Certificate of Irrefutability

I wonder if this works

Do yall have everything backed up?

I hope so

Otherwise, it would be pretty awkward..

Technology

Artificial Intelligence

1. True AI is allowed but is limited by effective hard blocks on their behaviors
2. True AI-controlled shells (or ancillaries) have personalities of their own, as extensions of the AI
3. True AI Exists with restrictions in the sector core, but these grow lax towards the frontier.
4. Some artificial life are recognized as sentient, not subservient to other species.
5. AI are capable of choosing their own physical form.
6. Legal AIs are virtual recreations of organic minds.

Cybernetics

1. Cybernetics are available and allowed
2. The body can only take a limited amount of augmentation before there are serious consequences.
3. Cyborgs with completely mechanical bodies, only biological brains, can be created at great cost to the individual.

FTL Communications

1. Interstellar communications are slow by default, constrained by lightspeed and the use of the gates to transmit information between systems. High priority information is delivered by FTL capable ships.
2. Instant interstellar communications exist but are not cheap.
3. If instantaneous communication exists, then high strength data encryption is not compatible with that form of transmission.

FTL Drives

1. FTL Fuel is currently scarce in the sector.
2. FTL Fuel is unstable until it is refined, a process which requires remote refineries.
3. Interstellar travel takes time. Space is big
4. Starships are capable of interstellar travel by their own means
5. FTL drives are expensive to maintain.
6. Personal use spacecraft are small and expensive.
7. Space travel is dangerous, ships can be worn down over time and become rickety old things

FTL Gates

1. Interstellar gates exist that allow travel between planetary systems (hexes)
2. Each FTL Gate is limited to connecting to one other FTL Gate.
3. FTL Gate travel is limited by a ship's size.
4. Ferry ships exist that carry smaller ships through the FTL Gates.
5. FTL Gates require no external power or fuel source to function.
6. FTL Gates are overcrowded.
7. FTL Gate travel is quick and cheap once you clear the line.
8. There are unstable but valuable materials that cannot be transported via the FTL Gates.
9. FTL Gates can only operate in space, at a distance from significant gravity wells.
10. The materials needed to construct new FTL gates are rare, chiefly scavenged from existing defunct gates.
11. FTL Gates are ancient relics and the few we have are connecting the "core".
12. Control of the FTL Gates is highly contested due to control of the trade routes and tolls.
13. No one entity currently controls all of the FTL Gates.
14. Passengers must be safely enclosed within a vessel in order to travel through an FTL Gate.

Genetics

1. Human life can be extended but only to a finite limit
2. Genetic engineering is available and allowed
3. Animals can be genetically uplifted.

Robots & Mecha

1. Robots and Automation are not human in form
2. Drones and/or Robots are prevalent in military and industrial roles
3. Mecha are used in both military and non-military roles.

Teleportation

1. Teleportation is possible but is a very advanced technology.
2. Teleportation is possible but only on the same planet.

Terraforming

1. Terraforming is possible but takes decades to complete
2. The cost and benefits of finding new worlds and interstellar travel often come into conflict with the prospect of terraforming, due to costs and shared material requirements.

Warfare

1. Missiles are viable weapons in stellar warfare (there is no perfect counter)
2. Fighter and Bomber craft are used in space combat
3. Ground to Space and Space to Ground weapons exist
4. Railguns are limited to large installations (vehicles, spaceships, ect.)
5. Mecha exist and are a staple of armed conflict
6. Handheld weaponry is more often physical projectiles over energy projectiles however Hyper-Advanced weaponry are rare and bulky at the personal scale.
7. There is no single weapons manufacturer, and as a result weapons and ammo requirements are diverse and sometimes confusing.

Misc

1. Artificial Gravity Exists but is powered by Exotic Energy
2. Energy generation is limited, by resources or by cost
3. Society is incapable of celestial manipulation
4. Nanites exist but they can not self-replicate endlessly
5. Hacking is possible, but there's no one single 'catch all' solution
6. The difficulties of interstellar travel mandate that most systems be self-sufficient

General

1. "Space Truckers" are an essential part of interstellar trade
2. There is no single unified currency
3. Space nomads exist that were driven from their homeworld and/or prevented from settling upon a new one.
4. Human groups have migrated to the sector at various points throughout history.
5. There is no single universal time zone standard for the sector.
6. Friction due to culture, faction and nationality is more common than due to looks, species and sexuality.