Retroactive Precognition: What transcendent artificial intelligences have, due to acausal logic letting them whisper – in a very limited sense, bandwidth and local causality preservation rules-wise, so they don’t have much – in their own past ears.
proof of work (obs.): an archaic technique for (usually blockchain-based) cryp mining which ties mining capability to computational power. In its original form, it required transaction blocks to be hashed, which demonstrated time and computational effort put forth, and which would generate a certain amount of virgin cryp until the
Time Travel: Present in very limited forms: the kind you can do with wormhole shortcuts and relativistic travel (whose primary usage is permitting physics grad students to actually observe local causality violations), and the kind that lets transcendent AIs whisper to themselves from the future via acausal logic. In both
You Can’t Fight Fate: According to everything known about temporal mechanics, the universe is a block universe – which is to say, while local causality violations are possible (effects can, sometimes, precede causes), global causality violations are not (effects, nonetheless, always have causes). Or to put it another way, while
Gal-sabra (Falish Traverse) System Peremptory-class diplomatic cruiser, CSS Occasionally Transigent “Lei’hudal, vizjeri,” Ambassador Cíën Lochran addressed her visitors, “be welcome here. May I offer you some refreshment after your flight? Something to eat, perhaps?” “No, thank you. Time is pressing: let us get down to business. You said that
In accordance with regulation updates promulgated in IMS general update 5172/3, the use of imaginary numbers in legion designation is reserved for allocations to einherjar. General Staff Bulletin, Summer 5172
Why are there no historical records of the commissioning of the 160th Imperial Legion? Because it hasn’t been commissioned yet. There are records of it participating in several battles independently from any Theater Command, or even Core Command. Yes. Without being commissioned? While cause mostly precedes effect, this is
Here as a partial apology for a slow COVID-caused month is a collection of random things of a snippet-like nature I have said over the past couple of months in places other than this blog. Enjoy them, such as they are! On attempting a rapid “unsafe start” of a fusion
ancestral subroutine: an expediter derived from and equipped with the psyche and personal data archive of an ascended constitutional, which serves to represent them to non-ascended family and friends as, effectively, a technotheurgic ancestor spirit. These replaced the ancestral computers once common in many of the Empire’s cultures. archai: