Infinite Supplies: While nothing in this case is actually infinite, thanks to the Laws of Thermodynamics, centuries or millennia of living in space have made most advanced cultures in the Associated Worlds very, very good at closed-cycle recycling; and on a simpler level, well, the cornucopia machine does wonders for
Improbable Piloting Skills: While mostly averted, āIf it fliesā¦ā is partially played straight thanks to Powers as Programs.Ā Note that this still doesnāt mean that anyone can fly well ā but once youāve learned all the kinesthetic skills, reflexes, etc., etc., that a pilot needs, it sure makes adapting
The Ice Bitch, the Spawner of Calamities, the Father of Error, That Whose Laughter Rings In The Ears Of The Dying A near-ubiquitous spacer belief ā even among the eldrae, who do not make a habit of placing masks upon the force of Entropy ā is that of the many-angled god-goddess who
Powers As Programs: With the availability of mnemonesis to download knowledge and skillsets into your brain, gnostic overlays to do the same thing for professional personalities, and the ability to download recipes for your portable nanolathe or desktop nanoforge to build you the tools to use themā¦ ā¦yeah, this is
Skilled, but NaĆÆve: The consequence of relying too much on mnemonesis and gnostic overlays to download distilled knowledge and skillsets.Ā They can, and will, grant you extraordinary, even superhuman, technical skill.Ā Excellence is guaranteed.Ā You will outperform any mediocrity, even any average professional you ever meet on raw talent alone,
outside storage (n.):Ā AlsoĀ cold storage; vacuum storage.Ā Among the things space has in plentiful supply are volume and insulation. The former affords a bounty of availableĀ space for various usages; the latter ensures that items occupying it require relatively little protection to beĀ safe from environmental influences. Many habitats
Improbable Aiming Skills: Training for the various sentinel occupations, including the Imperial Legions and, yes, also the Watch Constabulary tries its best to achieve these, or at least to avert Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy really hard.Ā In these modern days in which you can have a top-flight ballistics software package
āAccurate description of a subject society is vitally important to our work, and thus it is important to be aware of our descriptors as tightly-defined terms of art. For example, āprimitiveā and ābarbaricā are not cognates: a society whose implicit economic scarcity requires people to labor in exchange for subsistence
Improbable Age: Happens both ways, in the Empire.Ā On the one hand, you sometimes get improbably young people doing various jobs, partly because of those very population dynamics we mentioned back under Immortal Procreation Clause making it very useful to get new brains into the useful-production fields as soon as
Immortal Procreation Clause: Somewhat played straight, but only somewhat.Ā Eldraeic native fertility is considerably, about an order of magnitude, lower than human as a baseline, yes, but thatās not so much lower that they werenāt running a nice healthy population growth curve before discovering technology, space, etc. (and
Kythera System, near Lunar Transshipment One OTV Muckerās Bucket LĆse Varavelen, captain-owner. āā¦object appears to be a fragment of nucleonic battery casing, damaged by internal explosion. Remaining piece bears serial code gilek-two-four-eleven-nine-one-illegible-corse. Further identity not confirmed. Object stowed aboard for return. Entry ends, mission elapsed time six, twenty-one, fourteen,
Immortality Immorality: Averted, inverted, mocked, beaten soundly, and left to expire if it wants to so damned much, in much of the Galaxy.Ā The Imperials (and many other transsophont civilizations) are of the opinion that anyone who canāt tell that death is an eo ipso Bad Thing, meaningless, pointless,