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* [[Absent Aliens]]: Technically averted, but played straight- the only intelligent race out there aside from humanity are the Aliens. Not unlike the [[Insectoid Aliens|Formics]], they are unintelligible and seemingly attack humanity at random. However, they are only a threat to peripheral colonies and unescorted ships, and so seen as a random nuisance instead of an actual [[Kill All Humans|potential cause of extinction.]] Most frontier life does not revolve around their presence. For all intents and purposes, humanity is alone in the known universe.

* [[All Planets Are Earthlike]]: Averted, in that many worlds are uninhabitable outside of domed cities or other protected colonies. A few are terraformed to some extent, but the only truly planet with a comfortable, Earth-like climate is Terra.

* [[The Asteroid Thicket]]: Premise of the entire series. There are huge, densely-packed asteroid fields, which the stoners (asteroid smashers) make a living from through clearing them. They're bad for hyperspace transit. The little fact that [[Space Does Not Work That Way|asteroid fields do not work that way]] in real space is [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] away by the fact that these fields are actually artificial in origin, formed by the Aliens for unknown reasons eons ago.

* [[Asteroid Miners]]: Stoners- kinda. They make a living clearing out large asteroid fields to facilitate interstellar travel, but they don't actually harvest the minerals themselves. They also make a neat sum on the side blasting Aliens.

* [[Escort Mission]]: Bane of any self-respecting spacer-for-hire (usually considered beneath their dignity), Kain oddly seems to be fond of them.

* [[Hired Guns]]: What loosely-governed part of the galaxy is complete without them? Scads of mercenaries make a killing on the Frontier, from non-confrontational stoners to standard [[Bounty Hunter|space bounty hunters]] to high-priced [[Career Killers|corporate assassins]].

* [[Lightning Gun]]: Decatur's signature weapon, the Hypnos Tas. Many other p-ks and similar mercenaries use Tas(ers) as well, good for apprehending targets you want to keep alive.

* [[New Eden]]: Terra, the first (and only) fully-terraformed planet. Headquarters of the Colonial Authority, the place is nearly a [[Pleasure Planet|pleasure planet]]. The Authority likes to keep its garden well-tended, going as far as having their planetary engineers sculpt the planet's oceans to closer match the geography of Earth. Unfortunately, much of the technology behind it has been sadly [[Lost Technology|lost]].

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