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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)

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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	comment	Transhuman Space is a Hard Science Fiction role-playing game setting for GURPS, published by Steve Jackson Games. It features a lot of advanced biotech, "wet" (biologically-based) nanotech, the colonisation of the Solar System (including the terraforming of Mars), human personalities uploaded to computers, advanced artificial intelligence, and a politically multi-polar world.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_12e0bb9	type	Urban Legends
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_12e0bb9	comment	Urban Legends: The game assumes that urban legends not only endure in 2100, but in a world of high-speed, all-pervasive computer networks with occasional prankster "memetic engineers" on the loose, the phenomenon can be even stronger than in the present day. The Toxic Memes supplement describes some widespread or interesting examples.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_131ca891	type	Literal Surveillance Bug
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_131ca891	comment	Literal Surveillance Bug: Microbots can be and sometimes are used for espionage or surveillance, and doubtless often pass as insects, at least to casual observation.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_13f7da6	type	Instant Expert
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_13f7da6	comment	Instant Expert: An option in the game â€” but only for artificial intelligences, which can be designed with interfaces allowing them to be given access to useful skills in the form of software. However, the benefits are somewhat downplayed, in that plug-in skill use is penalised in high-stress situations such as combat, because the plug-in skill isnâ€™t bedded in like a â€œrealâ€� skill.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_1522d74	type	Technically-Living Zombie
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_1522d74	comment	Technically-Living Zombie: In the "Orbital Decay" scenario, this is caused by a combination of three nanoviruses. One causes living flesh to rot, one is intended to create shock troops, and a third decreases intelligence and makes the infected go berserk.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_15d8e4f5	type	Slave Liberation
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_15d8e4f5	comment	Slave Liberation: The setting features a science fiction version of the trope, clearly partly inspired by the history of anti-slavery activities; bioroids are considered property in some jurisdictions and free sapient beings in others, and some groups and nations run active, armed anti-bioroid trading operations. Artificial Intelligence liberation is a lesser concern in the setting, but in some cases, AIs will similarly move or be moved from places where they are property to other places where they can be free citizens.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_19944e8f	type	Terraform
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_19944e8f	comment	Terraform: The Duncanites were driven off Mars for starting this without the permission of any of the colonizing countries; the Green Duncanites are now attempting to terraform Europa and are at war with a group of environmentalists. By 2100 Mars is not quite Earth-like, but specially adapted parahumans or people with the appropriate biomods can survive without an environment suit.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_1aa76d29	type	Death by Origin Story
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_1aa76d29	comment	Death by Origin Story: Given the option to play digital "ghosts", it's entirely possible to have a PC's death as part of their background story. Running a Whodunnit to Me? mystery as the character's first scenario is strictly optional, but has been known.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_1b44c21	type	GrayAndGreyMorality
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_1b44c21	comment	Gray-and-Grey Morality: Most of the setting falls under this heading; nations and other organizations are just trying to uphold their varying ideals and competing for power, and even groups like the Chinese Communist Party are normally amoral rather than evil, while the Transpacific Socialist Alliance fights for freedom of information but is largely led by third-world dictators. There are exceptions whose morality is more flat black, though, such as the dictator of Kazakstan.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: Due to the intertwining of memetics, advertisement, entertainment and news in this age, all news media is propaganda in someone's worldview, and nobody even tries to be "fair and balanced." This is an accepted part of the world, and in modern democracies the solution is to get your news from multiple sources and put an AI monitor on your news feeds.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_1ec5a73c	type	Space Fighter
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_1ec5a73c	comment	Space Fighter: Present in the unusual form of "Autonomous Kill Vehicles" (AKVs) — essentially miniature robot fighters which can double as kinetic-kill missiles when circumstances demand it. Hence, any ace space fighter pilots in the setting must be computer programs.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_1ee0948e	comment	Artificial Human: Bioroids — biological androids — are products, with all that implies. Indeed, one or two designs verge on Shoddy Knockoff Product status.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_2206fd8c	type	Fallen States of America
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_2206fd8c	comment	Fallen States of America: Downplayed. The US spent much of the 21st century growing isolated, missing out on much of the first wave of space exploration, and generally taking a collective nap on the foreign stage. NATO is dead, and the former American alliance structure on the Pacific Rim has formed a Pacific Rim Alliance that doesn't include America. America is still a wealthy Fifth Wave nation, but China has surpassed it in economic and military power, the European Union is now the center of scientific advancement, and America itself is suffering from growing internal unrest driven by a struggle between immortal gerontocrats and a new, militant movement toward direct cyberdemocracy.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_2344d3d6	type	Post-Cyberpunk
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_2344d3d6	comment	Post-Cyberpunk: This is a game setting from the turn of the millennium.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_26480103	type	Mechanical Animals
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_26480103	comment	Mechanical Animals: Animalform cybershells and bioshells are reasonably common, both as pets (although if you want a smart pet an Uplifted Animal is a more popular choice) or to allow people to use them as a Remote Body and "be" a wild animal, this being particularly popular with fans of Sapient Cetaceans.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: ''Personnel Files 3'' provides a group of four pregenerated player characters who are basically walking the earth of East Africa in 2100, albeit with an eventual goal. Depending how games went, the one human in the group could be regarded as a low-end Knight Errant or as The Drifter.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_2ea916dc	type	To the Batpole!
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_2ea916dc	comment	To the Batpole!: The rescue organization in Wings of the Rising Sun has a standard rapid launch sequence for their spaceplanes from their orbital stations; a unit of four craft can launch within one minute, with other crews following within 10 minutes.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_310d40de	type	Thoughtcrime
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_310d40de	comment	Thoughtcrime: The Islamic Caliphate has an unusual, and generally non-totalitarian, variant in their approach to apostasy. Nobody wants to go back to the days where strict Sharia was enforced by death, but the Caliphate is a religious supernation and crushing apostasy is considered a religious duty. Accordingly, the scholars of the NuhÃ¡ are brilliant memetic engineers who work tirelessly to ensure that the Caliphate's intellectual life as a whole is saturated with and controlled by Islamic memes; their goal is to make apostasy literally unthinkable. The Caliphate does have the more usual brand of thought police, the Mutawiâ€™yyun, but in most places they won't come after you unless you're proselytizing or otherwise actively causing problems.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: Occasionally invoked in-setting, as "Autonomous Kill Vehicles", essentially miniature robot space fighters, are often deployed from larger military ships — and although they carry weapons of their own, they can be instructed to ram if their target has sufficiently high value.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_3130e2c6	type	Uplifted Animal
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_3130e2c6	comment	Uplifted Animal: Aplenty. Cats, dogs, dolphins, apes, octopodes...
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_342c2ebc	type	Longevity Treatment
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_342c2ebc	comment	Longevity Treatment: There are a couple of nanosymbionts that extend life expectancy by ten years or so each. Rejuvenation is expensive and unreliable, but actually reverses aging.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_366dfa01	type	Silly Reason for War
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_366dfa01	comment	Silly Reason for War: The dispute between the two Sons and Daughters of the King churches (which worship Elvis Presley) started when the then-leader of the Church decreed that only the pictures of the King from his early years should be used, while a splinter faction argued that the Elder Elvis showed the sins and suffering of the world. Soon the leader who'd issued the first decree was shot, churches were bombed and the SDK split into the SDK (Younger) and SDK (Elder).
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_375e2c89	type	Cloning Body Parts
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_375e2c89	comment	Cloning Body Parts: Cybernetics are considered obsolete. Nearly everyone waits a couple of weeks for a cloned body part instead of just printing off a prosthesis.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_37fcf16	type	Death Is Cheap
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_37fcf16	comment	Death is Cheap: Infomorphs get the "Extra Life" trait to represent backups, and even flesh and blood humans have a chance of surviving things that would kill them in most settings — albeit possibly only as software.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_38449aae	type	Magnetic Weapons
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_38449aae	comment	Magnetic Weapons: Railguns and coilguns show up in the setting as vehicular weapons. Personal firearms can't incorporate big enough batteries to make them more useful than chemical-propellent slugthrowers, but vehicle power plants are up to the job.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_3c83a08	type	Three Successful Generations
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_3c83a08	comment	Emergency Recoveries Inc. can fit Three Successful Generations and With a Friend and a Stranger, with Colonel Walker (old team leader), Klaus Godot (not-quite-so-old friend), and "Jaculi" (young newcomer).
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_3cb3772f	type	Pocket Rocket Launcher
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_3cb3772f	comment	Pocket Rocket Launcher: The setting offers micro-missile and mini-missile pods; the latter is roughly rifle sized, but the former is more or less pistol sized, and could genuinely fit in a large pocket. These have the advantage over conventional firearms of launching larger projectiles, which — given the setting's advanced-near-future technology — can have homing capability and carry a variety of interesting warheads.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_3d92b13e	type	Research, Inc.
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_3d92b13e	comment	Research, Inc.: Pretty much any company thatâ€™s worth mentioning in the game supplements ends up playing this part to some extent; itâ€™s a near-future SF setting with the technology jammed on fast forward, after all. But especially notable examples would include Biotech Euphrates, a major biotech company with a sometimes shaky grasp of ethics, Omokage Laboratories, another biotech outfit with no detectable ethics at all, and Exogenesis, a corporate research division who, after they were bought out, came under armed assault from their own management because their idea of science seemed to come with the mandatory prefix â€œMadâ€�. The latter two are based in the asteroid belt, where supervision is harder.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_40b308f3	type	Biotech Is Better
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_40b308f3	comment	Biotech Is Better: Biotech is generally preferred when possible, and bioroids are cheaper than sapient androids. This is changing in the Fifth Wave, however, as the sheer variety of technological fields expands dramatically, and meat is increasingly seen as obsolete compared to AI and nanotech.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_40ba8b95	type	Memetics in Fiction
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_40ba8b95	comment	Memetics in Fiction: Memetics is a mature science by the 22nd century, appearing in many places in the setting. For example, Peru is working on a meme they believe can make the TSA culturally invincible.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Transhuman Space mostly averts the trope in that A.I.s are carefully programmed to be law-abiding, and the programming works. However, there are a few uncontrolled rogues, and a very few deadly problem cases — though those mostly seem to be old military systems that were designed for lethality and self-preservation, and preserve those tendencies while running out of control.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_4612ec70	type	No Transhumanism Allowed
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_4612ec70	comment	No Transhumanism Allowed: Largely averted, though various societies ban some transhumanist technologies — the Islamic Caliphate bans ghosts, the European Union bans radical human genetic engineering, and so on.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_46843587	type	Dateline
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_46843587	comment	Dateline: "Teralogos News" is a major news corporation in the setting, and a collection of Teralogos News reports is available for free online as support material for the game line. These come complete with classic-style datelines, and include the occasional Human-Interest Story, drama reviews, and so on, as well as actual news stories.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_487c525d	type	Brainwashing for the Greater Good
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_487c525d	comment	Brainwashing for the Greater Good: At least, "good" according to the government. Criminals can receive psychiatric therapy to help them get over their criminal tendencies and become productive citizens of society. This is particularly common practice with copyright violators, because the WTO is well aware that a lot of people believe that Digital Piracy Is Okay (particularly in the developing world), so they encourage governments to make violators change their minds.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_48aac61d	type	Chummy Commies
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_48aac61d	comment	Chummy Commies: The infosocialist opposition in Europe and India are mostly firmly democratic socialist in orientation, seeing freedom of information as a path to greater human prosperity. In Europe, they tend to be mostly disaffected college students, but India has a serious infosocialist party who have a shot at winning an election and shaking the world order. Meanwhile, countries like Bangladesh and El Salvador maintain democratic nanosocialist governments committed to lifting their people out of poverty.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_4b4ac0ca	type	Homing Projectile
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_4b4ac0ca	comment	Homing Projectile: With advanced computing and widespread microtechnology, even handgun bullets can have some homing capability.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_4c554daf	type	President Evil
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_4c554daf	comment	President Evil: President Zarubayev, the insane Cyborg dictator of Kazakstan, who has imposed a policy of ethnic cleansing against the Kazak population (and especially people of mixed Russian-Kazak blood), personal immortality, and a brutally-efficient surveillance state that specializes in Crushing the Populace. Most groups in this setting operate on Gray-and-Grey Morality, but Kazakstan is emphatically not such a group.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_4c5f0662	type	Girl Next Door
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_4c5f0662	comment	Girl Next Door: Among the various designs of companion/sex-toy bioroids, one type is specifically designed to match this stereotype. Some customers in the setting want that.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_4eef88b8	type	Starfish Robots
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_4eef88b8	comment	Starfish Robots: Some cybershells (robot bodies) get quite exotic and nonhumanoid, as form follows specialized function. Notable examples include the modular self-transforming polypede, the flexible snakebot, and the fractal bush robot.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Evoked by the art in some of the early books, which appears to have been created by someone with a more negative view of the setting than many of the writers. That said, there are incidental details throughout the books that show that some biotechnologists in the setting take their work into more or less squicky territory.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_514491f	type	Job-Stealing Robot
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_514491f	comment	Job-Stealing Robot: Automation has eliminated most unskilled jobs, putting anyone without a university degree (or a creative job and an audience) out of work. In the developed world, governments compensate for this with a welfare system that makes work a choice rather than a necessity, and only about 30% of the population actually work full-time. Poorer countries can't support this kind of social security; many try to make up for it by mandating that factories employ a certain number of people in makework jobs. Others simply tax automated factories to pay for welfare programs; this is called the "Libyan Tax" after Libya, who were the country to introduce the idea.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_51f65a3e	type	Immortal Ruler
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_51f65a3e	comment	Immortal Ruler: The Kazakhstani dictator Zarubayev hogs all transhumanist tech available in his country to cling to life indefinitely through Cyborg modifications, as well as to Crush the Populace through mind-manipulation.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_52b9f0cc	type	Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_52b9f0cc	comment	Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon: Bigger military spacecraft often mount "spinal" particle accelerator weapons. (A particle accelerator has to be a long straight tube, and the rules permit these to be between 50 and 400 feet long, so more flexible mounts are infeasible.) Smaller fighters and the like also usually have fixed weapons, for much the same reasons as they do today.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_546e23f6	type	Evilutionary Biologist
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_546e23f6	comment	Evilutionary Biologist: The setting doesn't feature very many mad scientists. However, genetic engineering is quite advanced, and some of its practitioners do slip into a tendency to do things just because they can.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_5535272c	type	Coolest Club Ever
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_5535272c	comment	Coolest Club Ever: Polyhymnia, from the published scenario of the same name, is so exclusive that it doesn't have a Wannabe Line, because the Wannabes never know where it is. It's constantly moving, and constantly changing who it's aimed at, but clever memetics ensure that the "right" people get drawn to it, seemingly by coincidence.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_56c52c50	type	Custom-Built Host
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_56c52c50	comment	Custom-Built Host: Most infomorphs occupy standard, off-the-shelf cybershells. However, a wealthy AI or ghost, or one with a very specialized job, may well have a custom shell. At the very least, human-like "cyberdolls" often have bespoke appearance, and in Europe, ghosts often occupy bioshells based on clones of their old human bodies.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_57411784	type	Meat-Sack Robot
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_57411784	comment	Meat-Sack Robot: Bioroids are largely biological entities assembled by nanites over a polymer-lattice skeleton. Bioshells are bioroids, or sometimes reanimated corpses, with computers in place of brains so that they may host an AI or Virtual Ghost.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Against bioroids, artificial intelligences, ghosts, animal uplifts... although each society tends to have different biases.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_57cd63e6	type	Art-Style Dissonance
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_57cd63e6	comment	Art-Style Dissonance: Many of the setting's fans consider that it suffered from this problem, as the art in early books in the line seemed to imply a much higher level of Body Horror than the writers intended.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_5c1ec068	type	Big Red Button
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_5c1ec068	comment	Big Red Button: The "C-Brown" cybershell (robot body) is designed for perfectly innocuous purposes — as a gardening tool. However, this means that it mounts a faintly scary array of clippers and shears. Rather than spending too much effort trying to convince the public that this is an entirely safe piece of machinery, the manufacturers install big red off buttons on the front and back of the cybershell.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_5ec15a79	type	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_5ec15a79	comment	Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: Genetic engineering is quite advanced in the setting, and some of its products are a little worrying, verging on Genetic Abominations.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_5f41f8b2	type	Space Base
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_5f41f8b2	comment	Space Base: A few of the space stations in the setting, especially out in the asteroid belt, are occupied by people who would rate as villainous enough to move them into this category. Many people in-setting would rate all "Red Duncanite" stations as villain bases. However, any weapons mounted on such bases tend to be for defensive purposes.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_5f476d97	type	Space Navy
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_5f476d97	comment	Space Navy: Most significant nations have some kind of space force in the setting; some of these see themselves as more naval than others. For example, the U.S. Air Force has kept the Navy out of space operations, and won't let anyone forget it, whereas Britain's Royal Navy has carried its traditions out in the Solar System. China has the People's Liberation Army Navy Space Force, or "PLAN-SF" (allowing a geeky in-joke in the setting books).
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_62011b2f	type	Centrifugal Gravity
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_62011b2f	comment	Centrifugal Gravity: The only way to get (pseudo-)gravity in (Transhuman) space is by the appropriately hard SF means of acceleration or spin — and although a few spacecraft have "spin pods", most space travellers have to get used to not having gravity. Advanced biotech and nanotech are used to negate the negative medical effects, where necessary.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_6400a34	type	Arm Cannon
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_6400a34	comment	Arm Cannon: Present in a realistic version of the mundane type, in the form of "weapon pods"; forearm-mounted modules, usually with two different guns integrated into them. (In fact, these appear in the game because one or two discussions of possible future infantry equipment at the time of its publication actually included the idea.)
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_661a66d8	type	Animal Wrongs Group
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_661a66d8	comment	Animal Wrongs Group: Many Preservationist organizations such as the anti-gengineering terrorist group Blue Shadow and anti-terraforming Europa Defense Front.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_6651bba7	type	Bio-Augmentation
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_6651bba7	comment	Bio-Augmentation: Biomods.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_666648a3	type	Hostile Terraforming
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_666648a3	comment	Hostile Terraforming: The reason why environmentalists are blocking the Green Duncanites' efforts to terraform Europa is because it would threaten the moon's indigenous microbes.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_685baef8	type	Decade Dissonance
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_685baef8	comment	Decade Dissonance: One of the core themes of the game is that, while technology has advanced at lightning speed, much of the world has been left behind and the technology in many areas hasn't advanced much from today's. So while one country might be an advanced Fifth Wave utopia, its neighbor might be a poverty-ridden hellhole. Even within countries, some places have failed to advance; Marseilles and Los Angeles, among others, are third-world enclaves within hyperdeveloped nations, and China never really managed to upgrade its interior into the 20th century, let alone the 21st.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_699b3142	type	Artificial Cannibalism
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_699b3142	comment	Artificial Cannibalism: One of the weird subcultures that have sprung up is "Clonabilism", in which people eat cultured protein cloned from themselves. The frontispeice of Toxic Memes shows a man cheerfully eating a duplicate of his own head, which looks equally cheerful.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_6a887e97	type	Chupacabra
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_6a887e97	comment	Chupacabra: The secret Society for Applied Teratology (detailed in the Toxic Memes supplement) recreates famous cryptozoological species by advanced bioengineering, mostly to make the world a more interesting place. Their chupacabra (covered in more detail in Bio-Tech 2100) has been a small-scale success.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_7568eb84	type	Human Subspecies
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_7568eb84	comment	Human Subspecies: Several, ranging from "upgrades" that have slight improvements and are still interfertile with ordinary humans, to "parahumans" that are effectively different species and include adaptations to life underwater, microgravity, or a semi-terraformed Mars.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: A trope that is played with in the depiction of "Margaret", a space station founded by radical feminists which only permits female biological visitors or residents. It's generally accepted in-setting that, in a solar system where people can and do change sex temporarily for fairly trivial reasons, and the big civil rights debates involve artificial intelligences and biological androids, the Margaretians are still fighting the last century's battles. They aren't depicted as wildly stupid, just stubbornly out of date. They are respected for their women's self-defense classes, which produce some of the most formidable human martial artists in the solar system.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_7913833c	type	Balkanize Me
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_7913833c	comment	Balkanize Me: There are many "free cities", and Canada has become a patchwork of countries, some of which are EU members. The US hasn't splintered, but many states have; there are now 60, some of which are free cities within the union. (Most of Washington, conversely, is now part of Maryland; the District of Columbia barely extends beyond the White House.)
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_7f84552e	type	Tin-Can Robot
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_7f84552e	comment	Tin-Can Robot: A few cybershell (robot body) designs are built on a humanoid pattern, enabling them to use human equipment and fit in common vehicles, but are made rugged and simple rather than trying to emulate humans in pointless detail. These are usually military or industrial utility models.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_80b57bec	comment	Super-Soldier: Those nations that can afford them prefer to use cybershells with LAIs or SAIs installed, but there are also combat bioroids like the "preban" Felicias and a few biomods that human soldiers can take.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_8107ca6a	type	School Forced Us Together
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_8107ca6a	comment	School Forced Us Together: The supplement Personnel Files 5 offers an example PC group built round this trope. The English language school in the free city of KÃ¶nigsberg-Kaliningrad is small enough that a small group of teens of somewhat varying ages and backgrounds are obliged to hang out together, potentially pushing them into Kid Detective and similar plots; they include an apparent fashion victim who's actually fascinated by the theory of pop culture, a photography geek, a policeman's son/wannabe detective, a nervous slightly younger kid with an excellent robot dog sidekick, and a slightly arrogant leader type.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_81ac48a9	type	Contagious A.I.
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_81ac48a9	comment	Contagious A.I.: Any infomorph can transfer from one computer to another, if authorized, but "gypsy" AIs have a habit of cracking into hardware unauthorized and overwriting the original software. The more cautious ones, however, do not multiply themselves this way; rogue "xox" AIs living up to this trope, swarming and taking over the global Net (which it is assumed would lead to Robot War) are specifically one of the public nightmares of the setting, and any who try this will be hunted down and obliterated as soon as they are identified. The most dangerous rogues tend to have been created as software weapons in old wars.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_82f3c20	type	Wetware Body
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_82f3c20	comment	Wetware Body: "Bioshells" are bioroids (or more rarely, reconstructed corpses, known as "necromorphs") whose brains have been replaced by electronic hardware so they can be used as a body by an AI or a ghost. AIs occupying biological bodies are regarded as a Mechanical Abomination in many places, due to fears about digital intelligences impersonating and seeking to replace humanity. The only standard exception to this prohibition is granted to ghosts, who may occupy a shell based on a clone of their former body.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_83364794	type	Asteroid Miners
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_83364794	comment	Asteroid Miners: There are some around, though this aspect of Solar System development is less emphasised than in some settings.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: The "Real Love" movement holds that relationships within the same species are inherently narcissistic, incestuous and tainted by reproductive urges, and that Real Love can only be found cross-species. Its most famous proponent is an uplifted pleasure octopus.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: The Martial Arts 2100 supplement includes mention of a computer program that can analyse video recordings of combat, reverse-engineer the combat style being used, and generate a training system to teach that style. This has been used to resurrect some defunct martial arts systems of which recordings exist. The software has also been fed some fictional martial arts scenes, but with limited success; it tends to generate â€œartisticâ€� combat sytems that look fancy but are little use in a real fight.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_86ca4753	type	Smart Animal, Inconvenient Instincts
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_86ca4753	comment	Smart Animal, Inconvenient Instincts: Uplifted animals in the setting are sometimes prone to reverting to pre-sapient instincts. One vignette features a K10 postcanine who forms a criminal gang of other uplifted dogs; the owners of his followers insist their dogs can't be held responsible because they were just instinctively deferring to a strong alpha.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_89c7249b	type	Space Plane
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_89c7249b	comment	Space Plane: Technology in this setting doesn't really favour horizontal take-off, single-stage-to-orbit operations, but there are a few hypersonic sub-orbital "Transatmospheric Vehicles" ("TAVs") used for passenger transport between locations on Earth, and military forces have "Transatmospheric Combat Air Vehicles" ("TCAVs") — essentially hypersonic in-atmosphere fighters, some of which can just about reach low Earth orbit.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_92587498	type	Five-Man Band
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_92587498	comment	Five-Man Band: The line of Personnel Files supplements, providing ready-made PC groups, include a number some that fit this trope fairly well: Personnel Files 2: Leader, Rachel Patel; Lancer, Professor Lawson; Big Guy, Steven Smith; Smart Guy, ASTRAKAHN-Delta; Chick, Sally Westerham. Personnel Files 4: Leader, Diego Hughes; Lancer, Paul Chung; Big Guy, Charlie Mallinson; Smart Guy, OVERSIGHT; Chick, Paz Ramirez. Personnel Files 5: Leader, Mike Harris; Lancer, Denise Walsh (although her intelligence and talents may take her toward Smart Girl status); Big Guy, Dave Sheckley (employing his Robot Buddy Charlie as muscle); Smart Guy, Ian Chakrabarti (albeit mostly by dint of social skills rather than raw IQ, and his ambitions may make him try to play the Leader or at least the Lancer when he can); Chick, Catherine Moltby.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_93c04c8a	type	Future Food Is Artificial
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: Probably inevitable in a high-biotech future, at least in places.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_97a82530	type	Sewer Gator
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_97a82530	comment	Sewer Gator: The urban legend has developed into the Lurker Below, a huge alligator-like creature with writhing tentacles along its back, supposedly created by experimental biotech being flushed into the sewers and altering whatever's already down there.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_98412467	type	Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_98412467	comment	Fountain-1 adheres to the philosophy of Posthuman Fitness, where all residents are assigned to tasks fitting their mental capabilities, and given psychosurgical and memetic treatments to adjust them to their roles. All of their people are happy with their jobs, and they claim that they treat bioroids the same as the rest of their citizens...which is completely true. They also advertise rehabilitation for other colonies' violent criminals, who are their main source of immigrants. Unsurprisingly, they are an ally of Kazakstan, since Zarubayev wants their slave technology.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_991cdd51	type	Justified Extra Lives
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_991cdd51	comment	Justified Extra Lives: Infomorph characters (artificial intelligences and ghosts) are able to store backups of themselves on secure servers — so if their current incarnations die, they can easily be restored (though they do lose their memories of everything that happened since the last backup).
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9a7d4472	type	Stock Ness Monster
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9a7d4472	comment	Stock Ness Monster: The secret Society for Applied Teratology (detailed in the Toxic Memes supplement) recreates famous cryptozoological species by advanced bioengineering, mostly to make the world a more interesting place. Their Nessie (covered in more detail in Bio-Tech 2100) isn't doing so well, but is an ongoing project; they may create further monsters for other lakes (some of which may be more hospitable for the purpose).
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9c23f3a0	type	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9c23f3a0	comment	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: The secret Society for Applied Teratology (detailed in the Toxic Memes supplement) recreates famous cryptozoological species by advanced bioengineering, mostly to make the world a more interesting place. Their Bigfoot has been their biggest success, although there are hints that there may be a terrible problem with the trick.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Legal attitudes vary greatly by country. Usually, A.I.s and uplifts are property and bioroids are treated as more or less permanent minors, while ghosts and parahumans are full citizens, but there are numerous exceptions and variations. For example the EU gives full citizenship to bioroids and SAIs, while the Caliphate treats SAIs as people and ghosts as abominations, for theological reasons discussed in Broken Dreams.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9cc1e9ec	type	Unwanted False Faith
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9cc1e9ec	comment	Unwanted False Faith: Singularitism, which began as a joke; about half the congregation actually buys it. The other half is trying very hard to let them down easy. The Church of Sol is a similar but smaller case that started as a harmless legal dodge.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9ce377f1	type	Cure Your Gays
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9ce377f1	comment	Cure Your Gays: While sexual orientation in adults can't be altered by current memetic engineering, it can be largely controlled through genetic engineering of embryos, and China's Yousheng parahumans were genetically engineered for heterosexuality. Meanwhile, the Wimmin's Pantropic Collective on Margaret Station and other Ariadne communities try to engineer their transhuman daughters for lesbianism. It isn't universally successful, but exclusively heterosexual Ariadnes are pretty rare.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Submissa series bioroids are canonically intended for BDSM play; they're actually tougher than the Spartan series Super-Soldier bioroids. The effect is less pronounced in Fourth Edition (due to Hit Points being calculated from Strength, not Health).
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9eaffefb	type	U.S. Marshal
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9eaffefb	comment	U.S. Marshal: Because the U.S. colony on Mars is spread thin, it has resurrected the idea of the deputised marshal providing a degree of law in the wilderness. Personnel Files includes a team of three such deputies as pregenerated characters.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: There's a form of vampire in Europe that was created by a nanovirus, giving the victims sharp teeth, sun-sensitivity and a craving for blood. The whole thing was done as a prank by a Bulgarian scientist, but several dozen of those exposed decided to keep the new mutation, and now it's started to spread through their blood.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a05b534d	type	Robots Think Faster
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a05b534d	comment	Robots Think Faster: All artificial intelligences have the Enhanced Time Sense advantage â€” though they're not functionally much faster than humans, who can achieve similar speeds through genetic or nanotech enhancement.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a0cf200f	type	Digital Piracy Is Evil
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a0cf200f	comment	Digital Piracy Is Evil: Probably the most massively-funded meme in the world (In-Universe), enforced by a World Trade Organization with broad law enforcement powers everywhere in the world except for the Transpacific Socialist Alliance, and supported by a constant global memetic campaign by the WTO, China, the US, and corporations who have an interest in controlling information rights.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a0d3818f	type	Digital Piracy Is Okay
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a0d3818f	comment	Digital Piracy Is Okay: In-Universe, the concepts of infosocialism and nanosocialism are broadly a rejection of the global copyright paradigm, and the Transpacific Socialist Alliance are the new Dirty Commies because of their adoption of the ideology. Also, the ideology is growing popular among the opposition in India and Europe, though both groups are very unhappy with the TSA (because most TSA member nations are some form of repressive dictatorship).
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a1591cc3	type	Living Toys
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a1591cc3	comment	Living Toys: With the advanced AI, robotics, and microbot technology, this trope is trivial to instantiate. However, small toys don't generally have the computer capacity to run self-aware AI.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a246aed6	type	Sapient Cetaceans
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a246aed6	comment	Sapient Cetaceans: Present as the result of genetic engineering and biotechnology. Unmodified cetaceans are treated reasonably realistically, by current knowledge.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a3460119	type	Transhumanism
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a3460119	comment	Transhumanism: Half the title, and at least half the point of the setting.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a412cd2b	type	Lens Flare
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a412cd2b	comment	Lens Flare shows up in some of the art, notably in Spacecraft of the Solar System. This has sometimes irritated some fans, who feel that it doesn't suit the hard SF style of the setting.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a4e3ad2a	type	Artificial Animal People
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a4e3ad2a	comment	Artificial Animal People: Felicia-class bioroids are nanite-assembled cat people originally designed as supersoldiers and bodyguards, with a version developed after the ban on weaponized bioroids intended more as pilots.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a60f912c	type	Uninhibited Muscle Power
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a60f912c	comment	Uninhibited Muscle Power: The Bio-Booster transplant is an artificial adrenaline gland that temporarily gives the user hyper-strength and reflexes, though it strains their heart so a boosted heart is recommended too. Preban Felicia bioroids have it built in without the risk of heart attack, they just become hungry, impulsive, and horny afterwards.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a8357dc2	type	No Woman's Land
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a8357dc2	comment	No Woman's Land: Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the Arabian Peninsula to a lesser degree, remains very conservative in terms of women's rights. The Levant and Iraq, however, allow women fully equal rights with men, and the headscarf is a matter of fashion rather than law (as of 2100, it's going back out of style). The difference dates back to the early 21st century, and the Caliph decided to make women's rights a local issue rather than pick a side and split the Caliphate over it.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a96b8b63	type	Space Marine
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_a96b8b63	comment	Space Marine: Present and correct, mostly for raids on asteroid bases and space stations. Hence, Transhuman Space Marines may end up seeing much more combat in police actions than in full-scale warfare — but they are still tough characters in power armour.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_aa938aad	type	Remote Body
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_aa938aad	comment	Remote Body: A central component of the setting. People, especially A.I.s, rent (rarely purchase) cybershells designed for their environment or the job they're doing at the moment.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_abb930ed	type	Sleeper Starship
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_abb930ed	comment	Sleeper Starship: "Nanostasis" is routinely used to save on life support during interplanetary voyages, although nobody has attempted manned interstellar flight yet.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ad5283e1	type	Robot Girl
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ad5283e1	comment	Robot Girl: The thousand-and-one varieties of "cybershell" inevitably include some made to look like attractive female humans — sometimes for relatively innocent reasons, sometimes not.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_adf55ded	type	Neo-Africa
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_adf55ded	comment	Neo-Africa: Most of the world is preppy Post-Cyberpunk, but bits of Africa are still fairly straight Cyberpunk.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_aff29d6f	type	Beauty, Brains and Brawn
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_aff29d6f	comment	Antoine Cohen's press team can be seen as a cross-gender Beauty, Brains, and Brawn, with Antoine (the Beauty can be male and smart in this setting), Ludwig Braun (The Big Guy), and Tamara Chuikova (The Smart Gal).
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_b22797b8	type	Rescue
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_b22797b8	comment	Rescue: The supplement Wings of the Rising Sun details the NKKC (Japan Emergency Rescue Agency), with a view to it being the centerpiece of a campaign. In such games, some scenarios at least would involve no antagonists other than natural disasters or accidents.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_b3230549	type	419 Scam
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_b3230549	comment	419 Scam: One such scam is used as chapter fiction in Toxic Memes, allegedly from the wife of the former dictator of Thailand.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_b53ba00f	type	Easy Sex Change
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_b53ba00f	comment	Easy Sex Change: Explicitly a feature of the setting, thanks to the general level of advanced biotechnology, and quite a few people are said to take advantage, permanently or temporarily. However, it doesn't seem to come up much in the game beyond the initial mention.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_b7c85c86	type	Free-Love Future
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_b7c85c86	comment	Free-Love Future: In Fifth Wave nations, with access to easy, reliable contraception and STD Immunity and with Designer Babies being the normal way to make children, sex has become a purely recreational activity and "till death do us part" marriages are seen as kinda weird. Some people marry for fixed-duration contracts, others don't even bother with that kind of formality, same-sex marriage is entirely unremarkable, and various forms of group and interspecies marriage are available. Some places try to throttle this back; the US and Latin America have more conservative marital jurisprudence, Italy used to have strict laws against reproductive technology until the rift between their government and the Catholic Church, and the Islamic Caliphate obviously insists on traditional marriage (just how traditional varies by country, and the Caliph also approved technology that would reduce but not eliminate the possibility of pregnancy).
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_bb44af57	type	Robot Dog
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_bb44af57	comment	Robot Dog: At least one of the many "cybershell" body types available to run AI software on is the "Cyberdog."
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_bbcdd673	type	One-Gender Race
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_bbcdd673	comment	One-Gender Race: Hyppolyta parahumans, created for a female-separatist space station. Ironically, gender identities have become a lot more fluid since the station was founded, and it's now very easy to switch sex with modern technology, making sexual separatism increasingly meaningless.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_bf7ca818	type	Transhumans in Space
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_bf7ca818	comment	Transhumans in Space: Practically the trope namer.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_c1d58ab0	type	Drop Ship
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_c1d58ab0	comment	Drop Ship: A few such vehicles exist, although the dangers of attempting a landing in the face of hostile fire on planets such as Earth are generally overwhelming. Funnily enough, perhaps the most noted users of drop ships, specifically called such, are a humanitarian rescue organisation, who don't usually have to worry about being shot at on the way down.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_c35c8ab2	type	Mental Space Travel
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_c35c8ab2	comment	Mental Space Travel: Infomorphs can transmit their code all across the solar system if they have a shell on the other side. But they can't "write" an Infomorph to a biological brain.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_c69902e7	type	Church of Happyology
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_c69902e7	comment	Church of Happyology: Ecoherence, a religion built from the ground up on memetic techniques, is a spin on this based on memetically-reinforced power hierarchies, advancement between which just happens to involve the spending of large amounts of money. The organization's meme team also has a secret "direct action" unit attached.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_c8c968c3	type	The Alliance
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_c8c968c3	comment	The Alliance: The Trans-Pacific Socialist Alliance (TSA) is a group of nations united by â€œinfosocialistâ€� ideology against the rest of the world. Although it is clearly based on the old Warsaw Pact, and TSA members coordinate closely in many respects, there are some major, problematic differences between them, greater than those between Warsaw Pact members. The Pacific Rim Alliance (PRA) is a military alliance mostly composed of America's former allies in the Asia-Pacific region. Itâ€™s strictly a military pact, designed to balance the powers of China and the TSA, and members pursue independent economic policies.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ca85e684	type	Power Trio
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ca85e684	comment	Power Trio: The original Personnel Files supplement, which provides a number of pregenerated PC groups, includes several trios that can fit various sub-tropes in interesting ways: Barrymore Consultancy could be a weird Big, Thin, Short Trio, Fighter, Mage, Thief, Freudian Trio, Three Successful Generations, or With a Friend and a Stranger, with Helena Barrymore (thin "mage" super-ego old person), Francesco Dellagaria (short fighter — well, he's the most physically disposable, being backed up — id who's neither truly old nor truly young and who's an old friend of Helena's), and Nelson Buthembai (big thief ego street kid, recently recruited). Antoine Cohen's press team can be seen as a cross-gender Beauty, Brains, and Brawn, with Antoine (the Beauty can be male and smart in this setting), Ludwig Braun (The Big Guy), and Tamara Chuikova (The Smart Gal). The Martian U.S. Marshal team fit Freudian Trio and a sort of Two Girls and a Guy, with Carlena Villareal (super-ego lead hero), Dave O'Connor (ego token male), and Sally Xan (id sidekick girl). Emergency Recoveries Inc. can fit Three Successful Generations and With a Friend and a Stranger, with Colonel Walker (old team leader), Klaus Godot (not-quite-so-old friend), and "Jaculi" (young newcomer).
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: On Luna, there's two separate movements for a Lunar nation. The Lunar Democratic Congress are the ordinary "let's set up our own democracy" activists, while the Lunar Preservationist Party ("Red Rabbits") want to nationalize all Lunar resources for the future of the Moon. The Red Rabbits have spawned the Regulators, a Radical Splinter Faction who spend an inordinate amount of effort roughing up LDC activists.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ccab244d	type	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ccab244d	comment	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: The trope is front and centre here. Personal laser weapons suffer from power supply problems, whereas bullets still work just fine. However, vehicles can carry their own power plants, which can be sufficient to power useful energy weapons — and spacecraft especially don't have to worry about certain problems with energy beams in atmosphere. So the trope is enforced less at that scale.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ce032b97	type	Mechanical Insects
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ce032b97	comment	Mechanical Insects: Some microbots in this setting resemble insects, usually as a simple matter of form following function — tiny legged or winged robots have many uses, and will invariably end up looking a bit insectoid — but sometimes no doubt because they are used for espionage, and looking like an insect is a useful disguise. Some larger robots (such as "tech spiders") have somewhat insectoid or arachnoid forms, too. One Nation Under Copyright doesn't exist, and while amoral and focused on the bottom line, most companies are fairly good global citizens; overtly villainous behavior is relatively uncommon. (Well, unless you're an infosocialist; then their very existence is a blight upon the world.)
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_cfa1ad9	type	Life in Zero G
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_cfa1ad9	comment	Life in Zero G: The Tennin parahuman was designed by the Duncanites after they got kicked off Mars and fled to the Belt, with many advantages designed to make life easier in microgravity. There's also a variant used by the Wimmin's Pantropic Collective of Margaret Station at L5 that can reproduce by parthenogenesis.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_cfcabcf	type	Nuclear Torch Rocket
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_db32e308	comment	Whodunnit to Me? is always a possible scenario plot in a setting where recently dead people with intact brains can be uploaded to computers, and digital intelligences can be restored from backup. For example, the scenario "In The Walls", in the supplement Cities on the Edge, is about a "ghost" (uploaded intelligence) who was murdered but restored. He's annoyed about that, but livid that his backups have been tampered with, meaning he has no memories of the past six months.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_db94aee5	comment	Artificial Zombie: "Necromorph bioshells" are brain-dead but otherwise functional or repairable corpses (sometimes deliberately created by killing unfortunate victims in a controlled manner) with the brain replaced by a computer, usually then operated by a compliant AI. The trope is usually averted in the sense that the AI is usually as reliable as any in the setting, giving the "zombie" no particular reason to misbehave — unless it's programmed malevolently, perhaps to use the necromorph as a terror weapon. Certainly, necromorphs, and indeed most human-looking AI-controlled bioshells, are regarded with suspicion in parts of the setting, being more or less regarded as horrific zombies. The one exception, in some places (mostly Europe), is a bioshell body controlled by the digital ghost of the formerly-organic-living person on whom it was based. Of course, if the ghost proves defective, you may have something of a scientifically-created zombie on your hands.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_dd48b81d	comment	Totalitarian Utilitarian: Kazakhstan is ruled by the terrifying Sergei Zarubayev, who uses a vaguely plausible but very totalitarian philosophy to justify the creation of a surveillance state in which the secret police use advanced technology to play with the minds and perceptions of anyone they choose. Fountain-1 adheres to the philosophy of Posthuman Fitness, where all residents are assigned to tasks fitting their mental capabilities, and given psychosurgical and memetic treatments to adjust them to their roles. All of their people are happy with their jobs, and they claim that they treat bioroids the same as the rest of their citizens...which is completely true. They also advertise rehabilitation for other colonies' violent criminals, who are their main source of immigrants. Unsurprisingly, they are an ally of Kazakstan, since Zarubayev wants their slave technology.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_dfbd69d5	comment	Underwater Base: Various groups with various policies have underwater bases of various sizes in the setting; the most exotic are deep in the ice-covered oceans of Europa, a moon of Jupiter, where a miniature war is being fought for the future of the moon.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_e3b72664	comment	Boarding Pod: "Microgravity Assault Vehicles" exist in the setting, although they're not expected to be used in every space battle — and boarding actions are noted as being tricky and dangerous.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_e7088fbc	comment	Middle Eastern Coalition: The Islamic Caliphate, a power bloc governing the Middle East from Syria to Oman, though the individual governments remain intact and the Caliph's power is mostly advisory. (Mostly. The Ghazi special forces are a fully Fifth Wave military force answerable to the Caliphate alone, and the Caliphate operates a subtle and sophisticated Propaganda Machine designed to keep things a lot more unified than they may appear at first glance.)
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_e9339eec	type	Libertarians IN SPACE!
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_e9339eec	comment	Libertarians IN SPACE!: The "Duncanite" communities of the Asteroid Belt are trying to live this trope. Governments elsewhere in the setting mostly seem to regard them as a negligible nuisance at worst, and are expanding into space vigorously enough that the Duncanites will probably have either to compromise their ideals or withdraw to the outer solar system quite soon.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ead7e2d6	comment	Kaleidoscope Hair: As a bit of, ah, background color, cosmetic nanotechnology allows characters to change hair color on whim â€” and even to use their hair as a video display.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ec2d62b9	comment	Cult Colony: A few eccentric cults have orbital or asteroid communities, although these tend to look more like bases (resembling monasteries or mansions) than full-scale colonies.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ecaab580	comment	Technology Levels: This is GURPS, so they're standard, and the setting refers to them as Waves, ranging from the agricultural First Wave to the transhuman Fifth Wave. Some oddities exist, however - the Islamic Caliphate, for example, has access to Fifth Wave technology (including bleeding-edge agricultural biotech) but is deliberately pursuing a different path.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ee13f24f	type	Space Elevator
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ee13f24f	comment	Space Elevator: One on Mars, and another being built on Earth.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_f1716087	comment	Goggles Do Something Unusual: Many people in the setting wear glasses or goggles with miniature computers built into the frames, and heads-up displays in the lenses. (Indeed, given that the local medical technology must be well up to fixing most forms of poor vision, this may be the main reason that anyone wears glasses in 2100.) It's also entirely possible for those computers to run low-end artificial intelligences. Hence, some PCs can and do treat their glasses or goggles as NPC Allies.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_f19ccfee	type	Uranus Is Showing
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_f19ccfee	comment	Uranus Is Showing: The early development chats featured a great deal of amusement at the concept of the gas mines of Uranus; said mines (which provide helium-3 for fusion reactors) made it into the finished product, but thankfully none of the giggling did.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_f2e4d683	comment	Stealth in Space: Averted, in that the problems with space stealth are generally fully acknowledged in the setting material. This in turn leads to a roleplaying setting with space travel but limited scope for space piracy, as law enforcement can track pirates from the other side of the Solar System (though there's a little of it going on, using trickery and keeping a low profile), which some gamers seem to find frustrating.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_f807e541	type	Fantastic Legal Weirdness
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_f807e541	comment	Fantastic Legal Weirdness: One micro-vignette in Fifth Wave explains the issues of sorting out the inheritance of a wealthy man with three registered domestic partners, two children (one an Opposite-Sex Clone), the household AI and the family cat all claiming shares of his estate. Sorting out affairs like that can be complicated in a world where the twentieth-century nuclear family isn't the standard anymore.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_f9bc2937	type	Laser Sight
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_f9bc2937	comment	Laser Sight: The settings's advanced firearms tend to include all sorts of aids as standard, including this.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_fb01ee16	comment	Cyberpunk: Significant parts of the world fit this genre, as less-advanced areas of the world are exploited by corporations. In these areas, tech is less unified and all-encompassing, with both obsolete equipment and cutting-edge Flawed Prototype equipment on the market, and technology is even more likely to be a tool of oppression than it is in the Fifth Wave due to horrible gaps between haves and have-nots.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_fb2136ec	comment	Barrymore Consultancy could be a weird Big, Thin, Short Trio, Fighter, Mage, Thief, Freudian Trio, Three Successful Generations, or With a Friend and a Stranger, with Helena Barrymore (thin "mage" super-ego old person), Francesco Dellagaria (short fighter — well, he's the most physically disposable, being backed up — id who's neither truly old nor truly young and who's an old friend of Helena's), and Nelson Buthembai (big thief ego street kid, recently recruited).
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_fb9afaab	type	Attack Drone
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_fb9afaab	comment	Attack Drone: With robotics this advanced, a lot of warfare is inevitably conducted by automated systems of one sort or another. Some, such as spacefaring Autonomous Kill Vehicles (AKVs), can also ram if required, making them into Recursive Ammo.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading: "Ghosts" are personality uploads produced by disassembling and scanning a human brain at the molecular level. They contrast with "shadows," which are non-destructively uploaded (or are the products of partially failed destructive upload attempts) but which are imperfect simulations, and "eidolons," which aren't even made with a brain scan — they are just fakes made from stock footage and biographical databases.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_fcbcc221	comment	Robot Buddy: Virtually everyone who isn't flat broke or weird has one or more AI assistants, sometimes running on portable or implanted computers but sometimes installed in autonomous robot bodies — so there are a lot of robot buddies around.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_fd41610f	comment	China Takes Over the World: It's the main military power, with the EU as generally the most advanced technological power. America is a close second for both. China's most frequent and direct antagonist on Earth, though, is the "Transpacific Socialist Alliance". (It gets complicated there.) Also, China has taken over half of Mars.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_ff8afd14	comment	Spider Tank: Some RATS (Robotic Armored Tactical Systems) cybershells — the setting's combat robots — fit this pattern, usually on a fairly small (roughly human-sized) scale.note Actually, standard configurations for combat vehicles in the setting have never been determined; there may well be some bigger spider tanks around.
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Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Let's Meet the Meat / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Life in Zero G / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Literal Surveillance Bug / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Mars Media / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Matter Replicator / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Meat-Sack Robot / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Mechanical Animals / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Mechanical Insects / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Memetics in Fiction / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Memory Gambit / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Memory Jar / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Microbot Swarm / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Military Mashup Machine / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Mundane Dogmatic / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	No Transhumanism Allowed / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Nuclear Torch Rocket / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	One-Gender Race / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Parody Religion / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Path of Inspiration / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Pocket Rocket Launcher / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Post-Cyberpunk / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Prospector / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Recursive Ammo / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Remote Body / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Research, Inc. / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Robot Dog / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Robot Girl / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Robots Think Faster / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Sapient Cetaceans / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Scam Religion / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	School Forced Us Together / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Sewer Gator / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Shear Menace / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Show Within a Show / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Slave Liberation / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Sleeper Starship / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Space Elevator / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Space Is an Ocean / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Space Mines / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Space Navy / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Space People / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Space Western / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Space Whale / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Stock Ness Monster / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Straw Feminist / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Talk About the Weather / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Technically-Living Zombie / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Terraform / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	The Alternet / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Thinker Pose / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	This Is My Human / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	To the Batpole! / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Totalitarian Utilitarian / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Transhumans in Space / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	U.S. Marshal / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Underwater Base / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Underwater City / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	United Europe / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Unwanted False Faith / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Uplifted Animal / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Urban Legends / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Used Future / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Vagina Dentata / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Virtual Ghost / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Wetware Body / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Whodunnit to Me? / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Whole-Plot Reference / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space / Tabletop Games	seeAlso	Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Longevity Treatment / int_9838249c
Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Luck Manipulation Mechanic / int_9838249c
transhumanspace	sameAs	Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game)

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