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* [[Action Bomb]]: The early modified humans [http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-view-article&egart_uid=4ac6247bd1611 Homo Jihadi] had a modified endocrine system, "naturally" producing explosives that accumulate in their bones and other calcium-containing tissues. They were modified at the zygote stage and have not been known to reproduce. It did not help the reputation of genetic engineering...

* [[A God Am I]]: This happens a lot to the more powerful AI gods. They used to try to convince people that they are not, in fact, divine, but decided to screw that and let them believe what they want instead around the year 3000 AT. Most people acknowledge that they aren't really gods in the classical sense, but also that it doesn't much matter.

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Averted in most cases; while AI is depicted as normal intelligence which would have little or no reason to harm humans or humankind, some exceptions exist. Most notable is GAIA, who expelled most of humanity from Earth early in the setting's history. And there were human-indifferent or -hostile AIs early in history, whose descendants control major regions; the Sephirotics can be defined as those AI regions that are at least mildly benevolent to human rights and welfare.

* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: Averted in most cases; while AI is depicted as normal intelligence which would have little or no reason to harm humans or humankind, some exceptions exist. Most notable is GAIA, who expelled most of humanity from Earth early in the setting's history. And there were human-indifferent or -hostile AIs early in history, whose descendants control major regions; the Sephirotics can be defined as those AI regions that are at least mildly benevolent to human rights and welfare.

* [[Alien Arts Are Appreciated]]: Averted, in that alien minds work very differently, and most of the time their arts can't be appreciated by other species. The To'ul'h tradition of Polmusic, essentially political debate mixed with opera somehow, is completely lost on most terragens.

** A mollusc provolve once wrote a poem entitled ''Ode To Twenty Cubic Centimeters of Lovely Sandy Mud'', which was received very well among those who could relate, and largely ignored by those who couldn't.

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* [[Super Breeding Program]]: attempted by the Aryan Morningstar League. The rest of the solar system had something to say about this though.

* [[Super Weight]]:

** Type 1: Most nearbaseline humans in ultratech civilizations.

** Type 2: Superiors, cyborgs, vecs, some tweaks, some [[Petting Zoo People|rianths/splices/]][[Uplifted Animal|provolves]].