Navareo is a star with a massive radiation output. This caused Navareans to develop a harder DNA shielding and made their hair colourful. Any other species need extra radiation shielding. One of them is a sunscreen-like salve applied to the skin. It causes slightly less cancer than the radiation exposure would do.

Talos is a tidally locked planet. While the sunny side is basically mid summer california literally all the time (no day/night cycle), the dark side - Exile - is one of the worst wastelands in the galaxy. Aside from one research station, no one lives there because it's literally deadly.

Instruments made for the general public of the galaxy without any preference for a specific species are not tuned. The microtonal nature of these untuned instruments allows every user to make music in any harmony they choose. Talosians for instance use a ten-tone equal temperament, whereas Varyn have not developed music prior to first contact.

Although it is hard, it is possible to get banned from the HyperNet. Getting banned from using the HyperMetro however is significantly easier, simple acts of vandalism are enough of an offence. To get permanently banned from the HyperNet, acts of deliberate reality alterations are required.

If an incompatible driver package is installed, APD-afflicted androids can experience emotional distress akin to gender dysphoria or body dysmorphia.

Morgana T. Atwood is a clone, and as such, does not have a belly button. She is a vat-grown soldier commissioned by the ISPD and is one of 22 cloned twin sisters. Only one of her other sisters, Delilah H. Atwood, has stayed with the ISPD after graduating the academy.

Even though androids are not related at all, some APD-afflicted androids have a chosen family of their peers or, if they do not choose to stay in their initial deployment, the family of their owners.

The basis for android code comes from starship autopilot software, which was also developed by Lightspeed Industries. After a breakthrough in neural networking and artificial decisionmaking tech, Lightspeed engineers experimented with running autopilot code on increasingly complex machines.

It is unknown how the neural enhancements given to N-class androids work. It is a Lightspeed trade secret, and some speculate that it is based on wetware - that every N-class android contains at least some organic component to accurately replicate sentient processes.

Navareo has had many wars, most of them proxy wars fought by merc groups or local militias. The gigantic size of the Empire makes it impressive and intimidating, but also unstable. Almost all Navarean wars were domestic ones, trying to keep the colonies in line. So far, they have won every single one - even though major casualties are common.