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* FantasticLegalWeirdness: '
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* FantasticLegalWeirdness: '
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* FantasticLegalWeirdness: ''The Last Enemy'' gives us a society in which reincarnation has now been proven, so their view of death is far more relaxed. Assassination is a legal profession because of this (though there are certain rules, such as no nukes). Near the end of the story, lawsuits start to be launched by people trying to recover property they had in their past lives, though we don't see whether any succeed.
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* FantasticLegalWeirdness: ''The Last '
** "Last Enemy'' from his Paratime universe gives us a society in which reincarnation has now been proven, so their view of death is far more relaxed. Assassination is a legal profession because of this (though there are certain rules, such as no nukes). Near the end of the story, lawsuits start to be launched by people trying to recover property they had in their past lives, though we don't see whether any succeed.
** Piper's Terro-Human Future History books have the veridicator, a LieDetector that can scan people's brains to tell if they're lying or not almost flawlessly. It's commonly used when interrogating people and during trials. Court orders are required for this, but there's no sign the Terran Federation law has a legal right against self-incrimination
** "Last Enemy'' from his Paratime universe gives us a society in which reincarnation has now been proven, so their view of death is far more relaxed. Assassination is a legal profession because of this (though there are certain rules, such as no nukes). Near the end of the story, lawsuits start to be launched by people trying to recover property they had in their past lives, though we don't see whether any succeed.
** Piper's Terro-Human Future History books have the veridicator, a LieDetector that can scan people's brains to tell if they're lying or not almost flawlessly. It's commonly used when interrogating people and during trials. Court orders are required for this, but there's no sign the Terran Federation law has a legal right against self-incrimination
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* PastLifeMemories: The retrieval of these by means of [[ISeeDeadPeople mediums]] [[WillingChanneler channeling the souls]] of the recently deceased, proving one theory of reincarnation true in ''The Last Enemy''. This leads to social chaos as people sue to reclaim property which they had in former lives.
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* PastLifeMemories: The retrieval of these by means of [[ISeeDeadPeople mediums]] [[WillingChanneler channeling the souls]] of the recently deceased, proving one theory of reincarnation true in ''The Last Enemy''.Enemy'', sparks the plot. This leads to social chaos as people sue to reclaim property which they had in former lives.
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Not sure what context was ever intended for this one. "Gadolinium" (a rare-earth element with various niche uses) is used in hyperdrive engines, but it's not like Piper just made up an element (like "dilithium" or "vibranium") and, well, who is to say gadolinium ISN'T "essential to hyperdrive engines" (if hyperdrive engines could ever actually be a thing).
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Not sure what context was ever intended for this. While Piper's work is sometimes "problematic" by modern standards, he's actually pretty good at having strong women characters who DON'T just "stay in the kitchen" (and aren't really expected to).
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* SubmersibleSpaceship: In the Terro-Human Future History, starships don't usually land in water, but hiding one at the bottom of an ocean to ambush an enemy is a proposed tactic in ''Space Viking''. Lucas Trask notes that at one point he was planning to ambush Andray Dunnan that way, and that Dunnan's ship could in turn easily be hiding under "a thousand feet of water" where orbital scans couldn't detect it.
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* HumansAreWhite : Averted. While explicit physical descriptions of characters are rare, the prevalence of {{multiethnic name}}s indicates that most of them are some shade of brown.
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* HumansAreWhite : Averted. While explicit physical descriptions of characters are rare, the prevalence of {{multiethnic name}}s multi-ethnic names indicates that most of them are some shade of brown.
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* MultiethnicName: Particularly common in ''Uller Uprising'', where just about every major character's given name and surname are of distinctly divergent ethnic origin. Justified by mass migration from the nuked northern hemisphere to South America and Africa following the Fourth World War.
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* LostLanguage: "Omnilingual" is about decoding the dead Martian language. Martha spots a periodic table in a derelict library, and realises what it is. The names of the elements might not be much, but they're a start.
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* FictionalFlag: In the novella "When in the Course..." the new flag adopted for Hos-Hostigos is a [[HaveAGayOldTime quarter-arc rainbow]] on a white field, chosen so that anyone who was annexed later would at least be able to find his colors in the flag.
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--> "At the end of the Big War, ten thousand men and women on Abigor, refusing to surrender, had taken the remnant of the System States Alliance navy to space, seeking a world the Federation had never heard of and wouldn't find for a long time. Eight centuries later, their descendants have begun raiding into the territory once held by the now-collapsed Terran Federation."
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* SpacePirates: Or, more accurately, Space ''Vikings''. They don't board and rob ships, they nuke cities from orbit and loot any cities that chose to surrender.
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* SpaceCossacks: The ''Literature/SpaceVikings'' appropriate the remnant of the System States Alliance's navy, take off to space, and settle on Abigor, a planet too far away that TheFederation hasn't even heard of. Once said Terran Federation collapses, the Vikings start raiding its former territories.
* SpacePirates: Or, more accurately,Space ''Vikings''.Literature/SpaceVikings. They don't board and rob ships, they nuke cities from orbit and loot any cities that chose to surrender.
* SpacePirates: Or, more accurately,
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** Also Martians, in the TFH: they died out 50 millennia ago, but statues, paintings, and mummified corpses in "Omnilingual" are specifically stated to look fully human. Considering the short story "Genesis" and the Paratime series both claimed Earth humans are descended from Martian colonists, Piper may very well have had this origin in mind for the TFH too.
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** Also Martians, {{Martians}}, in the TFH: they died out 50 millennia ago, but statues, paintings, and mummified corpses in "Omnilingual" are specifically stated to look fully human. Considering the short story "Genesis" and the Paratime series both claimed Earth humans are descended from Martian colonists, Piper may very well have had this origin in mind for the TFH too.
