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* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Daniel is stated to be good enough at seducing women that he could make his living at it. More recently he has settled down with Miranda Dorst.▼
* [[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. He repeats this in ''every'' book, emphasizing that he actually believes humanity three thousand years or so from now (if it survives that long) will have replaced both of those measurement systems.
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* [[Kid with the Leash]]: Adele with Tovera. Adele keeps her around partially as a reminder that [[Bad Dreams]] are far from the worst possible consequence of her chosen lifestyle.
* [[Magnetic Hero]]: Let the word get out that Captain Leary is recruiting. Watch people who've shipped with him before come running to sign up. This includes a few who're rich enough from previous missions that they need never work again. "Six needs me...."
▲* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Daniel is stated to be good enough at seducing women that he could make his living at it. More recently he has settled down with Miranda Dorst.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: A brief reference in ''In the Stormy Red Sky'' to a medicinal plant known as "bluebrights" and grown on the planet Melpomene. The chronologically first ''[[Hammer's Slammers]]'' story takes place on Melpomene and mentions that bluebrights are the planet's only export. The technologies used are different enough that the Slammers and the RCN can '''not''' be part of the same future history.
* [[Nice Girl]]: Miranda Dorst, eventually Miranda Leary. A measure of '''how''' nice is that Tovera will escort her into Adele's presence without the sort of paranoid precautions she applies to most people. Being nice definitely doesn't make her a pushover, either. When she comes along with the sailors to help Leary escape an ambush, she looks around to see if there's still anyone who needs clobbering with her hockey stick before she goes to Daniel and hugs him.
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