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Operator Incompatibility: This does happen a fair bit, given the sheer number of species and clades in the setting, but less than you might think. After all, given the potential markets, there are entire professions which exist purely in order to work out ways to overcome this sort of user
lanect
âThere is something to be said for lanect governance. Not a lot, but something. âThat something is that lanect polities are some of the truest meritocracies in the Worlds. Any lanect, regardless of birth, sex, race, wealth, or popularity who â by some talent of wit, gripe, cunning, or main strength
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Only One Me Allowed Right Now: Averted. You can have as many of yourself as your resources can support, so far as practicality and the law are concerned; this is, indeed, the solution, thanks to easy fork/merge technology, to all kinds of problems from the fundamental to the trivial.
ecopoesis
âHow are we doing? All on schedule?â The largest monitor showed the reddish, ragged rock of a cliff face, roughly torn, a notch in its top revealing the ribbed end of a silvered balloon wedged into it, held down by a curved framework of steel plates. Above, a zeppelin hung
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Only Mostly Dead:Â Slightly alive. Namely, the state between corporeal death (what medical science, say today, calls âdeadâ), and the point at which your brain has decayed sufficiently that the very best scanning technology and interpolation can no longer reconstruct a mind-state sufficiently accurate to meet the legal definition of
OPERATION GHOST WHISPERS
GHOST WHISPERS EXPN CONFIDENTIAL / GHOST WHISPERS TRANSPARENCY RELEASE UNLESS CANCELLED ORIGIN ASTROCOORD//HADAL//SUPER-SIZE SYNTHETIC APERTURE CONTACT CONTACT CONTACT This is a GHOST WHISPER ALERT, profiled as POSSIBLE HIGH ENERGY (GWYATH 12+) CIV EMISSIONS DETECTION. Approximate originating coordinates are Ď 14.129, θ -29.163, Ď 18,322 local (contralateral
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One World Order: Averted. Most species have more than one government. Even the Empire, huge as it is and prone to casual memetic imperialism and absorption as it also is, has spawned splinters â not just the individual Renunciates and Renegades, but some actual other eldraeic governances created by minority factions
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One Size Fits All: Not played perfectly straight, since they do require the size to be approximately correct in the first place, but a good deal of small sizing errors can generally be accommodated by the micromachines in the clothing that adjust the fit, as described under Form-Fitting Wardrobe.
Watch Constabulary
Siariâs Bore Mer DinĂŠvĂĄl Countermass Station Seranth âExcuse me, ser. Enforcer Jynne Cerron, Watch Constabulary; my colleague, PĂŠn Cieng, Throat-Grip Defense. Iâm afraid we require a word with you.â The lanect thus addressed started, and turned to look at them with an instant protest. âI havenât done
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One Riot, One Ranger: Played straight, inasmuch as there are people around in various agencies (the Constabularyâs âSpecialsâ, ExSec, the Shadow Fleet, the Imperial Hands, the Operatives of the Presidium) with that sort of omnicompetence and air of authority. Very useful instrumentalities to have in various special circumstances. Mildly
meta
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One Product Planet: Averted, in its strict form. The realities of interstellar economics, logistics, and costs of transportation mean that itâs almost always more practical to maintain a decent-sized agricultural and manufacturing base at home, rather than import all your food and goods, for anything but the smallest of