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[[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], Lieutenant Commander Colin MacIntyre is on a mission to map the dark side of the Moon. Imagine his surprise when it kidnaps him instead! ''Dahak'' has been waiting abandoned in orbit, camouflaged and disguised as the Moon. Its AI has been awake and idle the whole time, unable to act due to conflicting orders. It forces Colin to become its new captain, so it can finally bring the mutineers to justice and free ''Dahak'' to attend its other duties.
What other duties? ''Dahak'' was originally stationed to defend against an invasion by the "Achuultani". Those mysterious aliens make periodic genocidal rampages, eradicating all intelligent life they encounter, and were responsible for the destruction of three previous galaxy-spanning empires. By the time Colin first hears this explanation, ''Dahak'' has detected clear signs that the next invasion wave is on its way
''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'' is the omnibus re-issue of [[David Weber]]'s ''Dahak'' trilogy, which consists of ''Mutineers' Moon'', ''The Armageddon Inheritance'', and ''Heirs of Empire''. The entire series is available for free [http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/09-AtAllCostsCD/AtAllCostsCD/Empire%20From%20the%20Ashes/index.htm on the Publisher's site.]{{Dead link}}
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* [[Absolute Xenophobe]]
* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]
* [[Alternate Calendar]]: The fourth Imperium and the Fourth Empire used Birhat's calendar. The fifth Imperium winds up using Earth's calendar, even if Everyone on Birhat winds up using Birhat's clock and maybe a modified calendar.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]
* [[Apocalypse How]]: All over the map.
** The Achuultani prefer to pull a Planetary/Physical Annihilation on everybody else.
** The Fourth Empire manages to pull off a Planetary/Total Extinction on ''themselves''. Due to the survival of the Imperial Zoo, Birhat is reduced to a Planetary/Species Extinction (All of the surviving flora and fauna were imported and escaped their respective enclosures.)
** Colin makes use of a Stellar/Physical Annihilation in order to defeat half of the enemy main force.
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]
* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]] - The first occurs at the beginning of the series when Dahak promotes Colin to position of captain (Captain of the Moon~!), though without much fanfare. He later promotes himself to Governor of Earth in order to exploit a clause of Imperium law. The second, in the next book, is a bit more amusing: {{spoiler|Colin unintentionally crowns himself ''Emperor'' when he orders Battle Fleet's central computer to implement "Case Omega" so he can get the information he needs without allowing Dahak to read him the fine print (since he knew it couldn't be good).}}
* [[The Battlestar]]
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]
* [[Body Surf]]
** Later,
* [[Calvin Ball]]: Imperial Battle Chess. Apparently, players can afford to take heavy losses without losing the game.
* [[Cargo Cult]] / [[God Guise]]
* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]]: The Fourth Empire's ''Mat-Trans'' network.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]] - In the first book it is mentioned that ''Dahak's'' Enchanach Drive could make the sun go supernova if it was used too close to it; guess what humans do to blow up around one million enemy ships whom they lured deep into a uninhabited solar system.
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* [[Generican Empire]] - It doesn't get much more generic than "The Fifth Imperium".
* [[Genius Loci]]: Any Imperial planetoid gets this, especially ''Dahak''.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Colin gets a moment of this in the first book when he [[
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: the lead mutineers pulled this via brain transplants.
* [[Go On Without Me]]
* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: A small case, irrelevant to the greater story: Mutineers' Moon mentions Colin as having been selected for the first joint US-''Soviet'' interstellar flight crew.
* [[Have You Told Anyone Else?]]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Multiple, but two stand out.
** The Fourth Empire and their Empire-spanning 'Mat-Trans' system that had no bio-filter.
** 'Mister X' and his planting of a 'journal' on his designated fall guy.
* [[Humans Are Their Own Precursors]]: Escapees from the ship after a failed mutiny were the progenitors of humanity as Earth thinks it knows it, and some of the still-alive mutineers have been living amongst us, biding their time.
* [[Humans Are Warriors]]
** Eleven invasions, four of them against humanity, and all but the last one completed at a horrific cost, even by the AI's standards. The last one (in the books) was as close to completely wiped out as they come.
* [[Incendiary Exponent]]
* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]]. Take a starship AI the size of a large warehouse, let it run unsupervised for 50,000 years and hey presto! You get a starship the size of the [[That's No Moon|moon]] that can think for itself and ignore its [[Restraining Bolt|core programming]] at will.
* [[Insufficiently Advanced Alien]]:
* [[Just One Little Mistake]]:
* [[Late to the Party]]:
* [[Lost Colony]]: Pardal
* [[Loyal Phlebotinum]]: ''Dahak'' becomes this of his own, electronic free will.
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* [[Two of Your Earth Minutes]]: Used in the first book by Dahak while it describes past events to MacIntyre.
* [[Unobtainium]]: Though not actually named, the exotic synthetic materials required by [[Subspace Ansible]] transmitters qualifies. Especially since the [[Crazy Prepared]] [[Cool Starship]] carries everything '''BUT''' the ability to make more.
* [[Uplifted Animal]]
* [[The Voice]] / [[Voice with an Internet Connection]]: Dahak. Full Stop.
* [[We Can Rule Together]]
{{quote|''Then join us! You are {{spoiler|ending—join us! We will free you from the bio-forms}}!'' }}
* [[We Didn't Start the Fuhrer]]
{{quote|''No wonder the bomb plot had failed; a man with full enhancement would hardly even have noticed it. And if anyone had ever shown a maniacal glee in taking others down with them, it had been the Nazi elite.''
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]
* [[You Are in Command Now]]
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]
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