Trope-a-Day: Electronic Telepathy
Electronic Telepathy: Specifically, the kind built into the eldrae and galari (although with different encodings, originally), and put on general sale by a number of corporations. See Psychic Powers.
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An Inglorious Coda
Arkuel Múras: Where’s next on the agenda? Ethly 0x4414CC2B: Freylis. Fourth planet of Ardylis in the Dark Sea, two moons, oxy-nitro-water garden world with a levo-protein, levo-lipid, dextro-carbohydrate, DNA-encoding ecology. And most interestingly, a former sophont civilization, or what’s left of it. Arkuel Múras: How former? Ethly 0x4414CC2B:
Trope-a-Day: Electric Instant Gratification
Electric Instant Gratification: Exists, in a variety of forms as unsubtle as classic “wireheading”, known as “electrobliss” – only much simpler to implement, since you can actually achieve it perfectly well with transcranial magnetic stimulation – or orgasmatronics through more subtle pleasures like slinkies with better-than-life emotional tracks, all the way up
Trope-a-Day: Eldritch Abomination
Eldritch Abomination: There have been a few elder races and Gone Horribly Right seed AI, and other postsophont entities, that are not terribly, shall we say, sophont-friendly, or indeed sophont-comprehensible. (Start with the Leviathan Consciousness, and work down the list.) And statistics – and bright EM spots elsewhere in the galaxy
Clearly, This Is The 1.0 Release
Responses to the advent of Information Physics, and the proposal that the universe, in essence, is a self-simulating simulation, a program using itself as a processor, usually fall into one of four classes. Â The ambitious immediately wonder how we can apply this in the short-term to build better, faster, more
Trope-a-Day: Elaborate Underground Base
Elaborate Underground Base: The Imperial Military Service (various, with special props going to the Imperial Navy’s hollow hangar moon at Palaxias IIb), the Imperial Emergency Management Authority’s Crisis Citadels, more than a few data havens, the original location of Argyran Depository, the Nightfall Complexes (retreats for city populations
Trope-a-Day: Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: This is the stereotypical – and yes, actually, very common – look for the eseldrae race, with actual close-to-cream-white skin, and usually differing only in hair that may be dark brown, rather than black. Many of the kireldrae can also carry it off, although their skin is translucent enough
Trope-a-Day: Easy Sex Change
Easy Sex Change: Reinstantiation (see Body Surf) into a body of the appropriate sex, if available, will do it instantly; meanwhile, if that’s not available or desirable, a day or two spent in a medical vat while the proteus nanomachines take you apart and reassemble you appropriately will do
Vignettes of the Star Empire...
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Trope-a-Day: Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics: Averted, even with nanotech, cornucopias, and suchlike, because it’s not like they don’t still require supplies of feedstock and energy, not to mention being inefficient to use for bulk manufacturing of things like ammunition – which is not a good place to be if the other side
Cost of Breathing
LIMÉRI STATION HABITAT FEE ASSESSMENT LIMÉRI STATION HABCORP, ICC A PROTECTORATE OF BALANCE AND EXTERNALITY AFFILIATE RECIPIENTS Anlave-Kateris Household   – Anlave Claves-ith-Estenv  – Kateris Muetry-ith-Muiris ADDRESS OF RECORD 1-00003-01496-0223 Talentar LimĂ©ri Station DalecĂ 14, Avenue of Focative Mirrors PERIOD COVERED TĂlenmot, 3502 Charge (Es.) Base Habitat Fee eldrae x 2 74 Air
Trope-a-Day: Easily Detachable Robot Parts
Easily Detachable Robot Parts: The most common model, the ubiquitous utility spider (more like a spider-squid, really, but that’s more awkward to say) is designed with modular, swappable parts for extensibility purposes. There is a thriving aftermarket in add-on modules.