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* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Daniel is stated to be good enough at seducing women
* [[Always Save the Girl|Always Save The Friend]]: Adele will do '''anything''' to rescue Daniel.
* [[American Customary Measurements]]: In the foreword of the first book, Drake explicitly states he has Cinnabar using imperial measurements, while the Alliance uses metric ones, to help differentiate the two polities.
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* [[People's Republic of Tyranny]]: The bad guys mostly come from the "Alliance of Free Stars."
* [[Psycho Sidekick]]: Adele's servant Tovera. Also Daniel's servant Hogg. Fortunately, they get along well.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The series' [[True Companions]] consist of the disowned son of the most powerful politician on Cinnabar and playboy military hero, a [[Badass Bookworm|lethal librarian/spy]] who is the sole survivor of the disgraced family massacred on the order of
* [[Series Continuity Error]]:
** Characters occasionally referred to "God," singular, up until somewhere in ''When the Tide Rises'', after which they seem to always speak of "the Gods."
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* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Adele {{spoiler|blows up a ship full of hostages to demonstrate her resolve}} in ''In The Stormy Red Sky''. Immediately subverted by Tovera noting {{spoiler|the Fifth Bureau would have killed the hostages before surrendering as SOP}}.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Tovera and sometimes Adele
* [[Theme Naming]]: Similar to some historical navies, RCN ships often fall into theme-named classes -- "Archaeologist-class cruisers" such as the ''Maspero'' and "Philosopher-class battleships" like the ''Lao-tze''. More unusual is that although there's nothing especially German about Alliance ''personal'' names, Alliance warships above the level of destroyers almost always have German names (the most noticeable exception is named after the Alliance capital world). A later book indicates most Alliance shipbuilding is done on a world that appears to be ethnically German.
* [[The Sociopath]]: Tovera. ''Everyone'' who knows her, including herself, consider her a complete monster.
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Adele ''all the time''
* [[True Companions]]: Leary notes to himself in ''What Distant Deeps'' that he, Adele, Tovera, and Hogg have become a weird kind of family.
* [[When She Smiles]]: It's not explicitly tied to her smile, but Miranda Dorst, who's normally just "a girl who drew a man's eyes at least once," becomes "oddly beautiful" when in Daniel's company.
* [[Worthless Yellow Rocks]] RCNVerse gun barrels are made of ''iridium''. And shoot osmium bullets. Both metals are rarer and more expensive than platinum in [[Real Life]].
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