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* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: Star recounts to Oscar how she was shocked to find out that sex is a salable commodity on Earth. Elsewhere in the Twenty Universes, a woman's sexuality is considered an integral part of her spiritual existence and it can not be bought and sold, only partaken of as a gift of the woman. She's also unpleasantly surprised to find out that Oscar turned down the sexual advances of their host's daughters and wife the night before. While he was perfectly willing to bed the wife, Oscar [[Squick|deflated]] at the thought of bedding the youngest daughter; she just looked too young for him and triggered his age taboo. Their host was so insulted that he turned down their gift that he expelled them from his home at first light. After the problem was explained, however, Oscar ended up with the host's wife and older daughter.
* [[Bothering by the Book]]/[[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Oscar remarks "Regardless of T.O., all military bureaucracies consist of a Surprise Party Department, a Practical Joke Department, and a Fairy Godmother department. The first two process most matters, as the third is very small; the Fairy Godmother Department is one elderly female GS-5 clerk usually out on sick leave."
* [[Brain Uploading]]: Of a sort -- the Egg contains the recorded memories of thousands of years of Emperors/Empresses, and part of each Emperor's job is to use the Egg to imprint himself with the memories of all his predecessors. [[Squick|''All'' their memories.]]
* [[The Call Left a Message]]: In this case, a newspaper ad.
* [[Clarke's Third Law]]: Oscar reflects that the technology in use by Star's folks is so advanced that it might as well be magic. He also notes that at least one example -- the wards -- are almost within the grasp of mid-20th-century science, but require an "aha!" moment that hasn't yet occurred to anyone on Earth.
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