Hopeless War: Averted, for the most part. With regard to one kind of hopeless war, well, the Navy and Legions are just that good at the general category of activities listed under âkilling people and breaking thingsâ, and so have usually been able to bring things to a successful conclusion
Honest Adviser: The non-sophont AIs built to advise various runĂ©r, Senators, etc., are programmed to be this. And provably so! With code reviews! You can do this with sophonts, too, digital or biological, these days â given the ability of geas nanotech, alethiometers, and the ability to muck about with the
Holy City: For the Empire, Ellenith, the holy city which serves as the center for the Church of the Flame, being built around the Dome of Unity, the 6th of the temples along the Shining Path, the seeress MerriĂ©leâs path to her conversation with the gods atop the mountain
âAs you have been told, it is not Legion policy to require you to carry swords in anything but dress uniform, nor is it Legion policy to use them in combat.â âAs you will soon find out, many creative souls before you have decided to use them anyway as personal
Holographic Terminal: Or Trigraphic Terminal, rather. As mentioned immediately above, used just about everywhere for their dynamically-reconfigurableness. They were less ubiquitous in the old days, when the need to wear a pair of haptic gloves with accelerometers, gyroscopes, and force-feedback made them at least a little inconvenient, but in these
Making up nine of every sixteen legions â even when we donât count the various specialized legions which are mostly built off a light infantry platform â the light infantry are the backbone of the Imperial Legions. Which, in another sense, means they get all the dirty jobs that no-one more
Hologram: This future does have these (and uses them an awful lot for user interfaces, it must be said, since dynamically reconfigurable interfaces are (a) shiny, and (b) easy to implement this way); however, as the trope points out, there are properly not âhologramsâ, but really âvolumetric displaysâ, even though
(Itâs been a while since Iâve worked on this project, for one reason or another, starting with being somewhat blocked on Q. If youâre a relatively new reader whoâs never seen the previous entries, therefore, I suggest clicking on the âpicture dictionaryâ tag, at the bottom
Holodeck Malfunction: Utterly averted, with the possible minor exception of someone using a virtual reality version of a basilisk hack on you, but thatâs not a malfunction, thatâs deliberately exposing you to something that would be equally bad for you if you perceived it through any other sensory
Hold Your Hippogriffs: Is the Transcend autocredent1? Do the mezuar compute in the woods2? 1. Yes, like most recursively self-improving intelligences, it knows itself quite well. 2. Technically no, since the mezuar, as collectively-sophont trees, are the woods. But close enough for metaphorical work.
Since in the ongoing series about the Legions Iâm obviously going to be talking about their guns, seems to me that I ought to maybe describe the terminology used for those just a bit so that you know what Iâm talking about. That is, inasmuch as terminology has
(I also want to note that I could equally well title this series âThe Empressesâ Swordâ â the word, after all, is identical and gender-affix free in the original Eldraeic. Not my fault that English is an annoyingly inflexible and imprecise language⊠âŠbut alternating would probably confuse folks and make it