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[[File:Cover_7_TV_Tropes_Size_3466.png|frame|It's basically [[Battlestar Galactica|BSG]] with Chinese people. And the aliens from [[Wing Commander (
{{quote|''This story is less a love note to TV Tropes and more a [[One of Us|proposal of marriage]].''|'''[[Word of God]]'''}}
Lacuna is science fiction story series [[Twenty Minutes in
Author is a troper and the work contains many shout-outs to TV Tropes and assorted tropes by name.
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* [[Ace Pilot]]: Alex "Jazz" Aharoni, at least in his own mind.
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* [[The Alliance]]: The Toralii have one. They're pricks.
* [[All Nations Are Superpowers]]: Toyed with. The main demographics of the crew are Chinese (justified), Iran (possibly) and Australia ([[Author Avatar|huh]]). The United States is barely mentioned, except they couldn't join the Task Force because of [[Truth in Television|some significant economic trouble]].
* [[Always
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Type 0 for Sydney, Beijing and Tehran. {{spoiler|[[Apocalypse How/Class X|Class X]]-2 for the Toralii homeworld. [[Apocalypse How/Class X|Class X]]-4 for everyone, eventually}}.
* [[Artificial Gravity]]: Modified gravity generators serve as engines, artificial gravity and {{spoiler|space mines}}.
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* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Summer Rowe, a civilian, wants a handgun like the rest of the crew so if the opportunity comes she can deliver an [[Shout-Out|XKCD inspired]] [[Bond One-Liner]]. {{spoiler|She gets her chance. "Bangarang, ''motherfucker''".}}
* [[The Bridge]]: Most of the action takes place in Operations, which is in the heavily armoured centre of the ship.
* [[Call a Rabbit
* [[Can't Argue
* [[Catfolk]]: {{spoiler|The Toralii are distinctly catlike}}.
* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]]: Played straight {{spoiler|except for the dire warnings of the Toralii who tell them that overusing the technology, or using it incorrectly, can create a universe destroying [[Negative Space Wedgie]]. This has already happened three times already; since the singularities continue to grow and never stop, eventually they'll consume everything}}.
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* [[Deflector Shields]]: The three Pillars of the Earth, such as the ''TFR Beijing'' can charge their hull to strengthen it, but this is far from invulnerability and the larger Toralii ships can easily {{spoiler|take on all three of the Pillars without breaking too much of a sweat, until the ''TFR Tehran'' [[Ramming Always Works|rams them]]}}.
* [[Earth That Used to Be Better]]: Occasionally this, occasionally [[Crapsack World]].
* [[The End of the World
* [[Energy Weapon]]: Averted for the Humans. Weapons are either nukes or railgun slugs. The Toralii have generic energy weapons designed to heat up their targets {{spoiler|and the [[Wave Motion Gun]] that blew up parts of Earth, which they use on some of the ships at the end}}.
* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]]: People {{spoiler|especially Sheng}} wonder why Liao doesn't do this to {{spoiler|Saara}}. More humourously, Alex and Summer shag in a (temporarily) pressured missile launch tube, leading to Cheung to speculate that if anything went wrong they'd be vented to space and nobody would ever know. Liao is not amused.
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* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]: Most Toralii.
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Averted. Summer Rowe makes a point of writing "Not To Scale" on a map of the map of the solar system to try and show how vast it is, and to go anywhere without using the jump drive takes a really really long time.
* [[Screw You, Elves|Screw You, Toralii!]]: The Toralii instruct Humanity not to build jump drive. Humanity builds jump drive.
* [[Secret Government Warehouse]]: Where the jump drive was developed. {{spoiler|It goes boom}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]: So many.
** XKCD: Twice... even once as a major plot point. {{spoiler|Bangarang, ''motherfucker''.}}
** [[
** [[Harry Potter]], [[Star Trek]], [[Star Wars]], many many tropes by name... and [[One of Us|TV Tropes itself]].
* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: When {{spoiler|debating if the unknown contact is the ''Tehran'' or not, it sends out a signal in Morse Code which is a reference to a gift James gave Melissa}}.
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* [[Unpredictable Results]]: {{spoiler|Prolongued, careless use of the jump drive leads to universe destroying singularities}}.
* [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]: The Toralii have one and use it to destroy Sydney, Tehran and Beijing. {{spoiler|And later, they use it on the Pillars of the Earth. Technically the jump drive, if improperly cared for, counts too}}.
* [[We Will Wear Armor in
* [[The World Is Not Ready]]: {{spoiler|Part of the reason the Toralii attack}}.
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