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Long ago, a race of beings known as the [[Precursors|Golden Tribe]], sent out a telepathic message into the depths of space, to the other races, who were still young. "Come, from the planets you were born on, here into space and join us." Three races answered. The Golden Tribe called them the Silver Tribe (a race that would directly study under the precursors), the Bronze Tribe (a race of sentient insects) and the Heroic Tribe (a warlike race of [[Kaiju]]). The Heroic Tribe quickly annihilated themselves save for five individuals, who were subdued by the Golden Tribe, transformed into gemstones, and implanted into members of other Tribes.
In time, when the Golden Tribe chose to undertake a journey to another universe, there was a last race which answered their call. The fourth race was Humanity; they were named the Iron Tribe.
In the present day, The Silver Tribe has taken up the mantle of the Golden Tribe, but has dominated the Bronze Tribe and declared the Iron Tribe to be their enemies, driving them from the Earth. Battle-weary and on the run, Iron Tribe receives a new source of hope from their discovery of a Nodos -- a young human boy named Age, who was raised by the Golden Tribe before they vanished and contains the fifth surviving Heroic Tribe member, Bellcross. This does not sit well with the Silver Tribe, who redouble their efforts to destroy the upstart Iron Tribe. They too possess not only their own Nodos, but the other three as well, all bound to serve the Silver Tribe.
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* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Invoked by the entire Silver Tribe. Prome O transfers the emotions of her tribesmen to herself.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Dhianela, who is more or less considered to be the princess of the Iron Tribe.
* [[Expy]]: The Bronze Tribe are awfully reminiscent of [[
* {{spoiler|[[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Erymanthos attempts an in-universe form of [[Save Scumming]] by using [[Time Travel]] to kill Bellcross at the points in time when the latter was most vulnerable... only to learn the hard way that he was [[You Can't Fight Fate|protected by destiny]]. [[Superpower Meltdown|Then the accumulated temporal energy blew up...]]}}
** At another time she tries this same tactic to try to destroy the Argonaut. {{spoiler|She finds that doing so [[Berserk Button|only increases Belcross's murderous rage]], causing extreme devastation. She was then forced to go back again and stop herself from destroying the Argonaut.}}
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* [[Glory Hound]]: Meleagros and Atalantes, whos main main motivation for fighting is personal glory, and are quite willing to throw away the lives of the men under them to achiei\ve it.
* [[Hive Mind]]: Used by the Bronze Tribe
* [[Holding Out for a Hero]]: In addition to the tactics described below, the Iron Tribe princes' battle plan basically involves pointing Age at the enemy and releasing him. Then they holler for his help when they fail.
* [[Hollywood Tactics]]: Used exclusively by the two ruling princes, Meleagros and Atalantes. Most of which are [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]. Granted, they ''are'' considered idiots in-universe.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Used by the ''Argonaut'''s forces. Pilots with special abilities have [[Ace Custom]] units that amplify those abilities to a mecha scale. While they are useful enough in dealing with lower level Bronze Tribe [[Mooks]], Age is forced to deal with anything bigger.
* [[HSQ]]: Just from the clip at the top of this page. {{spoiler|''Holy shit they just turned Jupiter into a star!''}}
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** {{spoiler|The two human princes as well. [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Destroying Jupiter]], [[Moral Event Horizon|slaughtering an entire planet]] [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|full of innocents]] [[Complete Monster|then celebrating it]], and what do they get in the end? They cheat death ''three times'' and become high ranking individuals using their sister's reputation to their own advantage!}}
* [[Laser Blade]]: The humans' [[Humongous Mecha|Organ Units]] actually have beam ''bayonets'', which is [[Rule of Cool|pretty awesome]].
* [[Law of Chromatic Superiority]]: Of kinds. There are both subverted and straight examples. One would be the respective rise in raw power and commonness of psychic powers from the Iron Tribe (only sparse psychics) over Bronze (one may argue, but they still shoot lasers!) and Silver Tribes (enough examples, I think) to the Golden Tribe, which is even regarded as godlike by the Silver Tribe, which already is strong. The "nobleness" of the metal used to name the race clearly increases, too. One subversion is {{spoiler|that only a certain girl of the Iron Tribe, read humanity, could find meaning behind the Golden tribe's prophecies and unclose their gate for the Silver Tribe to use (Well... she certainly has [[Hair of Gold|Golden Hair]].}}
** Another example (in deep red) is every frenzied Heroic Tribe member: Their aura becomes red, they grow way stronger, and sometimes, well... [[Up to Eleven|Episode 25]].
* [[Liberty Over Prosperity]]: One of the men from Titarros remarks that "Prosperity is a chimera if the price is enslavement."
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: All the Nodos qualify but Bellcross is the exemplar. He has the greatest physical strength and endurance when none of them are experiencing their [[Unstoppable Rage]] and his flight speed is not to be underestimated either (though it is explicitly stated that Artemia, at least, is quicker).
* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: Each of the [[Bronze Tribe]]'s asteroid-like ships has a small creature at its core which apparently causes the whole ship to blow up when killed. This is apparently because it both controls the ship's movement and when killed makes it self-destruct. Not that this actually works against Bellcross in particular.
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* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: The Nodos.
* [[Princess Curls]]: Dhianeila, in the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]].
* [[Psychic Powers]]: Demonstrated by all the Tribes.
** The Golden Tribe was believed to have achieved [[Reality Warper|virtual omnipotence]] before leaving the known galaxy but little is actually said about their powers during the course of the series.
** Several Heroic Tribe members demonstrate incredible feats which are explicitly stated to involve psychic energy, such as Bellcross and Artemia's massive energy blasts and Erymanthos' [[Time Travel]].
** The Silver Tribe can communicate telepathically, assemble matter at an atomic level, create shields, levitate, fire energy blasts and telepathically control the Bronze Tribe, among other powers. Most of these they received directly from the Golden Tribe.
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* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Iolaous is generally a pretty decent guy, but he does pay his sisters to smuggle him holographs of Dhianeila. Given the generally positive light in which he's portrayed, this may be a case of [[Stalking Is Love]]; the revelation of this habit of his seems to serve no other purpose than to establish his feelings for the princess. {{spoiler|He seems to have moved on to a (much healthier) relationship with Aneasha by the end of the series, though.}}
* [[Staying Alive]]: Lernaea's powers of decay also work the other way round, allowing him to regenerate from even the smallest fragments. {{spoiler|Karkinos eventually extends this power to Yuty, bringing her back to life after her Nodos form disintegrates.}}
* [[Superpower Meltdown]]: Heroic Tribe members who succumb to "mental chaos" will eventually be ripped apart by their own powers as they are fully focused on dealing out ever-increasing levels of destruction.
* [[Telepathic Spacemen]]: Most notably the Silver Tribe.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Meleagros and Atalantes, also far too dumb to ''stay dead.''
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