FAQ II: FAQ Harder
Oh, hey, it’s the last day of the month and I hadn’t even noticed. FAQ questions for February, Patreons all?
Alistair Young
Micromechaphobia
Many people have written in to ask, “What is that silvery, liquescent lining inside the pants of spacesuits we occasionally see on your broadcasts?” Well, viewers, that’s the sanitary nanopaste. You see, back in what we might call the pointy-stick era of spaceflight, the problem of the crew having
Trope-a-Day: Mithril
Mithril: The Empire’s so awash in exotic materials of the future (see: Unobtainium) that there’s almost certain to be one that matches mithril’s hypothetical properties pretty much one for one. I mean, sure, it’s some hideously complicated nanoformed metallic-glass composite, but “does the same, is the
Epistolary Experiment (27/30)
“First, know yourself; and know your enemy, second. This is the first principle of victorious war.” – The Thousand Wise Analects of the Supreme Warlord, Xian Anandonos “It also doesn’t hurt to know what your enemy knows about yourself.” – Adm. InesmĂr Muetry-ith-Muetry, in conversation Netharn (Idrine Margin) System CS Unconquerable
Trope-a-Day: Unobtainium
Unobtainium: Of many kinds. Sophisticated materials science is one of the major areas of advancement in this particular universe. Of particular note: deuterium slush, metastable metallic hydrogen, helium-3 and antimatter (more specifically, antideuterium slush) for power, room-temperature superconductors, sapphiroids (the trade name for the high-grade kind is Adamant™ – not adamantium,
Trope-a-Day: Mirror Chemistry
Mirror Chemistry: Played straight but in a much more complicated fashion. After all, on Earth, life – for the most part – uses levoproteins and dextrosugars. So there’s (trivially) four possible combinations right there, leaving aside more complex or dual arrangements, and that’s not even taking into account biochemistries that
Author's Note: Quebérúr
For your envisioning pleasure – and also because I secretly hope someone will send me fan art along the lines of a classic Old West painting set on said Mars-type world (beautiful for spacious pink skies and vermilion mountains’ majesty above its fruited plain of mottled green and blue grass, although
Home on Lagrange
It was understood relatively early in Project Redblossom that Talentar would become a major food-exporting planet as the ecopoesis continued. As the major geophysical stages were completed, the planet warmed, water was introduced, and the microbiome became established, it became time to introduce macroscopic flora, among the earliest of which
Trope-a-Day: Mini Mecha
Mini Mecha: Arguably, mostly larger sizes of combat exoskeleton and civilian exosuit (used mainly for heavy construction, and such) fall under this trope, despite mostly not being humanoid, since none of them rise to the size usually described as “mecha”.
Epistolary Experiment (24/30) - Revised First Segment
(This is the corrected version, with fixed astronomy…) The Eye of Night (Last Darkness) System has the distinction of being the only black hole accessible to the Associated Worlds, and indeed, the primary reason for the existence of the Last Darkness constellation. The black hole itself, Eye of Night, is
Patreon: Artwork!
It’s new Patreon milestone goal time here at the Eldraeverse, and those of y’all who would like to see some visuals from time to time might be particularly interested in this one… https://www.patreon.com/eldraeverse
Trope-a-Day: Mindlink Mates
Mindlink Mates: Played straight as an available option for couples, using much the same cybernetic techlepathy that everyone else uses. Such links also generally are filtered – no-one really wants to be fed the entirety of someone else’s sense/physical-status data and narrative thread of consciousness, however close they are.