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In ''The Last Colony'' (2007) and ''Zoe's Tale'' (2008), companion novels taking place during the same time period, but with different narrators, John, Jane and their adopted daughter Zoe get invited to be in charge of a new colony, Roanoke. There's all kinds of things that they haven't been told about the place, though...
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* [[Alien Among Us]]: Hickory and Dickory.
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* [[Black Comedy]]: And plenty of it. This is, after all, a war story.
* [[Bloody Murder]]: CDF soldiers can ignite parts of their SmartBlood at will. It's mostly used to deliver a satisfying demise to alien mosquito-analogues, but Jared comes up with some more... ambitious applications.
* [[
* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]]: Averted due to the CU monopoly on skip drive, most human starships are either warships or colony ships. Though it's implied that some other species do travel to other systems casually and the monopoly is mostly to prevent unauthorized colonization.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|1=Weaponized SmartBlood and the use of trees climbing to avoid hostile guns in ''The Ghost Brigades''.}}
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* [[Evil Genius]]: Charles Boutin.
* [[Faster Than Light Travel]]: The skip drive.
* [[
* [[For Science!]]: Why the Consu uplifted the Obin. They just wanted to see what would happen.
* [[Glad to Be Alive Sex|Glad To Be Alive Orgy]]: In ''The Ghost Brigades''
* [[Government Conspiracy]] (see [[Batman Gambit]] below)
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: In ''The Ghost Brigades'', {{spoiler|Charles Boutin, having discovered that Jared Dirac is his Special-Forces-enhanced clone, attempts to steal Jared's body}}.
* [[Great Offscreen War]]: The Subcontinental War in ''Old Man's War''.
* [[Green
** Ruiz calls out minorities during his spiel at the start of basic training... then yells "BULLSHIT! You're all green!" (He has [[N
* [[Grey and Grey Morality]]: And plenty of it. Interestingly, it's often the Colonial Union (i.e., ''humanity'') that comes across as a slightly darker shade of grey, though it's a very close-run thing.
* [[Hates Everyone Equally]]: Ruiz can come up with a reason to hate ''everyone'' except John (whom he finds a reason to ''like'', which scares him).
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* [[Machiavelli Was Wrong]]: {{spoiler|And the Colonial Union gets itself into some serious trouble as a result.}}
* [[Mad Scientist Laboratory]]: Charles Boutin has one in ''The Ghost Brigades''.
* [[Mad
* [[Modern Stasis]]: Earth
* [[Neglectful Precursors]]: The Consu created and abandoned the Obin, and have been extremely uh, snippy every time the Obin try to get in touch.
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* [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]: Special Forces soldiers can't ever meet their dead progenitors, and it's sheer accident that John even finds out what happened to Kathy's "unused" clone.
* [[Numbered Homeworld]]: The Obin planets except Obinur.
* [[One
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: An intelligent, humanoid yet hairy species on Roanoke are called "werewolves" because that's the closest thing they resemble. As far as we know, they don't shapeshift.
* [[Physical Fitness Punishment]]: On the platoon's first day in training, Master Sergeant Ruiz makes a point of finding a reason to give each and every person a twenty-kilometer run, with the threat of everyone having to do it again if one person takes longer than an hour. This is partly so everyone knows where they stand with him, and partly to make the point that, with their new technological enhancements, they all ''can'' run twenty kilometers in an hour, among other feats.
* [[POV Sequel]]: ''Zoe's Tale''.
* [[People Farms]]: One possible fate of a human colony conquered by aliens who think human meat makes good eating.
* [[Pro
* [[Psychic Link]]: Created through BrainPal technology for soldiers.
* [[Puny Earthlings]]: The reason why the Colonial Union no longer uses unaltered humans as soldiers.
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* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: Subverted.
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Whilst it's never quite clear whether he's blessed with exceptionally good luck or cursed with exceptionally bad, John tends to be at the centre of a ''lot'' of improbable coincidences.
* [[Well
* [[We Will Use Wiki Words in The Future]]: Mostly for the trademarked hardware that makes up a CDF soldier's body.
* [[What Did You Expect When You Named It?]]: Roanoke, which is very much ''intended'' to act like its namesake.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Lots of 'em, in all sorts of different directions. Let's just say that this is a series that believes in giving weight to many different viewpoints in many different situations and leave it at that.
* [[Wiki Walk]]: The Special Forces BrainPal does this to explain concepts.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: John gets two in 'The Last Colony', in the form of [[Commander Contrarian|Manfred Trujilo]] and [[Visionary Villain|General Gau]]. {{spoiler|By the end of the book, he's good friends with both.}}
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