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* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Harum-sacrums have two mouths: one for breathing and talking, one for eating.

* [[Body Horror]]: Remoras are ''extremely'' disturbing. One of them is described as having photosensitive hairs in the pits of their eye sockets instead of regular eyes.

* [[Brain Computer Interface]]: Keyboards and such are almost never seen, as everything is done wirelessly

* [[Brain-Computer Interface]]: Keyboards and such are almost never seen, as everything is done wirelessly

* [[Brain Uploading]]: Almost all humans depicted have ceramic, artificial brains, which are nearly indestructible.

* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]]: Averted. While it's not hard to get around, it's ''extremely'' dangerous - when you're moving at a significant percent of the speed of light, a few stray atoms of hydrogen can rip through your hyperfiber shield and annihilate your ship instantly; the dangers of interstellar travel is what makes the Great Ship such a popular destination, as the shallowest habitat in the Ship are buried under several kilometers of hyperfiber.

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* [[No Name Given]]: The Master captain. Her name is said a grand total of {{spoiler|twice - Liza}}.

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: Since everyone is effectively immortal, most safety equipment is non-existent unless it could damage the brain. Some ships will accelerate at a hundred g's, crushing the bones of the pilot into dust, then the pilot's emergency genes will kick in to mend the bones.

* [[Pro Human Transhuman]]: Despite most of the characters being immortal transhumans that can survive being dipped in lava, they still consider the Remoras and the [[Space Amish]] humans that [[We Are As Mayflies|live a mere century]] to be their brethren.

* [[Pro-Human Transhuman]]: Despite most of the characters being immortal transhumans that can survive being dipped in lava, they still consider the Remoras and the [[Space Amish]] humans that [[We Are As Mayflies|live a mere century]] to be their brethren.

* [[Orion Drive]]: If a ship isn't powered by a fusion rocket or an antimatter rocket, it uses an Orion Drive (called a "bomb drive" in the stories), loaded with nuclear bombs.

* [[Ragnarok Proofing]]: The Great Ship spent at least several hundred million years drifting towards the Milky Way, but it only sustained superficial damage to it exterior shell. All the original technology in it still functions flawlessly. The {{spoiler|Matter-antimatter reactor inside Marrow}} still functions after billions of years.

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* [[Solar Sail]]: A ruined alien solar sail ship crash lands on Earth in ''Decency''.

* [[Uterine Replicator]]: ''Winemaster'' has one for the [[Brain Uploading|robotic humans]]. It builds a child in the standard, tiny robotic body, and configures neural pathways to be like that of a baby.

* [[Who Wants to Live Forever]]: In the short story, ''Finished'', the state of your mind when you are "finished" (given an artificial body) affects how you live the rest of your life, as the hard-memory in the artificial brain doesn't adapt. If you are finished in a happy mood, you'll typically be very happy. If you are finished while in horrible pain, you'll be in horrible pain as long as you are alive...

* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: In the short story, ''Finished'', the state of your mind when you are "finished" (given an artificial body) affects how you live the rest of your life, as the hard-memory in the artificial brain doesn't adapt. If you are finished in a happy mood, you'll typically be very happy. If you are finished while in horrible pain, you'll be in horrible pain as long as you are alive...