Lorcis Vianath-ith-Vianne & Selves Pty., Bonded Commercial Obligators, to Sens Dal Shen, Kar Riette, and Tir Ledeen, greetings. With regard to your communication of the 20th inst., we have undertaken a preliminary legal investigation into the commercial contractual arrangements between the specified parties, Sentir Industrial Products and Nen-Palan Environmental Atmospherics.
Since we’ve just passed the Matter Replicator trope, and since it may be relevant to an upcoming FAQ question, I thought I’d throw out some definitions relating to such things that may make things clear. Well, clearer. A nanofac is the basis of nanofacturing technology. Think of it
Mayfly December Romance: Mostly averted; in two different ways. The happy one is that immortagens are now available for just about every species, thus avoiding the tragedy of death. The less happy one is that… well, while one may well be able to love someone who is doomed to die,
Additionally, based on expressions of interest I’ve received, I’m going to open up the floor for questions from my Patreon patrons – one per $ per month – as suggested here, and now added to the Patreon rewards list. So! Let’s start while the iron is hot. It’s January,
Matter Replicator: The cornucopia machine or autofac, which can build matter into pretty much any object that you want and have – or can write – a recipe for. Sadly, they are required to obey the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of mass-energy. They also tend to incorporate – especially in larger models
So, uh, despite what I said the other day, I went ahead and set a TV Tropes page up for the Eldraeverse. Y’see, what I figure is that the hardest part in creating such a thing is actually creating the page. That’s a fair bit of work, so
Matriarchy: There are several of these in the Associated Worlds in general (although, note, that polities ruled by the female sex in general don’t necessarily carry the implications that they do for Terrans. Some species, for example, have only one sex being sophont, rendering them all patriarchies or matriarchies
FROM: TASK FORCE C-117 (CS THANEBLADE) TO: CINCCORE; FIELD FLEET COREWARD COMMAND (CS UNCONQUERABLE SELF) *** ROUTINE *** EYES ONLY FERVENT SPAN *** SITREP INFORMATIONAL: 1. ESTABLISHED FAR PICKET AS PER ORDERS IN SPINDLE SYSTEM. 2. SITUATION NOMINAL. NO HOSTILE CONTACTS. 3. AUTHENTICATION WILDCAT PAWN INCARNADINE ASH MAGMA SLIVER / 0x11EA49BD629A1132 VADM. EXPRY VALIN-ITH-VALADINE
A commenter over on Google+ suggests that the issues mentioned in my last post could also be satisfied by an Eldraeverse TV Tropes page. And, well, I certainly can’t argue against that. But while technically creators are allowed to trope their own works, I’m not terribly comfortable with
I recently received an e-mail from a reader making the very good point that this ‘verse is getting somewhat impenetrable for the newcomer – at least, without going on an absolutely huge archive binge. (And, let’s face it, so long as I’m primarily sticking here to the nanofic format,
Master Race: While the Imperial polyspecificity (which is to say, by no means just the eldrae, so not exactly a Master Race) is by and large comfortable in its non-innate-we-worked-hard-for-this-thank-you-so-very-much superiority to damn near everyone, as per Superior Species and Can’t Argue With Elves, they really have no time
Superior Species: We pretty much covered this territory under Can’t Argue With Elves too, didn’t we? Well, to expand in general, rather than pick a specific example, especially since they started building their own future generations with transsophont technology, there are very few successful species that don’t