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'''Arrivals from the Dark''' ("Пришедшие из мрака") is a Russian science fiction book series written by [[Mikhail Akhmanov]]. Except for the first novel, the series focuses on the lives of some of the members of the same family. The series timeline stretches from 2088 to 2352. All novels deal with humanity's wars against various alien races with the myths and legends of the mysterious [[Precursors]] who left the known galaxy tens of thousands of years ago.

 

** Lo'ona Aeo weapons fire cannonball-like rounds that completely ignore [[Deflector Shields]].

* [[Naming Your Colony World]] - played straight with most human colonies. One of the often-mentioned colonies is named Gondwana after one of the ancient Earth supercontinents. The three colonies most mentioned (T'har, Ro'on, and Aezat) were originally Faata colonies and were settled by humans after the aliens were pushed out. They decided to keep the names.

* [[No Endor Holocaust]] - partially averted in ''Invasion'', after the destruction of the Faata [[The Mothership|mothership]], where the out-of-control battle modules filled with [[Antimatter]] crash in most major cities. The resulting matter/anti-matter explosions kill over 40,000,000 people and destroy countless landmarks and historical artifacts. Really, though, the number of casualties should have been much higher, given the amount of anti-matter in the modules and the fact that later novels mention that Earth is getting overpopulated (i.e. higher population density in cities). In fact, cities should have erased from the face of the Earth.

* [[One-Gender Race]] - The Dromi are hermaphrodites. The convention is to refer to Dromi individuals as male.

** During the Faata invasion, the alien ship remains invisible from Earth sensors (primitive at the time) simply by having its [[Deflector Shields]] up (they absorb all emissions).

* [[Subspace or Hyperspace]] - Interstellar travel is achieved via another dimension known as the Limbo. A ship equipped with the contour drive jumps into the Limbo before re-entering our universe at different coordinates. All this takes a fraction of a second. It is extremely disconcerting to an untrained traveler, as the mind cannot comprehend where it is.

* [[Superweapon Surprise]] - after the Dromi conquer the human colonies of T'har, Ro'on, and Aezat, Lieutenant Mark Valdez helps the T'har [[La Résistance|resistance]] fighters by showing them the Arsenal, a cache of weapons and battle robots hidden during the wars with the Faata. Subverted in that the Dromi are too numerous to defeat without help from the outside.

* [[Technical Pacifist]] - the Lo'ona Aeo are the most advanced race in the known space, but they are completely non-violent (and physically frail). Their Servs also cannot fight. So the Lo'ona Aeo hire members of another race to serve as their Defenders. They are given ships and weapons and a regular pay in whatever currency they prefer (could be money, technology, or something else). Currently, the Lo'ona Aeo only hire humans for the job. Prior to that, it was the Dromi and the Haptors before them.

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