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* [[Death World]]: An unseen example is the Idirian homeworld, which has caused them to evolve into [[Badass]] warriors. The planet where the lost Mind is hiding is something of a literal example, being a world that once evolved sentient life with an advanced civilization until said life wiped itself out in the culmination of something like our [[Cold War]].
* [[Death World]]: An unseen example is the Idirian homeworld, which has caused them to evolve into [[Badass]] warriors. The planet where the lost Mind is hiding is something of a literal example, being a world that once evolved sentient life with an advanced civilization until said life wiped itself out in the culmination of something like our [[Cold War]].
* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: At the opening of the novel, Horza has been exposed impersonating a politician for the Idirans; once he's picked up by [[Space Pirates]], he makes plans early on to replace the Captain, and eventually does.
* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: At the opening of the novel, Horza has been exposed impersonating a politician for the Idirans; once he's picked up by [[Space Pirates]], he makes plans early on to replace the Captain, and eventually does.
* [[Inside a Computer System]]/[[Cuckoo Nest]]: Horza is knocked out and dreams that he's woken from an immersive computer game. The technician tending to him gets some of the details of his story wrong, and when Horza tells him so, the guy realises he's woken up the wrong person and puts him back under. Horza wakes up, and [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|none of this is ever mentioned again]].
* [[Inside a Computer System]]/[[Cuckoo Nest]]: Horza is knocked out and dreams that he's woken from an immersive computer game. The technician tending to him gets some of the details of his story wrong, and when Horza tells him so, the guy realises he's woken up the wrong person and puts him back under. Horza wakes up, and [[Non Sequitur Scene|none of this is ever mentioned again]].
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Horza hates and despises sentient machines (to be sure, he doesn't believe they're really sentient). Most Idirans despise non-Idirans (see [[Superior Species]]), and they have a religious justification for it.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Horza hates and despises sentient machines (to be sure, he doesn't believe they're really sentient). Most Idirans despise non-Idirans (see [[Superior Species]]), and they have a religious justification for it.
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* [[Non-Action Snarker]]: Jandraligeli.
* [[Non-Action Snarker]]: Jandraligeli.
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: [[Martyrdom Culture|The Idirans]] hold firm religious beliefs in fighting to the death. For example:
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: [[Martyrdom Culture|The Idirans]] hold firm religious beliefs in fighting to the death. For example:
** Xoxarle, who -- after Horza and company capture following a [[Ray Gun]] fight-- spews insults at the Changer in a futile attempt to get himself killed and reunite with his fallen comrades, rather than face the shame of being taken prisoner.
** Xoxarle, who—after Horza and company capture following a [[Ray Gun]] fight—spews insults at the Changer in a futile attempt to get himself killed and reunite with his fallen comrades, rather than face the shame of being taken prisoner.
** Quayanorl, Xoxarle's comrade, despite grievous damage done to him during the aforementioned lasergun fight, manages {{spoiler|to drag himself up to the train parked in the station, get it running, and wham it into the train sitting in the station Horza and the others are occupying, kicking off the cataclysmic fight that gets everybody but Balveda and Unaha-Closp killed.}} The Idiran fulfills his wish to die having contributed an noble to his species' cause.
** Quayanorl, Xoxarle's comrade, despite grievous damage done to him during the aforementioned lasergun fight, manages {{spoiler|to drag himself up to the train parked in the station, get it running, and wham it into the train sitting in the station Horza and the others are occupying, kicking off the cataclysmic fight that gets everybody but Balveda and Unaha-Closp killed.}} The Idiran fulfills his wish to die having contributed an noble to his species' cause.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: the [[Space Pirates]] - things don't go well for them
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: the [[Space Pirates]] - things don't go well for them
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