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Being written by [[John Ringo]], before you crack open the book get your popcorn ready. ''Troy Rising'' was planned as a trilogy, with the first book being ''[http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1439133328/1439133328.htm?blurb Live Free or Die]''. The next book, ''[http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1439134006/1439134006.htm?blurb Citadel]'', was released in early 2011 followed by ''[http://www.webscription.net/chapters/A9781439134320/A9781439134320.htm The Hot Gate]'' in mid-2011. Ringo's enjoying himself, so there will be [[Trilogy Creep|more than three books in this trilogy]], with the current plan for five books total in the series... unless his Muse steps in once again.
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* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Argus, the AI in charge of the [[Wave Motion Gun|SAPL]], which uses solar-orbit mirrors to focus large amounts of sunlight, starts getting OCD about the small gravitational interactions between the mirrors and things like ships, asteroids, and planets. Vernon quickly recognizes the danger signs and disconnects him before he does anything drastic; it's speculated that soon after the point where he's stripped of control, he would have started accidentally incinerating tug ships. The unmanned ones, of course. At first.
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** He even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] his use of the trope by directly quoting the story.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Early in the first book, while discussing telescope scheduling, Ringo mentions a "huge outcry amongst "real" researchers who had grants to study oxygen production of Mira Variables". Much later in the same book, one of the scientists Vernon hires comments that his specialty was the oxygen production of Mira Variables.
* [[Cheese
* [[Colony Drop]]: Part of the Horvath's initial appearance was dropping kinetic energy weapons on several cities.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Big country invades small country and turns them into a [[Banana Republic]] - so a plucky local starts selling drugs to fund a revolution. [[Drugs Are Bad|Sound]] [[In Space|familiar]]?
* [[First Contact]]: Done in a rather amusing manner via phone calls to major world leaders.
* [[Famous Last Words]]: Attempted and averted by Vernon when asked for his Last Words.
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* [[Humanity Is Superior]]: For one very specific reason; ''We're [[Crazy Awesome]].''
{{quote| '''Tyler''': ''[[Crazy Enough to Work|If it’s crazy but it works...]]''<br />
'''Granadica''': '' 'It's not crazy.' You humans are the only sophonts in this galactic region to have that saying. Most people just go with '[[You're Insane!|that's crazy]]'.'' }}
** Other instances of Human 'superiority' are actually mostly a result of the fact that every other race humans have close dealings with (or fight against) was at the 'hiding in caves' to 'tribal' levels of technological development when the gates were placed in their systems. It all boils down to Tyler noticed that 'Hey I can execute on all this Big Ideas from Scifi'. The other races didn't have the benefit of Hard Scifi writers coming up with things for them since they weren't far enough along on their own when they suddenly got access to advanced tech.
* [[Humans Advance Swiftly]]: One Glatun AI does an intense analysis of human history, psychology, and technical savvy and then recommends that the Glatun race ally with humans because of this trope: the Glatun are on the decline, and the humans are not only on their way up, they'll likely ''skyrocket'' upward. It's even [[Lampshaded]] that the history of human technological advance is marked by "periods of astounding, breakneck advance intercut with short periods of calm."
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* [[Klingons Love Shakespeare]]: Vernon bought and began distributing old [[John Wayne]] movies to aliens, who liked it. Before they got invaded anyway.
** Part of the reason why the story begins: he starts talking to an alien about the possibility of Earth foods being sold offworld, possibly as a niche market. He strikes it gold with Maple Syrup.
* [[Line
* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: Humans and others, particularly in ''The Hot Gate'', throw around up to ''hundreds of thousands'' of missiles, depending on the specific engagement under discussion, at one point outdoing the entire missile expenditure of ''both'' sides at ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]]'''s {{spoiler|Battle of Manticore}}. In ''The Hot Gate'' {{spoiler|the missiles are actually fired ''through'' said gate.}}
* [[Matter Replicator]]: "fabbers" much like their ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' counterparts, can build just about anything you want very quickly as long as you've got the raw materials. Much like the Schlock Verse, the crushed remains of enemy ships are frequently fed in as the raw materials in question.
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** The trope title is nearly quoted word for word in ''The Hot Gate'', in regards to 20,000 human missiles sent at a Rangoran AV that had its point defense systems almost completely destroyed.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: In the first part of ''Live Free or Die'', NASA. The day the Ring is set up, they are present for the [[Instructional Dialogue]] from the Grtul: "By 'anyone can use the ring' do we mean that another species can use it to enter your system? Yes. Does that mean that hostile or friendly forces can use it? Yes. Are you allowed to block the ring? No. Good bye." They then spend ''three years'' screwing around, so the Horvath just walk in and take the planet in a single afternoon. [[Karma Houdini|They're still around years later to try to claim jurisdiction over Vernon's ship.]]
** In the second part of the same book, the "religious terrorist" states. Upon being informed that Earth has been hit by a [[Depopulation Bomb]], they whip their populations into frenzies, insisting that the '''cures''' being distributed are the source of the plague, spiritually poisonous, etc. [[Laser
* [[Trilogy Creep]]: The series was originally planned to be a trilogy, but word on the Ringo forum on [[Baen Books|Baen's Bar]] is that his Muse is insisting on continuing the series, much to the joy of many of his readers. The current plan is for five books total... unless Ringo's Muse insists on more.
* [[Unfriendly Fire]]: Star Marshall Lhi'Kasishaj dispose Star Marshall Gi'Bucosof for incompetence and cowardice with a lethal pain stick.
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* [[Walking Techbane]]: PVT John "Chaosman" Peterson, one of the Marines stationed on Troy, is infamous for breaking anything technological he uses, even if the item is supposed to be completely immune to complete and total failure. Considering [[Space Marine|his job]] involves operating in space, this isn't exactly the best of situations.
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: SAPL for the win.
* [[We Come in Peace, Shoot To Kill]]: The initial contact is peaceful, by a race that's only interested in trade with Earth. Contact with the Horvath is... not, and for rather less voluntary purposes than trade<ref> Well, unless you mean trade as in, "Give us your stuff, and in return we give you the right to live."</ref>.
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[What's in It For Me]]: In ''The Hot Gate'', the subject of personal benefit from cooperating with one another comes up in a conversation between "Comet" Parker and one of the engineers for the 143rd.
* [[Write Who You Know]]: A staple of Ringo's writing.
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