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* [[Game Breaker]]: Infolife hackers can be, in effect, up to nearly 200 Rez points ahead of their compatriots.
** Specifically, infolife (i.e., they exist only as sentient software and don't even have a permanent robot body) characters pay half price for most intelligence and hacking-related skills in return for taking penalties on, or being unable to purchase, many of the social skills. Of course, as a purely digital lifeform that first category of skills is pretty much the only one you're ever going to actually ''use'', so...
* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: As a horror game, it's to be expected. For example, during the opening fiction piece, one of the commandos the story follows has his head sawed off and carried away (Presumably to have the contents of the brain uploaded to some computer left by the [[
* [[Strawman Political]]: The aforementioned Jovian Republic. Imagine a caricature of current right-wing political memes, then make them Space North Korea, then inflate them to the size and power of Space Soviet Union to keep them as a major instead of minor antagonist faction, and you've got the Jovians. They exist solely to hate on all the things that make the game setting 'cool' (body-switching technology, nanite technology, transhuman brain augmentation, etc, etc).
** [[Straw Hypocrite]]: Later supplements revealed that the ruling elite of the Jovian Republic quite cheerfully uses the same transhuman augmentation and life-extending tech they supposedly rail against and deny to their own citizens.
** [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: And yet despite all this effort to make the Jovians wrong about everything, even if that requires contradicting themselves, some people still acknowledge that the Jovians have a valid point to the extent that 'Before we materially alter the entire nature of the human race using technology that rather epically failed us once before, perhaps some of us should agree to remain back here as an experimental control population so we have a reserve in case shit blows up TITAN-style again.'
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