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 … Continue reading
Kicking this one uphill from a comment to an actual post, since it may clarify matters for any other readers, too, with questions in this area: Okay. Let me try this again. All minds, as defined in the ‘verse, are Minskian … Continue reading
The current set of questions I have to answer is on various aspects of the Eldraeic Transcend. These are, I think it is necessary to say, complicated for metaphysical and/or ontological reasons all tied up with the nature of Transcendent … Continue reading
CASE MIDWINTER MIRROR SECRET (GREEN) / MIDWINTER MIRROR TRACKED-COPY DOCUMENTNOFORN Proceed (+/-)? + EXECUTION: STELLAR COUNCIL ONLYTRANSCENDENT APPROVAL ONLY SUMMARY: All MIDWINTER MIRROR related material applies to situations in which situations unknown, possibly including but not limited to worldline forking, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
From the introduction to Godwatcher’s Journal, Spring 8072 edition: The cold red deserts of Meridia IV, Imperial reserve world, are no more. Now there is only the Transcend’s latest experimental station: the Meridia IV Center for the Advancement of Ecological … Continue reading
The Sunstone is just what it appears to be – a star in a bottle. That is to say, what it appears to be to the normal senses is an almost weightless crystalline sphere, roughly a foot across, shedding light … Continue reading
PROTOCOL OROELLE BLUESHIFT FRATERNAL UNCLASSIFIED (INFRARED) FOR PUBLIC RELEASE SUMMARY: A protocol to verify the identify and whenwhere of purported time-travelers from future dates, claiming to be about Imperial business. PROCEDURE: Secure from the purported time-traveler his Oroelle-block verification code … Continue reading
So, let’s talk about Theory of Mind. Well, okay, not that theory of mind. The theory of how minds work in the ‘verse, and so the theory behind most sophotechnology, since this topic has come up on the Discord recently. … Continue reading
Have a random selection of answers to old questions and comments that came up while I was clearing out my e-mail: In our world, there is a Spanish proverb that runs: Ladrón que roba a ladrón tiene cien años de … Continue reading
Yes, I’m writing crossover fanfic of my own universe again. (Obviously not canon.) You can blame my readers over on the Discord for this, for recommending Worm – https://parahumans.wordpress.com/ – to me, which led to the ever-expanding universe of other … Continue reading
ALL SECURITY SITES // ORANGE SENSITIVENOCONTRACT // NOFORNROUTINERED LIST // SPECIAL // UPDATE 7129/08/09 CANCEL REQ: Istar Oricalcios Veneri a.k.a. “the Mechanic” REASON: Subject acquired internally (7129/07/24). NOTES: Subject recovered from debris created in an attempt to access Secure Storage … Continue reading
So, there was some conversation on the Discord which led to this shameless riff/parody/etc. of the Warhammer 40K intro quote to produce one for this setting: It is the dawn of the Ninth Millennium. For nearly a hundred centuries the … Continue reading
BEING A SUMMARY OF PRODUCTIONAT STARFLIGHT SHIPYARDS, SELÉNE, CAGEWORKS TWOFOR FIRST QUARTER, 7399 IS Lunar LoomCustom design (orbital elevator constructor).Worlds’ Rim Development, ICC; paid in full. IS Alkahest of ConflictHarbinger-class diplomatic cruiserGalactic Arbitrations, ICC; paid in full. IS The Sun’s … Continue reading
So, MirrorField left this excellent in-character comment on the last post, which rather inspired me to throw in a response. Well, sort of – not directly, but the person Sph. Ortheyn was arguing with seemed to need some gentle correction. … Continue reading
Randomness: I’ve just rewatched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Thus, for anyone who wasn’t around the first time it came up, this is your reminder that wuxia is a good model for what classical melee combat looks like in the ‘verse – … Continue reading
The Alathciera (lit. “weave-of-knowledge”) is the great encyclopedia published by the Repository of All Knowledge. It is a hypermedia encyclopedia containing 3×1218 bits of information, making up 2×1211 articles, based on the Repository’s 9,000 years of scholarship, and making up … Continue reading
Turning to the Vector itself, it is, as we have said, the eighth planet of its primary, hot white Enlightenment. Ordinarily, one would not expect a planet so distant from its sun to be warm enough to be habitable, but … Continue reading
It’s known that the eldrae (and Imperial culture generally) place a premium on rational belief, but they also place a great amount of value on preserving extant diversity of beliefs and opinions inasmuch as they can be reconciled with rationality. … Continue reading