(See part 1 here; part 2 here.) The third triad is that which adheres; Circle, branch, and name reflect. The circle stands strong, each multiplying each. How diminished is the one which lacks Those for whom it will kill and die. The branch walks together, hands bound to telos. By
Conveniently Close Planet: Averted. This is also why Escape Pods are useless anywhere except planetary orbit and libration point habitat-clusters; even if you can leave your ship, there’s nowhere to go without another ship with about as much delta-v as your first ship. And you can’t fit that
Contagious AI: In its lesser form, this is weavelife, the mutated descendants of a million viruses and buggy software agents, that infests the less aggressively controlled parts of the dataweave (and, of course, pretty much every border zone of the extranet; lack of jurisdiction tends also to be lack of
You are immortal. Even if your flesh fails, your mind and its children can survive to see the stars burn out and the long, cold era of the universe come upon us. That mind, in turn, engineered for genius and creative brilliance. All the knowledge of the ages is available
Constructed Language: Both in and out of universe, Eldraeic is a constructed language. In-universe, it’s a constructed language designed as an interlingua for the Empire by the Conclave of Linguistics and Ontology, with additional requirements for regularity, unambiguity, cultural neutrality where matters other than The Fundamentals are concerned and
Starfish Language: Oh, plenty of them. Esseli native language, for example, is encoded on RNA strands (although fortunately they can and are more than willing to add extra speech organs as required). Mirilasté language is also notable for using sequences of musical notes as its “phonemes”, and volume and tempo
So, I’ve recently been working on answering the “Ethnographical Questionnaire” set of worldbuilding questions for my conculture – not quite this version, but another version by the same person, I think – in the interest of, by so doing, expanding on all sorts of areas and possible unconsidered lacunae in my
“From the flint axe to the mass driver; from the waterwheel to the tamed singularity; from the hand-cart to the starship; from the potter’s wheel to the cornucopia; from the abacus to sophont AI; from death to immortality – Worlds’ Rim Development will take you there!” “Let our centuries of
I Do Not Speak Nonverbal: Due to the number of different species running around with radically different – and hence unrecognizable, without a lot of practice, and never instinctive – expressions and body language, it is generally a good idea to assume that no-one around you speaks nonverbal. This is also why
So, I’ve recently been working on answering the “Ethnographical Questionnaire” set of worldbuilding questions for my conculture – not quite this version, but another version by the same person, I think – in the interest of, by so doing, expanding on all sorts of areas and possible unconsidered lacunae in my
Conspicuous Consumption: Hard to tell sometimes (because Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap), but by and large, what you see is not conspicuous consumption – because they’re not all that fond of consumption – but rather the side-effects of massive for post-scarcity values of massive wealth – noting that gold is a glut
“It is easy to use entropy to solve our kind of problems. We may say this; we are sentinels, those sanctioned to use it when necessary. It is the natural tendency of this universe, after all, to break down – and trivial, then, to use that against anything within it. If