, uses the standard American salute.
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* [[We Have Reserves]]: Rather brutally averted by the Bureau. They ''don't'' have reserves, both on a tactical and strategic scale. Tactically, losing any member of their anti-Wolkenritter team is crippling, as they cannot be replaced. Strategically, the Bureau has only three thousand flight mages and no way to replace serious casualties.
** Played straight in New Belka's use of their Wolkenritter clones, primarily because they don't die with permanency.
* [[Wham! Episode]]:
** ''In The Service''
*** "Home Front": The Other-Wolkenritter attack Midchilda, triggering a lot of things.
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