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* [[Determined Homesteader]]: Many of Earth's colonists are these.
* [[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
* [[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.
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** 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
* [[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:
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* [[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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* [[Terraform]]: Several human colony worlds are being terraformed to something a little more earthlike. It's going to take a long time.
* [[2-D Space]]: Both averted and played straight. The map of human space is thoroughly (and sometimes confusingly) three-dimensional, but starship combat uses a flat map.
* [[
* [[United Europe]]: Strongly averted. Europe's nations still can't get along with each other, although they have more or less cooperated in colonizing the French Arm.
* [[United Space of America]]: Averted. Earth and its colonies are still divided between nations. The major arms of exploration are the French Arm (France, Britain, Germany, and other European nations), the Chinese Arm (Manchuria, Canada, Brazil and other South American nations), and the American Arm (America and Australia).
* [[Unobtainium]]: The stutterwarp drive makes use of Tantalum, and wars have been fought over Tantalum deposits.
* [[We Will Wear Armor in The Future]]: High-tech materials have made armor useful again.
* [[White
** And they don't understand why the humans are so reluctant, now that they have submited to human authority, to share the secret of stutterwarp.
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: The Sung.
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