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* [[Ret-Gone]]: Yet another occupational hazard for your forces.
* [[Retroactive Preparation]]: A very basic tactic in game.
* [[Ripple Effect Indicator]]: Various symbols on the timeline are used to indicate various events happening.
* [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory]]: Achrons. The game makes a strong distinction between entities that exist inside and outside time (chronals and achronals respectively). You're a general precisely because of your ability to exist outside the time stream and effect changes to it without being personally affected by it.
* [[San Dimas Time]]: The way time travel works actually does a pretty good job of justifying this.
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* [[Terminator Twosome]]: Your standard two-player game.
* [[Time Is Dangerous]]: You need to be careful when sending units back in time that they don't end up [[Tele Frag|occupying the same space]] as another unit. Especially their past selves.
* [[Time Master|Time Masters]]: The titular achrons.
* [[Time Travel Tense Trouble]]: The fans refer to the two orthogonal timelines as "time" (in-game time) and "metatime" (real-life time). Once you hang around the community long enough, it becomes second nature.
* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]: Averted hard. The rules for time travel are completely consistent both within the story and the gameplay.
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== Story ==
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* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: The only explanation humanity can find for the destruction of a number of their colonies... for now. {{spoiler|It's actually because humanity's foray into time travel, discovered right as the Grekim attack, is muddying up the timeline and the Grekim do not want that.}}
* [[Arc Number]]: The AI Echo is fond of the number '76,013', {{spoiler|which is ultimately revealed to be the number of [[Stable Time Loop]] iterations so far}}.
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* {{spoiler|[[Tomato in the Mirror]]: Twice. First, the player finds out that the character they've been playing (Tyr) is in fact Lachesis, the same AI that caused the rebellion mentioned in the backstory. Second, at the end, Lachesis realizes that the Coremind it's been fighting all this time is, to a degree, itself, or at least rebuilt after its image.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Turned Against Their Masters]]: Jormun/Echo turns against humanity in the end, causing Lachesis's ground war on Drasil to collapse and leading to his eventual defeat}}
* {{spoiler|[[Transhuman Aliens]]: It is not stated outright, but can be inferred that the Vecgir are in fact the decendants of humanity that have been enslaved and modified by the Coremind in a loop that has been going on for millions of meta-years.}}
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