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Status of Tags/Fixes
Complete back through: November 2021
Alistair Young
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Spooooky
Okay, folks, we're doing this. At midnight tomorrow (that would be midnight following 29 October 2024, Central Daylight Time), we'll be cutting over to the new shiny Ghost-based site instead of this old, busted WordPress one. Not everything is finished, because some things are very hard
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Things Still To Be Done
Here, for your edification, is a list of all the things still to be done in migrating over here from WordPress, but which I know about and so which you don't need to remind me of. They'll be struck through as they're done, and
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Request for Migration Suggestions
So, for my birthday, which it is, I have decided to get myself freedom from WordPress. (Why, you ask? Many reasons, like being sick of its breakage and security issues, not to mention that it takes a rather more expensive droplet – it’s hosted on DigitalOcean – to serve this site
Fíerí's Starships of the Associated Worlds
Put A Ring In It
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
Accord on the Law of Free Space
Skillsets
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,
Speak Eldraeic Like a Semi-Literate Barbarian
Speak Eldraeic Like A Semi-Literate Barbarian (3.5): Some Érélar
In which we begin to discuss the arguments that are slotted into the predicates. Specifically we’re going to talk about érélar (from e, diminutive prefix, plus rélar, argument-word). You may consider these the equivalent of pronouns, insofar as they are words which stand in the place of full arguments
education
Integral Annihilation
A curious feature of Imperial academia is the antidegree (occasionally and unofficially referred to as the dishonorary antidegree). One cannot, of course, simply revoke a degree obtained without fraud; it is a time-bound certification of ability which stands as testimony to the competence of its holder at that time. However,
Harmonious Calendar
Repent, Horologist! Said The Tick-Tock Man
Ladies and gentlemen, I take you now to - the calendar! Specifically, I take you to the Harmonious Calendar, the standard calendar used by Imperial chronometrists ever since the Founding (although in its basic structure it required little adjustment, primarily the setting of a new base point/year zero, and
black hole
Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Hole
SINGULARITY INJECTION ZONE DANGER NOT ONLY WILL THIS KILL YOU, AND NOT ONLY WILL THIS KILL YOU PAINFULLY, BUT THE SUBJECTIVE TIMESPAN OF YOUR AGONY WILL BE EXTENDED TO INFINITY (IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY, START RUNNING NOW) – seen in Unit 3, Dark Star Power Plant, Xavéral
liberty
The Exception That Proves The Rule
One question that is often asked by those newly come to the Empire is how, in a society which claims to value the liberties of the individual – and, indeed, specifically one’s freedom to associate and disassociate as one pleases – the Empire justifies its strict immigration policy. Does this not,
diplomacy
Emissary, Speak Not
“What many fail to realize is that much of the art of diplomacy is not haggling; it is antihaggling. That is to say, it is not to clarify and define a price, but rather to obfuscate and obscure it. “This is why we do not draw lines in the sand.