History TabletopGame / TranshumanSpace

* PocketRocketLauncher: 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 forearms of launching larger projectiles, which -- given the setting's advanced-near-future technology -- can have homing capability and carry a variety of interesting warheads.

* PowerTrio: The ''[[http://www.sjgames.com/transhuman/personnel/ Personnel Files]]'' supplement, which provides a number of pregenerated PC groups, includes several trios that can fit various sub-tropes in interesting ways:

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Cosmetic nanotechnology permits hair that not only varies in color at whim, but which acts as a video display. Because why not?

* SlaveLiberation: The setting features a science fiction version of the trope, clearly partly inspired by the history of anti-slavery activities; [[ArtificialHuman 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. {{AI}} 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.

''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 {{terraform}}ing of UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}), human personalities uploaded to computers, advanced artificial intelligence, and a politically multi-polar world.

* ArtificialGravity: Scrupulously averted. 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.

* LiteralSurveillanceBug: Microbots can be and sometimes are used for espionage or surveillance.

* LiteralSurveillanceBug: Microbots can be and sometimes are used for espionage or surveillance.

* MechanicalInsects: Some {{microbots|warm}} 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.
* MegaCorp: Transnational corporations are a thing, but the trope is used very differently in this setting. OneNationUnderCopyright 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.)

** The Pacific Rim Alliance is a military alliance mostly composed of America's former allies in the Asia-Pacific region. They're strictly a military pact, designed to balance the powers of China and the TSA, and members pursue independent economic policies.

** The Trans-Pacific Socialist Alliance (TSA) is a group of nations united by ideology against the rest of the world. Although it is based on the old UsefulNotes/WarsawPact, and they coordinate closely in many respects, there are some major, niggling differences between different members.

* TheAlliance: The Pacific Rim Alliance is a military alliance mostly composed of America's former allies in the Asia-Pacific region. They're strictly a military pact, and pursue independent economic policies.

** The one exception, in some places, 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.

* CustomBuiltHost: 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 ghosts often occupy bioshells based on clones of their old human bodies.

* WetwareBody: Know as “bioshells.”

* 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 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 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. The most dangerous rogues tend to have been created as software weapons in old wars.

* GrayAndGreyMorality: Most of the setting falls under this; just nations and other organizations 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 to this who fit more under black morality (such as the dictator of Kazakstan).

* Chupacabra: The secret Society for Applied Teratology (detailed in the ''Toxic Memes'' supplement) recreates famous [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious 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.