Credits

The following elements of the Vaster setting were inspired by the works and authors listed here:

The Sugar Stars — the Culture series by Iain M. Banks
Neo-humans — The Seedling Stars by James Blish
The Institutes — the Uplift series by David Brin
Genarchies such as the Barudani — the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMasters Bujold (the Cetagandan haut)
Gestators — the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMasters Bujold, uterine replicators
Neo-beasts — Golden Key Comics, the comic Magnus, Robot Fighter: 4000 AD
Patharchy — the Dune series by Frank Herbert, the Bene Gesserit "Weirding Way"
Physics paradigms — The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
Darbrin Klo status — the Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis, the spiritual hierarchy of aliens
The Vegan Confederacy (lifted wholesale, complete with Zone Agents) — Agent of Vega by James H. Schmidt
The Core — the Hub series by James H. Schmidt
Hypercompetents — the Instrumentality series by Cordwainer Smith, the Lords of the Instrumentality
AI neurodynamics — the Instrumentality series by Cordwainer Smith, the brain-based robots
The xenological index — the Sector General series by James White, the physiology codes
The Fralthans and Gargians index — the Sector General series by James White, the Tralthans and the Kelgians
Concilian Christianity — The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolf, the titles of "Conciliator" for Christ and "Pantocrator" for God

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