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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Poor Katherie.
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Poor Katherie.
* [[Attack Drone]]: Virtually all craft besides full-sized capital ships are remote-piloted or AI-controlled drones. They're also rather small -- "intelligencer" survellence craft are comperable in size and weight to ''a speck of dust'', while FTL-comm equipped forward command drones (necessary to eliminate light-speed lag during battles taking place over interplanetary distances) are roughly the size of a large coffin. Also notable are "flockers", finger-sized AI-controlled kinetic-kill missiles that are rather dumb individually, but are deployed in swarms numbering in the ''thousands'', allowing them to form very clever democratic intelligence networks.
* [[Attack Drone]]: Virtually all craft besides full-sized capital ships are remote-piloted or AI-controlled drones. They're also rather small -- "intelligencer" survellence craft are comperable in size and weight to ''a speck of dust'', while FTL-comm equipped forward command drones (necessary to eliminate light-speed lag during battles taking place over interplanetary distances) are roughly the size of a large coffin. Also notable are "flockers", finger-sized AI-controlled kinetic-kill missiles that are rather dumb individually, but are deployed in swarms numbering in the ''thousands'', allowing them to form very clever democratic intelligence networks.
* [[Blessed With Suck]] and/or [[Cursed With Awesome]]: Both Nara Oxham's empathy and Rana Harter's "brainbug".
* [[Blessed with Suck]] and/or [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Both Nara Oxham's empathy and Rana Harter's "brainbug".
* [[Bullet Time]]: One of Zai's marines has reflexes in the top hundredth-percentile for the ''entire human race'', so he spends his entire life like this.
* [[Bullet Time]]: One of Zai's marines has reflexes in the top hundredth-percentile for the ''entire human race'', so he spends his entire life like this.
* [[The Captain]]: [[Captain Obvious|Captain Laurent Zai]].
* [[The Captain]]: [[Captain Obvious|Captain Laurent Zai]].
* [[Empire With a Dark Secret]]: The Risen Empire and the Emperor are nowhere near as perfect as the Emperor would like people to think. {{spoiler|Immortality by the symbiant only lasts about 400 years in absolute time, and the Emperor is willing to destroy entire worlds to keep word from getting out.}}
* [[Empire with a Dark Secret]]: The Risen Empire and the Emperor are nowhere near as perfect as the Emperor would like people to think. {{spoiler|Immortality by the symbiant only lasts about 400 years in absolute time, and the Emperor is willing to destroy entire worlds to keep word from getting out.}}
* [[Epigraph]]: Every chapter starts with a quote from the in-universe Anonymous 167, who is Zai's favorite military strategist and who sometimes sounds quite a bit like Sun Tzu.
* [[Epigraph]]: Every chapter starts with a quote from the in-universe Anonymous 167, who is Zai's favorite military strategist and who sometimes sounds quite a bit like Sun Tzu.
* [[Emperor Scientist]]: The Risen Emperor invented immortality, followed by a religion based around him and his invention.
* [[Emperor Scientist]]: The Risen Emperor invented immortality, followed by a religion based around him and his invention.
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* [[Telepathy]]: Nara Oxham can feel people's emotions as a side effect of surgery, an ability called empathy. She was thought to be mad for several years because large populations of humans overwhelmed her mind with emotion. There is a 'cure' of sorts, an 'apathy' bracelet that injects a drug to suppress the empathy, but Oxham often lowers the dosage or stops using the drug during meetings so she can read crowds.
* [[Telepathy]]: Nara Oxham can feel people's emotions as a side effect of surgery, an ability called empathy. She was thought to be mad for several years because large populations of humans overwhelmed her mind with emotion. There is a 'cure' of sorts, an 'apathy' bracelet that injects a drug to suppress the empathy, but Oxham often lowers the dosage or stops using the drug during meetings so she can read crowds.
* [[Unusual User Interface]]: Most military officers and political workers have forms of surgical synesthesia and in some cases eyescreens like those later seen in ''[[Uglies]]''. The surgery to give people this synesthesia can cause strange side effects, like Oxham's empathy.
* [[Unusual User Interface]]: Most military officers and political workers have forms of surgical synesthesia and in some cases eyescreens like those later seen in ''[[Uglies]]''. The surgery to give people this synesthesia can cause strange side effects, like Oxham's empathy.
* [[We Will Have Perfect Health in The Future]]: All the major factions have absolutely no disease at all. However, they maintain a joint neutral zone called the Plague Axis in which diseases are allowed to flourish among the inhabitants just in case a new plague ever arises and they might be able to find a cure among the diseased. Inhabitant of the Plague Axis are required to wear environmental isolation suits when on envoys to the other factions.
* [[We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future]]: All the major factions have absolutely no disease at all. However, they maintain a joint neutral zone called the Plague Axis in which diseases are allowed to flourish among the inhabitants just in case a new plague ever arises and they might be able to find a cure among the diseased. Inhabitant of the Plague Axis are required to wear environmental isolation suits when on envoys to the other factions.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: The 'pink' faction in the Senate, who want to stop use of the symbiant and let folks die naturally. Several different factions and parties exist within this group with differing reasons for wanting the symbiant gone.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: The 'pink' faction in the Senate, who want to stop use of the symbiant and let folks die naturally. Several different factions and parties exist within this group with differing reasons for wanting the symbiant gone.
** Notably, they want this because they think it's better for ''society'', not because they think immortality would suck for ''individuals''.
** Notably, they want this because they think it's better for ''society'', not because they think immortality would suck for ''individuals''.
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