Mind Over Matter: The eldrae, and various other transsophonts, play this absolutely straight, with the usual laundry list of clever applications for psychokinesis. Of course, being a âfirm SFâ universe, itâs not any kind of Psychic Power â itâs implanted nanosome vector-control effectors. On the one hand, this does
âA consortium of trailing star nations, most significantly including the United Viridian States, the Wylene Republics, and the World Assembly of Sarine, today issued a condemnation of several of the free educational mnemonetic downloads and simulation spaces produced by the Agalmic Education Foundation for the pre-adult market. Those modules condemned
Mind Over Manners: This is not usually much of an issue with standard-issue Psychic Powers, which in the Eldraeverse are essentially organic neural WiFi, designed for communication and not permitting arbitrary mindreading (you need a SQUID and some rather complex software for that), but the Common Social Protocol does include
Mind Manipulation: The entire science of sophotechnology, which is to say, the science of mind, both natural and artificial â and the laundry list of technologies derived therefrom: artificial intelligence, Brain Uploading, memetics, psychedesign, noetic backup and analysisâŚ
âCaptain har-Rant Sathan.â âBefore you begin what I am told is an entire litany of complaints, let me make the current state of affairs clear to you. We have recovered Hand of Ilthâs flag bridge log. We know, therefore, that not only was your fleet armed with abomination weapons,
Mind Hive: Several â arguably, most people qualify as at least a mild form of this, since the habit of running a muse, a personal assistant AI, on your implanted headware is close to ubiquitous. Of course, actions arenât by consensus in that case, but the habit of turning your
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 designated as the system primary. It boasts a
To whet appetites while I feverishly write this day, hereâs a comment I left elsewhere a while ago on the general topics of planetary invasions, and the ongoing argument of the âjust slag the planet, no need for troopsâ vs. âmassive world-spanning groundpounder warfareâ schools of thought. My conclusion,
Military Mashup Machine: Oh, several. Examining them by the categories of the original trope, we have: Land Battleship: This one, actually, they donât have. Essentially, by the time it was practical to build this sort of thing, firstly, people who needed a heavy weight of fire on the ground
The Milky Way Is The Only Way: Played straight, given the general uselessness of other experimental fittlers, and since the only reliable form of FTL the universe evidently permits is stargate pairs, the far end of which has to be dragged out to its destination at subluminal speed. Thus, only
âI could almost kiss Kadrish har-Lan Sarkdor this morning.â âYou want to get smoochy with the Iltine Minister of Pacification? The Worldsâ leader in using children as missile components?â âWell, Iâd kill him afterwards.â âAthenril, youâre perverted. Be sure and record that.â âBut seriously. Between him pushing the
Mile-Long Starship: Some bigger classes easily fall into this category or above: dreadnoughts and superdreadnoughts, grapeship megafreighters, the top end of highliners, colony seedships, mobile factories, that sort of thing, and â of course â city-ships. Special note here to most lighthuggers, which have to accommodate vast quantities of deuterium and antideuterium