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** Arian Pelter holds the surprising distinction of being the only antagonist to be a clear [[Big Bad]]. He has not been a pawn or byproduct of any scheme created by another entity, he is however a psychotic, arrogant, stupid baseline human and therefore weak in comparison to everything else.
** Arian Pelter holds the surprising distinction of being the only antagonist to be a clear [[Big Bad]]. He has not been a pawn or byproduct of any scheme created by another entity, he is however a psychotic, arrogant, stupid baseline human and therefore weak in comparison to everything else.
** In the Spatterjay arc, a Prador is the [[Big Bad]] until [[Always a Bigger Fish]] happens...
** In the Spatterjay arc, a Prador is the [[Big Bad]] until [[Always a Bigger Fish]] happens...
** {{spoiler|The Jain themselves show up at one point, and [[Hijacked By Ganon]] the plot.}} Understandably.
** {{spoiler|The Jain themselves show up at one point, and [[Hijacked by Ganon]] the plot.}} Understandably.
* [[Blessed With Suck]] / [[Cursed With Awesome]]: Getting the Splatterjay Virus can fit either category. On the plus side, you are nearly invulnerable and immortal, with a low pain threshold and super strength. On the negative side, if someone does want to harm you, a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] or agonizing death will ensue. Also, because the virus wants to ensure a living host, it will sometimes transform the human host into a [[Body Horror]]. {{spoiler|Or ressurect a Jain soldier}}
* [[Blessed with Suck]] / [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Getting the Splatterjay Virus can fit either category. On the plus side, you are nearly invulnerable and immortal, with a low pain threshold and super strength. On the negative side, if someone does want to harm you, a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] or agonizing death will ensue. Also, because the virus wants to ensure a living host, it will sometimes transform the human host into a [[Body Horror]]. {{spoiler|Or ressurect a Jain soldier}}
* [[Colony Drop]]: A single Runcible engineer's [[Indy Ploy]] with a moon during the Prador War inspired the Polity to construct a few dozen portals to do this. Had the war gone on any longer the Polity would have officially changed its military doctrine for large scale engagements into a point and click adventure game: ''Use Moon On Planet''.
* [[Colony Drop]]: A single Runcible engineer's [[Indy Ploy]] with a moon during the Prador War inspired the Polity to construct a few dozen portals to do this. Had the war gone on any longer the Polity would have officially changed its military doctrine for large scale engagements into a point and click adventure game: ''Use Moon On Planet''.
* [[Crapsack World]]: More like crapsack galaxy until ''Polity Agent'', where {{spoiler|''at least'' two galaxies are officially death traps}}. The Polity is essentially the only space based civilization that has not completely self-destructed or been wiped out. A conflict is only considered major when the most conservative estimate of losses is 10 million dead. Baseline Humans are notoriously squishy in the eyes of AI, Drones, Golem, Haiman and other post-humans.
* [[Crapsack World]]: More like crapsack galaxy until ''Polity Agent'', where {{spoiler|''at least'' two galaxies are officially death traps}}. The Polity is essentially the only space based civilization that has not completely self-destructed or been wiped out. A conflict is only considered major when the most conservative estimate of losses is 10 million dead. Baseline Humans are notoriously squishy in the eyes of AI, Drones, Golem, Haiman and other post-humans.
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* [[Sapient Ship]]: Polity war ships are commanded by AI's and one of the older ships also has a human captain who is wired directly into the ship and in a sense is the ship.
* [[Sapient Ship]]: Polity war ships are commanded by AI's and one of the older ships also has a human captain who is wired directly into the ship and in a sense is the ship.
** Ships can also reproduce, not like making a carbon copy, but an actual separate individual AI. Jack Ketch was created by a dying dreadnought. Jack himself created four [[A Is]], {{spoiler|All of which betray the Polity and except for one suffer the kind of fate expected for such an act, at the "hands" or rather weapon systems of Jack himself.}}
** Ships can also reproduce, not like making a carbon copy, but an actual separate individual AI. Jack Ketch was created by a dying dreadnought. Jack himself created four [[A Is]], {{spoiler|All of which betray the Polity and except for one suffer the kind of fate expected for such an act, at the "hands" or rather weapon systems of Jack himself.}}
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can|Sealed Evil Is The Can]]: The only way to describe Jain technology.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can|Sealed Evil Is The Can]]: The only way to describe Jain technology.
* [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence]]: Ranging from the barely sentient labor drones to the Nobel-Bot "Golems" and "Subminds" all the way to the godlike governing [[A Is]].
* [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence]]: Ranging from the barely sentient labor drones to the Nobel-Bot "Golems" and "Subminds" all the way to the godlike governing [[A Is]].
* [[Smug Snake|Smug Bug]]: The only Prador that avert this trope are either infants or drones (cryogenically frozen infant brains in robot shells). Any Adult not behaving like this is either weak and therefore slaughtered to remove the weakness, or is attempting to manipulate events and is therefore slaughtered for being incompetent at concealing their motives.
* [[Smug Snake|Smug Bug]]: The only Prador that avert this trope are either infants or drones (cryogenically frozen infant brains in robot shells). Any Adult not behaving like this is either weak and therefore slaughtered to remove the weakness, or is attempting to manipulate events and is therefore slaughtered for being incompetent at concealing their motives.
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** Logically, it should extend to any non-native of Spatterjay who gets infected with the Hooper virus. Nothing says Badass more than having a localized sport that requires you to remove at least a metre of uninterrupted intestine without the opponent removing both your eyes or the two of you both passing out from bloodloss.
** Logically, it should extend to any non-native of Spatterjay who gets infected with the Hooper virus. Nothing says Badass more than having a localized sport that requires you to remove at least a metre of uninterrupted intestine without the opponent removing both your eyes or the two of you both passing out from bloodloss.
* [[To Serve Man]]: Prador enjoy eating humans; and [[Offing the Offspring|their own children]]- [[Evil Tastes Good]]
* [[To Serve Man]]: Prador enjoy eating humans; and [[Offing the Offspring|their own children]]- [[Evil Tastes Good]]
* [[We Will Use Manual Labor in The Future]]: The Prador and their use of human slaves. It's mentioned several times that it would really be much easier, and really no trouble at all to use robots. The Prador are just bastards. And [[Properly Paranoid]].
* [[We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future]]: The Prador and their use of human slaves. It's mentioned several times that it would really be much easier, and really no trouble at all to use robots. The Prador are just bastards. And [[Properly Paranoid]].
* [[World War III]]: Actually happened twice, first time was the corporate wars which jumpstarted the colonisation efforts on the basis that being farther away from Earth equaled being less likely as a test subject for the latest Doomsday Device developed. The second was the Quiet War, which is essentially World War III as a Cold War, this time the parties involved were human governments and the Godlike AIs replacing them. The two wars are frequently cited as the reason why humans suck when in power, compared to the AIs like Jerusalem, Gordon or Earth Central itself.
* [[World War III]]: Actually happened twice, first time was the corporate wars which jumpstarted the colonisation efforts on the basis that being farther away from Earth equaled being less likely as a test subject for the latest Doomsday Device developed. The second was the Quiet War, which is essentially World War III as a Cold War, this time the parties involved were human governments and the Godlike AIs replacing them. The two wars are frequently cited as the reason why humans suck when in power, compared to the AIs like Jerusalem, Gordon or Earth Central itself.


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