One problem with the very long lifespans of the eldrae and, thus, the equally long institutional memory of the Empire, is that while it has preserved for posterity many of the great examples of rhetoric, like Alphas’s first Speech from the Throne, Olbria Amanyr’s fiery Senatorial style, or
Not a fic-a-day – although I’m trying to get back to those now I’m almost done editing and publishing –  just the opening to something I’m working on… Her Divine Majesty’s Star Station EádĂnah’s Bower is built in hell, or as close to it as they could
Earth Shattering Kaboom: The Ulijen Disaster. If you’re going to build an experimental power plant that taps power from your sun using a wormhole, don’t build it on the planetary surface! Also, relativistic kill vehicles and really big strangelet bombs, or even antimatter bombs; and in theory, some
Earth is the Center of the Universe: Severely averted. Earth is an unknown backwater somewhere out beyond the ass end of the Periphery, and has all the galactopolitical significance you would expect a world which, having once reached its own moon, gives up on space travel beyond its own orbit
An article discussing the use of TV Tropes in worldbuilding – for adding depth, norms, and customs to a universe – specifically referencing my trope-a-day project. Check out the rest of Serial Outlet while you’re there, too!
Eagle Squadron: The Sanguinary Enforcers of the Liberty Ethic often play this role for various libertist movements in one part of the Associated Worlds or another, strictly freelance, of course, as do some related groups for more specific issues (AI freedom, for example). They are relatively picky about who they
I haz a book! (As you can see from the addition of the “My Books” tab up above, no doubt.) And you can find it on Amazon here, for Kindle, right now – over 44,000 words of nanofiction and metafiction from the Associated Worlds SF universe for the modest price
Eagleland Starland: i.e., the equivalent of the Eagleland trope from a different perspective, because when viewed from the outside, the Empire comes in different flavors, too. Flavor 1: The Empire’s sense of itself, of course, which it’s happy to export, can only be compared to America’s
Imperial Dream: Ah, yes, the Imperial Dream. Eudaimonia, or the “exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life according them scope” as Aristotle put it. Which scope, it is generally said, is afforded by the Empire being a place where – to steal a perfectly good quotation from
Editing status update: 73%.
Dying Town: Briefly applicable in the Empire in the time period between the Industrial Revolution and the Automation Revolution. After the former, there was flight from plenty of small towns into the cities, to concentrate labor for the needs of industry and as agricultural labor requirements went down, and because
As you may be aware, while I live in the US now, I’m originally from the UK.  As such, part of the editing process we’re currently going through here is checking carefully through the manuscript for the occasional British English spelling that may have slipped through my ongoing