Xeelee Sequence/YMMV


 * Crowning Moment of Awesome:
 * The 's Big Damn Villains moment, where they toss a star at the photino birds and unleash their Spline fleet in a "baryonic blitzkrieg".
 * In Ring, Spinner-of-Rope and Michael Poole fly the Great Northern  by looping around a cosmic string.
 * Jim Bolder tricks the Qax into.
 * Humanity's war against the Xeelee was stupid and pointless, but  nonetheless qualifies, if only because   gives humanity a chance to progress and recover (and we do learn from Transcendent that things do indeed get better...for a while).
 * Even if, humanity reached the point of near ascension to godhood in Transcendent. Not bad for a bunch of apes.
 * Retcon: There's some inconsistencies across the series, mainly between the earlier novels and the Destiny's Children books. Some of it is simply the result of a lot more light being shed on the period between the fall of the Qax and the end of Ring, but (for example) the fact that Xeelee-style FTL drives  is only revealed in Exultant, when one would have expected it to be mentioned earlier.
 * Tear Jerker: This troper outright wept at the end of Mayflower II, one of the stories in Resplendent. The immortal protagonist, guardian of the titular generation ship, has lost everyone dear to him, watched the onboard society unravel and then the inhabitants devolve over generations.