* CorruptCorporateExecutive -- bad image is more common with the freemen than with the two other classes; the Guildsmen are perceived as motivated by greed, while the other have their fig leaves of piety or honour.
* TheCorruption -- Subverted with the Sathra effect, the epiphany-like experience that unshielded minds exposed to hyperspace feel -- it's addictive, it provokes the development of psionics, and it tends to turn people into peaceable folks who just want the best for the universe, [[BewareTheNiceOnes though you really shouldn't push them]]. Really, a Sathraist that's a danger is just a bad person, not corrupted by exposure to infinity. They will try and trick people they like into being exposed as a form of EasyEvangelism however. 
* CrystalDragonJesus -- the Church of the Celestial Sun, though it is better described as an evolved and amalgamated form of organised religions of today... It even has Jesus as a saint.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul -- this is the official stance of Church, but cyberpsychosis does indeed occasionally occur.
* TheCycleOfEmpires -- Two corporatocratic Republics have fallen, a feudal empire is rising from the long night.
* TheDarkSide -- Psis and theurges who don't adhere to proper codes of conduct suffer from TheCorruption; [[EnemyWithin Urge]] for psis and [[{{Pride}} Hubris]] for theurges. This is played with, however, as both Urge and Hubris are judged by relativistic standards rather than absolute morality. Urge is caused by violating the norms of your society, and Hubris is caused by violating the beliefs of your religious sect, irrespective of whether a factual sin (which do exist, and can be measured) was committed.

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: bad image is more common with the freemen than with the two other classes; the Guildsmen are perceived as motivated by greed, while the other have their fig leaves of piety or honour.
* TheCorruption: Subverted with the Sathra effect, the epiphany-like experience that unshielded minds exposed to hyperspace feel -- it's addictive, it provokes the development of psionics, and it tends to turn people into peaceable folks who just want the best for the universe, [[BewareTheNiceOnes though you really shouldn't push them]]. Really, a Sathraist that's a danger is just a bad person, not corrupted by exposure to infinity. They will try and trick people they like into being exposed as a form of EasyEvangelism however. 
* CrystalDragonJesus: the Church of the Celestial Sun, though it is better described as an evolved and amalgamated form of organised religions of today... It even has Jesus as a saint.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: this is the official stance of Church, but cyberpsychosis does indeed occasionally occur.
* TheCycleOfEmpires: Two corporatocratic Republics have fallen, a feudal empire is rising from the long night.
* TheDarkSide: Psis and theurges who don't adhere to proper codes of conduct suffer from TheCorruption; [[EnemyWithin Urge]] for psis and [[{{Pride}} Hubris]] for theurges. This is played with, however, as both Urge and Hubris are judged by relativistic standards rather than absolute morality. Urge is caused by violating the norms of your society, and Hubris is caused by violating the beliefs of your religious sect, irrespective of whether a factual sin (which do exist, and can be measured) was committed.

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* DeadlyDecadentCourt -- in particular, House Decados has scheming as favourite pastime, also obviously the Imperial Court.
* DeflectorShields -- somewhat Dune-like. You can slip your blade "under" the activating force threshold (as in Dune), or try to overwhelm it with raw strength. One notable difference from Dune is that energy weapons won't cause any [[MutualKill mutually destructive]] reactions with shields, though plasma and fire damage has a small chance of leaking through a shield.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything -- ''{{Dune}}'' and ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun''. However, it's like [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Warhammer Fantasy]] and its relation to Creator/JRRTolkien and Renaissance Europe - at first glance it's almost a ripoff, but when you begin to explore it, you discover it is quite worthy of interest on its own.
* EldritchAbomination -- The Void Krakens, natch. They dwell in the darkness between stars, making [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hyperspace the less scary (and lethal) alternative to interstellar travel]] in the setting.

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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: in particular, House Decados has scheming as favourite pastime, also obviously the Imperial Court.
* DeflectorShields: somewhat Dune-like. You can slip your blade "under" the activating force threshold (as in Dune), or try to overwhelm it with raw strength. One notable difference from Dune is that energy weapons won't cause any [[MutualKill mutually destructive]] reactions with shields, though plasma and fire damage has a small chance of leaking through a shield.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: ''{{Dune}}'' and ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun''. However, it's like [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Warhammer Fantasy]] and its relation to Creator/JRRTolkien and Renaissance Europe - at first glance it's almost a ripoff, but when you begin to explore it, you discover it is quite worthy of interest on its own.
* EldritchAbomination: The Void Krakens, natch. They dwell in the darkness between stars, making [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hyperspace the less scary (and lethal) alternative to interstellar travel]] in the setting.

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* FiveManBand -- the Houses seem to correspond to this kind of dynamic:
** TheHero -- goody-two-shoes Hawkwoods.
** TheLancer -- Hawkwoods' EvilCounterpart, House Decados.
** TheBigGuy -- the {{hotblooded}} and militaristic Hazat.
** TheSmartGuy -- sophisticated and smart House al-Malik.
** TheChick -- refined and majestic House Li Halan.
* GrimUpNorth -- well, is there any other reason for the Vuldrok planets to be placed "above" the Empire on the star chart? Funnily enough, Vuldrok culture was engineered during the fall of Second Republic, so it might have even been [[InvokedTrope invoked]].
* HumansAreBastards -- there are many alien races, but usually restricted to reserves. Guess why. On the other hand, at least one alien race, the Ukar, could have been [[AliensAreBastards just as nice]] if they won.
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace -- an inversion: hyperspace (what is between the Stargates) actually is the ''safe'' way. It's the interstellar space (beyond Kuiper's Belt) which is filled with shapeless Cthulhoid monstrosities going by the lovely name of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Void]] [[SpaceIsAnOcean Kraken]]. Still, spaceships jumping through hyperspace need to be protected by special shields, because otherwise people experience a strongly addictive quasi-religious epiphany, known as the Sathra effect.

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* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum -- the Jumpgates, not to mention how a lot of crucial technologies (anti-gravity, for example) are [[BlackBox reverse-engineered]] versions of Vau tech.
* LostTechnology -- plenty of, due to the fall of the Republic. There is a major guild making quite a profit by digging it up. The Ur artifacts may also count (particularly to [[FishPeople Oro'ym]] who appear to have been once a star-faring species), but given how they work, it's probably closer to Lost Magical Artifacts than to Lost Technology.
* MegaCorp -- the Guilds (at least the biggest ones) are descendants of such and may share some traits.
* [[MedievalStasis Neo-Medieval Stasis]] -- [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the Church declaring [[ScienceIsBad tech evil]] for everyone except the rich, the noble and the ordained and everyone else in a state of shock after the fall of Republic. The game is set in a period when the stasis is ending.
* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness -- the system tries to act tough once in a while, but is a big softie.
* NoTranshumanismAllowed -- played in many ways. In general, played straight. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the not so uncommon use of cybernetics. [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] by the Church. [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by cyberevolutionaries movement.

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* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: the Jumpgates, not to mention how a lot of crucial technologies (anti-gravity, for example) are [[BlackBox reverse-engineered]] versions of Vau tech.
* LostTechnology: plenty of, due to the fall of the Republic. There is a major guild making quite a profit by digging it up. The Ur artifacts may also count (particularly to [[FishPeople Oro'ym]] who appear to have been once a star-faring species), but given how they work, it's probably closer to Lost Magical Artifacts than to Lost Technology.
* MegaCorp: the Guilds (at least the biggest ones) are descendants of such and may share some traits.
* [[MedievalStasis Neo-Medieval Stasis]]: [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the Church declaring [[ScienceIsBad tech evil]] for everyone except the rich, the noble and the ordained and everyone else in a state of shock after the fall of Republic. The game is set in a period when the stasis is ending.
* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: the system tries to act tough once in a while, but is a big softie.
* NoTranshumanismAllowed: played in many ways. In general, played straight. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the not so uncommon use of cybernetics. [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] by the Church. [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by cyberevolutionaries movement.

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* ScienceIsBad: a part of the Church's teachings. Of course, important people exercise "extreme penance" and can thus operate high technology so that the lesser folk "doesn't have" to "endanger" their souls.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The book's section on Passion Play Roleplaying provides rules for setting the tone wherever the GM likes, including games where the Triumph of Good or the Triumph of Evil is the [[YouCantFightFate foreordained theme]] of the game. In general, the work itself leans toward AWorldHalfFull.
* SoulsavingCrusader: Played straight sometimes, subverted at other times. The "extreme penance" required of psychics ''does'' work and ''is'' helpful to reduce [[TheDarkSide Urge]], and some psychics and theurges can literally see people's sins and know the means to correct them. On the other hand, the Church doesn't always get it right; for example, the [[{{God}} Pancreator]] does ''not'' agree that Invention is a sin, and CyberneticsEatYourSoul is more or less incorrect.

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* SpaceIsAnOcean -- the starships are very expensive to produce and repair so it's in nobody's interest to blow them to smithereens during battle: this means that after a few shots to disable the enemy's main weapons, the ship is boarded by marines who, using bladed weapons, make their way to the bridge (get the Charioteer) and the drive section (get the Engineer) and generally try to take over the ship with as minimal damage to the ship as possible. Also, the weapons are very short range (for distances in space) and thus any exchange of fire happens at distances of kilometers or less. According to WordOfGod, Fading Suns spacefaring is supposed to emulate the age of sail.
* TheStarsAreGoingOut -- [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as in the title]], for reasons unknown. [[spoiler: According to one legend that may or may not be true, inverted. A star supposedly blazed to new life at the moment Alexius Hawkwood took the throne.]]
* SwordFight -- the nobility likes to solve their issues by duelling, thus sword fights abound.

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* SpaceIsAnOcean: the starships are very expensive to produce and repair so it's in nobody's interest to blow them to smithereens during battle: this means that after a few shots to disable the enemy's main weapons, the ship is boarded by marines who, using bladed weapons, make their way to the bridge (get the Charioteer) and the drive section (get the Engineer) and generally try to take over the ship with as minimal damage to the ship as possible. Also, the weapons are very short range (for distances in space) and thus any exchange of fire happens at distances of kilometers or less. According to WordOfGod, Fading Suns spacefaring is supposed to emulate the age of sail.
* TheStarsAreGoingOut: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as in the title]], for reasons unknown. [[spoiler: According to one legend that may or may not be true, inverted. A star supposedly blazed to new life at the moment Alexius Hawkwood took the throne.]]
* SwordFight: the nobility likes to solve their issues by duelling, thus sword fights abound.

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