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'''The Setting Provides Examples of the Following Tropes:'''
* [[Alien Geometries]]: The Spooks don't like constant-radius curves or right angles.
* [[The Atoner]]: John Smith, a heroic example of the [[Well
* [[Bodyguarding a Badass]]: Early on, the major has a bodyguard whose sole purpose is to keep him from doing anything stupid like trying to lead an assault from the front; his job is to lead, not be a badass, though badass he is.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: We're told that {{spoiler|al-Ibrahimi and Tamara Lundie are Category Fours, civil servants with an implanted CPU in their skull. Only a Category Four can change their brainwaves so they can pass the Kalendru mental shield at the entrance to the bioweapon's control room without being fried.}}
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** And these defences tailor themselves to the intruder. Blohm notes that the spikes are poisonous to the Kalendru who were there before them.
** {{spoiler|Justified, given that the world is actually an ancient Kalendru bioweapon, evolving constantly in response to the intruders. It's actually so dangerous that the Kalendru back down immediately after humanity captures it.}}
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Him God]]: Project Manager Jafar al-Ibrahimi, because he has life-and-death authority over all the civilians and strikers on the expedition.{{spoiler|Lampshaded, as he was the former Chief of the Administration and actually did have complete authority over the entire Unity}}.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted. The Kalendru have extremely fast reactions, so the strikers have learned to ''never'' hesitate. Caius Blohm, the point man for C41, hoses down a room of Spook women and children before he realizes his mistake. It affects him.
* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]: The strikers use stingers, electromagnetic pellet rifles, as their primary weapons, while the Spooks use laser beams. The stingers are massively damaging at the close range that Strike Force missions take place at.
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