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* AxCrazy: Too many examples to count, but the award for ''most'' AxCrazy arguably goes to the Ex-War Criminals, who return from tours of duty on a War World with several fewer marbles than they arrived with. Upon arrival, the Ex-War Criminals' preferred MO is to abscond into the Cannibal Sectors, still in possession of their battlefield equipment, and begin a leisurely campaign of murderous terror.
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* AxCrazy: Too many examples to count, but the award for ''most'' AxCrazy arguably goes to the Ex-War Criminals, who return from tours of duty on a War World with several fewer marbles than they arrived deployed with. Upon arrival, the Ex-War Criminals' preferred MO is Criminal may make a token effort to lead a civilian life in Mort City, but their epic PTSD and combat drug addictions inevitably make this impossible, at which point they will abscond into the Cannibal Sectors, still in possession of their battlefield equipment, Sectors and begin a leisurely campaign of murderous terror.terror. And just because SLA ''cares'', the company air-drops war equipment into Cannibal Sector areas that Ex-War Criminals are known to infest, so these psychopaths can maraud with all their (terrifyingly powerful) old gear!
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* BioAugmentation: While cybernetics were once fashionable on Mort, the new and better technology are vat-grown limbs and organs for medical, practical and aesthetic purposes.
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* BioAugmentation: While cybernetics were once fashionable on Mort, the new and better technology are vat-grown limbs and organs for medical, practical combat, and aesthetic purposes.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Operatives -- the group to which the player characters belong -- are generally depicted as arrogant bullies or worse (though the second edition has taken steps to humanize them). For that matter, SLA Industries themselves are depicted as sinister, domineering, and just plain ''irresponsible'' to a degree that would do any MegaCorp proud. (To be fair, though, SLA's -- and the players' -- enemies are even worse).
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: BlackAndGrayMorality:
** In the first edition, Operatives -- the group to which the player characters belong -- are generally depicted as arrogant bullies orworse (though the worse, but this was downplayed in second edition has taken edition, which took steps to humanize them). For Operatives (or at least emphasize that matter, there are consequences for abusing their authority).
** In all editions, SLA Industries themselves are depicted as sinister, domineering, and just plain ''irresponsible'' to a degree that would do any MegaCorp proud.(To To be fair, though, SLA's -- and the players' -- enemies are even worse).worse.
** In the first edition, Operatives -- the group to which the player characters belong -- are generally depicted as arrogant bullies or
** In all editions, SLA Industries themselves are depicted as sinister, domineering, and just plain ''irresponsible'' to a degree that would do any MegaCorp proud.
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* EvilVersusOblivion: The greatest enemy of SLA Industries is Bitterness/White Earth. The former wants to conquer and control everything. The latter wants to end the World of Progress altogether.
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* TheSociopath: While serial killers and other psychopaths are common on Mort, the Scavs are an entire species of sociopaths, as they see other beings only as obstacles to destroy or resources to be consumed (and then thrown away), and seem to have no emotions other than rage.
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* CloningBlues: Simultaneously played straight and averted with Intruder on two separate occasions; once with Angel (who looks just like Intruder, yet is pure evil) and later with Taarnish (who is the monstrous prototype for the modern Malice stormers, yet is much kinder than Angel).
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Conflict Races like [[TheBerserker Krell]], [[MadScientist Ghrosh]], and [[EvilSorcerer Momics]] are kill-on-sight for SLA industries due to the fact each has complete sociopathic disregard for any other species - to an extent that even ''[[PsychopathicManchild Wrathien]]'' find appalling.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: AlwaysChaoticEvil:
** Conflict Races like [[TheBerserker Krell]], [[MadScientist Ghrosh]], and [[EvilSorcerer Momics]] are kill-on-sight for SLA industries due to the fact each has complete sociopathic disregard for any other species - to an extent that even ''[[PsychopathicManchild Wrathien]]'' findappalling. appalling.
** Aside from the Conflict Aliens, the cannibal families, Scavs, and Ex-War Criminals can also be trusted to attack SLA Operatives without hesitation.
** Averted with Carriens and Manchines. Most people (including most SLA Operatives) ''believe'' both are always chaotic evil, but SLA Industries has managed to [[HeelFaceTurn turn the occasional Carrien or Manchine into a viable Operative]].
** Conflict Races like [[TheBerserker Krell]], [[MadScientist Ghrosh]], and [[EvilSorcerer Momics]] are kill-on-sight for SLA industries due to the fact each has complete sociopathic disregard for any other species - to an extent that even ''[[PsychopathicManchild Wrathien]]'' find
** Aside from the Conflict Aliens, the cannibal families, Scavs, and Ex-War Criminals can also be trusted to attack SLA Operatives without hesitation.
** Averted with Carriens and Manchines. Most people (including most SLA Operatives) ''believe'' both are always chaotic evil, but SLA Industries has managed to [[HeelFaceTurn turn the occasional Carrien or Manchine into a viable Operative]].
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Operatives -- the group to which the player characters belong -- are generally depicted as arrogant bullies or worse (though the Second Edition second edition has taken steps to humanize them). For that matter, SLA Industries themselves are depicted as sinister, domineering, and just plain ''irresponsible'' to a degree that would do any MegaCorp proud. (To be fair, though, SLA's -- and the players' -- enemies are even worse).
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Conflict Races like [[TheBerserker Krell]], [[MadScientist Ghrosh]], and [[EvilSorcerer Momics]] are kill-on-sight for SLA industries due to the fact each has complete sociopathic disregard for any other species - to an extent that even ''[[PsychopathicManchild Wrathien]]'' find appaling.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Conflict Races like [[TheBerserker Krell]], [[MadScientist Ghrosh]], and [[EvilSorcerer Momics]] are kill-on-sight for SLA industries due to the fact each has complete sociopathic disregard for any other species - to an extent that even ''[[PsychopathicManchild Wrathien]]'' find appaling.appalling.
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* DeathWorld: The planet Mort is almost completely uninhabitable, and requires 'Atmosphere Generators' -- each the size of a city -- in order to maintain some semblance of a biosphere (and, coincidentally, keep the gravity in check). Huge swathes of Mort Central itself are abandoned by civilized society, and have evolved a thriving ecosphere of giant insects, cannibals, mutants, and ''raw malevolence''.
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* DeathWorld: DeathWorld:
** The planet Mort is almost completely uninhabitable, and requires 'Atmosphere Generators' -- each the size of a city -- in order to maintain some semblance of a biosphere (and, coincidentally, keep the gravity in check).Huge While Mort ''does'' have areas that are safe and even nice (like the Uptown region of Mort Central), huge swathes of Mort Central itself are abandoned by civilized society, and have evolved a into thriving ecosphere ecospheres of giant insects, cannibals, mutants, and ''raw malevolence''.
** The planet Mort is almost completely uninhabitable, and requires 'Atmosphere Generators' -- each the size of a city -- in order to maintain some semblance of a biosphere (and, coincidentally, keep the gravity in check).
** White Earth, the domain of [[GodIsEvil Bitterness]] and its thralls, makes even the War Worlds seem inviting.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: SLA Industries is an evil MegaCorp that wages endless wars, strips entire planets barren of life and resources, enslaves other planets to be nothing more than cogs in their hyper-capitalist machine, has genocided more than one sapient species, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking endlessly glamorizes ultraviolence and mindless consumption]], but the one thing SLA never tolerates is the skin trade (trafficking humans and aliens for sexual enslavement).
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: SLA Industries is an evil MegaCorp that wages endless wars, strips entire planets barren of life and resources, enslaves other planets to be nothing more than cogs in their hyper-capitalist machine, has genocided more than one sapient species, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking endlessly glamorizes ultraviolence and mindless consumption]], but the one thing SLA never tolerates is the skin trade Skin Trade (trafficking humans and aliens for sexual enslavement).
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* EvilVersusEvil: As noted above, there is very little that SLA Industries will not do in the name of profit or dominance. Their enemies -- [=DarkNight=], Thresher, and White Earth -- are even worse.
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* EvilVersusEvil: As noted above, there is very little that SLA Industries will not do in the name of profit or dominance. Their dominance, but their enemies -- [=DarkNight=], Thresher, and White Earth -- are all even worse.
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* GodIsEvil: [[spoiler: Bitterness, AKA Brent Walker, the true creator of the World of Progress, deposed by Mr.Slayer, has a homeworld that makes Mort seem downright pleasant. He has also started The Shi'An cult on Mort, capitalizing on the citizens' despair, where initiates wring the blood out of the skins of the dead, commit sacrifices of loved ones, and other increasingly debased and Gorn-level rituals to attain BloodMagic power.]]
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* GodIsEvil: [[spoiler: Bitterness, AKA Brent Walker, the true creator of the World of Progress, deposed by Mr. Slayer, has a homeworld that makes Mort seem downright pleasant. He has also started The Shi'An cult on Mort, capitalizing on the citizens' despair, where initiates wring the blood out of the skins of the dead, commit sacrifices of loved ones, and other increasingly debased and Gorn-level rituals to attain BloodMagic power.]]
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* WhamLine: From the very end of the 2e Core Rulebook, which doubles as an in-universe example.
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* WhamLine: From the very end of the 2e second edition Core Rulebook, which doubles as an in-universe example.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The second edition plays up this angle for the Scavs. As a species, they care nothing about comfort or glamor or wealth or entertainment or morality, only propagating their species as a whole, and no holds are barred when defeating an obstacle or enemy to that goal. Like everything else in the Cannibal Sectors, they'll still want to kill you, take your stuff, and probably eat your corpse, but in their case, it's NothingPersonal.
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* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Used by SLA Industries with Stormers, on their rivals. Scavs, Domino Dogs (in the near future) and virtually all of the horrible mutants in the Cannibal Sectors are the result of SLA Industries' attempts to build new and impressive weaponry.
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* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Used by SLA Industries with Stormers, on their rivals. Scavs, Domino Dogs (in the near future) and virtually all of the horrible mutants in the Cannibal Sectors are the result of SLA Industries' attempts to build new and impressive weaponry.living weapons.
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* MarsNeedsWomen: A particularly dark aspect of the Scavs in second edition is that they are becoming less able to reproduce with each other, so they have begun using human women as disposable breeding stock, mostly buying them from Skin Traders. At times, the latter are [[EvenEvilHasStandards so creeped out by the Scavs]] that despite the massive profits, they're ending up at MyGodWhatHaveIDone or even being DrivenToSuicide.
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* MixAndMatch: One RPG-reviewing site said about the game tha, "Everyone who attempts to describe SLA Industries ends up comparing it to something else." For example, one fan artist called it "The best scottish dystopian {{cyberpunk}} Film/{{blade runner}} urban horror Literature/{{trainspotting}} homage ever," [[http://haruaxeman.deviantart.com/art/Grotesquery-532866593 while also claiming it reminded him of]] ''Literature/VenissUnderground''.
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* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: [[OurDemonsAreDfferent Dream Entities]] have abilities that they believe they should have. Aethermen [[ExploitedTrope take advantage of this]] with the FOW staffs, which use all the sparking electricity as a way of spooking dumber Dream Entities into believing it will hurt them worse, so it does. [[spoiler: It's physics actually work across the World of Progress is that people believe it works, because everything and everyone is a Dream Entity - so's Earth, but the World of Progress' internal logic is so broken it needs mass belief to work at all.]]
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* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: [[OurDemonsAreDfferent [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Dream Entities]] have abilities that they believe they should have. Aethermen [[ExploitedTrope take advantage of this]] with the FOW staffs, which use all the sparking electricity as a way of spooking dumber Dream Entities into believing it will hurt them worse, so it does. [[spoiler: It's In fact, physics in general actually work across the World of Progress is that people believe it works, because everything and everyone is a Dream Entity - so's Earth, but the World of Progress' internal logic is so broken it needs mass belief to work at all.]]
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** Dream Entities are strange beings from outside reality who gestate into reality in places where the fabric of reality is damaged, feeding on the fears and beliefs of Mort's citizens to become [[OurMonstersAreWeird oddball]] monsters out of nightmare with the ultimate goal of becoming a true species that is fully part of the universe (the Conflict Aliens known as the Derro are the first known example of a full integration, and domesticate their half-real brethren to [[HostileTerraforming turn Mort into an ideal environment for their newborn people]]). They also spread a memetic infection called The Grey that causes people to grow so depressed they disintegrate. [[spoiler:In truth, [[ArcWords we are all Dream Entities]]; everything and everyone in the known multiverse was spun out of dream and fertile nonexistence by psychics called Builders - including other Builders - but [[GodOfEvil Bitterness]] took advantage of the half-born nature of the World of Progress to introduce a factor of reality that said that nightmares within it can create monsters embodying those nightmares, hence official Dream Entities; The Grey is effectively breaking down a person's belief that they actually exist or should exist, [[YourMindMakesItEReal and using that to unmake them]]; Aethermen are often trained in psychology to help convince Grey infected they should exist and thus disproof The Grey into curing itself.]]
** Atrocities from White Earth called by Shi'An BloodMagic, hostile inhabitants of a desert DeathWorld that seem to be [[OutsideGenreFoe based in magic and medieval technology at best]]. [[spoiler:They are the direct creations and agents of Bitterness in his war on Mr. Slayer.]]
** Dream Entities are strange beings from outside reality who gestate into reality in places where the fabric of reality is damaged, feeding on the fears and beliefs of Mort's citizens to become [[OurMonstersAreWeird oddball]] monsters out of nightmare with the ultimate goal of becoming a true species that is fully part of the universe (the Conflict Aliens known as the Derro are the first known example of a full integration, and domesticate their half-real brethren to [[HostileTerraforming turn Mort into an ideal environment for their newborn people]]). They also spread a memetic infection called The Grey that causes people to grow so depressed they disintegrate. [[spoiler:In truth, [[ArcWords we are all Dream Entities]]; everything and everyone in the known multiverse was spun out of dream and fertile nonexistence by psychics called Builders - including other Builders - but [[GodOfEvil Bitterness]] took advantage of the half-born nature of the World of Progress to introduce a factor of reality that said that nightmares within it can create monsters embodying those nightmares, hence official Dream Entities; The Grey is effectively breaking down a person's belief that they actually exist or should exist, [[YourMindMakesItEReal and using that to unmake them]]; Aethermen are often trained in psychology to help convince Grey infected they should exist and thus disproof The Grey into curing itself.]]
** Atrocities from White Earth called by Shi'An BloodMagic, hostile inhabitants of a desert DeathWorld that seem to be [[OutsideGenreFoe based in magic and medieval technology at best]]. [[spoiler:They are the direct creations and agents of Bitterness in his war on Mr. Slayer.]]
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* DirtyCoward: Ghorsh are often called Root Dogs due to this; their hands resemble roots, their faces are doglike and they are completely self-interested weenies who [[TheBully gleefully torment other species with their genetically engineered monsters for pleasure]], but in the face of actual danger promptly panic and [[VillainsWantMercy start gibbering out potential deals for their own lives]].
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* DirtyCoward: Ghorsh are often called Root Dogs due to this; their hands resemble roots, their faces are doglike and they are completely self-interested weenies who [[TheBully gleefully torment other species with their genetically engineered monsters for pleasure]], but in the face of actual danger promptly panic and [[VillainsWantMercy start gibbering out potential deals for their own lives]].lives]] - in effect, being "cowardly mongrel dogs."
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* HopelessWar: SLA Industries has been at war with Dark Night and Thresher for centuries [[ForeverWar with no hint that it will ever end]], and the War Worlds are whole planets that have been consumed by conflict between two (or all three) of the powers. It's explicitly mentioned that whenever one War World is finally conquered (or abandoned), you can rest assured that another will fall into the spotlight. In the second edition, White Earth emerged as another player in the conflict, making the World of Progress [[SarcasmMode even better]].
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* HopelessWar: SLA Industries has been at war with Dark Night and Thresher for centuries [[ForeverWar with no hint that it will ever end]], and the War Worlds are whole planets that have been consumed by conflict between two (or all three) of the powers. It's explicitly mentioned that whenever one War World is finally conquered (or abandoned), you can rest assured that another will fall into the spotlight. In the second edition, White Earth and its demons emerged as another player in the conflict, making the World of Progress [[SarcasmMode even better]].
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* HumansAreBastards: So is almost everyone else, admittedly, but humans are by far the most successful at it. [[DownplayedTrope That still marks them as massively better than the Conflict Aliens, admittedly]].
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* MultiversalConquerer: [[spoiler:Bitterness' ultimate goal is to consume the World of Progress and use its power to travel to other Territories, in particular Earth, and torture them for his mistreatment as Brent Walker.]]
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* MultiversalConquerer: MultiversalConqueror: [[spoiler:Bitterness' ultimate goal is to consume the World of Progress and use its power to travel to other Territories, in particular Earth, and torture them for his mistreatment as Brent Walker.]]
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* RockBeatsLaser: The primal Hominids of White Earth wield equally primitive bone clubs that can effortlessly smash through advanced power armor. [[spoiler: This is intentional as both a hint to The Truth and how malleable the reality of the World Of Progress actually is.]]
* SerialKiller: And how! This may be the only setting where the phrase "serial killer epidemic" could be (and has been) used with a straight face.
* SerialKiller: And how! This may be the only setting where the phrase "serial killer epidemic" could be (and has been) used with a straight face.
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* RockBeatsLaser: The primal Hominids of White Earth wield equally primitive bone clubs that can effortlessly smash through advanced power armor. [[spoiler: This is intentional as both a hint to The Truth and how malleable the reality of the World Of Progress actually is.is - they are directly blessed by Bitterness and as a result are literally more real than the rest of the universe, as with most beings of White Earth.]]
* SerialKiller: And how! This may be the only setting where the phrase "serial killer epidemic" could be (and has been) used with a straight face. SLA Industries doesn't help, as they actively pitch marketing deals to particularly showy killers, so those already of a homicidal persuasion see it as a potential celebrity job.
* SerialKiller: And how! This may be the only setting where the phrase "serial killer epidemic" could be (and has been) used with a straight face. SLA Industries doesn't help, as they actively pitch marketing deals to particularly showy killers, so those already of a homicidal persuasion see it as a potential celebrity job.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Conflict Races like [[TheBerserker Krell]], [[MadScientist Ghrosh]], and [[EvilSorcerer Momics]] are kill-on-sight for SLA industries due to the fact each has complete sociopathic disregard for any other species - to an extent that even ''[[PsychopathicManchild Wrathien]]'' find appaling.
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* BioPunk: As above. Some Operatives can take this to extreme levels, and Stormers in particular thrive on it.
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* BioPunk: As above. Some Operatives can take this to extreme levels, and Stormers in particular thrive on it. Ghrosh are masters of it.
* DirtyCoward: Ghorsh are often called Root Dogs due to this; their hands resemble roots, their faces are doglike and they are completely self-interested weenies who [[TheBully gleefully torment other species with their genetically engineered monsters for pleasure]], but in the face of actual danger promptly panic and [[VillainsWantMercy start gibbering out potential deals for their own lives]].
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* HumansAreBastards: So is almost everyone else, admittedly, but humans are by far the most successful at it.
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* HumansAreBastards: So is almost everyone else, admittedly, but humans are by far the most successful at it. [[DownplayedTrope That still marks them as massively better than the Conflict Aliens, admittedly]].
* MultiversalConquerer: [[spoiler:Bitterness' ultimate goal is to consume the World of Progress and use its power to travel to other Territories, in particular Earth, and torture them for his mistreatment as Brent Walker.]]
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* ReligionOfEvil: The Shi'An have exceedingly Gorn-level human sacrifices and BloodMagic galore.
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* ReligionOfEvil: The Shi'An have exceedingly Gorn-level human sacrifices and BloodMagic galore. Second edition notes that they probably wouldn't have gotten off the ground were it not for the fact that the power they offer is real.
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* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: Played with. According to the SLA Industries Writers' Bible (also known as "The Truth" document), the World of Progress began within the mind of a mentally-ill British man named Brent Walker. Key characters in the setting represent facets of his personality, and certain events correspond to major points in his life. Mr. Slayer himself is the personification of the voice that was in Walker's head, while Bitterness is the [[GodOfEvil godlike]] remnants of Walker's soul after Slayer "betrayed" him. The trope is subverted, however, in that the World of Progress -- through events that occurred near the end of Walker's earthly life -- became AnotherDimension independent of Earth.]]
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* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: Played with.Subverted. According to the SLA Industries Writers' Bible (also known as "The Truth" document), the World of Progress began within the mind of a mentally-ill British man named Brent Walker. Key characters in the setting represent facets of his personality, and certain events correspond to major points in his life. Mr. Slayer himself is the personification of the voice that was in Walker's head, while Bitterness is the [[GodOfEvil godlike]] remnants of Walker's soul after Slayer "betrayed" him. The trope Thing is, Earth itself is subverted, however, ''also'' a dream - or was - as was every other plan of existence in that the [[TheMultiverse Inner Abyss]]; some sapient beings, called Builders from each universe are inborn with the power to use their life experiences to dream a new reality, or Territory, into being, with their creation being [[CosmicRetcon retroactively]] finalized with their death. As Walker died, the World of Progress -- through events that occurred near the end of Walker's earthly life -- became AnotherDimension independent real - but ''deeply'' flawed due to how absolutely miserable the last years of Earth.his life were.]]
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* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: [[spoiler: How physics actually work across the World of Progress is that people believe it works, because they are all dream entities.]]
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* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: [[OurDemonsAreDfferent Dream Entities]] have abilities that they believe they should have. Aethermen [[ExploitedTrope take advantage of this]] with the FOW staffs, which use all the sparking electricity as a way of spooking dumber Dream Entities into believing it will hurt them worse, so it does. [[spoiler: How It's physics actually work across the World of Progress is that people believe it works, because they are all dream entities.everything and everyone is a Dream Entity - so's Earth, but the World of Progress' internal logic is so broken it needs mass belief to work at all.]]
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* TokenGoodTeammate: The Shaktar, Ebon, and particularly Neophron are intended as this, being more upbeat, morally firm contrasts to the more morally lax species of the World of Progress.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: The Shaktar, Ebon, Aethermen, and particularly Neophron are intended as this, being more upbeat, morally firm contrasts to the more morally lax species of the World of Progress.
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* HopelessWar: SLA Industries has been at war with Dark Night and Thresher for centuries with no end in sight, and the War Worlds are whole planets that have been consumed by conflict between two (or all three) of the powers. It's explicitly mentioned that whenever one War World is finally conquered (or abandoned), you can rest assured that another will fall into the spotlight.
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* HopelessWar: SLA Industries has been at war with Dark Night and Thresher for centuries [[ForeverWar with no end in sight, hint that it will ever end]], and the War Worlds are whole planets that have been consumed by conflict between two (or all three) of the powers. It's explicitly mentioned that whenever one War World is finally conquered (or abandoned), you can rest assured that another will fall into the spotlight. In the second edition, White Earth emerged as another player in the conflict, making the World of Progress [[SarcasmMode even better]].
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* LethalJokeItem: CAF guns in second edition, while still having the same terrible reputation,enjoy increased damage that can be increased further through a mixture of specialty ammo, burst fire and having high enough skill points in a given shooting skill, making them a viable (and vastly cheaper to top up) alternative to the starting 603 pistol.
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* LethalJokeItem: CAF guns in second edition, while still having the same terrible reputation,enjoy reputation, enjoy increased damage that can be increased further through a mixture of specialty ammo, burst fire and having high enough skill points in a given shooting skill, making them a viable (and vastly cheaper to top up) alternative to the starting 603 pistol.
* OneNationUnderCopyright: In the World of Progress, SLA Industries (and its subsidiaries) are the only legal company, and SLA fills in for [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety the government, the military, law enforcement, civil services, and everything else]].
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* RockBeatsLaser: The primal Hominids of White Earth wield equally primitive bone clubs that can effortlessly smash through advanced power armor. [[spoiler: This is intentional as both a hint to The Truth and how unstable the reality of the World Of Progress actually is.]]
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* RockBeatsLaser: The primal Hominids of White Earth wield equally primitive bone clubs that can effortlessly smash through advanced power armor. [[spoiler: This is intentional as both a hint to The Truth and how unstable malleable the reality of the World Of Progress actually is.]]
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* SexSlave: The Skin Trade is the epitome of this, snatching 50-70 children daily.
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* SexSlave: The Skin Trade is the epitome of this, snatching 50-70 children (and others) daily.
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* DrugsAreBad: There are plenty of [[FantasticDrug combat drugs]] available to Operatives (and anyone else who can get their hands on them). Most, of course, are highly addictive. The second edition in particular makes drug withdrawal a punishing experience, with long-term use cutting a character's life-span drastically to about 3-5 years.
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* DrugsAreBad: There are plenty of [[FantasticDrug combat drugs]] available to Operatives (and anyone else who can get their hands on them). Most, of course, are highly addictive. The second edition in particular makes drug addiction and withdrawal a punishing experience, with long-term use cutting a character's life-span drastically to about 3-5 years.
* EvilVersusEvil: As noted above, there is very little that SLA Industries will not do in the name of profit or dominance. Their enemies -- [=DarkNight=], Thresher, and White Earth -- are even worse.
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* GodIsEvil: [[spoiler: Bitterness, AKA Brent Walker, the true creator of the World of Progress, deposed by Mr.Slayer, has a home-world that makes Mort sound downright pleasent and has started The Shi'An cult on Mort, capitalizing on the former citizens despair, where initiates wring the blood out of the skins of the dead, commit sacrifices of loved ones and other increasingly debased and Gorn-y rituals to attain higher magical power.]]
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* GodIsEvil: [[spoiler: Bitterness, AKA Brent Walker, the true creator of the World of Progress, deposed by Mr.Slayer, has a home-world homeworld that makes Mort sound seem downright pleasent and pleasant. He has also started The Shi'An cult on Mort, capitalizing on the former citizens citizens' despair, where initiates wring the blood out of the skins of the dead, commit sacrifices of loved ones ones, and other increasingly debased and Gorn-y Gorn-level rituals to attain higher magical BloodMagic power.]]
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* ReligionOfEvil: The Shi'An have exceedingly Gorn-y human sacrifices and BloodMagic galore.
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* ReligionOfEvil: The Shi'An have exceedingly Gorn-y Gorn-level human sacrifices and BloodMagic galore.galore.
* ResistanceAsPlanned: On Mort, [=DarkNight=] has always presented itself as the heroic resistance to SLA's tyranny. In the first edition, the Truth document revealed that [=DarkNight=] itself was created by SLA to keep track of subversives in the latter's own population, a fact known to almost no one but the respective leaders of both companies. However, the second edition discards any mention of this, and [=DarkNight=] is a 100% genuine enemy of SLA Industries.
* ResistanceAsPlanned: On Mort, [=DarkNight=] has always presented itself as the heroic resistance to SLA's tyranny. In the first edition, the Truth document revealed that [=DarkNight=] itself was created by SLA to keep track of subversives in the latter's own population, a fact known to almost no one but the respective leaders of both companies. However, the second edition discards any mention of this, and [=DarkNight=] is a 100% genuine enemy of SLA Industries.
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* SingleBiomePlanet: The home planet of the Wraithen is an Ice Planet. Other Wraithen-controlled planets are Ice Planets as well.
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* SingleBiomePlanet: The home planet of the Wraithen is an Ice Planet. Other Wraithen-controlled planets are Ice Planets as well. Mort (and many other industrial worlds) are also technically single biome planets, having been looted until they're nothing but ecologically-devastated wastelands.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: The Shaktar and Neophron are intended as this, being more upbeat, morally firm contrasts to the more morally lax species of the World of Progress.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Manchines, Scavs, Domino Dogs... if there's anything SLA Industries is good at, it's creating things that go horribly, psychopathically against them.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Manchines, Scavs, Domino Dogs... if there's anything SLA Industries is good at, it's creating things that go horribly, psychopathically against them.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: The Shaktar Shaktar, Ebon, and particularly Neophron are intended as this, being more upbeat, morally firm contrasts to the more morally lax species of the World of Progress.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The Manchines,Scavs, Domino Dogs... if there's anything among others. SLA Industries is very good at, it's at creating things that go horribly, psychopathically against them.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The Manchines,
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* FantasticDrug: Both SLA Industries and [=DarkNight=] have flooded Mort with a wide variety of drugs for combat, healing, social skills, concentration, and more. Unfortunately for players, the DrugsAreBad trope is in full effect here. Almost all of SLA's drugs are addictive and, in the long term, ruinous. [=DarkNight=]'s drugs (as they are a terrorist organization that only want to cause as much chaos on Mort as possible) are ''even worse''.
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* HonourBeforeReason: A common perception of Shaktar.
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* HonourBeforeReason: A common perception of Shaktar. In the second edition, NoOneGetsLeftBehind is a rule that Shaktar Operatives ''cannot'' violate.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Shaktar believe in "possessed weapons" of various grades, empowered (or cursed) by the soul of the weapon's former wielder (or even someone that the weapon slew). However, a possessed weapon's special effects go only as far as causing weird dreams from the soul's life and letting a Shaktar wielder reroll attack dice. Do these weapons have any real power? Or are the dreams just the Shaktar's imagination and the reroll comes only from their increased confidence in wielding a supposedly "special" weapon? The text leaves it ambiguous.
