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''[[The Helmsman Saga]]'' is a [[Space Opera]] series by [
Started in 1985, seven books have been released by 1996. Then, after 15 years (and several years of constant promises), the eighth book was released in December 2011.
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* [[All There in the Manual]]: There is a glossary and list of units on the Author's website (the former currently needs a bit of work).
* [[Arms Dealer]]: Lixor is an entire planet.
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* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: In ''The Defenders'', Wilf is stranded on a League planet along with three people. One of them is the Emperor. He states right away that Emperors cannot fall captive, and makes the others swear they'll kill him first.
* [[BFG]]: The Hador-Haelic space forts have guns which are hundreds of feet long.
* [[Call a Rabbit
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Wilf knowledge of the League language is used a lot.
* [[Cultured Warrior]]: Wilf knows a lot of poetry.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Puvis Amherst. And he leads an entire organization of these.
* {{spoiler|[[Earth All Along]]}}: {{spoiler|The first books seem to imply the series are set in distant future,}} but Turning Tide has {{spoiler|Wilf's escape pod land on Earth in December 1965}}.
* [[ET Gave Us Wi
* [[Everything's Worse
* [[False-Flag Operation]]: The League captures a Fluvannian cruiser and use it to attack one of their liners.
* [[Fantastic Drug]]: Timeweed.
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* [[Really Gets Around]]: After book 7, Wilf has a lot of one night stands - nothing to do.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Rewarded
* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: An interesting example in the ''Galactic Convoy''. A city constantly suffers from airstrikes which no one sees. Now, it is known that the League has invisible ships, but no one understands how they make their weapon fire invisible. It's not until Brim actually sees it that they realize that {{spoiler|the Leaguers are simply dropping bombs}}.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Margot and Onrad.
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* [[This Is Reality]]: In book one, Wilf Brim has a last stand against three League ships, and muses that [[Big Damn Heroes]] only arrive in time in books.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: The League.
* [[We Will Have Perfect Health in
* [[Winged Humanoid|Winged Humanoids]]: A'zurnians. The Leaguers break the wings in half - roofed concentration camps are too expensive.
* [[You Are in Command Now]]: In the first book, Brim has to do it all the time. Either the commander has been captured, a [[Dirty Coward]], or away overseeing some trade negotiations (those are three different commanders).
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