History TabletopGame / Starfinder

* DemotedToExtra: Of the Main Deities in the ''Pathfinder'' pantheon, only Abadar, Desna, Iomedae, Pharasma, Sarenrae, Urgathoa and Zon-Kuthon remain as such in Starfinder. With the exceptions of Besmara and Nyarlathotep, the rest are {{Canon Foreigner}}s.
** Of the remaining ''Pathfinder'' Main Deities, Asmodeus, Calistria, and Lamashtu have been demoted to minor deity status. Torag, head of the Dwarf pantheon, disappeared along with Golarion. His place as patron of the Dwarves has been taken by his younger brother, the minor deity Angradd. Shelyn is notable now only as Zon-Kuthon's sister, and while she didn't disappear altogether, her fleeting and diminishing responses seem to hint that she has gone into the void, possibly to find a way to reverse what warped her brother into the Midnight Lord. The rest of the Pathfinder pantheon seems to have been completely forgotten.
** Rovagug is completely missing from the setting, which paradoxically makes him important in the story. Golarion was his prison in ''Pathfinder'', and now that it's disappeared and been wiped from all memories, the whereabouts and status of the OmnicidalManiac god are completely unknown.

* FasterThanLightTravel: Via [[SubspaceOrHyperspace the Drift]].

* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: The present calendar is the AG calendar, necessary because the Cap eliminated the ability to tell exactly when it is in the old calendar.

** In addition, the headquarters of the Starfinder Society, AbadarCorp (at least, its HQ in the physical realm), and the Stewards are all at Absalom Station, and Absalom is where the Pact was signed, linking all the planets of the solar system together as the Pact Worlds.

* TheFederation: The Pact Worlds. Said pact being a mutual defense pact originally against [[TheEmpire the Veskarium]], but now against [[BugWar the Swarm]].

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: The Lashunta, as always, though it now applies to both sexes.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Korasha Lashuntas (which were always male at the time) were portrayed as ugly and brutish in Pathfinder, while in Starfinder both subspecies are considered very attractive.
* AdaptationNameChange: To avoid simply calling alien races Planet-ians, several alien races from Pathfinder have gotten more unique names. The Aballonians have become the anacites, the Brethedans have become the barathu, the Eoxians are now the elebrians, the Vercites are the verthani, and the Triaxans are the ryphorians.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Averted, unlike in Pathfinder, with undead. In fact, Animate Dead is no longer an evil spell, and plenty of the civilian populace of Eox is Neutral.

** In Pathfinder, Androids were common only to Numeria, the Kellid land where a giant spaceship crash-landed ages ago, and started yielding scavenged high-tech item. Lashuntas and Kasathas were around, but likely only to be encountered in a campaign that went off of Golarion onto another planet in the system, and thus quite rare. Ratfolk could be found anywhere, but generally not in large numbers. All of these are now considered core races.
** Notably, the only minor deity in Pathfinder that becomes a main deity in her own right in Starfinder is Besmara, thanks to her importance among the Free Captains and other space pirates. In addition, and somewhat frighteningly, the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Outer God Nyarlathotep]] is now important enough to be a main deity. Finally, two other obscure deities, the construct goddess Brigh, and the Iron Goddess Casandalee, were absorbed into facets of the new main god Triune.
* BadassGay: Starfinder's iconic envoy on the Core Book's cover, the human Navasi. An ex-rich girl who fled her family to run with gangs before she and her girlfriend sabotaged their gang's plan to rob a medical transport. Said girlfriend died by grenades and Navasi took her name as her own (Navasi's old name has yet to be revealed). Navasi now runs a freelance operation with the other Iconic Heroes in her crew.

** Shirren have three: male, female, who provides the egg, and host, who incubates the egg to maturity. All three need to get together to reproduce. Socially, there are several variations of coupling based on the culture the shirren comes from. For example, Keskodai, the iconic mystic, lives in an exclusive pairing with a female and a host (when he isn't off exploring) but it's not unheard of for a single host to carry eggs for several different male/female pairs.

* CuttingOffTheBranches / LateArrivalSpoiler: The ''Iron Gods'' adventure path in ''Pathfinder'' potentially ended with the PC's ally Casandalee ascending to godhood instead of the BigBad. ''Starfinder'' makes this official with her as one of the three machine gods that make up Triune.
* DemotedToExtra: Of the Main Deities in the Pathfinder pantheon, only Abadar, Desna, Iomedae, Pharasma, Sarenrae, Urgathoa, and Zon-Kuthon remain as such in Starfinder. With the exceptions of Besmara and Nyarlathotep, the rest are [[Main/CanonForeigner Canon Foreigners]].
** Of the remaining Pathfinder Main Deities, Asmodeus, Calistria, and Lamashtu have been demoted to minor deity. Torag, head of the Dwarf pantheon, disappeared along with Golarion. His place as patron of the Dwarves has been taken by his younger brother, the minor deity Angradd. Shelyn is notable now only as Zon-Kuthon's sister, and while she didn't disappear altogether, her fleeting and diminishing responses seem to hint that she has gone into the void, possibly to find a way to reverse what warped her brother into the Midnight Lord. The rest of the Pathfinder pantheon seems to have been completely forgotten.

* GenderNeutralWriting: Iseph, the iconic operative, is an android who lacks a gender identity. "They" is Iseph's preferred pronoun.

** Shirren have three, male, female, and host. All three need to get together to reproduce.

* GenderNeutralWriting: Lacking a gender identity, and not needing one as an asexually-reproducing android, Iseph prefers the singular "they". Shirren of the host gender also seem to prefer "they" as a pronoun when speaking in common.

* MegaCorp: Abadar Corp, which is both an enormous corporation and the church of Abadan, the god of wealth and civilization.

* BadassGay: Starfinder's iconic human on the Core Book's cover, Navasi. An ex-rich girl who fled her family to run with gangs before she and her girlfriend sabotaged their gang's plan to rob a medical transport. Said girlfriend died by grenades and Navasi took her name as her own (Navasi's old name has yet to be revealed). Navasi now runs a freelance operation with the other Iconic Heroes in her crew.

* CuttingOffTheBranches // LateArrivalSpoiler: The ''Iron Gods'' adventure path in ''Pathfinder'' potentially ended with the PC's ally Casandalee ascending to godhood instead of the BigBad. ''Starfinder'' makes this official with her as one of the three machine gods that make up Triune.

* CuttingOffTheBranches: The ''Iron Gods'' adventure path in ''Pathfinder'' potentially ended with your ally Casandalee ascending to godhood instead of the BigBad. ''Starfinder'' makes this official with her as one of the three machine gods that make up Triune.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: For ''Pathfinder's'' ''Iron Gods'' adventure path. Casandalee from that adventure path is now the racial god of androids and one of the three machine gods that makes up Triune.

* DemotedToExtra: Of the Main Deities in the Pathfinder pantheon, only Abadar, Desna, Iomedae, Pharasma, Sarenrae, Urgathoa, and Zon-Kuthon remain as such in Starfinder. With the exceptions of Besmara and Nyarlathotep, the rest are {{Main/CanonForeigner}}s.

** Notably, the only minor deity in Pathfinder that becomes a main deity in Starfinder is Besmara, thanks to her importance among the Free Captains and other space pirates. In addition, and somewhat frighteningly, the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Outer God Nyarlathotep]] is now important enough to be a main deity.

* AscendedExtra: Numerous examples in terms of species and deities that were once footnote becoming more mainstream, but the most terrifying case is that of [[Literature/TheCthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]], who has become one of the twenty core deities of the setting.
* AsteroidMiners: A frequent Dwarven occupation.

Other civilizations have not been idle in the unknown number of years between ''Pathfinder'' and the present, with Androids, Lashunta, Ratfolk (now called the Ysoka), and Kasatha from ''Pathfinder'' joining Humans and two new alien races, the reptilian Vesk and insectile Shirren, as core races. Of course, if you want to be a Elf, Dwarf, Half-Orc or Halfing IN SPACE, it gives options for those as well.

* HomeworldEvacuation: The Kasatha built their GenerationShip and came to the pact worlds as their sun was soon to go nova.

''Starfinder'' is a ScienceFantasy RPG by Paizo Publishing, the creators of ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}''.

''Starfinder'' is set an unknown number of years in ''Pathfinder's'' future. Golarion, the main world of the ''Pathfinder'' setting, is missing, as are any memories or records of what may have happened to it. This missing period of history is known as the Gap. In Golarion's place in the solar system is now the massive Absalom Station.

Other civilizations have not been idle in the unknown number of years between ''Pathfinder'' and the present, with Androids, Lashunta, Ratfolk, and Kasatha from ''Pathfinder'' joining Humans and two new alien races, the reptilian Vesk and insectile Shirren, as core races.

* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Swords, warhammers and staves are no less common as they were in ''TabletopGames/{{Pathfinder}}'' despite widespread use of {{Ray Gun}}s. There are limits however, with very primitive weapons like clubs suffering a damage penalty if used on non-primitive armor.