military
âHonestly, I think the primary motivation to develop warships that can descend into the atmosphere and hover in a menacing, fight-in-the-shade manner has nothing to do with any of the technical rationales you hear bandied about. âItâs so that when someone says to you, âYou and what army?â, you
Optimal Splay Games
On this day in 2290, Optimal Splay Games of FoirĂäs, Ildathach, held a grand party and press event to celebrate the successful completion, by Torys Kularacen, of the first successful in-game voyage carried through from launch to completion in their debut first-ring game, the real-time Relativistic Freighter Simulator, a feat
eldraeic language
fanc: (pron. âfanshâ) a flaw or defect; an imperfection from which talifanc: (from talis âtruthâ + fanc) an imperfection whose presence indicates authenticity; examples would include inclusions in natural gemstones, grain in natural wood, and unintentional variations in hand-crafted objects; compare Jp. wabi. and also lin-fanc: the Flaw; entropy.
bank run
ILINSHEN (UNITED VIRIDIAN STATES) â Six days after the extraordinary near-collapse of the Ubthar Advancement Bank in the most prominent of the recent series of bank runs and its equally extraordinary rescue by Gilea & Company Capital Ventures, ICC, which extended a line of credit equivalent to 168 billion Viridian daal
filk
When you think filk, you also think folk. Or I do, anyway. And recently, when I think folk, itâs been because my random writing music playlist has been bringing up Barrettâs Privateers more often than one might expect. (If you donât know the song, you can hear
A Core Economic Dictionary
proof of work (obs.): an archaic technique for (usually blockchain-based) cryp mining which ties mining capability to computational power. In its original form, it required transaction blocks to be hashed, which demonstrated time and computational effort put forth, and which would generate a certain amount of virgin cryp until the
augmentation
Bionic Dyscognitive Disorder (a.k.a. Bionomanic Disorder; Bionic Dysphoria; Cyberneticš Dyscognitive Disorder; Cybernetic Schizotypal Disorder; Cyberpsychosis; Mechanization Stress Disorder; Post-Augmentation Stress Syndrome; Robolunacy.) By whatever name it is known, bionic dyscognitive disorder is a severe mental health issue triggered by augmentation with non-biological technology (bionics). In various analyses, it
Fort Petrae
âLook here. You know there are a more than a few species out there whose names we canât hope to pronounce, even if you only count the ones that use vocal language. Such as all the amorphoids, whose vocal organs are as arbitrary as the rest of them.â âLike
Novacorpora
So, I have received some questions and noticed some little curiosity recently about what the process of gender transition/sex reassignment looks like in the âverse, or since that is highly variable, in the Empire. Well, it goes something like this â and this is the procedure and the whole of
nuclear-pulse drive
Hello, and welcome once again to Truly Awful Whiteboard Pictures season, as I present to you the basic workings of a nuclear-pulse Orion drive, Empire-style. Or at least Empire-of-the-Spaceflight-Initiative-Era style. Mostly so that I can refer to it later and yâallâll know what Iâm talking about. Behold
bandal / dogs
GERRAWAY-BY-CLASS ORBITAL SERVICE VEHICLE Operated by: The canine orbital mechanics of regular orbital mechanics. Type: Orbital transfer/service vehicle. Construction: Horizon Cageworks, ICC Length: 2.2 m Beam: 1.7 m Dry mass: 784 kg Gravity-well capable: No. Atmosphere capable: No. Personnel: 1 smart dog (prosophont bandal partial uplift) Drives:
morphology
I can sit up and use a keyboard perfectly well without having my limbs twisted around into an imitation hominid, thank you most kindly. (You anthropocentric jackass.) Rhif Oßärwaff, second-iteration dar-bandal, quoted in Morphology Is Not Cosmetology