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:
“The hydrarastrum of the Pearl-Bright Ocean is indescribable in mortal terms. “This is not to say that its qualities cannot be imperfectly described: it possesses the glow of liquid light, the milky iridescent gleam of mother-of-pearl, and both the silver-white shine and heavy fluidity of quicksilver. It is simply that
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
In today's recommendations, I should like to draw y'all's attention to The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor, over at A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry. Why? Well, apart from being interesting in its own right, it is one of the latest and best posts whose
So, it has been brought to my attention that back in Chop Shop I used the term “warstrider” without having previously defined said term, on the blog at least. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa – I really thought that those later revisions to the heavy cavalry makeup had come up before,
A perennial problem in extra-infrastructure medical care has been providing the necessary intermediate step between field medicine and the care provided by a hospital, where – thanks to the lack of infrastructure – patients cannot be transferred to the latter with the necessary alacrity. The most recent answer to these problems is