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The series is about a group of colonists attempting to survive on a planet called "Carpathia", after [[Earth-That-Was|Earth got nuked]] in [[World War III]], which apparently was caused by a major confrontation between the USA and China over Taiwan. The hardness of the SF steadily decreases over the series. The initial tension develops from disputes among the humans about [[Romanticism Versus Enlightenment|the best way of surviving and organising]], with the majority of the colonists, led by President Tate, wanting to set up a stable community, and the military Expeditionaries, led by Mitchell Hoban, wanting to strike out further into unknown territory. But there are even more serious tensions between the standard-issue humans and the "Advanced Cultivars", [[Bio Augmentation|genetically-engineered]] humans created to have a greater chance of surviving hostile environments. And there is also the question of whether the planet really is uninhabited by sentient life.

 

 

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** Stella's capable of being one, as we see in episode 5, but she's really more of the cerebral sort.

* [[The Atoner]]: Cass.

* [[Bio Augmentation]]: Of both the physical and mental kind.

* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: Lily, right down to the sulking and stealing for attention.

* [[Space Western]]: No Stetsons, but strong overtones in the setting and the philosophical divides among the characters.

* [[Spiritual Licensee]]: To ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''. You can tell the writers REALLY liked BSG and want to duplicate its tone.

* [[Team Dad]]: Tate

* [[Team Mom]]: Stella

* [[Used Future]]

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: Both Richard Tate and Julius Berger believe this, but are polar opposites on how said utopia should be run.