Macrophage Militant; 2,000,000 miles from the Gal-kiderax stargate. The better part of a day later, the Flight Commanderâs glare had hardly lessened at all. âAnything new?â âNo status change on target. No halo, no trailers, and still decelerating into gate intercept â definitely not confident in his ability
Derelict Graveyard: Most major planets have one of these in high orbit, somewhere, where old habitats, satellites, starships and other space debris are lashed together in a rough mass of dead hulks waiting to be torn apart and reclaimed, or at least transported elsewhere by tugs for this purpose. The
âŚfor the lack of updates over the last few days. Essentially whatâs happened is that my wiki in which I keep my quarter-million words or so of current worldbuilding notes is no longer to be supported, developed, etc., which is something of a pain inasmuch as Iâm going
It used to be, by my predecessorsâ memoirs, that you could almost feel good about taking a slave ship. Kill the slavers, free the prisoners from the slave-holds and explosive collars, ferry them back to their homes, and chase down the next one; a good month. Those were more innocent
Landfill Beyond The Stars: No, just no. Itâs hard to imagine the economics that would make it possible to haul junk across space for dumping. And that would make it worthwhile to waste an entire planet to store the stuff. But⌠âŚthere are a couple of locations that specialize
âYes, the Ley Accords do consider using ecocidal weapons on garden worlds a more serious issue than the self-genocidal use of strategic nucleonic weapons. Â Thatâs because, in the big picture, the sort of chumps who nuke themselves to death are rather less valuable to the galaxy than the ecosystem
Deployable Cover: For this purpose â and assuming that people are firing material objects at you, which is, in fairness, most of the time â they do make portable kinetic barriers. (Donât try and use them while youâre still carrying them, though. All that kinetic energy has to go somewhere,
âDrop shuttle (n.): An armored crate flown by a maniac.â â The Unofficial Guide To The IN Flying a drop shuttle is a unique sort of piloting. Youâre always deploying under combat conditions, and often before youâve established orbital superiority, so people are shooting at you from the moment
Democracy Is Bad: This is the Imperial consensus view. Partly for the fairly obvious reason that in democracies like ours, where just about everything or everything minus a small list is up for grabs by vote, itâs just a tyranny with more tyrants. (See, thus, the Drowning of the
One week earlier, somewhere in the Gal-kiderax System, Theomachy of Galia. âIâd kill a soph in a fair fight.â The black-cloaked figure paced in circles, long stride carrying him from wall to wall. âHells, even before I left my dear stuffy cousins behind, Iâd kill a soph in
Defictionalization: My terrific taste for metafiction aside, this also happens in-world, quite a bit. Most notable, perhaps, is the incident (see: Stranger Than Fiction) in which the protagonist species from the virtuality game (novel, InVid, watchvid, and slinky) An Ending Not In Fire, the temĂsi, arthĂĄl, and zal!en were
âIt is ridiculous, and near-slanderous, to suggest that âfree traderâ is synonymous with âsmugglerâ! Why, I can guarantee that over fifty percent of voyages made by our members involve no illicit or even borderline-illicit cargoes at all.â âYouâre counting the inward legs separately, arenât you?â âThatâs beside