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Confirmed existence of "Hero's Chains": https://www.amazon.com/Chains-Loss-Heros-1/dp/1480036536
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* ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'' includes this in each book. First book: "What happened to Dahak's crew?" Second book: "What happened to the Fourth Imperium?" Third book: "What happened to Pardal's techbase?"
* ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Shatterpoint]]'' has ''the Clone Wars and the Republic at large'' be late to the "party" known as [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Summertime_War the Summertime Wars]. Basically, conflict between offworlders and natives led to a war that starts when the winter snows melt and end when the autumn rains began. Each year. For thirty years as of the start of the book. The natives only support the Republic because the offworlders are supported by the Separatists. Mace Windu, the narrator, notes that his young native companions do not speak of [[Retirony|what they will do " after the war]]". Because it's all they've ever known. {{spoiler|Which makes it kind of heartbreaking when Nick admits his feelings about what he wanted to do with Chalk ''if'' the war ever ended, while holding her corpse.}}
* In ''Chains of Loss'', the first book of the ''[[Hero's Chains]]'' series, Derek arrives several centuries late to a world gone from a sci-fi utopia to a fantasy hellhole.
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* Jay in ''[[Marble Hornets]]'' begins his investigation nearly three years after the events recorded in the tapes. Most of the cast has scattered or disappeared and several locations trashed by the time Jay looks for them.
** Averted at the same time though: As Jay starts going through the tapes, it becomes apparent that {{spoiler|he had much more to do with the party [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|than he remembered]]}}
▲* In ''[[Hero's Chains]]'', Derek arrives several centuries late to a world gone from a sci-fi utopia to a fantasy hellhole.{{context|reason=MOD: Does this work exist? All I can find about it is a TVT page that says it's unpublished.}}
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