Ambassador vint-sal-halk (Aklaknak Cluster): “Am I correct in understanding, Madam Vice President, that your company is collecting transit fees from the Republic’s invasion fleet?” VP Sinith Aránà (Ring Dynamics, ICC): “You are. Am I correct in understanding, Your Excellency, that you would prefer that we let them invade us
Made of Phlebotinium: Well, while there are several kinds of phlebotinium around (see: Applied Phlebotinium) of one grade or another, the deprivation of most of which would certainly make the universe substantially less pretty and/or efficient, the two big ones from a “made of” point of view would be
“…due respect, Admiral, but this problem is completely out of control. Since our fleet assets were concentrated along the Borderline, smuggling incidents in the quadrant have near-tripled, and those are just the ones we know about! They’re even turning up on the Protectorate worlds. Somehow, min Rathill and his
Made of Indestructium: … alas, the universe is hard on indestructium. About as close as nature gets is probably neutronium – and whatever even more degenerate forms of quark matter, etc., you can get beyond it. Sadly for engineers everywhere, neutronium is rather hard to work at the best of times, behaving
Have a not-my-fiction recommendation: https://grantvillegazette.com/wp/article/bumped/ …momentum transfer at a distance: nice trick if you can do it. Just ask any ontotechnologist who’s trying to expand the reach of vector control. Although, Eldraeverse-wise, (spoiler) rira vs lbh pbhyq svther bhg ubj gb qb gung gevpx
“There was war on Ekr!at, long ago and in our third-queen’s day. “There was war on Ekr!at, as the hive-nests of the lowlander cities sent armies forth to clash once more with those of the mountain kingdoms over possession of their fertile foothills. “There was war on
Made of Explodium: No, not really. Many, many engineers work very, very hard to ensure that this thing? Does not happen. Two main exceptions: One, antimatter cryocels. Because, well, antimatter, and despite the aforementioned engineers’ best efforts there’s only so much you can do to stabilize stuff that will
For readers who are relatively new to the Eldraeverse and didn’t catch it first time around, have a little New Year’s fic: “The Darkest Night” (For those who are curious about such things, yes, the Harmonious Calendar very carefully sets the new year equal to the winter solstice.
Machine Monotone: Mostly averted. Who builds a speech synthesizer that can’t handle the subtextual channels, seriously? Bad design. People need to be able to relate even to the non-sophont machines, and that means a good emotional simulation is a fundamental part of UI design. (Played a little straight with
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 24,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it
…to all, and especially my Patreon patrons, for the dearth of fictional content over the last couple of weeks. I can only plead, as those of you who also follow me on Google+ will know, the saga of my ongoing computer issues – which both make it somewhat harder to write,
Machine Empathy: It looks this way – actually, it mostly is this way, thanks to those population demographics that made it necessary, due to lack of a large disposable workforce, for the Empire to adopt automation as early and as often as possible, and therefore ensured that lots of people not