Generican Empire: Well, the thing to remember here is that the Empire of the Star was named long before it ever got into space (and has many stars, besides). Itâs actually named after a philosophical symbol rather than anything physical. (In fairness and trope-compliance, they could have called it
Generation Ships: The Empire itself has never used generation ships, despite thinking of the concept. Regular lighthuggers donât count â the whole immortality thing means that while children may well be born en voyage, the people who got on will by and large be the same people whoâll get
Gendercide: Happened, incompletely (two-thirds of the female population killed), to the shan kari, when their learning robots generalized their anti-self-replication police-code to things that werenât robots, and therefore concluded that it was necessary to wipe out the female of the species due to their built-in factories for making more
Gender Is No Object: Played almost straight with the eldrae, due to any and all of: lesser sexual dimorphism; population demographics that made it impractical to waste much of the capacity of half the population â at least if one didnât want to get oneâs ass kicked by oneâ
(So thereâs this trope which I missed when I originally put my list together (and which I will no doubt get to again in due course). Itâs called Standard Starship Scuffle, and it pretty much encapsulates every TV-scifi cliche imaginable. So, yâknow, since I now have various
Gender Blender Name: There werenât all that many of these in historical times, but in the modern era, there are a great many â or at least, names adjusted such that you can change their gender with a tiny flip of the ending syllable(s). After all, with gender changing
Gender Bender: Fairly trivial to achieve with Empire-level biotech, whether done by growing an opposite-sex bioshell (or, yâknow, other sex; itâs not like hermaphrodite and neuter havenât been invented, and not every species uses the same sexes anyway) and mindcasting into it, or if one is of
Designer Babies (formerly known as Gattaca Babies): Well, yes, absolutely, as seen everywhere in the Empire and in many places beyond. Both the people who start out as biosapiences, and the empty vessels cloned for the benefit of minds in need of bodies. (And, also, technically, nanocyborgs, because simple genetic
Gate of Truth: The Transcendent Core may not know all knowledge in the universe, but it does know everything any part of the Transcend knows, and whatever a weakly godlike superintelligence can reasonably deduce from that that itâs had time and occasion to think about, including a small amount
Gargle Blaster: Several of them, indeed. Most notable would be much vereldrae liquor (made from only fruit and sap, really, but distilled in ways designed by demented alchemists and with a kick that mules or moonshine would envy â and a lot of these are flammable), essentially everything brewed on Paltraeth
I have, so far, sat down on at least three to five occasions to attempt to wrap some firm-SF details around the group of technologies in my universe which go under the general name of âvector controlâ. Thus far, I have devised three to five different versions of the mass
Military Moonshiner: Played straight for some reason, despite the fact that neither the Imperial Navy nor the Imperial Legions is a dry organization. (Also in the Imperial Exploratory Service, which contains the expected number of people who consider âcan we make booze out of it?â to be one of the