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"interstellar travel is depicted as expensive and at least moderately time-consuming, being mostly limited to governments and major commercial operations. But that's not here." - since interstellar travel IS expensive and time consuming (spending many days under constant thrust to move from one jump point to another).
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* CasualInterstellarTravel: Due to the Alderson Drive, it only takes the blink of an eye to travel between star systems. However, the trip is only possible along certain "[[HyperspaceLanes tramways]]" ending near a star, and ships spend days or weeks traveling interplanetary distances getting from one endpoint to the other, or to the target planet.
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This is not an example as the "Langston field" is a fictional creation that, in-universe, is said to have only been discovered by dumb luck - it does not speak to the Moties alien-ness that they did not invent it before man did
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* AliensNeverInventedTheWheel: The Moties never invented the [[DeflectorShields Langston Field]], which in combination with the red star at the other end of the only tramway out of their system has kept them trapped in their own system for millennia.
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* AbsentmindedProfessor: Dr. Buckman in ''The Mote in God's Eye'' and ''The Gripping Hand''. Not a terribly important character, but an excellent example -- he spends his life living in his own little bubble, blissfully ignorant and uncaring of the goings-on unrelated to his passion of astrophysics.
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* AbsentmindedProfessor: Dr. Buckman in ''The Mote in God's Eye'' and ''The Gripping Hand''.Buckman. Not a terribly important character, but an excellent example -- he spends his life living in his own little bubble, blissfully ignorant and uncaring of the goings-on unrelated to his passion of astrophysics.
