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* [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]: Chasm City, at least until {{spoiler|the Melding Plague ruins everything}}.

* [[Cyborg]] : A lot of the future factions of humanity have [[Transhuman|Transhumanist]] trappings, at least as far as having with various brain implants. The Conjoiners are a whole society of these, the Ultras and Demarchists less so.

** Yellowstone is a cosmopolitan mix of a planet, settled mostly by American, European and East Asian colonists. Sky's Edge was settled by Latin American, Middle Eastern and Central Asian nationalities.

* [[Death World]]: The [[All Planets Are Earthlike]] trope gets a major kick in the shins in this series. The most Earth-like planet mentioned is Sky's Edge, which is full of hostile life that is biologically incompatible with Earth life. Eating it will kill you (and vice versa) or do nothing. Then there are the Pattern Jugglers - algae-like [[Starfish Aliens]] inhabiting planets with global oceans - that usually act benign, but once in a while someone who swims with them doesn't come back, [[Came Back Wrong|comes back wrong]], [[Empty Shell|or worse]]. Also, Yellowstone, the most important and most populated interstellar colony of humanity, has an atmosphere and surface very similar to Saturn's moon Titan, so only the giant domed settlements (like [[Capital City|Chasm City]] or [[Egopolis|Loreanville]]) and orbital habitats are actualy populated. Pretty much all planets in the series are either uninhabitable, barely habitable (without advanced tech) or habitable, but full of [[Everything Trying to Kill You]].