Empire Tips
(Editor's note: This service has been discontinued at the present date. We apologize for the inconvenience.) A quick meta-post for those who haven’t already learned this elsewhere – Inspired by (but not affiliated with in any way) the Twitter account @PicardTips by way of a reader suggestion, helpful
eldraeic language
As people have been requesting more linguistics and vocabulary, welcome to the first article in our new approximately-weekly series, Speak Eldraeic Like a Semi-Literate Barbarian. (From the remarkably unpopular Like a Semi-[whatever] Barbarian series of self-help books.) It will consist of a series of chapters discussing different features of
Eldraeic Word of the Day
oolkor voäin: A gutterspeak corruption of the Low Eldraeic, and Trade, phrase ulquor vohaïnár, literally “no brawl (is present herenow)”. (From ulquor, zero degree quantifier + vo, second size prefix + haïn, battle + ár, predication affix, in this case creating an observative.) Unlike the original phrase, which is not used in this
Legends of the Time-Before
In all of legend and the Time Before, only two warriors are acclaimed as peerless, those whose renown alone carried such force of authority that none would dare stand against them. Of first note among these was the Sky-Born Loral Torateir of Telírvess, daughter of Marlais Torateir of the Drake-Bone
eldrae
A DOUBLE ANCESTRY: MAPPING ELDRAEIC GREENLIFE GENETIC ANCESTRY FROM PRIMORDIAL PSEUDOELDRAE ARCHAEA CORDANE RÚÄDHA Academy of Genomic Archaeology Fíä Eredhech, High Daëntry, Llorallin <CYAN GLISSANDO IN B FLAT> Information-Bearing Molecular Mechanics Lab, Self-Replicating Carbonics Interest Group, Well Elíeran, Adírdis, Tessil (Galari Trinary) KÍRA HORÚKAMÍ Underside Institute of Genetic
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In one of what will surely be recalled as one of this century’s greatest rebrandings, the failed rumbledrug Brawlwell III – a potent if messy cocktail of adrenergic-analogs whose unfortunate side-effects (including nausea, tachycardia, shortness of breath, sweating, trembling, xerostomia, and impaired decision-making abilities) rendered it unsuitable, or at least
Eldraeic Transcend
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:
Ecumenical Throne
Order in Council, 3rd Meeting of the Stellar Council, 710. In response to the sundry complaints and petitions brought before Our Ecumenical Throne concerning the diverse activities abroad of Our Empire’s citizen-shareholders, outwith those matters of law properly addressed to Our Court of the Beyond, Our Most Crystalline Stellar
A Star Traveler's Dictionary
grubby shoot: military (primarily mercenary) slang for a mission or contract which pits them against a sufficiently low-tech opponent (q.v. grubby, slang for low-tech locals) that the conflict is hopelessly one-sided and victory requires little or no effort. Reputable mercenaries and regular military units tend to loathe grubby shoots,
Eye-in-the-Flame Arms
“And this is our design for a sword edged with a topological defect. We probably shouldn’t go to prototype before we can better simulate the consequences, though.” “Why, what are the consequences?” “‘If on your journey, you should pass through the universe, the universe will be cut.’“ – overheard at
armor
Early in the development of kinetic barrier technology, engineers found themselves stymied by an inability to project kinetic barriers. While they could create them, they were limited to doing so along the plane of a conductor. While fringe emission lobes did exist along the surface, these were inadequate to provide
Blackjacket's Dictionary
pennant number: The Imperial Navy’s best attempt at a general purpose identification code for ships, other means having proven inadequate. It is generally held that the true identifier of a ship is its name: that is, after all, what is written upon the hull, and with it travels the