“A number of high-biotech polities have taken the immune system as a model for their military forces. What seems an exotic, even amusing quirk when looked at from the point of view of rank titles and equipment designations is much less amusing when you’re drowning in sticky goo, encapsulated, and actively being digested.”
– A Virus Speaks: A Memoir of the Myriasoma War
Gaia’s Vengeance: One of the worlds the trikhad invaded and attempted to strip-industrialize during their brief conquistador period was Fynfil (Tanion Wilds), with its highly complex, highly interlinked, universally mutualist ecosystem. To say it went very badly indeed would be something of an understatement, because there’s not a
Memeweave: Threats and Other Dangers/Microbiologics/Other/Open Access Classification: WHITE (General Access) Encryption: None Distribution: Everywhere (Bulk) As received at: SystemArchiveHub-00 at Víëlle (Imperial Core) Language: Eldraeic->Universal Syntax From: Interstellar Immunity (Trailing Central Division) This is a CASE CHYLE declaration for the Hope Nebula, Lisune Pass, and
“I noticed the knife the first day we were assigned to work with the Spireguard. It was easy to notice: everyone knows what a hanrian looks like, and there aren’t many who carry around multiple fighting knives. But even among those who did, this one was always set off
What is cryptid-currency? It’s the latest brainstorm to come out of the convergence of bankers, cryptographers, and genetic engineers – a blockchain-based form of cryp designed to use the photosynthetically-powered computing capacity of mesh-networked genetically enhanced trees to provide the validation and storage necessary to operate the cryp’s backing
Living Battery: Given the amount of biotechnology around the place, it should not surprise you that there are, yes, more than a few living batteries. It’s just that they’re all lifeforms specifically created to serve as living batteries – large cultures of Spheroporus electri inside microbial fuel cells, artificial