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	Set in the modern day, it follows an exhausted office worker by the name of George Poole (Yes, like Michael Poole) as he searches for a long-lost sister of his, only to stumble upon an ancient "hive" of people living underneath Italy. Meanwhile, a girl living within said hive struggles with coming of age and what that means in a society where no one even comes of age, and the story occasionally cuts back to the days of the Roman Empire to explore how the hive came to be.		Set in the modern day, it follows an exhausted office worker by the name of George Poole (Yes, like Michael Poole) as he searches for a long-lost sister of his, only to stumble upon an ancient "hive" of people living underneath Italy. Meanwhile, a girl living within said hive struggles with coming of age and what that means in a society where no one even comes of age, and the story occasionally cuts back to the days of the Roman Empire to explore how the hive came to be.

			===Exultant===
			Set during the height of the Interim Coalition’s war with the Xeelee, Exultant follows a pilot named Pirius who gets [[Grimdark\|court-martialed for a crime he hasn’t committed yet]], and is split into his past and present versions: Past Pirius goes on to spearhead a project whose goal is to ultimately defeat the Xeelee, while present Pirius is sent to the frontlines.

			===Transcendent===
			Transcendent’s story is twofold: Michael Poole (No, not that one) is living in the year 2047 trying to solve climate change, while his every move is watched by an ape-like posthuman grappling with trying to understand the Transcendence.

			===Resplendent===
			A collection of short stories like Vacuum Diagrams spanning the Qax Occupation until humanity’s final defeat at the hands of the Xeelee. Sheds light onto the Silver Ghosts and the Qax Extirpation, as well as giving a better look into the utter horrors of the Coalition.

	==The Sequence and the Critique of Humanity Fuck Yeah!==		==The Sequence and the Critique of Humanity Fuck Yeah!==

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	The Monads are eternal, abstract beings that live in the very fractured structure of the Multiverse or sometimes live in the 'Bulk', which is the space between universes. They enjoy selecting and shaping universes and embed them with complexity. They can create universes with a stupendous number of dimensions, and then slumber through the lifespan of each Universe inside black holes' event horizons for hundreds of billions of years when they aren't awake, and [[what\|the entire story is just part of their dreams]]. To simplify this, think of the Monads as a bunch of [[Azathoth]]s if he has an actual brain and self-awareness without the insanity and destruction, or even better they are basically the Downstreamers juniors (Stephen Baxter wrote both the Xeelee Sequence and the Manifold trilogy). But above all else, they take delight in watching the history of sentient life unfold. In a sense, the Xeeleeverse and other universes are like a multiversal Netflix to them. The Monads live in an abstract realm of random geometry, in which entire universes come into existence and disappear almost instantly. They are beyond time and space and the laws of physics.		The Monads are eternal, abstract beings that live in the very fractured structure of the Multiverse or sometimes live in the 'Bulk', which is the space between universes. They enjoy selecting and shaping universes and embed them with complexity. They can create universes with a stupendous number of dimensions, and then slumber through the lifespan of each Universe inside black holes' event horizons for hundreds of billions of years when they aren't awake, and [[what\|the entire story is just part of their dreams]]. To simplify this, think of the Monads as a bunch of [[Azathoth]]s if he has an actual brain and self-awareness without the insanity and destruction, or even better they are basically the Downstreamers juniors (Stephen Baxter wrote both the Xeelee Sequence and the Manifold trilogy). But above all else, they take delight in watching the history of sentient life unfold. In a sense, the Xeeleeverse and other universes are like a multiversal Netflix to them. The Monads live in an abstract realm of random geometry, in which entire universes come into existence and disappear almost instantly. They are beyond time and space and the laws of physics.

	They are so above everybody that even the most godlike advanced civilizations like the Xeelee are just pitiful little ants to them, they laugh at the Photino Birds galactic frisbee discs, and they treated Mankind's Galactic murderboning genocide spree like some annoying yet amusing little bed bugs. Hell, they will not even care if ~~wheter~~ or not the Photino Birds win as to them, the Xeelee-Photino Birds Universal war is like watching a free epic-drama tv series, and then after all of this, they went on to create another universe for themselves to entertain when the Xeeleeverse ended.		They are so above everybody that even the most godlike advanced civilizations like the Xeelee are just pitiful little ants to them, they laugh at the Photino Birds galactic frisbee discs, and they treated Mankind's Galactic murderboning genocide spree like some annoying yet amusing little bed bugs. Hell, they will not even care if whether or not the Photino Birds win as to them, the Xeelee-Photino Birds Universal war is like watching a free epic-drama tv series, and then after all of this, they went on to create another universe for themselves to entertain when the Xeeleeverse ended.

	==Shortlist of [[Grimdark]] Shit in the Sequence==		==Shortlist of [[Grimdark]] Shit in the Sequence==

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	{{Topquote\|The monads considered the bubbling foam around them. They dug into a reef of spindrift, selected a tangle of possibilities, picked out one evanescent cosmic jewel. This one—yes. They closed around it, as if warmed by its glow of potentialities. And, embedding themselves in its structure, they prepared to shape it. The monads enriched the seedling universe with ineffable qualities whose existence few of its inhabitants would even guess at.\|The Monads creating the universe with the power of Science from Exultant.}}		{{Topquote\|The monads considered the bubbling foam around them. They dug into a reef of spindrift, selected a tangle of possibilities, picked out one evanescent cosmic jewel. This one—yes. They closed around it, as if warmed by its glow of potentialities. And, embedding themselves in its structure, they prepared to shape it. The monads enriched the seedling universe with ineffable qualities whose existence few of its inhabitants would even guess at.\|The Monads creating the universe with the power of Science from Exultant.}}
	{{Topquote\|The monads cared nothing for humans, of course, or for quagmites, or Xeelee, or photino birds, or any of the rest of the universe's menagerie at this or any other age. But they liked their universes to have story; and it was living things that generated the most interesting sagas.\|This is how uncaring Gods should feel about weaklings, from Exultant.}}		{{Topquote\|The monads cared nothing for humans, of course, or for quagmites, or Xeelee, or photino birds, or any of the rest of the universe's menagerie at this or any other age. But they liked their universes to have story; and it was living things that generated the most interesting sagas.\|This is how uncaring Gods should feel about weaklings, from Exultant.}}
	The Monads are Gods (yes Gods with a capital G) they were the ones responsible for creating the Xeelee Sequence multiverse. They are so ''God'' damned powerful, they view both the Xeelee and Photino Birds in the same way the Xeelee and Photino Birds view humanity. The Monads are literally what [[Chaos]] [[Erebus\|fanboys]] think the [[Chaos Gods]] are, except you know, the Monads ''actually'' showed concrete feats to back up their claims. So feel free to pray to them. But spoilers, they won’t be listening.		The Monads are Gods (yes Gods with a capital G) they were the ones responsible for creating the Xeelee Sequence multiverse. They are so ''God'' damned powerful; they view both the Xeelee and Photino Birds in the same way the Xeelee and Photino Birds view humanity: totally insignificant less than nothing pests not even fit to kiss their asses. The Monads are literally what [[Chaos]] [[Erebus\|fanboys]] think the [[Chaos Gods]] are, except you know, the Monads ''actually'' showed concrete feats to back up their claims. So, feel free to pray to them all you want. But spoilers alert, they won’t be listening.

	The Monads are eternal, abstract beings that live in the very fractured structure of the Multiverse or sometimes live in the 'Bulk', which is the space between universes. They enjoy selecting and shaping universes and embed them with complexity. They can create universes with a stupendous ~~amount~~ of dimensions, and then slumber through the lifespan of each Universe inside black holes' event horizons for hundreds of billions of years when they aren't awake, and [[what\|the entire story is just part of their dreams]]. To simplify this, think of the Monads as a bunch of [[Azathoth]]s if he has an actual brain and self-awareness without the insanity and destruction, or even better they are basically the Downstreamers juniors (Stephen Baxter wrote both the Xeelee Sequence and the Manifold trilogy). But above all else, they take delight in watching the history of sentient life unfold. In a sense, the Xeeleeverse and other universes are like a multiversal Netflix to them. The Monads live in an abstract realm of random geometry, in which entire universes come into existence and disappear almost instantly. They are beyond time and space and the laws of physics.		The Monads are eternal, abstract beings that live in the very fractured structure of the Multiverse or sometimes live in the 'Bulk', which is the space between universes. They enjoy selecting and shaping universes and embed them with complexity. They can create universes with a stupendous number of dimensions, and then slumber through the lifespan of each Universe inside black holes' event horizons for hundreds of billions of years when they aren't awake, and [[what\|the entire story is just part of their dreams]]. To simplify this, think of the Monads as a bunch of [[Azathoth]]s if he has an actual brain and self-awareness without the insanity and destruction, or even better they are basically the Downstreamers juniors (Stephen Baxter wrote both the Xeelee Sequence and the Manifold trilogy). But above all else, they take delight in watching the history of sentient life unfold. In a sense, the Xeeleeverse and other universes are like a multiversal Netflix to them. The Monads live in an abstract realm of random geometry, in which entire universes come into existence and disappear almost instantly. They are beyond time and space and the laws of physics.

	They are so above everybody that even the most godlike advanced civilizations like the Xeelee are just pitiful little ants to them, they laugh at the Photino Birds galactic frisbee discs, and they treated Mankind's Galactic ~~murderboner~~ like some annoying bed bugs. ~~They may~~ not even care if the Photino Birds win as to them, the Xeelee-Photino Birds Universal war is like watching a free epic-drama tv series, and then after all of this, they went on to create another universe for themselves to entertain when the Xeeleeverse ended.		They are so above everybody that even the most godlike advanced civilizations like the Xeelee are just pitiful little ants to them, they laugh at the Photino Birds galactic frisbee discs, and they treated Mankind's Galactic murderboning genocide spree like some annoying yet amusing little bed bugs. Hell, they will not even care if wheter or not the Photino Birds win as to them, the Xeelee-Photino Birds Universal war is like watching a free epic-drama tv series, and then after all of this, they went on to create another universe for themselves to entertain when the Xeeleeverse ended.

	==Shortlist of [[Grimdark]] Shit in the Sequence==		==Shortlist of [[Grimdark]] Shit in the Sequence==

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	===Interim Coalition of Governance===		===Interim Coalition of Governance===
	[[File:ICoG_Flag.JPG\|300px\|right\|thumb\|The Flag of the ICoG.]]		[[File:ICoG_Flag.JPG\|300px\|right\|thumb\|The Flag of the ICoG.]]
	{{topquote\|I'll tell you why. Because, after twenty thousand years of the Third Expansion, the majority of mankind are soldiers—and most are still children when they die. Most people don't grow old. They don't even grow old enough to understand what is happening to them. To our soldiers war is a game, whose lethality they never grasp. This is what we are: this is what we have made ourselves. And the numbers are terrible: in a century, more people die in this war than all the human beings who ever lived on Earth before mankind first reached the stars.''\|Welcome to ~~one of~~ the bloodiest and ~~most~~ cruelest regimes written into fiction, from Exultant}}		{{topquote\|I'll tell you why. Because, after twenty thousand years of the Third Expansion, the majority of mankind are soldiers—and most are still children when they die. Most people don't grow old. They don't even grow old enough to understand what is happening to them. To our soldiers war is a game, whose lethality they never grasp. This is what we are: this is what we have made ourselves. And the numbers are terrible: in a century, more people die in this war than all the human beings who ever lived on Earth before mankind first reached the stars.''\|Welcome to the most unfair, repressive, bloodiest and cruelest regimes written into fiction, from Exultant}}
	{{Topquote\|Breed, fight hard, die young, and stay human: you could sum up the Coalition’s philosophy in those few words. In its social engineering the Coalition set up a positive feedback process; it unleashed a swarm of fast-breeding humans across the Galaxy, until every star system had been filled."<br>		{{Topquote\|Breed, fight hard, die young, and stay human: you could sum up the Coalition’s philosophy in those few words. In its social engineering the Coalition set up a positive feedback process; it unleashed a swarm of fast-breeding humans across the Galaxy, until every star system had been filled."<br>

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	What can be briefly described as the [[That Guy\|Khmer Rouge on Bath Salts with its Head of State as Pol Pot on Acid and jacked up to interstellar levels.]]		What can be briefly described as the [[That Guy\|Khmer Rouge on Bath Salts with its Head of State as Pol Pot on Acid and jacked up to interstellar levels.]]

	The ICoG was one of the major human governing polities that emerged after the Qax occupation, which forcefully [[Grimdark\|deleted most of human history and forced humanity into a multi-billion year PTSD]]. The ICoG is identifiable by two things: the first is that they are complete dicks that makes [[Eldrad]] look like a gentleman, and the second is that they are even more xenocidal than the IoM who has the common sense to leave truly harmless xenos the fuck alone. The ICoG is one of the most oppressive and [[grimdark]] factions in all of science fiction, which is an impressive feat all by itself. The ICoG makes you hate humanity. Seriously, these guys are just ''evil''.		The ICoG was one of the major human governing polities that emerged after the Qax occupation, which forcefully [[Grimdark\|deleted most of human history and forced humanity into a multi-billion-year PTSD]]. The ICoG is identifiable by two things: the first is that they are complete dicks that makes [[Eldrad]] look like a gentleman, and the second is that they are even more xenocidal than the IoM who has the common sense to leave truly harmless xenos the fuck alone. The ICoG is one of the most oppressive and [[grimdark]] factions in all of science fiction, which is an impressive feat all by itself. The ICoG makes you hate humanity. Seriously, these guys are just ''evil''.

	Why?		Why?
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	The ICOG created such a totalitarian shithole, not because of some pseudo-philosophical [[Communism\|bullshit]], or a horrible universe with [[Chaos Gods\|genocidal parasitic forces of existence]], [[Orks\|sentient mushroom hooligan]], [[Necron\|Egyptian terminator in space]] and [[Elric\|Melnibonean]] [[Dark Eldar\|rip-offs]], but because the ICOG are a bunch of spiteful pricks who want to make their people suffer. They want to channel their suffering and hate towards the Xeelee, who are trying to save them from the Photino Birds. And what did the ICoG do once they finally drove the Xeelee out of the Milky Way? Did they usher in a new golden age or do they amend their crimes? Nope they immediately fell into civil war before being unified by another tyrannical regime, which also quickly collapsed. Seriously, fuck the ICoG, just fuck 'em. When we mean the combined and concentrated [[Grimdark]] from all of WH40K still pales in comparison to just the ICoG itself, '''<u>WE FUCKING MEAN IT.</u>'''		The ICOG created such a totalitarian shithole, not because of some pseudo-philosophical [[Communism\|bullshit]], or a horrible universe with [[Chaos Gods\|genocidal parasitic forces of existence]], [[Orks\|sentient mushroom hooligan]], [[Necron\|Egyptian terminator in space]] and [[Elric\|Melnibonean]] [[Dark Eldar\|rip-offs]], but because the ICOG are a bunch of spiteful pricks who want to make their people suffer. They want to channel their suffering and hate towards the Xeelee, who are trying to save them from the Photino Birds. And what did the ICoG do once they finally drove the Xeelee out of the Milky Way? Did they usher in a new golden age or do they amend their crimes? Nope they immediately fell into civil war before being unified by another tyrannical regime, which also quickly collapsed. Seriously, fuck the ICoG, just fuck 'em. When we mean the combined and concentrated [[Grimdark]] from all of WH40K still pales in comparison to just the ICoG itself, '''<u>WE FUCKING MEAN IT.</u>'''

	Not to mention they got super tech that makes [[Dark Age of Technology]] look like banging rocks together with a production capacity that consumes stars' worth of metals PER DAY. You may ask why do they have trillions of child soldiers shat out of breeder pods and brutalized (sometimes sexually bullied in front of everyone by their Commissar) and sent to the battlefield in a skin-tight bodysuit? Why not just use quadrillions of aimbot-guided ~~megacomputers~~ with said "clairvoyance-proof" tech firing at the Xeelee? Right? (The answer: is the same vein why IoM likes to use Imperial Guardsmen so much. It's quite simple really, since to the ICOG the costs of raising, training, beating, humiliating and equipping one child-soldier is far much cheaper than building 'aimbots')		Not to mention they got super tech that makes [[Dark Age of Technology]] look like neolithic cavemen banging rocks together with a production capacity that consumes stars' worth of metals PER DAY. You may ask why do they have trillions of child soldiers shat out of breeder pods and brutalized (sometimes sexually bullied in front of everyone by their Commissar) and sent to the battlefield in a skin-tight bodysuit? Why not just use quadrillions of aimbot-guided Megacomputers with said "clairvoyance-proof" tech firing at the Xeelee? Right? (The answer: is the same vein why IoM likes to use Imperial Guardsmen so much. It's quite simple really, since to the ICOG the costs of raising, training, beating, humiliating and equipping one child-soldier is far much cheaper than building 'aimbots')

	Ironically if not cynically the Coalition is ~~basically~~ a ~~more~~ realistic portrayal of the [[Imperium of Man]] except superior in all aspects, more successful and yet humorously more retarded and incompetent than the Imperium itself. The Coalition may not have the religious themes, Gothic architecture or skull ~~obssession~~ of its Imperium cousin, but its fanatical ideology of human supremacy is undeniably similar. Because of this single-minded ideocracy, the Coalition thinks it has the right to genocide anyone and anything that stands in its way because of 'Muh Doctrine' and believe that all aliens are evil, and must be purged from existence even if they're friendly or not (sounds familiar anyone?). It does not change the fact that they are also despicable monsters as well.		Ironically if not cynically the Coalition is a comparatively realistic portrayal of the [[Imperium of Man]] except superior in all aspects, more successful and yet humorously more wasteful, petty, self-destructive, xenophobic, short-sighted, irrational, retarded, depraved and incompetent than the Imperium itself. The Coalition may not have the religious themes, Gothic architecture or skull obsession of its Imperium cousin, but its fanatical ideology of human supremacy is undeniably similar. Because of this single-minded ideocracy, the Coalition thinks it has the right to genocide anyone and anything that stands in its way because of 'Muh Doctrine' and believe that all aliens are evil and must be purged from existence even if they're friendly or not (sounds familiar anyone?). It does not change the fact that they are also despicable monsters as well.

	Despite the comparisons, the Coalition ~~society are much closer~~ to the [[Skaven]] than they are to the Imperium, hence their nickname of Human Space Skaven. Given the facts that their leaders repeatedly compared themselves to vermin throughout the Sequence, and their founder Hama Druz saw Humanity as an inherently rat-like species. Who is Hama Druz? [[That guy]] is the psychotic founder of the ICoG State Ideology, the 'Druz Doctrine' whose primary motto of the faith is “A brief life burns brightly” and he means it literally, which is what happens when someone takes the ideas of combining [[Humanity Fuck Yeah\|HFY]] and [[1984\|Ingsoc]] to its logical and retarded conclusion. To Druz, Humanity only exists to reproduce quickly and to populate every single planet, moon, asteroids, black holes, superclusters, star and space station in the galaxy, not even rogue planets are spared from the Assimilation (basically [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum Lebensraum] in space and on krokodil). To Druz, the true ideal for Humanity is to make 'miracles' out of their short, pathetic lives, and the suffering that comes along the way in their expansion would be considered as the [[grimdark\|<u>'''''BEST STATE'''''</u> a HUMAN could ever possibly be in]]. To Druz, honor and duty is Humanity's highest calling in life. That means <u>NO</u> thinking of the past nor the future, only the present is important, with all other types of culture, entertainment, distractions, even love and family were either frowned upon or deleted. To Druz, innovation, ingenuity, curiosity and new discovery are absolute [[heresy]]. To Druz, Xenocide is not only justified but is also the duty of every man, woman and child to purge the ever-living shit out of every single Xenos in the galaxy, spare no one, not even the smallest bacteria or a single microorganism is allowed to survive, and if they do survive, they will be de-evolved into a fate worse than death. [[Derp\|To Druz, heroism, individualism and egotism were discouraged and banned since such concepts are anathema to the goal of a unified Mankind]]. To Druz, to be a real “Human” in his way of thinking, there should be <u>NO</u> immortality, <u>NO</u> transhumanism, <u>NO</u> enhancement, '''<u>NOTHING</u>''', humanity should remain pure till the heat death of the universe. To Druz, Human suffering, Human pain and Human misery are seen as the main driving force behind everything that would be defined as [[Bullshit\|“Being Human”]]. Did we just add that many higher-caste elites use LITERAL ALIEN ORGANS and trans-genetic add-ons to stay immortal? Yeah, muh doctrine.		Despite the comparisons, the Coalition mirrors exactly to that of the [[Skaven]] than they are to the Imperium, hence their nickname of Human Space Skaven. Given the facts that their leaders repeatedly compared themselves to vermin throughout the Sequence, and their founder Hama Druz saw Humanity as an inherently rat-like species. Who is Hama Druz? [[That guy]] is the psychotic founder of the ICoG State Ideology, the 'Druz Doctrine' whose primary motto of the faith is “A brief life burns brightly” and he means it literally, which is what happens when someone takes the ideas of combining [[Humanity Fuck Yeah\|HFY]] and [[1984\|Ingsoc]] to its logical and evilly retarded conclusion. To Druz, Humanity only exists to reproduce quickly and to populate every single planet, moon, asteroids, black holes, superclusters, star and space station in the galaxy, not even rogue planets are spared from the Assimilation (basically [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum Lebensraum] in space and on krokodil). To Druz, the true ideal for Humanity is to make 'miracles' out of their short, pathetic lives, and the suffering that comes along the way in their expansion would be considered as the [[grimdark\|<u>'''''BEST STATE'''''</u> a HUMAN could ever possibly be in]]. To Druz, honor and duty is Humanity's highest calling in life. That means <u>NO</u> thinking of the past nor the future, only the present is important, with all other types of culture, entertainment, distractions, even love and family were either frowned upon or deleted. To Druz, innovation, ingenuity, curiosity and new discovery are absolute [[heresy]]. To Druz, Xenocide is not only justified but is also the duty of every man, woman and child to purge the ever-living shit out of every single Xenos in the galaxy, spare no one, not even the smallest bacteria or a single microorganism is allowed to survive, and if they do survive, they will be de-evolved into a fate worse than death. [[Derp\|To Druz, heroism, individualism and egotism were discouraged and banned since such concepts are anathema to the goal of a unified Mankind]]. To Druz, to be a real “Human” in his way of thinking, there should be <u>NO</u> immortality, <u>NO</u> transhumanism, <u>NO</u> enhancement, '''<u>NOTHING</u>''', humanity should remain pure till the heat death of the universe. To Druz, Human suffering, Human pain and Human misery are seen as the main driving force behind everything that would be defined as [[Bullshit\|“Being Human”]]. Did we just add that many higher-caste elites use LITERAL ALIEN ORGANS and trans-genetic add-ons to stay immortal? Yeah, muh doctrine.

	A silver lining is that dissent is widespread but low-key and many characters literally flout the Druz Doctrine, including Commissars and higher-ups to better the war effort, as well as many child soldiers admit straying from it occasionally.		A silver lining is that dissent is widespread but low-key and many characters literally flout the Druz Doctrine, including Commissars and higher-ups to better the war effort, as well as many child soldiers admit straying from it occasionally.

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	Do take note and be forewarned that comparisons between WH40K would be needed in terms of context given how 40k along with [[Star Wars]] is sometimes considered the 'benchmark' of Mid-tier Sci-Fi. This is done to better contextualize the sense of scale both in the applied sciences and in the harshness of the setting.		Do take note and be forewarned that comparisons between WH40K would be needed in terms of context given how 40k along with [[Star Wars]] is sometimes considered the 'benchmark' of Mid-tier Sci-Fi. This is done to better contextualize the sense of scale both in the applied sciences and in the harshness of the setting.

			The Sequence is a ''vast'' collection of over a dozen or so novels. This may feel daunting at first. But fortunately, each novel is its own self-contained story, so you wouldn't be missing much if you were to randomly pick a book from the Sequence. Given the sheer ''vastness'' of the Sequence, having a self-contained story with some references here and there is a pretty logical thing to do. So, despite the dauntness of it all, the Sequence is surprisingly reader-friendly.

	For its more fantastical and [[Soft Science Fiction\|Soft Sci-Fi]] counterpart, see [[Doctor Who]].		For its more fantastical and [[Soft Science Fiction\|Soft Sci-Fi]] counterpart, see [[Doctor Who]].

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	Remember the aforementioned trivia on Baxter's role in GeeDubs' early Black Library history? Yeah, there were further rumours (So take it with a grain of salt) that GeeDubs actually tried to invite him back in the 2000s to write more Black Library books, but Baxter declined the offer as he found 40k's handling of grimdark to be tasteless, overglorifying and juvenile. It <u>'''''IS'''''</u> a rumour I cannot stress this enough, but if true, it really shows the sheer gulf of sophistication and maturity between Games Workshop and Stephen Baxter.		Remember the aforementioned trivia on Baxter's role in GeeDubs' early Black Library history? Yeah, there were further rumours (So take it with a grain of salt) that GeeDubs actually tried to invite him back in the 2000s to write more Black Library books, but Baxter declined the offer as he found 40k's handling of grimdark to be tasteless, overglorifying and juvenile. It <u>'''''IS'''''</u> a rumour I cannot stress this enough, but if true, it really shows the sheer gulf of sophistication and maturity between Games Workshop and Stephen Baxter.

			Another interesting trivia and potential case study is that the Sequence both invokes, subverts and mess with the tropes of [[Lovecraft]]'s cosmic horror genre. In Lovecraft, the eldritch abominations are indescribable and utterly alien. The motto of "The greatest fear is the fear of the unknown" runs ''deep'' in Lovecraftian ethos. The Sequence is the complete opposite. Baxter explains nearly ''all of his shit'' in a logical and easy-to-understand way. So in the Sequence, its ethos would then be "The greatest fear is the fear ''of the known''". Because since everything is explained, the aura of futility becomes far more pronounced ''as you would know the end results''. Ignorance is bliss and all that, and there is nothing more terrifying than ''knowing the truth''.

	Think of the Xeelee Sequence, therefore, as the Anti-STTGL. Whilst Gurren Lagann showcase the 'Humanity is Special' trope to an over-the-top degree, Baxter just puts that idea in a blender and pours out the contents in the drainage pipe.		Think of the Xeelee Sequence, therefore, as the Anti-STTGL. Whilst Gurren Lagann showcase the 'Humanity is Special' trope to an over-the-top degree, Baxter just puts that idea in a blender and pours out the contents in the drainage pipe.

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Things that make the Xeelee Sequence Absurdly and Horrifyingly Overpowered

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	**The Xeelee themselves one-up this by having the Anti-Xeelee, an A.I. construct made of probability quantum wave functions and is a fixed point in time, meaning that it exists in the beginning, present and end of the Universe, all at the same time.		**The Xeelee themselves one-up this by having the Anti-Xeelee, an A.I. construct made of probability quantum wave functions and is a fixed point in time, meaning that it exists in the beginning, present and end of the Universe, all at the same time.
	**The Xeelee' equivalent of a supercomputer is a supermassive black hole. Yes, they use the core of Galaxies as a desktop.		**The Xeelee' equivalent of a supercomputer is a supermassive black hole. Yes, they use the core of Galaxies as a desktop.
			*While it pales in comparison to the Interim Coalition and other powers, The Puissant Order of Holy Mary [SIC] Queen of Virgins from ''Coalescent'' is nothing to scoff at either. It managed to remain hidden under the streets of Rome for over 1,500 years without anyone finding out their inner workings and living to tell the tale.
			**Reminder that said order managed to survive the Dark Ages, Black Death, Reformation, both World Wars, Spanish Flu epidemic, and countless other disasters while basically not changing at all, keeping near-perfect records through all of it.
	*Every FTL ship is effectively a timeship. Time travel is heavily militarized with ships from various factions going back in time to accelerate the civilizational progress a hundred-thousand fold or grant their ancestors effective precognition.		*Every FTL ship is effectively a timeship. Time travel is heavily militarized with ships from various factions going back in time to accelerate the civilizational progress a hundred-thousand fold or grant their ancestors effective precognition.
	*The Space Marines use miniature [[Bolter\|rocket launchers]] as standard equipment, whilst other factions use [[Gauss\|molecular-disintegrator beams]] and [[Shuriken Catapult\|monomolecular shuriken cannons]]. Compared to mainstream Sci-Fi universes, that seems over-the-topped. In the Xeeleeverse, the ICoG's equivalent of the [[Imperial Guard\|dudes in T-Shirts]] carries [[Lasgun\|Flashlights]] that could turn boats into slag and kill thousands of humans in seconds, essentially, handheld Lascannons. Their Flamers act more like Meltas, flash-frying and carbonising people in a near-instant. Their 'Bolter' equivalents are guns that fire GUT-rounds. GUT stands for Grand Universal Theory, or in layman's terms, they are rifles that fire pellets with the mass-energy density of a ''Big Bang'' (approximately 10<sup>-36</sup> seconds at the beginning of time) - ergo, [[Exterminatus\|Big Bang Rifles.]] For anti-air purposes, the Green Army ground forces use Monopole Cannons, that fires one-dimensional, topological space-time defects at near the speed of light as their RPG equivalents. They also have reverse-engineered Xeelee Starbreakers that could rip apart anything, up to and including, entire Stars.		*The Space Marines use miniature [[Bolter\|rocket launchers]] as standard equipment, whilst other factions use [[Gauss\|molecular-disintegrator beams]] and [[Shuriken Catapult\|monomolecular shuriken cannons]]. Compared to mainstream Sci-Fi universes, that seems over-the-topped. In the Xeeleeverse, the ICoG's equivalent of the [[Imperial Guard\|dudes in T-Shirts]] carries [[Lasgun\|Flashlights]] that could turn boats into slag and kill thousands of humans in seconds, essentially, handheld Lascannons. Their Flamers act more like Meltas, flash-frying and carbonising people in a near-instant. Their 'Bolter' equivalents are guns that fire GUT-rounds. GUT stands for Grand Universal Theory, or in layman's terms, they are rifles that fire pellets with the mass-energy density of a ''Big Bang'' (approximately 10<sup>-36</sup> seconds at the beginning of time) - ergo, [[Exterminatus\|Big Bang Rifles.]] For anti-air purposes, the Green Army ground forces use Monopole Cannons, that fires one-dimensional, topological space-time defects at near the speed of light as their RPG equivalents. They also have reverse-engineered Xeelee Starbreakers that could rip apart anything, up to and including, entire Stars.