meta
And finally we are back up and running on Mastodon, for those of you who prefer to get your nanofic that way: @index@eldraeverse.com Edited: Actually, we are not. I'll be posting links over on my personal account, as mentioned below, because the new feature I hoped
quotation
(Random things said with no other place to go, so I shall save them and post them in eights from time to time.) Good, in the moral sense, is difficult and may be impossible to define objectively. I prefer to concern myself with ethical correctness, which is at least calculable.
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Those of you who have noticed the little downtime today need not be concerned: we're switching from installed-as-nodejs-packages Ghost 5.x to installed-as-containers Ghost 6.0, and that's required a little futzing.
Curial court
A quirk of the Imperial judicial system is that while the rule of Palaver Forbiddance is strictly applied during the trial itself (forestalling any attempts to engage in fast-talk, irrelevant digressions, questionable metaphysical debates, etc., etc., in the desperate attempt to forestall the verdict), it specifically does not apply to
Curial court
EMPIRE OF THE STAR The Imperial judicial system is a variant on the inquisitorial model, in which the officers of the court work together to thoroughly investigate and uncover the truth of the matter, under the guidance of the justices¹ assigned by the court. (In the remainder of this discussion,
Eliéra
One mystery that obsessed many early natural philosophers was the mystery of Eliéra's unusual spin, and its curious stability despite the dragging effect of various tidal forces in play. In the late 900s, this would give rise to the legend of the Great Movement, at first in the
runér
At the dawn of the Empire, its system of runér titles was labyrinthine: each of the five original signatories of the Imperial Charter possessed different systems of government with different positions, ranks, and titles of office attached thereto, as did those nations which joined shortly thereafter, all with their own
Ministry of State and Outlands
I've been feeling moderately like crud all month (possibly weather, plague, lingering COVID, acute state of paranoia brought on by not being a native-spawned American in the US these days, that sort of thing) and not been getting much done. So have some little worldbuilding snacklets that I
mentalics
In this introductory textbook, we will discuss the basic techniques of the psychokinetic arts, from the trivial through the trained with a brief reflection on the rarely attained exotic abilities, and then pass on to focus upon each in turn. We shall discuss, however, only the simplest techniques which form
death penalty
So, in reader questions of the day: I swear I saw an entry for the levels of execution, ranging from kill current instantiation, restore, to kill them, their back ups and the servers they rode in on. Am I misremembering? And since I don't recall any such thing
aeronef
The largest passenger-carrying aeronef of the pre-superwing era - and the second-largest aeronef of any type, exceeded only by the same manufacturer's Teliríän's Talon-class lifting-body cargo hauler - was unquestionably the Simurgh-class skyliner. The brainchild of fêted designer Amélys Skybreaker of Cisspatiale Aerospace, Simurgh was intended
ontotechnology
Perhaps foremost among the unfound oddities of the universe is the one charmingly named the Omphalocelic Scab. Known about from the legends of those who are themselves legends - and bearing in mind that all translations from the Precursor are, at best, deeply approximate - we are told that there