Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The Seven Races - Dinans are blue, Ivyns are green, Moirans are purple, Teklans are cyan, Camites are yellow, Julians are orange, Aïdans are red.Cool Spaceship: Two examples - the Ymir, which was effectively a nuclear reactor strapped to a comet, which is fuelled with water from the comet itself and Endurance, which is an ice-composite shell containing the entirety of the ISS and an asteroid.Cloudcuckoolander: Sonar Taxlaw, although justified because she's part of a community that's been living underground for five thousand years.Cannibal Tribe: Aïda and co, although justified by virtue of it being strictly necessary at the time.Bread and Circuses: It's generally accepted by the higher-ups that the Cloud Ark program is simply to placate the masses back on Earth to prevent riots with the promise that they will live on in their data and ethnic groups.For example, Skape (skype), and Spacebook ( guess). Brand X: Played with, since they also exist in their real-life counterparts back on Earth.Auto Cannibalism: You don't need legs in space, but they are a handy source of nutrients if food stocks run low.Alien Space Bats: The moon explodes 'for no apparent reason', but this is glossed over (and justified) since the main concern isn't 'why did this happen', but 'what happens next'.Apocalypse How: Class 5/Planetary Extinction, caused by the moon blowing up, but due to careful management and general science, is turned into a Class 2/Societal Collapse.

Adam and Eve Plot: Minus the Adam, and two thirds of the way into the book.Some are even programmed to return to their shooter. Abnormal Ammo: 'ambots', or small robots designed to provide maximum damage to targets but none to the space habitats they may be in, prove invaluable during the five thousand years humanity is residing entirely in space.

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