Aurora's End (The Aurora Cycle)

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Unspoken Plan Guarantee: When Squad 312 needs to steal an Eshvaren statue from crime lord Casseldon Bianchi on Sempiternity, the plan, which involves using the GIA agents who tried to turn Cat against the rest of the group and relies on them deliberately getting caught, is not explained until after it's been carried out, albeit with a few hiccups. Ship Sinking: Tyler/Cat gets sunk for good in Book 3 when Tyler kills her Ra'haam body... with Saedii's knife. Botanical Abomination: The Ra'haam, a thing that controls people by implanting plant-like growths in them, and wants to devour all life in the galaxy. And it's waking up from its million-year dormancy...

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Shared Unusual Trait: Auri, after her right eye turns white. The Eshvaren statue also has a white right eye, indicating the connection between them. So does Archon Caersan, a.k.a. The Starslayer. Fake Defector: During the heist on the World Ship, Cat plays this role as part of the plan, pretending to take up the offer from a squad of GIA agents who try to turn her. Victoria's Secret Compartment: Scarlett sometimes stores useful items in her bra, including money and the key to a spaceship. Switching P.O.V.: Every chapter is narrated by one of the 7 main characters, with their name at the beginning.Government Conspiracy: It becomes clear by the end of the first book that the human military, and likely the government, is under the control of people infested with Ra'haam, who are carrying out its bidding. Show Some Leg: Scarlett deliberately uses sex appeal to distract people several times. One example is during the bank infiltration on Emerald City where she wears skin-tight red PVC and a corset and pretends to be a dominatrix, seriously flustering both the bank manager and Kal, her extremely reluctant and equally scantily-clad "pet". Zila: gold hoop earrings with hawk charms. Encourages Scarlett, Fin and Zila to trust Lieutenant Nari Kim, whose callsign is Hawk. Later, allows Tyler to recognise an elderly Zila in a holo-video from the distant past.

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Fin will nerd out about mechanical stuff to Auri, and even though Auri has no clue what he's talking about, she'll still nod along and try to match his enthusiasm The Assimilator: The Ra'haam is capable of infecting members of sapient species to become agents of itself, but only if those individuals stray onto one of the 22 planets it's incubating on. It wants to absorb everything else into its gestalt. In other words, they're biological versions of The Borg. Scarlett: (internally) Scarlett Isobel Jones is damn good at what she does. And what she does is People. [This man is] running on around four hours’ sleep. It’s been about six months since he was home, and he misses it. I can see one of his eyes is cybernetic, and from the blotching of veins on his nose, he likes a drink. Looking over his craggy face, his stance as he squares up to me, I can feel hostility. Disbelief. And a little bit of fear.Saedii and Kal were often used as pawns by their father against their mother, but their mother tried her best to prevent them from becoming the monsters Caersan was grooming them to be. Unlike her brother, Saedii was not very close to her mother and instead preferred her father's attentions. When Laeleth decided to flee Caersan, Saedii rebuffed her mother's pleas to come with her. Laeleth then departed with Kal, and the siblings were separated for some time afterward. Half-Human Hybrid: In the second book, it is revealed that Tyler's and Scarlett's mother was Waywalker Syldrathi. Lost Superweapon: The Weapon, created by the Eshvaren a million years earlier, has the ability to completely destroy stars and planets.