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* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Inverted: AI is useful and makes life easier.
** Made even better with Sirantha's AI-driven PDA, who is ''very'' helpful.
* [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing Toto Read]]: March the telepath knows the worst of everyone around him, and hardly bothers to hide his contempt for them. He knows when they lie either to others or to themselves. In fact, the main draw he feels towards Jax is that she doesn't lie and there's no disconnect between what she's thinking and what she's saying.
* [[Bio Augmentation]]: ''Wanderlust'' introduces us to the Bred, genetically engineered humans who are just better in every way than baselines. The trade-off? The human costs of the projects that made them were very, very high, and they produced vastly more failures than successes.
* [[Bounty Hunter]]: Velith.
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* [[Hide Your Lesbians]]: ''sharply'' averted. Dina is a practicing lesbian who can "bring home a girl who's never looked twice at her own sex." None of Dina's exploits are shown "on-camera" but she mentions them via innuendo on a regular basis.
* [[Hired Guns]]: March, as well as his friends introduced in ''Wanderlust,'' are all former mercenaries.
* [[Taking You Withwith Me]]: {{spoiler|an epic rendition when Sirantha's mother sacrifices herself and her flagship to destroy the dreadnaught about to attack Venice Minor.}}
* [[Psychic Powers]]: Psis (portrayed as users of telepathy) are a regularly occurrence in the setting, if encountered only occasionally. However, there is a Psi in Sirantha's group -- {{spoiler|March}}.
* [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]: Averted.
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* [[Troubled but Cute]]: March's time as a merc was very unfriendly to his psyche, to the point where a mentor had to rebuild his humanity brick by brick. Sirantha falls for him pretty hard, all while lampshading his brokenness.
** Gone to almost [[Tear Jerker]] levels with Wanderlust when {{spoiler|March fights in the clan war for Gunnar-Dahlgren and breaks again in the process.}}
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: An [[Zig -Zagging Trope|interesting manipulation]] -- the Ithtorians assume others' features by growing a new a skin. The new skin wears out (smelling a little ripe in the process) and must be molted and replaced. Not only does the skin provide a useful disguise, but it also provides armor of a soft, fleshy sort. To play with it even further, though, the Ithtorians mannerisms and speech patterns remain essentially unchanged, so to make a thoroughly convincing disguise, the Ithtorian must learn to alter how he acts.
** To add another zig to the zag, Velith is the only Ithtorian who uses it this way. All other Ithtorians find it dreadfully distasteful.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Dina.
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