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* [[Absolute Xenophobe]]: The Primes are this. Primes exist as sentient, immobile "immotiles" that control vast armies of sub-sentient "motiles" and battle each other for resources and out of paranoia. You can guess what happened when they started building nukes. Also, the moment one of them {{spoiler|discovers wormhole technology}}, it exterminates all others and starts building a vast fleet in order to kill off every single living thing in the universe, other than itself. Its own psychology and lack of imagination prevent it from realising the utter futility of its endeavour until it is far too late for it.
{{quote|'''MorningLightMountain''': There is only one Universe and it can only contain one life. Me.}}
* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: The [[Artificial Intelligence|Sentient Intelligence]] is not evil. However, it will choose odd times and places to intervene. This sometimes comes off as a [[Hand Wave]], but when done well it adds to the idea that the SI has an alien perspective on things that humans cannot comprehend.
{{quote|'''SI''': If we rush to your assistance at every hint of trouble, your culture would become utterly dependent on us, and we would become your masters. If that were ever to happen, you would rebel and lash out at us, for that is the strongest part of your nature. We do not want that situation to arise.}}
* [[Alien Kudzu]]: The Primes flood local waters with their base cells, which are essential to reproduction; these invasive organisms kill off most other things that are in the water with them.
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** Not to mention the Silfen, who have three circular sets of razor-sharp teeth (but otherwise come off as space elves).
* [[Bizarre Human Biology]]: Genetic modification allows the realization of a lot of things.
* [[Brain Uploading]]: See [[Save Scumming]], below.
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: The Silfen, who are largely incomprehensible to humans and have no problem stranding people in weird parts of the universe. It's not entirely clear they understand why this is bad.
* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]]: with trains (and a [[Portal Network]]).
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* [[Electronic Eyes]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Virtually]] all citizens of the commonwealth have Virtual Vision, giving them an [[Augmented Reality]] display over their normal vision.
* [[Eternal English]]: Justified. Regeneration allows essentially eternal life - so the centuries old aristocracy maintains the general vernacular.
* [[ET Gave Us Wi
* [[The Federation]]: The Commonwealth.
* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]]: The ''[[Commonwealth Saga]]'' follows something like seven plots all at once, and they'd each be enough for a book of their own.
* [[Free-Love Future]]: Polyamory and alternate sexuality is pretty common in the Commonwealth.
* [[Hive Mind]]: Prime Immotiles control their Motile minions via radio receivers implanted into each one, making each Immotile into an intellect spread across a vast number of individual bodies.
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