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* [[Heavyworlder]]: Saval Bork, and his sister Tazzimi.

* [[Heroic Albino]]: Emile Khadaji's daughter Veate, the titular character of ''The Albino Knife''.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: [[Badass|Bad-ass revolutionary]] [[Only One Name|Sleel]] is caught browsing the philosophy section of a bookstore, quotes poetry, and spots a deception that nobody else had ever seen through. Later he's revealed to have a doctorate in poetry, has written several award-winning and best-selling novels, and funded the creation of an orphanage.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: [[Badass|Bad-ass revolutionary]] [[Only One Name|Sleel]] is caught browsing the philosophy section of a bookstore, quotes poetry, and spots a deception that nobody else had ever seen through. Later he's revealed to have a doctorate in poetry, has written several award-winning and best-selling novels, and funded the creation of an orphanage. He [[Obfuscating Stupidity|usually downplays this]], deliberately seeming like a [[Dumb Muscle|non-intellectual]] (he was '''embarrassed''' when his friends noticed his philosophy and poetry interests).

** A tough, sophisticated old man admitted that after reading Sleel's novel ''Heartsick'' for the first time, he cried himself to sleep that night.

* [[Human Subspecies]]: Mues are humans genetically modified to be more suitable for certain tasks, such as [[Heavyworlder|working on worlds with higher than Earth-normal gravity]]. There are also the Albino Exotics, created as [[Sex Slave|sexual playthings for the wealthy]]. They're absurdly beautiful, as well as having control over their pheromones, but most of them tend to die young, usually by being in the middle of a fight over who gets to sleep with them or control them.

* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]: Hand-held energy weapons are rare, and most people are armed with various projectile weapons, often with explosive or chemically-treated ammunition.

* [[Last Stand]]: In the backstory, Lord Thomas Reserve Shamba responded to a demand for surrender with "To the Commander, Confederation Jumptroopers. Sir: Fuck you. We stand until the last man falls."

* [[Menacing Stroll]]: Dirisha's lover Geneva comments that Dirisha, although beautiful and sexy, has a swagger to her walk that makes men feel inadequate about their manliness. Someone else notes that their friend Sleel also has a walk that announces, "Hey, I'm the best there is."

* [[The Metric System Is Here to Stay]]: The stories are set somewhere around 2295, but things are still measured in meters.

* [[Mini-Mecha]]: The warden of The Omega Cage has a powered exoskeleton that's designed for combat. Luckily for the good guys, he's not very skilled at using it.