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{{quote|''Man's Battle for the Stars''}}
'''''2300 AD''''' is a science-fiction [[Role
The setting is an extension of the background of GDW's ''[[Twilight 2000]]'' game, effectively showing what happened during the next 300 years. Mankind has started to spread into space, and faces its first major competition in the form of the Kafer.
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A d20 version called ''2320 AD'' was released in late 2007 as a campaign setting for the ''T20'' system. Moongoose Publishing, a current producer of ''Traveller'' material, has said they will produce a version as a sourcebook for their ''Traveller'' line.
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* [[After the End]]: The entire game is [[After the End]] for the earlier ''[[Twilight 2000]]'' game. ''300 years'' [[After the End]]. Earth has recovered from the nuclear war, but the current balance of power between Earth's nations had its beginning in the Twilight War.
** During our Bronze Age, the Eber were a spacefaring civilization possibly more advanced than humanity is currently, with stutterwarp ships and three colony worlds. Then they had a nuclear war. The only survivors just barely re-invented the steam engine.
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* [[Asteroid Miners]]: The ''Nyotekundu'' sourcebook/adventure is all about asteroid miners.
* [[Asteroid Thicket]]: ''Nyotekundu'' features one in the cover art, but the actual asteroid belt described in the book is much more realistic.
* [[Backstory]]: The history between ''[[Twilight 2000]]'' and ''2300 AD'' was created by the designers by playing what they called "The Game" - a socio-political miltary simulation where each of the players took three or more nations and ran them at 5 or 10 year turns from 2000 to 2300.
* [[Balkanize Me]]: China broke up into three parts after the Twilight War and hasn't reunified. Texas is an independent nation (and has colonies on other planets). Germany wasn't re-unified until 2292 (about 300 years after it happened in the real world).
* [[BFG]]: Plasma guns.▼
* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]: The Kafer have some insectoid traits, hence the human name for them (German for "beetle"). The Xiang are also vaguely lobster-like.
* [[Binary Suns]]: A large portion of the systems on the ''Near Star List'' are double systems, and many human colony worlds therefore have two suns.
* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]]: Partially averted. Humanity is still getting used to traveling among the stars, and starships are almost always owned by governments, corporations, or scientific foundations.
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* [[Cool Starship]]: The American ''Kennedy'' class cruisers are the fasted ships in space and well-armed to boot. The French ''Suffren'' class cruiser that plays a central role in ''Mission: Arcturus'' might qualify as well.
* [[Cyberpunk]]: The Earth/Cybertech sourcebook introduced this into the setting, somewhat jarringly.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]:
** The Slaver War - humanity's first space war against an alien race. The Sung had solar sails and ion drives. Manchuria and Canada had stutterwarp ships. The Sung capitulated rather quickly.
** The War of German Reunification - France, already exhausted by the Central Asian War (2282 to 2287) got curb stomped by the Germans, with France itself nearly invaded, and were forced to allow German reunification (until then France was pretty much the undisputed world leader).
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* [[Earth Is the Center of the Universe]]: Earth is the center of human-controlled space, and the Kafer are the only other race known to control more than a handful of planets.
* [[Earth-That-Was]]: a variant in one of the many little alien secrets known only to the GM: {{spoiler|the Ebers' mysterious "lost colony" is actually their original (nuked) homeworld.}}
* [[The Empire]]: France inaugurated the Third French Empire in 2298 (just 2 years before the setting), but France has really been ''the'' major power on Earth since the Twilight War. They're not necessarily evil, however.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Some of the planets humans have colonized are quite dangerous.
** Aurore in particular has acid-spewing crawling shag carpets and tree-sized mushrooms with foot-long claws that will try to eat humans even though we are deadly poisonous to them.
** Cold Mountain has flying blinds and burrowing rigattoni that try to kill you. Not to mention the flying hollow sharks full of glass knives...
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Between humans and aliens.
** Humans are viewed as boogeymen by the Kafer, while humans see Kafers essentially as space orcs.
** The Slaver War fought between Manchuria and Canada and the Sung was caused because the Sung believed they had a moral duty to enslave the more primative Xiang.
* [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]]: The Stutterwarp drive "jumps" the ship instantly a few hundred meters, and does it hundreds of thousands of times per second to reach faster-than-light speeds. It also has a built-in range limitation. Ships must discharge their drives in a gravity well every 7.7 light years or the drive starts producing large amounts of lethal radiation.
* [[First Contact]]: This has already happened a few times, and there was even a war fought (and won) against the Sung, but most of the races humans have met to this point are more primitive than they are. Some of the published adventures involve first contacts as well.
* [[Forces With Firepower]]: each nation have its military in 2300 AD described in both canon and fanon with great detail. Some of them may or may not include:
** [[Gauls With Grenades]]: France is the leading human nation in ''2300 AD'' and its rarely if ever the cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
** [[Brits With Battleships]]
** [[We Are Not the Wehrmacht]]
** [[Aussies With Artillery]]
** [[Yanks With Tanks]]
** [[Russians With Rusting Rockets]]: Although the Russians do have a decent space force, they are notable for refusing to have any space colonies.
** [[Kaiju Defense Force]]: The Japanese have officially made the self-defense force their own military after [[World War III]].
** [[Poles With Poleaxes]]
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** [[New Roman Legions]]: described in ''Italy 2300 AD'' as mostly composed of mercenaries.
** [[Mexicans With Machine Guns]]
** [[South Koreans With Marines]]: some 2300 AD sources say the Republic of Korea's military is [[The Dragon]] to Manchuria's military.
** [[The Other Chinese Army]]: Canton's army is implied to be this, as fanon mostly consider Canton as the future Republic of China.
** [[Brazilians With Bazookas]]
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* [[The Metric System Is Here to Stay]]: The game uses metric units exclusively.
* [[Metaplot]]: The Kafer war.
* [[Mexico Called. They Want Texas Back.]]: During the Twilight War Mexico invaded the southern states and captured Arizona, New Mexico, and southern California (including LA). In 2300 they are still part of Mexico. Texas was conquered by Mexico too but successfully rebelled in 2099, becoming independent. Mexico also annexed all of the central American nations north of Panama during the 22nd century.
* [[Military Science Fiction]]: A strong influence on the game, with several of the printed adventures centering around the Kafer War and putting the players in the roles of mercenaries or soldiers.
* [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]]: On the hard side, with no artificial gravity, no FTL radio, and realistic aliens and lasers.
* [[Naming Your Colony World]]: Earth's colonies include just about all the variations.
* [[No Biochemical Barriers]]: Averted. Carnivorous life on Aurore finds Earth life to be dangerously poisonous, and vice versa. Unfortunately it usually finds out that humans are deadly only after it has taken a large bite out of one.
* [["No Warping" Zone]]: The stutterwarp's efficiency drops off greatly in a gravity well, meaning stutterwarp ships are still going really fast within a solar system, but no longer exceed the speed of light. They can just barely maintain orbit around a world.
* [[One World Order]]: Strongly averted. Earth still has about as many nations as it does today, and several worlds have the colonies of more than one nation on them. The Sung have multiple nation-states as well.
* [[Organic Technology]]: The Pentapods are big on [[Organic Technology]], since their species evolved underwater and never had the option of using metal or fire in their industrial development.
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