adjustment: just about any op that doesn’t fit into any more specific category. Anything from spiking planetary water supplies to curing a pet’s sniffles. black house: a safe house or other facility so far out-system you can’t find your primary without a gravigraph. cauterize: to clean up
Coolest Club Ever: The best known (and with, therefore, the largest Wannabe Line in the Empire) is the Aleph, on Baranithil Station; the most popular would be the Polythalience, on the Conclave Drift; the most exclusive would be the Floating Meme – wherever it turns up next; and the most infamous
Cool Chair: It’s a civilization built by and for technophiliacs with distinct mad science inclinations. The non-cool chairs are in a distinct minority. Including, yes, hovering chairs, mecha chairs, heavily armed hovering and mecha chairs, chairs that can control the surrounding environment if not in fact the starship they’
If I ever again have to figure out how to program a cornucopia to produce pre-damaged goods, at least I won’t be starting from scratch. I ventured outside Sanctuary today in pursuit of what records there were of the landing points of the refugee shipments that might have included
Pose of Supplication: Wince. No, don’t. Really. Never kowtow, kneel, genuflect, otherwise grovel, or even bow deeper than, oh, 45 degrees unless you’re about to apologize in the full formal old Japanese sense of the phrase. Keep your head up and look people in the eye, even for
Opening today at the Anchalate is the final exhibition in the Empire-wide shiftsculpture competition sponsored by the Delphys Academy of the Shaping Arts and the Company of Assemblers and Free-Roaming Nanoengineers. General admissions will begin at Waterclock-18, after the special exhibition for the Imperial Couple and the attendance of the
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Cool Airship: Yes, of course. All the best universes have airships. For cargo transport that’s cheaper albeit slower than vector-control vehicles, and – for early colonies – not nearly so infrastructure-dependent, but more importantly, for passenger transport that while it may not be as fast as a sub-ballistic dart or a
Converging Stream Weapon: No cinematically literal examples, but any number of firing programs for just about any kind of weapon where the convergence point also happens to be the target. Also, phased-array lasers, and other phased arrays.
G is for Galaxy a whirlpool of stars. A trillion new worlds to shape and make ours. H is for Habitats our islands in space. Skyfarms and cities each orbits in place. I is for Immortagens life without end; captured in a bottle to give to our friends.
Conveniently Coherent Thoughts: Subverted; the reason you can get some coherent thoughts and images through the techlepathy part of the Psychic Powers is because they require you to produce specifically focused thoughts and images in order to engage the transmitter, in a similar way to a voice-activated microphone. If they
As usual, we regret our inability to provide an adequate economic profile of the Empire of the Star, due to the Exchequer’s ongoing decision to not publish detailed economic statistics suitable for external use, continuing to cite former Chancellor Valéran Quendocius-ith-Lirendocius’s comment that “Publishing such things only encourages