Dolphins Dolphins Everywhere: There are, and they have been uplifted (the dar-ĂĂche). However, contradicting the general pacifism and spiritual water-hippieness often implied in the dolphin tropes, frankly, they’re no better than anyone else. Especially where those, ah, robust senses of humor are concerned.
Dogs Are Dumb: Averted – partly because it’s not universally true in non-fiction anyway, and partly because one thing that differentiates the Elieran bandal from the Earth dog is that, being in need of assistance in many areas due to the relatively small, relatively slowly growing population that tends to
Like most ridiculously excessive weapons, the unique anti-materiel/area-denial weapon, “Sweet Kynthia”, was built to impress a lady, constructed by Sarai Iliastren-ith-Weváren during her pursuit of Kynthia Andracanth-ith-Andracanth, whose interests in heavy weapons – and indeed, whose own creations (see pps. 36, 42, 138, 196, 211, 335, 401, 545, 607-611, 720,
Do Androids Dream: Souls Are Software Objects. Period. And are usually referred to as “mind-states”, unless we’re being poetic. (There are civilizations that do not agree with this. They are all, in subcreational terms, objectively wrong. (And at least some of them suspect this, but it’s so much
“Yes, translocation should be easy. It doesn’t seem all that dissimilar from vector control, right? And this is exactly the sort of thing that ontotechnology does – gets intimate with the informational substructures of the physical universe. So why can’t we just poke new values into the spatial coordinates
Divine Ranks: The Transcend does have, as does any seed AI that expands to the point at which its individual thoughts are, effectively, independently sapient, an extensive taxonomy, ranking, and categorization of its assorted subroutines, processes, and threads. And since at least some of those wear mythological masks… we have
Amlia Larathyr-ith-Larathyr                        (net amalg. points: 22,384) RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS UNLOCKED Very Reliable (+25 : Service Gate, ICC) Complete 1,000 contracted jobs in sequence with highly positive recommendations from your counterparty. Learn to Steer (x2) (-5 : Viëlle Skyway Association and Associated Rep-Nets) 10 people have given you a >1 drop
Discount Lesbians: Averted. While the Worlds include monogendered species in which the monogender happens to be female (happens a lot, since, y’know, the functional definition of female is usually the same as that for reproducer), and also include trivial sex-switching, gender-rewriting, and sexuality-adjusting technology, there are also an arbitrarily
Dilating Door: Actually, most doors are regular doors, except for doors in space – because of the whole opening/closing against pressure issue – which tend to be cog-doors that roll into place. (In addition to the pressure advantage, they’re also relatively easy to open or close when the power is
“Pig Ion, all docks at Javerna Orbital are currently occupied. Please re-route to Javerna Down. Coordinates follow. Javerna Local, over.” “Negative, Javerna Local, check our cargo manifest. We can hold or go to Orbital, but our cargo is not to enter planetary gravity wells. Pig Ion, over.” “Pig Ion, what
“A gentleman,” Olbria said firmly, “is always polite. Even to his zombies.”
Digital Piracy Is Evil: Well, on the one hand, it’s not called digital piracy (it’s called Unlawful Duplication & Conveyance, or Unlawful Derivation) and is a lesser crime than theft; and Imperial IP law is different and rather more generous, especially in re patents and discoverer’s licenses