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''[[The Decline & Collapse of the Hyrzhog-Burluss Galactic Mining Combine]]'' is the first in Micah E. F. Martin's Corporate Space duology. It deals with the misadventures of disgraced and exiled corporate bureaucrat Horace T. Uxorial, caught in an embezzlement scandal and banished by the Hyrzhog-Burluss Combine's powerful chairman to the frontier mining world of New Hiram. Confronted, after a life of luxury and indolence, with the harsh reality of the Combine's exploitative methods and brutal disregard for life, Horace, with the aid of outcast native Malintzin, senile genius E. M. Gironde and local tough Norton Strong, must use his bureaucratic savvy to strike back at New Hiram's callous corporate oppressors.
The Combine, however, has other plans for New Hiram. Iron-fisted geologist T. Bernard Hughes, megalomaniac planetary governor Preston Rucker and callous General Wolcott, all with the backing of the Chairman, will do everything in their power to make Horace's tenure on New Hiram a living hell.
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The Corporate Duology is set in Accorded Space, a loose confederation of economically-tied planets in the Milky Way administrated by various corporations through a Senate. Humans, or Terrans, exist as second-class citizens in a galaxy dominated by alien ("xenic") genii. Most characters are, in fact, non-humans and some (like Horace) are, physically, extremely strange.
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* [[Absent
* [[Absolute Xenophobe]]: Mr. Hughes, though he hates everyone. Also, the Nang No.
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Mr. Hughes isn't a good man, but it's reassuring to know he'll always be there to stave off even worse things. Until he's shot on the bridge of his own battleship. Mr. Manning's death is also fairly tragic.}}
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Roger Lovelace.
* [[Aliens and Monsters]]: Oh God, the Ichorati.
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* [[Back
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Mr. Hughes, {{spoiler|especially in the later books.}}
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: The Executive Partners, giant flying space grubs suspended by gas bladders. Goljoirans, crablike and with absurd systems of redundant organs. Mogothi, whose legs telescope, Nylantha, gilled quadrupeds, etc., etc.
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* [[The Dandy]]: Many. Governor Rucker has shades of this.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Roger and Norton in particular. Also, {{spoiler|Mr. Potter.}}
* [[Deep
* [[Doomed Protagonist]]: Horace. So hard.
* [[Emperor Scientist]]: Dr. Legue is a wannabe.
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* [[The Messiah]]: The Ichorati have their prodigal son, the nameless genetically-engineered half-Terran.
* [[Noble Savage]]: Subverted HARD with the Nahuatl, New Hiram's natives.
* [[Non
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Welcome to the cast. This is also the Hat of Administrative Center 01, the homeworld of the Executive Partners.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Siddhis.
* [[Proud Merchant Race Guy]]: The Executive Partners.
* [[Psycho Sidekick]]: {{spoiler|Mr. Potter.}}
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: Maybe you didn't hate the Ichorati after
* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: Mr. Wake.
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* [[
* [[Token Minority]]: Usually the Terrans, weirdly enough.
* Ubermensch: Part of An Nam Mu's bizarre scientific program.
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