The largest passenger-carrying aeronef of the pre-superwing era - and the second-largest aeronef of any type, exceeded only by the same manufacturer's Teliríän's Talon-class lifting-body cargo hauler - was unquestionably the Simurgh-class skyliner. The brainchild of fêted designer Amélys Skybreaker of Cisspatiale Aerospace, Simurgh was intended
Perhaps foremost among the unfound oddities of the universe is the one charmingly named the Omphalocelic Scab. Known about from the legends of those who are themselves legends - and bearing in mind that all translations from the Precursor are, at best, deeply approximate - we are told that there
Seedships Heirs to the massive sublight colony ships pioneered by Kasjan Lyris and the Deep Star program, the modern colonial seedship is as difficult to characterize individually as its predecessors. While the Deep Star ships were differentiated by the rapid progress and therefore updates to the design - sometimes even
Among the most notable features of the Celestial Garden are its multitude of ponds, brooks, and other water features, many of which are devoted to the raising of koi, the noble brocaded carp. These include the famous Aqueous Pavilion (accessible through the Empress's Gallery), a semi-submerged conservatory where
I saw this image on Xitter: I didn't think that what the 'verse would be adding today is the Blue-Green Ecociates GR-00T Treehammer orbitally-launched forestation cluster notbomb, but it turns out that's just the ecopoesis tool no-one knew they needed.
It is legend, it is rumored, it is whispered: That among and beyond those rare and curious cosmozoa which stretch their being along time and across space, there exist a set rarer and more curious yet which dwell a-straddle worldlines and in the gaps between, where Is dances its eternal
BE ADVISED: The Department of Exotheology does not study exotic religions. (That would be the purview of the Department of Exoreligiology in the Faculty of Memetics.) Rather, the Department of Exotheology studies exotic gods. Advanced courses in this department invariably involve the study of things mortals were not meant to
Just been making some adjustments to the Imperial Military Service Table of Ranks today (specifically, adjusting the enlisted ranks to correct some seniorities and fix the missing E-9 grade), so here's the current version, screenshotted from my internal wiki for your convenience: For those playing the game at
Welcome to Wynérias! Please be prepared to present your authorization from the Executive Board and your corporate identification upon arrival at Port Sung. Access to all regions of the planet beyond Port Sung is clearance controlled. Be aware that Wynérias proper operates under the conlegial jurisdiction of Wynérias Development and
So, today you get another worldbuilding post as part of answering a reader question; specifically, concerning the accidental/deliberate distinction and other questions of guilt and innocence in Imperial jurisprudence. This is, as you might expect, a mite complicated. So the first, and the easiest, part of the Curial court&
FROM: CS MINALIROS, BORDERLINE PICKET FORCE TO: CINCSPIN (CS LIBERTY'S PRICE) ***** EXPEDIENT ***** FLEET CONFIDENTIAL E256 ***** SITREP 1. HAVE MADE ZERO-ZERO INTERCEPT WITH LEAD SHIP OF INTRUSION FLEET, VNS NOBLE VENTURE. 2. AN INSPECTION OF THE INTRUSION FLEET REVEALED NOTHING UNUSUAL. SHIPS OF THE PLANE CARRIED ONLY CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS
Those of you who are old enough to recall the original publicity campaign surrounding Extropa Energy's pet project - or who have dug it out of the archives in the years since - might remember the first renders of the Esilmúr Sphere: a diaphanous veil cast over hot