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* [[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).
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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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* [[Deflector Shields]]: Some starships have magnetic fields holding ablative particles in suspension that work like these, to protect against incoming lasers or particle weapons.
* [[Deflector Shields]]: Some starships have magnetic fields holding ablative particles in suspension that work like these, to protect against incoming lasers or particle weapons.
* [[Determined Homesteader]]: Many of Earth's colonists are these.
* [[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 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.}}
* [[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.
* [[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.
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* [[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).
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[We Will Wear Armor in the Future]]: High-tech materials have made armor useful again.
* [[White Man's Burden]]: The Sung believe that advanced civilizations have a moral duty to dominate lesser civilizations and then educate them up to their level... and that the lesser civilizations have a corresponding moral duty to serve their educators. It wasn't their fault that the Xiang didn't ''want'' the advanced education and technology they were offering in exchange for their enslavement.
* [[White Man's Burden]]: The Sung believe that advanced civilizations have a moral duty to dominate lesser civilizations and then educate them up to their level... and that the lesser civilizations have a corresponding moral duty to serve their educators. It wasn't their fault that the Xiang didn't ''want'' the advanced education and technology they were offering in exchange for their enslavement.
** 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.
** 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.
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