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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.
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Margot and Rogan LaKarn. It doesn't work out.
* [[Assassin Outclassin']]: An interesting case. An assassin sent to kill Wilf cannot carry out the job because she owes him a life debt, and he accumulates new ones faster than she can repay. And the assassin's code demands that if she can't kill him, {{spoiler|she must kill the one who ordered the hit. She does}}.
* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: In the first book, Wilf is among a team captured by a League ship. He escapes, manages to kill an officer and steal his clothes. Then he uses his supposed rank to get into the engine room and disable the reactor. He's pretty far along by the time anyone starts suspecting.
* [[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
* [[Fantastic Drug]]: Timeweed.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: The League ''hunts the Bears for their pelts''. Wilf himself deals with it a lot in the Empire because of his birthplace - although it gets better over time.
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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.
* [[Shoot the Hostage]]: Well, not shooting, but threatening to shoot works nicely on the League, because [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|they believe Brim when he says the hostage will be executed anyway for failure and they only need to recover the expensive equipment.]]
* [[Shout
* [[Standard Sci
* [[Superweapon Surprise]]: The Hador-Haelic space forts activate right in the middle of a major combat.
* [[Tank Goodness]]: The series are mostly space-based, but books 1 and 6 contain a bit of tank fighting.
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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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