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* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: ''Nightshade the Merry Widow'' has two big ones.
**In the "Beewolf" arc, the heroes suffer a major [[Oh Crap]] moment when they accidentally destroy the Beewolves' hideout and think they've killed everyone. (Remember, on Cyeatea nobody ''ever'' kills anybody.) They are relieved to discover that the local deity has stepped in and rescues everyone at the last moment - literally a ''deus'' ex machina.
**In the "Bahoogie and Beans" arc, our heroes are baffled as to how the Redlip ant queen Vulgia could have survived a plunge into the deep realms, where the atmospheric pressure and composition should be lethal to anyone from the upper realms. It turns out they've been saved by {{spoiler|the [[Living Ship]] that originally seeded Cyeatea with their human-arthropod hybrid ancestors}}. In this case, a deus ex ''machina''.
* [[Disintegrator Ray]]: There are both hand-held and (in ''Nightshade'') ship-mounted varieties. They can only be used for defense, and only against non-sentient creatures.
* [[Dyson Sphere]]: Not actually stated in the webcomic, but according to one behind-the-scenes journal entry Cyeatea is just one of numerous worlds on the inner surface of a Dyson sphere called (I kid ye not) Velveteen. However, Kline has elsewhere referred to Cyeatea as a planet, so the Dyson sphere idea may be an abandoned concept.
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* [[Hologram]]: "Telispheres" are large spherical devices that look like decorative light fixtures when not in use, but transmit and receive holographic images when they are. They are often used for important communications, but one is seen in a cafeteria displaying a hologram of a bee waitress.
* [[Hungry Jungle]]: It's probably safe to assume that Cyeatean plants and animals are carnivorous if A) they move; B) they can't talk; and C) they aren't trying to get into your (nonexistent) underpants. Well, the last one isn't entirely accurate; actually there is a sexual component to all predation on Cyeatea, so if a plant eats you you'll probably be experiencing too much pleasure to worry about it. Fortunately many carnivorous life forms aren't fatal to sentients.
* [[I Fell for Hours]]: Absolutely justified in the case of Ant Queen Vulgia, who gets dropped by a clumsy fly while paralyzed and pregnant. Cyeatea has lower gravity than Earth, Cyeateans are very small compared to humans, Cyeatea has a very deep atmosphere, and the air resistance increases with depth.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Cyeatea is inhabited by numerous intelligent humanoid insect and arachnid species, all nude with exaggerated sexual characteristics including big [[Non-Mammal Mammaries|boobs]]. There's lots of sex between species thanks to [[Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor]]s, some of it in the form of ritual combat, which eliminates the need for real warfare. Naturally the visiting human women also get to experience Cyeatean sexuality first hand. Although it seems that all Cyeatean arthropods have some human DNA, so whether they're really separate species is debatable.
** One Q&A strip says that different types of Cyeatean arthropod are ''usually'' mutually infertile, although there have been a few sterile hybrids.
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