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'''GM''': Don't be stupid.
'''Qui-Gon''': [[Laser Blade|Ten foot laser pole...]]|''[[Darths
Out of the confusing twists and turns of [[Techno Babble]] and [[Expospeak]] come the
These tend to rise and fall in favor over time. Using one from a different era can give your technology a retro, period feel. Note that in the Victorian age, on which most [[Steampunk]] is based, it was common to name things using Latin compound words, i.e. quadro-velocipede, electro-fulminator (both from ''[[Legend (TV series)|Legend]]'').
Tack on more than two, and you're off in parody land.
A [[Super
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* General
** mechano- (early 20th century)
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** particle (used unqualified)
* Beams
** [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser]]
** [[Stun Gun|taser]]
** [[Star Trek|phaser]]
** blazer
** [[Honor Harrington
** maser
** stazer
** uvaser
** xaser
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090305081453/http://www.sjgames.com/munchkin/starmunchkin/ bananafanabobaser]
* Outer Space
** [[Space X|space-]]
*** In his 1976 how-to-write-SF article "Living the future: You are what you eat!", Gardner Dozois gave a good tirade that culminated with this (cue the author's [[Sarcasm Mode]]):
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*** Which is rather like saying you can compare a story about romance to a story about in-virtro fertilization because both in fact accomplish the same objective.
** -space<ref>[[Star Wars|Hyperspace]], [[Halo|Slipspace]], [[Star Trek|Subspace]]...</ref>
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