Trope-a-Day: The Ageless
The Ageless: Mature eldrae, galari, and anyone else who possesses the Lesser Immortality, such as everyone the aforementioned has sold immortagens to recently. See Immortality.
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Immortality Blues
“Every year, since I was old enough to read them, more books have been published than I can read in a year. My reading speed has increased many orders of magnitude in the millennia since then – I have a submind which does nothing but read, continuously – and yet the authors
Trope-a-Day: We Are As Mayflies
We Are As Mayflies: What, humans? YOUR LIVES ARE MEASURED IN YEARS AND DECADES. YOU WITHER AND DIE. WE ARE ETERNAL, THE PINNACLE OF EVOLUTION AND EXISTENCE. BEFORE US, YOU ARE NOTHING. …well, okay, awesome Sovereign quotations aside, they’re rarely that arrogant. (Unless irritable, and let’s face it,
Trope-a-Day: Time Abyss
Time Abyss: The members of the assorted naturally or artificially immortal species of the modern day still haven’t been around long enough for this – although the Empire contains plenty of people who are older than all Earth’s modern nations, and at least a few who are older than
Origins
A DOUBLE ANCESTRY: MAPPING ELDRAEIC GREENLIFE GENETIC ANCESTRY FROM PRIMORDIAL PSEUDOELDRAE ARCHAEA CORDANE RÚÄDHA Academy of Genomic Archaeology Fíä Eredhech, High Daëntry, Llorallin <CYAN GLISSANDO IN B FLAT> Information-Bearing Molecular Mechanics Lab, Self-Replicating Carbonics Interest Group, Well Elíeran, Adírdis, Tessil (Galari Trinary) KÍRA HORÚKAMÍ Underside Institute of Genetic
Another View From Outside
Some comments excerpted from an early edition of “The Lonely Galaxy® Unofficial Guide to Working with the Empire’s People”: General * Augmentation is a way of life in Imperial space, and there are probably millions of different augmentations on the market. Do not rely on knowing what one of them
Questions: Sleep, Implied Contracts, Twinning, Pandeism, Cascading Default, The Drowning, Deals with the Devil, White Elephants, and Stargates
Random thought: Do eldrae sleep? Yes, except for a few unconventionally modified clades. Specifically, it’s necessary in order to dream – because bio-brains get very unhappy when they don’t get their maintenance downtime. The nowline doesn’t need as much as the baseline (being quite happy to sustain three
Trivia: Old, Older, Oldest
Something that came up over on G+ – in the course of discussing how many pre-spaceflight eldrae are still around (answer: lots, even if you discount the deep-submergence infomorphs and Transcendent afterlife, and even if some of them spent a while as frozen heads) – which I repeat here for general edification:
The Sapphire Coloratura: Revealed!
Inspired by a passing comment on the Eldraeverse Discord, we now present a galari starship, the Sapphire Coloratura-class polis yacht; the favored interplanetary and interstellar transport of all sophont rocks of wealth and taste. SAPPHIRE COLORATURA-CLASS POLIS YACHT Operated by: Galari groups requiring luxurious private transit. Type: Executive polis yacht.
Trope-a-Day: Gem Heart
Gem Heart: Truth in television where silicon-based or carbosilicate lifeforms are concerned, although while some make use of gem-like structures (say, the galari, who even look like cut gems due to their crystalline structure) one is equally, or even more likely, to find Rock Heart. Or plain old crystalplasm. Otherwise,
Trope-a-Day: Bizarre Alien Locomotion
Bizarre Alien Locomotion: In many variants on the standard walking, flying, and swimming, certainly. Eliéra’s bluelife includes its tubefish, for example, which move via peristaltic pumping of water, not swimming as we know it. Among sophont races, the chfssssc swim through solid rock thanks to what one might call
Trope-a-Day: The Unpronounceable
(Sorry for the delays in the next part of Darkness Within, folks – having some trouble getting it to gel in my head.) The Unpronounceable: Quite a few, due to all those species that don’t use spoken language the way we understand it: as mentioned previously, esseli names are DNS