Cyborg Helmsman: Subverted inasmuch as while it is extremely common, it’s nothing at all unique to the people navigating starships. That’s just the standard laser-port that’s in the back of everyone’s neck, and which is used to do high-bandwidth interfacing with pretty much any large piece of hardware you care to name.
LANCET-CLASS FEL BORE Operated by: * Blue-Green Ecociates, ICC * Atalant Materials, ICC Type: Orbital Bore, Free-Electron Laser Construction: Starflight Shipyards, Seléne Length: 1.2 km Beam (primary hull): 72 m Beam (storage rings): 324 m Gravity-well capable: No. Atmosphere-capable: No. Personnel: 18 Drives: Nucleodyne Thrust Applications 4x1 "Sunheart VI"
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
The term “ring-magazine” refers to a design philosophy used in current-generation Imperial Navy capital ships, other than carriers, along with a number of the larger, quadruple-turreted cruiser classes. To review, these types – unlike the smaller destroyers and frigates – share a common general plan dictated by the requirements of military starship
There is, in short, competence and competence. The Accord on the Law of Free Space is rather generously written, to cover all our polities at whatever stage of progress they may be and however much investment in training they can afford. The Imperial Navigation Act is rather more tightly written,
(Okay, so I found one more…) Names to Run Away From Really Fast: In the Imperial context alone, Imperial Hand, Fifth Directorate, and any Imperial military officer, agent, or private contractor whose House name is “Sargas” are the chief contenders. In the Worlds as a whole, Operatives of the Conclave
So why is that a Trope-a-No-Longer-Day, I hear you cry? Well, because I’ve run out of pre-written ones, and the demands on my time these days are such that – especially if I want to keep prioritizing writing at all – I can’t take enough time out to go through
Creepy Cleanliness: To more than a few foreign visitors, yes. As William Gibson said in Disneyland With the Death Penalty, “Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it? Singapore’s airport, the Changi Airtropolis, seemed to
Real Money Trade: The problem is that it’s hard to define what qualifies as “real money” versus “game money” when the Mythic Stars MMO alone has an internal economy bigger than some respectably-sized planets. The logical consequences of this apply in full, including the follow-up to the city guards