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* [[Deflector Shields]]: Not for most of the books, but in ''The Final Encylopedia'' one is established around the entire Earth.

* [[Everything's Louder with Bagpipes]]

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: The Friendlies are [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|based roughly]] on the Roundheads of the The [[English Civil War]], while The Dorsai are loosely based on Swiss mercenaries.

* [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]]: space travel is achieved through a series of jumps called phase shift, where the ship is annihilated at one spot and reconstituted in another. The jumps not only have to be extensively calculated (the ship must be located absolutely in the universe, and its destination point must also be exactly calculated, to the same degree), the jump itself has a psychological effect on the crew and passengers, so the more often the jump, the greater the psychic shock and the closer the people on board get to insanity. Tranquilizers are made available to help lessen the experience, but cannot nullify it. This is a subplot point in Dorsai!, where the effect is shown during a raid on a planet - something nobody thinks possible.