Legacy of a Thousand Suns

Legacy of a Thousand Suns is a Web Game created by Fifth Planet Games hosted by Facebook. It has lots of Shout-Outs to Science Fiction and Star Wars in particular.

Tropes used in Legacy of a Thousand Suns include:

• Absolute Cleavage: The story make a point of mentioning Fabricatrix Vespasia's uniform.
• Ace Pilot: Talia, the player character.
• Alt-Itis: Thoroughly discouraged, as it takes the fun out of the game. Devs and players will point out possible cases of alt accounts on the forums.
• Big Bad: Councillor Dule and the Centurian Collective.
• Black Comedy: First, choose a random item in the game. Then, scroll over it. Now, read the flavor text. There's a one in ten chance it won't be a case of this.
• Boss Battle: At the end of each stage. Also, raids, which are boss battles involving multiple players and a time limit.
• Darker and Edgier: Starts with Illaria's death and gets worse from there. Your character is psychologically damaged, and attempts to commit suicide. Eventually, you become a burning engine of vengeance, to the point where you don't think twice about committing planetary genocide.
• Death Is a Slap on The Wrist: Dying doesn't really affect gameplay. All you need to do is spend some credits on health, and you'll be able to participate in PVP fights and boss battles again.
• Difficulty Spike: Noted especially from going from Zone 7 to Zone 8, where bosses suddenly do significantly more damage.
• Evil Plan: Councillor Dule of the Centurian Collective. He gets the crew to attempt a rescue attempt on the held-captive Sian Emperor, deep in enemy-occupied territory. He allows the player to succeed in this rescue mission, providing sufficient resistance to avoid suspicion. Once the Sian Emperor has been rescued, his body, under the control of the collective, kills Illaria.
• Experience Points: Obtained by doing missions, participating in raids, and fighting other players.
• Exploding Barrels: Lampshaded during Zone 6, when you take advantage of red barrels. Princess Illaria even questions why anyone would leave such a dangerous object out in the open.
• Expy: Princess Illaria is basically Princess Leia with a new hairstyle.
• Gotta Catch Em All: The collections, for starters. To be able to obtain components for rarer items, and to complete Zone 9 items, you'll need a variety of different items. Time to start collecting!
• Heel Face Turn: Rautha. After you fight him numerous times, including once when he comes at you nothing more than a head in a jar attached to a robotic body, you take his head with you to prevent further encounters with him. His allies couldn't care less, much to Rautha's upset. Over the next little while, Illaria has been kind to him, despite all of his previous attempts to kill her and the rest of your crew. Then, when Illaria is killed by the Centurian Collective's plan, Rautha swears revenge on the collective, and joins your crew as an Officer.
• Horny Vikings: The Niflungs are essentially this in space. No horned helmets, but they do have space chain mail.
• Impossible Thief: Lupin. He once stole a necklace Illaria was wearing and replaced it with a fake without her noticing.
• Lost Forever: Many limited-time items can only be purchased in a small timeframe, although some do reappear after a while (but not all of them).
• Luck-Based Mission: The raids. When a raid boss is defeated, you can usually obtain up to 9 random items. Some of these items are required for obtaining components for rarer items, and completing Zone 9 missions.
• The Mafia: The Contella Consortium is essentially this... IN SPACE!
• Money for Nothing: Once you upgrade the facilities to their maximum level, the only other use for credits is to purchase health refills. But more experienced players have enough health and/or defence such that they will never need to buy health refills, since they level up (and thus gain a free health refill) before this happens.
• Mooks: Most notably, the Centurian Collective soldiers. Several Contella Enforcers have been referred to as mooks as well.
• Oh Crap: The flavor text for the tactic 'Killing Field' reads "The best part is the look on their faces when they realize they're doomed..."
• Perpetual Beta
• Play Every Day
• Planet of Hats: Occulus, Drekchester, Cytheria, to name a few.
• Purely Aesthetic Gender: The player character. Small differences between male and female include how armor appears while equipped and how characters are referred to or addressed during the story.
• Randomly Drops: Items from missions, boss battles, and raids.
• Recurring Boss: Rautha.
• Retcon: Lampshaded in the background story for the Professor Squid raid boss. In short, she gets retconned back to life.
• Revenge: The player character, after Illaria dies. If you showed no mercy to the Centurians before, now, it's even worse. At one point, you destroy two planets that produce resources for your enemy.
• Shout-Out: Many. There's a thread devoted just to players listing all of them on the official forums.
• Sociopathic Hero: Ragnar, the player... the game in general seems to have a wanton disregard for human life.
• Stripperiffic: The Zone 6 bosses choice of, uh, clothing. Or lack thereof. Given the context, though, this doesn't come as a surprise...
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch: "Rautha's back, bitches!"
• Turns Red: All raid bosses start out with their default artwork. Once they take enough damage, the artwork changes, depicting the battle as it rages on. Starting from Zone 7, this also applies to mission bosses.
• Why Won't You Die?: Rautha's been blown up by a grenade and impaled on a spike, and still comes back for more.