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What's it all about? Earth gets too tight for the [[Mega Corp|MegaCorps]], so after battling for quite a time, they go and colonize the whole inner Solar System (and a few outposts beyond), since [[All Planets Are Earthlike]] (MASSIVE terraforming). Sadly, [[The British Empire|Imperial]] colonizers go a planet too far, reaching the mysterious Tenth Planet (named Nero) and unleashing the [[Cosmic Horror]] - The Dark Soul along with its [[Humanoid Abomination|Apostles]] and their [[The Legions of Hell|Dark Legion]]. People go nuts and form [[Religion of Evil|evil cults]], the Dark Symmetry makes [[AI Is a Crapshoot|all sufficiently powerful computers go evil]], [[Demonic Invaders|Demonic]] [[Alien Invaders]] expand their ranks with [[Squick|Squicky]] [[Body Horror]] Shop creations from cybernetic [[The Undead|zombies]] and [[Mutants]] of different kinds to [[Godzilla]]-sized zombies to biomechanical [[Spider Tank|Spider Tanks]]. In short: [[The End of the World As We Know It]].
Of course, the [[Mega Corp|MegaCorps]] try to stop them, get their asses handed to them a couple of times, and if not for a [[Church Militant]] called the Brotherhood, they'd [[Memetic Mutation|fail forever]]. With the Brotherhood's help, the bigger part of humanity repents (mainly because the [[Knight Templar|Brotherhood's]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|methods are brutal,]] [[The Extremist Was Right|but work for humanity's good]]), leveling the playing field. On the other hand, [[We ARE Struggling Together!|corporate rivalries aren't forgotten]]; if the Corporations aren't kicking Legion ass, they're most probably butting heads over resources. If the [[United Nations|Cartel]], a body formed especially to mediate among the [[Mega Corp|MegaCorps]], allows it. Most of the time, it does.
Most of the franchise is set about a thousand years after the defeat of the Dark Legion's first onslaught; humanity has rebuilt, but much of its past achievements have been impossible to equal (computers are usually based on vacuum-tube technology, most firearms still use jacketed lead bullets, and anything terraformation-related is still [[Lost Technology]] save for maintenance). And while the Megacorporations are once again at each others' throats, corruption and moral decay are spreading everywhere, even the vaunted Brotherhood, just as the Dark Legions and Dark Symmetry, which by then were barely more than a myth to most people, are making a comeback after marshalling their forces for another go at destroying humanity...
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* [[And I Must Scream]] - the appropriately named Screaming Legionnaires.
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]] - Although far from universal, Bauhaus has a lot of those. Stahler from the comic being evil beyond the usual level.
** The Imperial also have their fair share, the intrigue and dirty business at one time resulting in the Sad Struggle, a [[Shout
** Mishima too, as a matter of fact, since they follow a particularly harsh brand of Tokugawa era Bushido, but their sourcebook exposits on the growing corruption within the noble families.
* [[Arm Cannon]] - most Mecha.
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* [[Organic Technology]] - Dark Legion Necrotech. Part organic, part demonic, all squicky.
* [[Original Position Gambit]] - In ''Ilian'', there are two short stories on this theme. Humans join the cult of Ilian because they want to become the exploiters rather then the exploited. And of course, their futures are so bright, since Ilian will smile upon them forever... until they fail or get backstabbed by each other, that is. Suckers.
* [[Pistol
* [[Powered Armor]] - Bauhaus and Mishima mecha are basically those.
* [[Private Military Contractors]] - Cartel has them in heaps.
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* [[Sword and Gun]] - depends on the unit. Brotherhood infantry is usually the embodiment of this trope.
* [[Take Cover]] - it helps. See "Geo Effects" above.
* [[Taking You With Me]] - Mishima Faceless Ones are Kamikaze on foot, and their Suicide Warheads are essentially [[Mini
* [[Torture Technician]] - in the fluff, Inquisitors. In Warzone, and very squickily, Eonian Justifiers. To name a few.
* [[Turn Based Strategy]]
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