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* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Played with; [[A Is]] are portrayed as being just as varied as humans. They also suffer serious social prejudice. The Campaign for Equal Sentience, a pro AI-rights group, appears to be doing more harm than help. Then there's Robin Good...
* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Played with; [[A Is]] are portrayed as being just as varied as humans. They also suffer serious social prejudice. The Campaign for Equal Sentience, a pro AI-rights group, appears to be doing more harm than help. Then there's Robin Good...
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* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: One sidequest features a robot trying to explain to a group of equal-rights activists that he'd rather be happy by machine standards than free by human ones.
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: One sidequest features a robot trying to explain to a group of equal-rights activists that he'd rather be happy by machine standards than free by human ones.
* [[Jerkass]]: At times in the campaign, basically everyone.
* [[Jerkass]]: At times in the campaign, basically everyone.
* [[Law Enforcement Inc]]: Tricorp stresses that it doesn't want to be seen as any kind of official legal authority, but at the same time, it will maintain a prison planet if necessary. One of their executives can be called out on this.
* [[Law Enforcement, Inc.]]: Tricorp stresses that it doesn't want to be seen as any kind of official legal authority, but at the same time, it will maintain a prison planet if necessary. One of their executives can be called out on this.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: By the end of the campaign, a sizeable cast has assembled.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: By the end of the campaign, a sizeable cast has assembled.
* [[Intrepid Merchant]]: The traders, who largely consider themselves above petty concerns like planetary law.
* [[Intrepid Merchant]]: The traders, who largely consider themselves above petty concerns like planetary law.