History Literature / ImpliedSpaces

* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler:Aristide has this when the various polity representatives debate whether to unshackle the [=AIs=] or surrender to Vindex, and Shenai lamented about having no invisible shields or teleportation: since the universe is a construct, any arbitrary limits built into it can be used to manipulate reality itself, which means that invisible shields or teleportation ''could be possible''. The [=AIs=] get to work quickly after that.]]
* FasterThanLightTravel: {{Averted|Trope}}. There's no FTL, with wormholes only being able to connect the main universe to pocket universes. Any travel done, including to other stars, must be done slow than the speed of light. [[spoiler:Played straighter when it was discovered that Vindex managed to create wormholes with two ends joining places in the main universe, however they still had to be carried to the destination at slower than light speed.]] [[spoiler:The end of the novel plays this completely straight when both the Loyal Ten and Vindex/Courtland found a way to project wormhole exit to any place in the universe. It can even be used to TimeTravel.]]
* GreatOffscreenWar: Control-Alt-Delete War, where a revolutionary group managed to create Seraphim virus and unleashed on all human polities. This war is described by Aristide as the ''true'' world war, where ''everyone'' are combatant.

* FinalDeath: Midgarth has the closest thing to this in the solar system: when you die, there's delay of 5 years until you can enter the place again. You can be resurrected outside of the place, but inside you're legally treated as dead, with anything you owned being given to whoever is in your will, and any legal and contractual obligations cancelled. When you do finally come back, you're a nobody. [[spoiler:This also happened to those consumed by the Big Belch at Epsilon Eridani, since it destroyed the infrasturctures needed to resurrect them.]]

* PostScarcityEconomy: It's easier to list the places where scarcity ''existed'' rather than not, given that AI can create pretty much anything for humans. They are mainly in places for historical recreating like Olduvai, a planet made purely for hunter-gatherer societies, or Midgarth, a giant Fantasy MMO planet.

A man and his [[TalkingAnimal talking cat]], a [[CoolSword sword]] by his side, is traveling through a desert of Midgarth, studying [[TitleDrop implied spaces]], until he came across caravans of traders and guards, huddle together. They tell of a band of vicious bandits led by priests of dark gods, who [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice anyone captured alive]]. With the capture and interrogation of a few of those bandits, the man decides to organize the caravan guards and attack the bandits. However, the discovery of [[ArtificialHuman what the priests are]], and [[OurWormholesAreDifferent the weapons they wield]], will change the world, forever.

* FinalDeath: Midgarth has the closest thing to this in the solar system: when you die, there's delay of 5-10 years until you can enter the place again. You can be resurrected outside of the place, but inside you're legally treated as dead, with anything you owned being given to whoever is in your will. When you do finally come back, you're a nobody. [[spoiler:This also happened to those consumed by the Big Belch at Epsilon Eridani, since it destroyed the infrasturctures needed to resurrect them.]]

* CutenessProximity: [[spoiler:{{Invoked|Trope}}: It's very lucky that Vindex is pretty lonely that he, after scanning her to make sure she isn't something worse which Bitsy easily works around, is willing to take amphibian Bitsy as a pet, whose cute panic act for her master is only partly feigned [[note]]After all, even an avatar of highly advanced AI can still be blindsided by meeting the Dark Lord so quickly after capture[[/note]]. This allows Bitsy to gather information as best as she could due to Vindex's lax security arrangement, then later saved Aristide when he's captured.]]