Limbo System

Limbo System is a science fiction novel by Rick Cook. A starship's FTL expedition to survey the stars stumbles upon the civilization of the alien Colonists -- humanity's first contact.

Tropes featured in this work.

 * Buy Them Off
 * The Captain: Jenkins grows into the role
 * Colonel Kilgore: Major DeLorenzo
 * Dirty Business: getting Toyodo to volunteer
 * Driven to Suicide: To escape capture
 * Due to the Dead
 * Fearless Fool: Billy Toyodo -- for an unusual reason
 * Forgiveness: a significiant topic of philosophical discussion.
 * Good Shepherd: Father Simon
 * I Choose to Stay: Two characters stay with the aliens in the end
 * Katanas Are Just Better: Dr. Takiuji's
 * The Missionary: Father Simon. Accidentally
 * My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: computer assisted.
 * Number Two: Iron Alice De Rosa
 * The Quisling: Aubrey
 * Reassigned to Antarctica: It's estimated that about a third of the people were sent into exile.