History TabletopGame / TranshumanSpace

* SchoolForcedUsTogether: The supplement [[http://www.warehouse23.com/products/SJG37-6706 Personnel Files 5]] offers an example PC group built round this trope. The English language school in the free city of Königsberg-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 KidDetective 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.

* SuperSoldier: Those nations that can afford them prefer to use cybershells with SAIs, but there are also combat bioroids like the "preban" Felicias and a few biomods that human soldiers can take.

* MemeticsInFiction: Memetics is a mature science by the 22nd century, [[spoiler: Peru is working on a meme they believe can make the TSA culturally invincible.]]

* ContagiousAI: 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 AIs. The more cautious ones, however, do not multiply themselves this way; rogue "xox" AIs swarming and taking over the global Net (which is assumed to lead to RobotWar) 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.

* ContagiousAI: Any infomorph can transfer from one computer to another, if authorized, but "Gypsy" AI have a habit of cracking into mainframes unauthorized and overwriting the original AI.

* ToTheBatcave: The {{rescue}} organization in ''[[http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG37-6714 Wings of the Rising Sun]]'' has a standard rapid launch sequence for their {{spaceplane}}s from their orbital stations; a unit of four craft can launch within one minute, with other crews following within 10 minutes.

* PostCyberPunk: This ''is'' a game setting from the turn of the millennium.

''Transhuman Space'' is a [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness Hard]] ScienceFiction [[TabletopGames role-playing game setting]] for TabletopGame/{{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.

Compare it with TabletopGame/EclipsePhase to another science fiction game focused on Transhumanism and Posthumanism.

* ResearchInc: Pretty much any company that’s worth mentioning in the game supplements ends up playing this part to some extent; it’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 [[GrayingMorality 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 “Mad|Scientist”. The latter two are based in the asteroid belt, [[MadScientistLaboratory where supervision is harder]].

** The Martian {{U.S. Marshal}}s team fit FreudianTrio and a sort of TwoGirlsAndAGuy, with Carlena Villareal (super-ego lead hero), Dave O'Connor (ego token male), and Sally Xan (id sidekick girl).

** The Martian U.S. Marshalls team fit FreudianTrio and a sort of TwoGirlsAndAGuy, with Carlena Villareal (super-ego lead hero), Dave O'Connor (ego token male), and Sally Xan (id sidekick girl).

* WetwareBody: Bioshells.

* BiotechIsBetter: Biotech is generally preferred when possible, and [[ArtificialHuman bioroids]] are cheaper than sapient androids.

* MeatSackRobot: In the GURPS setting of the ''Transhuman Space'' series, 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 VirtualGhost.

* MadeOfIron: Submissa series bioroids are canonically intended for {{BDSM}} play; they're actually tougher than the Spartan series SuperSoldier bioroids. The effect is less pronounced in Fourth Edition (due to Hit Points being calculated from Strength, not Health).