History Literature / SpaceCadetRvbomally

* FutureFoodisArtificial: Many normal, foodstuffs are prohibitively expensive, such as honey, chocolate, coffee, cow's milk, and beef. Many people eat mostly algae, fungi, and vat-grown meat, though their diet can be supplemented by imported produce.

* FutureFoodisArtificial: Many normal, foodstuffs are prohibitively expensive, such as honey, chocolate, coffee, cow's milk, and beef.
Many people eat mostly algae, fungi, and vat-grown meat, though their diet can be supplemented by imported produce.

* Wave-MotionGun: Multiple galactic powers use city and capital ship-destroying (and in some cases, planet-killing) superlasers. The Federation uses superphasers on some of their warships.

* Wave-Motion Gun: Multiple galactic powers use city and capital ship-destroying (and in some cases, planet-killing) superlasers. The Federation uses superphasers on some of their warships.

* '80sHair: The Coalition has this to an almost ridiculous degree.

* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: The Universal Collective is of the opinion that individuality and free will are standing in the way of humanity's progress. They decide to [[AssimilationPlot rectify this]].

* SlidingScaleofRobotIntelligence: A.I. come into three tiers in the Space Cadet universe; Weak, strong and superintelligent. The latter is the reason why the Second Empire fell.

* {{Dystopia}}: Almost all of the human powers are quite nasty but Duzhonev is probably the worst, being a combination of the [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Imperium of Man]],[[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi Germany]] and [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Oceania]]

* SlidingScaleofRobotIntelligence: A.I. come into three tiers in the Space Cadet universe; Weak, Strong and Superintelligent. The latter is the reason why the Second Empire fell.

* Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: A.I. come into three tiers in the Space Cadet universe; Weak, Strong and Superintelligent. The latter is the reason why the Second Empire fell.

* FantasticRacism: All of the human great powers aside from the Solarians discriminate against aliens to varying degrees and even the more liberal ones are prepared to exterminate any civilization which might pose a threat. The various human subspecies don't always have it easy either. The most extreme example, however, is the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Duzhonev Imperium]] which kills anything that isn't baseline human.

** The Protectorate of Mankind represents RaygunGothic

* TheAlliance: The Alliance, naturally enough, although they are increasingly centralized. The Consortium, the Vessel States, and the Dyn are other examples of nations made up of multiple other states.

** The Federation has a few things in common with both 1960@s and 2010's America, although much of it's culture is wholly alien to the modern day.

* WeWillUseManualLabourInTheFuture: A lot of civilisations make use of manual labour, free or [[MadeASlave unfree]]. This is because there are strong legal and cultural biases against a large degree of automation.

** The Coalition represents [[CasetteFuturism Casette Futurism]]

* CrapsacharineWorld: The Federation and the Solarian Community both appear to be bright and colourful happy places but are in reality horrifically dysfunctional societies.

* {{Dystopia}}: All the human powers are quite nasty but Duzhonev is probably the worst, being a combination of the [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Imperium of Man]],[[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi Germany]] and [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Oceania]]

* FlyingSaucer: Commonly used by the Shortmen.

** The First Empire of Man represented BioPunk. The Collective also dabbles.

* TheRemnant: The Free Triumvirate and the Imperial Remnant could both be considered the last remnants of the Second Empire. Neither has much interest in restoring it however- the Triumvirate believes that the Empire was fatally flawed and decadent and the Remnant just wants to have [[Sadist fun]]

** Tangiroa to the Terran Empire.