Somewhat justified in that example, since Tailor was designed to cut, create, and modify body armor. Tailor is particularly impressive, as he's able to dismember the hands of three heavily-armored Mooks in a single pass.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: Many of the blades in the setting are capable of slicing through heavy armor.

They later set up a time bomb to blow up the galaxy, just to be sure.

Justified for the Pa'anuri, who are hurt by teraport use then again, their response to the invention of teraporting when they could manage it was to pulverize the inventors' civilization and then blow up the star for good measure.

Absolute Xenophobe: The Ob'enn and the Pa'anuri.

Tropes used in Schlock Mercenary include: Please see the Characters page for character-specific tropes. This includes extra art, statistics and background bits for various sophonts. There's an official derivative work in Schlock 'verse - The Planet Mercenary Role Playing Game. Though Tayler still considers the books a Spiritual Licensee.

However, the two worlds have drifted apart and Troy Rising is not currently considered canonical within the Schlock universe. Ringo's enjoying himself, so there will be more than three books in this trilogy. Titled Troy Rising and planned as a trilogy, it consists of Live Free or Die, Citadel and The Hot Gate. Howard Tayler has given enthusiastic permission to John Ringo to write about the First Contact days. This is a world where the only respected authority is the one with the larger gun - in other words, the perfect world for a mercenary company. Let's just say it's not for people who think governments deserve sympathetic treatment. Sometimes it got slightly political, but never partisan. The cast includes the aforementioned Kaff Tagon, The Captain of the group, Commander Kevyn Andreyasn, inventor of the 'teraport' system and all-around Mad Scientist, Ennesby, a former virtual boy band turned ship's AI, and many others.Ĭonsistent humor (it is very quotable) and we mean consistent - Schlock ran seven days a week without missing a day from Jto July 24, 2020. Named after Schlock, an alien shaped like a pile of crap with eyes and a mouth who joins 'Tagon's Toughs', a space-faring mercenary outfit. Schlock Mercenary was a Space Opera web comic with many Hard Science Fiction aspects in the 31st century.

The Body Politic by Howard Tayler